AL GORE'S STORM-TROOPERS...

>> Thursday, September 02, 2010

A B-BBC reader spells it out...

How the BBC downplay the environmental gunman shot dead by police in the USA.
This from US news:
'Lee said at the time that he experienced an ‘‘awakening” when he watched former Vice President Al Gore’s environmental documentary ‘‘An Inconvenient Truth.” ‘The planet does not need humans’ '
Not on the BBC. It compares this situation with the man who knifed the Muslim taxi driver in NY after the Mosque protests...and the blame put on the 'Islamophobia' supposedly raised by that protest. BBC story misses this Al Gore comment and doesn't mention the environmental angle until late in story. 
My my - such a tricky one for the BBC. A crazed loon, wound up by Saint Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" goes on the rampage and the BBC does its best to erase the Gore angle.

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Antony Jay

"But we were not just anti-Macmillan; we were anti-industry, anti-capitalism, anti-advertising, anti-selling, anti-profit, anti-patriotism, anti-monarchy, anti-Empire, anti-police, anti-armed forces, anti-bomb, anti-authority. Almost anything that made the world a freer, safer and more prosperous place, you name it, we were anti it."
Antony Jay, Telegraph, July 2007

Andrew Marr

"..the final answer, frankly, is the vigorous use of state power to coerce and repress. It may be my Presbyterian background, but I firmly believe that repression can be a great, civilising instrument for good. Stamp hard on certain 'natural' beliefs for long enough and you can almost kill them off."
Andrew Marr, The Guardian Feb. 1999

Jeremy Paxman

"But the bigger question is whether the BBC itself has a future. Working for it has always been a bit like living in Stalin’s Russia, with one five-year-plan, one resoundingly empty slogan after another. One BBC, Making it Happen, Creative Futures, they all blur into one great vacuous blur. I can’t even recall what the current one is. Rather like Stalin’s Russia, they express a belief that the system will go on forever."
Jeremy Paxman, The James McTaggart Memorial, 24th August 2007

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