Posted on 03/21/2011 9:56:42 AM PDT by opentalk
As Republicans try to defund NPR, the Obama administration laughs in the face of critics and sends US taxpayer moneys to fund Britain's left wing BBC. Ben Dowell of the UK Guardian writes:
The BBC World Service is to receive a "significant" sum of money from the US government to help combat the blocking of TV and internet services in countries including Iran and China....The BBC has a problem with political bias at least as bad as that of NPR. But that is no obstacle to shipping money, borrowed from China, to yet another left wing network. Don't worry: we'll just let our children pay for it when the Chinese come to collect.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
As a citizen of the world. Obama will fund World Public Radio.
The BBC hates whites and Christians. Thatcher’s husband said 30 years ago it was a commie outfit.
The BBC even admitted their bias.
Can’t find the link to the study, tho’.
The BBC has contributed into making the general English population what they are today, a misinformed people who walk around thinking that they’re more informed than others.
Funding the British Broadcasting Company (not matter what twisted perceived strategic value) is retarded. What the flying heck is wrong with those charged with spending our hard earned tax dollars? Seriously.
The navy has switched off rolling news channel News 24 aboard HMS Ark Royal following weeks of grumbling from the crew.
Sailors on the Portsmouth-based aircraft carrier currently in the Gulf have become increasingly disenchanted with the BBC's slant on the war.
Ark Royal switched off News 24 on Sunday, replacing it with rival Sky News.
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