Posted on 11/07/2004 7:36:16 PM PST by quidnunc
This is news? A few days ago Barbara Plett, a BBC Middle East correspondent, broadcast a report about the airlifting of Yassir Arafat to Paris. She informed her listeners: “When the helicopter carrying the frail old man rose above his ruined compound, I started to cry … without warning.”
She went on to talk about Arafat’s “ambivalence towards violence” (an interesting phrase for the man who effectively invented modern-day terrorism) and to castigate Ariel Sharon for having “demonised” the man responsible for a campaign to murder as many Israeli citizens as possible.
For some reason, Ms Plett’s words have prompted a series of news reports. I am at a loss to understand why. There is nothing remotely newsworthy about her having expressed her adoring view of Arafat and her contempt for Israel’s attempts to defend itself from terror. Certainly, her tear-jerking might not convey the impartiality which license-fee payers ought to be able to expect from the BBC, but her sentiments are so straight-down-the-line a representation of the BBC’s bias against Israel that they are in no way newsworthy.
The BBC’s world view is ever present across its airwaves. Anyone who disagrees with its left-liberal clichés is at best an oddity and at worst deranged. …
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The only sad part of the Arafat situation is that Israeli forces will be deprived the opportunity to end his miserable life with a bullet.
BBC continues left wing bias funded by all UK TV owners.
UK TV owners rise up against your masters (betters?).
It's not like they didn't have a zillion chances.
*SM© = Sweet Muslims
Actually, I understand why they didn't do it. It would have resulted in too much chaos and horrific reprisals.
Surely the Brits can tell the difference between Gandhi and Arafat. Good lord does anyone actually listen to this stuff.
I wouldn't complain about the outraged reaction to this nitwitted moral pervert. Maybe people are finally waking up. For heavens sake, don't just tell them "Everybody at BBC does it."
This was an especially egregious example, and the more publicity it gets, the better.
Just so you know--you're not alone, I saw that sentence too.
I wonder if this box of rocks ever mentioned John Edwards's "dislike of hairspray"
The Brits may temporarily be our "allies" but the general feeling among the people seems to be cut from the same cloth as the French and all the rest of the Euro-scum.
Isn't this the guy who (among his other sins) ordered the kidnapping of 2 American ambassadors (in Sudan?) in order to gain the release of Sirhan Sirhan, then had them killed when the USA refused?
I'll start selling "Arafat Memorial Toliet Paper" with his face on it and a bullseye.
There was a time when the BBC was respected throughout the world. People today find this very difficult to believe. The BBC of the 21st century, of course, is a sick joke.
I'll wipe to that!
Specially if his most admiring American's face (ie. Hitlery) is every other square!
Shut down the Alphabet Channels (ABJazerra & Her Sister Stations)!
Vote with your Remote!
But, I Have A Plan
Zippo Hero
Seven Dead Monkeys Page O Tunes
Lady BBC is "kept" by its stable of pimps at PBS.
PBS - our taxes!!!- pays big bucks to keep BBC on the air here in the US.
>>>OK, to be perfectly honest I might let out a yell when Arafat finally meets his end, but only in the privacy of my own home where only my family will hear my joyful yell.
I may not yell audibly, but I will dedicate the first fart I pass after his death to his legacy!
Don't confuse the British people with the BBC, anymore than confusing the American people with PBS.
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