is it me or is BBC just pushing pro-Clinton
I have been a big fan of the BBC. I have always shunned the traditional American news media, but especially tuned them out after they exposed their willingness to fellate a war mongering administration. I found the BBC's investigative reporting quite refreshing and have been a regular reader since (the British have a reputation of being far more disdainful of their political leaders, as opposed to the loving gazes and kisses Sean Hannity and Hugh Hewitt bestow on the British's politicians American counterparts)
As of late though, I cannot help but feel that just about every news coverage coming from BBC has been nothing but critical of Obama or just favorable of Hillary. These 2 political reporters/commentators are especially guilty of it...here is a snippet of their "thoughts" regarding the Wright controversy
Jeremiah meanwhile is skewered here by Joe Scarborough. I can well understand that the black folk memory of America is hugely different to the white version but is this what black people really think? Is that what they were thinking five days after 9/11? Fascinating if it is true. Amazing that the ambitious Barack Obama could not break with this talk for fear of alienating a key constituency. And rather depressing for Americans keen on future harmony.
Wow. is that what he really believes? what is he getting paid for? all he has to do is go to black neighborhood and ask them if they cheered on 9/11....are there any more retarded questions this guy can think of? he uses one snippet of a preacher saying some misguided stuff and portrays that as the mass feeling of an entire group of people... sure, for every one African American who was happy that 9/11 happened, there were 1000's that wept that day.
And another one from this moron:
Judge Drudge makes a trenchant point about Obama which may well turn out to be true: that he has fallen to earth. His judgement is as flawed as hers. In fact at the risk of upsetting everyone on the Democratic side
So he attended a church where 1% of the time the preacher says something outrageous (May I add that for many African Americans the idea of US govt producing HIV is not outrageous because many of the older generation people remember the Tuskegee experiments)...Im not saying that justifies their beliefs but it helps us understand why they believe these conspiracy theories....
but anyways for this Brit journalist...that supposed to be bad judgement? as opposed to voting for a war where 4000 US troops are dead and countless injured, not to mention the thousands of Iraqis dead and maimed?
and finally (for this diary at least) from another moron:
Mr Obama said he disagreed with the comments made by the pastor who christened his children and married him to his wife.
But he did not denounce the man, "who has been like family to me". It was an honourable omission. But it may have killed his campaign.
I cannot understand these guys. they are supposed to go out and gauge reactions of ordinary Americans about Obama's speech and then come up with a conclusion. Instead they come up with useless predictions and "gut feelings" about anything in the news.
If you read Justin Webb and Matt Frei, and follow their BBC diaries you will find not even one critical piece on Clinton but just negative after negative analysis of Obama (for them they cant contain their glee that Obama is just getting the black vote)
Maybe Tony Blair really did tame these guys and not the other way around.