He can cite and prove incidents in the media. I can do so in the American media if I try hard enough. It appears that someone has an axe to grind.
Regards, Ivan
Ivan, most of the time 'squidworth' hits on the Canadians. This was an off day, bashing on the British.
Xenophobia, it's wonderful.:)
But there are several differences. First you would have to “try.” In the UK no special efforts are required. The UK press is much more anti-Israel and anti-US than the media here. The Guardian is worse but not to be taken as seriously as the BBC which is the ‘news of record’ in the UK. Further the BBC is shown all over the world so it disseminates that trash all over. And the Guardian is uniformly leftist marxist junk, but the BBC is not pro Labour in general. The BBC is only far left on US and Israel. Conclusion – BBC has a directed bias which gets fed to the world.
Second anti-semitism is largely on the rise in the UK and Europe, more than ever since before WWII. Not so here.
Third the US government is much more supportive of Israel while UK is Arabist and hostile to Israel. No US officials made the kind of remarks Mayor Livingstone just made for which he refuses to apologize, and none made the remarks MP Dalyell made about Jews. Laura Bush did not make pro-Palestinian comments to the Queen of Jordan as did Cherie Blair.
I can’t stand the BBC on its biased merits. That’s my axe to grind. And you won’t see me defending Reuters (“one man’s freedom fighter is another man’s terrorist” post 9/11 quote from management) either.
All that being said, what does that have to do with valuing UK contribution in Iraq? I do. But as you know PM Blair got his support from the Conservatives not his own party. And the BBC has been unrelenting in its criticism of the war. So if you want to fault someone for not supporting the troops thank the Baghdad Broadcasting Company which almost got banned from British ship.