[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Thanks to the British bloggers at:

* http://www.biased-bbc.blogspot.com/

for keeping an eye on this taxpayer-funded, unelected, unaccountable, far too powerful, number one answer to the question: "Why do they hate us?"

8 Unapologetically Pro-Coalition News Links and Articles

[DB]

If you own a TV there, you have to pay a tax every year to the BBC for the privilege regardless if you watch the BBC or not...

If you get caught with a TV and you haven’t paid the tax your in big trouble…

And they call that freedom...

[propertius]

I think this is a little unfair on Kelly. Yes he talked to Gilligan, which he admitted to the enquiry. But he also told the investigation "I do not believe I could be the source." This clearly suggests that Gilligan grossly distorted what Kelly told him, making it so unrecognizable that Kelly assumed the BBC had another source. Gilligan probably made up the Campbell 45 minutes, sexing up his story even more. Kelly was foolish but not a traitor. The BBC has behaved in a disgusting manner. Gilligan must go and, under British law, could, I believe, even face criminal charges. The whole corporation must then undergo a massive overhaul...

[razorback-bert]

its very British assumption that every grief or woe that occurs anywhere in the British Isles is the national government's fault and responsibility.

When you live in a socialist country it is.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Now the same antiwar British media that (wrongly) attacked the Blair government for broadcasting untruths is savagely attacking it for catching the media in an untruth. The media that falsely presented themselves as the champions of truth are now the champions of the right to lie anonymously.

I recommend that the British try a system based on the U.S. Constitution:

- everyone is equally entitled before the law to speak, or print, his own opinion--right or wrong.

- no one is required to pay for the publication of anyone else's opinion.

- no one is even required to pay any attention to anyone else's opinion.

I even think we should try it here in the U.S. But hey, that's just me . . .

[anglian]

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Dr. Kelly believed that the Blair government falsified the case for war. Instead of forthrightly declaring his beliefs to the public, he whispered them anonymously to a reporter. Then, when the reporter "sexed up" (to borrow a phrase) the anonymous allegations by presenting Dr. Kelly as a much more important person than he really was. Idon't think this is true.--by presenting Dr. Kelly as a much more important person than he really was.--I think what the reporter 'sexed up' was - (Kelly believed that the Blair government falsified the case for war.)