HERE'S MAXY!!!

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Today's The Politics Show was back on the Conservatives' case again, sending cocky Max Cotton out to Prague to show off in front of the cameras and show up David Cameron. His immediate target was the excellent Czech president Vaclav Klaus, who holds what Max called "unorthodox" views on man-made global warming and European integration. "I've been racking my brains trying to think who he's like", he continued. His answer? "A sort of cross between Thatcher and Berlusconi, with a dash of Jack Nicholson" (before doing a cringe-making impersonation of the latter in 'The Shining').
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This is all well and good, but nothing much to do with bias. That begins to emerge when Max informs us that "I'm told that the BBC have requested ten separate interviews with Mr Klaus in the last few days". I wonder why they're so keen. Is it just because of Mr Klaus's delaying tactics over the Lisbon treaty, and the need to find an answer to the burning question of if or when he will ratify it? I suspect not - if Max's report is typical.
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Here was the point: "What has shocked pundits in the Czech Republic is David Cameron's intervention in what they see as their affairs." (What, all of them?!) He gathered a couple of people in a cafe to support his contention. One was the sociologist Jiri Pehe, advisor to former president Vaclav Havel (who had a very tense relationship with Mr Klaus), who focused his criticism of the letter sent by Mr Cameron to President Klaus on President Klaus. The other, Tom Clifford of The Prague Post, turned his fire on Mr Cameron - encouraged by Max Cotton:
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Max C: "And Tom, you think Cameron is making a mistake here?"
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Max C: "He doesn't understand the Czech Republic?"
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Tom Clifford criticized away before moving the story on to where the BBC is happiest: "Cameron and the Tories are allying themselves with far-right parties in Central and Middle Europe."
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Ah yes, we're back to those European allies again.
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After interviewing two critics of Klaus and Cameron, Cotton went on to interview a third - Dr Lubomir Zaoralek, labelled as the 'Shadow Foreign Minister'. He, looking him up on the internet, is a member of the Labour-aligned Czech Social Democrat Party.
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The simple question here is this: Why did Max Cotton interview 3 critics of President Klaus (and David Cameron), but no supporters? Is this balanced?
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