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I've been vaguely aware of BBC bias ever since I was a teenager, even in my politically apathetic middle years, but I've always sensed that Matt Frei is in something of a league of his own.
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DB on the Biased BBC blogsite catches this humdinger of a twitter from the man:
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Could the GOP now define itself in its reaction to healthcare reform in a way it might regret later in this year. Remember Tories=Nasty Party
http://biased-bbc.blogspot.com/2010/03/nasty-party-narrative-dusted-off.html
Showing posts with label Matt Frei. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Matt Frei. Show all posts
Tuesday, 23 March 2010
Thursday, 4 February 2010
FREI, BABY, FREI
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Matt Frei's diary could become compulsive reading, though for all the wrong reasons. I just thought I'd click at random on another article, Evangelical and environmental? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/world_news_america/8405108.stm
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The theme is 'Climate Change':
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"According to a BBC News/Harris Poll, the number of Americans who worry that carbon emissions are slowly heating our planet like a lobster pot has actually declined in the last eight years by 25%.
Despite Hurricane Katrina, which rang alarm bells about the connection between climate change and menacing weather, Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth and a photo album of environmental horrors from melting ice caps to rising sea levels to receding glaciers (ha!), fewer Americans are convinced today that the planet is in peril because of human behaviour.
Global warming has cooled off alarmingly on the list of priorities."
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After dismissing 'Climategate' as a "brouhaha", Matty goes on to give us this peach of a paragraph - pure Matt Frei: "The evangelical movement is split between those conservative Christians who suspect that climate change is an evil secular plot, concocted by the devil, Al Gore and "the global government crowd" - in the words of Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher - and those who passionately believe that good Christians need to be good custodians of the planet." Can you guess which side Frei doesn't approve of?
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Matt Frei's diary could become compulsive reading, though for all the wrong reasons. I just thought I'd click at random on another article, Evangelical and environmental? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/world_news_america/8405108.stm
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The theme is 'Climate Change':
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"According to a BBC News/Harris Poll, the number of Americans who worry that carbon emissions are slowly heating our planet like a lobster pot has actually declined in the last eight years by 25%.
Despite Hurricane Katrina, which rang alarm bells about the connection between climate change and menacing weather, Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth and a photo album of environmental horrors from melting ice caps to rising sea levels to receding glaciers (ha!), fewer Americans are convinced today that the planet is in peril because of human behaviour.
Global warming has cooled off alarmingly on the list of priorities."
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After dismissing 'Climategate' as a "brouhaha", Matty goes on to give us this peach of a paragraph - pure Matt Frei: "The evangelical movement is split between those conservative Christians who suspect that climate change is an evil secular plot, concocted by the devil, Al Gore and "the global government crowd" - in the words of Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher - and those who passionately believe that good Christians need to be good custodians of the planet." Can you guess which side Frei doesn't approve of?
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Wednesday, 3 February 2010
FREI'S OBAMA DELIGHT
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Matt Frei can always be relied upon to provide a biased point of view on his diary. Just have a look at this gem:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/world_news_america/8494796.stm
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So Newt Gingrich's Contract with America was "a dodgy deal", the Tea Party movement consists of "Braveheart warriors", Bill Clinton was a "magician" and "Tony Blair his best understudy" in the admirable tactic of "triangulation" and Barack Obama's presidency "is turning out to be a masterclass in triangulation". "Triangulation" (and "The Third Way") "appeals to his elegant intellect". "The current president is a man whose quiet self-confidence is the result of having always triumphed as the outsider...Obama was always the talented misfit." (Sounds like a character in a liberal Hollywood movie, doesn't he?). Frei talks of how Obama "seduced this country":
"We saw a reminder of Obama the candidate in his State of the Union speech last week. As the usually raucous ranks were reduced to a hush, hanging on words delivered with the cadence of a preacher, there must have been a few Republicans who wondered if they should delay their run for the White House by another four years." Must there? "A chastened President Obama should carry on triangulating, making deals, rejecting ideology and govern from the centre, but couch his complex method into a simpler message." #
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Matt Frei can always be relied upon to provide a biased point of view on his diary. Just have a look at this gem:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/world_news_america/8494796.stm
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So Newt Gingrich's Contract with America was "a dodgy deal", the Tea Party movement consists of "Braveheart warriors", Bill Clinton was a "magician" and "Tony Blair his best understudy" in the admirable tactic of "triangulation" and Barack Obama's presidency "is turning out to be a masterclass in triangulation". "Triangulation" (and "The Third Way") "appeals to his elegant intellect". "The current president is a man whose quiet self-confidence is the result of having always triumphed as the outsider...Obama was always the talented misfit." (Sounds like a character in a liberal Hollywood movie, doesn't he?). Frei talks of how Obama "seduced this country":
"We saw a reminder of Obama the candidate in his State of the Union speech last week. As the usually raucous ranks were reduced to a hush, hanging on words delivered with the cadence of a preacher, there must have been a few Republicans who wondered if they should delay their run for the White House by another four years." Must there? "A chastened President Obama should carry on triangulating, making deals, rejecting ideology and govern from the centre, but couch his complex method into a simpler message." #
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