WKRLEM: Why is Rory so sad?

He doesn't seem sad. He just seems sort of gay.

Live TV, anything can happen!

"They're reading a book in a strange pose."#Rio2016 with @mrdanwalker on @bbcfour - anything can happen! https://t.co/sHmEl30frP

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"BBC Suppressed Report Of ‘Sex Assault’ Of 14-Year-Old By ‘Syrian Gang’"

Heat Street:  Heat Street can reveal that the BBC Newsnight programme first knew of the arrests more than three weeks before it broadcast the story, fuelling claims of a cover-up.

Although a BBC spokesman has repeatedly denied that the Corporation deliberately “sat on” the story, Northumbria Police – which arrested those alleged to have carried out the assault – has now confirmed it informed the BBC of the arrests 22 days before Newsnight aired a word about them.

The disclosure is likely to put pressure on Newsnight, which in 2011 infamously shelved a report revealing that Jimmy Savile sexually abused several schoolgirls in the 1970s.

It will also increase suspicions that some parts of the media are unwilling to report stories which they believe might be politically sensitive and could cause unrest between immigrants and the rest of the public, as allegedly happened in Germany and Sweden in January.

It would be in keeping with the so called "Society of Professional Journalists 'Guidebook' on Spinning Islamic Terror Stories"

— Portray Muslims, Arabs and Middle Eastern and South Asian Americans in the richness of their diverse experiences...

It is all about class....if you don't believe me ask the BBC

I have long been convinced that this election is a "class  election." Not a liberal vs conservative split. Rather an Elites vs the Common Man election. A split that splits the parties. Families. Friends. People who have lost touch with their working class  roots turn to the elitists who scorn the people from which they came. A common human reaction. You see it all the time.

There is also a very strong unstated racial subtext. Well much less unstated than usual. The injection of Black Lives Matters and the blatant racism of Barack Obama has divided the country in a manner that we have not seen in a long time. Black Lives Matters has demanded a reaction to their demands. Well they are getting it. In spades. So to speak.

Of course this is not only my opinion. Many other people feel the same way.

"Ex–Top Gear Trio Will Make a Car Show for Amazon Prime"

"Alongside fellow ex–Top Gear hosts James May and Richard Hammond, the irascible [Jeremy Clarkson, formerly of the BBC's Top Gear series, aka "The Anti-Scold"]  has signed on to host a new automotive series on Amazon Prime, which will start streaming sometime next year. It’s a savvy move, contractually: The non-compete clause in the trio’s old BBC contract apparently only forbade them from signing with a competing British channel for two years, and said absolutely nothing about working with the content-producing arm of an American logistics company."

Via Instapundit who says...

I wonder if any BBC subscribers will weigh what they’re getting for their mandatory license fees versus what’s included for voluntarily signing up with Amazon Prime or Netflix?

BBC News: "BBC investigation into Jeremy Clarkson under way"

"Clarkson was suspended from Top Gear last week following an alleged altercation with producer Oisin Tymon."

 

Jeremy Clarkson

The row was said to have occurred because no hot food was laid on for the presenter following a day's filming in North Yorkshire.

Writing in his column in the Sun newspaper, Clarkson appeared to hint that he was close to quitting, calling himself a "dinosaur" and adding: "These big imposing creatures have no place in a world which has moved on."

View from our kitchen window

A Town Called Mercy

BBC has a giant tormenting bug up its collective ass about American resistance to "sensible" gun control laws. Having surrendered their own firearms freedoms, and the whole place being basically London and its suburbs, they simply refuse to accept other developed nations do not share their values on this subject. And they cannot stop their incessant nagging until they see that we do. Their London-centric attitude is aggressively obnoxious. I read it every day. No amount of equally aggressive counterargument has any affect at all. They are impervious.

Their productions involving guns are ridiculous. Everyone says eventually, "Drop your gun," and they do. The sound of hollow plastic squirt gun hitting the hard surface is not bothered with overdubbing the sound of solid metal. And doesn't everyone in America alway say drop you gun? "And kick it away."  All that gun dropping, and kicking. Does that even happen in real life? Isn't that dangerous? It's ridiculous gun handling I suppose they imagine from American Westerns.

There are a few really good moments in this episode.

Here's your horse, It's name's Joshua. It's from the Bible.

No it isn't.

What?

I speak Horse. His name is Susan, and he wants you to respect his life choices. 

Who looks rather dashing on a horse but we all know he's a big clumsy klutz. There is another scene, a few scenes actually, where a British actor speaks American English and nails a hayseed accent sounding perfectly natural without any stereotypical exaggeration. I respect that.

This brief scene has me doubled in laughter whenever I see it. It is perfect, and counter to my general complaint. It shows BBC does have a great sense of humor.

Check what was on the BBC the day you were born

"This site contains the BBC listings information which the BBC printed in Radio Times between 1923 and 2009. You can search the site for BBC programmes, people, dates and Radio Times editions."

 

 

Here is a screen capture of mine... maybe somebody can tell me what this show was about?