Another reader anecdote of NPR on leftist steroids:
Two Sundays ago, as my wife and I were traveling, I tuned into BBC America on my XM Satellite Radio. It was indeed a love-fest for the anti-war movement. They interviewed an Anglican Bishop who found it appropriate to single-handedly changed the tenets of just war theory without any indication that it was, in fact, a very new interpretation. For instance, the tenet of ‘right authority’ was changed to ‘highest authority’ in an effort to remove a sovereign nation as a proper decision-maker in security matters and make those decisions exclusive to the UN. He also said that the tenet of ‘proportionality’ prevents ANY war at all in modern warfare, because the brutality of modern warfare was so ‘indiscriminate’ that any use of force would automatically fail the test of proportionality. The reporter did ask, ‘Well, doesn’t that invalidate just war theory as a whole?’ The Bishop replied, ‘Not at all. It validates it.’ The only just war, it now appears, is the one that is not fought. Augustine and Aquinas, I’m sure, are very upset to hear that their theory has been co-opted in such a way. The host then turned to America ‘for another view’ and interviewed an employee of ‘The Nation,’ who then decried the use of force in Iraq as imperialism, an attack for oil, etc. Yes, that’s right, ‘The Nation,’ is now the view from America. They never introduced a single person with a differing viewpoint.
Here’s yet another email from someone forced to watch the Beeb as their only source of information:
I have a suggestion that affects me personally but I’m sure applies to millions of others. Please, please, do a proper and systematic fisking of the BBC. Do the world a favor – get readers to help by sending in examples, line up influential people who support you, anything. I can’t bear it any longer – I am now based in China and the BBC is somehow the only English news channel I can receive. I see now how they can manipulate British public opinion. This is hell!
Herewith an appeal to British readers, or anyone who watches the BBC closely. Please send me details of any ludicrously biased BBC report, show, program, discussion. If there’s a webpage, please send me the URL. Aux armes, confreres, bloggeurs, and so on.
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