Okay I admit it, I tried to watch a bit of the Biased BBC coverage. Three minutes of Newsnight was enough for me. This organisation gets taxpayer’s money to offer balance. And so I sat through a discussion with a stuffed British shirt ( who turned out to be novelist Martin Amiss), a horrible hag from Newsweek in the US who made Amiss look like a neocon and some third rate Republican ex Governor who was occasionally allowed a word or two for “balance”.
The bon mot from Amiss was that Ronald Reagan would be rejected by today’s Republican Party for being far too left wing. Paxman looked bored and did not bother to challenge this obvious lie which was part of the night long deluded leftie luvvy agenda of portraying everyone in the GOP as racist, sexist, homophobes who want to shoot all poor people. And so for some balance he turned to the old hag from Newsweek who opined that until Republicans come out in favour of higher taxes for the rich they are unelectable. Presumably she already knows that the wealthiest 3% in America pay 90% of tax receipts. So this is all a lie but if you say it often enough folks start believing that Republicans just want to look after the rich and screw the poor. Occasionally the poor Republican governor was allowed to make a brief apology for being. That was the BBC’s idea of balance.
Indeed that three minute horror show set the tone for the BBC. Why was I surprised? Thereafter even the appearance of the ghastly Louise Mensch on ITV’s coverage (taking time out from spending more time with her kids to make yet another media appearance) could not persuade me to switch back to Pravda. I sense ITV realised that La Mensch appearing on their show was the BBC’s only hope in the ratings war and after one interview in which she said absolutely nothing of interest we, thankfully, never saw the awful woman again.
ITV’s coverage was quite cerebral. They had a good pollster, Alistair Stewart really knew his facts and the team on the ground at Obama and Romney’s HQs were rather good too. The one lowpoint was the constant coverage from ITV’s woman on the ground in “Democracy Plaza” New York. The chances of finding any locals in central Manhattan who are brave enough to admit to supporting Romney are about the same as the chances of the Jimmy Savile fan club being swamped with new applications for membership. Every time a state was called for Obama a great cheer could be heard. Next time, maybe we could have the on the ground reporting from a good place like Texas or Louisiana where being a registered Republican is not viewed as being on a par with being on the sex offenders list.
And so we had three young ladies asked who they had voted for and why. The first said “Obama because he wants to change things.” Hang on that was four years ago. Surely … but no worries: there was no comeback from ITV on that one. Second up said “Obama because he is so passionate about women’s rights and gay rights.” Well whatever. In Central Manhattan, as in Islington, these are the key pressing issues of the day as both our countries hurtle towards financial oblivion. But moving swiftly on, amazingly the third girl said she voted for Romney. You could almost see them building a pyre for her in the background.
Girl three was from Massachusetts and thought Mitt had been a good Governor and was best placed to fix the economy. Without blinking the interviewer said “but what about women’s rights?” Er.. like woman are not meant to care about the fact that the USA is going bust and that those without work are at 1930s levels because it does not affect them at all. Who the hell is going to fund all your abortions on demand and quota driven jobs on Government sponsored payrolls when your frigging country goes bust?
At this point I was rather losing the will to live. I consoled myself by pondering why the Republican women interviewed were all so much more attractive than the hideous trouts who want to work for Obama. But my misery was compounded as some arse of a Democrat gleefully pronounced that Obama had won because the Democrats have assembled a “beautiful coalition” of blacks, Hispanics, women, gays and the poor and unemployed.” The grinning cretin forgot to add in the increasing numbers of folks living off a bloated Government payroll but we got the message.
I do wonder had Mitt got another million or so votes in the right states and won, if a GOP spokesman said he had done it by assembling a “beautiful coalition” of white people, heterosexuals and hard working Americans who pay their taxes and create wealth in the private sector” what would have happened to him or her? I suspect the BBC would have dragged the individual off to Democracy Plaza New York to be burned alongside the witch from Massachusetts who dared admitting to have voted Republican.
As another gleeful Democrat appeared on screen to talk about four more years of change and hope for America and beautiful coalitions and, amid a growing inevitability that the man who has presided over the biggest increase in US Government debt in history was about to be let loose for another four years of the same, I gave up. The result was bad enough. Having to watch via channels run by the deluded UK media classes was just too much to bear. Awful.