From: word_chemist@hotmail.com   
      
   "Martha Bridegam"  wrote in message   
   news:KjHMf.35674$Jd.3340@newssvr25.news.prodigy.net...   
   > ROBBIE wrote:   
   > > "Martha Bridegam"  wrote in message   
   > > news:i7rMf.14826$rL5.11942@newssvr27.news.prodigy.net...   
   > >> ROBBIE wrote:   
   > >>   
   > >>> ...Oh I dunno - when they execute one man in Texas it makes the top   
   end   
   > > of the   
   > >>> news on the BBC; when they hang homosexuals and children in the Middle   
   > > East   
   > >>> it doesn't; ditto Chinese executions and their habit of locking people   
   > > up   
   > >>> for doing yoga. I could go on.   
   > >>>   
   > >>> ROBBIE   
   > >>>   
   > >>>   
   > >> I really could suspect the BBC of feeling more responsible   
   > >   
   > > Huh?   
   > >   
   > >  &   
   > >> hence guiltier for what goes on in Texas, not that they   
   > >> should necessarily. However, pls take as read my   
   > >> disagreement with the rest of your opinions on the Beeb. It   
   > >> gets boring to rehash.   
   > >   
   > > Rehash? I've never seen a coherent argument from you on the subject. Or   
   > > anyone else sporting a 'I Believe in the BBC' badge.   
   > >   
   > > ROBBIE   
   > >   
   > >   
   >   
   > I have a feeling the folks at the BBC really do think   
   > certain bits of the former British Empire should never have   
   > been allowed out to play without their idea of adult   
   > supervision & that the USA is perhaps a focus of this   
   > feeling. Considering that the British Empire also meddled   
   > considerably in China and the Middle East I suppose all the   
   > situations you mention owe something indirectly to the   
   > history of the said British Empire, but I'd guess the BBC   
   > people particularly feel that Texas is a consequence of   
   > their having allowed us to throw the tea in the harbor in   
   > the first place.   
      
      
   That's as wrong an analysis as I can remember seeing. The BBC's attitude   
   towards the US is one of contemptous metropolitan leftist snobism - nothing   
   whatever to do with the Boston tea party and everything to do with the state   
   not being big enough and leftist enough. Its attitude towards China seems to   
   be this: let's be as positive about it as we can be because they might spank   
   the evil empire's arse one day and hey, come on, they are a People's   
   Republic. The attitude towards the Middle East is straight cultural Marxism:   
   those countries must be right -excepting Israel of course - because they   
   have less power and have had foreign armies pass over their soil - the   
   inconvenient bigotry, fascism, cruelty, medievalism and totalitarianism of   
   those countries is well played down. The former BBC middle east   
   correspondent is now working for Al Jazeera.   
      
   ROBBIE   
      
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