tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6336941957519877299.post6404007328264914515..comments2023-10-21T01:24:38.665-07:00Comments on Uncle Bill's Canadian blog: Buerkish comment?Bill Stickerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05285528897339442436noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6336941957519877299.post-54588562721786314942011-02-13T09:49:45.510-08:002011-02-13T09:49:45.510-08:00Killing with fire in a pretty impressive way. Appr...Killing with fire in a pretty impressive way. Appreciated.Angry Exilehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02491082312193274360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6336941957519877299.post-22568756516027942342011-02-13T08:26:19.828-08:002011-02-13T08:26:19.828-08:00Consider it thrown, nay hurled, into the nearest a...Consider it thrown, nay hurled, into the nearest active caldera.Bill Stickerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05285528897339442436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6336941957519877299.post-27690492713373140592011-02-13T07:12:18.670-08:002011-02-13T07:12:18.670-08:00ARGH. Errant apostrophe. Kill it. Kill it with fir...ARGH. Errant apostrophe. Kill it. Kill it with fire.Angry Exilehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02491082312193274360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6336941957519877299.post-54047044890875616852011-02-13T07:11:13.964-08:002011-02-13T07:11:13.964-08:00I don't think he was lampooning, or at least t...I don't think he was lampooning, or at least that's not the word I'd choose. As you say, not amusing and didn't sound like he was trying to be. But nor did he give any indication that those were his personal views. He may well be a warmist personally - I don't know - but he's always struck me more as the kind of old school journo who tries to provide balance and has become increasingly frustrated that the BBC now demands it's journos provide polemics. What I got seemed more like he was painting a hyperbolic picture of BBC policy. Lampooning is, as I say, a poor word choice. I'd have described it as a criticism of the BBC's increasingly open bias on certain topics. I think he was doing a "Sissons".Angry Exilehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02491082312193274360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6336941957519877299.post-30006989297032928522011-02-12T09:45:01.728-08:002011-02-12T09:45:01.728-08:00AE,
Listened to the clip twice and I'm not co...AE,<br /><br />Listened to the clip twice and I'm not convinced of the 'lampoon' argument. Aren't lampoons supposed to be amusing in some way?Bill Stickerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05285528897339442436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6336941957519877299.post-50845828756547192802011-02-12T09:12:14.751-08:002011-02-12T09:12:14.751-08:00Bishop Hill has updated. Some feel that Buerk is n...Bishop Hill has updated. Some feel that Buerk is not having a go at sceptics but at the BBC for treating sceptics and their opinions as they would treat paedophiles. I've had a listen to what he actually said <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00y8yjv/Moral_Maze_09_02_2011" rel="nofollow">(30 secs in or so)</a> and I tend to agree. Doesn't say anything either way about the man's own opinion except that he thinks that until recently the chattering classes - and he used the term - held AGW sceptics and anyone who questioned multiculti-ism in the same contempt as paedos. And he's right apart from one thing: "until recently" suggests it's no longer like that but I think it still is, just a little less than it has been.Angry Exilehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02491082312193274360noreply@blogger.com