BBCause they suck

The liberal press, that is. Check out this article in Britain's The Online Sun. It's a good object lesson in the results of a statist, non-competitive press which runs rampant with no accountability. Nice to see them catching some flack from their countrymen though. Here's some highlights of the lowlights.

BARMY BBC bosses have banned reporters from calling tyrant Saddam Hussein a former dictator.

Instead, staff must refer to the barbaric mass murderer as “the deposed former President”.

Asswipes. I'd love to take those B.B.C. nits and force-march 'em to wade through a few dozen mass graves. Put shovels in their hands and make them help dig for a day. Might lend them some much needed perspective, other than the one they have from their fine few of their lower intestines.

The body of the article has quite a few quotes from prominent Brits thoroughly slamming the BBC's edict. Here's my favorite.

Tory Party chairman Liam Fox also slammed the Beeb — which was accused during the war of giving too much weight to Iraqi propaganda.

He said: “To afford this level of politeness to a tyrant, torturer and murderer is deeply offensive to the Iraqi people.

“It is also an insult to the Coalition forces who have sacrificed so much to liberate Iraq from the evil of Saddam.”

[emphasis mine] Damn, he nailed it to the core with that line.

More stupidity.

The BBC said the email spelling out the instruction was sent to reporters on its online website, which serves a global audience.

A spokeswoman said: “This was reiterating existing guidelines to remind BBC News Online journalists of the need to use neutral language.”

And what's wrong with going to the world and calling a spade a spade? "Neutral Language" my ass. That's Language of Appeasement, which seems to be the BBC's main dialect.

Later she said the ban on calling Saddam a dictator did not apply to domestic services.

Busted, and weaseling in response to the light shined into the spiderhole sepctic-tank they have in common with Sodamned Insane.

Score, The Online Sun 1, the BBC 0.