Tuesday, 26 April 2011

Damascusgate

As we may term the BBC's outrageous treatment of the situation in Syria.

This morning, we were treated to Jim Naughtie's contemptuous ridicule and dismissal of a bishop on the phone from that country, in marked contrast to his fawning over some journalist in the studio who had a middle-class London accent and who was never asked what he wanted instead for a land where he did not live and which he had quite possibly never visited.

A bishop? In Syria? What, you mean that there are Christians in the Middle East? They must be very recent converts, then. Mustn't they? And as for opposing regime change by God's Own Country, or supporting pan-Arabism (not least in relation to the Holy Land), well, that can only be ... oh, what's it called? ... Stockholm Syndrome. Can't it?

Matters are not helped by the fact that these are the moderate end of the views of the man who has monopolised the London Medialand market for a voice of Catholic orthodoxy.
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10 comments:

  1. Anonymous26 April 2011 at 12:24

    The Beeb has been petrified ever since the Hutton "Report" and just parrots the Mossad line nowadays. That line is for Syria to be taken out the way Iraq was, so the Chistians and everyone else there can burn.

    As for Mabel the Unable, she cannot be expected to know that the ancient Christians of the Middle East still exist or ever did. We know she can't have Aids because if she did she would be forcibly infecting Christian boys in Palestine, Iraq, Iran and nmow Syria. How right you are that she monopolises the Catholic platform that other people have a much better claim to.

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  2. Left footer26 April 2011 at 12:49

    Puts me in mind of your post last night about Thought for the Day and about the prospect of Catholic leaders in a reformed House of Lords. Chosen how and by whom?

    How right you are, the reality of Middle Eastern Christianity was deliberately buried over Iraq and is now being deliberately buried over Syria, the Catholic Church is best placed to publicise it but media access is carved up between the Tabletistas and Mabel. See your post a few days ago about how liberals and conservatives are as schismatic as each other.

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  3. Anonymous26 April 2011 at 14:37

    If Mabel infected them, Kamm could not eat them.

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  4. Jeff26 April 2011 at 15:22

    Mabel the Unable. I love it.

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  5. Miner's Boy26 April 2011 at 19:14

    I do enjoy most of your blogs but as someone who was not privileged to be an undergrad or a postgrad (if there is a undergrad why is there not an overgrad?) some of your obscure inferences, and those of your posters, leave me puzzled. Instead of saying "the man who has monopolised the London Medialand market for a voice of Catholic orthodoxy" why not just say his name so we, the untutored, know who he is? Of course, it may be a case of which is easier to say: pick up thy bed and walk, or, thy sins are forgiven thee. Also, who is "Mabel the Unable?"
    My apologies for being so dim but I am only the son of a Durham miner. After all, when you will be touting for votes in four years time we will require absolute clarity.

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  6. David Lindsay27 April 2011 at 10:22

    Oh, that is the least part of the point of this post, that orthodox Catholicism is supplanted in the media by neoliberal economics and neoconservative foreign policy that happens to have an affection for the Latin Mass and which engages in a bit of dog-whistling over pro-life, though, tellingly, never over anything else.

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  7. Mabel27 April 2011 at 13:18

    Follow my link.

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  8. Anonymous27 April 2011 at 14:39

    An organized campaign by the Catholic Far Right to deprive Damian Thompson of his livelihood. You people are not above cooperating with his liberal enemies among bishops and bureaucrats. You have already forced him out of the Catholic Herald. You seem to have seized on the Blessed Martyr David Lindsay as your poster boy. SHAME!!!

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  9. Miner's Boy27 April 2011 at 20:24

    Mabel said...
    Follow my link.

    So I did, and I was appalled. I have no particular truck with D T, in fact I don't care for him at all, but this blog was puerile and embarrassing. I can understand someone responding with a vitriolic comment on some issue, but to spend day after day producing this drivel is very disturbing. Disagree with D T if you wish, and many do, but at least he puts his name to his articles which is more than can be said for the perpetrator of this vile blog. Whoever it is should be ashamed, and I am surprised that you, David Lindsay, are a party to it.

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  10. David Lindsay27 April 2011 at 20:32

    I'm not. I don't know how to do pictures on blogs. But all right, I'll not let up anything else from Mabel if it links to her blog.

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