Wednesday, November 19, 2003
NPR's SHAMEFUL PARTISANSHIP
The veil slipped on NPR's left-wing, anti-Bush partispanship this morning. Guy Raz is covering the protests and he gave plenty of air time to perhaps the most revered idiot among the speakers at the "kick-off rally," Harold Pinter. Fair enough, Raz's job is to cover the protests. What was absolutely amazing was Raz's repeated references to "English public opinion" as being "against Bush," and "against the war." Even the notioriously rude and partisan English left-wing press has had the good grace to acknowledge a poll taken on the eve of Bush's visit to England, that shows a majority of Labour voters supporting the war effort:
A majority of Labour voters welcome President George Bush's state visit to Britain which starts today, according to November's Guardian/ICM opinion poll. The survey shows that public opinion in Britain is overwhelmingly pro-American with 62% of voters believing that the US is "generally speaking a force for good, not evil, in the world". It explodes the conventional political wisdom at Westminster that Mr Bush's visit will prove damaging to Tony Blair. Only 15% of British voters agree with the idea that America is the "evil empire" in the world. ...
The ICM poll also uncovers a surge in pro-war sentiment in the past two months as suicide bombers have stepped up their attacks on western targets and troops in Iraq. Opposition to the war has slumped by 12 points since September to only 41% of all voters. At the same time those who believe the war was justified has jumped 9 points to 47% of voters.
I hate to engage in reflexive Anglophilia, but maybe NPR could learn from its counterparts in the Mother Country.
GB, THHotA
posted by Greg 7:36 AM
