Abortion Propaganda

How to get free propaganda for your cause? Get the ear of someone at the BBC. It has long been notorious that you can get a 30-minute free prime time commercial for your luxury holidays or expensive consumer toys by getting the BBC to produce a suitable programme. One of the few justifications for the iniquitous 139.50 TV license fee was the claim that we have no paid commercials on BBC - unlike those horrible American channels. As the old quip goes:

You cannot hope to bribe or twist
Thank God! The British journalist.
But seeing what the man will do unbribed
There is no reason to.

Now we have primetime abortion propaganda, as Peter Hitchens so well describes in this column on 25th Jan 2009.

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This Isn’t the Truth, it’s Lying BBC Slurry

The BBC’s bias in favour of wild radical causes is not just to be found in its news and current affairs output. A number of people rang me to urge me to watch an astonishing programme on BBC1 last Monday.

This was a police thriller called Hunter, staring Hugh Bonneville and Janet McTeer. A lot of money had clearly been spent on sets, costumes, cars and actors. Almost everyone in it was young and attractive. It tore along at a compelling pace and was on at prime time.
And what was the plot? A group of abortion opponents had kidnapped two young boys, and were threatening to murder them unless BBC news showed a film of an abortion. The kidnappers were outwardly respectable people – a doctor, a nurse and a charity worker with an MBE. During the police hunt for the culprits, a righteous (and alluring) young woman detective aggressively interrogated an (entirely innocent) medic.

‘So,’ she hissed, ‘you’re an anti-abortionist?,’ using the words much as she might have said: ‘So, you’re a Nazi war criminal.’

Since the anti-abortion movement in this country is composed of kindly, non-violent people who seek to stop the slaughter of unborn babies, it is hard to see how they could resort to the murder of young children in pursuit of their cause.

Why is this lying slurry chosen for screening on our main channel? Well, perhaps it’s summed up in the line given to Janet McTeer at the end of the programme.

‘Thank God for abortion,’ she says.

Which I reckon is the BBC’s official view.