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Listed below are comments made by wendymann between Thursday, 22nd October 2009 and Saturday, 24th October 2009.

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Question Time....your verdict 5:35pm on 24 Oct 2009 " The format of the whole programme was quite clearly a right-wing bias media election stunt where, probably in collusion with the BNP itself, Nick Griffin's performance and alleged humiliation was deliberately stage-managed in order to steal the sympathy vote from disaffected apathetic Labour voters who've been completely let down by New Labour's failed Tory policies."

even i wouldnt go that far, however certainly there has been an attempt to somewhat legitimise the bnp or at least fascism into the mainstream, otherwise the question time stunt does not make any sense considering the way it has been promoted and that the bbc had no obligation to have the bnp , it wasnt about democracy or democratic rights and it cannot be about freespeech since there are limits.

in the end the question is as always .. who benefits and so far it is fascism.
Question Time....your verdict 5:31pm on 24 Oct 2009 "You are being ridiculous."

what i am pointing out to you is that the bnp have an effective organisation that does mobilise with respect to phone ins, message boards etc.

that is not to say that all people who write are bnp just that its not what it appears to be superficially.
Question Time....your verdict 9:06pm on 23 Oct 2009 now nicky should and i suspect does understand that the 'troublesome' parts (his words) of the koran have a context and are not to be taken literally. this much he acknowledged late on into the show when a caller made this very point.

the question is therefore why did nicky not deal robustly with the islamophobic callers who took griffins view of islam as being honest or accurate.

so this mornings breakfast show has a problem , nicky provided an incorrect perception of islam that appears to meet the bnp view half way. this of course feeds into the way the bnp are perceived. if not for that caller who contextualised the quote , the bnp rhetoric against islam would have gone unchallenged. this goes further whilst there is great effort to be robust over holocaust denial and homophobic views why does it stop at islam and muslims.
Question Time....your verdict 8:56pm on 23 Oct 2009 "I would ask the same of you, Wendy Mann. Have you looked at the QT website and the many hundreds of comments on there?"

as you must know the bnp have activists that troll popular message boards to sell their fascistic brand of 'democracy'.

they also troll phone in shows , talksport being their favored but they do local and 5live .. i suspect that it would be true of the bbc qt boards.

the bnp in this respect are highly organised so no its not a surprise that the qt is being spammed.

what you should be appalled about is the fact that griffin was anywhere near the bbc qt studio on a platform that was given to him to legitimise fascism into the mainstream.

do you really need to know anything more than his holocaust denial, his anti gay stance, his bigotry towards people of color or his misrepresenting the koran and islam.

what is it that you were actually wanting to hear that would make him palatable despite his track record.
Question Time....your verdict 6:13pm on 23 Oct 2009 apparantly griffin is an aborigine ... does that make aborigines british?
Question Time....your verdict 6:08pm on 23 Oct 2009 "He would have been exposed for the idiot he is if he'd been allowed to talk;"

were you wa5tching the same programme as the rest of us?

http://www.youtube.com/comment_servlet?all_comments&v=_QAvkFS_cgk&fromurl=/watch%3Fv%3D_QAvkFS_cgk%26feature%3Dplayer_embedded
Question Time....your verdict 6:07pm on 23 Oct 2009 so the bbc first legitimises the bnp then tries to pretend that it has acted in the interest of wider societal values, democracy and cohesion. nothing could be further from the truth.

it provided griffin a place on the mainstream, it provided the bnp with millions of pounds of advertising/promotion, it provided a direct political broadcast to the bnp constituency. it provided griffin a real political role.

the question is why would the bbc want to provide so much for the bnp? hazel blears promised us a summer of rage, it didnt materialise but late into the season out of nowhere appeared the edl who managed to avoid banning of their incitements by a work around of the law. today the bbc sought to give voice to fascism into the maisntream. it wasnt under any obligation to do so though it has argued disingenuously it was.

on talksport today the feeling was that the bnp provided a credible case (admittedly talksport do attract many bnp supporters).

griffin is on a win win. he knows it. today the rest of us now know it too.

a good article:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/oct/21/jack-straw-bnp-griffin-hain?commentpage=1
Does the postal strike make sense? 12:48pm on 22 Oct 2009 qt is the premier show for sound bites and populist rhetoric. it is not about scrutiny, interrogation or truths. to pretend that it is anything else is dishonest.
Does the postal strike make sense? 12:36pm on 22 Oct 2009 "If we want to stop the BNP, we have to stop the other extremist groups too, whether they are organised as political parties or not, or whether they have elected representatives or not."

no one is arguing against stopping extremism, but we cant justify the bnp being legitimised by the likes of the bbc. anjem choudry has a following of no more than a handful of vociferous idiots the bnp has received support from almost a million wannabe fascists. there is a difference the level of threat and extremism.

if you are not a victim of that racism , that violence is invisible to you in the main, you dont suffer that daily abuse intimidation. it is ok for the bbc hierarchy to talk about 'democracy' but what about the democratic right of those who are the victims of the bnp's rhetoric and violent activities.

its interesting the line the bbc have taken , trying to muddy the water by invoking democracy when the issue is not about democracy but about representation and legitimisation of fascists such as those affiliated to the bnp. if it was about democratic rights, then surely the rights of those minorities who the bnp persecute should have been of primary concern.
Does the postal strike make sense? 12:22pm on 22 Oct 2009 vicky is putting forward the argument that in a democracy everything is allowed ?

can we expect all of those who have been banned from entering the uk by the govt because of their views to be given voice on the bbc - since the bbc believes in democracy and not censorship?

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