Unbelievable BBC interview with man pulled from wheelchair by cops.

[ernestolynch]

Is Ben Brown a scab too?

 

[chazegee]

Bloody hell, you can see why this country created Viz...

 

[Divisive Cotton]

It's a full-on liberal implosion That the twat editor at that BBC blog also thought it worth linking to Jody's blog as evidence that he was a'asking for it' was a right old giveaway and good to see him being torn a new one over it (to the point it seems he's hidden the comment). Is Bakhurst another public school moron?

300 plus criticisms and counting. Oh well, I suppose I better do my bit and write something

The editor writes:

"I am aware that there is a web campaign encouraging people to complain to the BBC about the interview, the broad charge being that Ben Brown was too challenging in it."

In fact there have been several "campaigns" in that it has been the subject of discussion across the net.

It is not that Ben Brown was "too challenging" but that he was condescending to the interviewee.

If Mr. Brown has pre-conceived ideas about the demonstrators or Mr McIntyre's role in the events, then it is hard for the viewer not to have pre-conceived ideas about the overwhelming public school and Cambridge / Oxford backgrounds of BBC presenters and how this reflects the output of BBC news.

However, the editor is right when he states that Mr McIntyre gave a strong account of himself. Indeed he did. The result was a highlight of this years TV output, but one that came about accidentally and at the expense of the BBC.

 

[19sixtysix]

Bloody hell, you can see why this country created Viz...

I was just thinking of Drop the Dead Donkey about 13:30 in. Does it remind you of anyone.

Video imbed failed try

 

[Divisive Cotton]

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinio...ear-case-of-attack-by-wheelchair-2160454.html

Or maybe the incident with Jody McIntyre is nothing to do with students, and this is the new test for anyone on disability benefit. The police sling you on the floor, poke you about a bit, and if you manage to roll anywhere, there is clearly nothing wrong with you and you get your payments cut.

 

[magneze]

x 100

 

[likesfish]

he was using his wheelchair as a weapon a classic faceplam

 

[Paul Russell]

According to @badjournalism on Twitter, the BBC have received 5000 complaints about the interview.

 

[trevhagl]

According to @badjournalism on Twitter, the BBC have received 5000 complaints about the interview.

excellent. don't think we've heard the last of posh right wing presenters at the 'new' BBC though

 

[rekil]

According to @badjournalism on Twitter, the BBC have received 5000 complaints about the interview.

5400 according to someone on the editors blog claiming to work in the BBC.

323. At 07:44am on 15 Dec 2010, Inside1 wrote:
This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the House Rules.

No : it was removed because it contained embarrassing information about how Ben Brown and Kevin Bakhurst are viewed by senior management at the BBC!

They cannot afford to ignore this problem, the complaints about this are now outrunning the huge compaints against the X Factor this year.

At more than 5,400 complaints , Bakhurst has a huge problem and Brown has a poor future!

My comment was published but just got hidden again. Bah.

 

[xes]

my comment wasn't published
I didn't swear, or get too mean either. I may have called them goverment mouthpieces, and a shambles, an embarrasment, a joke and 1 or 2 more choice things. But nothing that wasn't 100% true.

 

[twistedAM]

http://www.facebook.com/ pages/Ben-Brown/116071383134

Is Ben Brown a scab too?

He supports Liverpool though. Grew up in Kent obv.

 

[treelover]

meanwhile disabled people are protesting all over Uk, but you wouldn't know it from here...

 

[A Dashing Blade]

Ealing councillor Phil Taylor implies Jody Mcantyre is faking his disablility

No . . . he was quoting from Mcantyre's own blog . . . "Two friends carried my wheelchair, and I walked."

 

[butchersapron]

Thereby implying that his disability is faked.

 

[killer b]

meanwhile disabled people are protesting all over Uk, but you wouldn't know it from here...

maybe you could start us off?

 

[ymu]

No . . . he was quoting from Mcantyre's own blog . . . "Two friends carried my wheelchair, and I walked."

So you're as ignorant as Phil Taylor? How very unsurprising.

 

[Quartz]

What gets me is how arseholes like Hannan complain about imagined BBC bias against loony Europhobes but pay no attention to the real bias.

The BBC has different biases in different areas and different journalists have different biases. I happen to agree with Hannan - significant segments of the BBC are biased against Europhobes. You do know that the BBC gets a grant from the EU, don't you? But that doesn't mean that the BBC as a whole is biased in favour of Europe.

 

[Quartz]

No . . . he was quoting from Mcantyre's own blog . . . "Two friends carried my wheelchair, and I walked."

It's a bit difficult to go up or down steps in a wheelchair.

 

[Paul Russell]

If Phil Taylor is suggesting that Jody McIntyre is being duplicitous about his disability, the first few sentences of his bio are

"When I was born in East Dulwich hospital, the doctors told my parents I would never walk, and probably wouldn’t talk. After proving them wrong,..."

 

[ymu]

Jody's own account of that day states that he stood up after one of the incidents where he was tipped out of his chair. There's video of him being walked over to a wall by some cops. He's never, ever claimed that he cannot walk. Taylor, Littlejohn et al are just revealing, and revelling in, their ignorance and prejudice. Still, bodes well for more militancy over the DLA cuts.

 

[audiotech]

Mark Steel's take on it:

Presumably the police turned to each other in shock, spluttering: "Oh my God, he's rolling straight for us. These riot shields and helmets with visors offer woefully inadequate protection against such a persistent rolling machine. If we're lucky our batons can buy us some time, but his momentum is terrifying, it's like a cerebral palsy tsunami."

and...

Maybe this is how to win in Afghanistan. We recruit a multiple sclerosis battalion to roll mercilessly through Helmand province and the Taliban will run away shrieking in fear.

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinio...ear-case-of-attack-by-wheelchair-2160454.html

 

[audiotech]

Jody McIntyre has not claimed to be confined to a wheelchair, but his condition leaves him with mobility difficulties that necessitate the use of a wheelchair. This does not mean he's faking his condition.

 

[audiotech]

meanwhile disabled people are protesting all over Uk, but you wouldn't know it from here...

Any reports to post? BBC?

 

[ymu]

That would come dangerously close to positive, proactive support. Whinging at others for not doing it is much more productive.

 

[audiotech]

There's video of him being walked over to a wall by some cops.

I believe there's footage too of the offending police officer being dragged away by two colleagues immediately after the incident to consider?

 

[ymu]

I believe there's footage too of the offending police officer being dragged away by two colleagues immediately after the incident to consider?

Yes. The BBC has cut the video off before that bit almost every time I've seen it. One of the correspondents on Newsnight did mention it, after the video had been cut off, but otherwise, they appear to be concealing that fact. The second copper involved was trying to stop the other one - but that would make it clear that the cop well out of order, so I guess they don't want to show it.

 

[audiotech]

'Menacingly rolling towards Ben Brown in my wheelchair' facebook group - so far, 3,500 members.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Menac...Brown-in-my-wheelchair/160276930684430?v=wall

Guess what the most viewed video on You Tube today is?

220,000 views total.

http://www.youtube.com/videos

 

[Paul Russell]

Guess what the most viewed video on You Tube today is?

220,000 views total.

http://www.youtube.com/videos

I bet there's some gems in the 6000 comments...

 

[dylans]

Don't know if this has been posted yet. Jody Mcantyre, "Who's apathetic now?"

I’ve spoken out against injustice, in all contexts, for as long as I can remember. As someone who was told by doctors I probably wouldn’t walk or talk, it has been my objective since the start of my journey to inspire people with disabilities to demand equality. It saddens me to highlight that on my travels I’ve found it easier to travel in a wheelchair in Gaza city than in the City of London.

http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2010/12/15/jody-mcintyre-who’s-apathetic-now/


100 years ago another severely disabled person, Helen Keller, broke through the massive obstacles of blindness and deafness to see more clearly than those around her the misery created by capitalism and the possibility and necessity of fighting for a socialist alternative to it. She is well known for her achievements in overcoming her disabilities. Less known is that she was a revolutionary socialist.

She too was dismissed and patronised and accused of "using" her disability as a weapon. She wrote.

The Brooklyn Eagle says, apropos of me, and socialism, that Helen Keller's "mistakes spring out of the manifest limitations of her development." Some years ago I met a gentleman who was introduced to me as Mr. McKelway, editor of the Brooklyn Eagle. It was after a meeting that we had in New York in behalf of the blind. At that time the compliments he paid me were so generous that I blush to remember them. But now that I have come out for socialism he reminds me and the public that I am blind and deaf and especially liable to error. I must have shrunk in intelligence during the years since I met him. Surely it is his turn to blush. It may be that deafness and blindness incline one toward socialism. Marx was probably stone deaf and William Morris was blind. Morris painted his pictures by the sense of touch and designed wall paper by the sense of smell.

Oh, ridiculous Brooklyn Eagle! What an ungallant bird it is! Socially blind and deaf, it defends an intolerable system, a system that is the cause of much of the physical blindness and deafness which we are trying to prevent. The Eagle is willing to help us prevent misery provided, always provided, that we do not attack the industrial tyranny which supports it and stops its ears and clouds its vision. The Eagle and I are at war. I hate the system which it represents, apologizes for and upholds. When it fights back, let it fight fair. Let it attack my ideas and oppose the aims and arguments of Socialism. It is not fair fighting or good argument to remind me and others that i cannot see or hear. I can read. I can read all the socialist books I have time for in English, German and French. If the editor of the Brooklyn Eagle should read some of them, he might be a wiser man and make a better newspaper. If I ever contribute to the Socialist movement the book that I sometimes dream of, I know what I shall name it: Industrial Blindness and Social Deafness.

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/keller-helen/works/1910s/12_11_03.htm

She could have been talking about Richard Littlejohn. Jody Mcantyre is the Helen Keller of our day. He speaks not only for disabled people but for us all.