BBC Watch: Conservative vs. Right-wing
December 10, 2005, 5:05 pm |
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What’s wrong with this picture? The BBC describes Iran’s appointed President Ahmadinejad as “conservative,” but a democratically elected Israeli politician as “right-wing.”
Ahmadinejad just publicly denied that the Holocaust ever occurred, called for the ethnic cleansing of Jews from Israel, and in October demanded that Israel “be wiped off the map.”
So, in the BBC’s eyes, a transparently elected official who has never made such inflammatory statements is further to the “right” than a genocidal maniac pursuing nuclear weapons?
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