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BBC Shoot Themselves in Foot Again Trying to Preserve Thatcher’s Thorny Legacy
LONDON – The ‘legacy thing’ is especially hard to manage when large swaths of the population feel that a former political puppet was completely on the wrong side of history.
Just ask Tony Blair, who is a shoe-in to grace the annals of history as one of most evil, money-orientated and unapologetic leaders in history. But this year’s fury has been reserved for the ‘The Iron Lady’, who many Britons believe laid the groundwork for the elitist, dysfunctional, closing society and greed-plagued political culture the country is unfortunately witnessing today.
PHOTO: Revelers at one of London’s most radically socialist and infamously irreverent boozers, The Queens Head in Brixton, South London, deliver their verdict as to the legacy of Thatcherism. Residents in the Borough of Lambeth also staged other protests and street parties following Thatcher’s passing this week.
If the controversy wasn’t enough, it appears that the BBC – an ardent defender of their golden boy and paedophile Sir Jimmy Savile’s legacy (the BBC buried Savile revelations in order to protect their investment in Savile TV programming) – has jumped to the defense of Savile’s close friend, the late Margaret Thatcher, by censoring what is clearly the most popular song this week in the UK.
Hasn’t the BBC learned that it’s job is not to protect legacies? One has to admit, when it’s forced to take rear-guard action like this, the BBC is sinking further and further to depths uncharted – and further away from the hearts and minds of its license-paying public. Clearly, they are officially “out of touch” with the British public who like it or not, have nominated this as the week’s number one track (we have a feeling this will back-fire badly on the BBC, and will catapult the same track to number one again next week).
Some still might be asking though, why would anyone celebrate the death of Margaret Thatcher? Answer: Ask a Chilean… or a Cambodian. It seems that DJ Jimmy wasn’t the unsavoury friend of the Iron Lady.
According to news reports, this is the song the BBC have sought to suppress this week (no kidding)…
The BBC has come under fire for a decision not to air a song, which has hit top of the charts after the death of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, in its weekly music countdown show.
The song, “Ding Dong! The witch is dead” from the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz, is now contending to gain the top slot in Britain’s weekly list of the top 40 best-selling singles that are usually played in full on a BBC Radio 1 chart show on Sunday.
However, the BBC has announced it will only air a 5-second clip of the 51 second song in the form of a news broadcast, with the BBC director Tony Hall saying the “tasteless” and inappropriate song may offend Thatcher’s supporters while banning it may lead to public outrage.
Thatcher’s death on Monday led to a hail of “Thatcher death parties” on the streets of different cities across Britain including Glasgow, London, Belfast and Manchester.
The protesters also took to the internet to voice their pleasure at the 87-year-old ex-PM’s death, with the word “witch” becoming a rally point for her opponents both on the web and on the streets.
Source: Press TV
mrs thatcher died of metal fatigue she was a hated person and the thatcher family nothing but a bunch of money grabbing hypocryts, the title was a deal done so that mark thatcher became a sir and what did dennis do to deserve a knighthood nothing, and as for patriotic this is a family with all their money in off shore accounts, and why was a old lady with dimentia dumped in a hotel when she had a mansion just around the corner, why not 24/7 nursing care so she could die in her own bed, probaly because theres a tax scam, or the bill is being paid by the tax payer, and will president obama shake hadns with a man barred from america ,convicted in south africa kicked out of monaco and wanted in new guinea, and they want a statue of her in trafalger square they must be joking but if they do it will have off shore stamped on the bottom
I’m too young to remember a lot about Thatcher Reagan era. i do know, however, they were both world leaders, as is Robert Mugabe, Fidel Castro and Barack Hussein Obama. admittedly, when Hussein dies i will pee my pants, crying tears of joy and overcome with elation, IN THE PRIVACY OF MY OWN HOME! to be happy or sad at a historical, political leader is the individuals choice. however, it is in poor taste for a state run (which all media outlets such as BBC, NBC, CBS, FOX…..are) media outlet to play any song meant to be derogatory towards one of its country’s former or current leaders. it puts their opinion on a specific side and would cause them to lose credibility, not gain it. if FOX NEWS played Elton John’s ”the bitch is back” when Hillary ”decides” to run for president, i would be sickened at the classless act. simply put, if BBC thought it appropriate to ”laugh” in the face of her death, to show their disdain, then whom might they think that of in the future, that the public admired? imagine if they had this ”popular” opinion of POPE JOHN PAUL II? how many hundreds of millions of people don’t? it’s just a bad, dumb idea. if a local radio show plays the song, they do it at their own peril. for the state to allow or condone it is just asinine. period.
She believed in what she did and probably saved the country. Anyone who observes human nature knows we do not like change, and given the power will feather our own nests at everybody else’s cost. Any one side, unions or management (read government) with total power will doe as little as possible for as much as possible, it all takes balance and to give the correction necessary she had to give a sharp pull on the ropes of union power. I did not like her at that time but can now see it was needed.
DEATH TO ALL THATCHERS, ARE ROOF IS LEAKING
HOW THE HELL DID THAT THATCHER CLOWN, GET TO BE A LORD? BOUGHT IT?
Maybe the BBC is only doing for Thatcher…what most major US media is doing for Obama.