Danmarks Radio...

Denmark goes to the polls on Tuesday so in the last few days the news has been hotting up with all the usual bickering and finger pointing going back n forth. Today then, as we ate dinner I watched Danmarks Radio's news coverage of the latest 'scandal'.
(DR is the Danish state media corporation).

First came a story that the social democrat politician named Henrik Sass Larsen who is running for the job of deputy prime minster had been leaking vital info to the opposition during the last election. So far, no big deal, until DR began to interview three different 'experts' who all made the point that Venstre (the larger of the two governing parties) was behind this 'American style smear campaign'.

Now, I expect DR to be partisan. Its par for the course. Like the BBC, Danmarks Radio is funded by taxes and a 'license fee', so DR likes governments which spend lots of tax money. The more the better. Its no surprise to learn that many of the employee's at DR are either left of centre, left wing or extreme left wing (moon bat style).

But, WTF planet do these people live on? How stupid are people in this country if they can't see the socialist smear campaign thats been ongoing for the last two years! We've seen demonstration after demonstration with the red banners out flying and the Arafat-scarf-wearing autonome spoiling for their street fights with the police and now suddenly, Venstre is the party engaging in a smear campiagn? As if!

If you need any confirmation of where DR's bias lies, you only have to look at how this story is portrayed on the DR news site where the Prime Ministers asserted lack of knoweldge, not the actual story itself on the matter is the head line. I can see the DR editor now "Bah! Who cares what the story is, lets see how fast we can make this stick to Fogh!"

I'm not even going to vote for Venstre who are so pro EU they're most probably going to sneak in the new EU constitution (the one thats disguised as a treaty) without a referendum so I'm not going to defend them here. They can lie in their own bed. My rant concerns the crypto communists at DR. The same people who send me bills for their shit TV propaganda then try to spin the news to make the socialists look squeaky clean whilst running Naser Khaders election campaign for him.

After these 'experts' had finished laying all the blame for this 'smear campaign' (and they had all of TWO examples of why it was a 'campaign'), DR got back on track with a story about 'Muslims moving into the suburbs'. Immigration is another big issue these days and if there is one group the left wing hates more than the government, its the nationalist Dansk Folkeparti. I watched the story in its entirety and concluded that this was a story about nothing and so why was it being shown? A family of Muslims were shown cleaning up a house they had bought in some suburb some where. The parents were interviewed and they said, 'they were moving into this house they'd bought'. The Journalist from DR then also made it clear to the meanest understanding that these Muslims were 'moving into a common Danish suburb just like any one else might do'... and that was the whole 'story'; Some Muslims acting like normal people.

It is not lost on me that the whole point of this non-story was to tell people not to vote for DF, because 'Muslims are in fact normal people' ...some of whom just happen to believe in submitting to an invisible god who commands them to slaughter the infidel kuffar. The fact of the matter is, no one in this country is blind to the fact that Islam is here to stay, but if we were to believe DR, then there are no Muslim terrorists currently on trial in Danish courts, Pia Kjærsgaard is the real threat to Denmark, Osama Bin Laden has a 'point about America', and actually George W Bush and the CIA might have destroyed the world trade centre...

Do you think I'm joking when I say people at DR think Bin Laden has a point about the USA? I'm not. I've seen it with my own eyes. The most jaw dropping example came on Sept 11 of this year when a DR current affairs show host explained to his colleage that when he saw the twin towers being destroyed, his first thought was 'Finally! Some ones giving it to the Americans' at last.

Was he fired? Reprimanded? Told to apologise or even just to shut the fuck up?

Nope.

Anyway, the next story really made me laugh. Police stations in the inner city districts of Copenhagen are apparently in such poor condition that a police man (not any one important you understand, just some guy in a uniform) could point to a broken chair and some mold on a wall in some dark cellar room as evidence that the government has been lax in funding the police!!!
The joke here is that the reason why the Copenhagen police are short of funds is because they've just had to deal with several years of the rioting left wing street fighters who call themselves the Autonome as well as an unprecedented increase in terrorist threats against targets in Denmark by Muslims extremists.

The Autonome are like Hitlers brown shirts, except they prefer black hoodies. You find them where ever there is a significant socialist opposition or having a fine time at any top level international political meeting (they're the ones outside dressed in makeshift armour and throwing bricks at the police, torching cars and destroying the proporty of ordinary people in the cause of The Revolution). Usually they justify their violence by blaming neo Nazi's, but when these are not directly available they just go after any one who is a capitalist since they appear to make no distinction between the two. In the current election campaign they've been going around Århus putting stickers over the eyes of DF politicians labelling them as 'racist'. Naturally, this smear campaign has been completely ignored by DR.

I can just imagine the outrage if some one stuck stickers on the various Muslim candidates (90% of whom are on the socialist list) labelling them as 'terrorists'.

DR's run of 'election news' ended with a poll that showed that the majority of Danes, with 49% of men and 66% of women wanted to see Danish soldiers immediately withdrawn from Afghanistan. To my knowledge this is the first time such a poll has yielded so negative a result with regards to Afghanistan and the timing with regards to the election is more than a tad suspicious. Its not so long ago that the socialists were labelling Afghanistan as the 'right war' and Iraq as the 'wrong war'. Now Denmark has pulled out of Iraq, Afghanistan has suddenly become the 'wrong war'. So what changed?

The next story was about Pakistan. It had nothing to do with the election except that DR made sure to include a few references about Musharref being a US puppet that left one in no doubt that the Denmark, due to the government's involvement with GW Bush was some how at fault here also.

The whole news was dedicated to making the government look bad and in these last few days before the election takes place, the bias was obvious. Usually DR are better at concealing their left wing tendencies, but in the climate of the last two years riots, confrontation and left wing agitprop, they've been slipping of late. No doubt they've gotten all excited.
What set me off (and why I'm ranting on my blog) was the direct accusation, based on two very dubious examples, that the government was taking part in an 'American/Republican style smear campaign'.
We've just witnessed two whole years of the socialists deploying every resouce they have to make the government look like bad. They've used every tool in the book, from caricatures of Pia Kjærsgaard (the nationalist leader) to full blown revolution style street fighting against the police.... and I'm supposed to believe that the government is responsible for a smear campaign!

So, want to guess who I shall be voting for...?