Friday 26 July 2013

Auntie's Beaming Eye

Twice in as many hours, for much of The News Quiz and then in Sarah Dunant's execrable A Point of View, all the usual dross against the Catholic Church was pumped out on Radio Four.

That's right. The BBC.

It is too much to expect that an orthodox Catholic, or even just an objective scientist or historian, might ever be allowed on to tell the truth about these matters.

But is it really too much to ask that the BBC refain from peddling barefaced lies about them?

An orthodox Catholic on Thought for the Day might not go amiss, either. There has not been one since Pope Benedict did it during his State Visit.

2 comments:

  1. What do you expect from a Corporation run and staffed by left-wing sexual revolutionaries who still haven't grown up or (as Baudrillard would put it) are endlessly replaying a simulation of teen rebellion.

    The funny thing is they think they're subversive-when they are just fashionable TV-age conformists.

    As the enormous cross-party majority for gay marriage showed, everyone is a liberal now.

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  2. Ah, Baudrillard, who sees in the dispute over the Postmodern celebration of the image the conflict between the French Jesuits and Huguenot iconoclasm. See Vatican II. And Graham Greene. Among other things. You are out of your depth again.

    Tedious and tiresome old 1960s types who imagine that they are still enfants terribles (or ever really were), and who bleat that “Communism did not fail, because it has never been tried”, have now been joined by tedious and tiresome old 1980s types who imagine that they are still enfants terribles (or ever really were), and who bleat that “capitalism did not fail, because it has never been tried”.

    Grow up, the lot of you. Not least including those of you who are far too young ever to have been either. Honestly, when I deal with much of the Postliberal circuit on both sides of the Atlantic and realise that they and the likes of you are much the same age, then I genuinely struggle to believe it.

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