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	<title>Comments on: Letter to the BBC about Vanessa Feltz</title>
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		<title>By: Gian Banchero</title>
		<link>http://www.blogistan.co.uk/blog/mt.php/2006/12/17/letter_to_the_bbc_about_vanessa_feltz#comment-29087</link>
		<dc:creator>Gian Banchero</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 17:03:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m so glad I live in the San Francisco Bay Area here in California, we don&#039;t have any real ghettos anymore... In my neighborhood there are Italians (me), Hebrews, Muslims, Mexicans, Latin Americans, Africans, East Indians, Asians, Yanks of all colors... Oh, you should see the foods we share at our Block (street) parties!! Really, really, really, there has to come a time where we realize WE ALL BELONG TO THE SAME FAMILY!!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m so glad I live in the San Francisco Bay Area here in California, we don&#8217;t have any real ghettos anymore&#8230; In my neighborhood there are Italians (me), Hebrews, Muslims, Mexicans, Latin Americans, Africans, East Indians, Asians, Yanks of all colors&#8230; Oh, you should see the foods we share at our Block (street) parties!! Really, really, really, there has to come a time where we realize WE ALL BELONG TO THE SAME FAMILY!!!</p>
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		<title>By: peter watkins</title>
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		<dc:creator>peter watkins</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:11:04 +0000</pubDate>
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This needs investigating.

Every day, several times, Feltz mentions &#039;The Times&#039;, whose support of Israel during the Gaza hostilities in January, has been greater than that of any British paper.

She never sites a left wing newspaper whose support for Israel is less obvious.

There is a complete anti Muslim andn pro Jewish vibe to her show every day.

Her editor, Robey, is part of the problem.

People should complain to ecu@bbc.co.uk
the editorial complaints unit
or contact feedback - the bbc radio 4 programme
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This needs investigating.</p>

<p>Every day, several times, Feltz mentions &#8216;The Times&#8217;, whose support of Israel during the Gaza hostilities in January, has been greater than that of any British paper.</p>

<p>She never sites a left wing newspaper whose support for Israel is less obvious.</p>

<p>There is a complete anti Muslim andn pro Jewish vibe to her show every day.</p>

<p>Her editor, Robey, is part of the problem.</p>

<p>People should complain to <a href="mailto:ecu@bbc.co.uk">ecu@bbc.co.uk</a>
the editorial complaints unit
or contact feedback - the bbc radio 4 programme</p>
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		<title>By: patricia</title>
		<link>http://www.blogistan.co.uk/blog/mt.php/2006/12/17/letter_to_the_bbc_about_vanessa_feltz#comment-4545</link>
		<dc:creator>patricia</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:28:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I am glad that I am not alone in my dismay at David Robey&#039;s inaction in the face of constant, contrived Islamophobia by his morning presenter, Daily Express columnist Vanessa Feltz.  I have complained on numerous occasions that Feltz looks repeatedly to The Daily Mail, Express and Times, ignoring the Guardian and Independent, in her repeated attempts - in my view - to perpetuate race hate - and besmirch Islam. She recently sympathetically interviewed at infuriating length the arch Conservative and Orthodox Jew Melanie Phillips about her widely discredited book, &#039;Londonistan&#039;, which paints London as a war zone, torn apart by Islamic inspired blooshed and religious strife.

BBC Radio London urgently needs a presenter with a Liberal outlook and a much les shadey and open hearted agenda.  If Robey fails to deliver such editorial balance, he should be replaced.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am glad that I am not alone in my dismay at David Robey&#8217;s inaction in the face of constant, contrived Islamophobia by his morning presenter, Daily Express columnist Vanessa Feltz.  I have complained on numerous occasions that Feltz looks repeatedly to The Daily Mail, Express and Times, ignoring the Guardian and Independent, in her repeated attempts - in my view - to perpetuate race hate - and besmirch Islam. She recently sympathetically interviewed at infuriating length the arch Conservative and Orthodox Jew Melanie Phillips about her widely discredited book, &#8216;Londonistan&#8217;, which paints London as a war zone, torn apart by Islamic inspired blooshed and religious strife.</p>

<p>BBC Radio London urgently needs a presenter with a Liberal outlook and a much les shadey and open hearted agenda.  If Robey fails to deliver such editorial balance, he should be replaced.</p>
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		<title>By: Lisa</title>
		<link>http://www.blogistan.co.uk/blog/mt.php/2006/12/17/letter_to_the_bbc_about_vanessa_feltz#comment-4544</link>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 18:37:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Vanessa Feltz is the champion of the sickening fetish &quot;plastic surgery for vanity&quot;.  Her USP is harsh speech for the sake of it and she fires words like bullets from her permanently grimacing face and equally repulsive vortex of a mouth. She has made a career from her faults and the BBC, who use taxes from the television license to exist, are giving such a woman a platform on our behalf.   In the future make your complaint to a newspaper, they will at least honour you with a response.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Vanessa Feltz is the champion of the sickening fetish &#8220;plastic surgery for vanity&#8221;.  Her USP is harsh speech for the sake of it and she fires words like bullets from her permanently grimacing face and equally repulsive vortex of a mouth. She has made a career from her faults and the BBC, who use taxes from the television license to exist, are giving such a woman a platform on our behalf.   In the future make your complaint to a newspaper, they will at least honour you with a response.</p>
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		<title>By: Freeborn</title>
		<link>http://www.blogistan.co.uk/blog/mt.php/2006/12/17/letter_to_the_bbc_about_vanessa_feltz#comment-4543</link>
		<dc:creator>Freeborn</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jan 2007 09:23:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well done for challenging BBC re-stoking Islamophobia.

Readers may need reminding about the Danish cartoons coverage which focussed despicably on the more virulent Muslim protests rather than the far more general,widely dispersed voicing of genuine and legitimate outrage that took place but was deemed less newsworthy.

BBC is the state cipher envisioned by Orwell.For coverage of muslim issues it is now unsurpassed in its bigotry and sheer ignorance.Aside from Feltz we have liberal establishment figures like Rod Little(who the BBC ironically sacked re-another issue but who is commonly summoned to parrot Islamophobic views on Any Questions or Question Time.The recently honoured Anne Leslie is frequently a guest lauded for her thoroghly specious understanding of the Middle East.This understanding includes the unlikely formulation that it is the goal of Islamicists to install a muslim caliphate across the West!

Another Leslie blooper was the notion at the time of 9/11 that because muslims had expressed the idea that such an atrocity could not have been planned and organized by their co-religionists this was yet another example of their being brainwashed!

Given that most of us who are not dependent on the corporate media for information and know how the official version of 9/11 does not stand up to any scrutiny(indeed it is this version that is the real conspiracy theory)one shudders to think just how far the brainwashing which has so demolished Leslie&#039;s capacity for rational thought has progressed!

Thanks again for your     protest.

Freeborn
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well done for challenging BBC re-stoking Islamophobia.</p>

<p>Readers may need reminding about the Danish cartoons coverage which focussed despicably on the more virulent Muslim protests rather than the far more general,widely dispersed voicing of genuine and legitimate outrage that took place but was deemed less newsworthy.</p>

<p>BBC is the state cipher envisioned by Orwell.For coverage of muslim issues it is now unsurpassed in its bigotry and sheer ignorance.Aside from Feltz we have liberal establishment figures like Rod Little(who the BBC ironically sacked re-another issue but who is commonly summoned to parrot Islamophobic views on Any Questions or Question Time.The recently honoured Anne Leslie is frequently a guest lauded for her thoroghly specious understanding of the Middle East.This understanding includes the unlikely formulation that it is the goal of Islamicists to install a muslim caliphate across the West!</p>

<p>Another Leslie blooper was the notion at the time of 9/11 that because muslims had expressed the idea that such an atrocity could not have been planned and organized by their co-religionists this was yet another example of their being brainwashed!</p>

<p>Given that most of us who are not dependent on the corporate media for information and know how the official version of 9/11 does not stand up to any scrutiny(indeed it is this version that is the real conspiracy theory)one shudders to think just how far the brainwashing which has so demolished Leslie&#8217;s capacity for rational thought has progressed!</p>

<p>Thanks again for your     protest.</p>

<p>Freeborn</p>
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		<title>By: George Carty</title>
		<link>http://www.blogistan.co.uk/blog/mt.php/2006/12/17/letter_to_the_bbc_about_vanessa_feltz#comment-4542</link>
		<dc:creator>George Carty</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Dec 2006 17:47:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;Islamophobia is cultural racism&lt;/i&gt;

There&#039;s no such thing as &quot;cultural racism&quot;.

Racism is a belief that people from one part of the world are &lt;i&gt;biologically&lt;/i&gt; superior to those from another part of the world.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>Islamophobia is cultural racism</i></p>

<p>There&#8217;s no such thing as &#8220;cultural racism&#8221;.</p>

<p>Racism is a belief that people from one part of the world are <i>biologically</i> superior to those from another part of the world.</p>
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		<title>By: Diana</title>
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		<dc:creator>Diana</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Dec 2006 14:12:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Matthew Smith.....get a life!

Viva Vanessa!
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Matthew Smith&#8230;..get a life!</p>

<p>Viva Vanessa!</p>
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		<title>By: Julaybib</title>
		<link>http://www.blogistan.co.uk/blog/mt.php/2006/12/17/letter_to_the_bbc_about_vanessa_feltz#comment-4540</link>
		<dc:creator>Julaybib</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Dec 2006 08:23:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>islamophobia is cultural racism, so that definitely makes it racism!
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>islamophobia is cultural racism, so that definitely makes it racism!</p>
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		<title>By: George Carty</title>
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		<dc:creator>George Carty</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Dec 2006 18:58:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;Like swimming semi-nude, banking with interest or eating industrially slaughtered meat.&lt;/i&gt;

These issues have nothing to with race and everything to do with religion.  This is Islamophobia but it certainly isn&#039;t racism, &quot;new&quot; or otherwise, even if genuine racists like the BNP sometimes hide behind an anti-Islam facade.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>Like swimming semi-nude, banking with interest or eating industrially slaughtered meat.</i></p>

<p>These issues have nothing to with race and everything to do with religion.  This is Islamophobia but it certainly isn&#8217;t racism, &#8220;new&#8221; or otherwise, even if genuine racists like the BNP sometimes hide behind an anti-Islam facade.</p>
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		<title>By: Julaybib</title>
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		<dc:creator>Julaybib</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Dec 2006 16:37:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Perhaps the pool issue is what is sometimes termsed &#039;new racism&#039;. This is where white folks say &#039;We are not racist, we don&#039;t use the &#039;n&#039; word and we are polite to foreigners. But we don&#039;t think groups in society should have special favours&#039;

By favours, that means no change to political, economic, social or beaurocratic structures which are inherently exclude people who do not belong to the majority population. Like swimming semi-nude, banking with interest or eating industrially slaughtered meat. And so on!
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Perhaps the pool issue is what is sometimes termsed &#8216;new racism&#8217;. This is where white folks say &#8216;We are not racist, we don&#8217;t use the &#8216;n&#8217; word and we are polite to foreigners. But we don&#8217;t think groups in society should have special favours&#8217;</p>

<p>By favours, that means no change to political, economic, social or beaurocratic structures which are inherently exclude people who do not belong to the majority population. Like swimming semi-nude, banking with interest or eating industrially slaughtered meat. And so on!</p>
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