BBC Bozo Alert

I don’t know why people pay attention to raving lunatic Richard Clarke, but in accordance with expectations, the BBC has put the man’s prognostications on their front page with this charming headline: War on terror ‘vanishes from agenda’. Check out the abstract:

Wrong strategy?
Critics argue that the US is still not thinking imaginatively about the war on terror

First, that’s not the substance of the article (see below). But as for the results of Bush administration anti-terror policy, the proof is in the pudding. How many Al Qaeda attacks on US soil have their been since 9/11? Zero. The fight has been taken to the enemy, with post-9/11 terror attacks limited to the Muslim world and its fringes (Bali, Spain, Iraq, etc etc). I feel bored typing this. I hope that regular readers will by now agree with me, at least in part, that the BBC —and the Guardian and the Independent—no longer report news but merely play out a self-loathing psychosis that afflicts their very reporting style (check out the many quotes in the right column—I don’t know whether to laugh or cry).

In all fairness to the BBC, they include four “experts” in the above article, two of whom criticize the administration and two of whom generally support Bush’s policies. So why not title it “Mixed Reviews for US anti-terror policy” or something? You’d never guess it from the title or the article abstract. How can these guys get the coverage of the world so right and ruin it with this slant?