ALI DIZAEI...BBC ICON - Biased BBC

ALI DIZAEI...BBC ICON: "The newspapers are well-and truly laying into jailed Met Commander Ali Dizaei this morning; it seems that the world and his wife knew about his corruption and his bullying, but the Met sought to cover it up as best they could because they feared his chants of racism - and shared his 'equality' agenda. So of course did the BBC. They disgracefully made his pack-of-porkies autobiography Not One of Us Radio 4's book of the week when it was published, despite its lack of obvious literary flair (to put it mildly!); and then there's this gem of an interview by Andrew Marr soon afterwards. Here's a small extract of the gut-wrenching exchange to illustrate how avid Marr and his cronies are to hear and air such claims:

ANDREW MARR: Just to be clear, you're saying that the police are still institutionally racist?

ALI DIZAEI: Yes they are. We are less institutionally racist than ten years ago. Have we got a clean bill of health? No. Is it within our grasp? Possibly. And I think the reason this is very important, and I think politicians ought to really take this very seriously, because there is direct correlation in the way the police service looks in terms of this composition, and the way we deliver a service to our community.

ANDREW MARR: You have become Commander at the fifth attempt, which of itself suggests that you are abnormally tough and determined to keep going when other people might have given up long ago. Was it frankly humiliating to have to do, go through that process five times...

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