Griffin contra mundum

Nick Griffin probably has some justification in his claim that the BBC made Question Time into a lynch mob.

I have seen only clips, but I understand that virtually the whole programme, -all questions, were essentially an attack on him. If the audience was selected to represent all viewpoints, and his party had only 1 million votes in June, or about 6%, then a fair sample could be as much as 94% against him, I suppose. Even so, it would have not been difficult for questioners to find questions on the postal strike, or the EU, or parliamentary expenses, or some such, which might have shown him in a minority of one on the panel but would at least have made it less like a pre-arranged ambush.

The deputy director's comments beforehand that they had to invite Griffin because they are without bias doesn't really wash, - note the deference paid to the LimpDems individually and collectively and the treatment of Tory interviewees, the denunciation of any doubters of the nature and cause of global warming and their selectivity in reporting (- next time see the relish if the polls move in Labour's favour, and the prominence given to the report, and compare this to the virtually complete absence of mentioning any Tory advance.)

I have no time for Griffin or his views, and his thugs/minders worry me, but the attempts to deny him air time and then shout him down remind me rather of the Nazis he so much likes. They were not keen on books which argued a different point of view, or people who had the temerity to advance unacceptable views.