Posted on 11/03/2025 9:00:52 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Fake news indeed! The British Daily Telegraph has reported that the BBC deceptively edited a speech by Donald Trump to make it look like the President had ordered his supporters to storm the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
The footage was aired as part of the BBC documentary Trump: A Second Chance? in October 2024. The ruse involved splicing together two statements made by Trump over an hour apart. This made it seem like Trump had said that “We’re gonna walk down to the Capitol and I’ll be with you and we fight. We fight like hell and if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not gonna have a country anymore.”
In fact, “walk down to the Capitol had actually been followed by “to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.” Which reminds Cockburn of how removing a comma can turn “Let’s eat, Grandma” into “Let’s eat Grandma.”
This is more than a piece of creative editing. If you recall, much of the legal case against Trump turned on what the true meaning of “fight like hell” was – was this a figurative “fight” in the standard Kamala/Hillary sense, or was it a literal command to seize control of the delegate count taking place at the Capitol? This was a malicious bit of chicanery at a critical moment.
And yet this is a curiously analogue way to unperson someone – like when the Soviets used to crudely edit people out of photographs if they fell foul of Stalin. It’s like if Trump’s opponents had relied on celebrities from TV and film to attack him. Oh wait…..
This is just now being found out?
Well this is what the Ministry of Truth did. Not surprising the UK does it, given where Oceania was/is.
BBC = Orwell’s “Ministry of Truth”
Sounds like something only bad people would do.
In all reality we have seen the UK change into exactly what George Orwell warned us about in 1984. Orwell was a sage of great brilliance. Without free speech there is no freedom. Both are essential to each other least they both not exist. Today in the UK you can be arrested for free speech and charged with a hate crime. At the same time leftist muslims can march in the streets and advocate violence and real hate and be charged with NOTHING.
The UK my second nation of alliance is lost. I lived and worked there for several years and considered myself an American but with dual alliance to the UK. My son is a dual national. I was young and would have fought for the UK if needed.
Today I would not fight for the UK. They are lost.
Wil they air a retraction and an apology?..........................
When the Panorama 'distortion' was raised with BBC managers, they 'refused to accept there had been a breach of standards'.
The memo's author subsequently warned Samir Shah, the BBC chairman, of the 'very, very dangerous precedent' set by Panorama but received no reply.
Other complaints in the memo accuse the corporation of 'effective censorship' of its coverage of the transgender debate and also takes aim at the BBC's Arabic service of bias over its coverage of the war in Gaza.
I think the name in the middle paragraph explains why Britain is lost.
BBC is evil.
This is just now being found out?
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I guess not enough people watched to notice?
Video clip comparing edited vs original clip
I’ve been periodically checking the BBC site, and no mention of this so far…….
Stuff like this actually works in Trump and MAGA’s favor because it calls to attention all the lies they have to tell in order to hide the truth.
Ban them from all federal property. Don’t accept any apologies - just ban them.
Color me...stunned!
My contempt for the beeb grows.
The UK’s Telegraph has just tossed the Beeb under the bus. Video here, 22 minutes, well worth the watch...
https://youtu.be/yB-J5-cTJH4?si=dbqkPepCfTWhCN05
BETCHA TRUMP SUES BBC
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