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“Fake News”.<\/p>\n
Man, I get tired of that phrase. Especially when used by pols trying to dodge – well, the truth. I’m sure you don’t have to strain to recall some weak-chinned idiot yelling “Fake News!” when his hand is caught in the cookie jar, One such case making the news now is from the formerly respected British Broadcasting Corporation.\u00a0 They used to be the gold standard – in contrast to Lord Haw-Haw and Nazi propaganda, they were the soothing folks who brought you Churchill and the correct, real side of the story. Later, even when some American outlets started swaying left, they claimed impartiality and accuracy.<\/p>\n Not no mo’.<\/p>\n October last year, a show called ‘Panorama’ aired a segment called “Trump: A Second Chance?” in which they sowed Trump egging on the January 6 crowd, inciting them to God knows what, with<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re going to walk down to the Capitol, and I\u2019ll be there with you, and we fight. We fight like hell.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n It ain’t Patton’s speeech, but by today’s political standards (and especially his denial of inflammatory language that day) pretty damning. Who would want to elect a guy in two weeks would would say that?<\/p>\n Just one minor detail. It ain’t true.\u00a0 It is indeed “fake”, and created solely to give an impression miles from the truth. Here’s what he said:<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re gonna walk down, and I\u2019ll be there with you. We\u2019re gonna walk down. We\u2019re gonna walk down any one you want, but I think right here. We\u2019re gonna walk down to the Capitol, and we\u2019re gonna cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women. And we\u2019re probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them because you\u2019ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength, and you have to be strong.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Where’s that “fight like hell” stuff?<\/p>\n \u201cWe have come to demand that Congress do the right thing and only count the electors who have been lawfully slated, lawfully slated. I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.\u201d<\/p>\n Almost an hour later<\/em><\/strong>, Trump said near the end of his speech: \u201cWe fight like hell. And if you don\u2019t fight like hell, you\u2019re not going to have a country anymore.\u201d (Italics added by me.)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n It’s pretty lame of them to do that… but, believe it or not, it gets worse.<\/p>\n The dossier was written by Michael Prescott, who was an independent\u00a0external adviser to the BBC\u2019s Editorial Guidelines and Standards Committee for three years before leaving in June. Newsweek<\/em> has contacted Prescott for comment via email.<\/p>\n He wrote in a letter sent with the dossier that he had left the role with \u201cprofound and unresolved concerns about the BBC.\u201d<\/p>\n Michael Prescott wrote in the dossier, per The Telegraph<\/em>:<\/strong> \u201cIt was completely misleading to edit the clip in the way Panorama<\/em> aired it. The fact that [Trump] did not explicitly exhort supporters to go down and fight at Capitol Hill was one of the reasons there were no federal charges for incitement to riot.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Newsweek<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n The Beeb’s response? Oh, they will take the feedback and consider it carefully.<\/p>\n Luckily, as someone with a passing familiarity with several languages, I can translate that last into plain American speech: “We’re going to blow this off like usual.” Geez, you would think they were most American networks.<\/p>\n Bad show, BBC. Very bad show.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"or her hand is in her date’s lap at a Beetlejuice show (“say Beetlejuice three times and he will come.”<\/del>) But, occasionally, rarely, every so often – it’s actually accurate.<\/p>\n\n