Trump and the BBC

Hannes Wessels,

What surprises me about the recent revelation that the BBC had deliberately edited the Trump speech delivered on January 6th, 2020, when protestors stormed the Capitol, to make it appear he was inciting violence, is that anyone is surprised.

Blatant lying, selective reporting and twisting the facts, has long been part of the corporation’s modus operandi.

BBC has been able to get away with this entrenched behaviour because their staff are seldom accountable, the public is coerced into paying a compulsory license fee that rewards the public broadcaster no matter how badly it performs, and I’m afraid the British public have long lacked the sagacity to see through the big con in which they have for decades been the victims.

Growing up in Rhodesia my generation learned quite quickly because we suffered early exposure to the sort of vindictive vitriol and falsehoods that have since been visited upon a multitude of people, groups and countries when ‘BEEB’ Bosses decided they did not like or agree with someone.

In our case it was a white minority government that they decreed was repugnant and set zealously about its destruction. They were unrelenting in their crusade to achieve that goal through the broadcasting of consistently biased, and in many cases, factually incorrect information.

Ironically, one man who saw through their trickery very early on was then Prime Minister Ian Smith. Following a meeting with then UK Prime Minister Harold Wilson, Smith was invited by the BBC to be interviewed along with the then Archbishop of Canterbury, who was also a fierce critic of the Rhodesian prime minister.

Smith promptly accepted, but on one important condition; that the interview was broadcast live. This rattled the BBC and they turned the condition down, insisting it be filmed, recorded, then edited before publication. Smith refused to participate. He knew then that they would manipulate his words to manufacture the narrative they preferred; and this is exactly what they did to President Trump.

Looking back on those years when we, the ‘white supremacists’ of southern Africa were being vilified by the BBC it’s worth remembering that we had no idea that they, our most vocal and effective critics, were also fully involved in running a massive paedophile operation and providing a safe and comfortable haven for a legion of perverts and sexual predators of varying proclivities.

One of them was Jimmy Savile, a human monster who attacked thousands of often defenceless victims aged 5 to 75 in a criminal career that lasted over 50 years. His depravity extended to the morgue where he bragged of having engaged in sexual activity with cadavers and stealing glass eyes from the dead to fashion jewellery.  The incidents ranged from inappropriate touching to rape and involved victims from children to pensioners, the mentally retarded, hospital patients and female staff alike.

But the BBC hierarchy kept Saville close, protected him from scrutiny and criticism, and Sir Keir Starmer, then Director of Public Prosecutions, declined to prosecute because he claimed there was insufficient evidence. Loved by the Royal Family, Sir Jimmy was knighted for his efforts and went to his grave unpunished.

If there is any doubt about how institutionally rotten this organisation is figures released some years ago under Freedom of Information regulations, indicated 539 staff had signed gagging orders at a total cost of £28 million. The scale of the pay-outs led to accusations that the BBC was using the agreements to silence potential whistle- blowers and victims of bullying or sexual harassment.

The biggest payoffs were made to BBC managers, with 77 executives receiving more than £100,000 and 14 over £300,000. They included George Entwistle, the former director-general who received a £450,000 payoff, double the amount he was contractually entitled to. He resigned in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal after spending just 54 days in the job.

With a history as unsavoury as this, it is easier to understand the sickness of the collective mindset that inspires their producers and presenters to inform the world that trans-women’s chest-milk is just as nutritious as mother’s breast milk, and to cheer on a man masquerading as a women, who beats a woman into bloody submission to win an Olympic medal.

They have got away with this nonsense for far too long because they are, to all intents and purposes, above the law, so it is easier to understand why those now in Trump’s crosshairs appear somewhat bewildered at suddenly being held to account. It’s because they are serial bullies, who have had the money and power to target and destroy people on a whim, and they have become intoxicated with their own positions and status.  

Finally, BBC has picked on someone bigger than itself, who will not yield, and it is going to hold them to account. Like the cowards they are, they are frightened, turning on one another and running for cover.

God bless President Trump, and here’s hoping he does Britain and the world a favour by destroying this ghastly institution.