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It started last year, right before the November elections. The BBC ran a great big primetime “documentary” about January 6th (of course). In the program, BBC editors spliced two Trump comments together, with fragments taken from parts of the speech 54 minutes apart. The President had said this:

“We are gonna walk down to the Capitol and I’ll be with you. I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.”

But the BBC ran a fake, spliced version:

“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.”

It was seamless, super sneaky, and designed to ‘prove’ Trump instigated violence. Here’s a YouTube report showing the two clips side by side, the fake edited one versus the original...

Two months later, in January of this year, an internal whistleblower reported the modified clip to BBC management. In traditional British form, BBC executives were royally appalled at the mere suggestion of bias. After conducting a careful review, and consulting with inside and outside experts, the BBC’s gold-star committee determined that President Trump is a farty-head and an insurrectionist! So there!

Well, that was a paraphrase. More specifically, at the BBC’s Editorial Standards Committee meeting on May 12th, the BBC’s Deputy Director of News, Jonathan Munro, concluded about the doctored clip: “There was no attempt to mislead the audience about the content or nature of Mr. Trump’s speech before the riot at the Capitol. It’s normal practice to edit speeches into short form clips.”

Holy cow. Rather than a denial, you might instead call that a damning admission. Regular practice? I bet it is.

Later, in June, a frustrated BBC journalist compiled a long ‘dossier’ of evident bias in BBC reporting, which included the Trump edit, but also critiques the BBC’s fake-news approach to a constellation of issues from transgender to illegal migration to racism in car loans to the Gaza war.

Are you with me so far? All that internal activity and acrimony produced nothing but diffident snores from the BBC’s elite directors, which is mainly composed of men with weird titles like Lord Sandwich or the Earl of Tootles. But that smug arrogance was wiped from their sneering face four days ago, when President Trump —who apparently had had enough— went to war. Those aren’t my words. UK Telegraph, November 7th:

Trump goes to war with 'fake news' BBC
White House attacks 'Leftist propaganda machine' over biased doctoring of president's speech

The ‘war’ was Trump’s fierce Press Secretary Leavitt, who told The Telegraph, “This purposefully dishonest, selectively edited clip by the BBC is further evidence that they are total, 100 percent fake news that should no longer be worth the time on the television screens of the great people of the United Kingdom.”

For a personal perspective, Leavitt added, “Every time I travel to the United Kingdom with President Trump and am forced to watch the BBC in our hotel rooms, it ruins my day listening to their blatant propaganda and lies about the president of the United States and all that he’s doing to make America better and the world a safer place.”

The war was over in three days. Last night, while Democrats were shamefully resigning from their brave resistance to the budget, the BBC’s top managers also quit in shame. Woke BBC Director-General (i.e. CEO) Tim Davie turned in his keys, and so did ultra-ally Chief Executive of News Deborah Turness. Bye, Felicia!

That’s not all. It’s spreading. This week, Parliament plans hearings on the BBC’s blatant bias. Senior MPs said the BBC must now “undergo a major shake-up,” which is a technical term for heading to the woodshed with dad. Nigel Farage, the leader of Reform UK, called for “wholesale change” at the BBC.

In other words, the BBC’s many enemies just got devastating new weapons. It’s hard to understate how badly Clipgate has annoyed the British. Just like in Lord Tennyson’s Charge of the Light Brigade, someone had blundered. Badly.

The Telegraph added that more senior BBC staff, including Jonathan Munro (who called the edited Trump clip ‘normal practice’), “are also under pressure to leave, in what is seen as the BBC’s worst crisis since the Jimmy Savile scandal in 2012.”

The Telegraph’s invocation of Jimmy Savile gives you an idea of how big Clipgate could get. Jimmy Savile was a longtime BBC host and personality, and also the UK’s most prolific pedophile, who got away with decades of the most horrific kinds of child abuse you can imagine while BBC managers knowingly looked the other way. The scandal didn’t emerge till Savile died in 2011.

So, if they are comparing Clipgate to Jimmy Savile, well, it doesn’t get any worse than that.

The BBC resisted all accountability for Clipgate since January. Three days after Trump “went to war,” in the form of Karoline Leavitt’s critical comments, the BBC crumpled like a limp biscuit.

We don't have jurisdiction there, the same way they can't prosecute me for posting memes.

Patrick says

We don't have jurisdiction there, the same way they can't prosecute me for posting memes.

Don't they have an American arm/subsidiary though, which can be sued?

Yesterday, the beleaguered British Broadcasting Company, or, affectionately, “the Beeb,” ran a typically snooty story headlined, “BBC apologises to Trump over Panorama edit but refuses to pay compensation.” It was their only play.

Alas, the BBC is suffering. After getting caught red-bottomed in creating a fake video of President Trump supposedly calling for a violent attack on the Capitol on January 6th, its two top officials resigned in humiliating disgrace. ...

In short, in addition to apologizing, the Beeb has deleted the offending video from “all platforms,” and issued a statement of error in its “Corrections and Clarifications” section. In short, it was the classic mistakes were made, but here is their longer, lawyer-approved, carefully worded statement (in the King’s English):

“We accept that our edit unintentionally created the impression that we were showing a single continuous section of the speech, rather than excerpts from different points in the speech, and that this gave the mistaken impression that President Trump had made a direct call for violent action.”

Furthermore, “BBC chair Samir Shah has separately sent a personal letter to the White House making clear to President Trump that he and the corporation are sorry for the edit of the president’s speech on 6 January 2021,” and calling the mishap an appalling “error of judgment.”

They are sorry. Soon they will be even sorrier. ...

But just as they were clapping each others on the backs about having dodged an American bullet, it happened again.

UK Telegraph, yesterday:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11/13/bbc-doctored-trump-speech-second-time-newsnight/

BBC Newsnight also doctored Trump speech
US president's legal team accuses corporation of pattern of defamation' after latest Telegraph revelations

"We accept that our edit unintentionally created the impression that we were showing a single continuous section of the speech...

We don't have jurisdiction there, the same way they can't prosecute me for posting memes.

Patrick says

We don't have jurisdiction there, the same way they can't prosecute me for posting memes.

They somehow claimed jurisdiction over Assange.

The BBC completely changed what Donald Trump said

They aren't reporting the truth
They're reporting lies

Don't pay the license fee 🚫
It's pure leftist propaganda 👎