Restating the bleedin' obvious ... yet again

With X swamped by US content at 5 a.m. Tuesday, what are the UK headlines?

Well obviously the Huntingdon train but after that, the Chagossian vote and then this one ... a restating of the bleedin' obvious we've known for how long now?  This is an Xer, Jim Chimrie, doing just that:

The BBC stands accused of the most serious breach of trust in its history. An internal whistleblower has revealed that Panorama – the Corporation's flagship investigative programme – deliberately doctored a Donald Trump speech to make it appear he was urging on the Capitol riot. In reality, Trump had told his supporters to march "peacefully and patriotically" to make their voices heard. The BBC cut that line, spliced in phrases from another part of the speech, and broadcast the fake version a week before the 2024 US election.

The BBC didn't "misreport" Trump. It doctored him. It took an hour-long address, sliced it into pieces, and stitched together a line that never existed – turning a call for peace into a call for violence. It then ran the footage under dark music, cut to scenes of rioters, and presented the lie as fact to millions of viewers. This wasn't clumsy editing. It was fabrication. It was intent. The Corporation made a man say words he never uttered, to feed a story it had already decided was true. That is not journalism. That is propaganda. The revelation comes from an internal BBC adviser, Michael Prescott, who served on the Corporation's own standards committee. When he raised alarm at the distortion, senior executives dismissed his concerns. The Director-General looked away. The chairman said nothing. The culture that once prized truth above all now protects deceit in its own name. And it fits a pattern. The same BBC that forged Trump's words has whitewashed Hamas's war crimes. It commissioned a Gaza documentary narrated by the son of a Hamas minister, paid him, and told the public he was part of the "Hamas-run government" – as though that were somehow different from Hamas itself. The same delusion runs through their coverage: terrorists are "militants," victims are "combatants," and Israel's self-defence is "aggression." Like all Britain's great institutions, the BBC has been captured by a Leftist-Islamist ideology that prizes grievance over truth and allegiance over honesty. It speaks the language of compassion while serving the cause of those who despise the civilisation that funds it. From Whitehall to the classroom, from the Met to the newsroom, the infection is the same – a new clerisy that believes moral virtue gives it the right to deceive.

Just look at the date of that quote ... the year. The disease is always the same: ideology before evidence. The BBC now begins every story with a sermon. In America it was "Trump the menace." In Israel it is "the occupier." In Britain it is "the oppressed versus the privileged." The facts are trimmed to fit the creed. When reality resists, it is edited out of existence. They call this "narrative integrity." In plain English, it means lying for the greater good. It's why the BBC can run a campaign ad claiming that "the more you try to drown out reality, the harder we'll work to establish the facts" – even as it drowns them itself. It's why it lectures others about deepfakes while producing its own. This is not accidental bias. It is the logic of a captured institution that sees its mission as moral correction. The BBC no longer trusts the public to think; it instructs them what to think. It decides which truths are dangerous, which lies are useful, and which stories must be rewritten for the cause. And here is the irony. The broadcaster that once gave Britain its common voice has become the greatest source of distortion in the land. It claims to defend democracy, yet it meddles in elections abroad. It claims to stand for impartiality, yet it silences dissent at home. It claims to fight hate, yet excuses those who preach it. The BBC's real product today isn't news. It's obedience. When a state broadcaster edits words to invent guilt, it stops being a mirror and becomes a weapon. The BBC's greatest lie isn't what it said about Trump or Israel. It's what it says about itself: that it can be trusted. "The same BBC that forged Trump's words has whitewashed Hamas's war crimes."