A Panorama programme broadcast last year ‘doctored’ a speech by Trump, making it appear that he had encouraged a riot at he Capitol after his loss to Biden, according to a whistleblowing BBC memo. The programme misled viewers by showing Trump telling his supporters that he was going to the Capitol to ‘fight like hell’ when in fact he said he would walk with them to ‘peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard’. When this issue was raised with BBC Management, they apparently refused to accept that there had been a breach of professional standards. The false report was not just a deviation from the normal standards of journalism but a contravention of the BBC Charter which imposes a duty of impartiality on its journalists.  What is so surprising that the programme makers felt the need to fabricate evidence against when, for anyone opposed to Trump, there is a lot of true material available. The interesting question is why the Panorama team chose to jeopardise the BBC’s reputation in this way and why the Management refused to remedy the situation. I would attribute the collective failure of the BBC in this case to TDS. The BBC is largely staffed by a left leaning university educated elite. Like most of the progressive left nowadays they don’t believe in socialism but they haven’t replaced it with anything else.  They don’t know what they are in favour of so they define their virtue in terms of who they hate - Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage and above all Donald Trump. So in their eyes any attack on Trump, whether factually based or  not, is justified. And even if he didn’t utter the words attributed to him in the programme, or if he used them in another context, it doesn’t matter,  because in the view of the progressives of the BBC it’s the kind of thing Trump would have said.

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Topic	Date Posted	Posted By
Trump Derangement Syndrome	04/11/25 19:14:00	Steven Rose
Re:Trump Derangement Syndrome	04/11/25 20:11:00	Michael Brigo
Re:Re:Trump Derangement Syndrome	04/11/25 20:18:00	Robert Wheeler
Re:Re:Trump Derangement Syndrome	05/11/25 11:07:00	John Hawkes
Re:Trump Derangement Syndrome	04/11/25 20:33:00	Ivonne Holliday
Re:Re:Trump Derangement Syndrome	05/11/25 01:39:00	Steven Rose
Re:Re:Re:Trump Derangement Syndrome	05/11/25 10:24:00	Ivonne Holliday
Re:Re:Re:Re:Trump Derangement Syndrome	05/11/25 10:30:00	Ivonne Holliday
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Trump Derangement Syndrome	05/11/25 10:36:00	Barbara Stevens
Reply	05/11/25 10:55:00	Michael Ixer
Re:Reply	05/11/25 11:29:00	John Hawkes
Reply	05/11/25 11:43:00	Michael Ixer
Re:Reply	05/11/25 12:40:00	John Hawkes
Reply	05/11/25 16:42:00	Michael Ixer
Re:Reply	05/11/25 11:39:00	Steven Rose
Re:Re:Reply	05/11/25 12:04:00	Ivonne Holliday
Re:Trump Derangement Syndrome	05/11/25 12:03:00	Gerry Boyce
Re:Re:Trump Derangement Syndrome	05/11/25 14:28:00	Steven Rose
Re:Re:Re:Trump Derangement Syndrome	05/11/25 15:07:00	Ivonne Holliday
Re:Re:Re:Re:Trump Derangement Syndrome	05/11/25 16:09:00	Sue Hammond
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Trump Derangement Syndrome	05/11/25 16:48:00	Ivonne Holliday
Reply	05/11/25 17:13:00	Sue Hammond
Re:Re:Re:Re:Trump Derangement Syndrome	05/11/25 16:27:00	John Hawkes
Re:Re:Re:Re:Trump Derangement Syndrome	05/11/25 16:31:00	Steven Rose
Re:Re:Trump Derangement Syndrome	05/11/25 16:24:00	John Hawkes
Reply	05/11/25 16:39:00	Sue Hammond
Re:Reply	05/11/25 18:09:00	Steven Rose
Re:Re:Reply	05/11/25 19:07:00	Ivonne Holliday
Reply	05/11/25 18:23:00	Michael Ixer
Re:Reply	05/11/25 19:10:00	Ivonne Holliday
Re:Re:Reply	05/11/25 20:49:00	Sue Hammond
Re:Re:Re:Reply	05/11/25 20:56:00	Ivonne Holliday
Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply	05/11/25 21:38:00	Steven Rose
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply	05/11/25 23:07:00	Gerry Boyce

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