Bob Unruh kicked of a Nov. 3 WorldNetDaily article by once again whitewashing the Capitol riot:
A new internal report regarding the British Broadcasting Corp. confirms that its officials lied about President Donald Trump when reporting on the Jan. 6, 2021, speech to a crowd of fans.
That was the day that some of those fans walked to the Capitol to protest what they viewed as the wrongful election of Joe Biden.
Some broke the law by entering the building when authorities barred them. And a few inside vandalized parts of the building.
They later were pardoned by Trump.
Sure, that’s one way to look at it — which excuses the fact that numerout rioters were violent and assaulted law enforcement officers. But go on to your main point, Bob:
But according to the Daily Mail, a new “damning internal report” confirms that the BBC “manipulated” statements “to make it appear as though he encouraged his supporters to break into the Capitol.”
Michael Prescott, was an independent adviser to the BBC for years, and sent a dossier to its board last month, the report said.
The documentation accused the BBC, which is paid for by taxpayers in the U.K., of having a widespread bias against Trump, on the Gaza war and on the transgender debate.
[…]The analysis revealed that Trump actually said he would walk with them “to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.”
He ended up not being allowed by Secret Service to walk with the crowd.
The network created Trump saying things he “never actually said” by editing and splicing footage of his speech, the report said.
But did Trump not say “fight like hell”? And could that not be interpreted as a call to storm the Capitol? Unruh is strangely vague about that — and he completely censors the fact that the Daily Mail is a right-wing newspaper.
WND saw some results from its anti-BBC jihad, as demonstrated in a Nov. 9 article by Joe Kovacs:
The top two officials at the BBC, or British Broadcasting Corporation, both quit the state-funded, left-leaning media giant Sunday amid fierce pressure for deceptively editing Donald Trump’s speech on Jan. 6, 2021, twisting his words to make it look like he was inciting a riot.
[…]As WorldNetDaily reported last week, the BBC manipulated Trump’ remarks “to make it appear as though he encouraged his supporters to break into the Capitol,” according to the Daily Mail.
Britain’s Telegraph newspaper had revealed details of a leaked BBC memo suggesting its documentary show “Panorama” edited two parts of Trump’s speech together so he appeared to explicitly promote the mayhem that ensued just prior to Joe Biden’s 2021 inauguration as president.
Kovacs failed to even reference the incriminating “fight like hell” quote, let alone try to explain what it supposedly means in context.
Kovacs returned the next day with something of an explanation — and a Trump lawsuit threat:
As the head of BBC and its news chief resigned over the weekend amid a firestorm for deceptively editing Donald Trump’s remarks on Jan. 6, 2021, the president wasted no time threatening a $1 billion lawsuit if the network does not retract its “false” and “defamatory” statements by Friday.
[…]“The documentary showed President Trump telling supporters: ‘We’re gonna walk down to the Capitol, and I’ll be there with you and we fight. We fight like hell and if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.'”
Trump’s actual statement was: “We’re going to walk down, and I’ll be there with you, we’re going to walk down, we’re going to walk down any one of you but I think right here, we’re going to walk down to the Capitol, and we’re going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women.”
Also edited out, according to the letter, was Trump indicating: “I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.”
Kovacs failed to explain how the “fight like hell” statement is not an incitement, even in context, or how Trump’s othe3 statements mitigate that incitement.
WND and Trump got their apology, as Unruh detailed in a Nov. 13 article:
Lawyers for the BBC have written to President Donald Trump’s legal team, and BBC chief Samir Shah has penned a separate, and personal, letter to the White House, apologizing for the network’s edit of the president’s words that falsely suggested his responsibility for the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol.
“Lawyers for the BBC have written to President Trump’s legal team in response to a letter received on Sunday,” a BBC spokesperson has confirmed. “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, which featured in the programme.”
The BBC’s Panorama program about the events that day took comments from Trump, omitted his statement about supporters protesting “peacefully” and linked the comments with remarks an hour apart, “to make it appear like one long statement,” according to a report from Fox News.
Unruh repeated Kovacs’ flawed defense of Trump without similarly explaining how his supposedly peaceful statements mitigate the “fight like hell” incitement.
Of course, Trump sued the BBC for $5 billion, as detailed in a Dec. 16 article WND lifted from the Daily Caller. It was not explained why the BBC’s apology would be rendered meaningless.