Philip Gegan
The BBC may have to pay up to $10 billion of its poor, misguided licence-payers’ money to Donald Trump as damages for deliberately distorting something that he said.
A few days before the Presidential election of 2024 took place, the BBC Panorama programme broadcast a newsreel from January 6th 2021 purporting to show Trump urging his supporters to storm the Capitol building in Washington, and engage in physical combat with anyone who tried to stop them.
In other words, he (allegedly) attempted to incite an insurrection.
I’m sure I don’t need to emphasise what a serious allegation that was. Were it to have been true, Trump would certainly have been impeached and subjected to a criminal prosecution.
Of course, it wasn’t true. The BBC personnel responsible had simply taken a section of one speech Trump had made and spliced it together with a section of another speech he had made an hour or so later to give the desired effect.
This was a malicious, deliberate deception, designed to damage Trump’s election campaign on the eve of the election itself, and to influence the election result of another country in favour of a far-left, mixed-race candidate.
It is only because Trump has the power – and the money – to take on the BBC that this disgraceful behaviour has come to light.
This is the latest (at the time of writing) example of how the BBC treats people it doesn’t approve of. It broadcasts lies about them and distorts what they do and say. Then, when they complain, their “Executive Complaints Unit” simply gives them the run around and ultimately refuses to even consider the case.
As regular readers of this blog know, this happened to us recently, when we filed ninety three separate heads of complaint.
Let’s now look at another example of how the BBC tells lies to its fee-paying viewers.
The “First Black Briton” of Eastbourne
In 2012 a skeleton was uncovered in the collections of Eastbourne Town Hall. The archeological notes found with it suggested that her original resting place was near Beachy Head. Shortly afterwards it was announced to the country that this skeleton was that of an African woman.
Naturally, the BBC were very anxious to spread this joyful news to its audience, and in 2016 a series of programmes was run, featuring a book written by one David Olusoga. This book covered the whole story about the skeleton. Both the book and the series were called, “Black and British: A Forgotten History”.
The focal point of the series was that this discovery proved beyond any doubt that blacks had been living in Britain continually since at least the Roman occupation. What a revelation! So Britain had been a multi-racial society for thousands of years! Both the book and the series proudly displayed a reconstruction of the woman’s face, showing her to be unmistakably African. This was presented as established fact.
It was a remarkable coup for the left and all the race-mixers of the establishment media, who naturally trumpeted this ground-breaking news and made it the subject of “educational” videos to be shown in schools and on TV. The BBC even paid to have a plaque erected at Beachy Head, stating that this was where the first black Briton had been found. Subsequent measurements “confirmed” that this skull could only have belonged to a black person.
Olusoga the Historian!
We had to be grateful to Olusoga for writing his book. Until then, no-one had suggested that this skeleton could be that of a black person. Immediately after the book had been published, an artist’s impression of this “first black Briton” was appearing everywhere, including (need I say?) the BBC series. To the left it was a godsend. How could anyone now deny that Britain had been a diverse, multi-cultural country for at least two thousand years, with the rightful role of blacks in our history having been covered up by our “racist” ancestors?
Can you imagine the excitement of the professors, the lecturers, the radio and TV presenters, the “journalists”, the talking heads, the career politicians, and everyone else in the race-mixing racket as they fell over each other to tell us all about this piece of irrefutable evidence supporting their case?
“Beachy Head Lady” became iconic, and even today many people still believe that she was indeed a black African. Her skeleton, along with eleven others found in the same area, was sent off for radio isotope analysis to establish if she had been born locally. This examination showed her to be a second or third generation “Afro-Roman”, who had been born in the area or else brought there very young, possibly from Africa. The book and the BBC therefore felt justified in describing her as “the first black Briton known to us”. She is even now routinely trotted out as such in every “Black History Month”.
Eastbourne Museum was so delighted that their area should be the home of the “first Black Briton” that, in order to make their claim undeniable, it decided to have the skeleton’s DNA tested for more detail.
Oops! They shot themselves in the foot, there.
Truth will out!
The DNA revealed that she was not African at all, and that she was actually, er, just another Anglo Saxon. The celebratory plaque was quietly removed (why no publicity?) and references to “Beachy Head Lady” were deleted from subsequent editions of the Olusoga book, and from downloads of the BBC series (with that gone – what else was there to talk about?).
Further, more advanced, DNA testing on the skeleton has shown that, not only was this lady not black, and not from Africa, but that she was in fact from the local area around Beachy Head, and had blonde hair and blue eyes.
What’s remarkable about this episode of BBC lies is that the BBC did actually backtrack and remove the falsehood from their series. They had no choice. How many other lies have the BBC put out and which are still there? Apart, that is, from the 93 lies about the National Front’s 1977 Lewisham march, the podcasts of which are still available for download.
Further posts on this topic will cover the extensive collection of lies broadcast by the BBC over recent years.
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