BBC accused of selectively editing Trump clip from day of Capitol attack | BBC

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/nov/03/bbc-accused-selectively-editing-trump-clip-capitol-attack

by DarkSkiesGreyWaters

18 comments

  1. This is really concerning if true.

    I really don’t care what people think of him, but the job of the BBC is to be completely impartial at a minimum.

  2. The BBC aim to displease the left and right with equal measure. Personally I very much dislike that editorial slant.

  3. The issue with taking Trump completely in context is that his talks are incoherent and long-winded. You really have to pan for context whenever he moves his cunt mouth.

  4. Bit brazen of the BBC, seems obvious that people (politics junkies) would notice.

  5. “The BBC has been accused of selectively editing a Donald Trump speech to make it appear clearer that he encouraged the US Capitol attack, according to a former external adviser to the corporation.”

    “We fight. We fight like hell. And if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.”

    Not very hard to make it clearer when he said shit like this, like congrats he said “peacefully and patriotically” once whilst also saying “fight” 20 times

  6. The two clips were 60 minutes apart but they made it look like it was right after each other

  8. The Telegraph article also seems to be a tad misleading.

    The two specific bits they spliced together, making it look like “We will walk down to the Capitol” and “we fight like hell” are a single sentence, are indeed almost an hour apart. But what they don’t mention is that the the “we fight like hell” comes from the following passage

    >And we fight. We fight like hell. And if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.

    >Our exciting adventures and boldest endeavors have not yet begun. My fellow Americans, for our movement, for our children, and for our beloved country.

    >And I say this despite all that’s happened. The best is yet to come.

    >So we’re going to, we’re going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue. I love Pennsylvania Avenue. And we’re going to the Capitol, and we’re going to try and give.

    So it’s not as if the “fight like hell” and the walk to the Capitol were part of two entirely different topics. He’s still linking the two things – walking there and fighting.

    You can certainly argue that “fight like hell” is meant to be a metaphoric fight rather than the actual one that happened. But that’s just as true with the Beeb’s original edit.

    Editing like this is wrong, and they shouldn’t have done it. But equally the Telegraph shouldn’t go around pretending that the Beeb had created a false link between the two statements. It’s still there, just delivered with slightly different words to the ones in their article.

  9. A few days ago I posted a link about The Times admitting to having published quotes from an imposter claiming to be Bill de Blasio, and that their reporters hadn’t bothered to fact check. That post was swiftly deleted as not being relevant to the UK, due to the interview subject being American.

    I trust those same mods will delete this post on the same grounds shortly?

  10. They keep getting caught. But don’t learn. Defunding is coming.

  11. And they want to increase license fee? No. With their conduct, they shouldn’t get a penny

  12. *Sigh* Criminal shitheads in US will not let us live in peace and decency, will they?

    This is some rightwing nutcases compiled together vague accusations, sent to BBC board and managers, got the answer it deserved, i.e. none. Now making a stink in the media. And obviously everyone will take the bait, and *discuss it*. Which is what they want.

    I really wish moron Americans had not elected racist mobster to the position of power … now everything nice in the world is endangered 🙁

  14. Oh please don’t bring this bullshit rewriting of Jan 6th to appease the current wannabe authoritarian American President. And for the love of God the right wing reform Brits have also got to stop falling for this nonsense.

    We were all there in 2020. We all saw it happen. Trump lost a fair election, peddled lies about cheating Democrats and then incited a riot. On top of that – with the fake elector plot and pressure on various state legislators – Trump criminally attempted to overturn the result of said fair election just so he could stay in power against the will of the American people at that time.

    Goddamn it we were all there. Pence, Eastman, Bannon and even Trump himself are all on tape admitting this – are we really just trying to rewrite history to appease a cult and its delusional leader?

    We’re Brits please let’s not import America’s anti-intellectualism and rife misinformation to our shores.

  15. Jesus christ this post is almost as bad as the same one on r/ukpolitics

    reads like a test run for zuck / thiel / ellisons new pro-trump fashbots

  16. Does anyone remember when the BBC published the transcript of a speech that Obama gave to congress where they edited it to remove a significant gaffe he made?

  17. Everyone screaming about this defended the same behaviour when the beeb was anti Corbyn

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