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80: Economic Slowdown Fears Amid AI Impact and the BBC Scandal. Liz Peek characterizes the US economy as slowing down, with hiring affected by government layoffs and the displacement of tech jobs due to AI adoption. While the consumer remains robust, signific

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Society & Culture, Arts, News, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Economic Slowdown Fears Amid AI Impact and the BBC Scandal. Liz Peek characterizes the US economy as slowing down, with hiring affected by government layoffs and the displacement of tech jobs due to AI adoption. While the consumer remains robust, significant anxiety exists regarding the massive investments in AI and resulting stock market valuations. Peek comments on the BBC scandal, viewing the resignations as acknowledgment that the state-run outlet deliberately spliced footage to portray the US President as exhorting violence, revealing a deep, unfavorable political bias against conservatives.



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0:00.0

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0:35.9

I'm John Batchel with my good colleague Elizabeth Peek of the Hill economists,

0:38.2

of Fox News, a comments much on Fox Business.

0:46.3

The BBC is now acknowledging severe distortion of the news to do with the President of the United States and events in 2021, but also there is a report that I've read only pieces of that suggests the BBC is misrepresenting its

0:56.4

fair-mindedness when it comes to such as the war in Gaza or the presentation of politics

1:03.1

across the European plane. The question now is what did they do and when did they do it, but there's

1:10.5

been resignations already,

1:12.7

which you can take his acknowledgement that there's substance to this. How do you hear it, Liz,

1:18.5

that the BBC edited that presentation of the president to make him look in the worst possible light?

1:25.4

That's something that was done deliberately.

1:28.3

That wasn't an accident of some intern who just showed up and turned out the lights.

1:34.4

Now, I think this is a pretty damning situation where film was spliced and put together in

1:42.8

such a way that it looked like the president on January 6th,

1:45.8

that fateful January 6th day, was exhorting his followers to violence.

1:51.0

And it isn't true.

1:52.2

I mean, anyone who has actually watched his speeches from that day, he was encouraging people

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