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80: Staffing Challenges and Political Bias: The Gaza Peace Plan and the BBC. Mary Kissel details the challenges facing the State Department and NSC in implementing the Trump administration's urgent Gaza Peace Plan, noting staffing issues are delaying coordina

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Staffing Challenges and Political Bias: The Gaza Peace Plan and the BBC. Mary Kissel details the challenges facing the State Department and NSC in implementing the Trump administration's urgent Gaza Peace Plan, noting staffing issues are delaying coordination. The plan, featuring an apolitical "Board of Peace," seeks international legitimacy despite the UN's prejudice against Israel. Kissel expresses little surprise regarding the BBC scandal, viewing the deliberate distortion of the President's video remarks as appalling and emblematic of an "embedded bias" against conservatives that is deep and unfixable.
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0:00.0

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0:06.8

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0:13.0

that'll soak you to the skin. By Monday, temperatures will rise slowly but surely reaching

0:18.7

their peak in the afternoon.

0:23.0

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0:25.8

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0:28.7

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0:35.7

I'm John Batchel with my good colleague, Mary Kissel, Executive Vice President Stevens Incorporated, former senior advisor to the Secretary of State,

0:39.2

and before that, many years with the Wall Street Journal editorial page, both in Hong Kong and in New York.

0:46.2

And Mary is a very careful journalist. All the editorials that I was ever familiar with at the Wall Street Journal, all the columns,

0:53.4

are worked on exceedingly cautiously,

0:57.4

scrupulous about any fact of a statement whatsoever. And when there's an error, you

1:03.3

acknowledge it immediately and correct to the best of your knowledge. We're now dealing with

1:08.5

what little we know of the BBC scandal that is just erupting.

1:16.2

In these last days, there was a leaked report to the Telegraph, the London newspaper that is controlled by an organization that also includes the Murdox.

1:28.3

But that report was written by an independent analysis of BBC conduct.

1:34.1

Most infamously right now was the editing of remarks made by the president in 2021,

1:41.0

nearly five years ago.

1:43.1

And they were edited for a presentation right before the election of 2024

1:47.9

to put the president in a very bad light.

1:51.1

That's an understatement.

1:52.9

The BBC now acknowledges some of this in the report

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