BBC Hypocrisy Over Lineker Blown Apart
The Owen Jones Podcast
Owen Jones
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🗓️ 13 March 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
The BBC doesn't have a leg to stand on. As the Corporation reels from the consequences of its decision to suspend Gary Lineker for speaking out about the Tory attacks on refugees, more and more evidence has come to the fore: what they did wasn't about impartiality, but about policing and suppressing progressive opinions. This is part and parcel of a sinister political project - to make Britain a hostile political environment for anyone who doesn't have raging right wing opinions.
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| 0:00.0 | The absolute raging hypocrisy of the BBC over the suspension of Gary Linnaker for condemning |
| 0:06.4 | the despicable rhetoric towards refugees and migrants under the Conservative government |
| 0:12.4 | is something to behold and this hypocrisy has been completely blown apart by two different |
| 0:17.1 | people this weekend in very different ways. Now just a little recap, this is a corporation which |
| 0:21.7 | of course allowed the flagship politics presenter Andrew Neal to chair a hard-right magazine |
| 0:26.7 | and also tweet right-wing political opinions on social media when he wasn't a sports journalist |
| 0:32.0 | was as I've said the flagship political presenter it allowed Alan Sugar without being suspended |
| 0:37.4 | to tweet photoshoots images of Jamie Corbyn with Adolf Hitler but finds a sports presenter talking |
| 0:43.0 | about as I've said greenson rhetoric towards refugees and migrants intolerable. Now let's just |
| 0:47.8 | listen to what the footballing icon John Barnes had to say about all this. In terms of impartiality |
| 0:53.6 | I don't know when the BBC have ever been impartial in fact BBC is reporting on the guitar world cup |
| 0:57.6 | was anything but impartial so it seems that they're want to pick and choose when they want to be |
| 1:01.2 | impartial criticizing others or criticizing other countries or other political parties or other |
| 1:05.6 | religions seems to be okay but of course if you then criticize what goes on in this country |
| 1:09.7 | then it seems that they will then come out with some partiality rule. The second thing which a lot |
| 1:13.7 | of people took offense to is the perception that Gary was was equating Britain to Nazi Germany |
| 1:20.6 | which he wasn't. What he said with the language used regarding the refugees is similar to the language |
| 1:26.3 | used in 1930s Germany which it was and of course we can see how that ended up and I'm |
| 1:30.3 | I'm Gary is not saying I'm not saying that that's how it's going to end up but of course the |
| 1:34.1 | language used in terms of creating this perception of an unworthy refugee very much like the Jews were |
| 1:39.7 | unworthy to be German and Germans were better than Jews that was the language that was used and |
| 1:44.1 | that's what we're saying here we're talking about the refugees coming over and the language used |
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