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And my Monday is made even better, ladies and gentlemen, by the wonderful and talented Poppy Coburn. Good morning.

We've taught football. You're not a football fan at all, aren't you?

Absolutely not.

Boyfriend is, family are, she's not. She's apt. If you've got a spring in your step,

is your hat at a jaunty angle about the BBC?

Well, I am smiling this morning. I mean, it is a fantastic story, isn't it? I mean, for me, it's been the whole reaction to this. It's just been astonishing. You know, if this was any other news organisation, who would come out and defend it? And yet, because it's the St.ley BBC, you know, all of the defenders of the BBC, the ex-B people are coming forward and going, I can't believe that Donald Trump is running the media in this country. It's like having an authoritarian state. Any journalist will tell you, rule number one, don't lie. Don't lie. And that is the most flagrant case of lie. I mean, it's not just telling a mistruth.

It's actually going out of your way to find footage 50 minutes separately in a video of the president saying something to pretend that he was trying to incite an insurrection, which by the way, could cause a diplomatic incident because it's our state broadcaster.

Absolutely. And then passing it off as if that's what it said. It's interesting. Over the weekend, as the story sort of developed, we had Nick Robinson from whatever program he's on sort of saying, you know, we've made mistakes, but we're the paragons of virtue. And then we had John Simpson, who's 104, going quite right. And Boris, who has fallen right out of favour with me. But he was absolutely right.

He said, why, this can't be allowed? I always go back to, Pops, I always go back to the fact

this is supposed to be your state broadcaster. Your state broadcaster is supposed to be balanced,

right? That doesn't happen. A list for you, Hugh Edwards, you know, Gary Lineca, Greg Wallace, Bob Villain. The Bob Villain thing, you know, let's be perfectly honest. We've talked about how the BBC has a political agenda. You know, the Bob Villain thing, apparently Davy was at Glastonbury and allowed it to continue on its streaming service for five hours

saying, deaf, deaf to the IDF. Now, that is blatantly anti-Semitic. And if there was Islamophobia,

if there was anything disrespectful, he would have been all over it. And you cannot expect to get away

with that. I just thought the way that Nick Robertson was applying is classic BBC, right? It's just they never actually deal with the substance of the accusation made against them. They just deflect and they get defensive and they kind of put their elbows up like that and they're like, no, you can't touch us, you can't touch us. And it'll be easy for them to say, look, Boris Johnson, you know, what does he know about the truth? He lies all the time. What about everyone else in the country who actually wants to believe that the BBC is impartial because they are paying for it and want to get a service that is of a certain quality? And, you know, you mentioned all these incidents. These are recent incidents. You know, they have been problems with the BBC going back for decades and decades. I think they're more obvious now, partly because they brought in all these young, wake staffers who are not proper journalists, they're activists. They keep outsourcing all these documentaries. That was the case of the Garzan documentary. Oh, whoops, we accidentally interviewed the son of a Hamas official. You know, there isn't much I can speak on in total experience,

but commissioning television programs I know about. And if a commissioning editor of a major

network, right, wants to fill a gap, then all sorts of people put forward ideas in basic

layperson's terms and production companies come forward and go, that would be a good idea.

That's a Hamas documentary. By the way,

we're going to have a voice by Hamas official son. Can I have your money? Yes. And then when it goes

obviously wrong, they go, I didn't know anything about the production companies. Unbelievable. And I always

think, again, phrases just as the morning continues really, that it's become a bit like the NHS, the BBC.

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