Shite helmets? Hadn't heard that. Guess the 'metropolitan liberal elite' was a little more than a character act then...

My recollection re: Rogan was that he gave Kamala the opportunity for an interview but she / her team declined. Probably because she'd run out of scripted soundbites after the first 10 minutes and spend the next 2hr50 waffling on about nothing and cackling like a psychopath. But yeah, it seems like he gives more time to the right and/or corporate stooges these days...

The BBC comment was so weird, I had to go and look up what he was referring to. He says:

(23:55) 'I don't really listen to BBC News any more. I kind of lost faith in it during the Robbie Gibb era. I just kind of think I don't feel I can trust it.'

I didn't even know who he was referring to, though after looking him up on wiki the name must have come up around the various libel cases the JC faced (he bid to buy it as part of a consortium in 2020). He's had various stints at the BBC:

political researcher including for the television programme On the Record.

2002 as deputy editor of the news and current affairs television programme Newsnight [...] political editor for various programmes including Daily Politics, The Andrew Marr Show, and This Week as well coverage of the Budget

joined the BBC Board in May 2021 as the Member for England for a three-year term - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbie_Gibb

Probably the thing that most triggers Lee, though, is that Gibb 'was an editorial advisor for GB News prior to its launch in 2021' and 'Gibb is a prominent supporter of Brexit'.

Anyway, it's incredibly weak to base your critique of an organisation around the supposed influence on it from one person. Is he saying that if Gibb hadn't been employed by the BBC everything would have been fine and he'd still be watching it? There's zero analysis of the institutional bias of the organisation as a whole, and he provides no examples of why they might have failed to keep his 'trust'.

It must be so strange inside the heads of people like this!

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