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Jonathan Cook on BBC setting Starmer's lies as 'fact' re Gaza heckler yesterday

Posted by marknadim <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=marknadim' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on September 25, 2024, 3:42 am

from his fb page, http://www.facebook.com/share/p/gGRMi7cGHqsfQRNL/

'Tonight's BBC News at Ten showed very brief footage of a protester being bundled out of Labour's conference after he'd interrupted Starmer's speech. It then showed a smirking Starmer deliver a put-down: "This guy has obviously got a pass from the 2019 conference.”

What the BBC cut out of its report was what the protester actually said.

When Starmer told delegates "Every child, every person, deserves to be respected for the contribution they make”, the protester called out: “Does that include the children of Gaza?”

Understandably, the BBC realised that Starmer's pre-scripted, jokey response to an expression of concern at Israel's killing and maiming of tens of thousands of Gaza's children – and his suggestion that only the Labour party of old cared about genocide – might damage his image with viewers. So they decided to cut it out.

Which is bad enough. It shouldn't be the job of the BBC to do Starmer's PR.

But worse, their political editor Chris Mason then had the temerity to conclude his report by stating that how Starmer's speech was received by delegates wasn't the main measure of its success: "It's what you make of it that really matters."

But how can the public make an informed assessment of who Starmer is, or what values he espouses, when the BBC is doctoring the coverage to make him appear more human and principled than he actually is?

The BBC isn't reporting the news, it's fashioning it."

Owen Jones on "Starmer's VILE Response As Slaughtered Palestinian Kids Raised By Protester"

Posted by Der <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Der' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on September 25, 2024, 9:49 am, in reply to "Jonathan Cook on BBC setting Starmer's lies as 'fact' re Gaza heckler yesterday"

Re: Owen Jones on "Starmer's VILE Response As Slaughtered Palestinian Kids Raised By Protester"

Posted by marknadim <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=marknadim' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on September 25, 2024, 11:47 am, in reply to "Owen Jones on "Starmer's VILE Response As Slaughtered Palestinian Kids Raised By Protester""

he's surprised a lot of us with his stance on Palestine

still don't entirely trust him somehow though - Guardian-related phobia I suppose

Re: Owen Jones on "Starmer's VILE Response As Slaughtered Palestinian Kids Raised By Protester"

Posted by Ed <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Ed' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on September 25, 2024, 5:05 pm, in reply to "Re: Owen Jones on "Starmer's VILE Response As Slaughtered Palestinian Kids Raised By Protester""

To be honest, I have been quite astonished by his stance on the genocide and those supporting it.
Of course, I suppose the huge fig leaf argument can be invoked here, but still, he has put himself in genuine harm's way, I'd say.

Owen Jones

Posted by Keith-264 <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Keith-264' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on September 25, 2024, 5:10 pm, in reply to "Re: Owen Jones on "Starmer's VILE Response As Slaughtered Palestinian Kids Raised By Protester""

I don't trust the runt, he'd need to repudiate his past and stop taking Graunmoney for that.

The last working-class hero in England.

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Re: Owen Jones

Posted by Sir Michael Mouse <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Sir+Michael+Mouse' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on September 25, 2024, 5:27 pm, in reply to "Owen Jones"

I assumed he was building up lefty collateral, especially with the young post-assange/corbyn audience, to be expended the next time uk public opinion can make a difference to anything. The second a confrontational left got anywhere near the instruments of public policy he would denounce them as useful idiots ushering in the fascism of farage.

Starmer’s ‘2019’ Gaza heckler joined in 2022 to support him, now disgusted by him

Posted by johnlilburne <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=johnlilburne' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on September 25, 2024, 10:20 am, in reply to "Jonathan Cook on BBC setting Starmer's lies as 'fact' re Gaza heckler yesterday"

https://skwawkbox.org/2024/09/24/video-starmers-2019-gaza-heckler-joined-in-2022-to-support-him-now-disgusted-by-him/

Owen Jones At Labour Conference: A Party Already In Crisis?

Posted by RaskolnikovX <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Raskolnikov' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on September 25, 2024, 11:15 am, in reply to "Starmer’s ‘2019’ Gaza heckler joined in 2022 to support him, now disgusted by him"

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...no amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party...So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.

Brown is the new red? Nm

Posted by Shyaku <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Shyaku' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on September 25, 2024, 5:09 pm, in reply to "Owen Jones At Labour Conference: A Party Already In Crisis?"

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