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BBC Fake News kills Jews?

The BBC has been one of the prime providers of fake news about the Palestinian’s 70 year war against the Jews of Israel, this fake news creating a febrile atmosphere that generates massive hatred towards Israel, Israelis and Jews.  Jews die as a result of this across the world.  The BBC’s Tim Wilcox admitted as much when he suggested that Jews should expect to be attacked because of what Israel does to defend itself…thus in  one stroke he denounces Israeli actions as bad and then links Jews in Europe to those actions making them guilty of them by association..ie being Jewish.

Here’s one example of that fake news that sets the world against the Jews and makes it ‘OK’ to target them….

Remember Jenin back in 2002 when the BBC insisted there was a massacre of Palestinian civilians by Israeli troop,  such a massacre that the troops had to cover their faces to guard against the stench of death?

‘The smell of death pervades the Jenin refugee camp’

Turned out it wasn’t 3,000 civilians massacred, not even 500…in fact a grand total of 52 Palestinians were killed in the operation, nearly all of them terrorists.  The BBC still hinted there was a massacre even as the UN investigation drew its conclusions and announced there was no massacre…the BBC dismissed that as nothing to see here…

The BBC’s Greg Barrow at the UN says the report offers few conclusions and merely reports allegations that have already been made.

We were also told at the time of the battle by the BBC that…

Palestinian claims of an Israeli massacre in the camp have been denied, although British forensic expert Prof Derrick Pounder has said that the evidence points to large numbers of civilian dead.

Odd how other news organisations knew straight away that the Palestinians were lying….

By contrast on the very same days, American reporters in Jenin – unlike their British counterparts – reported accurately. Molly Moore of The Washington Post wrote there was “no evidence to support allegations by aid organizations of large-scale massacres or executions.” Newsday’s reporter in Jenin, Edward Gargan, wrote: “There is little evidence to suggest that Israeli troops conducted a massacre of the dimensions alleged by Palestinian officials.”

The Boston Globe correspondent reported that after extensive interviews with “civilians and fighters” in Jenin “none reported seeing large numbers of civilians killed.” On the other hand, referring to the deaths of Israeli soldiers in Jenin, Abdel Rahman Sa’adi, an “Islamic Jihad grenade-thrower,” told The Boston Globe “This was a massacre of the Jews, not of us.”

The BBC’s reporting was the subject of a complaint…

Our first such major issue in this Submission-I below is on the BBC News’ coverage of the Battle of Jenin in April 2002 and on until today, which spread many times the false ‘news’ and ‘data’ on the ‘Jenin massacre’ – that never was.  We submit this case now because the terrible damage and pain this libel caused has never been properly undone and the’massacre’ libel sticks on Israel until today, November 2005.

The facts of our complaint on the BBC News coverage of the Jenin Battle

 The infamous case of Jenin started in March 2002. In this one single month 16 Palestinian terror bombings and other acts targeted and deliberately killed 102 Israeli civilians. For most of the killings Palestinian organizations sitting in Jenin proudly took responsibility.  In the next month, on 3d April the IDF – Israeli Defence Forces – entered the city of Jenin, as part of ‘Operation Defensive Shield’, to capture the perpetrators.

Since the first day of this operation the BBC radio and TV news and special reports “informed” the world on the “Israeli massacre” of the Palestinian civilian population of Jenin in at least half-hourly sensational reports. The BBC News and World Service gave the microphone to and quoted unchallenged the Palestinian Authority spokesman, Saeb Erekat and other Arab sources to talk on an ‘Israeli massacre’, starting with “data” of 3000 and switching later to 500 or 520 Palestinian civilian casualties. The BBC broadcasted very intensively the big story of the Israeli ‘massacre’ of Palestinian civilians, through reports, unchallenged quotations and  renewing reminders. False allegations of massacre and false data were actively repeated literally thousands of times (see data later), at least until 29.10.2002, their traces and repetitions by others are on the net until now, November 2005.

 The BBC mentioned rarely and then downplayed or even ridiculed the dry official Israeli statements – which came of course somewhat late, because a democracy can not speak without fact-finding done before – on ’52 Palestinians dead; 5 women, one child and 46 adult males mostly wanted terrorists’.

By mid-April most major media organs, i.a. AP, CNN or the Washington Post, found out that the Palestinian statements on a massacre in Jenin were unfounded and therefore stopped the ‘massacre’ story.  Not so the BBC.

Not so the BBC…but oh so so the BBC.

The BBC has spent months suggesting Bradley Wiggins could be a drugs cheat, Gary Richardson was at it again yesterday as he insinuated guilt. No doubt this dubious and baseless claim can be linked to the BBC’s continuous assault on Sky/Murdoch by any means possible such as via Leveson or attacks on the funding of the Premier League.

Now it turns out that the ‘secret’ package that was at the centre of these claims contained nothing more than a perfectly legal decongestant and that the reason the Sky team had not revealed the contents before was because UK Anti-doping (Ukad) had told them not to…however the BBC suddenly forgets that it has spent those months slyly insinuating Wiggins is a drugs cheat and blames it all on the Daily Mail…

Sir Bradley Wiggins won the event for Team Sky, who have since been under pressure to reveal the contents of the package after a Daily Mail allegation.

How different the BBC’s approach to reporting on the black Muslim Mo Farrah when his coach was investigated for drugs use…then the BBC repeatedly insisted at every chance that Farrah was, of course, entirely innocent of any connection to the investigation or accusations….despite having missed two drug tests in the past…

There is no suggestion Farah has broken any rules.

There is no suggestion the double Olympic champion is under investigation.

There is no suggestion made in the joint investigation by the BBC and US journalism website ProPublica that Farah has been involved in any doping.

We have looked at this video of a talk by Milo Yiannopoulos a talk in which he slams the Left’s attempts to stifle free speech, one of their tactics is to ‘erode the difference between words and actions’.  They conflate, say, suggestions that immigration needs to be controlled with racist attacks on immigrants…as the BBC is so often guilty of doing [I heard this morning on the Today show that Nationalism is all about hating other countries…er…no it isn’t…but the BBC relentlessly drips such toxic claims into the debate continuously in order to demonise those who talk about immigration or who voted for Brexit]  This tactic is intended to then allow the Left to impose draconian sanctions upon anyone who talks about immigration…thus, they hope, shutting down that debate without actually engaging in it with their own arguments.

At the end of the video one of the audience gets up and denounces Milo as a ‘white supremacist’.  Once Milo has demonstrated quite easily that this is not the case the accuser then tries another tack and says if he isn’t a white supremacist then he ‘enables’ them.  This of course is the Left’s big narrative that it uses to try and shut down debate….that the Right’s debate about immigration causes racism and therefore is not acceptable…hence the Daily Mail gets its Lego deals withdrawn…never mind Denmark, Lego’s Fatherland, had introduced stricter immigration controls of its own recently….Denmark Passes Tough New Immigration Law.

Interestingly the BBC tries the same tactic of accusing Milo of being a white nationalist…on what basis I don’t know…they are talking about Islam at the time…but Islam is not a race….Milo crushes the BBC accuser [around 6 mins]…

The classic tactic of accusing anyone who talks of Islam or immigration of being racist or of the Far-Right.

The BBC is far more of a danger to us than any ”white supremacist’ as it undermines the West and supports the  Islamisation of Europe.

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The most useful fact about the phrase ‘Post-fact world’ is that, as well as pointing out as fools and intellectual cowards those who use it as the new truth, it illustrates just how powerful the left-wing media is as it creates a whole new reality, a ‘false consciousness’ ironically, a fake reality that is fast catching on as the new reality talked of by those in ‘authority’ with an assured air that what they say is not complete bollocks…despite being just that. Andrew Marr this morning made such a statement declaring that we are in this post-fact age.   According to the new facts, and they’re not facts, again ironically, there are no facts, but there was a time when facts existed…a time before the Trump, before the Brexit.  In a land of make-believe.

Marr on ‘Start the Week’ showed himself up for what he really is, not an inquiring intellectual, not an honest journalist, not a man whose integrity is unsullied, but a man who follows the crowd, a sheep who doesn’t think for himself, who doesn’t dare stand up and say this is wrong.  Intellectually, morally and professionally corrupted.

How can Marr with all seriousness suggest we are now in a ‘post-fact’ era?  How can he possibly even contemplate saying such a thing as fact.  He says it becasue he knows he won’t be opposed and his colleagues and friends will all praise him for his thoughtfulness and insight and it suits his own left-wing political agenda.  All the guests on his show are from the same bubble, the same echo chamber.  They think the same, the talk to the same people, they all have the same mindset and the same world view.  They were never going to disagree, in fact they lapped it up and couldn’t have agreed more with the big unsaid motif…that those who voted for Trump or Brexit, or indeed the climate change ‘deniers’, were fools led astray by lies and their own heated, prejudiced, emotions.

Trouble is the programme was full of contradictions that undermined their own statements on such subjects as climate change….how  many times on the programme did we hear that science was never certain, that the science should always be challenged, that people are, apparently, irrational when it comes to making decisions on ‘facts’….and yet the science of climate change is settled…or so the BBC tells us.

The programme finished with what seemed like a scripted comment tacked onto the end about the BBC’s coverage of climate change….how terrible it was that the BBC would give the same time to climate change ‘deniers’ as to real scientists….they should have one ‘denier’ and 2,000 real scientists on to represnt the reality.  So science is not about the science but about the number of people you can get to say one thing?  Have they proved that CO2 is the main and real cause of global warming?  No.  It’s till a theory based upon lab experiments.  So much for facts, so much for science.

Alongside that we have the howl of rage at the rise of ‘Populism’…otherwise known as genuine democracy where the real people get to have their say and their voices heard for once.

‘Populism’ is why the ‘Elite’ don’t like referendums.  Referendums are single issue votes where the Elite cannot divide and rule as in normal elections where people vote on numerous issues and so can be split off into manageable groups by offering them vote winning promises that compromise their own convictions.  The voter may not support you on one thing but may on several others which they consider more important and so you get their vote, but in a single issue referendum  it is black and white, there are no concessions, no deals, no promises that can be made to leaven your manifesto and make it overall the most appealing despite having some unpopular aspects…the Elitist has to make his own choice and stand on one side or the other in a referendum.

Douglas Murray in the Mail a week or so ago slammed the BBC and its fellow travellers for using the word ‘Populism’ to sneer at and demonise those who voted for Brexit or Trump…

POPULISM: It’s the BBC’s new buzzword, being used to sneer at the ‘uneducated’ 17 million who voted for Brexit 

There is a new buzz-word at the BBC. It’s been bandied about on countless programmes and dominates the pages of the Left-wing papers. The 17 million-plus Britons who voted to leave the EU are described as part of a ‘populist’ revolution.

When the American public voted for Donald Trump to be their next President, the BBC and other media likewise described it as a triumph of populism.

This week, after the Italian people voted a resounding ‘No’ in a referendum that led to the resignation of their pro‑EU Prime Minister Matteo Renzi — a result that has shaken Brussels to its foundations — liberal commentators called it a victory for populist parties.

Make no mistake, it is now being used as a sneering, pejorative term to describe the extraordinary social phenomenon sweeping both Europe and the U.S. as millions and millions of people express their anger at the ballot box over the indolence, corruption and complacency of their nation’s political elite.

To disregard the concerns of the public is a serious mistake for any politician. They may be able to ignore it for a time, but at some point the people will be heard. Using words like ‘populist’ to insult the public is just a desperate final attempt to put off the inevitable….. it is better to listen to our concerns rather than to insult us.

New one to kick things off……Post your facts here….

The BBC has spent a great deal of time and effort in trying to create, as in invent, an awareness of the danger of the Far Right on the march again.  It happily ignores the real and genuine and ever increasing threat from Islamism to the West and now the BBC bundles in those who vote for Brexit or Trump alongside the Far Right as it warns us of the threat from the new ‘populism’ that it tells us is so abhorrent.

The BBC of course does not consider those who seek to smash Capitalism and have put Corbyn in place as ‘populist’, nor those who riot, or ‘Occupy’, or use strikes as political weapons, or use bombs and bullets to force their views upon the UK.  None of those are a problem for the BBC.  In fact the BBC readily supports them, the terrorists, the economic wreckers, the rioters.

No, it is those who used their democratic vote to put in place someone who represents their views, views so long suppressed, demonised and mocked by the BBC, that are the threat.

It took one line on the Today programme to give the lie to the BBC’s, to Corbyn’s, to the Left’s narrative about where the real danger lies.  Today had a guest speaker on who had survived the Nazis….

Zuzana Ruzickova survived three concentration camps during the Second World War, including Auschwitz, and went on to become one of the world’s leading harpsichordists. The BBC’s arts correspondent Rebecca Jones has been to Ms Rusickova’s home in Prague to meet her.

Zuzana Ruzzickova said that after having survived the Nazis it was unbelievable that she should then find herself in the grip of another such regime when the Communists took over in Czechoslovakia…a regime, like the Nazis…

‘So cruel, so stupid, so anti-semitic’

So familiar today.

The Nazis were, as we know, Socialists.  Socialism has killed millions upon millions of people and has imposed misery and fear upon countless millions more.

It’s a funny thing but just as the BBC doesn’t recognise that history nor does Corbyn who just recently made exactly the same warnings about the Right, linking UKIP and Trump to the Far Right, as the BBC does…what perfect bed-fellows, the fellow travellers of the BBC and the mad mullah of Marxism….Corbyn makes no mention of the Communist takeover of Czechoslovakia that imprisoned a nation for over four decades as he talks of the suffering of the Czechs….

It is fitting we are in Prague to discuss the challenges ahead for democracy in Europe.

This is a city which has been at the heart of the history of our continent and the convulsions of the past century – of war, revolution and the struggle for democracy and social justice.

We are in a city that also suffered the scourge of Nazi occupation and the horror of its genocidal crimes.

Today I will also be visiting the Terezin memorial which commemorates the victims of Nazi political and racial persecution in the Czech Republic, a permanent testimony to the threat posed by far right politics, anti-semitism and racist scapegoating.

On behalf of the British Labour party I will be paying tribute and remembering those who died, whose suffering is a reminder of the scars left by the far right, not just on this country or this continent, but on the whole world.

Today, we live in a different time with different pressures and opportunities.

But it is clear, across Europe and beyond there has been an alarming acceleration in the rise of the populist right.

Whether it be UKIP in Britain, Donald Trump in the United States, Jobbik in Hungary or Marine Le Pen’s National Front in France.

As we head towards 2017 many people are worried about the direction that Europe is taking. Well now is time for us to turn the tide. To put the interests of working people front and centre stage and  to fight for our values, of social justice, solidarity, equality and internationalism.

If we do that together, and break with the failed politics of the past, I am confident we can overcome the challenge from the populist right.

Could have been written by any journo at the BBC no?

Let’s have the truth from a Czech……

The years of totalitarian rule in Czechoslovakia, from 1948 to 1989, were dark and dismal days, indeed.  After the 1948 coup, Communist ideology permeated citizens’ lives and dominated all aspects of society. Czechoslovakia’s political decisions were dictated by the Soviet Union, and the country continued to rely on the Soviet Union even during the 1980s. Czechoslovakia was part of the Eastern Bloc and a member of the Warsaw Pact and Comecon.

Those who did not comply with socialism were not only interrogated, intimidated and put under surveillance but also subject to house searches, during which the Secret Police invaded citizens’ privacy while searching for illegal literature.

During the beginning of the brutal and nightmarish 1950s, Soviet Union Premier Joseph Stalin directed the Czechoslovak Communists to carry out purges, and the nation held the largest show trials in Eastern Europe. Over a six-year period, from 1949 to 1954, the victims included military leaders, Catholics, Jews, democratic politicians, those with wartime connections with the West as well as high-ranking Communists. Almost 180 people were executed. There was no such thing as a fair trial as judges cooperated with the country’s leadership. The defendants, branded guilty before the trial began, even had to rehearse their testimonies in advance, as if it all were some cruel play performed on a stage instead of in a courtroom. (During the 1960s, some of the victims were rehabilitated.)

The Week in Westminster programme was a pro-EU fest with the New Statesman, the Huffington Post and the anti-Tory Isabel Hardman from the Spectator giving us their views.

We were told that Trump and Farage ‘manipulated’ the People to get them to vote for their views…..no, they acted as lightning rods for the well known views of the People that the BBC has ignored and tried to bury for years and looks like it will continue to dismiss as ‘myth’…yep the ignorant People were fooled and didn’t know what they were voting for.

We also heard that historians will conclude that Cameron was a reckless politician who took us out of the EU….so no bias there in that ‘prediction’.

Then we heard another criticism of Cameron, one that the BBC would really like to keep buried, as it did so well in the run up to the referendum….an inconvenient truth…that Cameron’s fabled EU reforms negotiated before the referendum and trumpeted as major concessions by the EU were in fact ‘nowhere near what he asked for…and….what he asked for was very modest’.

The Remain camp fought their campaign on a lie, that the reforms were enough to limit EU power over us and would control immigration.

The BBC were not interested in a genuine and rigorous examination of the so-called reforms, they merely reported them as pretty successful for Cameron despite even a casual look at them giving the lie to that.

The Now Show was similarly pro-EU with a stream of anti-Brexit ‘jokes’ that were in truth merely lazy, trite and unfunny material that the BBC has been peddling for months.

Then there was Dimbleby on Any Questions aggressively countering any pro-Brexit thoughts….apparently, according to him, we have to take the words of ardent Europhile Ivan Rogers ‘very seriously’ as he promotes the Remain camp agenda.  Also we hear that ‘thoughtful politicians think we should have a transition period’…really?  Meaning it is stupid and unthinkable to have a clean break?  Dimbleby also ramped up the rhetoric as the EU threatens us with a bill of £50billion…he raises it to maybe £60 billion…or maybe even £100 billion….just more scaremongering fake news from the supposedly trustworthy BBC.

Perhaps we should bill the EU for the destruction it has caused in our fishing industry, or for the thousands of EU criminals in our prisons, or for the wages lost to native workers, or for the schools, welfare, housing and NHS that we have to provide for EU migrants.  And the logic of this ‘bill’ fails me….we must pay it because we have signed a treaty…well OK…on that logic we have signed a treaty to become part of the Single Market….so even if we Brexit presumably we can opt to stay in without freedom of movement if we’re picking and choosing what treaties remain in force?

Personally I’d just say FO to the EU, we’re out of here…just as Iceland did with its bank debts.  Why on earth any politician would let the EU hold us hostage is beyond me…Thatcher would never have allowed it.  It’s just another perfect illustration of what is wrong with the EU…it is a thoroughly unpleasant, and not a little Fascistic, organisation that uses threats, blackmail and undemocratic means to maintain its power and grasp over countries.

“We’re in Europe against our will,” he said. “It’s a prison. It’s not a solution that will last.”

Odd then that it takes a supposed Fascist to point that out…..

We’re in Europe Against Our Will’: France Is E.U.’s Next Big Test

“In 2005, a majority voted against Europe, and we still find ourselves in Europe, by magic,” he said, “and I find it inadmissible.”

Today the European Union is wobbling under the weight of problems encouraged in part by that unchecked expansion — stagnant economies, the euro crisis, new pressures from Russia and deep strains over migration, especially from newer members in Central and Eastern Europe.

But a visit to Le Luc and other villages in southern France is a reminder that the European Union faces yet another serious problem long in the making — a crisis of legitimacy — that is fueling right-wing, nationalist politics even in the traditional core of the bloc.

What Ms. Le Pen wants is to lead France out of the euro currency and out of the bloc. She has said she would hold a popular referendum, à la Britain, on French membership in the European Union — a test of public will that mainstream French politicians, she says, are afraid to have.

Fascinating to hear what the problem with the UN is according, to Baroness Amos, as it leaves Syria to burn…that the self-interest of member countries stops them acting morally, altruistically, to defend the people of countries such as Syria.

Hmmm…OK…so roll back time to the vote on the Iraq war which the BBC tells us was illegal because the Russians, French and Germans voted against it at the UN.  Those countries voted against the war because they had massive self-interests in keeping Saddam in power…either geo-political or commercial.  They had no interest in the moral issues or human rights or in bringing freedom from oppression to the Iraqi people.  So their votes were a ‘problem’…they voted not on the actual issues of the war but in their own self-interest.  Their votes were therefore invalid making any declaration by the BBC that the war was illegal due to this vote a nonsense based upon a lie.  The BBC has never of course looked at the vote from that angle as it isn’t interested in genuine analysis merely in peddling an anti-Iraq War narrative which has helped ‘radicalise’, or given the excuse to, Muslims to attack Britain and the US.

Any other BBC bias that springs to mind?  Let’s hear it on the open thread…..

Obama not say anything about Saudi Arabia launching all out economic war against the US oil industry as it attempted to destroy the fracking industry and yet he is now complaining about a supposed Russian state hack of Clinton’s illicit email server which revealed some uncomfortable truths.  Can’t have the truth ‘corrupting’ an election can we?

Here’s a question for the BBC.  One they never asked today in their extensive coverage of Obama’s highly political claims about the election….

If the emails effected the outcome of the election why would that be?  What was in the emails that made voters think Clinton was not suitable to be President?

The BBC has never shown the slightest interest in investigating the emails and now only mentions them in passing as a link to the ‘corruption’ of the US election.  Maybe we should have a re-run…or just hand the Presidency to Clinton.  Civil war looms.  Obama is playing a dangerous game, as is the BBC and its Remainer collaborators who think they can magic away Brexit without any reaction.

The source of the emails is irrelevant….what is important is what they say and the fact that Clinton held highly sensitive information on an insecure, private server….an insecurity which allowed them to be hacked in the first place.  If her actions led to the election being ‘corrupted’ perhaps she should be jailed?

It is an odd way of looking at things though…the US elections ‘corrupted’ by the truth…how terrible…as said the source is irrelevant here, what is important is the content of those emails and how they came to be hacked…and by extension the judgement and trustworthyness of Clinton.  The BBC isn’t interested in that analysis.

The BBC continues to pump out Democrat propaganda.  Yet more fake news from our trusted news provider.

You’d never really know that Sir Ivan Rogers, EU ambassador, was anything more than just a civil servant doing his duty, if you listened to the BBC as it reports, trumpets loudly, that he has said Brexit will take 10 years to negotiate and may fail anyway.  No suggestion from the BBC that this is yet another ‘Remain’ piece of misinformation designed to scaremonger and intended to make voters reconsider their Leave vote or at least soften them up for a massive compromise on Brexit.

Rogers is after all an ardent Europhile who has been at the heart of the EU machine for decades….

For Eurosceptic Conservative MPs, David Cameron could barely have made a more provocative choice.

The Prime Minister has chosen Ivan Rogers – the former chief adviser to their pro-EU hate figure, Kenneth Clarke – to be the UK’s next ambassador to the EU in Brussels, with the task of renegotiating Britain’s place within the organisation.

Mr Rogers, currently the Prime Minister’s adviser on Europe, is expected to see his appointment confirmed within weeks. But some Tories will be alarmed by his apparently Europhile background.

Curiously no mention either, considering all the controversy about May not guaranteeing that EU nationals can stay in the UK, that it was Rogers who suggested that line for her…that EU nationals be used as ‘bargaining chips’…..

The biggest puzzle of Theresa May’s premiership so far is why someone who pioneered laws against modern slavery and was so tough on stop-and-search should take such an extreme and heartless position on EU migrants. Her declaration – that she’d use them as bargaining chips in Brexit talks – struck many who would otherwise support her as bizarre and repugnant. The Times reveals today that this idea was dummed up, as you’d expect, by the Whitehall machine.

Sir Ivan Rogers, Britain’s ambassador to the EU, advised all candidates for the Tory leadership to use Britain’s three million EU nationals as bargaining chips in Brexit talks because he thought it would be the only bargaining chip Britain had.

Rogers is spreading the EU’s black propaganda designed to undermine Brexit but the BBC analysis makes no mention of that and accepts his words as ‘fact’.  They know it is bunkum but pump it out in the hope that a repetitious drum-beat of lies, big and small, intended to sow doubt, confusion and fear about Brexit, will make voters demand a re-vote and turn them into Remainers.

Why would it take 10 years to negotiate Brexit when trade deals are already in place and exporters to the EU already comply with all EU regulations?  What’s to negotiate really?  We’re not starting from scratch as with countries outside the EU like Canada.  The ground work is already in place…it’s just a matter of tweaking it.

The BBC knows his comments are deliberately misleading and designed to deceive and yet reports them at face value…the BBC’s own analysis?…

The government is intent on persuading us Brexit can be done smoothly, and to time. So the suggestion that the UK’s most senior diplomat in Brussels has privately told the government that a final trade deal with the rest of the EU might not be done for 10 years, and might ultimately fail, may give rise to more nerves…. this is perhaps a reality check of just how hard these negotiations might prove. 

A ‘reality check’?  Only on planet BBC.  Fake News on tap.