Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) delivered a sharp rebuke of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) on the U.S. Senate floor, condemning its editorial standards as “disgraceful,” and “outrageous and misleading.”
He publicly expressed his strong hope that President Donald Trump would follow through on his stated intention to file a lawsuit against the state-owned media organization. Kennedy’s denunciation was based on what he described as a pattern of political bias and deliberate misrepresentations by the broadcaster.
The Louisiana Senator detailed several instances of media distortion.
A key focus was the BBC’s coverage of the President, particularly regarding the events of January 6th. Kennedy claimed the BBC produced a documentary where they spliced together two separate snippets of Trump’s speech, segments that were almost an hour apart, to make it appear as if he was issuing a “direct plea for violence” and instructing his supporters to “march on the Capitol and invade it.”
He maintained that this editing drastically misconstrued the speech’s original content. Furthermore, Kennedy alleged that the BBC followed this edited segment by showing footage of the Proud Boys marching on the Capitol, leading viewers to believe the group was acting in direct response to the edited speech, despite the footage having been recorded well before the speech was even delivered.
Kennedy also highlighted other examples of what he called systemic bias. He cited findings from an independent consultant’s report—which the BBC reportedly ignored until it was leaked—where BBC reporters were accused of attributing fabricated quotes to Trump.
These alleged fabrications included claims that the President said he wanted people to “shoot Liz Cheney in the face” or that she should face a “firing squad.”
Beyond U.S. politics, the consultant’s report also pointed to what it called “heavily biased” BBC reporting on the Israel-Hamas conflict, noting that a documentary on Gaza was narrated by a 13-year-old whose father was a senior Hamas official, a fact omitted by the broadcaster.
Additionally, the consultant found the BBC’s coverage of transgender issues to be “completely biased” and controlled by an internal group of reporters known as the “LGBTQ desk,” which allegedly failed to report on legislative changes in the U.K., such as the outlawing of transgender surgery and treatments for minors.
Senator Kennedy urged a legal challenge, asserting, “President Trump has said he’s going to sue BBC, and you know what, I hope he does.”
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