Last night's Panorama on the rise of Jeremy Corbyn provoked massed howls of outrage from the battalions of Corbynistas on Twitter - and, according to Mr Fawkes, from Mr Corbyn's own team as well.
The terms "character assassination" and "hatchet job" were widely banded about.
Even some people on largely right-wing forums are saying that the BBC appeared to be trying to stick the knife into Jeremy Corbyn here.
And I have to say that I think they're right about that. (And, from my own biased point of view, quite right too!)
And I have to say that I think they're right about that. (And, from my own biased point of view, quite right too!)
Of course, Panorama isn't averse to putting out hatchet jobs. (The makers of Panorama do seem to like the odd hatchet job from time to time.)
Panorama attempted a particularly brutal one on Nigel Farage just under a year ago. And it (twice) attempted another (one last year and one in April this year) on Lutfur Rahman in Tower Hamlets. The BNP got the Panorama hatchet job treatment in 2011 and the DUP's Iris Robinson got it in 2010.
The thing that connects those politicians is that they aren't establishment ones, so that could indicate a pro-establishment bias on the BBC's part....
....except that twice, in 2010 and 2012, Panorama doggedly went after a top Conservative donor, Lord Ashcroft. (Complications, complications!)
Now, both Sue and myself have had good things to say before about the Panorama reporter responsible for last night's Jeremy Corbyn report, John Ware. He's a BBC reporter who often goes where most other BBC reporters wouldn't dream of going.
His pursuit of Mr Corbyn's dealings with Islamist terrorist groups and his linking of Mr Corbyn with a conference in Cairo which advocated attacks on British troops fighting in Iraq were, to my mind, worthwhile but, it has to be said, I really don't think he got very far at all. Jeremy Corbyn said enough not to come anywhere near close to incriminating himself, and didn't look at all rattled by John Ware's questioning.
And John Ware couldn't get anywhere beyond those statements from Jeremy Corbyn, other than by asserting that Mr Corbyn didn't give a straight answer to the Cairo question....
...A bit of what I, in my younger years, might have called 'a damp squid' then.
Except for some pro-Corbyn vox pops and a pro-Corbyn comedian, all of Panorama's 'talking heads' were from what might be called the 'Labour establishment' - Bob Roberts, David Blunkett, Charles Clarke, Chuka Umunna and Tristram Hunt. Their message could hardly have been clearer: Don't vote Corbyn! Even the only other talking head, Chris Mullin, who had some nice things to say about the hero of the Corbynistas, didn't think Jeremy Corbyn could win an election.
At this point in a blog post, of course, a conclusion should come. Unfortunately, I don't have one, so please make of this mess of impressions what you will.
