I was reading Biased BBC and came across a series of astonished comments about a new BBC News website article on Donald Trump headlined US election: Clinton security should be disarmed, says Trump.
Its opening paragraph reads:
...and the article reads as if there might be some truth in this criticism (and is thoroughly one-sided from start to finish).
The point being made at B-BBC is that when you watch the video of Mr Trump saying what he said....
...it should be patently obvious to anyone (who isn't merely intent on twisting his words) that Mr Trump wasn't seriously calling for Hillary's bodyguards to be disarmed.
He was being sarcastic and making a point.
And he certainly wasn't hinting at the assassination of Mrs Clinton or "inciting violence" against her either.
His point was that Mrs Clinton, an advocate of gun control, believes in guns well enough to be surrounded by a large body of gun-carrying bodyguards. She knows the danger she'd face in if her bodyguards gave up their guns, so that's why she won't disarm them.
I can't put it any better than those B-BBC commenters here:
He was being sarcastic and making a point.
And he certainly wasn't hinting at the assassination of Mrs Clinton or "inciting violence" against her either.
His point was that Mrs Clinton, an advocate of gun control, believes in guns well enough to be surrounded by a large body of gun-carrying bodyguards. She knows the danger she'd face in if her bodyguards gave up their guns, so that's why she won't disarm them.
I can't put it any better than those B-BBC commenters here:
Not surprisingly it was a Guardian article first....
ReplyDeleteProblem is they don't broadcast what he actually says and for some reason people believe the headlines about Trump. Even when they my think the rest of the BBC output is biased, my better half is a case in point.
I knew this would happen the moment Trump said it. The US Leftoid media (whom the BBC use as an excuse for either reporting something or not reporting it) have been making a mountain out of this molehill as well. Trump only said what thousands of other gun-rights advocates have been saying for years. This is about pointing out the hypocrisy of celebrities and nanny-state politicians who say we the people shouldn't be allowed to own guns, and only the police and military should have them, yet they themselves should be allowed to have them and heavily armed private body guards. Rights for the few, not for the many.
ReplyDeleteIt is nothing to do with wanting personal harm to befall Hillary Clinton.
Trump's exact words were:
ReplyDelete"Now, you know she's very much against the Second Amendment. She wants to destroy your Second Amendment. Guns, guns, guns, right. I think what we should do is...She goes around with armed bodyguards like you've never seen before. I think that her bodyguards should drop all weapons. They should disarm. Right? I think they should disarm, immediately. What do you think? Yes? Yes. Yeah. Take their guns away! She doesn't want guns. Take their...Let's see what happens to her. Take their guns away. OK? It would be very dangerous."
Listening to 'PM' tonight, that kept getting edited - bits vanishing here, reappearing there, eliding together somewhere else. The opening edit made it sound particularly bad. The "It would be very dangerous" bit never got quoted.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07tqqd6
It was disappointing to hear Caroline Wyatt following the US Leftoid media/BBC line to the letter and giving such credence to the assassination/promoting violence against Hillary idea. Her strongly anti-Trump guest didn't attempt to put the obvious context either. It's as if everyone's so partisan about this that they just can't stand back and be reasonable - which isn't how the BBC ought to be behaving (not that it's ever stopped them before when it comes to US politics).