Should John Sweeney be sacked from the BBC?

[Memphis]

Memphis you know full well what I am talking about.

Possibly. But clarification would be nice because I think you might be being a big fat liar.

[Gandalf]

Memphis you know full well what I am talking about.

Possibly. But clarification would be nice because I think you might be being a big fat liar.

Your adjectives are all off key. It was all pretty cut and dry in the thread it happened in. Not looking to hang you for it but think it was rather unfair.

[Memphis]

Don’t be going all coy now. I don’t think you learned a single thing from the potential thread in question. Please, hang away.

[Gandalf]

Don’t be going all coy now. I don’t think you learned a single thing from the potential thread in question. Please, hang away.

Nothing to be coy about, Buttercup. People know the deal as they do with other situations. My thread has been won and my mission is accomplished. 3 votes to 1 and that is all that matters. You have to be yourself, I do not.

[Gandalf]

The worst mistake I ever made on this forum was nominating Kirkland for FGOTY. He has taken it hostage and the authorities here have shut down any threads about FGOTY. We all make mistakes. I am human too. Occasionally. I would never work for the BBC. Plus their adverts these days say I am the wrong color. They do not not what they are missing as I would make excellent tea. Sorry Alan, you went back to backstabbing central. Aha!

[Memphis]

Don’t be going all coy now. I don’t think you learned a single thing from the potential thread in question. Please, hang away.

Nothing to be coy about, Buttercup. People know the deal as they do with other situations. My thread has been won and my mission is accomplished. 3 votes to 1 and that is all that matters. You have to be yourself, I do not.

Too many things that make no sense to me to respond seriously.

I'm glad you won your thread though

[Beanz]

No mention of Sweeney's courageous confrontation of the Scientologists with blood on their hands then (other than your fake news edit not mentioning the source of his anger). No mention of him uncovering Mugabe mass graves. No mention of the Cot death investigation or his uncovering the links between Trump and the Kremlin. All you have is the same PC based outrage that you claim everyone else has but nobody on this site has ever manifested. He hurt your feelings because he said bad things about your boyfriend . Can you not see the Irony of your invented outrage?


You are right Miles the unashamed censorship at the beeb is off the charts. You are talking about a channel that for the last 4 years has ripped into Corbyn and Labour with their invented anti-semite bullshit invented by the Ashkenazi and your Tory idols Walter Softee Ress Mogg etc and have a nightly politics show run By Andrew Neil ( from the boy band Trump/Bannon/Neil/ Farrage) that repeatedly gave Tommy the absolute Cunt a platform for his right wing money scam and now has another one of you bum chums onboard. For a socialist like you, oyu should be outraged...prick


https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.c...0d9f-0sd9f-sdf

[Beanz]

Also this threads poll had anonymous voters. So who voted then? kdwn 968992842 ? one of your gangs other alts, Freedom and your boyfriend Wally I expect

[ryanman]

Did Sweeney actually say that he went for a drink with a working class guy that was in the Newsnight green room 'much as you would a cannibal from the amazon?'.

I've seen the video in the other thread but I really don't know what to believe. If he really said that in that context, and the other things too, and its not some trick of editing, then I'd quite enjoy smashing his face in myself.

What have the BBC said? I can't find anything on it. Is he being investigated?

I'm not being facetious by the way. This thread and the other one, are the first, and only, places I've heard anything about this.

[Master]

I voted no and I believe it will be investigated.

[ryanman]

Literally all I can find is -

‘The BBC strongly rejects any suggestion that our journalism is ‘faked’ or biased. Any programme we broadcast will adhere to the BBC’s strict editorial guidelines. ‘Some of the footage which has been released was recorded without our knowledge during this investigation and John Sweeney made some offensive and inappropriate remarks, for which he apologises. ‘BBC Panorama’s investigation will continue.



That can't be it? He 'made some offensive and inappropriate remarks, for which he apologises'.
So they aren't even saying he was stitched up? They accept he said those things but dismiss it with the briefest of mentions?

Am I seriously missing something here?