Melanie Phillips ^[1] is spot on when she writes of the BBC: If it transposes a picture sequence like this to sex up a story about the Queen by transmitting an outright falsehood, just think what it is doing in the Middle East. (via Pajamas ^[2]) Phillips was referring to the latest humiliation of the Beeb ^[3]. The “procrustean progressive” network “misrepresented” the “actual sequence of events” (their words) in their recent sensational story of a putative walkout by Her Majesty on Annie Liebovitz.

I am not surprised the Beeb lied or “misrepresented” or whatever they call it. That’s what they do. (They are a self-sustaining propaganda outfit, just as any public broadcasting system must perforce be. As we all know, the BBC is virtually unsupervised with a mammoth budget that taxes television owners in the UK with less representation than the citizens of colonial America.) But I am a little disappointed that the Queen didn’t walk out on Annie Liebovitz. I mean who is Liebovitz anyway? A celebrity photographer! (Okay, a good one, but still just someone who goes around taking pictures of famous people.) It was more than a little funny to envision Elizabeth giving her the gate. Like the recent movie, it made me like the Queen.