Anti-vaccine protesters tried to storm the BBC's offices. But they had the wrong address.
Source: Washington Post
A group of coronavirus vaccine protesters attempted to storm the offices of British public broadcaster BBC on Monday. But they had one big problem: the wrong address. Instead of targeting the BBCs news operations, which some activists have blamed for helping promote coronavirus vaccines, they charged toward a former BBC building in west London that now houses upscale apartments, restaurants and studios used by another British media company to produce daytime talk shows.
Not sure what protesters were hoping to achieve, but all they wouldve found was me, Jane, Nadia and Penny on @loosewomen talking about the menopause, tweeted Charlene White, a host on the ITV show Loose Women, which was live on air when protesters attempted to enter the building. Videos posted on social media showed protesters clashing with police as they attempted to force their way into the building, which is about four miles west of central London.
Hundreds of people outside the studio building chanted shame on you, the Guardian newspaper reported, adding that many appeared to think they were protesting a major BBC News operation and that pre-protest material had played up the buildings links to the broadcaster.Officers were pushed by a small number of demonstrators [running toward the entrance,] but the arrival of additional officers quickly restored calm, Londons Metropolitan Police said in a statement. It added that an officer suffered a minor facial injury and that no arrests were made. The BBC declined to comment.
The BBC remains broadly popular with the British public, who fund the broadcaster via a license fee. But it has often been attacked by right-of-center commentators for allegedly being elitist and too reflective of a liberal, urban worldview. Its journalists have also faced verbal and physical attacks during the pandemic, with the political editor of its Newsnight program, Nick Watt, targeted outside Downing Street by anti-lockdown protesters earlier this year.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/08/10/vaccine-protesters-bbc-london/
IOW, teh stupid is a universal RW thing.
ETA - here's a video of the incident -
Pachamama
(16,887 posts)Tadpole Raisin
(972 posts)BumRushDaShow
(130,013 posts)NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)zuul
(14,629 posts)My insurance company suddenly denied my hormone medication.
My doctor is having trouble finding a new one that doesn't cause nausea or migraines.
My upstairs air conditioning is out and the AC guy keeps giving me excuses for taking so long to fix it.
I have a migraine due to the heat and humidity and lack of hormone medication.
One cat barfed on the rug this morning.
Another cat knocked the water bowl over and spilled it all over the place.
Bending over to clean up cat barf and water makes my head pound even more.
Lawd have mercy on the next person (or feline) who crosses me!!!
Rocknation
BumRushDaShow
(130,013 posts)EYESORE 9001
(26,028 posts)Maybe Im just looking for stuff like that.
BumRushDaShow
(130,013 posts)is pretty sucky. Like someone screen-grabbed the shot from a video and then tried to fix the blurring in the image caused by the subject movement.
ETA - just found this (apparently that is exactly what happened with the pic) -
Grokenstein
(5,730 posts)Better claim it's a false-flag op carried out by BLM or something, buffoons.
NCjack
(10,279 posts)Lasher
(27,673 posts)BumRushDaShow
(130,013 posts)machoneman
(4,016 posts)zanana1
(6,139 posts)It seems like the poison is spreading around the world. I hope they don't let the virus win.
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NotASurfer
(2,157 posts)When he said "What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful."
Maybe he was projecting, dunno. When the word salad ramblings of J. Danforth Quayle make sense, it feels like I'm in a Twilight Zone episode
BumRushDaShow
(130,013 posts)the slogan being "A mind is a terrible thing to waste"... and that fumble would presage Shrub's later infamous "Fool me once..." flub.
Vintage ad -
In fact it's the 50th anniversary of that slogan -
(Jordan just died in March)
cstanleytech
(26,358 posts)for is for not being bigoted and close minded.
IronLionZion
(45,653 posts)breathing deep, shouting, doing their own research, acting on false information. There might be fewer of them soon.
JohnSJ
(92,516 posts)Javaman
(62,534 posts)malthaussen
(17,239 posts)AllaN01Bear
(18,795 posts)Rocknation
(44,587 posts)Rocknation
Ford_Prefect
(7,928 posts)Warpy
(111,456 posts)I've always said it's hard to be wrong about everything, it takes too much research, but they're coming awfully close.
It's a little comforting to know the US isn't the only place with screaming dunderheads. That mob has me sympathizing with the cops, something that feels really weird to someone who has been on the left since the 60s.
pandr32
(11,640 posts)But we already knew that.
rockfordfile
(8,709 posts)I wouldn't be surprised a foreign government is involved with some.
BobTheSubgenius
(11,580 posts)These people have no idea how to storm a building, do they? They even had a blueprint to copy.