Today's Nazi words of wisdom from the BBC - Biased BBC

Today's Nazi words of wisdom from the BBC: "You may think that headline is overwrought, but it's literally true. Today's BBC front page http://www.bbc.co.uk currently has up, effectively as quote of the day, without any comment, and indeed with a slight implication of approval, the words of a prominent Nazi.

I don't know how to record it for posterity, but the quote is towards the bottom left of the front page (as seen from Britain, anyway; the international version of the site may be different).

It comes as part of a 'QI FACT OF THE DAY', just after the information that Arthur Conan Doyle and WB Yeats believed in fairies. Placed thus, it reads to me as a kind of riposte to them:

'Unfortunately this earth is not a fairy-land, but a struggle for life, perfectly natural and therefore extremely harsh. MARTIN BORMANN'

Which is all very well, but the job of saying the stern words of sense in response to credulity could have been given to someone more savoury. Martin Bormann was Hitler's Private Secretary and head of the Party Chancellery. He was condemned to death in absentia at Nuremberg.

OK, you don't have to explain it to me. Whoever put this up has no idea who Bormann was but there were lots of those German philosopher blokes weren't there? The BBC are not Nazis but numpties.

Update: Hat tip to Happysnapper who kindly provided this screenshot. I would also like to pass on Millie Tant's comment:

It's extremely crass of the BBC to quote a Nazi - and doubly crass: a murderer talking about the struggle for life. Yeah.

The Bormann quote is still there on the main page at 18.48 GMT.

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