Think left-wing media bias is bad in America?

A warning from our elder cousins: the BBC admitted (after it was caught in the act) sending three microphone-equipped hecklers to disrupt a Tory party political function. The BBC, in its defense, claims to be gathering material for a program(me) on the "history of political heckling," and that the hecklers in question were not BBC employees or managed by the BBC in any way.

OK, let's assume what the BBC says is true. You're filming hecklers at a Tory event--do you really need to pull the vocal ones aside beforehand, tell them they'll be part of a TV show, fit them with microphones, and send them into the crowd? Seems to me that you want to be sure there will be a to-do at the event where you have your cameras, and what better way to increase the odds than by the old plant-the-partisan trick?

I salute the cleverness. But don't think that there aren't elements in the American political landscape that will take this ball and run with it.