The origins
of dirty tricks go way back to the 18th century during American presidential
elections, including Thomas Jefferson. Even back then it was a journalist who was involved in
the slandering. Any surprise? However, the modern-day DTD (Dirty tricks dept.)
owes its evolution to Richard Nixon.
Most would frown if I said the infamous Watergate scandal had precious little
to with the Watergate burglary but that is the truth. The real thing was the
massive DTD operation that included the White House, the intelligence agencies,
the FBI and also some parts of the media. In
short, Nixon corrupted the entire establishment for his political benefit.
Nixon’s DTD used campaign money to destroy opponents. A part of the infamous
DTD operation was called “RatF***ing”.
Under this programme fake letters and documents were created to tarnish Nixon’s
opponents. A famous letter being the ‘Canuck’
letter which falsely discredited Edmund Muskie who pulled out of the 1972
presidential race. Canuck was meant to be a racial slur for Americans of
French-Canadian origin. All these operations were funded by Nixon’s campaign
funds. Does all this ring a familiar
bell in India? Here’s more from the Watergate days, something even more
dangerous:
George
Wallace who was campaigning in the presidential race was shot by one Arthur Bremer.
Nixon & Co. wanted to discredit George McGovern (another Democrat
presidential-race candidate) by planting his campaign literature in Bremer’s
house so that McGovern could be linked to the shooting of Wallace. This and
many other such dirty tricks are what Watergate is all about and not much to do
with the break-in at the building itself. The Watergate burglary was a mere
cover-up and distraction. In the end Nixon won the 1972 election but had to
resign in August 1974. For a decade now,
this is what is going on in India to discredit one single man; Narendra Modi.
And when the chance presents itself to discredit other BJP or Opposition
members. As with Nixon, the entire establishment in India is put to work for
this singular goal.
So what
exactly does the DTD do? A) It
discredits the opponent to an extent that his supporters withdraw their
support. B) Even if it doesn’t
discourage the supporters it pushes them into apathy so that they don’t vote
and there’s a low voter turn-out. C)
Phenomenal amount of money is poured into the Mainstream Media so that they are
co-opted into the DTD and gladly indulge propagating lies and D) Encourage all NGOs, Activists and
sundry crusaders with money to indulge in mud-slinging and spurious court
cases.
You can keep
expanding this list. Where the media is concerned DTD is also used to black out important news items on
corruption of the ruling party or other news damaging to them.
Almost
everybody is aware of the Teestas, Shabnams, Mallikas, Tehelka Sisters, Top
Cops, Rajdeeps, Barkhas, Sanghvis, Sreenivasans, Arnabs, Nidhis and assorted side-kicks
who have been in the business of targeting Modi. But in the last few months,
with general elections approaching, the MSM has become even shriller in this
campaign of DTD. The TOI group has been leading from the front with many
spurious articles about Modi starting with the “Rambo Act” story for which they apologised. Then another writer of
TOI wrote nonsense about Arun Jaitley
and apologised. A few days back they ran another fake story about BJP spokie Smriti Irani walking out of a programme
in the US because of a snub to Modi. There was nothing of that sort. It was
pure unadulterated lie. Take a look at these two tweets:
In the first
one on top Smriti proves with a letter from the US organisers of the programme
that the TOI report was bogus. Alright! What happens later? Rahul Kanwal allows Abhishek Singhvi to
repeat the nonsense on his programme knowing well that the story was bogus but
later replies to Smriti that the charge seems bogus. How clever, isn’t it?
First he knowingly allows the bogus charge on his show and doesn’t call it a
lie but later tweets that he is aware it was bogus. Lie BIG, Retract SMALL! That’s a rule under the DTD.
Prior to
this, for 10 days the media was busy chasing Asaram Bapu over a molestation case. They shouted rape even when
the case wasn’t about rape. The MSM desperately tried to link the Asaram
witch-hunt to Modi but failed to get a connection. The witch-hunt was similar
to those of Nitin Gadkari and N. Sreenivasan. We have to wonder what the media
was covering up in this non-stop screaming and chasing. After that died down, on
September 3 morning, Ajay Maken held
a presser screaming his head off over a suddenly discovered CD which claims BJP spokie Prakash Javdekar and
some other BJP members were trying to cover up prosecution of the encounter
case relating to Tulsiram Prajapati. The sting was reportedly made some 10
months ago and the CD suddenly surfaces with the Congress on September 3. That
took up the first part of the day and then died when another blast came up
suddenly. This was accused Gujarat IGP D.
Vanzara’s resignation letter complaining against Gujarat govt, Amit Shah
and Narendra Modi for not protecting the cops involved in encounters.
Can you
believe the media’s luck? Even on a bright day they would be delightfully
climaxing if they could lay their hands on something small to target Modi with
and here they had two in a day. Call it multiple…? Now, I have not known this
Vanzara to be so fluent and poetic in the English language to write a 10-page
resignation. Who in hell writes a 10-page resignation letter anyway? Never mind
that. But it does seem that the letter was dictated or drafted by someone else
and signed by Vanzara. That should be enough, even if Vanzara didn’t write it
he signed it so he owns it. He also sends a copy to the CBI “for information”.
What the media fails to tell you is that if
Vanzara has complained so much it clearly means that the Gujarat govt or Modi
are not protecting any of the accused cops or interfering in the
investigations. This disproves the entire theory so long held by the Congress,
the propagandists in the media and sundry bootlickers like Tehelka and others.
But Maken wanted Modi to resign because the CD (made by a fake-sting specialist
called Pushp Sharma who has been arrested before for such fake stings) to avoid
interference in the investigations.
Naturally, I had to tweet and ask this question
that given the logic that Maken applies who should be the people who should
really resign? A CBI officer wants to even examine the PM on the Coalscam but the boss says ‘not now darling’. The current DTD works a two-way street. First,
the media desperately wants to slander Modi and BJP, led by the TOI group, and
second cover-up all the bad news for and about the Congress party.
In the last
few days there wasn’t one single mention of a Delhi court ordering an FIR
against CM Sheila Dikshit for misuse
of public funds in her 2008 election campaign. The Delhi Lokayukta has already
indicted her for this. Yet, not one news channel carried the news or reported
it. When they finally reported on September 4, the report lasted all of 2
seconds. Flash! And gone! Here is where the people get luckier. Although the
court ordered an FIR the Delhi Police doesn’t want to file one. It obtained a
stay against the lower court order. Oops! This is a lot like that Imam Bukhari who hasn’t been arrested
for many zillion years despite a non-bailable warrant on his head. And they
will tell you the law is equal for all. The justice-loving folks at NDTV,
CNN-IBN, TimesNow and others don’t even have the guts to talk about Bukhari. Of
course, they are scared of the swords that might smite their necks and bodies
and the raids that will burn their offices down. Applause! Sheila Dikshit stays
on despite being indicted but Modi should resign because every Soma, Salma, Sabrina, their
aunties and uncles make allegations.
Then the
other important thing that is being covered up is the Telengana mess. For over 30 days there are strikes, bandhs and some
riots continuously on in Andhra Pradesh. The national MSM has completely
blacked out the news. From what I hear the News Broadcaster’s Association (NBA) which I call the Union of Snakes has decided not to
broadcast any news about the Telengana-Andhra agitations and strikes. Do you
need a govt censor anymore? When the poodles in the media themselves decide to
censor news you know they are part of the DTD and not entitled to call
themselves editors and journalists. Timesnow, NDTV, CNN-IBN, HeadlinesToday and
the rest only have “self-styled” editors who do the bidding of Bharat Nirman. For
over a year the Thorium scam was
being relayed on Twitter but no one in the MSM paid attention. Suddenly TimesNow scored it as ‘Breaking
News’ with 60-lakh crore ‘Nuclear fuel
scam’ and now it has been put back in the closet again. 60-lakh crores? That would be the greatest scam in the
history of the world. But you won’t hear much about it any further from the
MSM. Cover-up!
Here is
something even more dangerous that is not being reported or discussed on any
news channel. A serious election roll fraud was being perpetrated with fake
lists and ID cards. This is in Delhi with the elections just around the corner.
The report was carried in MailToday
which is a foreign-collaboration outlet. This is a pic from the article that
summarises the scam:
It’s not
just Delhi but we are nearing a general election. The question is why are these
electoral or document frauds happening in Congress ruled states? Our media is not interested in finding out who is behind
this fraud and who should be resigning. Ajay Maken obviously won’t ask that
question. Surprisingly, even the Opposition is not making any noises about it.
This fraud is prevalent in many states where illegals are being given ID cards,
passports and legalising their citizenship. The MSM covers up these crimes.
Money can buy anything now; it can buy fake allegations and witch-hunts and it
can buy silence. There’s another thing about DTD. One must not miss how the
language and terms used by the MSM are indistinguishably uniform in nature. “Self-Styled Godmen”, “Letter-Bomb”, “Fascist”, and more! This is called “Dog-whistle politics”. Under dog-whistle politics the terms
are handed out to the media to repeat over and over again till the wrongful
perception is entrenched among the masses. Keep calling the BJP “communal”
every day is a message handed out to the MSM and you can see the usage and the
effects. Keep repeating “Self-styled Godmen” as a campaign to tarnish all Hindu
spiritual leaders in one stroke, even if only one or a few are accused of wrong
doing. Don’t miss this “dog-whistle”
trick.
Vinod Mehta
writes in Times of India
(where else!) in defence of Sonia Gandhi:
“I have not in the last ten years at least, witnessed
one individual being subjected to this kind of concerted assault”.
Really? This big Luknowi Moron must either be blind, deaf or stoned. In the
history of India there isn’t one single politician as vilified, maligned
without evidence and held guilty without any trial as Narendra Modi. This is what slavery does to “Self-styled”
judges in the media. Hunting season has entered Phase-2. Welcome back!
Note: In case you missed ‘Hunting Season – Phase1’.
