The Fiberal Lie-sense

Today, February 12, marks the 3rd Anniversary of MediaCrooks. From about the 8 or 9 lines I first wrote under “Time to rein in the Indian media” in 2010, I’m happy to be still here and writing. This is as good a time as any to take another look at our Fiberals.

I came across this unusual article by one TCA Srinivasaraghavan in the Hindu Businessline titled “Narendra Modi — India’s Nixon”? This appearing in a commie newspaper like The Hindu must have been an accident. TCA’s article is a well-directed missile against the so called liberals but he gets it a bit wrong when he equates Modi with Nixon and about India’s so called liberals. Let’s read a bit before we go further (edited excerpts in blue).

Few Indians today remember Richard Milhous Nixon, the 37th President of the US. He broke US law by obstructing justice and was forced to resign in 1974, halfway through his second term. Probably true but I have studied the Nixon story very closely and both Watergate and Nixon have frequently found mention on this blog, so I can claim not to have forgotten. Richard Nixon spent his last days in office 'covering-up'. Modi has been voted four times to office and is not busy with any cover-up.

Indeed, the utter illiberality of the liberals is one of the greatest paradoxes of our time. Academics have pondered long and deep over it and failed to come up with a solution. They seem as helpless as when trying to explain the depravities of the deeply devout… What happened to Nixon is very similar to what has been happening to Narendra Modi since 2002. In a nutshell, the American liberals had decided that Nixon was unfit to govern the US and went after him… In exactly the same way, the urban Indian liberals have decided that Modi is unfit to govern India. And they have been going after him, prepared like the Americans in the 1970s, to accept incompetents instead… This illiberal face of the liberals is seldom commented upon in India because if you do, the pack labels you as illiberal. That is their power… So who is a liberal, then? A liberal, by my reckoning, is a person designated as a liberal by other liberals, usually on a single communal sub-criterion. As a result, the most liberal person can be labelled illiberal by liberals and the most illiberal as liberal.

When Richard Nixon, a Republican, lost to John F. Kennedy in 1960 there were suspicions of ballot bungling in Chicago but he chose not to make an issue of it. (Oh incidentally, who do we relate ballot or EVM bungling with in India?) Then, remember, despite the liberals hounding Nixon (as TCA suggests) he won two elections and came to office in 1969 and 1973. It’s what he did towards the end of his first term that is known as the Watergate scandal. The Watergate burglary itself was just a cover. Even the reason for the burglary has many theories. While commonly accepted theory is that the burglars wanted to bug the Democratic HQ at the Watergate building, no bugs were found. So the other theory is that the burglars may have wanted to recover a damning tape, of a sex racket, that involved a top official of the Nixon administration who was also sentenced in the scandal. Nixon himself wasn't known to have anything to do with the Watergate burglary.

What the Watergate scandal did expose was the massive operation to re-elect Nixon through misuse of campaign funds and defaming opponents. The well-organised campaign to plant fake stories about opponents, tarnish their reputations, manufacture lies and scandals was internally referred to as ‘Rat-F*****g’ (RF). Now, it’s members connected to the ‘CREEP’ (Committee to re-elect the president) who were involved in these covert operations and not liberals. Our commies are carrying out exactly the same RF operation for over a decade against Modi, aren’t they? They’re not really the liberals as TCA suggests.

The covert operations included marginalising various govt bodies including FBI and various other institutions of the govt. In India, with whom do you associate the marginalisation and misuse of CBI, IT Dept, ED, Judiciary and other govt institutions? That wasn’t the liberals in America doing that operation, was it? In contrast who is doing the RF operation against Narendra Modi and other opponents of Congress in India? Not too hard to guess eh? In the end Nixon was damned by his own tapes that he secretly maintained at the White House. The other erroneous mistake that TCA (and many others) make is that they equate “liberals” everywhere. The liberals or liberalism in the US has nothing in common with those calling themselves liberals in India. The first and biggest difference is freedom of speech. The US First Amendment provides for complete freedom of speech, the Indian liberals will never subscribe to such a freedom for anyone but themselves. When Obama won the recent elections our commie idiots celebrated as if the “liberal” win in the US is equivalent of a Congress win in India. In reality, neither the Congress party nor our so called liberals have anything in common with American liberalism.

What passes off as the liberal view in India is essentially the Communist view. Whether it’s text books, history books or the mainstream media it’s the communists and not liberals who have populated these areas. The commies suffer from a severe disease of intolerance of any view that does not match with their ideology. The Congress is pretty much a communist party which is why it gets on better with the CPM/CPI than with any truly democratic, liberal party. Given years of oppression and suffering of masses, most Indian political parties have a communist and socialist ideology. Consequently, the word “Socialist” was inserted into to our constitution.

One of the fundamental principles of a liberal is that s/he is strongly in opposition to monarchy and dynasty. Are our liberals anything like that? Those who call themselves liberals are mostly slaves of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty and other political dynasties. So TCA is wrong to even tag them as liberals. I call them Fiberals, which is far more appropriate. They pretend to be liberal and fib all their lives because they possess the lie-sense. So it’s not true liberals but commie Fiberals who are hounding Modi. Just look at the campaign by the likes of Aakar Patel and Ram Guha. Theirs would qualify to be categorised under the ‘RF’ operation during Nixon’s re-election campaign.

I had mentioned to Newslaundry that if I were to criticise Modi and Gujarat I would have been a panellist on many channels. It will surprise many that this blog doesn’t criticise any CM or any state. Isn’t that how Aakar built his career? From ranting against Modi in some ordinary rag he is now a regular TV panellist and to add to his Modi-hating resume he now runs a dedicated series on Modi in DNA newspaper. If that is not RF, what is? Look at the headline from NDTV. A separatist is a “moderate”? By what liberal measure is any separatist a moderate? It’s pretty much a communist idea that Arundhati Roy, friend of Yaseen Malik and Maoists, will agree to. In the US you may not be prosecuted with speeches that Yaseen gives but if he were to act and invoke people to secede he would be prosecuted for treason and sentenced to death. But for NDTV this guy who hangs out with Hafeez Saeed, a terrorist and enemy of India, is a moderate. And why is Malik with Saeed? To protest the hanging of another terrorist, Afzal Guru!

Who’s the likely beneficiary of the hate campaign against Modi? It is obviously a party that runs more like a monarchy which should have been the natural enemy of liberals. In India, the liberals are in love with this monarchy which is why the term “liberals” is a fake tag. Fiberals is the right tag. Let’s have some fun. Let’s see the definition of liberals by the Fiberals. There’s Rajdeep’s tweet about Salman Taseer, the Pak politician who was killed. Isn’t that a perfect definition of Rajdeep’s liberals? Sure I’m picking funny tweets but Rajdeep isn’t really joking. Umm… that’s the general definition of a liberal by our media standards. Wine, women and…RF?

Next, the other thing that a liberal believes in is absolute freedom of speech. S/he either responds to such speech or ignores or switches off speakers that don’t suit the liking. But no, our liberals want others to simply shut up so that they can have their monopoly on crap everywhere – On TV, in print, on Facebook, on Twitter; everywhere. And when they don’t like it they go to the extent of calling them trolls, uncouth, violent (on Twitter?). They want these trolls to shut up when they can very well use the block button as suggested. And, of course, these TV morons will complain about anonymous accounts on Twitter or FB but will gladly follow many anonymous accounts themselves. They wallow in this nonsense. Hardly liberal!

The biggest sign and identification of these liberals in India is their badge of hatred for anything Hindu or connected to Hindu culture. Hindus, Hindu icons, Hindu rituals and practices are all fair game for hatred for these Fiberals. But hey, mention the Religion of Peace or Christianity and they will all crawl under some stone. Their mouths and pens get zipped. The sword scares their pens! So TCA in The Hindu got it a bit wrong although his article was well-intentioned and technically correct. Those hounding Modi are NOT liberals. They are commie slaves to a monarchy. That’s what they are flanking and protecting. And they do so using the RF technique which involves heavy-duty lying. That’s the reason I call them Fiberals with a lie-sense. Some of them are paid, and showered honours too, for their services. 

 

The Obaminables

And so the US election has come to pass and Barack Obama has been re-elected for another term. As they often like to report in Indian elections; no violence or booth capturing was reported and nobody died. The thrill in our Indian media over the elections and particularly the victory of Obama was predictable. Then everyone had specialists, of course, to answer the eternal question “What does it mean for India”?

I mentioned in my previous post that I got most of my education from the Asterix comics. Our MSM will tell you how multi-cultural and diverse the US population is and how their society is changing. But actually Indians, we are more like the Gauls. Every free minute we have, we love to have a good fight. We fight over every silly thing till we knock the senses out of each other and then, like the Gauls, we get together and have a great party and meal after every big fight. There’s a small difference though, the Gauls had the good sense to tie up Cacofonix. We don’t have any such luck with our very own Cacofonix. There are some major differences. No matter how much the Gauls fought each other the moment they saw the Romans they were all united. They had one leader, one voice and the willingness to defend their little village at any and all costs. Their Druid had the magic potion, our druid (MMS) is still searching for a magic wand. And we have a Roman amongst us. But the folks in our MSM constantly want us to wonder why we can’t be like the Americans instead of the Gauls. (By the way, some Romans will be playing Cricket in our land soon). Folks in our MSM even love our enemies and frequently host them on their channels. So what does Obama’s victory mean for India? I can educate you… but hey, let’s hear from the experts.

This guy who goes by the title of Ashish Dikshit sends out a tweet thanking America. He’s an assistant editor in IBN Lokmat. Don’t laugh, he seriously is. I guess he was thanking America in the hope that they will save India from Hindu extremists. Well, he was the one who tweeted that Hindu extremists were behind the last Pune blasts (I say last because there has been a series and who knows..). And when confronted with his stupidity the man tweeted the Pune case is still sub-juicy. I mean, it’s now in the courts or something but he figured out before the police or the investigators that it was Hindu extremists. Wonder how he got the juice then. For Marathi viewers of TV this is the guy and his channel that brings the most intelligence to their homes.

What about the acclaimed author Ashutosh? Well, if not for this guy you wouldn’t understand the significance of Americans rejecting the Roman. Mitt ‘Romany’ that is! Asterix was right; everybody seems to hate the Romans. Even Americans! And as a keen observer of American society he delivers the profound observation that they are “reinventing” themselves. So like Surf or Vim you can expect to see a “New, Improved America”. Now you wait and watch how the world is washed with this new “reinvented” stuff. There’s hope.

Michelle Obama, the lovely first lady, stuck to CNN-IBN all night and watched the results and analysis. She knew her hubby would win but not why. So she was glued to Rajdeep’s deep analysis of the results and then tweeted: ‘When it comes to political analysis, Rajdeep Sardesai is Numero Uno’. I totally agree. A regular reader of this blog was more honest. LakshmishaKS tweeted: “@sardesairajdeep Thank you for your analysis and providing such minute details of the US elections, was really helpful for my life”. There, you see, Rajdeep has changed the lives of many with his deep analysis. I guess he'll miss the sarcasm and pat himself on the back.Then you did have the monk’s profound wisdom to our political parties to be more “inclusive”. The rate at which this term is being abused we might soon have a ‘Ministry of Inclusive’. Ah well, if the Numero Uno can dish out such wisdom can the Numero Unee be far behind?

So our very own Cacofonix, also the greatest Social Genius since Al Gore invented the Internet, first suggests that Whites are not enough (read Hindus are not enough) and it’s important to reach out to minorities. A little later the journalistic-bimbo found Indians in the US are fulminating against the ‘minority politics’ of Obama. She asks if Indians aren’t a minority in the US and so why they complain. You know, it’s hard to crack into certain skulls that involving minorities and ‘minority politics’ are two different things. Besides, she doesn’t get into her thick skull that the Indian minority is not the same as ‘THE minority’. The Indians who may be complaining about ‘minority politics’ are probably talking of ‘illegal Bangladeshis’ in America or that minority which is permanently in the ‘victimhood’ mode. I don’t care really as long as Obama finally amends the US Constitution to make ‘female orgasm’ a Fundamental Right.

It’s not over until the fat lady sings they say. I don’t want to go into what that means but I only know that any democratic, liberal, inclusive, inspiring and instructive exercise in the US has important lessons for India. Oh.. and it’s not so much who won, like Ravi Shastri would say “Democracy is the clear winner’. Barkha Dutt echoes Ashutosh on changing societies, changing elections and how the cynical Indian must learn to vote. So please, all of you cynics, now that you’ve seen Obama win with inclusiveness, dynamics of society and understood the instructive lessons from the US, please do vote. Okay? These tweets and the analysis one saw on TV are just personal opinions and harmless really. But it does show up one thing for sure. It once again confirms the fact that our media morons have as short a memory as they accuse the general public of. Five years ago, these very pundits explained how Mayawati had found a magic formula in “social engineering”. How she won the elections by getting together Dalits, Muslims, Jains, Sikhs, Hindus, Yadavs, Brahmins, Kurmis.. In short, she put together a ‘Rahul Gandhi’ in each constituency to win the UP elections of 2007. Five years later she is cooling her specially flown heels somewhere. The media morons also ignore the US history. In the past 50 years there are only four presidents who have not been re-elected. Let’s estimate the reason behind each of them.

JFK’s successor Lyndon Johnson didn’t get re-elected in 1968 because he chose not to run again. The Vietnam war had drained him. Gerald Ford didn’t get re-elected in 1976 because his predecessor, Richard Nixon, had left the cross of Watergate hanging around the neck of the Republican presidency. (Ford was never directly elected President he took over from Nixon as he was VP). Jimmy Carter didn’t get re-elected in 1980 because of the terrible events of Iran. 60 Americans were held hostage in the US embassy in Iran for 444 days and Carter had a botched rescue attempt to boot. It is unlikely Americans would forgive such a thing. We do, with all the Indian hostages that Somali pirates take. The hostages were released on the day the next president, Ronald Reagan, took oath. George Bush Sr. didn’t get re-elected in 1992. This was after 12 consecutive years of Republicans. It’s not very hard to understand wanting change, especially with the flamboyant Bill Clinton as candidate, whose oratory skills, (oratory that our media gushes over) are far superior to Obama’s. Even the much lampooned George Bush, who won a controversial election in 2000, won his re-election with a thumping majority in 2004. So two Democrats and two Republicans were never re-elected. What’s this big deal about Obama?

Our so-called experts forget one thing. Even Americans strongly vote on religious lines. Mitt Romney is a Mormon. He is not of the Christian/Catholic denomination that George Bush was. So whether Whites, Blacks, Hispanics or “minorities” that still remains an important factor. So, all this talk of changing society or “inclusiveness” is not something that has suddenly happened in this particular election. This is the load of BS which is being passed on. The second thing is, unless something terribly bad happens, as with Jimmy Carter, most US presidents do get a second term and nothing dramatically unusual in Obama’s case too.

Now, as far as this bunch of media morons, whose ever-loving admiration of democracy and “inclusiveness” is overflowing, they really need to worry if they are doing the jobs they are meant to do instead of orgasming over the US elections. Closer home, a petition has been filed by one Prabhat Pandey in UP (see TOI report). His lament is that he wasn’t allowed to file his nomination to contest Dimple Yadav. Now this Dimple is the wife of UP CM Akhilesh Yadav. She won the Kannauj election for a seat in the Lok Sabha. Uncontested! Congress, BJP, BSP and other parties colluded to let her win the election. That, is the biggest crime in democracy. None of these democracy-loving celebs who lecture the world on democratic values held a single debate or program to condemn the political parties who allowed this crime to pass. There was neither a protest nor any kind of discussion on any TV channel in what should be seen as a malpractice in a democracy to allow candidate go uncontested. In a similar situation in the US, Michael Moore, documentary film maker and activist, put up a plant ‘Ficus’ to challenge an uncontested candidate. (See all 3 parts of the film on Youtube). His sarcastic take says it all.

So all this blabbering by our media celebs has nothing to with India or even democracy. It’s nothing more than what they perceive is their own liberal lifestyle. In fact, they stand for the worst form of dictatorship and cronyism one will ever find in the democratic world. The only thing they value is their own freedom and liberty to utter nonsense day in and day out. For the moment they are starring in “The Obaminables”, few days or months later they will once again “evolve” the Gandhi. 

From My Inbox To Fib-erals

Here’s classic prose: “We Jesuit-educated, English newspaper-reading citizens who are “hostage to the Delhi-based bogus Left-liberal commentariat”. Also, apparently, the “drum-beaters of the Establishment”. This description of us is from the mission statement of the just-launched Niti Central, a news website promoted by Friends of the BJP…  and funded by Rajesh Jain, one of the country’s most well-known Internet entrepreneurs (he sold his company for Rs. 499 crore in 1999 to Ramalinga Raju who was arrested for fraud a decade later)”. Ahem! That is someone who goes by the name of Priya Ramani, writes columns for Livemint (“We the endangered people” September 8). The article is not very different from how Prakash Karat defends political murders by CPM goons. Rajesh Jain who funds NitiCentral also sold something to Ramalinga Raju who was arrested for fraud and therefore NitiCentral is born out of blood-stained money I suppose. Clever, very clever, isn’t it?

I get some mails every day. Most of these have compliments, suggestions, links to articles or incidents worth covering on this blog. I will share some of these mails and also some tweets from those in the media as we go along. Here’s a mail I received from a self-confessed “elite”, also a fan of this blog, who mentions the Delhi circle of ‘crème-de-la-crème’ doesn’t accept my articles too well for some reasons. (No reference to Ramani). Frankly, I don’t expect them to, no matter what. 

The mail further states that my being from Gujarat makes the posts suspect for them. (Er.. tainted like RajeshJain-funded?) Ah well, given their persuasions it would snow in Gujarat in May if the same posts were to be written from Kumbakonam I suppose. Still, the writer of the mail seemed to argue my case with friends. My reply was:  What is written is more important than who writes it. And my added advice to this friend was not to argue for me: “It’s better to lose an argument than lose a friend”. That’s a value system. Values can change, principles are enduring.

Here’s a tweet from someone who calls herself a columnist. Not exactly a big celebrity, but a columnist is mostly an “Opinionist”. Yeah, a lot like Ramani. Although the tweet wasn’t to me it refers to MediaCrooks and suggests undisclosed profiles lack courage. My response to that is also given. The reason I have blacked out her name is that this could have come from any of those media celebs who use this line when they run out of rationale. In just a few minutes this pompous, opinionated columnist will discover what some journalists on the ground really think. Come to think of it, the nation owes a great debt to the person who leaked the Radiagate tapes. That’s an anonymous person who hasn’t been identified. Imagine, if instead of Simon Denyer of WaPo someone called Maneetar Dumbari had written the same “tragic figure” article in a newspaper in Bihar, the media or PMO wouldn’t even have heard of it. That’s true, our elites are so steeped in the celebrity cult that any view counts only if it has a “tag” on it. That’s when commie-liberals, no Fib-erals, stand up and take notice. 499 Crores does get the attention of Priya Ramani. Doesn’t surprise me!

Over a decade ago I read a book about P&G, one of the most respected companies in the world. It was titled “Winning with the P&G 99” by an ex-employee, Charles Decker. The book deals with the 99 principles that made and keep P&G a great company. I have never forgotten some of those principles and here’s one of them:

“The prevailing attitude (in P&G) is that WHAT is right is far more important than WHO is right. Facts, truth, logic have far more authority at P&G than any individual” --Brad Butler, former P&G Chairman.

It’s a principle that is imprinted in my mind. Which is why I also hold the principle that what is written is more important than who writes it. This blog rarely relies on mere opinions. The posts attempt the best to use hard, indisputable facts. But since logic and reason don’t work with prejudiced minds this site also generously uses sarcasm, humour and gentle ridicule. But hey, facts, logic, truth aren’t for our supposed MSM journalists most of whom neither have principles nor values. Facts, truth, logic have far more authority at P&G he says. In his G+ Hangout, Narendra Modi made an important point. “Criticism needs research. In absence of that it will be just allegations”. Because our media celebs don’t research and merely peddle opinions, there is a consistent and glaring disconnect that is easy to expose. Naturally, it makes them feel “endangered”.

Here’s another mail. This one is from a mainstream journalist as he refers to himself. He says “don’t tell anyone… I might get fired”. He’s a Journalist, not an opinionated columnist like the tweeter and Ramani earlier.That’s the life journalists who are not celebs live. I don’t know him and he doesn’t know me either. I guess the man must have checked up the whole internet to find out who I am, where I live and what dark organisations I am associated with before he wrote to me. Haha! That’s what media celebs are scared of – simple facts and truths. But the hardworking journalists on the ground know what they go through, how their voices are suppressed or their notes twisted.

Here’s another one. Surprise! Again from a journalist! Now, “detailing” is not possible unless you fact-check. You don’t have to fact-check to peddle opinions. Read the blogs and columns from most media celebs, you can easily tell they are not only very personalised opinions but also agenda-driven. The honest truth is, the journalists in the mails have simply gone by what’s written on this site and not by who writes it. That’s the true test of how good a message or article is. That will be the day when celebs in the MSM start evaluating their own values, principles and prejudices reflected in their writes and tweets.

Now here’s another principle from the P&G 99: If a decision has to be made in the absence of facts, never confuse personal opinions with informed judgment. Specifically, ''The data suggests...'' is safer than beginning with “I think” or “In my opinion”…That’s perfect advice for many of our columnists.

Now here’s a tweet that should shock those who still believe an “ID tag” is what counts if what is written has to be worth it. This is not from a follower or a fan of this blog. This is from a very prominent reporter who is on News TV almost every day. The person knows me as much as the person whose tweet I quoted first. Zero, absolute stranger! The most abused line on TV has to be: “Having said that...” Next time you hear that line you can easily identify the ‘opinionated’ hawker. Why would a reasonable person say something and then go on to say something contradictory? Even worse, if they have to say “having said that...” then why say that thing in the first place? 

So you see, the problem with our media crooks is not the identity really. It is that ordinary people can openly and courageously say the right thing freely but the crooks are bound by the agenda of the organisation they are chained to. Not facts, truth or logic! The other thing to learn is that hardworking journalists on the ground have absolutely nothing in common with the opinion-peddling, opinion-swinging celebs and anchors. There could be more surprises in store.