There used
to be that old graphic joke that was widely circulated on the net. It was about
the bosses asking you to rate your own performance and seeking your own salary
raise. All you had to do was click a button and fill up a form. Only problem
was that when you tried to click the button it moved away and your cursor or
mouse kept chasing the button all over the screen till you realised you’ve been
pranked. Most of us have been pranked with it sometime or the other. This prank
became popular in the political domain to ridicule election candidates. For the
last 2 centuries there’s a website
that lists all of Rahul Gandhi’s achievements and those of his ancestors; www.rahulgandhiachievements.com.
It’s a ‘comprehensive guide’ to all of RahulG’s achievements in life as the
site’s tagline says. Not happy with this, the Congress eNREGA team members (a
team now headed by Shashi Tharoor) came up with a counter-site called NarendraModiPlans.Com. This was
about NaMo’s plans if he were to become PM. This is how it looked with the ‘Get
Details’ button as the prank.
The site has
since been pulled but it was just a humorous site to ridicule NaMo and there wasn’t
anything wrong in it. After all, politics without ridicule and humour is no fun
at all. Such gentle humour, even if offensive to some, must always be welcomed.
Even politicians take pride if gentle fun is poked at them. Only the most
worthless and useless politicians would have no humour directed at them. The
only thing that is murky about this site is that it seems some media cronies
were hand-in-glove with the ones who created the site. Our very own Scoopendra Chaubeji of CNN-IBN was among the first to tweet
about the site and publicise it. He must have discovered the site through his “sources” through which he routinely scoops
a lot of breaking stories. We can now reasonably suspect that CNN-IBN is part
of the Congress’ eNREGA social media team. So once the NaMo fans traced the
site’s builders, the ones who put up the site pulled it and now it’s gone. What
a pity!
Not just
that. The site’s creator started playing victim and claimed being threatened
and so on. That is the real nonsense part. Some people may be annoyed with such
humour (that’s the intention) but nobody would go as far as threatening someone
for a silly site. You see, even Ruchica
Tomar of Headlines Today was
disappointed. She then tweeted that the RahulGandhiAchievements site was also not
working. This site has been blank for the last 200 years or so and we are all
waiting for it to fill up someday in 2150 when RahulG is likely to mature and
have some achievements to his credit. But what raises suspicion of media folks
being involved in the NaMo plans site is the sympathy and outrage of the original
media-bimbo and she tweeted thus:
The absolute
category-5 moron that she is, Sagarika
Ghose half the time doesn’t think before she writes or says anything. Observe
carefully. She equates attacks on UPA
with attacks on Modi. This is how she keeps giving us proof over and over
again that God too can be lazy and forgot to bestow her with some brains. The
UPA is an entity and a political alliance which is the ruling party and Modi is
an individual. How does attacking an
entity like UPA get to be equated with attacking an individual? But that is
their carefully crafted crime. When it comes to UPA or Congress they will
attack the party or alliance. They will
not attack Sonia Gandhi who is responsible for the entire mess that the
country is in. But when it comes to Modi, individual attacks on him, tarring
him, mindlessly discrediting everything he says is game for them. For the whole
sequence of the story just read @sureshnakhua’s
storified piece.
This is why
it is right for NaMo supporters to lampoon this bimbo and the entire media for
selectively targeting Modi as an individual but mildly targeting the party in
power (UPA) when it comes to Sonia Gandhi or Rahul Gandhi. I’ve said before,
the moment they mention “Gandhi” our media celebs pee in their pants and
skirts. And if CNN-IBN is busy perpetrating lies can their colonial cousins be
far behind? These Macaulay sisters never miss a chance. Here’s NDTV once again deleting a page from
their website. “Love
has this nasty habit of disappearing overnight, your lips are moving, I cannot hear…
You don’t look different but you have changed, I’m looking through you, you’re
not the same”. That describes NDTV’s frequently disappearing pages
perfectly. Doesn’t it? **
NDTV posted
a spurious report about the Hyderabad rally of NaMo where there is an entrance
fee of Rs.5 to listen to his speech. Of course, if not for anything else, at
least NaMo’s speeches are a treat for anyone. I’m sure even their group-editor
Barkha Dutt secretly watches and listens to his speeches and wishes she had
such popularity instead of the tag of Radia-girl. Okay, here’s what they
posted:
Isn’t that a
typical NDTV headline? Now this fraud-loving channel also acts a mouth-feeder
to the Congress party and it’s spokies. Naturally, Manish Tewari started barking early on about how Modi is lower
priced than cinema tickets and how this act of his shows blah blah. Everyone
quickly joined in to condemn Modi and BJP for reducing politics to mere
commerce. Although, I sincerely wonder if anyone would pay to even see Manish
Tewari dancing as a bar-girl. There is simply no worth in anything he utters,
just as most reports of NDTV must be treated with suspicion. Nowhere in this
NDTV report does it mention that the Rs.5 was a token collection for the Uttarakhand Relief Fund. It’s a first
in Indian politics that people are willing to pay to listen to a politician.
Usually, the Congress is known to pay people and feed them food to attend their
rallies. No wonder it shocks them and the likes of Manish Tewari.
However, in
their enthusiasm to condemn Modi with lies both NDTV and the Congress forgot
something. It was Mahatma Gandhi who
started the practice of raising funds by charging a small fee for his
autograph. Well, he used to charge Rs.5 too. If you do a minor math you will
also realise that Rs.5 in the Mahatma’s would probably be as good as Rs.500 in
the current times. His grandson, Arun Gandhi, writes that he used to help in collecting these funds. So like
the impatient fools that they are, both NDTV and Congress, particularly Manish
Tewari, indirectly ended up lampooning the Mahatma too. When the facts came out
all these charlatans scrambled back into the holes they crawled out from and
NDTV once again deleted a report.
The Macaulay
sisters, NDTV and CNN-IBN, will continue to peddle their lies and their mischief
till Elections 2014. They desperately want Modi and the BJP to lose because, as
Modi himself puts it, their “Roji-Roti”
comes from abusing him. That these colonial cousins will faithfully do for
their bosses. After ending up with egg on their faces, the Congress, NDTV and CNN-IBN have now to deal with a new site called UPAPlans.Com. Enjoy!
** Lyrics from the song “I’m looking through you”
by The Beatles.
