DISGRACE

The anti-Hindu colonial cousins who were pimping for the Congress party all this while are feeling frustrated. They were fully aware the Congress was running a corrupt govt but did all they could to white-wash their sins. Both CNN-IBN and their colonial cousin NDTV who have since given up their hopes for Congress and became AAPSucker Proxies in the last six months or so are now forced to find more innovative ways of playing out their lies and their slime. On one hand they are now more and more desperate to find mud to hurl at Narendra Modi and BJP while on the other they are finding it difficult to find anything good about Congress to tout. The new, additional, problem is they are also having to find a host of excuses and spins to defend the sins of their adopted child AAP and Arvind Kejriwal.

Let’s go first with AAP’s chief-sucker; Rajdeep Sardesai. On March 7 Arvind Kejriwal took a private chartered flight from Jaipur to Delhi to attend the India Today conclave. The reason AK offered is no other flights were available (which is not accurate). Naturally, the public and some in the media had to ask why a person who was questioning other politicians on using private jets didn’t bat an eyelid before using one himself. But such questions were all noise, rubbish and sensationalism as Rajdeep would have the world believe. Here’s what he had to first say:

Wow! RS tells us angrily that the flight was chartered by India Today so there was nothing in it. This is how perverts in politics react but then RS is no different than perverted politicians. It doesn’t occur to him that nobody said AK can’t use private jets for a reason except he himself. The terrible part is that AK knew his schedules quite well and still landed in a situation where he had to use the largesse from a media house. Had it been someone else in place of AK I am confident RS would have screamed his head off about hypocrisy. Instead, he goes on a rant about sensation and chaos which is equally prevalent in the nonsense he and his Deputy churn out with regular monotony. Fact is, RS is upset that his darling AK has been wrong-footed and on the defensive so he plays the clean-up artist on his behalf. The issue is not just who paid for the flight but the kind of luxury and Non-AamAadmi type benefits that AK had promised to shun. But hey, trust Rajdeep to support hypocrisy anytime if it is by his own darlings in politics. Had it been Modi in AK’s place Rajdeep would have puked on your screens on Twitter lines. His anger doesn’t stop there:

Someone tells him why rake up the issue when the whole world knows who paid for AK’s flight and that gets Rajdeep’s Goatnee. So all those sense, sensationalism and chaos thing go into the garbage called CNN-IBN and Rajdeep mindlessly abuses Rakhi Sawant for his miserable life brought about by AK’s unconscionable act of hypocrisy and with the rising popularity of TimesNow. So he implies Rakhi Sawant is some kind of frivolous “Item Girl” who can be equated to the Presstitutes of the media. Well, according to Rajdeep’s ethics code that is genuine “sense”. Even if that were so, maybe it would make more sense to say “Sagarikation” of journalism since the biggest moron of all in cheap, senseless journalism is none other than CNN-IBN’s Category5Moron herself. Oops! But Rajdeep’s morons are angels, others’ morons are senseless. We get it! Evidently, frustrations of a loser is building up faster than you can say ‘AAP’. The other reason for abusing Rakhi is, obviously, because she has endorsed Modi for PM. Coincidence?

If Rajdeep is frustrated can his cousins at NDTV be far behind? I guess not. On March 8 there was some story about BJP discussing seat allocation and there being some arguments over the Varanasi seat LS ticket. This was supposedly between Rajnath Singh, Murli Manohar Joshi and Sushma Swaraj over whether Modi should be given a ticket for Varanasi where MMJ is the sitting MP.  So NDTV quickly did what they always do. They put out a fake news alert about a tweet of Sushma Swaraj which was never made and then made a withdrawal. Here it is:

The Congress doormats at NDTV do not miss any chance that can target BJP or Modi and put out news that can be damaging to BJP. This one was the culmination of a decade of lies and malicious misrepresentation. Considering it was election season the BJP decided enough is enough of the nonsense of NDTV and decided to boycott the channel till further announcement.

Interestingly, even NDTV’s withdrawal of the news alert and their apology is mischievous. They tweet that Sushma didn’t tweet about a “Modi wave” which is cleverly meant to imply she says there’s no Modi wave. The withdrawal should have actually been for the part that implied “Modi is looking for a safe-seat in UP”.  NDTV should have said “Sushma did not say Modi is looking for a safe seat” but trust NDTV to be pathetic liars even in a correction. The vicious filth and manipulation that flow through this channel have finally come to a peak. Their financial crimes are also being discussed all over.

I would normally not recommend boycott of any news media no matter how much of a low-life they are. I would advise to be choosy on which discussions to participate in rather than a boycott but NDTV has taken their anti-Hindu, anti-Modi and anti-BJP filth so far that I prefer to endorse this temporary ban. In any case, I expect this channel to be buried in legal cases in the near future.

Both NDTV and CNN-IBN have been a thorough disgrace in the above episodes. It is in sync with their character. Rajdeep sinks deeper in his quick-sludge every single day. NDTV, of course, has been a disgrace all its life.

   

Reservoir Dogs

The Disrupt India Agenda:

History hangs on tiny chances. In the last 3 days Arvind Kejriwal blew his chances. They say never write off a politician but AK was never a politician. He was and is a street-thug parading in the mask of a politician as we shall see. I have written this long back and it’s worth recalling frequently: “My favourite line for deceivers has been “the mask and make-up of Chachi 420 wasn’t meant to last forever”. This mask and make-up is now peeling away faster than expected. I doubt AK ever wanted to be a CM. He probably wanted to create a revolution and be a high authority like a Lokpal or a CJI (He can’t be CJI though) or the CIC by which he could dispense instant justice, haul anyone before his court and sentence anyone without proper hearing. He wants to play Dirty Harry”. The other objective currently is to get a few seats in LS and dictate terms to everyone else. That’s right, this guy thinks he’s such a super authority that he can rush in like a storm-trooper anywhere, agitate and do dharnas anywhere and even think he is Kejri Almighty that CMs must give him audience at the drop of his topi. Let’s get past this nonsense of AAP and Arvind Kejriwal’s Gujarat drama first.

This Kejri Almighty went to Gujarat with a bunch of his goons and some assorted bunch of his Delhi-media rogues in a cavalcade without declaring his programmes or routes. After elections were announced on March 5 AK was intercepted in North Gujarat. That was trigger enough for this street thug to dance synchronised with chest-beating by the media. Here’s CNN-IBN screaming murder:

Every second and minute the morons on CNN-IBN, NDTV, Timesnow, AajTak, ABPNews, HeadlinesToday and all the other channels were quick to scream Narendra Modi had a hand in halting Kejri Almighty’s innocent drive through Gujarat where his “Boss” had asked him to do an audit of the development in the state. Lie BIG, retract small; that’s the principle these liars on news channels have always followed. None bothered to check facts with anyone. A few hours later they did find that AK was neither detained nor arrested by anyone. It was just that he was asked by the Collector concerned to advise him elections were announced and Model Code of Conduct was in force and AK would need necessary permits to carry out political activities. Predictably, this wasn’t headline anywhere but tweeted by NDTV next day (March 6). But the false news on March 5 was the exact drama that AK and his goons had desired and planned for. Within the hour SMSes were circulated to AAP members in Delhi and other places (claiming AK arrested) to assemble and protest at the BJP office in Delhi. Then followed the most unruly scenes with violence, from AAP members led by Ashutosh and Shazia Ilmi, at the BJP HQ in Delhi and other places like Lucknow and Allahabad. The BJP members retaliated too before police managed to disperse the AAP goons. Take a look at some of the pics:

The pic at top left should be of particular interest. A man called Rajmohan Gandhi, (in red box) alleged to be grandson of MKGandhi, who blabbers peace at every forum watches like a statue as his AAP goons pelt stones at the BJP office. These are the sick morons who preach in the name of Gandhi. And MoronShri Ashutosh even had the gall to say Delhi police was taking orders from Modi. The one below gets even better. The goons of AAP put up a pic on Facebook claiming Gujarat police beat up their goondas:

The text and pic in the red box is a comment which exposes the fact that the pic was from an assault on some journalist in J&K. Certainly, these AAPtards must be worse than morons if they wanted people to believe that the police handling AK in Gujarat were riot-squads in helmets. Besides, AK was halted near a highway and not inside a town with small streets and closed shops. These are the lies that AK and his goons have been peddling all along. AK’s team even broke the windshield of their own car to play victim and blame others of violence. Then on March 7, frustrated at not finding much to crib about in Gujarat, AK tried to bulldoze his way into the CM’s office in Gandhinagar with a list of questions. Naturally, the demand for a meeting was denied. The CM is not obligated to meet thugs who believe they can barge into the CM’s office anytime they want. Not one single news channel called this behaviour wrong. Not one! On the contrary there are morons at NDTV and CNN-IBN asking why Modi couldn’t meet AK. This and other incidents of street-goondaism by AK, Ashutosh, Shazia, his goons like Somnath Bharti and others end any claim of being a political party. It is now clear they have only ONE agenda: DISRUPT INDIA.

Who sponsors this agenda, who are AK’s handlers will come to public light in due course of time. But as far as I am concerned they are no more a valid political outfit. To top off hypocrisies AK flew from Jaipur to Delhi on March 7 in a private jet (pic of the aircraft model used) claiming no other flight was available (which doesn’t appear to be true). A man who has been asking others about private jets not only takes a joyride in a private jet but it’s also paid for by the media group India Today. The nonchalance in these hypocrisies by Kejri Almighty is simply stunning. Greater moral and financial corruption and hypocrisy cannot be found in political circles. AK’s bogus claims on Gujarat are not even worth talking about. His AAP member Meera Sanyal’s tweets of the last 2 years put paid to his lies. And that is that!

Reservoir Dogs:

Like I stated earlier, AK and AAP are no more a valid political party for me. They are a bunch of mercenaries with an agenda which largely seems to be to stop Narendra Modi becoming PM and generally disrupting India. It reminds me of Quentin Tarantino’s “Reservoir Dogs” (Naturally, remade in Bollywood as “Kaante”). Reservoir Dogs is the story of six criminals given the assignment of stealing diamonds. But the story is not about the robbery, it’s about what the six criminals do before and after the robbery and how they interact with each other and others outside their group. As time passes the distrust grows between each other and a cop runs into them as well. The movie has one of the most viciously violent scenes where one of the criminals chops off the cop’s ear while rocking to the gentle strain of a song. In the end they kill each other and only one gets away.

The story of AK, his sidekicks and AAP is a story before and after becoming a political party and becoming MLAs. The before story is that of an anti-corruption crusader and the after story is that of pathetic lumpens.

Arvind Kejriwal, Yogendra Yadav, Somnath Bharti, Ashutosh, Shazia Ilmi and Manish Sisodia are the six faces of AAP who are acting like Reservoir Dogs. Stunts and violence almost every week! The media cameras are on standby mode for their antics. So what exactly does Reservoir Dogs mean? Tarantino had an explanation that he had heard a French movie name sounding as reservoir dogs (Au Revoir Le Enfants). The other explanation often credited to QT is that in his hometown there was a reservoir where dogs hung around and fought others to quench their thirst. But most critics found that it was a combination of the French movie and another movie called “Straw Dogs”. So Straw Dogs (similar to the term “Straw man”) was the closest explanation. It explains it quite well. Simply put “A straw man is a common type of argument and is an informal fallacy based on the misrepresentation of the original topic of argument. To be successful, a straw man argument requires that the audience be ignorant or uninformed of the original argument”. The corruption-fighter argument is gone. The stop-Modi, distrupt-India is the after-agenda. Therefore, commonly, the term “Straw Dogs” is explained thus:

At the India Today Conclave on March 7, for which AK rushed from Jaipur to Delhi in the chartered flight, the most resounding slap came from none other than Neeraj Kumar, the former police commissioner of Delhi (who would likely have a lot of pent up anger having had to face the brunt of the street actions of AK & Co.). Watch the video (1.32 mins):

The audience voted on AK’s discussions and a majority did not see him as a politician. That is what I said in the beginning, AK is a street-thug parading as a politician. Remember, at such gatherings audiences are generally kind to the guest, as they should be. But I doubt anyone sees AK as a serious politician or AAP as a serious political party anymore. Their leaders are reservoir dogs who are on an agenda as explained before. Time will tell what exactly the agenda was, who is sponsoring it and who is funding it. Because it sure doesn’t look like these guys care for India going by their policies on Naxals, Maoists, Kashmir and many other issues. That apart, they don’t seem to have any political vision or economic vision. The only skill these reservoir dogs seem to possess is to agitate, cause violence, insult everyone else and bark loudly calling everyone else corrupt. That drama-sale reached an end on March 7. It won’t sell anymore. 

CNN-IBN's Political Conflict - Part 2

Previous part to this story, from December 2013: “The political conflict at CNN-IBN”

In a tribute to John Lennon, Elton John sang “Empty Garden” referring to Lennon as a wonderful gardener who weeded out tears and grew good crop and refers to his killer: “It’s funny how one insect can damage so much grain”. That’s true for any organisation or body. One insect is all it takes. News channels are meant to inform and educate the public. If they are into crooked acts in their kitchen, it is in public interest to know what’s going on; even if some are private business entities. Therefore, the goings-on in every news channel that claims to be doing public service are liable for scrutiny. On the flip side, every business must watch for the insects and rats that float in their offices and board rooms. Here’s a tweet from Sagarika Ghose when the Tarun Tejpal incident broke in November 2013:

Interesting, eh? “Many of us journos have faced harassment…” she says. The sick statement implies she speaks for many when she doesn’t. It implies she knows those who suffered but she didn’t speak out for them. It also implies she herself may have suffered silently. At whose hands? It implies she is some sort of “victim” too? And what does she fear? She doesn’t hesitate to slander those she doesn’t like and heap wanton abuses. After all that, she does a camouflaged “Saving Tejpal” act too.

“Aan – men at work” is a Bollywood movie loosely inspired by Brian De Palma’s “The Untouchables”. But there is a particular scene in “Aan” that shows how to put your bosses and other top leaders in a tight spot if they are a hindrance to you. That’s what Akshay Kumar does when he drops a mischievous hint to reporters on how they will be transferred if they leak names or speak up. Let’s watch the video (1.30 mins):

So Akshay Kumar gives the media a vague hint and tells them if he reveals information he and his men will suffer. This is because his boss doesn’t allow certain investigations. Clever, isn’t it? Somewhat like this tweet by Sagarika:

Oh, there is an “evil” out there stamping out free speech and silencing independent journalists who should unite. Ahem! Who is she trying to put in a tight spot? In case you aren’t aware, this tweet was made probably after a private meeting at CNN-IBN’s office between Raghav Bahl, Rajdeep and Sagarika. How do we know? Patience! We will find out. And who is this “evil” that Sagarika is hinting at? Well, presumably, the same evil that other cronies like Ashutosh and Nikhil Wagle keep ranting about: Narendra Modi. The implication is that Modi is pressurising CNN-IBN or Raghav Bahl through some other powerful people. Snitches and Rats are bad for business and healthy work atmosphere but the news media does depend on snitches and rats. It’s their job. Soon after the “evil” tweet by SG on February 7, someone promptly puts out an article with a sensational headline on February 9:

Shivam Vij who wrote that article tweeted about it. It is fair to assume Vij was not present at the meeting between the 3 senior folks at CNN-IBN. So who gave him this juicy input to put out a story? It has to be one of the 3, right? And who, among those close to the CNN-IBN couple, picks up this article quickly and makes noises about suppression of free speech? Well, that would be family friend, the Commie Ram Guha. SG was in Bangalore on February 9 for some show but didn’t meet or talk to Guha. Believable? By some strange coincidence (?), Rajdeep puts out a tweet about NaMo and Nemo on February 8 (which too was after the duo had their meeting with Bahl):

Off-TV Rajdeep is generally known to be a nice guy and I have said often that there are two Rajdeeps. So Rajdeep may have thought his tweet would be funny but it ended up being seen as more abuse on NaMo. And why not? Since simple comments and analogies by Modi have been taken out of context and twisted heavily by both Rajdeep and Sagarika all through the last many years. Consequent to the article by Vij and the alarm by Guha, Raghav Bahl was naturally angry. People in the know mentioned heated exchange of mails between Bahl and Rajdeep. To add insult to the injurious “leaked” tweet tip (and some snitching) that led to the article “Why Sagarika Ghose may no longer criticise Modi anymore...” the internal communications also seem to be leaked to some folks and it makes sorry reading and tells the story behind the whole drama by Sagarika. I will narrate from the exchanges (in brown) that happened very early morning on February 10.

Bahl to Rajdeep:

RB asks Rajdeep to see Guha’s tweet and calls Guha somebody as influential/credible as him (also one of Rajdeep’s closest professional associates), claims it is damaging. RB mentions a mail of Sagarika’s which clearly says she has never been “muzzled” over the last 8 years in N18. And RB demands that: 1 Sagarika isses a CATEGORICAL denial of this tweet; OR 2 They could release the relevant text from Sagarika’s mail to RB to the public, so that this matter is put to rest.

Rajdeep to Bahl:

Rajdeep responds by referring to the article by Vij in scroll.in, and says it is a website run by someone called shivam vij. Rajdeep quotes his tweet to vij denying any such pressures. The tweet Rajdeep is referring in his response to Bahl is the one below:

Bahl to Rajdeep

RB says Guha saying this is as good as Rajdeep/Sagarika saying this (especially since Sagarika was in Bangalore the previous day). A full, formal and unambiguous clarification/denial, of the sort that Sagarika wrote to RB should be issued, he says. And then RB says if not, the full text from Sagarika’s mail should be put out in the public domain since Sagarika’s mail so clearly implies that the truth is totally different.

Good point by Bahl. Did Sagarika meet Ram Guha while she was in Bangalore? She was doing some show at the Infosys campus as I recollect. If she hadn’t met him did she interact with him? I believe that it’s unlikely that Sagarika wouldn’t have given at least a little phone call to dear friend Guha. And why is it that Guha so deliberately puts out a tweet? Since Rajdeep and Sagarika are such “close” friends would he not care to at least ask them about the stupid article before tweeting about it? Surprising? As with the article by Vij, Guha’s tweet is also meant to deliberately embarrass Raghav Bahl and I am in absolutely no doubt about that. Let’s snitch some more. Having learned about the trouble brewing Sagarika quickly replies to Guha with a “sorry” tweet:

Rajdeep to Bahl:

Rajdeep confirms Sagarika has not met/spoken to ram in a while and that Guha is close to a few of those who run the scroll.in website which is an ideologically left website.

So all that balderdash of Guha’s leftist leanings having “lapsed” does not hold. And he’s a close friend of those running that website. Fantastic! He is still as much a Commie as he was and appears to be a willing participant in this game going around Sagarika, Shivam Vij and himself. “The boss shouldn’t be given a chance to sneeze” says Akshay Kumar in that video. Doesn’t he? And that would prevent chances of any transfers or any other action on those leaking stories to the anti-Modi brigade. Do note, Bahl is clearly indicating there should be a categorical denial by Rajdeep or Sagarika and he also implies that he would release parts of an earlier mail by Sagarika which mentions there is no muzzling at Network 18. It gets more intriguing.

Rajdeep to Bahl:

Rajdeep wonders why issue it to all media and attract even more attention to an article which has appeared on a fringe website.  Says they chose the same path when the Caravan story was published… and that response should be measured and fitted to the publication/medium on which they are used.

Bahl to Rajdeep:

Bahl claims the problem is Ram Guha’s “endorsement” – and that Guha has personally charged him by using the word “proprietor” and refuses to be so charged. Bahl’s mind is made up – either this is retracted publicly by Guha, or Sagarika, or Rajdeep  – or he shall act to clear his name. Rajdeep again gives him a reply on how to go about this withdrawal tactfully and painlessly.

Bahl to Rajdeep:

By now Bahl is furious and stops taking calls from Rajdeep. He says “I am in no mood to “talk” about this. Bahl asks an important question: how did a private conversation, known only to the three of them, get into a “leftist” website of Shivam Vij? He swears with his “hand on his heart” that he did not share it with them.

So who put out the juicy titbits to Shivam Vij? Your guess is as good as mine and it doesn’t take an Einstein to figure out. More importantly, from all the exchanges that I have read thoroughly, I have found no truth in the “Evil” that Sagarika is trying to peddle. It is true Raghav Bahl is a business man who is now more oriented towards Modi (millions of others are too) but Rajdeep says “go by our actions”. Are the mails circulating genuine? I would think they are. Going by actions alone neither Sagarika nor Rajdeep have stopped their anti-Modi shows or rants. If I remember right, there was a recent programme at Jamia where Sagarika provoked Muslim youth to heap more trash on Modi. It is important to note that even if this duo of Rajdeep-Sagarika toned down half their rants against Modi it still would amount to a huge negative campaign.

So what Sagarika was essentially doing through her “Evil” tweet is what Akshay Kumar does in that movie; to sound a warning indirectly to her bosses and the public in general about fake suppression of journalistic independence. Having tweeted that and attracted some sympathetic concern she attempts to create suspicions in the minds of people. I would read such tweets and articles (such as those by Vij) as collective “ambush-journalism”. If a deputy editor of a news channel plays so much politics over her own channel and issues inside it, then how good is the trash she delivers on TV?

Both Rajdeep and Sagarika (and probably Bahl too) have been Congress cronies all these years. When the masters had become a political liability both these people shifted allegiance to Arvind Kejriwal and AAP. What they want is not real journalism. What they want is not delivery of fair news and discourse. What they want is to trash the politicians they don’t like, peddle lies and distortions about them and promote those they think will nurture their own security and future. Don’t look too far, all this has been neatly explained in “The AAPSucker Proxies”. 

Bahl has a twin problem on his hands. Someone leaks discussions to a “fringe” website and then someone leaks mails to many media folks. He has to maintain journalistic honesty and also business profitability. Sagarika provides neither journalistic sense nor business sense. Events have shown she is not only a bad journalist but also undermining her channel by stupid statements. Whether “personal political preferences” should rule over journalistic principles is a choice Bahl will have to make. So far, it’s the public that gets a poor ride in all this. It’s funny how one insect can damage so much grain.