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Donald Trump, Gurpatwant Pannun and the duplicity and hypocrisy of the Western media – Firstpost

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Donald Trump, Gurpatwant Pannun and the duplicity and hypocrisy of the Western media – Firstpost

Readers First post would be familiar with my frequent criticism of the hypocrisy and double standards of the Western media. What never ceases to amaze is the depth that Western media can use to spin the stories that suit them. They can do this despite the ultimate loss of trust for one important reason.

The Western media, especially the liberal corporate media associated with the American “deep state” and the “blob”, have a near monopoly on global discourse. It is almost impossible to succeed in challenging their narratives, no matter how significant the criticism, since the media’s influence depends on American soft power, and therefore they wield enormous interpretive and nomenclatural influence. What do I mean by this?

Remember the fact that a few days ago, US presidential candidate Donald Trump was sharply criticized by almost all left-liberal media for allegedly “threatening to shoot Liz Cheney.” This is a really serious accusation. When a Republican presidential hopeful, a former White House resident, threatens to execute one of his outspoken critics, he deserves to be held accountable.

Vice President Kamala Harris, who hopes to become the first female president of the United States, wasted no time in calling for her rival to be removed from the race, saying Trump has “increased his aggressive rhetoric” and that “anyone who wants to be President of the United States, uses such violent rhetoric, is clearly disqualified and has no right to be President.”

It’s hard to disagree. Except Trump didn’t say anything like that. If we were to replay Trump’s exact comments in conversation with conservative podcaster and influencer Tucker Carlson, we might find the degree of media distortion to be incredible.

Criticizing Cheney, the lawmaker and daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, one of the neoconservatives responsible for the disastrous and morally odious Iraq War, Trump said at an event in Arizona that “she’s a radical war hawk,” adding: “Let’s put her up there with a rifle shooting at her with nine barrels, okay? Let’s see how she feels about this. You know, with guns pointed at her face.

He continued: “You know, they’re all military hawks, sitting in Washington in a nice building and saying, ‘Gee, well, let’s send, let’s send 10,000 troops straight into the jaws of the enemy.’ »

In no way should this be interpreted as a proposal to subject Liz Cheney to a “shooting squad.” And yet we have alarmist headlines from people like New York Times (Trump attacks Liz Cheney and imagines being shot with a gun) CNN (Trump Says ‘War Hawk’ Liz Cheney Should Be Shot as Violent Rhetoric Escalates Against His Opponents), Washington Post (Trump Supports Violent Rhetoric, Suggests Pointing a Gun at Liz Cheney ‘in Her Face’), Daily Beast (Trump Fantasizes about how to shoot your rival in the face), and in almost all liberal media.

This is not just a bad faith move; such blatant misinformation amounts to election interference. Media bias against Trump portrays the journalists attending the event as political operatives with press passes. This is where the nomenclature and interpretative influence of Western media comes into play.

While it is clear that these media outlets were engaged in blatant propaganda in the name of journalism to politically undermine the Republican presidential candidate, the dishonest story prompted the Arizona Attorney General to launch an investigation into Trump’s comments, and the same media outlets then applauded the development.

What I have outlined so far is just one layer of dishonesty. A second, deeper layer emerges when we compare the Western media’s treatment of Trump’s rather innocuous anti-war comments with the whitewashing of Khalistani terrorist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun’s repeated threats of violence against the Indian state, its leaders, diplomats and civilians. and repeated incendiary rhetoric about tearing India apart.

Pannun, who is at the center of a murder-for-hire plot that has roiled bilateral relations between India and the US, is a dual American-Canadian citizen whom India designated as a terrorist in 2020. In recent times, Khalistani operative Pannun, who is the head of the banned Khalistani group Sikhs for Justice, has threatened to blow up an Indian plane, issued death threats to Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann and dared Prime Minister Narendra Modi to attend a Republic Day event on 26 January without protective coating.

Note Pannun’s exact comments: “I dare Modi, you will come to Delhi without your security. If you are a popular leader, come to Delhi on R-Day without security and SFJ (Sikhs for Justice) is going to take revenge for the murder of Shahid Nijjar by hoisting the Khalistan flag…”

Pannun, a New York lawyer who is also reliably believed to be an agent of the US deep state, has a way with words and has come close to openly calling for the violent assassination of the Indian Prime Minister, but the threat is suggestive and specific character. , and threatening.

And yet the Western media has repeatedly treated Pannun with kid gloves, giving him a long rope. Frequent threats of violence and intimidating comments emanating from the Khalistani agent, who regularly holds non-binding referendums in Canada to divide India, have been muted by his First Amendment rights and exercise of freedom of speech.

Now compare the hysterical interpretation of Trump’s anodizing comments with the bland explanation of Pannun’s incendiary remarks, and you get an idea of ​​the level of deception rampant in the Western media.

It is worth noting that the Trudeau regime, which finds no culpability in Khalistani acts of violence and intimidation against Indian diplomats, political leaders or the Hindu Canadian population, and which deliberately turned a blind eye to Pannun’s atrocities, has rushed to take action. action when it comes to alleged threats against Trudeau.

In 2022, the Trudeau government charged a protester, an Ontario man, with “making threats to cause death and making threats to cause bodily harm” for participating in Trudeau’s election campaign with a sign depicting
executioner bringing the prime minister into a noose.

In this case, all the long-winded definitions of the exercise of free speech were thrown into the stormy waters of Niagara Falls.

The duplicity and hypocrisy of the Western media is obvious to everyone. Hypocrisy is a function of power. As long as India continues to become the fastest-growing major economy, it will gain economic and military power and therefore enough influence to counter the insidious narratives of the West. Until then, we need to expose every instance of duplicity and understand it for what it is.

The views expressed in the article above are personal and belong solely to the author. They do not necessarily reflect the views of Firstpost.