[Disclaimer: The sole purpose of this article is to highlight the uncanny coordination of left-media attacks on specific political leaders and ideologies, often disregarding facts and journalistic ethics. The focus is on the methods and patterns used in media coverage rather than the merits or faults of the leaders themselves. This analysis seeks to shed light on the pervasive media biases and their implications for public perception and democratic discourse.]
- Historical references to Napoleon and Marie Antoinette illustrate the enduring power of media in influencing political outcomes and public opinion.
- Both Indian and American political processes face a coordinated campaign of lawsuits, fake narratives, and relentless name-calling aimed at undermining their legitimacy.
- Indian-origin journalists in the West are highlighted as key players in perpetuating negative narratives about certain Indian political leaders, often to the detriment of India’s image.
- Research on left-wing activism suggests that some activists use political movements to fulfill ego-driven needs.
- The left-media appears to follow a consistent, global strategy to discredit leaders they oppose.
In one of his fiery speeches, Napoleon Bonaparte made a very peculiar comment on the French Revolution: “The nobility would have survived if it had known how to master the writing desk.” Meaning? Well, Napoleon insisted that the nobility was violently guillotined by the general public because they could not convince the mobs that they served a valuable role. Rather, the media of those days wholly prevailed upon the public on the futility of royal rule.
Moral of the story? Media matters the most in realpolitik when your neck is on the line.
However, the question remains: Is the writing desk sharper than the guillotine? Indeed, haven’t we seen the fake hysteria whipped up by the global media outlets on the issue of those non-existent weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, ultimately resulting in a noose around the neck of their whipping boy Saddam Hussein? Wasn’t the clamor for protecting civilians in Libya basically a facade for the underlying regime-change mission to dethrone Muammar al-Qaddafi?[1] More importantly, doesn’t the recent assassination attempt on Donald Trump belie the fact that a decade of dehumanizing bile spewed against him in the American media space has led to the radicalization of the deluded youth, one of whom allegedly got hallucinated into pulling the trigger save some lofty democratic ideal?
Activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali brands this phenomenon as ‘The Trump Derangement Syndrome’, describing it as “the climate created and cultivated by Donald Trump’s political enemies. America is polarized, toxic, and politically close to a breaking point in part because the country’s liberal political, cultural, and media elite never accepted Trump’s legitimacy as the country’s President.”[2]
As you further widen your gaze, what won’t escape your attention is the humongous similarities between l’affaire Trump and the Global Left’s approach towards demeaning and brutalizing Indian PM Narendra Modi’s reign and its fallout. The resemblance in tactics is uncanny, so much so that one can predict how the future Trump presidency will play out in the media if he is re-elected.
34 Strands of Spaghetti
Let’s face it – whatever vitriol that is being viciously sprayed on Donald Trump in 2024 has been thoroughly tested on PM Narendra Modi since 2014. It is so surreal that one might even theorize that the American Left media space has learned its tricks of the trade from the Indian Left and not vice versa. For starters, look at the standard-issue whining template that is commonly followed in all prime-time news debates on American TV: “If Trump wins an election… that our country will end, our democracy, our constitution will end, it’s the last election we’ll ever have.”[3] Does it ring a bell? This is exactly what Rahul Gandhi, the Congress party, and their attendant Left-liberal cabal have been saying all the time in India since 2014. One might wonder if the Global Left media is working from a centralized playbook, copying out these speeches and circulating them around verbatim for all democracies.
Speaking of fake manufactured news and narratives, we have already seen how the Global Left media tried to incite rebellion in India with their one-sided condemnatory reporting against PM Modi, which peaked around May 2024, on the eve of the general election
Just like sustained attempts to defame Modi, Trump is facing a barrage of multiple lawsuits, fake media narratives, questionable inquiry commissions, severe dehumanization, and relentless name-calling, equating him with Hitler, fascists, hatemongers, supremacists, and bigots. Similarly, Trump’s detractors have convinced their supporters that everything wrong in their lives is due to Trump, justifying violence against him in their minds. At the same time, even a word against his opponents is considered sacrilegious.[4] Just as PM Modi had to contend with the Ishrat Jahaan assassination plot of 2004, the Ahmedabad Bombings of 2008, the Patna rally bombing attempt of 2013, the Elgar Parishad – Bhima Koregaon Conspiracy of 2018, and the Punjab Flyover attempt on his life in 2022, Trump now faces a similar onslaught.
Speaking of fake manufactured news and narratives, we have already seen how the Global Left media tried to incite rebellion in India with their one-sided condemnatory reporting against PM Modi, which peaked around May 2024, on the eve of the general election.[5]. Similar techniques are now being employed in the ongoing American election campaign. Millions of ordinary Americans who had voted for Trump in the past and might vote for him again were told that they “threatened the very foundations of the nation.” For the two years following that speech, the insistence grew that a Trump election victory would be unacceptable. The lawfare and media campaign against him intensified, aiming to convict Trump of any crime and label him a felon, ensuring a Democratic victory. Consequently, a court in New York found Trump guilty of all 34 charges in a case that legal experts claimed would never have been brought against anyone other than Donald Trump. In essence, 34 strands of spaghetti were thrown at him, and all 34 stuck.[6]
The intention behind highlighting the toxic similarities in the modus operandi of the Global Left media is not to endorse Donald Trump or the Republican Party in any manner. Instead, it is to underscore the similarly extensive and vile propaganda being directed against PM Modi, India, and Indians worldwide.
Brown Coolies, Black Deeds
Despite many similarities between the Modi and the Trump Derangement Syndromes, there is one distinctive feature about the anti-Modi narrative. Most of it is concocted by journalists of Indian origin based in the West. By the way, have you read the Aesop tale of the tree and the ax? As it turns out, a man came into a forest and petitioned the trees to provide him with a handle for his ax. The trees consented, but once the man got a new handle for his ax, he promptly began to use it to strike down the very noblest giants of the forest, which provided him with the wooden handle. Moral of the story? Destruction can be fatal when your own lot becomes a tool in the hands of your enemies. Ergo, the Global Left’s perpetual need for brown coolies of Indian origin to rave and rant against India and Indian democracy just to make sure that the fictional fabrication looks like an organic inside job.
We have repeatedly covered and fact-checked the slimy reportage of these brown coolies who never fail to bend backward and trash their own heritage to please their Western masters – just to have a few crumbs thrown at them to validate their existence. But what is amazing about this ‘Modi Derangement Syndrome’ is that these infected rabid hacks have now sunk to such inglorious depths in their reporting that they are actually taking down the reputation of their White Masters, hitting rock bottom in the process.
Take the case of the Washington Post and its alleged ‘tech’ hack Pranshu Verma. A casual check on the timeline of this bottom-feeder betrays his bias, as his so-called reportage is a litany of lament on everything good about India and Indians. Although the Washington Post’s jaundiced coverage against all things India is well-known and often debunked,[7] their ‘Modi Derangement Syndrome’ is making more waves than their coverage. Even India’s External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar never fails to take a dig at the Washington Post’s prejudice,[8] making a mockery of their perennial anti-India slant. However, instead of a counter op-ed with a fact-based rebuttal, the Post and its pet brown minion resorted to further degeneracy by targeting social media handles, repeatedly exposing their sham reports.
As a part of his hit job against Indian social media handles that have persistently unmasked Washington Post’s agenda, Pranshu Verma reached out to an American political commentator, Jack Posobiec, in the hopes of getting some juicy gossip about the Indian handle ‘DisInfo Labs’ whose posts were evidently shared by Posobiec. “We are doing a story on a group called Disinformation Lab,” Pranshu Verma revealed in a direct message, “Our reporting shows this group combines fact-based research with unsubstantiated claims to paint U.S. government figures, researchers, Indian American human-rights activists, and international humanitarian groups as part of a conspiracy, purportedly led by global Islamic groups and the billionaire George Soros, to undermine India. Our analysis found you have retweeted this organization’s content,” he told Jack Posobiec. And without offering any evidence, he claimed, “Do you know about the organization’s background? Our research has found that Disinfo Lab is actually run by an Indian Intelligence Officer. Did you know that?” Verma expected Posobiec to rant against an undemocratic India, but his reply practically castigated the halfwits at WaPo’s helm and Verma too. “So if it’s an intel agency run-media outlet that basically makes it the same as the Washington Post, then?” wrote back Posobiec, insinuating WaPo and its minions as lapdogs of American intelligence. [9] As is his wont, Verma slyly sidestepped Posobiec’s reply and kept it out of his report, although with Posobiec putting up the entire conversation on Twitter/X, Verma and WaPo were left red-faced again. DisInfo Labs further crucified Verma and WaPo’s reputation by pointing out how their entire reportage was based on old recycled Pakistani propaganda, with an astonishing ten anonymous sources, and without a single fact.[10]
Meet Avani Dias – the South Asia Bureau Chief of Australian Broadcasting Corporation,[11] whose claim to fame happens to be her unvarnished support of the Khalistani separatist movement and her propensity to break laws and then cry victimhood.
However red-faced, WaPo is yet to apologize for its birdbrained coverage, and it took another brown sepoy par extraordinaire to bring her employer to its knees, apologizing for their blinkered reporting and blatant barefaced lies. Meet Avani Dias – the South Asia Bureau Chief of Australian Broadcasting Corporation,[11] whose claim to fame happens to be her unvarnished support of the Khalistani separatist movement,and her propensity to break laws and then cry victimhood. Dias was the apple of every India-haters’ eye recently, as she brazenly went to town claiming how the Modi government was forcing her to leave India and not allowing her to cover the elections, as her reporting supposedly “crossed a line.” Her wail went viral within her clique of India haters until a reporter from India Today dug into her story and found it malicious, mischievous, and misleading.[12] “Ms. Dias was found to have violated visa rules while undertaking her professional pursuits. Despite this, on her request, she was assured that her visa would be extended for the coverage of the general elections… and her visa was extended till the end of June the same day. She, however, chose to leave India on 20th April. She had a valid visa at the time of her departure, and her visa extension was approved.” It turns out Dias had crossed a line and stood on the wrong side of the law while her two colleagues at ABC received their due election coverage permission letters. However, Dias continued remorselessly on her mission to spin yarn in the name of journalism and carried on with her nonsensical stories – this time by fabricating another canard in the name of the Indian constitution. “She made the false claims in a video titled ‘The story behind India’s Narendra Modi’ with the objective to portray that India’s secularism was somehow in danger under the leadership of PM Modi.” However, this time, her fanciful conjectures went too far for even ABC News, who had to step in to rescue their tattered reputation and admit that the sweeping claim made by Avani Dias about ‘secularism’ being part of the Indian constitution since 1947 was patently fake.[13]
The Derangement Arrangement
Although we analyzed barely a couple of examples of brown sepoys bringing disrepute to their orgs by trying to tarnish the image of their motherland, the same behavior can be traced across various Leftist media spaces in the West, where it seems customary to bad-mouth India and Hindus as a prerequisite for being part of their cabal. The question remains: Just as Indian media orgs step up to debunk the falsities of these global mouthpieces, why don’t other reputed international global media orgs come forward to puncture the fake stories put out by some? If WaPo intentionally puts out a hoax of a story on India, why wouldn’t the NYT or WSJ take them on and set them right?
The answer is simple: Everyone is a charlatan in the Left media space, and they survive by seeking validation from each other. “The insularity of American discourse is frightening,” says Dr Kishore Mahbubani – a Singaporean diplomat and geopolitical consultant who served as the President of the United Nations Security Council between 2001 and 2002. He points to the “incestuous self-referential discourse” among the journalists of NYT, WaPo, WSJ & other US media. “They reinforce each other’s perspectives and end up misunderstanding the world.”[14] You might find this hard to believe, but most of these so-called scribes live in an echo chamber of gigantic proportions.
Everyone is a charlatan in the Left media space, and they survive by seeking validation from each other.
Then again, according to a study published in Current Psychology by Ann Krispenz and Alex Bertrams, leftist political activists do not actually strive for social justice and equality but rather use political activism to endorse or exercise violence against others to satisfy their own ego-focused needs.[15] The authors coined a new term for such psychological behavior: The dark-ego-vehicle principle. “According to this principle, individuals with dark personalities — such as high narcissistic and psychopathic traits — are attracted to certain forms of political and social activism, which they can use as a vehicle to satisfy their own ego-focused needs instead of aiming at social justice and equality. In particular, certain forms of activism might provide them with opportunities for positive self-presentation and displays of moral superiority, to gain social status, to dominate others, and to engage in social conflicts and aggression to satisfy their need for thrill-seeking.”[16]
In other words, the study on left-wing authoritarianism showed that many times, they do not practice what they so loudly preach. The research noted that social justice is often used as a guise for these activists to behave unhinged. Chumps like Verma and Dias are simply show-ponies, prancing around to seek some attention. Like their Leftist counterparts, their reportage is never about ethics, morals, integrity, honesty, or fair play; everything they write is a perfect embellishment to your nearest dustbin. And yet, one must never make the mistake of ignoring these parasites as their consistently discriminatory reportage has been known to incite lunatics into taking up arms against the likes of Trump and Modi.
‘Let Them Eat Fake’
Indeed, let’s never forget that Leftist liberalism has always been steeped in blood…as Friedrich Nietzsche said, “Liberalism is the transformation of mankind into cattle”
Returning to the French royals, one must remember that Marie Antoinette was an elegant and feminine princess. However, the early version of the media slandered her relentlessly; they printed stories and articles vilifying her family and their courtiers with exaggerations, fictitious anecdotes, and outright lies. Worst of all, they made up the lie about her, saying poor people should “eat cake.” Mind you, Marie Antoinette was a generous patron of charity and was moved by the plight of the poor when it was brought to her attention, thus making the cake statement out of character for her.[17] And yet the media brewed a storm of mob vengeance until it exploded in fury and dragged Marie to be humiliated and murdered. Her last words were “pardon” for stepping on her executioner’s foot before they sliced off her head.
Indeed, let’s never forget that Leftist liberalism has always been steeped in blood. Two and half centuries ago, they incited the mob against Marie Antoinette; today, it’s the turn of Trump and Modi to face their ire, with their unregulated reportage wrongly pushing some crazed youth into mindlessly picking up the gun. After all, as Friedrich Nietzsche said, “Liberalism is the transformation of mankind into cattle.”
Citations
[1] Zenko, Micah. 2016. “The Big Lie About the Libyan War.” Foreign Policy. https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/03/22/libya-and-the-myth-of-humanitarian-intervention/
[2] Ali, Ayaan H. 2024. “Trump Derangement Syndrome Draws Blood.” Restoration, with Ayaan Hirsi Ali. https://www.restorationbulletin.com/p/trump-derangement-syndrome-draws
[3] Malviya, Amit. 2024. “Amit Malviya on X: ““If Trump wins an election… that our country will end, our democracy, our constitution will end, its the last election we’ll ever have…” This kind of vile rhetoric against Trump led to an assassination bid. The man responsible, owes a.” X.com. https://x.com/amitmalviya/status/1812430531985891692
[4] Correia, Larry. 2024. “A year ago, here in Utah, Joe Biden was coming for a visit.” Twitter/X. https://x.com/monsterhunter45/status/1813339372600918161
[5] Sawant, Nitin. 2024. “Digital Jihad: The Rise of Anti-India Propaganda in E-Papers.” Stop Hindudvesha. https://stophindudvesha.org/digital-jihad-the-rise-of-anti-india-propaganda-in-e-papers/
[6] Ali, Ayaan H. 2024. “Trump Derangement Syndrome Draws Blood.” Restoration, with Ayaan Hirsi Ali. https://www.restorationbulletin.com/p/trump-derangement-syndrome-draws
[7] Dutta, Dibakar. 2023. “Washington Post and its hit job on ‘Disinfo Lab’: Exposing the nefarious campaign to discredit Indian OSINT handle before 2024 Lok Sabha election.” Opindia. https://www.opindia.com/2023/12/washington-post-hitjob-against-disinfo-lab-anti-india-propaganda-before-2024-elections/#google_vignette
[8] Times Now. 2022. “S. Jaishankar Takes A Dig At American Media, Slams ‘Biased’ Coverage Of India.” YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95Mjl9-9kTE
[9] Poso, Jack. 2023. “Some guy claiming to be from the Washington Post, just sent me a long text message alleging that I retweeted a post from an Indian intel agency-run media outlet.” X/Twitter. https://x.com/JackPosobiec/status/1733196605015081141
[10] DisInfo Labs. 2023. “X/Twitter.” In a long English word salad, a quarter dozen WaPo journalists in a hit piece have tried painting us somewhere between RW & RAW (no pun intended). https://x.com/DisinfoLab/status/1734430299264848077
[11] Indian Constitution – ABC News ; https://www.abc.net.au/news/corrections/2024-06-27/indian-constitution/104031664
[12] Mohan, Geeta. 2024. “Geeta Mohan گیتا موہن गीता मोहन (@Geeta_Mohan) on X.” X.com. https://x.com/Geeta_Mohan/status/1782796163437265216
[13] Sharma, Nupur J. 2024. “ABC News issues ‘clarification’ after Avani Dias lies about Indian constitution in anti-Modi documentary.” OpIndia. https://www.opindia.com/2024/06/australian-broadcasting-news-issues-correction-avani-dias-lies-about-secularism-indian-constitution-in-anti-modi-documentary/
[14] World Politics. 2023. “Singaporean Diplomat: The Insularity of American Discourse is Frightening.” YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8DrHffVcTM
[15] Alex Bertrams, Ann Krispenz. 2023. “Understanding left-wing authoritarianism: Relations to the dark personality traits, altruism, and social justice commitment.” Springer. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12144-023-04463-x
[16] Mitchell, Alex. 2023. “Left-wing extremism linked to psychopathy, narcissism: study.” NY Post. https://nypost.com/2023/05/25/left-wing-extremism-linked-to-psychopathy-narcissism-study/
[17] Wikipedia. 2016. “Let them eat cake.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_them_eat_cake
