You just have to love our MSM! The way they copy from each other is simply adorable. And one truly has to admire their efforts at indefatigably digging up ‘news’. So – to the “case study” of another perfect example of how our MSM ‘play’:
To begin: on Sunday (15th October) we have an interview on SKY TV with Henry Bolton. The interviewer asked him about his “interview with Russia Today” (RT? Really? Omigawd!) where
“he (HB) said he could strangle a badger with his bare hands: is that correct?”.
Oooh – gruesome! Bolton the badger strangler! Where’s the Animals Rights Front?
Next we observe how the whole of the British Press is homing in on this, every paper from the good old Times down to the Mirror.
Here’s The Times:
“Ukip’s new leader yesterday suggested that he could chase down a badger and break its neck with his bare hands. Henry Bolton, 54, a former army officer who was last month elected the party’s fourth leader in less than two years, made the extraordinary claim on Sky News. Asked about remarks that he had made to the Kremlin-backed channel RT, Mr Bolton said: “They gave me a few options as ideas for an initiation ceremony into the leadership of Ukip. The one that was probably most suitable for me was chasing a badger across Dartmoor, capturing it and breaking its neck with one’s bare hands.”
Note how The Times draws an elegant inference between badger-strangling and the Kremlin – you’re supposed to think that only Kremlin lackeys strangle badgers with their bare hands, therefore Henry must be beholden to Putin – without being factually wrong. Good work!
That Times report then morphed into this headline in The Mirror:
“UKIP leader Henry Bolton says he could kill a badger with his ‘bare hands”
Now that’s guaranteed to make you spit out your Weetabix! Bare-hand-strangling first thing in the morning? How revolting! Note how the headline (most people only read the headlines) insinuates that the new leader of UKIP is chasing badgers (for food, surely? Not?) so he can strangle them with his bare hands. ‘Bare hands’ – that’s important because one couldn’t possibly imagine our two leading politicians strangle anything, certainly not with their bare hands … see how that is meant to work?
Just google “SKY interview with Henry Bolton” for a comprehensive list of our dear MSM, from the Evening Standard to the Daily Star, all going with ‘Bolton strangles badgers’. The story even got into ‘order-order’, the site which certain Kippers loved to leak stuff to.
So here we have a truly heady mix, irresistible to our dear friends in the establishment media:
“strangling badgers with bare hands” – “new UKIP leader about whom nothing is known” (we really can’t expect those dears to actually look at Henry’s website, never mind lowering their pristine standards to check out the many UKIP hustings reports on this here UKIP Daily, now can we!) – “Russia Today” (they do eat strangled badgers in Russia, don’t they?) – “The Kremlin” (shudder! That’s Putin!) – all leading the collective metro-elite barely suppressing their collective shouts of ‘omigawd’.
So I took the liberty to actually find that ominous “RT interview”. After all, Henry might even have said something about Putin which the dears daren’t report, what with bare-hand-strangling a possibility …
And what did I find?
Oh dear.
Oh dearie me.
Interview? My foot!
It was a satirical show, produced in London for RT. Not one Russian in sight. Fun is being made e.g. of Madame May. It’s irreverent. It’s British. Some of it is even funny. And Henry was invited as ‘special guest’. You can watch the whole thing here, Henry is on at about 0.23.00. Some interview!
And what else did I discover?
It was broadcast on Oct 9th! That’s Monday last week!
It took our combined establishment MSM ‘newshounds’ practically one whole week to find this item and get their knickers in a twist about it. That’s how extremely important this ‘news item’ was.
But now it’s ‘out there’. The Times has written about it, SKY has asked Henry about it, so it’s true: he would go out, chase and strangle a badger, he would even eat it in preference to drinking cold Bovril – oh the humanity!
It seems our collective MSM have been infected by the “no humour, we’re the EU”-virus. They seem to be incapable to ‘get’ British satire any more.
Here comes the MSM ‘science’:
If it’s in the Times, it’s true. We can simply copy what they wrote and no-one needs to check the origin of the story. We also have permission to go all po-faced and serious about an item in a satirical programme which we have of course not watched because —> RT! Russia!! Putin!!! This ‘news story’ helps us in our search for something, anything, to hang around the neck of that new UKIP leader whom we don’t know. And it’s all true! The Times said so!
Someone surely must have thought this would be the ‘gay donkey’ moment for Henry, and remembered the fun they had with that.
Well, sorry, you metropolitan chaps and chapesses: it’s not working. All you’ve done is showing yourselves up yet again as a group with a severe humour bypass, as lazybones who’d rather copy from each other once the good old Times has given the start signal, and as JINOs (journalists in name only) who don’t do their own research.
All I’ll say is that you better let the ‘Bolton strangles badgers’ meme quickly sink into the great memory hole. Repeating it will make you look ridiculous and it will make those who repeat it with ‘shock-horror’ simply look foolish.
Well played, you lot! I enjoyed that!
This episode hopefully will teach HB that no matter how much he tries to appease the MSM, whatever he does will be attacked, ridiculed or laughed at, or all three. Please Henry be radical, give it them left, right and centre. You seem to have the intelligence and an ability to speak that I wish I had. Please, for the sake of the country and our children, use that ability.
There is a difference between being radical and being extreme, one is fine the other is not. Most of us don’t give a fig about the MSM, who will try and destroy us, on principal, even if we behave like goody two shoes.
The problem is the influence they have over the public and the badger story is a big example. “Bolton boasts that” There is no need to hand them free ammunition with which to shoot us.
No blame to Henry, who was a good sport and came over well. A comedy program on an insignificant channel is not news…until the MSM get hold of it. Sorry guys but sometimes we all have to think before we open our mouths.
icini, I take it you AREN’T one of those people that don’t give a fig about the msm, because you immediately go on to warn about giving them free ammunition.
In fact most of your posts contain similar warnings about not being extreme. You know, what in UKIP we used to be proud of, being radical.
He is not the first to be “Badgered” by the TV channels poor excuses for political interviewers, he no doubt will not be the last to be “Badgered”. If they had the skills of a Robin Day or Larry King instead of the instincts of a bunch of sewer Rats. they would be worth watching.
The part of that satirical show on RT where he was the guest was pretty funny. It’s the way our dear MSM made a badger-job out of it which got me going. It’ll get ‘interesting’ once he’s made his decisions public as to who will be on his team. Then watch the MSM ride in …
Use it. It’s good. Turn it round, whatever.
There’s no such thing as bad publicity
This article demonstrates the quality of journalism from UKIP Daily’s editor-in-chief compared to the MSM. I mean actually checking facts! Whatever next?
Disseminate far and wide!
There is of course nothing new in this and the defamation cannot be easily rectified. Remember the £350 million on the side of a bus which had a reasoned explanation but no-one in the media were interested in giving the facts or even listening. It the same way they undermined Nuttal and to a lesser extent Farage. Faux rage whipped up for the cultural Marxists. Nigel of course dealt with it by effectively fighting fire with fire – highlighting the hypocrisy and inconsistencies.
A secret source in ‘Team Henry’ who cannot be named told me that they are now starting to take bookings for nuisance badger removal …
😉
Actually Icini – many of the dead badgers on the roadside are not roadkill – or victims of Henry Bolton 🙂 – They’re killed by farmers and dumped on the road edge to make it seem like road kill…..
So I’m often told. Anyone for badger ham or a new shaving brush ?
We actually get a lot more road kill these days, even deer (though those quickly disappear, we are so poor you see, spent all our money on UKIP campaigns). We also notice an increase in raptors, including Red Kites and Buzzards.
What mystifies me is the notion all too many seem to have that opponents of the destruction of us and our society like UKIP ahould present ourselves so that the MSM cannot demonise us. Whatever you say or do can be spun that way and here’s a classic of the genre. It’s a futile endeavour trying to be ‘respectable’ and the twisting and turning to attempt it just loses you respect with the public.
Spot on Mike. UKIP top brass are paranoid of the media, which is why the party is doing so badly.
When did we do well? When they were calling us all closet clowns and racists, or something.
Yes – but did you not notice that since the GE 15 the MSM and the politicians simply stopped talking about UKIP? Yes, there was the odd thing about and with Nigel – but UKIP was literally cloaked in silence as far as the Referendum campaign was concerned. There was nothing about UKIP and our policies – both Manifestos sank without a trace, they just didn’t happen – unless something our leaders did which allowed the MSM to poke fun at them and by extension UKIP. Otherwise: zilch -nothing -nada. Not an issue.
They have learned, and unless we inject ourselves into the public debate nothing will be reported.
Btw – how many articles in the MSM have you seen about both JRE’s and AMW’s new party? Don’t forget that for many voters, social media do not play the role the social-media aficionados think they do. Remember: if it’s not on the BBC or in the Times or the Sun, it just didn’t happen …
There’s a reason Viv. UKIP are simply too small to qualify for public broadcasting airtime . Less than a million voters = bugger all.
That’s why I have constantly pleaded for UKIP to train its leaders professionally and make themselves attractive for political debate programmes. They have no ‘right’ to it, they have to be interesting. There is no ‘MSM’ conspiracy, in fact I hate the term ‘MSM’ and ‘Cultural Marxism’ . Its bullshit alt-speak . We have to have something to say, then say it with passion, humour and style. If we can do that= we might win. If we can’t we are so much hot air and tin-foil hats.
Agreed, Mr Bav – with one exception: in 2016 we still had millions of potential voters, but the MSM were blanketing us with silence.
While we do need to train our speakers to be media-savvy, something which is often overlooked by HO is that it’s not just those who might be ‘invited’ on the TV flagship programmes, it’s those who are asked by their local TV and radio stations who need as much if not more training. And that’s not even addressing the question of producing good videos which can be put up on our youtube channel and spread via Facebook and social media.
Yes passion humour and style plus laugh off the inevitable demonisation. Demonisation goes with radical politics like the sea goes with shipping. To adapt Enoch.
Spot on, Viv. I just watched the Henry Bolton party of the Saturday Thing (most of the show appears to be the usual smug self-satisfied drivel which our ‘liberal elite’ like to put out to show how clever they are).. The MSM reporting is deliberately, maliciously in fact, misleading – Nothing new there…
Imagine if the Boston constituency comes up for grabs and Henry stands….
Don’t know about that Bav. I helped in Paul Nuttall’s campaign in Boston. It’s a strange place. I did not think his heart was in it, though he did try. It will take some months before UKIP starts to recover and the danger is that Tory voters will now be so scared of Corbyn……
I just think it would be a hoot for the headline writers if Henry stood in the town….’The Boston Strangler’
Henrys constituency is Folkestone and Hythe [When he’s not in Vienna ]
I think our new leader should stand in Bolton.
Living in the country, in recent years, I’ve noticed more dead badgers at the roadside. I assumed they were roadkill. Little did I know it was Henry, the masked campaigner for dairy farmers, ( who claim that animals carry TB), moonlighting as a pest control officer and in order to avoid polluting the atmosphere with smoke from a gun or the ground with poison, was simply using his bare hands ! What a guy !
Now he is UKIP leader however, even though an unpaid one, perhaps he should earn a crust doing something less controversial, maybe in the security industry. ?