{"id":4185,"date":"2016-07-02T06:37:46","date_gmt":"2016-07-02T01:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=4185"},"modified":"2016-07-02T06:37:46","modified_gmt":"2016-07-02T01:07:46","slug":"shashi-tharoor-liberals-arnab-goswami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=4185","title":{"rendered":"Shashi Tharoor, You\u2019ve Put Liberals in a Spot. We Now Have to Defend Arnab Goswami"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\u00a0\n<p><span class=\"dropcap\">L<\/span>iberal woke boi MP and senior Sunsilk brand ambassador <\/p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/shashi-tharoor-twitter-character-limit-social-media\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shashi Tharoor<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> confused the fuck out of all liberals yesterday. Tharoor\u2019s complaint got a Delhi court to order the police to file an FIR against future Bharat Ratna awardee Arnab Goswami for well, doing his job. Tharoor claimed that Arnab accessed confidential documents that were part of the police investigation in the Sunanda Pushkar death case while the probe was still on. This was like a surprise class test on the subject of core liberal values which almost everyone flunked \u2013 even the brightest <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/ssc-students-school-hierarchy-system\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">students<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on Twitter. It has now sadly emerged that in the Tharoorian liberal badlands, it\u2019s the journalist\u2019s fault if the cops leaked the documents to the media in an ongoing case.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You know why that last sentence hurt me so much? Because thanks to you and your legal team, Mr Tharoor, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/people\/arnab-goswami-republic-tv-india-times-now-newshour-cnn-ibn-ndtv\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Arnab Goswami<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is now legitimised as a journalist. You have single-handedly enabled the biggest bully of our times to play the victim card, and put all of us in the awkward position of having to side with Arnab on the issue of freedom of press.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First off, I request Dictionary Tharoor to get off <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/social-commentary\/whatsapp-message-fake-forwards-news-viral-parents-trend-media-social-media-facebook\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">WhatsApp<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> immediately. I feel that in the last couple of months, he\u2019s been suddenly inducted into a family group and has been brainwashed with right-wing propaganda. A month ago, he went against the Supreme Court order and sided with people who said women of menstruating age shouldn\u2019t enter <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pov\/supreme-court-sabarimala-protests-women\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sabarimala<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. And now he\u2019s going after the media to get a blanket ban on the very foundation of investigative journalism. The Milind Soman of Parliament also claimed that Arnab and gang accessed his mails without consent. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I don\u2019t think anyone should be charged for this \u2013 instead Goswami should be awarded a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pov\/kendrick-lamar-just-pimp-pulitzer\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pulitzer Prize<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Because <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">going through Tharoor\u2019s mails is probably tougher than preparing for a Masters in English. Only, instead of getting a degree, you get an FIR. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Full respect to anyone who hacked Tharoor\u2019s account because the password itself must be the toughest word in the English language, because he doesn\u2019t seem like the kinda guy who\u2019d use \u201cShashi123\u201d or \u201cEverythingIsPlanned\u201d. <\/span>\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\">Because thanks to you and your legal team, Mr Tharoor, Arnab Goswami is now legitimised as a journalist.<\/blockquote>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To be honest I\u2019m just worried about Goswami. Don\u2019t get me wrong, I hate everything that he stands for. I hate the right-wing propaganda that he tries to pass off as \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/politics\/journalist-suman-chattopadhyay-arrest-bengal-media\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">journalism<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d, but I got to admit that a big part of me is hoping he doesn\u2019t face a shut down. He is a great hack for liberals like me to immediately form an opinion on complex issues: All I have to do is wait for The Debate With Arnab Goswami, and whatever side he picks, I just have to choose the other side to pretend to be a well-read woke dude. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I hate Arnab but can\u2019t not watch him. He is my newsroom cocaine. I\u2019m now addicted to snorting my news with high drama, flashy graphics, and uncouth panellists. And now to give that up and switch to news that is civil is a tough ask. It\u2019s like you showed me WWF first, and now you want me to binge on Sushil Kumar\u2019s wrestling matches. No disrespect to the guy, but if Sushil grabbed the mic every now and then, and said \u201cDo you smell what the Sushil is cookin\u201d and gave his <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/satire\/rafale-deal-arnab-goswami\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">opponents<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the \u201cpeople\u2019s elbow\u201d I could probably sit through a match.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019ve tried hard the last few days to not watch Arnab, but I am out of options. Watching the experienced and intelligent Prannoy is difficult. He is so smart that I don\u2019t find him relatable. Ravish is good, but he is so subtle that I can\u2019t trust him. Because he suddenly turns off the lights in the studio or invites mime artists to be panellists. Bhupendra Chaubey, I just feel bad for: He is like a poor man\u2019s Harsha Bhogle who doesn\u2019t have enough cash for a good <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/bald-baldness-hair-loss-cure-anupam-kher-dr-batra\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">hair transplant<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But what shocked me most, with the whole Arnab-Tharoor fiasco was the silence of the liberals who are otherwise as loud as Goswami with their opinions. A few of them did tweet condemning what Tharoor had done, and some of them like Nidhi Razdan worked even lesser by just RTing somebody else\u2019s tweet on press freedom. It was like their woke-self held a gun to their unwilling head and said, \u201cTweet something you idiot, else later, when you\u2019re almost winning an argument on freedom of this and that, someone will bring this up during a whataboutery session. Where were you when Arnab got fucked by Tharoor?\u201d But most of the big guys just maintained radio silence. Rajdeep Sardesai, Shekhar Gupta, Siddharth Varadarajan, and many others chose to look the other way and ironically fought for Twitter\u2019s right to ban people on their platform and Amol Palekar\u2019s right to criticise the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/social-commentary\/government-amol-palekar-muting-artistic-freedom-india\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">government<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s pretty clear to me that India\u2019s left <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pov\/liberal-indians-non-woke-parents\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">liberals<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> aren\u2019t liberals after all. They are free-thinkers for people who only think like them. They practise pluralism of similar thoughts. <\/span>\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\">Ask yourself, would you be okay supporting a person who believes in curtailing a woman\u2019s right to enter a place of worship?<\/blockquote>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But Barkha Dutt outdid her silent peers. She went a step ahead and tweeted, \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This man has routinely tarnished <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/politics\/journalist-suman-chattopadhyay-arrest-bengal-media\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">journalists<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and even called for their trial and arrest. I won\u2019t shed a tear for him facing criminal action for his dangerous, communal, and vile reportage.\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> I don\u2019t know if this is coincidence (I hope to God that it is) but Dutt sounds a lot like Goswami in this tweet. Conveniently change your principles to take the side of a man (Tharoor) who is a party colleague of the person funding your channel (Kapil Sibal). <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What\u2019s surprising is that this is the same set of people who came together to protest at the Press Club a year ago when Prannoy Roy\u2019s NDTV was hounded by IT raids by the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/politics\/cbi-raid-rakesh-asthana-alok-verma\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CBI<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. (Weird, because a detailed report in the Caravan magazine suggests that shady financial deals might have taken place at NDTV.) Yes, the timing of the raids was highly questionable \u2013 and I\u2019m not suggesting that using the CBI as a weapon to threaten a news channel to toe the line is the right thing to do. But whatever the case, there was still a show of solidarity by the journos. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sometimes I wonder if Shashi Tharoor would still be the darling of the liberals if he didn\u2019t speak such good <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pov\/indians-abroad-hate-countrymen\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">English<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and spoke only Malayalam. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ask yourself, would you be okay supporting a person who believes in curtailing a woman\u2019s right to enter a place of worship? A <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/politics\/the-dirty-water-theory-government-congress-bjp\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">politician<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> embroiled in a multi-crore IPL scam five years ago with his wife, who is now chargesheeted for the wife\u2019s death, who was accused of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/supreme-court-adultery-law-marriage-sex\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">infidelity<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by her two days before she was found dead, and who, during the austerity drive referred to economy fliers as \u201ccattle class\u201d, and who is now coming down heavily on the freedom to report and investigate news stories? Would all this have sounded just as good in Hindi or Malayalam? <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I highly doubt it. After the British, I think Tharoor has been the biggest benefactor of the great Indian language bias. In fact, with a resume like that, he<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is someone who\u2019d make for an ideal candidate in the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bigg Boss<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> House as much as <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the lower house of our Parliament. But I seriously hope that this time we see through Tharoor\u2019s bullshit \u2013 and whether liberals like it or not, stand up for the rights of our knight in shouting armour, Mr Goswami. <\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With that FIR against Arnab Goswami, Shashi Tharoor has now legitimised the Republic TV anchor as a journalist. 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