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What does the media decide to do when the world’s richest man draws attention to a government coverup of one of the biggest child rape scandals in years? Simp for the politicos accused of being tied to the coverup.
The New York Times, CNN, CBS News, Politico, TIME magazine, Deadline, The Independent, BBC and The Guardian all came out in full force like angry bees on behalf of UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer after X owner Elon Musk dared to call him and his woke mind virus-addled Labour Party out. “Starmer was complicit in the RAPE OF BRITAIN when he was head of Crown Prosecution for 6 years. Starmer must go and he must face charges for his complicity in the worst mass crime in the history of Britain,” Musk rebuked in a Jan. 3 X post, referencing the whitewashing of “[t]he grooming and serial rape of thousands of English girls by men of mostly Pakistani Muslim background over several decades” which The Free Press dubbed the “the biggest peacetime crime” and “cover-up” in the “history of modern Europe.”
“As director of the Crown Prosecution Service, or CPS, between 2008 and 2013, Starmer secured some successful convictions against the rape gangs. But Starmer and his lawyers also failed to bring other major cases to court,” The Free Press continued. In one 2009 case where the Starmer-led CPS dropped its prosecution of a grooming and rape gang in Rochdale partially on arbitrary racial concerns, “Maggie Oliver, the Manchester-based detective who helped to expose the abuse in Rochdale,” reportedly stated “that Starmer is ‘as guilty as anyone I know’ for the institutional failure to protect some of Britain’s most vulnerable children.”
Both the British Conservative and Labour Parties “hoped that they had buried the story [of mass grooming and gang rape] after a few symbolic prosecutions in the 2010s” before Musk yanked it back into the public spotlight, The Free Press noted. But instead of #journalisming as anyone with sense would expect a responsible free press to do when it comes to government scandals, the media just attacked Musk for peddling so-called “‘lies’” and mindlessly belched out Starmer’s talking points like they all experienced a simultaneous bout with acid reflux.
The Guardian was arguably the worst in its coverage of the story. On Jan. 3, the leftist rag published a story laced with nutty anti-Musk propaganda: “Musk accused of ‘politicising’ rape of young girls in UK to attack Starmer.”
The Independent was just as bad, targeting Musk for being insistent in his criticism of the Starmer government despite being accused of lying. “Musk doubles down in grooming gangs row after being accused of ‘spreading lies’ by Starmer,” read the newspaper’s Jan. 6 headline, before it railed against the Tesla CEO for allegedly launching “a series of baseless attacks on Sir Keir over grooming gangs.”
Deadline praised how Musk’s so-called “tirade against the British government has been met with a robust response from UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer” in its Jan. 6 story. “Starmer said the X chief and others’ recent obsession with last decade’s child grooming gangs saga is nothing but ‘whipping up of intimidation and threats of violence, hoping the media will amplify it,’” the leftist outlet continued. Confirming the Starmer gaslighting, Deadline lambasted Musk for “spreading conspiracies across the weekend on his social media platform including labeling one of Starmer’s ministers, Jess Phillips, a ‘rape genocide apologist.’”
How about CBS News: “U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer hits back at Elon Musk and the ‘poison of the far right,’” Yup, still pretty terrible spin. CBS propagandized how Starmer was hitting back after Musk “repeatedly lobbed a host of inflammatory allegations at the country’s leader over his government’s record on a long-running national child grooming scandal.” [Emphasis added.]
The Times, where Musk lives rent-free in its editors’ heads, behaved like a collective of good propagandists for 10 Downing Street in its Jan. 6 headline: “U.K.’s Starmer Slams ‘Lies and Misinformation’ After Elon Musk Attacks.” In its sub-headline, The Times further victimized Starmer and made him out to be a courageous combatant against the spread of disinformation: “Without naming Mr. Musk directly, Prime Minister Keir Starmer denounced the billionaire’s spreading of falsehoods about a child sex abuse scandal.”
The anti-Musk fanatics over at CNN were no better. “UK leader hits back at Elon Musk’s ‘lies’ over handling of child sex abuse scandal,” read the Jan. 6 headline by CNN Breaking News Writer Christian Edwards. Edwards implied that the reason why the cyberverse is immersed in the scandal now is because Musk decided to use his platform to “dredge” it up:
For days, Musk – the world’s richest man and the owner of X – has used his social media platform to dredge up a years-long scandal over historic child sex abuse in parts of England.
Edwards even excused Starmer’s government of rejecting calls for a national inquiry by highlighting its apparatchiks’ “citing [of] a string of existing inquiries into the issue and a 2022 report, the findings of which are still being implemented.” When citing the infamous 2014 Jay report that exposed how 1,400 British children were abused by gangs between 1997 and 2013 in Rotherham, Edwards only framed it from the Conservatives Pounce! angle: “The far-right has long capitalized on the scandal, pointing to the South Asian ethnicities of the majority of the gangs’ perpetrators.”
Politico harped on a similar note in its write-up: “UK’s Starmer slams Musk’s ‘lies’ on grooming gangs.” The outlet victimized Starmer government officials as being the sufferers of a supposedly unwarranted smear campaign:
The U.K. prime minister mounted a robust defense of his safeguarding minister, Jess Phillips, a longstanding campaigner against domestic violence who Musk has branded a ‘rape genocide apologist’ for rejecting the demands for a fresh inquiry into grooming gangs, [emphasis added.]
Politico clapped back at Musk for accusing Starmer of being “‘deeply complicit in the mass rapes in exchange for” votes “without evidence,” seeming to forget its own role as a media outlet whose job it is to find the evidence instead of just obediently behaving like a Starmer stooge.
Like CNN, Politico also framed the Jay Report as a right-wing talking point: “The findings of that report, and a subsequent local inquiry on exploitation in the town of Oldham, have since become rallying points for figures on the right of British politics.”
Over at the hapless TIME magazine, readers were left with, “U.K. Leader Slams ‘Lies and Misinformation’ After Attacks From Elon Musk.” TIME spun the story as being a result of Musk’s “erratic interest” in British politics and parroted Starmer’s insinuations that Musk’s antics were “undermining U.K. democracy.”
The BBC went with the crusader persona for Starmer in its Jan. 6 story: “Starmer attacks those ‘spreading lies’ on grooming gangs.” Then came the victim angle: “Online debate around grooming gangs had now ‘crossed a line’, resulting in threats against MPs, including Safeguarding Minister Jess Phillips, he said.” This is ironic given that the BBC itself is no stranger to covering up sex scandals within its own ranks.
The Starmer presstitutes have spoken!
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