If Hislop was a genuinely radical voice he wouldn't be making endless Archived Message
Posted by scrabb on June 4, 2020, 12:39 pm, in reply to "I used to buy Private Eye every fortnight, read it cover to cover."
documentaries for the BBC. He's up to his eyeballs in the establishment, as evidenced by the string of programmes he fronts for the BBC. He trades on the past reputation of the Eye as a fearless critic of government and the establishment. Part of his act is to refer with a mischievous smirk to the number of times the Eye has been sued and gone to court due to libel proceedings -- the implication being that under the facade of respectable Oxbridge product he's actually a devil of a fellow with a subversive streak. In fact Hislop is a moral coward because he only attacks those targets that are deemed acceptable by the media establishment -- Assange, Corbyn, and so on. Not once while Corbyn was under relentless attack for his supposed anti-Semitism did Hislop raise a counter objection that the media had invented and inflated the whole farrago. Instead he played along with the corporate media narrative, making sly allusions to Corbyn's "dodgy" record as a racist and anti-semite. Hislop is a fraud, a toady to power, and a gold-star hypocrite because he knows his "outspoken" comments are part of an act the establishment approves of and provides him with a handsome living.
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