Showing posts with label lies damn lies and observer headlines. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lies damn lies and observer headlines. Show all posts

Ever so slightly exaggerated?

Slightly late to the game here, but very excited by the dramatic headline in today's Observer:

"Secret Tape Reveals Tory Backing For Ban On Gays"

Really? The Tories want 'gays' 'banned'? Good Lord. So, lets look at that headline, shall we?

"Secret tape .."

Really? Was the Tory in question, Chris Grayling, speaking drunkenly to a couple of mates? Was he secretly taped by an alert journo'? Well, no. He was speaking to a Think Tank. In public. On the record. Not much of a 'secret tape' really, is it?

".. Tory backing .."

Really? Was Grayling expressing the official Conservative position on something? On anything? What did he say?

"I personally took the view.."

So, not 'Tory Backing' then, really?

".. Ban on Gays"

Did Grayling say that he, or his party, felt that 'Gays' should be subject to a 'Ban'? Well, no. He actually said that, perhaps, someone running a B&B in their own house might be able to..

"..decide who does and doesn't come into their own home" 

Not quite a 'ban on gays' then. Jesus H. Christ.

How desperate are the media for a story, and how desperate are the Labour party for an attack angle ?

How utterly, pathetically desperate?

For fucks sake.

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