{"id":1835,"date":"2009-05-20T23:41:13","date_gmt":"2009-05-20T22:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1835"},"modified":"2009-05-20T23:46:32","modified_gmt":"2009-05-20T22:46:32","slug":"british_tabloid_hypocrisy_shocker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2009\/05\/20\/british_tabloid_hypocrisy_shocker","title":{"rendered":"British tabloid hypocrisy shocker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sun today <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/sol\/homepage\/news\/article2436087.ece\">featured the story<\/a> of a former British soldier whose image was featured in a British Nazi Party election leaflet, in uniform next to the words, &#8220;we&#8217;re fed up with being sent ill-equipped into foreign wars.  The BNP will bring our troops home and ensure that British troops will not be abused on the streets of our cities by Muslims&#8221;.  The ex-soldier left the Army in 1997, long before any of the present wars started, and told the Scum that the BNP &#8220;are scumbags and [he&#8217;d] never vote for them in a million years&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Well, the quote is most likely made-up &#8211; in fact, it&#8217;s probably not even a quote, just words intended to be put into the mouth of &#8220;every-soldier&#8221; &#8211; but the BNP did not make up this tactic.  In November 2005, the Scum had a picture of John Tulloch, a professor of media studies at Brunel and Cardiff universities, bloodied in hospital after suffering injuries in the July 2005 London bombings, with the slogan, &#8220;Terror laws: Tell Tony he&#8217;s right&#8221;.  In fact, Tulloch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/politics\/2005\/nov\/10\/media.media\">was against the new laws<\/a> the paper was referring to.<\/p>\n<p>It also turns out that one BNP leaflet, purporting to show &#8220;ordinary British people&#8221; telling us why they will vote BNP, actually <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/local-elections\/5331700\/British-pensioners-on-BNP-election-leaflet-are-actually-Italian-models.html\">used stock pictures<\/a>, and at least two of the people were not British at all, but Italian.  What a shambolic, sorry excuse for a party they are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sun today featured the story of a former British soldier whose image was featured in a British Nazi Party election leaflet, in uniform next to the words, &#8220;we&#8217;re fed up with being sent&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[52,4],"tags":[700,701,699],"class_list":["post-1835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-far_right","category-media","tag-bnp","tag-john_tulloch","tag-the_sun"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-tB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1835"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1839,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835\/revisions\/1839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}