The Royals Are Gangsters with Posh Accents: Opinion
Dead cat strategy: Meghan Markle isn’t the only woman to have fallen prey to vicious palace “dead cat” media attacks – they’ve also come for a Jeffrey Epstein survivor.
Lisa Tait, the cohost of The Prince and the Pervert Podcast, said she’d seen the Royals go on the attack against the survivor, Virginia Roberts Guiffre.
“The royal machine goes for the throat and it shows no mercy. They even made contact with an internet troll who has been harassing survivors for more than a year,” Ms Tait said.
“When these people leak against you, it’s vicious.”
Mrs Roberts Guiffre believed she had been slandered by The Telegraph and its reporter, Camilla Tominey, who stated the Epstein and Prince Andrew whistleblower was a “prostitute.”
Moreover, the coverage was characterised by leaks, briefings by anonymous “friends” and the cherry picking of legal claims.
It’s the classic distraction technique, as in “look over here at the dead cat!”
Moreover, around this time in 2019, amid the Prince Andrew Epstein scandal, Prince William was also accused of cheating with his close friend, Rose Hanbury.
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Interested in the Epstein scandal? Start here
What is a dead cat strategy
Wikipedia says a dead cat strategy is the political tool of deliberately creating a media storm to divert public attention away from problems or failures in other areas.
Its present name for the strategy has been associated with former British prime minister Boris Johnson‘s political strategist Lynton Crosby.
And who better to point the dead cat finger of distraction at than a biracial, American feminist?
Ms Tait is an experienced crisis management practitioner. She worked for Hill & Knowlton in Sydney, has 10 years in-house PR experience, is a trained journalist and a former academic.
But the dead catting did not fool everyone with journalist Adam Davidson, who produced a podcast with Mrs Giuffre, pushing back at Camilla Tominey’s reporting of claims Virginia was a “prostitute”.
The British journalist reported Ms Giuffre had “been on the game for almost a year.”
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Ms Tominey reacted defensively when criticism of her story took off on social media.
Moreover, Ms Tait was surprised by the tone of the reporter’s replies because she believed “putting negative energy out there does attract critics”.
“You cannot say inflammatory things about abused children online and get away with it when you have a huge platform,” she said.
Mrs Giuffre has been attacked by the royals and their spokespeople for more than a decade.
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The royal family are true survivors and they play hard, even against a survivor of sex trafficking.
Ms Tait was interested to see the royals on the backfoot, leaking against a sexual assault survivor to hide Prince Andrew’s links to pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Update January 1, 2021: Finally! The UK media is calling out the BBC for its bespoke pedophile protection service.
After being universally slammed this week for featuring alleged Virginia Roberts Giuffre attacker Professor Alan Dershovitz in its Ghislaine Maxwell coverage, it again featured her brother Ian and his complaints about US Justice.
Moreover, this appearance also brought a deservedly blunt response from The Guardian.
“The corporation was forced to admit it had not met its own editorial standards during a BBC News interview with Alan Dershowitz, Epstein’s former lawyer who has also been accused of the sexual abuse of a minor. It was inundated with complaints after Dershowitz was introduced simply as a “constitutional lawyer”, and was then allowed to attack the credibility of Virginia Roberts Giuffre,” said the report.
It added: ”Viewers were not told Giuffre and Dershowitz were engaged in a legal battle over the veracity of her claims that he was part of a group of powerful men to whom Epstein offered her for sex.”
As well, we are done to death with Ian Maxwell’s refusal to acknowledge the reality of their sister’s crimes. So is The Guardian as well.
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- The BBC has faced further complaints over its coverage of Ghislaine Maxwell’s conviction for recruiting and grooming teenage girls after an interview with her brother on Radio 4’s flagship news programme.
- On Thursday, the corporation was forced to admit it had not met its own editorial standards during a BBC News interview with Alan Dershowitz, Epstein’s former lawyer who has also been accused of the sexual abuse of a minor. It was inundated with complaints after Dershowitz was introduced simply as a “constitutional lawyer”, and was then allowed to attack the credibility of Virginia Roberts Giuffre.
- During a five-minute interview on the BBC, Ian Maxwell said “that Ghislaine had nothing to do with it”.
As a former academic with two journalism degrees and 20 years experience, I still cannot fathom how the Maxwells, the scions of a fraudulent media empire still have so much influence within the BBC?
Is it because white people with posh accents cannot be related to sex traffickers?
As soon as we call out the myth that is journalistic objectivity, the clearer everyone’s motives will be.
Epstein Victim Blaming: When the Ghislaine Maxwell trial started, The Prince and the Pervert Podcast is calling out unfair media portrayals of survivors.
At this time, most of this is coming from UK media. In our opinion.
Epstein Victim Blaming
Congrats to our first entry – British journalist Neil Shaun from NBC, who we believe was victim-blaming Prince Andrew accuser Virginia Roberts Giufree.
The reporter was asked on Sky News Australia why she took so long to sue Prince Andrew.
He was also citing the discredited Epstein Florida plea deal, which has SFA to do with Prince Andrew.
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Trust an old white guy to say this:
“She’s had quite a few relationships” & “why it took Virginia so long to come to this conclusion.”NEIL SHAUN
He also mocked Virginia’s dad and Andy’s pants and interestingly claimed to have seen insider information about the case.
Shaun also said it was information he could not mention on air. That sounded like he had read Alan Dershovitz’s dirt file.
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