The entry into the political arena of Carl Benjamin, aka the You Tuber Sargon of Akkad, who is standing for UKIP in the South West of England constituency, has put the cat among the proverbial pigeons and given the mostly London-centric mainstream media types a fit of the vapours. Sargon has also shown sections of the mainstream media to be what they really are which is dirty, dirty smear merchants. Whilst Sargon has said that he has been treated reasonably by some in the various local press outlets, the same cannot be said for many national publications.
The mainstream media national publications have taken every word that Sargon has said and twisted it and quoted out of context. This has been most notable in the way that the national media has treated Sargon’s ‘I wouldn’t even rape you comment’ which was in response to Labour MP Jess Phillips making light of men’s issues such as the matter of the high levels of male suicides. Jess Phillips also is a leading light in the internet censorship movement and has made dubious statements that she received ‘rape threats’, threats that surprisingly do not seem to have been reported to the police. The media has characterised Sargon’s comment to Ms Phillips which was made on Twitter as a ‘rape tweet’, a description that is both highly inaccurate and highly dishonest. Sargon’s comment was not the threat of rape that the media are painting it as, but instead a statement that he would not rape Ms Phillips. I must admit that this must be the first time a prospective politician has been lambasted for saying he would not commit a crime instead of saying he would commit a crime.
The media have also tried to smear Sargon as ‘alt right’ when the reality is that Sargon has opposed the alt right and any fruity or so-called ‘offensive’ language that he may have used during debates with alt right figures, such as the use of the word ‘nigger’, was in the context of attacking alt rightists. Not that you’d know that these words were uttered in a particular context if you was relying for information on the likes of Sky News for instance. I had the opportunity to compare both the broadcast version of an interview that Sargon did with Sky and the audio version of the full interview that Sargon recorded. The difference in the two versions are astonishing to say the least. The original full version of the interview showed Sargon putting the comments he made into context, yet the broadcast version was edited very heavily to make Sargon look some sort of extremist. This he is not. Sargon is an entertainer, a controversialist and a free speech campaigner, but he is not recognisable as a political extremist.
The way the mainstream national media has behaved over Sargon of Akkad has unintentionally made Sargon’s point. They are indeed dirty smear merchants who will use any means necessary to try to poison Sargon’s image among the electorate. Unfortunately for the London-centric national media this journalistic spergathon seems to be failing. Those who see the chopped up biased coverage of Sargon and his campaign that have been used by various mainstream media outlets, can go and look at the original and unedited videos where Sargon has made the comments that the media is criticising him for. Those who do this will see that there is a massive difference to what Sargon is and what he believes and how the mainstream national media is portraying him.
Sargon, whether he wins or loses his EU parliament seat, has already done this nation a great service. By highlighting just how different the truth of things are from the mainstream media narrative, Sargon has exposed the dishonesty and bias of those who work in the national media bubble. By refusing to apologise for his various ‘crimes’ against political correctness, he has wounded a media and political class that has become all too used to silencing and side-lining opponents by screaming ‘racist’, ‘Islamophobe’ or other ‘snarl’ words at them.
Sadly I am not an elector in the seat that Sargon is contesting, but if I was then I would be voting for him. This is because a vote for Sargon is not just a vote for someone who will defend and promote the idea of free speech, but is also a vote for a political bloody nose to an increasingly remote and condescending political establishment.
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If you want to see Sargon challenge the smears that have been dealt out to him then I suggest that you watch the short video below in which he puts into context much of what the mainstream media has used in order to lie about him.
Debunking the Dirty Smear Merchants
