So what’s Desperate Dan’s schtick? “These past few days, I have been the target of a smear campaign by nefarious players with an axe to grind … I, like all fallible human beings, have made errors of judgment in the past, but the criminal allegations being made against me are simply untrue. I would like nothing more than to address those spurious claims”. There was more.
“On the advice of my lawyers, I cannot comment further”. But he then does. A lot. “But I have been thinking much over the past few days about the current state of social media”. Byline Times isn’t social media, Dan. But do go on. “Being in the middle of this witch-hunt has made me think a lot about the sort of journalist and broadcaster I aspire to be”. Go on, Tedious Maximus.
“I mean, who doesn’t have regrets? Should I be cancelled for them many years later, or do you accept that I have learned and changed?” Is that an admission of wrongdoing? Whatever. “The last few years, I’ve grown professionally and personally [ho ho ho] … I didn’t say a word about Huw Edwards, by the way. Not. One. Word”. No, cos you were on holiday.
“I do also note that there are dark forces out [there] to try and take this brilliant channel down … and that is because GB News is the biggest threat to the establishment in decades”. Enough bullshit: GB News (which is part of the establishment) has been going for two years. The Byline Times investigation began three years ago. Taking GB News down? Wrong again.
Dan did have some supporters, like wacko Tory MP Andrea Jenkyns: “Brave, heartfelt & powerful speech by [Dan Wootton] The left will stop at nothing to try to destroy those who have different views. We have your back Dan. You and [GB News] are a light of common sense in the political cancel culture we all find ourselves facing. Keep going”. Her cancel culture being the voters.
“Dan Wootton regularly told us he was morally superior to Caroline Flack. He sat in judgement over her. Let’s see how that checks out”. Would Otto English care to add his ninepence worth? He certainly would. “Who are these ‘dark forces’ exposing Dan Wootton's ‘errors of judgement’ .... it's quite the defence from someone who has spent years dishing out the bile, isn't it?”
He got the not-quite-admission, too. Emma Kennedy also noted the lack of self-awareness on Wootton’s part: "The disconnect between man complaining he’s being hounded with allegations when he’s based his whole career on hounding people with allegations is quite something”. So it is.
Meanwhile, Danny Baker was especially severe on those defending Dan: “To every one of you in the UK media who are now refraining from commenting on your creepy pal’s antics because of a long agreed, now outdated, press omerta … You cowards. You weasels. You shameful no good creeps. Your entire lives have been for nothing. The 'game' is up”. It’s looking that way.
Just consider what last week’s Popbitch email said, apropos News UK checking out Wootton’s HR files: “There’s bullying allegations, NDAs, even a few pay-offs they could get the guys in Finance to dredge back up. While they’re doing that, they could look into why Wootton kept getting promoted while some of those who lodged complaints got sidelined”. Byline Times hasn’t given us bullying allegations, sidelined, NDAs or pay-offs. YET.
Dan Wootton is not yet totally finished. But you can see it from there.
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5 comments:
Under normal circumstances it would be possible to feel sympathy for someone in this kind of situation.
But these circumstances are not normal. They are a wicked alternative created by Wooton and other far right corporate media slimeballs.
Hence he thoroughly deserves to be exposed for the hypocritical, cowardly lying rodent he is. And poisoned by the kind of cultural poison he helped make.
So swallow it Wooton, you tenth rate self-pitying wretch. You have it coming.
Being in the middle of this witch-hunt
Arnold's Law. "Any accused person who refers to witch hunts, being cancelled, kangaroo courts, or dark forces is guilty."
@Arnold: doubly so if you actually catch them in the act of muttering arcane incantations over a cauldron while being watched by a black cat.
"Dark forces'', Dan? You ARE one of those dark forces, you insincere gastropod! This is what being hoist by one's own petard looks and sounds like.
Byline fistfuked sounds like some sort of gay cricketing term, but that’s exactly what’s happening to wootton and the sooner he returns to NZ on a permanent basis the better for all concerned.
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