Outlook magazine editor Vinod Mehta dead

This sorry piece of work has served the Gandhi family for more than a decade and has little to show for it; even lowly journalists have managed to get Padma awards. You should watch the way he squirms and fumbles when challenged on TV (most channels profess the views of his political party so that is a rare event). His claim to fame : on being pilloried by readers of his magazine through letters and comments for being a mouthpiece of Congress, he decided to give evidence of fair news reporting by citing an article that had a few negative comments about the Congress government in Tripura(yes)!

Vinod Mehta’s twisted mind is familiar to regular readers of Outlook. Mehta is former Editor-in-Chief of the magazine and now an advisor. Imagine an editor who loves being called pro-Pakistan and anti-Hindu and leverages this patently anti-national reputation to claim some sort of supremely secular citadel. Trying to pose himself as an epitome of objectivity, by asserting that he had said in December 2013 that only divine intervention could stop Modi from becoming the Prime Minister, is not going to make up for his past. So, instead of pontificating over Modi’s past, Vinod Mehta should contemplate his own past.
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Vinod Mehta, the poster-boy of Sonia Gandhi, prefers to stew in his own stale juice. In his article ‘Skepticism Need of the Hour’ (TOI, May 17, 2014), he makes a lot of silly and rock-bottom skeptical claims, which, he fancies makes him stand out in the crowd. To tell the truth, he does stand out but not the way he believes. Dribble through his devious, dubious and diabolic drift and you discover him saying that 66 per cent of the electorate did not vote for Narendra Modi, the new Prime Minister.
This is old wine in old bottle, and also spurious at that. First of all, all India vote share of the NDA in these elections was 40.5 per cent and so Mehta’s postulation of 66 per cent is factually incorrect and it should actually read 59.5 per cent. He cannot argue that one should take into account only BJP’s and not NDA’s vote share because the NDA fought the polls under the leadership of Narendra Modi, the Prime Ministerial candidate.
Secondly, even accepting his deliberately twisted logic, which PM in India has ever got 60 per cent? The Congress got 49.5 per cent votes in 1984, but that was not vote for Rajiv Gandhi, an absolute rookie at the time, but an expression of revulsion against the way Indira Gandhi was assassinated. Only a sycophant like Vinod Mehta will maintain that 1984 was not a sympathy vote for the Congress but a conscious, considered choice of the electorate.
Finally, to hold that all the anti-BJP votes can be aggregated as anti-Modi is the last fig-leaf of the failed, frustrated and fake fakirs in the fourth estate who hate Modi, BJP, and Hindus. This can be sensible only in the eventuality of a pan-Indian electoral alliance of all the non-BJP parties, viz. Mamata Banerjee and the Left, the DMK and the AIADMK, Nitish Kumar and Laloo Prasad Yadav, Mulayam and Mayawati. That’s not just a black swan incident but it’s like finding a black cat in a blind alley, which, by the way, is non-existent. It shows that Mehta hasn’t just sold his soul to the Gandhi family, but also his intellect.
The Mehta School of Moronery is not over yet. 99.99 per cent of 170 million Muslims oppose Modi viscerally, he goes on to say. Maybe, he was enjoying a nap when Rajdeep Sardesai, on CNN-IBN, revealed that 34 per cent of the Muslims in Rajasthan have voted for the BJP in this election. While we will have to wait for a few days for a detailed analysis of how Muslims have voted, several news channels have reported a clear and unprecedented jump in Muslim votes for the BJP. So, Mehta is either lying through the teeth of his column or thinks there are people who are stupid enough to buy into his lies.

ashdoc wrote:this is what niticentral ( a right wing website ) had to say about mehta---

Vinod Mehta should worry about his own past, not Modi’s - By KS Muralidharan

Vinod Mehta’s twisted mind is familiar to regular readers of Outlook. Mehta is former Editor-in-Chief of the magazine and now an advisor. Imagine an editor who loves being called pro-Pakistan and anti-Hindu and leverages this patently anti-national reputation to claim some sort of supremely secular citadel. Trying to pose himself as an epitome of objectivity, by asserting that he had said in December 2013 that only divine intervention could stop Modi from becoming the Prime Minister, is not going to make up for his past. So, instead of pontificating over Modi’s past, Vinod Mehta should contemplate his own past.
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Vinod Mehta, the poster-boy of Sonia Gandhi, prefers to stew in his own stale juice. In his article ‘Skepticism Need of the Hour’ (TOI, May 17, 2014), he makes a lot of silly and rock-bottom skeptical claims, which, he fancies makes him stand out in the crowd. To tell the truth, he does stand out but not the way he believes. Dribble through his devious, dubious and diabolic drift and you discover him saying that 66 per cent of the electorate did not vote for Narendra Modi, the new Prime Minister.
This is old wine in old bottle, and also spurious at that. First of all, all India vote share of the NDA in these elections was 40.5 per cent and so Mehta’s postulation of 66 per cent is factually incorrect and it should actually read 59.5 per cent. He cannot argue that one should take into account only BJP’s and not NDA’s vote share because the NDA fought the polls under the leadership of Narendra Modi, the Prime Ministerial candidate.
Secondly, even accepting his deliberately twisted logic, which PM in India has ever got 60 per cent? The Congress got 49.5 per cent votes in 1984, but that was not vote for Rajiv Gandhi, an absolute rookie at the time, but an expression of revulsion against the way Indira Gandhi was assassinated. Only a sycophant like Vinod Mehta will maintain that 1984 was not a sympathy vote for the Congress but a conscious, considered choice of the electorate.
Finally, to hold that all the anti-BJP votes can be aggregated as anti-Modi is the last fig-leaf of the failed, frustrated and fake fakirs in the fourth estate who hate Modi, BJP, and Hindus. This can be sensible only in the eventuality of a pan-Indian electoral alliance of all the non-BJP parties, viz. Mamata Banerjee and the Left, the DMK and the AIADMK, Nitish Kumar and Laloo Prasad Yadav, Mulayam and Mayawati. That’s not just a black swan incident but it’s like finding a black cat in a blind alley, which, by the way, is non-existent. It shows that Mehta hasn’t just sold his soul to the Gandhi family, but also his intellect.
The Mehta School of Moronery is not over yet. 99.99 per cent of 170 million Muslims oppose Modi viscerally, he goes on to say. Maybe, he was enjoying a nap when Rajdeep Sardesai, on CNN-IBN, revealed that 34 per cent of the Muslims in Rajasthan have voted for the BJP in this election. While we will have to wait for a few days for a detailed analysis of how Muslims have voted, several news channels have reported a clear and unprecedented jump in Muslim votes for the BJP. So, Mehta is either lying through the teeth of his column or thinks there are people who are stupid enough to buy into his lies.