The boomerang effect of bad faith: the example of Libertad Digital, Vox, Venezuela and the PFLP

As a blogger, one of the reasons I tend to avoid defining myself as a journalist is because I see what some people do with journalism.

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Journalism is a necessary profession in a democracy, because it serves to oversee the actions of those in power, but the dependence of many media on subsidies, and particularly on institutional advertising, produces monsters and ends up destroying the prestige of some media that I previously admired.

An example of this is Libertad Digital. What began as a reference medium for Spanish liberalism has ended up becoming a media lackey of the Popular Party, especially due to the increasingly groveling attitude of the owner of that medium, Federico Jiménez Losantos, whose infamies against Vox have reached the nauseating extreme accusing the party of Abascal, Ortega Lara and Alcaraz of being "the tool of ETA", an attack as miserable and at the same time stupid as calling a Jew "Nazi". Only in the most extreme left-wing media can you find such a level of hatred against Vox.

Yesterday, the latest deposition (I refuse to call it news) by Libertad Digital against Vox was a disgusting pamphlet claiming that Vox has abandoned the Venezuelan opposition. The shameful text is an example of how ridiculous hatred and lies can be. In recent years, no other Spanish political party has done as much as Vox to support the Venezuelan opposition. In fact, Venezuelan opponents have come out in defense of Vox against Libertad Digital's attacks. I will limit myself to quoting part of what was published by the Venezuelan writer Emmanuel Rincón on his Twitter account:

"I am very sorry for what Libertad Digital has done with this article, because there are people there whom I appreciate; but this is shameful.

When Maduro started threatening me weeks ago, it was the people from Vox who offered me their support, no one from the PP contacted me.

On the other hand, in the European Parliament, it has been the members of VOX who have raised their voices in favor of Venezuela, while the PP has been voting with the PSOE on crucial issues for Latin America and Europe.

I insist that there are many valuable people in the PP, in this media and other Spanish organizations that used to defend the values ​​of the right, but they are increasingly similar to the PSOE."

The paradox is that this pile of garbage from LD against Vox has its origin in Vox's refusal to whitewash a new electoral fraud in Venezuela. A fraud denounced by Santiago Abascal in a message to the people of Venezuela, published on July 24:

Mensaje de @Santi_ABASCAL al pueblo de Venezuela 🇻🇪

⬇️⬇️⬇️ pic.twitter.com/dsAUwdomcF

— VOX 🇪🇸 (@vox_es) July 24, 2024

LD's deposition resorts to anonymous rumors to attack Vox, in this way: "According to what Libertad Digital has been able to find out from well-informed sources on the matter, the news has been a disappointment for the Venezuelan opposition". In other words, LD appeals to rumors without giving a single name, while well-known names in the Venezuelan opposition defend Vox. It's a shame to see what the former liberal newspaper has become by becoming a mere buffoon of the PP.

The problem with bad faith is that it has a boomerang effect. If Libertad Digital has the nerve to deny Vox support to the Venezuelan opposition, ignoring all the work that this party has been doing for years, the rest of us can also question certain silences of Libertad Digital. Since it affects me closely, I will refer to one in particular.

This week, BNG separatists have once again invited PFLP terrorists to a rally in Santiago. As I have already pointed out, the participation of this terrorist group in BNG rallies is nothing new. I have been denouncing this for years in the face of almost total media silence. This silence is so strange and unanimous that this Friday I raised the question here if there is some pact of silence so that the media close to the PP do not talk about it, since after all, for years the PP has been voting with the BNG for all kinds of controversial measures, and the fact that the PP combines its votes with those of a far-left party that is associated with terrorists does not look good at all.

Do you know which media has not said a single word about the presence of the PFLP at the BNG rallies? Libertad Digital, as you can see with a simple Google search. This is very strange, since Libertad Digital has always supported the State of Israel and has been denouncing Palestinian terrorism. However, a Palestinian terrorist group has been participating in BNG rallies in Santiago for years, a participation that this separatist party openly discloses, and Libertad Digital has not said a word about it. What kind of conclusions could I draw now if I decided to make a display of bad faith like the one Libertad Digital made yesterday against Vox?