Fadi Dabbousi writes: A Sympathetic President, An Innocent Statement, and A Monstrous Media

I am totally appalled at the beastly attitude of some all-knowing journalists who seem to have raised their skirts to cover their heads exposing their nakedness as the tempest that was not there blew!

Those that are well read in the English language, supposedly, like Manasseh Azuri, Richard Dela Sky, and others seem to have a penchant for making fun of President Akufo-Addo whose statement at Mepe was just as innocent as any other sensible human being’s, who is sympathetic to Ghanaians. In other words, to make it easier for the dunderheads to understand, he spoke in clear terms about his grief at the disaster that had befallen the citizens due to the Akosombo dam spillage. And of course, Akufo-Addo is known for his great love for Ghanaians being the father of the nation, which sentiment he made very clear, adding, jokingly, that if his visit was linked to the voting pattern of the area, he would not be found there at all. He, however, hoped that one day they would vote for his party (my party) the NPP!

So, what at all is wrong with the President’s statement that these undersized beans want to disgrace him over? What kind of bias are they portraying? In fact, there is something called, “interesting bias”! It comes with colour and taste, but theirs is dull, tasteless, and ghastly, so full of acrimony that you wondered if they were the cause of the unfortunate reversal of journalism in Ghana. You see, one can just be as dirty as their mischief is, and I dare say that the mischief in such criminal journalism makes the perpetrators ultra filthy!

Can’t the President speak on lighter notes to help in comforting saddened people, for crying out loud? Why do we vote for Presidents in this country if we must always mock them? For example, recently, it was said that former President John Mahama, the person that the likes of Otoo like to dangle balloons for, was heavily drunk at a religious occasion. He nearly knocked His Eminence the Chief Imam out cold, but we have not made fun of him because it is a serious addiction that Mahama seems to be battling. It is painful and it would certainly be cruel to mock him over such a habit, which we pray not to be afflicted with. Maybe because he is the Boss of most of these bacons, they will not play mischief with his drunkenness!

All I am trying to say is that those journalists that have such a humongous ego and balls, um well and frontage, must bow their heads in shame if after all their education they are unable to read appropriate meanings in simple statements and understand innocent inferences that are laced with lightheartedness and many reasons to smile at in spite of the calamity.

I will rest my pen here in the hope that these jugular suckers will take heed and refrain from making such idiots of themselves. Next time, they will be called out and shamed for their foolishness and mischievous criminal journalism! Nonsense!

By Fadi Dabbousi