I'm almost tempted to deconstruct that Wootton/KP defense he published. He's so messy.

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1. The framing is all important here. Dear reader: don't bother with this book (don't read it) or worry about anything you hear about it. You can ignore it because it actually makes the Sussexes look worse. 2. You want to hit the reader with something that is

annoying or universally despised. The boogeyman here is celebrity culture. DW, himself a very privileged person and a celeb whore if there ever was one wants to get especially at the working class/middle class Sun reader. Them leftist celebrities bitching from their Hollywood

mansions and annoying us during the pandemic--that's what the Sussexes are like. 3. Psychologically this ensures that as the reader goes through the entire article they are annoyed with Meghan and Harry. They are like those celebrities singing "Imagine" during the pandemic:

completely out of touch. Most readers are lazy (or busy) and they don't want to dig and research. This article sets them to "win." It paints a vivid picture they can access and they don't have to work hard. Harry and Meghan--annoying celebs.

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4. Here DW explicitly links the Sussexes to out of touch celebrities. From the title he puts ownership of the book on them--as if they planned it and wrote it. Now he drives in the knife--they are two of the most privileged people ever,

unlike you dear reader they don't have to work, and they have the nerve to ask for your sympathy. Hate them. This is very French Revolution of him. Again, fascinating because we know DW is nothing if not a celeb whore. 5. Note that we're still not into actual arguments here.

All we've gotten thus far is deflection, distractions and flailing. Hate the Sussexes. He also wants the reader to know that they don't have to feel guilty. Here DW pulls a trick of rewriting history. None of the racism and headlines thrown at Meghan come up. Rather its story

wherein they were universally loved and through all the fault of their own people turned their backs on them. They're just playing victims like those celebrities. 6. DW finally mentions the book! This is what he wants to talk about supposedly but he had to lay the ground work.

When he finally mentions the book he gives you some scare words and hits you over the head with why the book is biased. The title is "ridiculous," the book is a" hagiography," it is written by their "favorite journalist," and they're in "regular contact" with him. That is, this

is all their book, as personally dictated by then. DW gives us no proof of this and makes no mentions of the denials. He's on palace business here after all and he wants to bury the book by making it sound biased as hell. Again, no mention of the sourcing and how it was

verified, etc. 7. He minimizes the thesis of the book and then gets back to his masters: "the claim is dubious and strongly disputed by courtiers throughout the institution." That is, he is being backed by the big wigs and this is their defense. He is supposedly going to spill

real tea now. Again, never mind that this is extremely biased and that while Scobie and Durand are forthright about their process, DW is just expecting us to believe that his sources have no axe to grind. This is somehow just the truth for on high. 8. Damn, Charles got thrown

under the bus quickly here! DW cannot help telling on people because he's not a disciplined writer or gifted at crafting arguments, but he's not going for a very sophisticated audience. So Charles valued the Sussexes but really just as a pawn in his war with William? Not a good

look at all. It doesn't sound like love, but using people (here Meghan is inhuman again) to get at other people. 9. This is only further shown by somehow the Sussexit being the cause of some truce between Wills and Chuck. It gives off the feeling of "well now we have a common

enemy so let's talk. For someone trying to show this is somehow a good and loving family, it does not at all come off that way and further bolsters the point that the Sussexes were right to get out of there.

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10. LMAO. The section with the Queen is left so vague. What does unwavering support by the Queen mean? Sounds like very little since her underlings didn't seem to cooperate. Note that Meghan is again left in some cloud of suspicion by DW using "tiaragate" but as

we know from the book there was no such thing. There was only Angela Kelly purposely slow walking things--meaning that the Queen didn't help very much. If the Queen had any reservations it was because of Angela. But DW isn't going to tell on her because he's defending her and the

courtiers. 11. Narrative alert!! DW has very bad facts working against him when it comes to his fave William. How does he get himself out of it? Blame Meghan of course. He's pulling the wool over the reader's eyes. He is ignoring all the evidence offered by the book about Harry

being uncomfortable for years. Instead we get talk of previously tight brothers. 12. The misogynoir is front and center--Meghan became the driving force in Harry's decision making. Meghan is as powerful as Harry is weak here. Again, completely ignores the reporting of the book:

here DW blames Meghan for Harry wanting to use social media when the reporting in the book says he wanted this long before. 13. An important point here. The book is specific and this article is vague as hell. You decide. 14. It's so dirty how DW totally glosses over William

and Kate's actions here. He talks about a personal breakdown but not due to the Cambs not welcoming Meghan. Rather, here again he comes back to Meghan talking down to staff, but not one example is given. We are told about tiaras again but no details. Just let the cloud hang

over Meghan. It is so obvious what he's doing. He mentions fallouts leading up to the wedding but again no specifics. The book debunked ALL of these. 15. He totally betrays William without realizing it. Note that they skip over the behavior of Angela pre-wedding. Now she is made

out to be a hero as she and William COLLUDE to keep Meghan from borrowing jewelry. This is such a bad look! Not only has William been shown to directly work with the press but now he's working with specific courtiers who are not on his staff to stymy Meghan. This is a defense of

William completely off the rails because DW has absolutely no discipline. But again this is for readers of the Sun.

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16. Them becoming suspicious of their staff is made to sound like they're out of touch. They blame people without any reason. This is where DW is again using vagueness to pull the wool over the reader's eyes. The book sketches out leaks and other

reasons why the Sussexes felt like the tide was against them. They weren't looney, out of touch celebs, the institution and the media (with DW front and center) were working again them. But DW doesn't want to let the reader in on the secret that he's very much a part of the

establishment that was working against the Sussexes. 17. Note that this is a preview for a further upcoming defense of the courtiers--who are DW's real friends and bosses here.

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18. As if we weren't sure who DW was caping for he has to launch into this really petty clarification. Don't dare call these men in grey suits. They are modern and elite. Really? This was necessary? I guess when the palace is dictating your articles you have to

include this shit. 19. This next paragraph is no better. It is so poorly written!! He's trying to get Sussex Squad in (again the guy has no disciplineI) but it makes no sense in the context. The comparison, the structure, etc are all off. It's a sentence long paragraph that

should have been edited out or revised. 20. So the courtiers told them to use more conventional processes but as DW has shown us thus far those included methods like using people as pawns and leaking stories to the press. He doesn't want to talk about that though. Again the Squad

has nothing to do with this, so it just doesn't fit. 21. Hilarious to see DW now work to defend Sara Latham. She was anathema to them as right wingers because she worked for Hillary. But now she's convenient because she can be used as a hammer to beat the Sussexes over the head.

Is Sara speaking to him here? Because if she is--really Sara? I don't know if the Sussexes blamed her or not but I know they were right to keep their plans secret. 22. Again, because DW sucks as a writer we then get into Sara being willing to move to Africa. It's only mentioned

to show the Sussexes as ungrateful. They even turned on Sara, who was willing to move to Africa for them. Huh? Again, it's all very vague but it's only supposed to get the reader to think the Sussexes--evil. 23. I love how he sneaks in some more vagueness about Africa here. It

is because as always DW knows if all the facts come out that it wouldn't look good on him. He doesn't get into any of the Tim Shipman facts. How Africa (and note this asshole is talking about the whole huge continent and not a country) was about William's jealousy and the

Sussexes getting too popular. This was a plan to sideline them. We get no details of why it was scrapped--it's all just blamed on M&H. 24. Dan is really trying to gloss over a lot of these bad facts so he can get back to his main theme--Hollywood and celebrity culture/hate them.

25. The only people who the Sussexes were loyal too was a group of Hollywood insiders. This is another ploy. After setting up the courtiers as these wonderful, hard working salt of the earth folks he wants you to compare them to these Hollywood types. These are the people M&H

like. He calls them a cabal to make them sound even more evil. I'm sure he wished he could have gone full on anti-Semitic to paint the picture even better. This is some dirty stuff he's doing here. 26. BUT, he's also telling on himself and the courtiers. This is what was bugging

them. M&H started to ice them out and they were losing control.

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27. DW names names! Can you believe it? All of this time talking about courtiers (years) and not one mention of who they are, but he wants you to know who all of the "Hollywood" people are. He makes sure you know the names of all the principals, attorneys,

and PR people. In case you hadn't branded the Sussexes (and especially) Meghan as all Hollywood this is meant to drive the final nail into the coffin. 28. He links them to Meghan's work on Suits and makes sure you know that she set up paparazzi shots (neither here nor there but

Dan is undisciplined). 29. The "crew" as he's now calling them apparently disappeared during the time when the UK was supposedly welcoming Meghan, but reappeared. Dear reader, we loved them but it was Meghan who just couldn't keep away from those Hollywood people. It's those

horrible kind of people that corrupt and Meghan poisoned Harry by bringing them in. 30. The final phase of this is to portray M&H as all staying together in the same place working on the Sussex Royal website. This is ridiculous in so many ways. People work remotely--but DW wants

reader to think of this as the final corruption of Harry. Meghan took him away from the country and got him in the same room with the evil people and that was the end of it. 31. Of course this is all bull. Going back to the book we know that the website was the ONLY thing that

worked. Samantha, Sara, no one knew, and obviously people are still really salty about that. It was the one move they weren't able to get ahead of and that's why DW spends so much time setting it up. He's caping for his bosses who leaked the plan to him but even they

didn't know about the website. DW even has to describe the website as a Hollywood press release statement for maximum effect. HATE those outsiders readers.

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32. DW loves to think himself a huge deal so of course we had to get into him leaking their plans. To be honest I do not care about this 10 day thing. He's mentioned it a million times and it never makes any sense. If he put the story to them 10 days before it

still had to be leaked from somewhere and if he's saying it's not CH or KP then it had to be Buckingham. I just don't see how any of that makes a difference. Regardless, it just goes to show that they were completely correct in not trusting the palace. DW is trying so hard

here but like Tominey he cannot dispute a bunch of bad fact that are working against him here. 33. I cannot believe he told on the RF even more! So they did the pictures intentionally as a power move to get the Sussexes to come back? This is even better than the Squad mention!

It at once shows the RF as incredibly petty, manipulative, and ineffectual. These are some 11-year-old in junior high moves. WTF? Talk about toxic. If that's how they communicate there's no hope. 34. DW makes it even better! Does he realize what he's doing? I honestly think

he goes into writing these hoping to accomplish something but then just spectacularly fails. So you're telling me that DW, on the record, just told on his bosses by saying that until Meghan is out of the picture they don't want Harry. This piece is supposed to be a defense of the

courtiers but they're so pissed and scared that all of the badly kept secrets are coming out.

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35. LMAO. DW calls the book an own goal. Hilarious because he doesn't realize that's what this PR hit job is. He's trying to call out the Sussexes for not liking bitchy off the record briefings but when did they ever say that? They said they didn't want

to play your game of giving you access in exchange for good coverage. It's extremely dirty. I do not see how that has changed. I have seen no proof of them working with tabloid journalists of DW's caliber. 36. DW wants to drag down the book to his level of reporting but anyone

with sense is not buying it. DW, whether in this story, or any others has NEVER shown any attention to journalistic principles. While the authors tell us that they confirmed everything with at least two sources we never get such a guarantee from DW. Finding Freedom is NOT Sun

"yellow journalism." And yet again DW makes no mention that throughout the palace's story is also told. That's a far cry from what DW is doing here btw. 37. Here he gives you a cheap comparison to Andrew Morton's book. This is especially funny because he's just bringing it up to

as a tool to hit the Sussexes over the head. As we all know, that book was criticized up and down just like this one was. The courtiers who hated that one hate this one. The courtiers and gossipers like DW were saying that book was a lie and made Diana look bad. 38. The

comparison is also cheap because we have no evidence that the Sussexes worked with these authors. As I've said in the past, I think the book would be a lot more explosive if they had told this story. 39. Here DW comes back to reemphasize his cheap and misleading themes: the

Sussexes brought this all on themselves and this book is a lie. He now calls Omid a "fanboy" (he's really jealous of the coins Omid is making) while making no mention of Carolyn. He also lies by saying that the book confirms a bunch of newspaper of exclusives. To the contrary:

it debunks a lot of palace lies and tabloid spin and shows that misogynoir was at the center of everything. Again, the book adds details to the stories while DW continues to speak in lots of vague sentences. It's a sure sign of who is being more truthful. 40. Now DW goes in for

the kill. What he's offering here is not only a defense of himself (the media) and the RF. Partly why this kind of article works for readers of the Sun is because they're searching for something else: absolution. What worries some is that this book lays out issues of systemic

racism/xenophobia/classism/sexism throughout British society. Brits do not want to think of themselves this way! This is actually DW's most powerful hook--it's not your fault; this is all about a bunch of spoiled Hollywood types. Here he gives Brits some nationalism to make

them feel good. The wedding was like Diana's or the 2012 Olympics: a great moment in British history. Again, let's completely overlook all of the racist headlines, and all of the behind the scenes abuse and machinations against Meghan focus on the wedding. We welcomed them and

they're the ungrateful ones.

I hope by the end of this it's obviously clear what is being done here. This is very cheap and meant to play on fears, tropes, and stereotypes. It is meant to confirm the evil things that readers have been thinking. It gives them permission to continue abusing M&H.

DW and friends are incompetent in many ways but they know their audience of low education racists and this will do it's job.

Don't expect any more tweets from me for the rest of the month. Reading trash like this is painful.

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