It seems that a day’s rest let former Union minister cool down as he took to Twitter on Thursday to clarify his previous comments in which he called members of the media ‘self-appointed liars and scum’.
On Thursday, Tharoor on Twitter explained his outburst. He wrote, “Amused to see my comment to the one channel that stalked me at home and at the airport is being twisted as an attack on all media. Taking refuge? Let’s be clear: only one channel ran a witch-hunt yesterday all evening, lied and distorted facts, aired innuendo, ran a survey on purported guilt.”
He added, “It suits gutter journalists to pretend I attacked their entire fraternity. I attacked only those who put exploitation of tragedy above justice.”
The tweets come after he was asked questions about his late wife Sunanda Pushkar’s mysterious death at the airport regarding the latest development allowing the police to conduct lie-detector tests in the murder case on three suspects.
“Scummy channel accuses me of evading questions. I speak to the police and investigators, not to self-appointed vigilante liars. Told them so (sic),” Tharoor tweeted after the incident.
“These vile people have sunk so low today in their venal desire to profit from a personal tragedy that my 17-month-old silence finally cracked… I let myself down by shouting in fury at a badgering hack whom I had often been kind to. Won't again. I regret giving them the satisfaction (sic),” the Congress leader added.
