An Excerpt from WHITE HORSE II #OscarPistorius

From the chapter…

#TheInterview Deconstructed

In the same way a horse rider uses a stirrup to ride and steer a horse, Oscar has used the ITV interview to ride and steer his horse. The horse of course is the amorphous brand that once existed that was Oscar Pistorius. Oscar’s still defending it, still trying to bring it back into visibility, back to centre stage. At the end of this narrative we’ll reveal the most sickening insight of all – what all these snivelling shenanigans have been about, why we’ve been exposed to a stump walk with Oscar dressed in Nike, what it all means.

Before we get to that, let’s deal with the matter at hand. The ITV Interview.

In this chapter we want to deal with two issues primarily:

The timing and execution of the interview
An analysis of the interview itself.

TIMING AND EXECUTION

Let’s start with the timing and execution. I’ve already stressed the assumption in the introductory remarks to this narrative that it’s very likely this interview served as Barry Roux’s paycheque, which is why Roux may have been instrumental in making sure a window was created during sentencing for the ITV broadcast. If Roux could pull this off maybe there was an additional incentive, perhaps an extra R5 million thrown in. And everybody wins. ITV could get maximum bang for their buck, Roux could get paid in full plus a hefty bonus and the deal would be no skin off Oom Arnold’s nose. And obviously the cry-baby would benefit too – not just financially, but he’d get in the last word, a final PR boost before going silent again during his jail time.

Even in the documentary itself Mark Williams-Thomas contextualises the narrative, he gives it a historical perspective and admits the production schedule when he says “Oscar will be sentenced in a few days”. Let me stress that again: in the documentary itself, which was released on June 24^th, they already knew when sentencing was likely to be. In other words…..