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Please watch. These 2 minutes (in English) sum it all up.
Spain’s Foreign Affairs, Cooperation and EU minister Josep Borrell was interviewed in a German programme, and this shows all you need to know about how media is controlled in Spain.
Borrel gets mad at the interviewer and asks to stop recording and walks off the set, after disrespecting the interviewer and accusing of lying. Here are some highlights.
Interviewer: “(…) keeping people in solitary confinement for 16 hours a day (…)”
Borrell, interrupting him: “why do you say so? what do you mean solitary?”
I: “solitary confinement, 16 hours a day, a 60 year old grandmother, convincted of nothing (…)” [he’s talking about the Catalan activist Carme Forcadell, who later was elected the president of the Parliament of Catalonia and has been in pre-trial jail since March 2018 for taking part in organizing Catalonia’s independence referendum]
B: “Stop it. If we continue like this I stop this interview. Understand me? If you continue like this, I stop it. You are not interrogating me, you are interviewing me. (…) So [ask] the right questions and let me talk. If not, I stop it. Okay? Let’s start again.”
Hmmm. The “right questions”, minster? Are you afraid of being faced with questions from a journalist who isn’t directed by your government? Apparently, yes, he is. Later in the interview, this happens:
Interviewer: “are you not interested in reforming the [Spanish] Constitution?”
Borrell: “who is asking for it?”
I: “70% of Spania-”
B: “no, no, no, no”
I: “-rds want Constitutional reform according to the Center for Sociological Research.”
B: “Stop it. You are continiously lying. (…) Stop this record. Stop this record.”
I: “why?”
B: “Finished. No, no. Finished. I don’t want to do that anymore.” *takes microphone off and leaves*
He left the interview because he was asked real questions about the Spanish government’s authoritarian behaviour and their mistreatment of Catalan political prioners. Borrell left the set, but came came back to finish the interview after speaking with his aides.
This isn’t all, by the way. In parts of the interview not included in the video above, he refused to answer questions about why the Spanish government is one of the countries that does not enforce the anti-bribary convention (watch that here). The exact words were:
Borrell: “We do as much as we can.”
Interviewer: “But you could do more”
B: “You too, could do better your interviews.”
I: “Minister, good to have you on [the programme] Conflict Zone. Thank you.”
B: “Thank you to you, but next time I would appreciate it if you would ask the questions in a less biased way.” *smiles*
I: “I’m not here just to give you the questions you want, Minister.”
I’m so gosh darned tired all the time. America is such a dystopia and honestly so is a fair bit of the rest of this planet.
Why do people have more empathy for mandalorians than they do real poc and lgbt+ folk?
Anyways Dirty by grandson reminds me of Luther Rael
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