Caroline van der Plas does not think she behaved too offensively at the Op1 talk show table. She calls it nonsense that she would piggyback on the hype to attack the media.
Not only for celebrities, but also for politicians, it is often an easy way out to simply blame the media for certain things. They then say, for example, that the press distorts everything or that it is not they, but journalists who are polarizing. Caroline van der Plas, the leader of the BBB, is now also being reproached.
Attack media
Caroline sat at the Op1 talk show table with her prime ministerial candidate Mona Keijzer on Friday evening and that conversation went somewhat smoothly. At a number of times, the ladies clashed with the presentation duo Sven Kockelmann and Tijs van den Brink. After one of those clashes, Caroline apologized to Sven.
Political commentator Arend Jan Boekestijn fears the worst. “Journalists can fake their chest. Attacking the media is the latest strategy to come out of the US. Lientje has been practicing at Op1 for a while,” he writes on X.
Calimero
What nonsense, Caroline responds. “Man, don’t be like Calimero. I have been a journalist for over 35 years. In the past, there were people on the newsroom every day who criticized the journalist in question. Do you know what we did then? Talk to each other while enjoying a cup of coffee or a drink. Finished.”
One Gretel: “Don’t be like Calimero? Wouldn’t have been a written press, I suspect.”
Caroline: “35 years of writing press.”
Had a drink
Is Caroline now arguing with Sven and Tijs? No, she says. “I don’t think Tijs and Sven had any problems with it. Not during the broadcast and not after the broadcast of Op1. Afterwards we had a drink together. F talked. Shake hands and move on. That’s how it goes in real life.”
Incidentally, Caroline also finds it bland that Arend Jan suggests that an argument between her and Mona is only ‘a matter of time’. “It is special that it is mainly men – driven by old politics – who think that women will quarrel if they are in the same cage with each other. What would these gentlemen have said if two strong men were leading a list?”