Yesterday, FvD politician Gideon van Meijeren swum straight into the trap of political reporter Merel Ek, to the hilarity of Johan Derksen and his colleagues at Today Inside. “Genius.”
Thierry Baudet has decided to file a complaint against Johan Derksen, because he recently called out in Today Inside that the leader of Forum for Democracy should be ‘liquidated’ from the House of Representatives. He immediately corrected himself, because he actually meant to say that the politician should be removed.
Reptiles
A bit bland of Thierry, of course, especially because he and his colleagues are constantly juggling words themselves. Yesterday he again shouted that we are ruled by a conspiracy group of ‘evil reptiles’, ostensibly referring to the conspiracy theory that we are controlled by alien ‘reptiles’.
However, the word reptiles should not be taken so literally, they call now back to Forum. Thierry: “Of course it was a metaphor. I was talking about a conspiracy behind the scenes. (…) Those who do this to us are a kind of inhumans, reptiles, machines, in short, the insensible.”
Gideon
Merel Ek, reporter for Hart van Nederland and regular guest of Today Inside, got Thierry’s colleague Gideon van Meijeren in front of the camera yesterday afternoon. “If you look at the dictionary, the Dikke Van Dale, you will see that reptile has both a literal and a figurative meaning,” he explained.
Gideon argues that the reptile statement has nothing to do with the conspiracy theory. “In the figurative sense, it is a despicable creature, a retard. In that sense I could not have come up with a better word,” said the politician with a voice as if he had just walked out of the Lower House of Duckburg.
blackbird trap
Then Gideon swims straight into Merel’s trap. She: “Did you know that the word ‘liquidate’ also has different meanings in the Dikke Van Dale?”
Gideon: “Yes, I am aware of that.”
Merel: “So if someone says: ‘Mr Baudet must be liquidated’, then that could also mean something else according to your reasoning?”
Gideon: Well, then you should tell me what that should mean.
Merel: “Well, according to the Dikke Van Dale, it can also simply be: ‘Be sent away.’”
To dismiss
Gideon: “Ehhhm, well, maybe that would… If that… I didn’t look up this word in the Van Dale, but if this is a meaning of the word liquidate… Turning away isn’t a strange meaning.”
Wilfred Genee then laughs to Johan in the studio: “Yes, yes, you don’t have to go there anymore! You no longer have to go to The Hague!”
Johan: “I’m not taking a lawyer with me, I’m taking Merel Ek with me!”
Wilfred: “It’s just done with this!”
René van der Gijp: “Genius.”
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