Peter Kee, political editor at Khalid & Sophie, reveals that the article about the flooding of Angela de Jong’s house was eagerly shared by the editorial staff. “She is very outspoken.”
Something terrible has happened in Angela de Jong’s private life: her home was flooded by a burst pipe in the street, causing her entire basement to be a total loss. It’s all really bad and the AD opinion diva has a lot of worries about it, because she was just about to put her house up for sale.
Flood
Peter Kee, political reporter for Khalid & Sophie, seems to be having some fun about it. “I read that she had a flood in her house and that went around a bit in our editorial office, because she has a very strong opinion about our program,” he chuckles in the podcast. Politics Today.
Presenter Sam Hagens: “She completely finished you off, didn’t she?”
Peter: “Yes, systematically actually.”
Sam: “And does she have a point?”
Leftward course
Mwoah, answers Peter. “She may well criticize the somewhat more left-wing course of the program, but in that sense: we are actually just that village that Asterix & Obelix also had, in France, you know… That one village that still has a bit of a left-wing sound hear and pay attention to it.”
Sam: “Because there is actually quite a lot of right-wing noise, you say?”
Peter: “I think so.”
Sam: “You have Op1, WNL, we are on the right-hand side of Today Inside.”
Pronounced left
Peter finds it surprising that Sam calls his own VI decidedly right-wing: “Yes, don’t you think so?”
Sam: “Not me, but of course the program does, that’s very clear.”
Peter: “Yes, I think so too, but I’m glad you put it so bluntly.”
Sam: “But is Khalid & Sophie really a left-wing program?”
Peter: “I don’t think so. I also worked for Pauw & Witteman and Pauw for a long time.”
Sam: “But it wasn’t really progressive there or anything?”
Peter: “Pauw and Witteman were not exactly the most left-wing people in our editorial office, but the basic principle was simply: we can welcome everyone and let everyone tell their story.”
Three points
Sam believes that Angela is right on three points about Khalid & Sophie, namely that they ignored the attack on Thierry Baudet, that the man in Budel was ridiculed and that PVV members did not speak on the day after the elections. “I will mention three points that she has rightly been criticized for, right?”
Peter: “Not all of them, because that man in Budel… The table responded with a bit of laughter.”
Sam: “But that video too!”
PVV members asked
Peter qualifies it. “That was just the man from Budel, but the table started to chuckle and then Caroline van der Plas thought: this is my moment of fame, she handled it very cleverly. I saw her spokesperson behind Raoul Heertje laughing and rubbing his hands. She did it very skillfully. She dismissed the program as elitist.”
And what about those PVV members? “PVV members have been asked, but they have not been found. It has certainly been looked for. If you look at the program, it was not a vote against the result.”
Blowers
Finally, how is Angela’s house doing? “We have not made any progress yet. It’s all the way it is. There is a dryer, there are huge blowers blowing,” she says in the AD Media podcast.