Rutger Castricum regrets the comment he made in HLF8 about Jandino Asporaat. “When I drove back I already thought: yes, I don’t think you should bring children in like that.”
Jandino Asporaat is currently under some fire for asking questions about the moon landing and the 9/11 attacks. It was discussed on Tuesday evening in the talk show HLF8, where Rutger Castricum, among others, sat at the table. “I think this man also has children. I worry about that a lot more actually,” he noted.
Wanton Rutger
According to Jandino, it is “unacceptable and extremely dangerous” for his children to be involved in this discussion. He speaks of adirty trick‘ and is supported in this by several well-known Dutch people, including Monique Westenberg, who Rutger calls a ‘simple soul’. Roué Verveer, Najib Amhali and Jamai Loman also support Jandino.
Rutger will now return to this in the VI section In The Hallways. In it he refutes the criticism that he would no longer be rowdy. “Well, I may be even more rowdy on television than I’d like at the moment. I recently let something slip about Jandino and then I get a whole lot of situations again.”
‘Not satisfied with’
Host Wilfred Genee: “He denied 9/11 right? And the moon landing?”
Rutger: “Yes, and then I said in such a subordinate clause as: ‘His children.’ Yes, and actually when I drove back, I also think: yes, I don’t think you should involve children like that either. I wasn’t too happy about that either.”
So the presenter regrets his remark. “But it does fascinate me anyway. So if you think the earth is flat and you think the moon landing didn’t happen and 9/11 isn’t true, how do you talk to your kids? That was actually my fascination.”
‘Comment is justified’
Wilfred: “That’s what you actually meant? That it will also be complicated for the children if your father is like that in life. That is what you mean?”
Rutger: “Well, and: how do you talk to your children? Because it’s about trust. That was so stuck in my head and then I blurted out something like, “Well, his kids, I’m worried about that.” You will get comments on that, yes, and perhaps rightly so.”
Fascination
Jandino has a large following who believe that Rutger has gone too far. Rightly so, he now admits. “I don’t think I’d like it either if they said, ‘I’m worried about his kids,’ or something like that. Why do you say that?”
Wilfred: “But in itself it is quite extreme that way of thinking, of course.”
Rutger: “Yes, I think so too, so I do have that fascination.”
The section In De Wandelgangen in which Rutger makes the above statements can be viewed here.