You just need Arnold Karskens. What the NPO could not achieve with voluminous reports from the Ombudsman and panicky advice to the State Secretary, it will, as usual, achieve on its own. Hommelles at Ongehoord Nederland. The right-wing louse in the Hilversum fur since 2022.
An exasperated Raisa Blommestijn, anchor by Unheard News, suddenly announced her departure on Monday. Driver Karskens had called her to account for her statements on social media. That were not “careful.” Censorship, Blommestijn thoughtwho immediately quit.
Her departure did not go unnoticed by the neighbors. The BNNVARA colleagues waved to Raisa on their site: “In addition to shocking racism, Blommestijn was mainly concerned with spreading a variety of absurd conspiracy theories at ON about, among other things, the corona measures and government conspiracies.” Quite a portfolio after all.
I also thought it was a shame, because as a TV substitute I was sitting with a left-aligned notepad on my lap, ready for Blommestijn’s return in a new season. That promised quite a bit: Sunday appeared on the ON site a column from her with the head Fighting for Ukraine is unacceptable. Against Rutte and his “belligerent European friends” with “their” war in Ukraine, a “totally corrupt country” where the “left-wing socialite” wants to kill Dutch boys.
In the meantime, she tweeted busily on She also shared a cute, homey one photo of herself on the couchengrossed The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy by Carl Schmitt, the Nazi legal scholar who provided legal support for Hitler’s dictatorship. Whoa, wait, that doesn’t say it all, who Schmitt is in fashion nowadays, even here and there on the left. Raisa, who graduated from the Weimar years, is simply not from the street.
Familiar guests
Out of poverty then her last broadcast viewed from the end of last year. With a few familiar guests and ditto topics: Forum MP Pepijn van Houwelingen (“there will be tribunals”), retired legal philosopher and opinion tumbler Paul Cliteur and Bart Kemp, from the agricultural action group Agractie.
It was a bit disappointing. The prayer wheel of the radical right always revolves around the same prev elements: get rid of the EU and stop mass immigration, everything for the farmers and nothing for Ukraine. Blommestijn: “Paul, do you agree with Pepijn?” Paul, not easily put off: “Yes, I completely agree with Pepijn.” Over to the farmers: did Bart also have the feeling that the Netherlands is on the nitrogen leash of Brussels? Bart: “Yes, absolutely.” Always nice, pluralism in the sense of never disagreeing with each other.
Blommestijn’s largest claim to fame was the September 2022 broadcast with videos of black boys beating up white people out of “racism”. It turned out afterwards to lie a little differentlybut ON fully defended the item.
So what inspires Karskens, the man of steel who defied Hilversum, to suddenly be pious about being careful? He pulled the plug, like folkie Pete Seeger tried when Bob Dylan grabbed an electric guitar. Has he been encapsulated by the world of network managers to save his broadcaster? Or has ON become too small for its star (111,000 followers on
You can also interpret the realignment differently: as an intuitive realignment of right-wing media after the victory of the PVV. Blommestijn was Baudet, Forum and corona, not favorite themes for the party that now considers itself master of the revolution.