Wouke van Scherrenburg receives a heavy verbal beating from Joost Vullings, the star reporter of EenVandaag. He hopes he never sinks to her level. “Go gardening!”
77-year-old Wouke van Scherrenburg is on the guest list of the talk show Khalid & Sophie to analyze the election battle, but last night she also came up with some kind of voting advice. The former journalist indicated that she is undecided between D66 and Volt, because that choice would work out best for her children and grandchildren.
Criticism of Wouke
It causes annoyance for EenVandaag star Joost Vullings. “I thought: what am I looking at? It was a kind of voting advice round. Why do I need to know this? In itself, every Dutch person can say what he thinks, I just think it’s strange if it becomes a trend that people start talking in programs… That that is your contribution to the program.”
He continues in the podcast The Mood of Vullings and Van der Wulp: “Moreover, she was a candidate MP for D66 herself. She also says, “I looked at what was best for my grandchildren.” I find that rather paternalistic, because did those grandchildren also have a say in this? Don’t know.”
‘Go garden!’
Wouke is a former colleague of Joost. Yet he shows little compassion for her. “Why do those people after their careers, like Wouke van Scherrenburg who is simply completely uninformed, still feel the need to sit and giggle on the TV? And then your contribution is voting advice…”
He concludes: “I have now taken out a kind of insurance that, if I reach that point in my career when I come to talk show tables to rattle off my own voting advice completely uninformed, then I now say to all listeners: really, drag me into the studio. out. Just say: old fart, sit at home, do something fun, go gardening.”
Derogatory
Journalist Marieke Kuypers finds this very mean, she says on
Pim Fortuyn once shouted ‘people, start cooking’ to Wouke. Joost’s criticism is a variation on this, says Marieke. “Well, more like: ‘people, go after the geraniums’.”
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