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Did the hawks blink first? | 49 comments (49 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)
Selective memory (none / 1)
Truth to tell: in my memory, having watched the video posted here a month ago, Varoufakis only said "stick the finger to Germany", without performing the gesture. I just went back to look again. Oops.

I also misunderstood Böhmermann's "you haven't doctored the footage" to mean, not you (Jauch), but us (Neo).

So my above comments are

Sorry.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Sat Mar 21st, 2015 at 08:45:00 AM EST
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Re: Selective memory (none / 0)
Böhmermann is the one who "discovered" the finger video in the first place:
(after 3'40")

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman
by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sat Mar 21st, 2015 at 08:48:10 AM EST
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Re: Selective memory (none / 1)
Which was what made it so believable. You even got a video interview with the man who filmed the event where he mentions Böhmermann by name "It is one thing if comedians like Jan Böhmermann..". Which is easily explained by the video above of course, but some things are too funny not to believe.
by generic on Sat Mar 21st, 2015 at 09:40:21 AM EST
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Re: Selective memory (none / 0)
I also misunderstood Böhmermann's "you haven't doctored the footage" to mean, not you (Jauch), but us (Neo).

No misunderstanding here, that's what he said.

by generic on Sat Mar 21st, 2015 at 01:18:55 PM EST
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Re: Selective memory (none / 0)
I understood it to mean "we doctored the footage with the finger that you used".

It's all too subtle for me...

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Sat Mar 21st, 2015 at 02:02:31 PM EST
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Re: Selective memory (none / 0)
He lists what Jauch did and then ends with "..and everything else was done by us"
by generic on Sat Mar 21st, 2015 at 02:36:58 PM EST
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And "what Jauch did" is
Dear editorial staff of Günther Jauch, Yanis Varoufakis is wrong, you haven't doctored the footage. You simply took it out of context, and gave the Greek politician the runaround by pulling on his middle finger, so that in the evening Mom and Dad could pursue their passion of being outraged: "The Foreigner. Ot of Europe with him! He is poor and takes away the money from us Germans. That's just not possible! We are the bosses in here!"
(DoDo)

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman
by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sun Mar 22nd, 2015 at 05:53:18 AM EST
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Did the hawks blink first? | 49 comments (49 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)
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