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Host Jan Böhmermann claimed his team had used digital editing software to insert the indecent gesture. Then it showed another clip it said was the original, in which Mr Varoufakis made the same remarks but without the gesture. A regretful Mr Böhmermann told his audience they were behind the "fake" Stinkefinger footage. "Sorry Mr Varoufakis, we won't do it again," he said It didn't take long, however, until the fake was itself revealed as a fake. The original footage of the event does appear to show Mr Varoufakis showing the Stinkefinger. The finger-free "original" as shown on Neo Magazin Royale was, in fact, the doctored one. Still following?
Host Jan Böhmermann claimed his team had used digital editing software to insert the indecent gesture. Then it showed another clip it said was the original, in which Mr Varoufakis made the same remarks but without the gesture. A regretful Mr Böhmermann told his audience they were behind the "fake" Stinkefinger footage.
"Sorry Mr Varoufakis, we won't do it again," he said
It didn't take long, however, until the fake was itself revealed as a fake.
The original footage of the event does appear to show Mr Varoufakis showing the Stinkefinger. The finger-free "original" as shown on Neo Magazin Royale was, in fact, the doctored one. Still following?
Böhmermann falls for fake moderator.
(For those not speaking German: in this version of the new Downfall video, the fake subtitles turn the man with the laugh convulsion into Böhmermann's cutter who laughs about the stupid reactions.) *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
From 7:48 in in the original video:
From 0:35 in in Böhmermann's video statement:
The fact that 99% of the MSM commenters (as well as forum commenters) missed these only underscores his point about superficiality. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
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(especially as the article doesn't back up the claim.)
Only it turned out that Boehmermann was indulging in some drawn out satire. The video that Neo Magazin Royale posted 'without' the finger was actually the 'doctored' one.
It turned out according to who? Twitter noise, apparently.
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.
No misunderstanding here, that's what he said.
It's all too subtle for me...
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!"
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