Fuera! Fuera! What you won't see on Telemadrid

What you won't see on Telemadrid is this video (apparently made by Telemadrid themselves). It depicts the Queen of Madrid, you know: that one Graeme has a crush on, visiting the Ramon y Cajal hospital in Madrid. Many of the public health workers (or perhaps that should be: Trotskyite terrorists) were protesting in support of public health care, chanting and shouting slogans. Esperanza lost it a bit and shouts "You're paid to fuck things up" (my translation for "Estáis pagados para meter follón") into the face of one of the protesters, before turning and laughing with one of her henchmen cronies colleagues. The video's interesting because it shows that she has very little that is either presidential or human about her, as she gets personally involved in the argument, but only to exchange insults.

The real story, though, is how Telemadrid executives placed a total embargo on the footage, and issued a memo to staff to warn them that the pictures couldn't be sold to any other stations. This is indicative of the way Esperanza Aguirre understands the word 'public'. 'Public' means: good when it can be of personal utility to an avaricious politician; bad when it means paying people 'to fuck things up' (i.e. provide health care).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UO41VPoVhA

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June 14, 2008 | Filed Under PP, Politics, Spain 

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2 Responses to “Fuera! Fuera! What you won't see on Telemadrid”

  1. Graeme on June 14th, 2008 11:02 am

    I think that should really be "the one I would like to crush". I've seen the video but I didn't know it was Telemadrid that had taken it - although who else would want to follow Aguirre around all day? She really show her people friendly style, the bit where she sticks her face about a centimetre from one of the protestors is classic.

  2. Keefieboy on June 16th, 2008 2:40 pm

    Ugh. She really comes across as an evil bully in this clip - swaggering along chewing gum, using her height to intimidate the poor protesters. I'm beginning to see why Graeme doesn't like her much (irony).

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