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The interview on Fox News is kid’s play for Baerbock

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Stefanie Bolt

Baerbock calls on Washington to make a joint effort in opposition to the Russian struggle of aggression

Federal Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has known as on the USA to make a joint effort in opposition to the Russian struggle of aggression in Ukraine. The Green politician advised the TV station Fox News that Putin is preventing democracies worldwide, so we have now to face collectively.

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A Green on Fox News: What might have been an trade of blows turns into kid’s play for Annalena Baerbock. Less as a result of the Foreign Minister wins over the Conservatives, however as a result of the broadcaster considers different points to be extra essential. Even the moderator had to get replaced after a breakdown.

Dhe German Foreign Minister had not been in the sizzling seat on Fox News for a minute when Bret Baier was already speechless. Annalena Baerbock continued to look intently into the studio digicam, however there was no extra dying phrase from the chief presenter.

This was certainly not resulting from the Greens’ quick-witted solutions, however slightly to the know-how of the most-watched information channel in the United States. Suddenly, a shortly changed moderator, Rich Edson, appeared and requested roughly the similar query to the German politician. A bit of cake for Baerbock.

Fox News, the tv Eldorado of ultra-conservative America, is watched by a mean of greater than 1,000,000 folks each day. His former star presenter Tucker Carlson, who abruptly left the channel in the spring in a dispute, even collected nearly 4.5 million viewers. Media titan Rupert Murdoch’s station makes presidents after which cuts them off once more. For a very long time he was Donald Trump’s home broadcaster, till the Murdoch clan apparently now not needed to rely on the man with the strawberry blonde hair.

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On Fox you hear conspiracy theories about immigrants eager to eradicate “white America.” Or that the storming of the Capitol in January 2021 was only a peaceable demonstration. Studio visitors there are also allowed to name transgender folks mass rapists.

From such a channel, the viewer anticipated a cruel dismantling of the Greens, whose political positions are diametrically against these of Fox. Like Trump, right-wing America also delights in blaming Germany for its hesitation in supplying arms to Ukraine and accusing it of shirking with regards to greater army spending.

Baerbock might see the pressure in the Fox News studio

The station had already requested the minister for an interview a number of occasions. On Thursday, after Baerbock had warmed as much as the deeply conservative governor of Texas, she ventured into the foxhole. The media-savvy politician was clearly tense; she forgot essential particulars in her solutions and generally received misplaced in convoluted sentences. But all that stress wasn’t needed. Baerbock also runs at Fox.

Bret Baier was rather more in the undeniable fact that Joe Biden’s son Hunter was charged with unlawful weapons possession on Thursday. And that Fox has landed an interview with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman subsequent week. The man suspected of being behind the homicide of a fellow Fox journalist, Washington Post columnist Jamal Kashoggi.

Meanwhile, Baerbock undisturbedly defined her concepts about how Russia’s struggle in Ukraine should finish and why this finish can solely be a victory for Kiev. “If Putin wins this war, what kind of sign would that be for other dictators in the world, like Xi (Jinping), like the Chinese president?” The China hawks at Murdoch’s community might hardly counter this.

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