US/NATO War on Russia

[Ralf Anders]

I quite liked the movie version of "In the Thick of It" and enjoyed some episodes of "The Mitchell and Webb look" -- otherwise I am not up to date as far as political satire in the UK is concerned.

I couldn't really believe what I saw when the guys from "Die Anstalt" did what they did on 29 April concerning Ukraine and the reporting of our media. At one point Uthoff, playing a cynic and pondering the initiation of a new peace movement, stated: "Whatever it takes to make Josef Joffe puke on his keyboard, I'm with it." I have been watching German television for decades and, believe me, this was a historic moment. Wagner and Uthoff were directly attacking some of the most influential journalists in the country in front of millions of viewers and they didn't take prisoners.

Uthoff's target was this person: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Joffe

As I said, they were sued by two of the most prominent journalists from DIE ZEIT (Joffe, Bittner) for very minor inconsistencies. Since then, the programme, not surprisingly, seems not to have merited a single review in a major newspaper.

You can watch "Die Anstalt" here (in German):
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http://www.zdf.de/ZDFmediathek/kanal...rsicht/2078314[/URL]

The incriminated scene is not available on this site but is still available on the internet of course (in German):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvTWo5ZGcNA

Ralf

P.S. Thanks to all who tried to help me with the paragraphs. It worked as soon as I disabled "No Script." But now Facebook collects my data...

It's a strange thing Ralf. In the UK where we've had a very long history of political satire dating back well over a hundred years, there is not a single TV programme these days that gets close. There are, admittedly a few publications around still, like Private Eye - but even that seems to me to have lost its cutting edge. It's a real loss imo.