The green candidate for chancellor is under closer scrutiny by the media. A few inconsistencies stand out. Does not matter. But the party’s reactions are worrying.
From Frank Schmiechen
For a change, there are media headwinds for the Greens. So far, you have been used to loving hugs. First it was about vagueness in the resume of the chancellor candidate, then about the belated reporting of additional income, now about the new book by Annalena Baerbock, in which there are passages that are copied word for word. Little things, you could say. But how do you deal with such allegations?
There are different types:
- Let it roll off. Angela Merkel is world champion in this discipline. Add to that a dash of dry humor and a malicious smile.
- Lying. Donald Trump just always claimed the opposite. And mostly got away with it.
- Ignore. In difficult moments, the Queen is just a little harder of hearing than usual.
- Keep going. Karl Lauterbach just knocks out the next assertion if he’s wrong.
Frank Schmiechen
Frank Schmiechen has been a journalist for more than 30 years. Among other things, he was deputy editor-in-chief of “Welt” and editor-in-chief of “Gründerszene”. Today he works as a Senior Advisor at the communications consulting agency WMP Eurocom. Schmiechen loves pop music and football.
The Greens have chosen to completely lose their nerve and to blame others for their own mistakes. Reinhard Bütikofer and Jürgen Trittin shout down all critics on Twitter and smell a conspiracy. They are supported by Philipp Menn. Menn is a correspondent in the ARD capital studio and can claim on television that behind the criticism of the Chancellor candidate is a malicious campaign.
Voters are concerned about what happens if the Greens run into real problems under government responsibility:
- Xi Jinping. China’s president interprets the issue of climate policy in his own way. With a quiet smile, he is inexorably building countless airports and power plants.
- Viktor Orban. You can only discuss gender and diversity with the Hungarian President if you have nerves of steel.
- Wladimir Putin. Wikipedia: “Novitschok (Russian Новичок ‘newcomer’) is a group of highly effective fourth-generation nerve agents that were developed in the Soviet Union from the 1970s and further researched in Russia at least until the 1990s.”
- Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. The Turkish president doesn’t believe in integration programs like the ones the Greens love. He regards Turks who live in Germany as his Turks.
In a speech Annalena Baerbock once said that she would have liked to become a war reporter. Journalists know what this job demands. You are in constant danger and have to function in confusing situations. You can’t trust anyone, you’re on your own. You have to trust your instincts to survive dangerous situations.
What must a Chancellor Baerbock be able to do?
These are all qualities that a party also needs that wants to govern, that needs a candidate who applies for the fourth most important office in the state – after the federal president, the national coach and the federal virus expert. The Greens and their candidate failed the first stress test with kettledrum and trumpets.
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