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February 26th, 2010

Socialists to boycott MTV talk show

Socialist leader Ildikó Lendvai has asked MTV to remove Magyar Hírlap deputy editor László Zöldi Szentesi from the morning programme “Ma Reggel,” of which he is a co-host, the newspaper reports.

Szentesi commented in Magyar Hírlap recently that anyone who votes for the Socialists after the past eight years will be insulting the entire nation.

Lendvai asked MTV to seriously reconsider Szentesi’s role as an anchorman on the programme in the interest of objectivity and impartiality and said the Socialists will not take part in any programme in which he has a role. His attack was not directed at politicians, who are public figures, she added, but at voters.

MTV editor Szilárd Horváth said in a letter to Magyar Hírlap that the remark objected to was not made on MTV, adding that Szentesi is not an employee of the state network, but has been a guest on “Ma Reggel” for four months.

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  1. BIG JIM says:

    Did anyone else notice that Lendvai was a censor under the Kadar regime? The rapid decline of MSZ(M)P must have taken it toll on her fragile mind and she must be thinking that she is still in charge of dictating what is and what is not acceptable for the Communist Party.
    Did anyone notice that yesterday was the day of remembrance for the victims of Communist terror. One would never know reading politics.hu. Did Lendvai have any remorse about the close to hundred million people, her comrades murdered? I think not. She and her Communists brethren believe that they deserved it.
    There is one Communist, Gergely Bárándy, an AVO informer who said on Klubrádio that the victims of Communism were partially responsible for becoming victims. What a lovely thought from a Communist and a Jew. Such lovely people…
    How about victims of Nazis? Were they responsible and how much?
    Why did it take 26+ Jews, using all these fake passports to murder one Palestinian?

  2. wolfi says:

    @Big Jim:
    Why are you so interested in mrs Lendvai ? Do you have a crush on her ? It seems nobody here likes her so why should anyone give an answer to you rhetorical questions ?
    On your second question:
    Didn’t you read my posting ?
    This murderer was probably taken like the one in Agatha Christie’s Orient Express …
    If you don’t know about it – read it or watch the film …

  3. olga says:

    @ Big Jim
    Re: “Why did it take 26+ Jews, using all these fake passports to murder one Palestinian?”
    I don’t know if other than the Dubai police pointed the finger at Israel but that’s not the reason for my posting.
    If it actually took 26+ Jews to kill one Palestinian, can you imagine how many Jews in Israel it takes to change a light bulb? If your allegations are true I am as shocked as your are at how inefficient these people are.
    BTW – I know the Hamas murder is relevant to Hungarian politics. Thank you for bringing this
    subject to everyone’s attention.
    Is is possible Ildiko Lendvai spent time in Dubai recently? I am not implying anything, just taking an interest in her travels.

  4. Bystander says:

    Just ignore Little Jim and he will go away.

  5. Elle says:

    @ BIG JIM
    I actually enjoy Lendvai. The Botox Woman comes ready made as her own caricature. It just has to raise a laugh that she is, even now, demanding that people be removed.
    ‘Did anyone notice that yesterday was the day of remembrance for the victims of Communist terror?’
    Clearly, no. But good work for posting this question. If you type it, or just ‘remembrance victim communist terror’, into Google News, yours is the only item that appears.
    http://news.google.co.uk/news/search?aq=f&pz=1&cf=all&ned=uk&hl=en&q=Did+anyone+notice+that+yesterday+was+the+day+of+remembrance+for+the+victims+of+Communist+terror
    ‘Why did it take 26+ Jews, using all these fake passports to murder one Palestinian?’
    Nobody expects that Mossad will tell us any time soon. But an Australian newspaper hazards a partial guess:
    http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/locals-accept-dubai-assassination-was-mossad-operation/story-e6frg6nf-1225834934957 .

  6. @Elle
    The “Botox Woman” brings back memories of a British comedy series “Keeping Up Appearances”. The neighbor woman, a proper English lady called the social conscientious Hyacinth the “Bucket Woman”.
    At least the Bucket Woman was funny but Lendvai, the Botox Woman is szánalomraméltó and digusting.

  7. Viking says:

    Szentesi commented in Magyar Hírlap recently that anyone who votes for the Socialists after the past eight years will be insulting the entire nation
    (article above)

    So, if some other anchorperson on MTV would go out and state something similar, like:
    “anyone who votes for the Jobbik will be insulting the entire nation”?
    This remark would *not* lead to protests from Jobbik-people and the demand to remove that person from the state-owned public TV participating in political debates before the election?

  8. Norman says:

    Viking@easy to answer,the socialists destroyed this country,Jobbik have not even been in power yet,so stop your constant Jobbik prattle.

  9. Viking says:

    Jobbik have not even been in power yet,so stop your constant Jobbik prattle.
    Norman at February 28, 2010 5:16 PM

    And what has the question if Jobbik been in Government to do with if a State-Owned TV-anchor goes out and state:
    “anyone who votes for the Jobbik will be insulting the entire nation”?
    .
    That TV-anchor can have many reasons to make such a statement and none of them need to be built on who has been in the Government or not

  10. Vándorló says:

    @Norman: You should read Bayer Zsolt’s latest piece, it’s quite something: http://www.magyarhirlap.hu/hatter/nyilt_level_vona_gabornak.html
    Anyway in the p.s. at the bottom he notes that the head of Jobbik in Keszthely has just been carted off to prison with his mum for massive tax fraud. More than that he ran a greengrocers business selling Hungarian produce, the only problem being he neglected to pay his Hungarian suppliers for their produce.
    As with Jobbik’s account, if this is what they are like now, what kind of bright future awaits us?

  11. Norman says:

    Jobbik have grown very fast and as such some scum will no doubt try to join and take advantage,if the guy in Keszthely is indeed guilty he should be sent down,Jobbik needs to ensure a strict monitoring of its new people for the other corrupt parties are simply waiting for scandals like this to taint Vona Gabor and the true Jobbik members.Dirty times are ahead and such idiots simply feed the paranoia of the likes of viking.

  12. Elle says:

    @ BIG JIM
    ‘Botox Woman is szánalomraméltó and digusting.’
    Az én szánalmamra ez a félelmetes mumia véletlenül sem méltó. Talán inkabb Dávid Ibolya. Do have a look at MDF’s diagnostic tool. It raises a laugh rather like Hyacinth Bucket does:
    http://mdf.hu/konzervativ-teszt.

  13. Sophie says:

    Elle,
    I strongly object, inter alia, to your continued impersonification of me.
    Cease and desist, alba canis merga.
    Justasking thank you for your support.
    Call me anytime at 1-707-433-6087.
    Ask for Judit or Mark.
    Fabian says hello, you bitch.
    Viking I hate you.
    Root for me! Next time I want to pass the fricking bar exam!?-:)))

  14. HomeAlone says:

    Inside Lendvai’s house there are no mirrors.
    Garlic is frowned upon and all the curtains are drawn.
    Vlad the Impaler is a hero and a distant cousin
    and a portrait of the demon hangs in the library.
    At midnight banshees howl at the moon (it is Lenvai,really)and bats fly in ever decreasing circles.
    Lendvai has a face that could stop a clock and would not need make up to play the role of a zombie.
    PS. justasking. Well done Canada’s gold medal winning hockey team. Made even tastier because they turned over the greedy Yanks. Got to fly..T.T.F.N

  15. justasking says:

    @ Homealone;
    “Face that could stop a clock” I’m gonna us that one!
    As for the game yesterday, that was good hockey. I have to admit, I found the US to be very sore losers.
    I admit though, that’s what probably chokes me most about Americans, all or nothing attitude.

  16. Dave says:

    Hold me close