Hungarian News

Propagandamachine Causing Problems

• January 25, 2022
• István
• 4 Comments

The last days and weeks the propaganda machine has either lost direction, or is so much overdoing that the results are ridiculous.

On January 11th, 2022 lakmusz was launched, Hungary’s 1st fact checking website. This is professionally and practically sustained by Agence France Press (AFP,) 444, and the Media Universalis Alapítvány, a foundation of Hungarian ELTE university. It is funded by the EU ►EN. Who should be afraid about facts being published? Yes, liars! Debunked were the FIDESZ lies about gender change. The regime told the Hungarians that in Spain youth from 14 years onward may change gender without consent of their parents – in a country with a legal minimum age of 18, parents can’t give permission. In the UK every day 4 children would have such an operation FIDESZ told, in Scotland even at the age of 4. True is only that children are able to go to diagnostics early, but the availability of health care in possible cases doesn’t take away that minors can’t change gender at all. Yes, liars should be afraid of lakmusz ►HU. This did not hinder 888 to write a disturbing article titled “Fact checkers” are only bothered by the facts. With a long list whitewashing Trump from negative facts and blaming Biden being corrupt with “proofs” that since long has been proven to be falsified documents they try to convince that fact checkers in the USA are all Soros agents (what else….) Mandiner titled The fact checker of the 444 publishers starts with the cream of Hungarian left-wing journalism to come to come in another article to this conclusion: “However, we add that the Hungarian media market today is balanced and diverse.” Well, this again is a statement qualifying for fact checkers and that the state party press seems to be very afraid of facts is very obvious seen the frequency of articles they are making lakmusz just more likely being read.

But also ministers are not afraid to tell pretty scaring messages, just to tell at another moment that they didn’t. Our foreign minister told Financial Times that the USA would manipulate the elections ►EN. This he did not wanted to hear during an interview on CNN ►EN (5:27.) Chargé d’Affaires in Budapest Marc Dillard confirmed that the USA just wants to see strong democratic elections in Hungary which what results the voter would determine, on RTL ►HU. László Szőcs, writing dutifully on Magyar Nemzet, a few days ago again told the risk of CIA would determine the results of the elections. Since the state party is present everywhere in the polling stations, heading most electoral offices and commissions, including the national ones, it is hard to believe. It is the opposition who really needs to be represented. Szabad Európa made an impressing video ►HU about the problems of counting, even if you don’t understand Hungarian the map showing where only the state party has been represented in the polling stations is shocking, the details mentioned even more.

And we had a propaganda statement Tamás Deutsch, FIDESZ member of the 1st hour and since Joszef Szájer resigned head of the FIDESZ delegation in the EP. 62 MEPs from most EP groups have signed a letter asking the OSCE to employ a full-scale observation regarding the upcoming elections in Hungary. Deutsch is scared that the EP is meddling in the elections. He told on state radio: “well known left-wing efforts to work up hysteria over the Hungarian elections [….] supporting the weak Hungarian left-wing,” and “life must be terrible for those Western European politicians who are forced to go against their own convictions and repeat the mantras based on lies about Hungary fearing attacks by NGOs controlled by Soros organisations.” What is true now? Will Hungary have democratic elections, in this case a call for observation should be no problem at all. If he is afraid of an observation: Why?

The perhaps most funny result of FIDESZ hate propaganda comes from the council member of Budapest XV district Kornél Géza Szalay. The state party member attended the reopening of the district’s Csokonai Cultural House, where for a closed group on the occasion of the day of Hungarian Culture a new program was presented. Szalay passed a devastating verdict as “landing of LGBTQ in the district’s culture.” He had so much liked the advertising, but stated ►HU: ”I don’t think it will make a good, valuable, or even lasting work, if the director gives a man all or part of woman’s clothes” But what caused all that? He referred to a song about the change of cooking habits in corona times, these so dreadfully detested figures were pepper and salt mills! A bearded man as salt with in a white costume doesn’t necessarily the personification of a male bride! As a good sheep, blindly loyal to the Orbán regime, the council member has soaked-up the ugly party propaganda so much that he no longer understands that there are completely non-political issues as well ►HU.