That shit - Javier Marias That shit Javier Marías - 21/02/1910
The transcript of the famous and gross Esperanza Aguirre phrase that has transcended through an open microphone that she thought closed, there has been, in my opinion, a small error. You know: "We have had the great good fortune of being able to give one seat to Izquierda Unida taking it to the bastard." If you hear the sentence is clear to me that the last word should be capitalized, ie "the Bastard", for surely it is a nickname, a common nickname. He is referring to someone who usually call it, and his interlocutor Vice-knows who speaks, is acostumbradísimo to hear that nickname. If the President had referred Madrid, as he liked to believe, someone "circumstantial"-one that Serrano, a former City Council Representative at Caja Madrid, with whom she has no personal relationship - would have said "a that bastard "or" the bastard that "no" the Bastard ", which is what really let go. On the other hand, I do not care who that woman was talking foul contempt, causing embarrassment. There it with their phobias, their grudges, betrayals and bugbears.
What is not so carelessly brings me is that the maximum representative of my region is boorish and foul-mouthed, and more serious than I thought another famous phrase, which released the same day, and has been much less comments. Was seen walking near a village, Becerril de la Sierra, with a large entourage of greasy and fearful individuals literally an entourage, as if the owner of a farm with his foremen and laborers. Suddenly he stirred up and pointing out something that was maybe a flat-building, "he turned to the mayor of Becerril, who was escorting her, and said in angry tone despotic: "But how could you allow this shit?" You could see the embarrassment of the offender, chilled by the brutality of reproach, and the scene ended. Aguirre could have said "this monstrosity" or "this crap", but no, what came out of his vulgar soul was "that fucking shit." The worst thing was the tone, however, betrayed a person irritable and prone to tyrannical treatment. The whole scene seemed drawn from The National Shotgun, de Berlanga, and it is worth remembering that the action it stood even in times of Franco, and hilarious film that accurately portrayed a kind of aristocratic abounding in Spain throughout its history, landed, wealthy and cocky, gross, ignorant and rude ad nauseam. In the hands of that class of individuals has been this country for centuries. Why it was so depressing to see something similar in 2010, with the aggravating circumstance that "Miss" current was voted by the citizens (it is true that after losing an election and force a repetition due to the turbid never clarified).
course everyone, or most swearing occasionally. Of course we have referred to someone as a "bastard" or we have described some "shit." But almost all are private and will not represent more than ourselves. Aguirre has refused to talk about his lapse, saying that it was a "private conversation" and that, therefore, "did not." Wrong, as they have been wrong all the other leaders whom he has betrayed a microphone, from the Louvre José Bono branding Blair of "asshole" to the current head of the employers, Díaz Ferrán, Aguirre calling itself "cojonuda" . Politicians pretend and lie so abusive and so permanent in public, that precisely what we do not have is what they say to the gallery, when you know seen, heard, filmed and recorded. All this is false, a hoax, a performance at the best. To learn how and what they think really will not do his statements or his actions in the Parliament. So, increasingly, only thing that counts is what they say privately they believe to be "in confidence." There is more truth about the character of Aguirre in these two phrases captured by chance in all its manifestations to the press over the years. These are, in principle, pure and pure theater facade, and therefore false, a hoax, like all other politicians after the guild has chosen the perpetual posturing. Are those which do not count. Those, however, reveal who we represent: an authoritarian woman, irritable, scornful, foul-mouthed and ordinary natural. I know that tacos released today around the world (well, only in Spain) but, curiously and significantly, I hardly know women my age or older (and Aguirre is my age) that, if well educated and are also considered, to use them, whatever their social class and knowledge. It also indicates something.
[PS for those interested. This is often: four days to write my last column, giving the dancer for loss of Cecil Court, it came to me by courier. I do not know whether for better or worse, but is back to Señoriño side which had separately.]
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