Acoustic inconsistencies
A flashback at the turn of the millennium shows that supposed hearing errors became a popular form of alternative interpretation in the nineties.
2002 logged one ORF-Editor after a phone call with the then FPÖ politician Peter Westenthaler the sentence: “Then there is stunk!” Westenthaler denied. He said “Then come the drink!” What the then SPÖ Federal Councilor Melitta Trunk should have to do with the matter, however, was never revealed.
Also designated in 2002 Jörg Haider according to all journalists present, the then finance minister Karl-Heinz Grasserwho after the Knittelfeld coup FPÖ left as a “traitor”. Thomas Prinzhorn, back then for the FPÖ in the National Council Presidium, said the journalists had interrogated themselves because Haider have Grasser only referred to as “drift”.
And again Tyrol: In September 2007 there was a heated argument about whether the governor Herwig van Staa (ÖVP) the former German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer referred to as “pig” or only spoke of “silence” at an anniversary celebration, such as van Staa subsequently explained. The publication of a taped recording did not bring any final clarification either.
Hump, dump or “lumpi”
The mother and origin of all these alleged interrogators is the “hump dump” affair from the year 2000. The one passed over in the black and blue government formation Hilmar Kabas said at the FPÖ regional party in Vienna according to reports by several ear witnesses about the Federal President Thomas Klestil: “He behaved like a scoundrel, and it is a shame that we have such a president.”
Kabas‘Meanwhile almost legendary explanation of what happened: “It was more of a joke. I have rags in connection with Clest style not said. It was something like Hump or Dump, but I don’t know that exactly anymore. ”Also on request Kabas not explain what is under a “Hump“Or”Dump“Is to be understood.
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