Berlin.
- Since the concept of “Maischberger” was changed, the show seems like a random sequence of important topics
- Philosopher Richard David Precht was there on Wednesday – and Maischberger saved the show with strong contributions
- On the other hand, many viewers were able to spend the rest of the broadcasting time
“You’re radical, aren’t you?” Sandra Maischberger know about Richard David Precht, and meant business. The preppy philosopher stayed cool, even saved the show with his poetic remarks – and made the presenter sweat. A little, at least.
Last week, Sandra Maischberger had “grilled” the new SPD candidate for chancellor, Olaf Scholz, with uncomfortable questions. Now she was sitting in a hot chair herself. Although she only wanted to philosophize a little with Precht about the great crises of the time – banking, finance, Corona. And of course that Climate.
The fact that “climate protection” threatens our lives much more than the coronavirus – as she put it twice – was perhaps just a slip of the tongue. But the moderator has to be convinced that the blatant consequences of global warming, as forecast for 2050, will not take care of themselves.
“Maischberger” broadcast has a lot of Bavarian regulars
Her questions sounded confrontational. But the understandable answers always seemed to her only radical, almost suspect. And Precht’s stunned counter-question whether she seriously doubted that the Climate change That she was made of man, she avoided – and hurried to announce the credits.
If you were just lucky, you could say that the 60 minutes of a largely lackluster show were over at that very moment. But back to the beginning. The newly revised format of “Maischberger. The week” has a lot of a Bavarian get-together, not just the allegedly qualified comments with little informational value.
A little bit of this, a little bit of that, and therefore, if possible, everything that the week brought up political excitement until Wednesday: Lukashenko and the danger of Russian intervention like in Ukraine.Joe Biden and the US Democratic Party Conference.Angela Merkel visits Armin Laschet in NRW, who now staged himself as a hard worker against the “Monarch Söder” in Herrenchiemsee Castle from four weeks ago. Which of the two cut the better figure next to the Chancellor?
Nikolaus Blome: dictator of Belarus faked “one too many a choice”
The three co-discussants chatted lightly and easily on their bar stools through the given topics, supplementing them with purely personal assessments: Golineh Atai, who worked as an ARD correspondent in Moscow until 2018, admitted that the “showmanship of Markus Söder“Not to be trusted.
Amelie Fried, former “3nach9” presenter found that poor America would only have the choice between a “crazy” and a “semi-senile” president. And Nikolaus Blome, recently head of politics at RTL Mediengruppe, believed that the dictator of Belarus “falsified an election one time too many, like in the GDR.”
In between, I quickly changed the stage for a double interview with Tobias Hans, Prime Minister of Saarland, and the virologist Alexander Kekulé. Here, too, it went through a whole catalog of Corona questions at a gallop. “Test, test, test”
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Both agreed that the current increase in the number of infections is worrying. Instead of further prohibitions, people who intentionally seek the Mask requirement refused, but continued to be persuaded. Because the pandemic cannot be brought under control without everyone.
If it were up to Kekulé, it would be best to do it in bulk Rapid teststhat everyone should be able to easily do in the pharmacy. The 20-minute tests are not as safe as laboratory tests, but “many less qualitative tests bring more than a few high quality ones,” he was sure. Especially in the coming flu season, where immediate tests would be the only chance.
The Saarland MP still seemed skeptical. For this he believed, contrary to the latest statements by Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn, that the carnival do not let me cancel at all. “Of course, swaying at a distance of 1.5 meters is not possible,” said Tobias Hans.
You have to find new forms so that Carnival can take place safely. Hygiene and tracking standards too, of course. More on this in our Corona news blog.
Richard David Precht with clear “radical” views
At the end of the program, the unexpectedly clear, “radical” views of a philosopher socialized by Green parents appeared like the most brilliant enlightenment. “People love prohibitions”, he said in the spring, even before Corona outbreak, claimed in an interview – at least when it came to their elementary security interests.
That is why he was not surprised that the majority of the population accepted the corona restrictions so obediently, Precht said calmly and calmly. “People felt that they were in good hands, they felt that the state was taking care of them.”
Also a Speed limit on highways or one Ban on SUVs In city centers would be accepted by the population if politicians weren’t so afraid of the auto industry, Precht was certain.
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Precht: Sustainability is a secondary issue compared to jobs
And remembered that smoking ban, of which it was initially also said that it could never be implemented in Germany. Unfortunately he also sees that “sustainability a completely subordinate issue to jobs ”.
This now also applies to Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen, who do not even begin to implement the demands of the “Fridays for Future” activists, “because they do not want to risk their currently high levels of sympathy.”
Only when in 20 or 30 years, so his prognosis, the glaring consequences of climate change are really noticeable, will change something. “And then it doesn’t matter who rules.”
• Maischberger Talk – more on the topic:
Previously, the presenter had over with guests Anti-Corona-Demos, Presidential election and concerns about a second wave discussed: Maischberger: Palmer speaks of “sacrificed children”.
Before the summer break, Maischberger and her guests talked about the protests in the USA, which led to the violent death of George Floyd triggered, talked: “Maischberger”: “Human life is more important than property damage”.
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