Comments on: Austria’s Far Right and Selective Free Speech http://blog.z-word.com/2008/11/austrias-far-right-and-selective-free-speech/ Commentary about Zionism, anti-Zionism, antisemitism and the conflict in the Middle East Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:06:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5-RC1.1 By: Karl Pfeifer http://blog.z-word.com/2008/11/austrias-far-right-and-selective-free-speech/#comment-1983 Karl Pfeifer Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:39:13 +0000 http://blog.z-word.com/?p=495#comment-1983 The Vienna daily Der Standard published on November 7 an interview with the leader of the extreme right Austrian Freedom Party H.C. Strache Standard: Next Friday Stermann and Grissemann present their new DVD. Would you go there? Strache: After being aware with what irreverence the two gentlemen were active, no. There is a limit to everything. There is reverence and decency and the jokes of the two were really the limit. Standard: Your Secretary General Harald Vilimsky calls for an ORF ban of the two. Should political revue not remain political revue? Strache: Political revue has the job to examine all possible things critically and to a certain limit also to overdo. But in this case the two have gone as far as decency and morality is concerned beyond what is permissible. For German speakers the concerned sketch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSv7ug40kzU&feature=related And a German sketch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D-653jg0nk The Vienna daily Der Standard published on November 7 an interview with the leader of the extreme right Austrian Freedom Party H.C. Strache

Standard: Next Friday Stermann and Grissemann present their new DVD. Would you go there?

Strache: After being aware with what irreverence the two gentlemen were active, no. There is a limit to everything. There is reverence and decency and the jokes of the two were really the limit.

Standard: Your Secretary General Harald Vilimsky calls for an ORF ban of the two. Should political revue not remain political revue?

Strache: Political revue has the job to examine all possible things critically and to a certain limit also to overdo. But in this case the two have gone as far as decency and morality is concerned beyond what is permissible.

For German speakers the concerned sketch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSv7ug40kzU&feature=related

And a German sketch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D-653jg0nk

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