The outrageous inconsistency of Irene Montero, the head of the Ministry of Equality who, in practice, does not treat people equally is not news. At least to TV presenters.
The million euros of public money that the minister has spent on a campaign to promote the lynching of Paul Motorcycles it would be for many Spanish men and women malpractice, I don’t know if for profit or revenge. The endless list of needs that remain to be covered in the fight for women’s equality would be enough to show that Irene Montero is a disaster when it comes to setting priorities, given the evident budgetary constraints that should force her to be more effective and less mean.
Maybe the sin of Pablo Motos is to opine against, for example, the scandalous consequences of the revision of sentences that entails the application of what is known as the ‘Law of only yes is yes’, promoted by the Minister of Equality, Irene Montero, whose arrogance prevents her from admitting her bungling. But even worse than her handling of public funds or her arrogance is the inconsistency.
Because Irene Montero lashes out with everyone’s money against a presenter like Paul Motorcycles because of some supposed macho attitudes, taken out of context, but, at the same time, both she and several of her colleagues such as Ione Belarra kiss where another presenter steps like Jorge Javier Vazquezcapable of doing things like the one we recover here, because it is better to see it than to describe it.
@makore24 ? sonido original – mako
In the Equality announcement promoted by Montero, the television presenter asks his guest if she wears “sexy or comfortable underwear”. Motos is not mentioned, but it is the same question that the presenter of El Hormiguero asked Elsa Pataky in 2016. In the spot, the interviewer holds in his hands a card with a logo that is suspiciously identical to that of the Antena program 3.
Pablo Motos responds to the latest campaign of the Ministry of Equality #CarrascoEH pic.twitter.com/SqF0kMJwBd
— The Anthill (@El_Hormiguero) November 24, 2022
As Pablo Motos recalled in his own program, Elsa Pataky went to the space to present an underwear campaign. I do not agree or disagree with everything that Pablo Motos says, does, comments or thinks but I, who am addicted to doubt, have no idea that the Valencian is 57 years old, and has long been a legend live from television, maybe Jorge Javier Vazquez so be it. But that Pablo Motos is the target at which they throw their darts from an institution like the Ministry of Equality and Jorge Javier is the beacon that guides the ministers of this Government towards the fight against machismo is at best a nonsense that reveals with whom we spend the rooms.
One of the main communicators in history
Pablo Motos, in his thousands of hours in front of the public, will have had better and worse days, like Jesús Hermida, Ana Rosa Quintana, Encarna Sánchez, María Teresa Campos, Julia Otero, Iñaki Gabilondo, José María García, Mercedes Milá, Ángels Barceló, Carlos Herrera, Luis del Olmo, Javier Sardá or Pepe Navarro, among others. All of them, and some more in earlier times, with their lights and shadows, are human beings but with the divine gift of being loved by the microphone or the camera, on the radio or on the screen, before fabulous audiences for long periods of time.
My first memories of Motorcycles are linked to Julia Otero, when the boy from Requena brought to the Catalan born in Galicia his freshness, daring and immense creativity. Also the clairvoyance to find intelligent and effective humor on that stratospheric and young Julia radio, 15 or 20 years ago. But when I finished encelar with Pablo Motos it was in M80, from 7 to 10 in the morning. Under the long-awaited title of We are nobody filled the gap left by Gomaespuma. Motos lasted five years and led an extraordinary morning, with that inimitable Quique San Francisco, and a team full of talent. I missed him although I was still hooked when another underrated female announcer took over, Calia Montalbán, whose natural sympathy has never been sufficiently pondered.
That We are nobody is for me the germ of The Anthill. For Motos, for Trancas y Barrancas, for an important part of the nucleus of his team, for the colossal work that was implicit, with very limited means, for the tone, for the daring, for the good vibes, for the intuition and intelligence of his scripts and for the freedom that those microphones oozed. Freedom.
You don’t have to be an expert to understand the interstellar difference between a radio morning show like that and a piece of production like The Anthill. The difference is even greater than the distance traveled by that disc jockey who became the director of Radio de Requena on his own merits until he became a successful producer, multimillionaire and one of the national celebrities. His motivation, his ambition, his versatility (announcer, musician, screenwriter…) and his courage led Motos to place him Paul Vasily in four a Anthill weekly, which began to be broadcast five days a week a year later (from Monday to Thursday and one edition on Saturdays).
Perhaps one of the most debatable decisions of the Italian who is now leaving Mediaset after two decades is having let Motos go, who took the anthill to Antena 3. The Roman anthropologist and Massimo Musolino, his financial director (who will continue in the Spanish branch of the Berlusconi), did not get the accounts and they were right that the format is expensive. Another thing is that over time it was profitable, an essential partition of a grid that for more than a year has occupied the top of the audience podium, relegating Telecinco to second place and opening a gap that does not stop growing, a situation that coincides with the change of CEO in the Fuencarral listed company. It is also true that Vasile’s chain septum has been Jorge Xavier, which for a decade has given Mediaset a large audience. Berlusconi’s chain has earned more than 3.5 billion euros without Pablo Motos, just as surely as the company’s value has halved during Vasile’s reign. Each one chose his style but now it turns out that the macho is Paul Motorcycles y javier javier it is the oracle of women’s equality, the totem adored by the ministers of the Government.
But going back to Motorcycles, I’m confused, I want to highlight the value of freedom and style, respect and creativity. Above the overwhelming number and quality of the guests who visit the ants, the originality of the entertainment it provides, the dizzying pace that it usually imposes, and other virtues such as its audience or its ability to renew itself, even above the milestone What it means to keep an intelligent format on the air and in good health after more than fifteen years, is freedom.
Pablo Motos has invited Pablo Iglesias Already Santiago Abascal oh well Pantoja. Who thought it appropriate? Probably, most of the time, governed by current, opportunity, audience criteria. Without complex. And he’s had days. In the thousands of hours televised he has been very right, he will have been wrong, even resoundingly. And furthermore, he must be criticized when he makes a mistake, because his immense payroll includes that he support whatever they throw at him, and that he is happy when they applaud him. His fame gives him money, privileges and other perks but it entails being criticized.
hounds to the jugular
But please: packs thrown at the jugular no. Please, jaws willing to bleed the dissenting no. Please, let the absurd posturing and the goodness radical do not lead us to single thought, the worst enemy of freedom. Without freedom there is no democracy. much more important than the anthill and that Pablo Motos is freedom. Motorcycles: we are with you. Don’t give up, be free. Think, wrong, right. Your limits are set by the law, not the rats that follow the piper hypnotized. You choose whether to see Jorge Javier Vázquez or Pablo Motos but let no one waste public money stabbing anyone who does not agree with the ideology that the Minister of Equality wants to impose.