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2005-06-29 Europe

German Foreign Ministry investigates NY diplomat - AP Germany quotes Rantburg as source

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Posted by True German Ally 2005-06-29 15:16|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 All your news sources are belong to us!

Posted by mmurray821 2005-06-29 15:32|| 2005-06-29 15:32|| Front Page Top

#2 Translation via Bable Fish, funnier that the original english:

A high-ranking German diplomat in the USA is to have released substantial irritations with insulting expressions over his host country. The Cologner "express" reported on Wednesday, a representative Consulate General in New York had down-appreciated the foreign policy of the USA and had equated the citizen legal situation in the USA with that of the North Korea. The Foreign Office examines the procedure according to own data.
Reason of the excitement is a report the "barrier Street journal" from 17 June, which was taken up now by Cologne sheets. After the representation of the Leitartiklers Bret Stephens it and its wife by the diplomat and its woman to a private Sonntagsbrunch were invited, since they are neighbours, that are both women itself and the children of both families of sand box friends.
In the report under the heading "the torture UHL" ("The German Chair") continues to be called it, the diplomat evaluated the stalinistischen Gulags as better than the disputed isolation prison Guantanamo for terrorism-suspicious fighters, because it gave in the Soviet Union at least "a kind to procedures". In addition the diplomat is to have explained Tony Blair obviously under allusion on diffamierende names for the British Prime Minister: "only humans, who find American foreign policy good, are pudel."
Stephens wrote: "after further bizarren remarks including a lecture on the unlawfulness of the Holocausts under Nazi right my wife said, their not probably was. We looked for our things together and went."
The diplomat denies according to "express" such expressions to have made. Consul General Uwe Karsten Heye explained, the discussion could not have been reconstructed, since it took place in a "completely private situation".

On American InterNet sides and Blogs the report led comments partly indignant by Stephens however to substantial eddy with up to questions whether such expressions of a diplomat were at all possible. The journalist wrote, he had been tried to abandon the name of its host but he will not do that. But it quoted Bert breaks: "the lap is fruitfully still, from this crept."

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Posted by Steve">Steve 2005-06-29 15:35|| 2005-06-29 15:35|| Front Page Top

#3 "I will explain it to them - again! - in their own barbarian tongue."
-- Donovan's Reef

Posted by mojo">mojo 2005-06-29 15:53|| 2005-06-29 15:53|| Front Page Top

#4 Babel fish did better then google translate..
Nuff said!

Posted by 3dc 2005-06-29 15:56|| 2005-06-29 15:56|| Front Page Top

#5 Good grief, TGA - that's kind of frightening in a way.

Fred, Sea, Steve, et al. - you all better get prepared - Rantburg rules the WORLD! ;-p

(Keep it clean, fellow Rantburgers - the world is watching us.)

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2005-06-29 15:58|| 2005-06-29 15:58|| Front Page Top

#6 We always play nicely with our friends!

Posted by VoiceOfTheRantburgUmmah 2005-06-29 16:07|| 2005-06-29 16:07|| Front Page Top

#7 the lap is fruitfully still, from this crept."

That's a keeper.

Posted by 2b 2005-06-29 16:13|| 2005-06-29 16:13|| Front Page Top

#8 Sometimes I believe that bloggers do free work for lazy journalists.

Some journalists at least acknowledge this

Posted by True German Ally 2005-06-29 16:20|| 2005-06-29 16:20|| Front Page Top

#9 Well, obviously, if we believe this, the diplomat has been found. And obviously the invitation did take place. He only denies having said all this.

You know, I still can't believe that a German diplomat would say such crap in private to a WSJ journalist. Maybe he tried to be funny (an attempt that usually fails).

My take is that he will be quietly removed.

And watching the Schroeder-Show today, I can only shake my head. First time I have no clue why a German chancellor would commit suicide like that and can't even get that right.

It reminds me of the last king of Saxony, who in 1918 (was) "resigned" in the November revolution. He went packing with the immortal words:

"Mach doch euren Dreck aleene"
("So just do your shit without me")

Posted by True German Ally 2005-06-29 16:31|| 2005-06-29 16:31|| Front Page Top

#10 What did Schroeder do/say today?

Posted by 3dc 2005-06-29 16:43|| 2005-06-29 16:43|| Front Page Top

#11 Perhaps Herr Diplomat would like to attend Rantapalooza (Washington DC July 9 3pm Be there and be thirsty!)

Perhaps TGA could accompany him...for, er...translating and such.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2005-06-29 16:48|| 2005-06-29 16:48|| Front Page Top

#12 You know, I still can't believe that a German diplomat would say such crap in private to a WSJ journalist. .com's right. There is widespread derangement on the Left as the MSM's filtering out of inconvenient facts breaks down and they are faced with reality.

Posted by phil_b 2005-06-29 17:17|| 2005-06-29 17:17|| Front Page Top

#13 Will there be much Eddy Up at the Rantapalooza?

Posted by Shipman 2005-06-29 18:12|| 2005-06-29 18:12|| Front Page Top

#14 TGA, are you talking about the early elections?

Posted by Pappy 2005-06-29 20:07|| 2005-06-29 20:07|| Front Page Top

#15 "Mach doch euren Dreck aleene"
Now that's a real keeper.

Posted by Shipman 2005-06-29 20:54|| 2005-06-29 20:54|| Front Page Top

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