In addition to many deaths, much pain, much destruction and an avalanche of lies and political mud, the DANA (acronym for Isolated Depression at High Levels, which many media outlets have already lexicalized and converted into Dana) has brought us into everyday speech a new acronym for a public organization: CECOPI. Acronym converted into an acronym for Integrated Operational Coordination Center, the Valencian CECOPI to which Carlos Mazón arrived so late on the day in question has turned out to be a lie in itself. Coordination, very little; operability, none; integration of the different administrations, scarce. It reminds me of Villanueva de las Carretas, the town in Burgos that was once called ‘the town of three lies’, since it was neither a town nor new nor did it have carts.
The DANA either Dana has left a lot of mud of the first and second meaning of the Dictionary of the academies (“1. m. Mass that results from the mixture of earth and water.” “2. m. Mud that forms in the streets when it rains”) and much more of the fifth meaning: “5. m. Dishonor, moral degradation. Crawl through the mud”.
As the many irregularities, culpable absences, negligence and errors of the Valencian autonomous government, in the hands of the PP, have become known, this party, the PP, has been pointing out more false culprits in other administrations governed by the PSOE and has launched more mud, more mud and more mud and more thick epithets against his political rivals.
It will be a quagmire that is difficult to clean. Having lost the war of facts, the party led by Alberto Núñez Feijóo has unleashed the war on narrative, the desperate search for what the team of the first Donald Trump president, eight years ago, called “alternative facts”; that is, blatant lies to try to cover up the real facts.
Seeing the speck in another’s eye and not seeing the beam in one’s own Gospel of Matthew. Almost two thousand years have passed, and the political and media – and Christian – right continues without applying the parable. Are there straws and even some medium-sized timber in the eyes of the central government? Some. Are there beams in the eyes of the Valencian Government? Many.
More than a hundred years ago, in 1921, Charles Prestwich Scott, politician and journalist, former Liberal MP and editor and later owner of the British newspaper Guardianpublished an article in which he formulated a principle that has been sacred to journalists and many politicians: “Opinions are free, but facts are sacred.”
For some time now, especially since Trump’s first arrival to the presidency of the United States, eight years ago, for some opinions are free and facts are also free, alternative, manipulable.
Stimulated among many other examples by that Trump and by the new Trump, who has returned to power on the back of conscious and planned disinformation, Feijóo’s PP acts convinced that if the story wins – this one from DANA or that of any other problem, conflict or controversy in which he is involved – he will win the elections and return to power. Whatever the truth, regardless of whose irregularities, negligent absences, negligence or errors.
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