Mazón manages, Iker Jiménez reports and Negre agitates. What can go wrong?

On Sunday night, a shocked Spain was still watching television to find out what was happening in the areas devastated by DANA. Of all the options offered by the channels, the majority chose to obtain information from a far-right expert on UFOs, spirits and conspiracy theories. It seems like a joke, but it’s not.

Iker Jiménez began to create his character as an “occult researcher” on Cadena SER. As soon as he consolidated it and made the jump to television, the first thing he did was dust off his blue shirt. Between the alien and the paranormal phenomenon there was a report criminalizing the Second Republic with falsehoods or an interview with any neo-fascist disguised as a historian or researcher. The “friends of the unknown”, who initially made up his audience, gave way to neo-Nazis, deniers of whatever, lovers of conspiracy theories, unsuppos and to the Falange itself that publicly congratulated the presenter for dedicating a program “from admiration and objectivity” to José Antonio Primo de Rivera. Without any honest person at the top of Mediaset to stop him, Jiménez finally took off his mask and has dedicated himself, for several years now, to spreading the story and agenda of the global far-right. Their programs have served to promote neo-Nazi theories such as the Great Replacement, amplify the Kalergi Plan hoax and even give voice to well-known Holocaust deniers, which at the time provoked a public complaint from the Anti-Semitism Observatory. During the pandemic he dedicated himself to spreading falsehoods and half-truths in the midst of chaos, desperation and tragedy. After it, he focused on identifying immigration with crime and on serving as a speaker for the entire ideological spectrum on the right of the PP (and within the PP itself). He has not resisted even the craziest theories, such as the one that states that airplane contrails are actually proof that the elites spray us from the sky to change the climate, make us sick, or who knows what for. Iker Jiménez’s ship was never that of mystery, but rather that of hoaxes, hatred and racism. An attractive ship for that high percentage of Spaniards who already live in the Trumpist bubble erected by the triple A of Ayuso, Abascal and Alvise.