"Herta said something..."
The "Schwäbische Tagesblatt" loves red-green,
but then they had a date with Daeubler Gmelin
This Friday morning TV teams are crowding into the office of Schwäbische Tagesblatt in Tübingen. Second Channel of German Television, Bavarian broadcast, WDR, N-TV - and "some Japanese are here as well", says editor-in-chief and co-publisher Christoph Mueller, not without pride. Even New York Times, Wall Street Journal and the rest of the world press are all interested in the news, which this local newspaper printed on Thursday in its 40000 copies.
Federal Secretary of Justice Herta Daeubler Gmelin, SPD Bundestag candidate for Tübingen, stated according to the paper, that the US president George W. Bush wants to use the Iraq war to divert from problems relating to domestic affairs; this has been a "popular method since Adolf Hitler", the social democrat allegedly said. She denies it.
Anyhow, she is not a victim of raging persecutors. The author of the report is Michael Hahn, 41, who has been twelve years in this trade , mostly writing about economy issues. The medium sized man with a clear hint of a bald head is not a hunter, not a person, looking for a scoop - this Friday the reporter gives an impression, the whole hoopla is rather unpleasant to him.
Wednesday morning Hahn appeared in a sport restaurant in the Tuebingen suburb of Derendingen, on invitation of two local companies' unions, to hear Daeubler Gmelin speak about "globalization in the employment domain". She was half an hour late. Therefore Hahn could not welcome her at the door, which he otherwise always does. The minister brought a laptop with her, but she did not put on her glasses. This is probably the reason, why she did not discover a man of the press among the metal trade unionists, who appreciate strong words. When Hahn returned to the office from the meeting, "he was rather pale", says his boss Mueller: "Let me tell you something, Herta said something..."
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