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Sylt scandal about Lambrecht and her son: Bär's message backfires

2022-05-11T12:18:26.756Z


Sylt scandal about Lambrecht and her son: Bär's message backfires Created: 05/11/2022, 14:09 By: Fabian Mueller Deputy CSU chairwoman Dorothee Bär. © Christoph Soeder/dpa/archive image A flight by Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht has been targeted by the opposition. Dorothee Bär has now criticized this on social media. But the scorn was aimed at her. Berlin/Sylt – opposition work always p


Sylt scandal about Lambrecht and her son: Bär's message backfires

Created: 05/11/2022, 14:09

By: Fabian Mueller

Deputy CSU chairwoman Dorothee Bär.

© Christoph Soeder/dpa/archive image

A flight by Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht has been targeted by the opposition.

Dorothee Bär has now criticized this on social media.

But the scorn was aimed at her.

Berlin/Sylt – opposition work always plays with indignation.

It usually follows a clear scheme: resistance to the prevailing politics and their rejection.

It doesn't have to be constructive, that's not its basic task.

It is not for nothing that the term comes from the Latin, oppositio, in German the opposite.

Simply being against is easy and often expedient in public perception, sometimes it even leads to a resignation, as in the case of former family minister Anne Spiegel in April.

The flight of Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht with her son to Sylt, which has just been discussed, makes it clear that criticism should also be backed up with well-founded arguments.

And that the sender of the criticism should be careful not to argue on morally shaky ground.

Bär criticizes Lambrecht flight: Vacation on Sylt causes criticism - "Incredible"

For context: Defense Minister Lambrecht flew to Sylt on April 13 and visited the 911 Electronic Warfare Battalion from Stadum.

Afterwards she spent a short Easter vacation on the island with her son, who is also said to have been on board the Bundeswehr helicopter.

Lambrecht had registered her son in advance and paid the cost of his flight privately, that's the rule.

The criticism of the former parliamentary state secretary and state minister Dorothee Bär now hung on this.

Such a trip to Sylt would take the train in under six hours, Bär writes on Twitter: "If that's not reasonable for a 21-year-old, I don't know either." She asks what the Ministry of Defense has to say about it, her tweet ends with: "Incomprehensible."

Bär criticizes Lambrecht's flight to Sylt: "To swing a moral club now is sheer mockery"

"Criticism pointedly applied," Bär must have thought on Monday afternoon when she published the tweet.

A storm of indignation was to follow, this is how opposition works on social networks.

However, she will not have expected the content of the numerous reactions.

One of the first comments was that she should sweep in her own house.

The author referred to the Union's mask deals and the toll affair of former Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer.

Another comment said: "The same rules apply to every minister." Ministers from the CDU and CSU would also have taken relatives with them on the flight readiness and then billed the flights correctly.

"To swing the moral club now is pure mockery."

Video: Severe criticism of the minister: Lambrecht took his son with him in the government helicopter

Perhaps the most humorous post in Baer's tweet, a photo shows former US President Barack Obama, his wife Michelle and their two daughters descending the stairs of Air Force One, the US President's plane.

The author writes: "I remember well when you kept calling for Obama's resignation."

The Union meanwhile accused Lambrecht of “maximum clumsiness” on Tuesday.

Thorsten Frei, the first parliamentary director of the Union faction, said: "That shows a lack of tact." The process had "a taste", as one would say in his homeland.

There are things that are forbidden.

"And there are things that you just don't do." (fmü)

Source: merkur

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