The night that Pedri went to El Hormiguero on May 16, the footballer should have been the protagonist. The social networks, the comments, the headlines should have been those of his interview, but no. A comment by the comedian Miguel Lago during the political gathering of El Hormiguero that night again caused a tsunami of Podemos against Pablo Motos, against Miguel Lago and against El Hormiguero.
During that gathering, in which they mainly talked about the regional and municipal elections for which there were then 12 days to go, there was a moment in which Pablo Motos launched a question into the air to his gatherings: “What does a candidate have to have if he is of the party that is to be accepted?”. When Miguel Lago had not even finished making it, whose role in these gatherings, in which the journalists Rubén Amón and María Dabán and the screenwriter and writer Juan del Val also sit, is to add his particular humor to the topics that pose, he let out a “deaf”.
The comedian did not take long to explain. “It is that the one from Valencia -Pilar Lima, candidate of Unides Podem-Esquerra Unida for the Valencia City Council- Irene Montero says that she is the best candidate, deaf, dyke. So I say, as anything goes Well, I’m going to start missing. Here is this lame that I bring you…”, he finished by gesturing to Pablo Motos. And there the thing remained until the networks and Podemos worked their magic.
In a matter of minutes, Pablo Motos was once again the enemy to be beaten by Podemos. Irene Montero, Pilar Lima herself, Pablo Echenique, and on and on, launched themselves against the presenter and against the program for a phrase in a humorous tone by Miguel Lago in which it is understood that he was replicating the words with which Irene Montero He presented at the time the candidate of his party in Valencia.
It was not the first time that Pablo Motos found himself in the eye of the Podemos hurricane. A few months ago, a campaign by the Ministry of Equality placed the presenter on the target. Without quoting him or giving the name of the program in the campaign, one of the interviews that Pablo Motos conducted with Elsa Pataky a few years ago was reproduced almost to the point. That is, Pablo Motos knows what this is.
In fact, as on other occasions, the program and Pablo Motos kept absolute silence, even when Pilar Lima decided to file a complaint last week with the Prosecutor’s Office for Valencia, for hate crimes and discrimination against the El Hormiguero program, after “the mockery made in his program attacking his condition as a deaf person and as a LGTBIQ collective”.
Nor did Pablo Motos, or El Hormiguero, or Miguel Lago, or any of the collaborators speak. Until last night, until the crash of the purple formation in the municipal and regional elections and Miguel Lago decided to open a melon that Pablo Motos has wanted to avoid during all these days.
It was María Dabán who ignited the spark by assuring during last night’s gathering that the left “has already seen the ears of the wolf and has seen that survival depends on an alliance”, in reference to a coalition for the general elections of July 23. “The way of doing politics is also different, the journalist continued. “It is true that Yolanda Díaz is softer, but the Podemos campaign has been to mess with everyone, with businessmen, against Ayuso’s brother, against some journalists …”.
The journalist did not finish and the silence of Pablo Motos ended: “…against me. And for a piece of news that never happened.” The news he was referring to was the complaint to the Prosecutor’s Office and the multitude of attacks suffered in recent weeks.
“That hasn’t worked. Maybe they have to change and do something else,” added Dabán. The expected response from the presenter seemed that he was going to stay there, but no. Miguel Lago was going to take advantage of the fact that Motos had opened the season to stay comfortable, very comfortable: “(…) Pablo Iglesias comes to the negotiation with a box of clips and one of those cups that he gives away on the channel that he has The elephant in the room is not just two weeks of permanent targeting, it is that it is not just two weeks of targeting businessmen, journalists and clowns like me, it is four years of continuous targeting, it is 4 years in which anyone who does not think like them, he is a macho, he is a facha, he is disgusting and so on for 4 years. And what has happened is that Spain is a country of good, plural people, who have built a stupendous democracy and in the end there are people who have said “I’m fed up with you insulting every day. Because we Spaniards are good.”
Miguel Lago released what he should have saved during all these weeks. Weeks in which the insults have been one after another, weeks in which the cancellation of the program has been requested again, in which Pablo Motos and Miguel Lago have been pointed out excessively. And all because of a phrase in which words by Irene Montero were repeated, according to what Miguel Lago reproduced.
Pablo Motos remained. Faced with Miguel Lago’s speech, Pablo Motos could not suddenly turn the page and continue to remain silent. Much more restrained, he appealed to the Justice: “I just want to point out the news, which is that they have denounced us to the Prosecutor’s Office, that I am looking forward to someone seeing the video.” Because in the video you can see the exact words of Miguel Lago, the humorist’s gesture and what Pablo Motos did, which was nothing more than asking the question of what a candidate must have.
The final icing would come from the comedian who, although with humor, was more than hurt: “First of all, it hurts me that the Government of Spain denounces me with the Spanish that I am. But look, in the face of the attempts to cancel , because this is still an attempt to cancel, it must be said that this is still the most watched program on Spanish television. Last Saturday the Alcázar Theater was bursting and I have extended the entire month of June to continue laughing at what whatever I want.”
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