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Varoufakis Walks Out Of CNBC Interview When Asked If He Is Now A "Liability"
Having been given a few minutes to explain how it's so different now in Greece: Troika is now 'The Brussels Group', austerity cuts are now 'reforms', and bailouts are now 'bridge loans'; Greek FinMin Varoufakis asked for peace and quiet from the press so that they could work on "solutions" for the Greek people...
And then CNBC's Julia Chatterly asked about the Paris Match photo-shoot (which is has created fierce storm of controversy in Greece) and specifically whether he "was a liability for his party?"
Varoufakis response was (serial killer) calm as he looked her in the eyes, demanded he be allowed to 'no comment' - "You will allow me not to comment on particular stories in the press," - then commented, six-year-old-child-in-a-schoolyard-like "are you a liability for your channel?"
The brief clip below...
Varoufakis criticized the press for "concocting stories" and added that the Greek government now needed "peace and quiet" in order to get "down to work to put Greece on the path of recovery."
... or just following more orders from the European "uber alles"
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Are you sure they have not just postponed that opportunity until a little later -when they are ready-on their own Terms? hell-they only been in power just a few months. Why is everyone so quick to call them sellouts. A little early I would say.
what -8 weeks...give them a little time-you dont get elected and then the next day default......Iceland took its time
"We need Peace and Quite so I can quietly raise taxes while my wife picks out an Awesome yacht! Excuse me for walking-out on this interview."
Interesting interview before he became Finance Minister.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0JkSmoyYIY
....and yesterday evening Varoufakis was talking in a German Talkshow ("Jauch") about "irrelevant liquidity-problems".
Too tender he's been. Next time, he should spit in her face after telling her to go ask that question to the Fed and Goldman. Tomorrow, the US$ will swim in the gutter ..
I love her last question: "What is the message here?"
I think his walking away answered that one.
Why are people so stupid, willing to condem even before the game is over. Condeming one day praising the next.
Just fucking wait to the end before you criticise. I think this game has a long long way to go....when you see the result...then you can judge what Really was going on.
Too often ZH commenters go off like 5 year old children in the playground.
The socialist party sold them what they wanted to hear. Greek voters are the true idiots here. The learning curve in Greece has been flat for decades.
“The Greeks had invented democracy, built the Acropolis and called it a day.” --David Sedaris
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"You will allow me to show you Greek Style."
The guy may be alright. I heard a talk from before he became FinMin where he said that Greece should default within th eurozone. It made sense. So even though he is against leaving the euro he doesn't want Greece to be a debt colony.