Another left-liberal media manipulation discrediting Hungary has recently been exposed

MEP Tamás Deutsch, Head of the Fidesz delegation to the European Parliament, sent the following letter to all Members of the European Parliament:

Dear Colleagues,

Another media manipulation discrediting Hungary has recently been exposed, which once again sheds light on the phenomenon of liberal fake news production and dissemination.

The story, in short, is that Music Television (MTV) interviewed Viktória Radványi, a member of the LGBTQ community who was presented with the European Music Awards “Generation Change” Award, and published it on its YouTube channel. While she talks about the alleged violence she suffered on the streets of Budapest, MTV’s short film shows footage of people from the LGBTQ community being insulted in Georgia, not Hungary.

Although MTV, after online news portal Kontra.hu exposed the truth, hastily changed the content of the video and removed the images misrepresenting Hungary without admitting any deliberate manipulation, the incident highlights an increasingly common and extremely damaging practice of liberal and progressive media organs attempting to smear certain countries or political actors to manipulate international public opinion of them.

This practice, which cannot be described as fair in the least and is unworthy of journalism, consists of presenting certain opinions or politically motivated false statements as fact and then trying to justify them with new lies and distortions. The hypocrisy of MTV’s failure to take responsibility or apologise for spreading fake news after the manipulation was exposed and instead simply cutting out the scenes in question, thus concealing the fabrication committed, is absolutely appalling. Unfortunately, no one was ever made aware of this.

Dear Colleagues,

One of the important lessons of this case is that the left-liberal effort to place journalists and the media above the law and outside democratic accountability ultimately undermines the seriousness and credibility of the media, one of the pillars of democracy. Liberal and progressive manipulation and fake news are an attack on freedom and democracy. Another lesson is that, once again, it has been proven: No lie, even if repeated many times, will become the truth!

Yours sincerely,

Tamás Deutsch MEP

Head of the Fidesz delegation to the European Parliament

See the EN translation of the Kontra.hu article here:

Gold standard propaganda: MTV proves that LMBTQ people are beaten in Budapest using footage from… Georgia

While the LGBTQ girl Viki Radványi was talking about her ordeal in Budapest, the international music channel posted a video of uniformed officers insulting LGBTQ people on the streets. There’s just one problem: The footage was shot in Georgia, not Hungary.

November 29, 2021, written by Gyuri Szalma

Viktória Radványi, one of the organizers of Budapest Pride, was presented with the MTV European Music Awards “Generation Change” Award. What a great feeling it is to see that Hungarians are being recognized in more and more areas.

In the Christian world, members of the Hungarian government and their brave work are widely respected; at the same time, the swamp is also producing its own heroes. Everything and everyone is falling into place.

Viki Radányi has been awarded a prize that is given every year to those taking part in the bloody struggle for LGBTQ rights.

No, Radványi is not fighting for LGBTQ rights in Kabul, Islamabad, some African country, or even England, where gay people are physically threatened. Viki Radványi risks her life on the streets of Budapest every day.

The fact that the award ceremony took place in Puskás Arena is striking proof of the real danger she is putting herself in by being gay and an organizer of Budapest Pride.

Yes: The stage, ceremony, gala event, cameras, food and drink — millions squandered. Seems like the lives of Radványi and the like in Hungary are in real danger.

If we were a real democracy, this girl would have been honored in Esztergom Basilica. But Hungary is a dictatorship.

And the gay community as a whole is under threat. LGBTQ people are being attacked in the streets and fired from their jobs. Viki Radványi talked about this in a video, also produced by MTV.

With emotional background music, she said that in Budapest, she can’t hold her girlfriend’s hand and has to look over her shoulder all the time because she feels her life is in danger.

Alongside Radványi’s words, the footage indeed looks shocking.

The only problem is that the video wasn’t shot in Hungary, but in Georgia. So while the award-winning lady was talking about the violence on the streets of Budapest, the filmmakers used footage from another country to illustrate the harshness of the authorities’ crackdown on Hungarian Pride participants.

Something similar has happened before. A few years ago, a photograph went around the world showing Hungarian police officers scuffling with a family of three on the railway tracks.

The entire Western world gasped at the brutality.

A few days later, of course, it was revealed that the police officers were rescuing a mother with a small child from the hands of a violent migrant who had dragged her and her child onto the tracks.

The refutation received almost no attention. For the Western public, what happened was what they saw in the video, while the actual circumstances of the story were completely irrelevant.

In this new case, what happened was that the biggest music television channel made a defamatory video about Hungary. They produced a video enriched with deliberate and obvious lies, with the help of an organizer of Budapest Pride.

This explains why the award went to whom it did.

Viki Radványi also said that she would like to see LGBTQ issues included in education. She envisaged that the subject would not only be included in biology lessons, but that LGBTQ history would become part of the history curriculum as well.

Whether the video will eventually become part of LGBTQ history is not known for sure.

On the other hand, the video of Georgian police officers dragging Georgian gays “on the streets of Budapest” will probably be inscribed in capital letters in the golden book of unbiased reporting.

Video caption – While talking about her ordeal, viewers were shown images of video footage where uniformed officers were dragging LGBTQ people through the streets and also arresting others. (at about 4:15)