Tuna: Babiš makes most of his money by being expensive, he only plays as a protector of the weak. I apologize for “Prague and love”.
As a trained teacher of Czech, Jan Tuna was so amused by the pun about the victory of Prague and love over the countryside and hate that he copied it and shared it with his followers on Twitter. “I had no idea what was going to happen. Actually, nothing much happened until Andrej Babiš and his team abused it, as is his custom. I didn’t know he was following me, I wasn’t following him. And he started inciting hatred through this, that’s when the problem arose,” describes Tuna, who years ago instead of the department went to the media and admits that what happened after the publication of the incorrect tweet properly trained him. “I see it as a mistake and I apologize to everyone I’ve touched,” he says, adding that he’s from the countryside himself and that the cops who tell each other cop jokes don’t mean it either.
One of the most famous statements of Václav Havel, who mobilized society in the revolutionary days of 1989, resonates in the public space even years later. Specifically, his paraphrase, which was shared by Jan Tuna on his Twitter account and to which Andrej Babiš responded via his social networks with the words: “A lot of people who talk about truth, love and democracy after every other word are related to people living in villages and smaller cities for voting for me and talking about them as sheep, stupid and limited. I stand behind you. We will not let ourselves.’
According to Tuna, the incorrect joke served the presidential candidate as an excuse to further divide society, which Miloš Zeman already instigated and his potential successor continues to spread fear, hatred and malice. “Andrej Babiš uses this very masterfully and plays the protector of the weak,” says the journalist and presenter, adding that the ex-prime minister is not actually a philanthropist. He prioritized his own interests during the pandemic, when hygienists and his health minister appealed for the introduction of measures, but he decided to ignore them before the regional elections. “It cost a lot of thousands dead, so he has blood on his hands in this, and I’m absolutely sure of that,” Tuna has no doubts.
I also consider Babiš’s approach to the residents of villages hit by tornadoes to be reprehensible. “I’m not saying that I should help with my own hands, even if he looks like it, but he came to take a picture with Alena Schiller on the sidewalk and that’s the end of it, he left again. And I didn’t notice that, like other billionaires, because he is probably the fourth, or again, the richest person in this country, he has assets of around one hundred billion crowns, I would send some money. At least the locals said it was nothing, and they were touched that he only came there to take pictures and do a campaign,” criticizes Tuna, who helped at the scene of the accident as a volunteer. He also considers the ex-prime minister’s call to stop the constant increase in food prices to be an expression of populism. “He says, ‘I’ll help you. I will stop the dear.’ At the same time, the food and agricultural industry dominates here. He earns the most from the high price, and it is in his power to negotiate with the chains in order to get a discount, because he has that power. It starts by selling seeds and fertilizers, owns land, buys grain. Then he makes rolls, bread out of it. Vodňany chicken, Kostelecké sausages, Tatra, Olma, it all belongs to him, so why doesn’t he do something with the preciousness?” he pauses.
The allegation that he has been fighting against Andrej Babiš for a long time a priori in his program as well Enough!or new in a series of reports Tuna vs, refuses. “Some people blamed me, like Andrej Babiš, but it was the other way around. We started to focus on a topic, for example dangerous phthalates, and Andrej Babiš jumped at us. We focused on the dangerous titanium whiteness, Andrej Babiš jumped on us,” explains the ex-prime minister how he earned his media attention and why he repeatedly confronted him in front of the camera.
How did you insure your business with phthalates? Which of the food companies in the ex-prime minister’s trust fund support the Food Banks fighting waste and hunger, and to what extent did Andrej Babiš himself contribute to them? Why is his comparison with Tomáš Baťa inadequate? Why does he still have so many followers? And what is he up to at the moment? Journalist and moderator Jan Tuna answered these and other questions.