The “old media” are reporting with rapturous interest that German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeyer has now staged a successful coup within his Social Democratic Party to make himself its next Chancellor candidate. Steinmeyer’s name includes the German word for “stone”, i.e. “Stein”, but not, strangely, the German words for “from under a”. The “old media” is not going out of its way to trumpet the fact that this deeply creepy individual has done this despite having said, in March of this year, that the idea of him intending to do any such thing was “codswallop”. “I am doing all I can to make sure that the (present) Chairman of the Social Democratic Party, Kurt Beck, is elected as Germany’s next Chancellor,” he went on to untruthfully say at the time.
