After years of low-profile behavior, MP Oleksandr Tkachenko (CPU), a former Speaker and 1999 presidential hopeful, steals the mike again. Literally.
The man who inspired famous campaign spoofs “Ткаченко зможе якщо Віагра допоможе” (“Tkachenko will make it if Viagra can shake it”) is still going strong.
Reporter: Hi! Can I ask you about your idea, the one you suggested yesterday, about keeping journalists out of the cafeteria? I mean, please tell us, what did you mean by that?
MP Oleksandr Tkachenko (CPU): First of all, I didn’t say it... And who told you this?
STB Reporter: We heard it on the Rada floor...
Tkachenko: I said that we need coverage — from our press, Rada [channel], radio, television, newspapers — uh...not just on parliament’s activities and those of MPs and the Verkhovna Rada cafeteria, but coverage on how the coal miners are working, how the folks in the countryside are working, how the teachers, the doctors, and so on are working. And rather than hang around here within the confines of the Verkhovna Rada, you should go out into the field.
Reporter: Ahem, ahem...so you’re also saying that we should go?
Tkachenko: And the Verkhovna Rada, the Verkhovna Rada...I want you to go talk to the people — that’s all I want — you don’t have to go anywhere else. And once you go talk to the people, you’ll have things to talk about.
Reporter: And what does the cafeteria have to do with this?
Tkachenko: It just can’t...the Verkhovna Rada is not the whole life yet.
Reporter: And what does the cafeteria have to do with this?
Tkachenko: The cafeteria is because...you’re...you have this route: from the Verkhovna Rada hallway into the cafeteria, from the cafeteria into the Verkhovna Rada hallway. It’s not the whole life yet.
Reporter: So what? So what? What does the...
Tkachenko: [slams microphone, walks away]
Reporter: [pursues him] How does it...please tell us, why are you...fighting like that? Please tell us, how does…what did you mean meant that?
Tkachenko: [chuckles]
Reporter: [holds out microphone, microphone flies into MP Tkachenko’s face as he walks through doorway]
Tkachenko: Just put it away! Or I'll throw it away! [snatches microphone and throws it away]
The Zhirinovsky School of Media Relations would definitely love to have him on board.
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Original source: http://stb.ua
