Ana Rosa Quintana yesterday changed her glasses of white paste for those of red paste: she received Pedro Sánchez.
The journalist wore white (as the day before yesterday with Feijóo and tomorrow with Yolanda Díaz) to claim an image of political neutrality in front of Pedro Sánchez who continued to insist on the fact that 90% of programs and talk shows (“and I fall short!”) row to the right. Yesterday, Ana Rosa Quintana and Pedro Sánchez sought the same thing: to defend each one’s own image.
Pedro Sánchez tried to distance himself from the label of a liar for having broken his electoral promise never to agree with either Bildu or Podemos: on Bildu he argued that there was no agreement, since he had only agreed on specific supports; and about Podemos he added that he had prevented them from sitting in such sensitive seats as Finance, Social Security and Energy: first volley returned.
Then came his service, fast and well placed: he blasphemed those who have labeled him as “philoetarian, coup plotter, obsessed with the Falcon and obsessed with power”, a phrase he said looking fixedly at Ana Rosa (some of his tertulians write these things), and he deplored that Feijóo referred to him as “that personage” the day before the same set (he quoted Fernando de los Ríos here: “the only pending revolution in Spain is that of respect”). Sánchez didn’t get Quintana to ask for forgiveness, but he did extract a very heavy sentence from him: “In many things I agree with you”.
This sentence by Ana Rosa is worth three hundred thousand election posters for Pedro Sánchez: they are the TV viewers who have seen their admired Ana Rosa validate the Prime Minister who raises pensions and wages.
Tertullians of Ana Rosa (Eduardo Inda, Isabel San Sebastián…) must still be pulling their hair in front of his benevolent head and Sánchez’s honeyed hands: “I thank him from the bottom of my heart for this question”, he repeated, and he added… “but let me tell you, Ana Rosa…”. She was leaving him. “Leave him, he’s comfortable”, asked Ana Rosa to the president’s team, when she looked at the clock. Sánchez even had time to defend his wife – “and you know her, Ana Rosa” – from the insidiousness of being… a drug trafficker!
If you’re handsome, you’ve got a career, all you have to do is study: Pedro Sánchez has that career (“a privileged physique”, Pablo Iglesias pondered one day) and he’s studied how to play all his cards well. And even if Ana Rosa told him “something must not have been right, like the law of only yes is yes, for Spain to be dyed blue”, Sánchez resumed his sweet and tender “let me tell you… Illegal immigration is down, unemployment is down: we must be doing something right!” he said with a smile. And, contrary to what was expected, it was left in the air on that stage that even Ana Rosa could vote for Pedro Sánchez.
