{"id":245365,"date":"2013-12-13T01:41:35","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T21:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=245365"},"modified":"2013-12-13T01:44:05","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T21:44:05","slug":"mp-who-offended-journalists-is-confident-he-wont-be-punished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2013\/12\/13\/mp-who-offended-journalists-is-confident-he-wont-be-punished.html","title":{"rendered":"MP Who Offended Journalists is Sure He Won’t Be Penalized"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tRepublican Party of MP Manvel Badeyan, in conversation with Epress.am, said he is convinced that the journalists' appeal to the Ethics Commission<\/strong><\/span><\/a> will not have any negative consequences for him, since he didn't violate any ethical norms. \n<\/p>\n

\n\tHe repeated that he considers some journalists to be "schemers" and "that's the way it is; there's no ethical violation in that". \n<\/p>\n

\n\t"Is it news to you that some journalists are engaged in intrigues? I compared the journalist with a Yazidi street cleaner, and I said, you have less brains than him — because you don't know that the majority of street cleaners are Yazidis. Wake up early in the morning and see," he said.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tAsked whether that comparison, nevertheless, is not offensive to the Yazidi people, Badeyan said: "On the contrary, I said the Yezidi street cleaner is smarter than that journalist."\n<\/p>\n

\n\tAs for future contact with journalists, the MP said he will gladly deal with "smart journalists," while he won't speak to "fools". \n<\/p>\n

\n\tRecall, in parliament on Dec. 10, a journalist had asked the MP whether it was appropriate that the program "What, Where, When" was broadcast on Armenian television in the Russian language. "Are you really that low-levelled that you think like that? If this question was asked by some Yazidi on the street I wouldn't be surprised, but do you really think like that?" MP Badeyan replied, adding that "the working language of that program is Russian."\n<\/p>\n

\n\tInsulted by Badeyan's comment, members of the Sinjar Yezidi National Union protested outside the National Assembly<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, bring along a roll of toilet paper and an image of a donkey to give to the MP.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tLater, Sinjar Yezidi National Union issued a statement that Badeyan had apologized to the Yazidi people.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tPhoto credit<\/strong>: News.am<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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