According to European media outlets, Orbán is secretly hiding a deep, dirty secret: He secretly runs a zebra farm in his back garden.
Gasp!
Even Brussels’ de facto paper-of-record Politico is running with the claim. The publication of choice for Eurocrats (sorry EU Observer) claims herds of antelopes and zebras are hidden away in the back garden of his countryside residence. It added that these were just some of the ‘exotic animals’ that ‘roamed the grounds’ of the Hungarian leader’s property.
The outlet cites numerous Hungarian media outlets hostile to the ruling Hungarian government as proof of the claim.
To be honest, I love the image. I can imagine the guy in a straw hat chasing around an escaped gazelle as a pair of rhesus macaques gaze on in mild amusement—the scene an ultimate reminder that man is just one of God’s creatures whose powers on the world are fundamentally limited by their mortal nature.
Sadly for me, the EU media is once again lying.
As cool as it would be, Orbán does not—in fact—own a secret zoo filled with a Noah’s ark of creatures he secretly tends to in order to ease the stress of having to deal with Ursula von der Leyen regularly. My dreams are once again crushed by Brussels’ stupidity.
For once, this lie cannot be blamed—at least, not fully—on Hungary’s local liberal media. Even the article cited in the Politico report does not claim that zebras, nor any of the other ‘exotic’ animals seen by reporters, are owned by Orbán. They do not even claim that the animals were even situated on his property.
Instead, both the hard-left and mainstream media in Hungary seem to acknowledge that the animals in question are located on a totally different property than Orbán’s house. One that’s not even all that close to the PM’s place. The animals are also acknowledged to be owned by a commercial firm specializing in hunting.
One liberal paper even mentions how, upon going to sneak a peek at the animals, they were met with signs warning passers-by that the premises beyond were used in part for hunting, and that, as such, caution was required.
So, everyone agrees these don’t belong to Orbán. How did Politco’s esteemed, Brussels-approved journalists miss this fact is up for debate. Perhaps reading comprehension is no longer required to serve as one of their journalists?
The only bit of good news here is that, following the faux-scandal, the prime minister decided to write to a local Hungarian zoo. He has since officially adopted one of the facility’s zebras.
Her name is Romy, and she even has a little family at the zoo.
I wonder if she would make a better journalist than the ones running Politico?
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