Giggle
March 7th, 2013 at 7:00 am by David FarrarI had to giggle. Scoop’s Werewolf has a patsy interview with Green Wellington Mayor Celia Wade-Brown.
I wondered who interviewed her. It was former Green MP Sue Kedgley!
One commenter suggested next they could have Joe Karam interviewing David Bain!
Almost as bad as the recent fellating interview with Russel Norman the Daily Blog ran, where the first question was:
The first thing I want to ask is how frustrating is it to be the co-leader of a political party that is constantly criticized for challenging the orthodoxy, only to be vindicated in that challenge later down the track?
Yes I’m serious, that was the first question!
It’s like asking someone “How do you cope with being so awesome and right on everything”. If that is journalism, God help us.
March 7th, 2013 at 7:13 am
Talking abourt patsy interviews, Martin Bradbury has posted another at The Daily Blog, this one with Jacinda Ardern. First question:
Ardern didn’t have much left to add so waffled. Next question:
Answer again unneccesary. Third question:
And so Bradbury goes on, and on. Ardern gives him time to catch his breath between statements.
Vote:March 7th, 2013 at 7:37 am
This is the good thing about National… their supporters are too proud to ever ask such a patsy question
Vote:March 7th, 2013 at 7:41 am
“…I wondered who interviewed her. It was former Green MP Sue Kedgley!…”
My God! next you’ll be breathlessly informing us the Newstalk ZB breakfast host loves the National Party and takes money from casinos!
Vote:March 7th, 2013 at 7:44 am
“One commenter suggested next they could have Joe Karam interviewing David Bain!”
Or Binnie interviewing David Bain. Not much difference!
Vote:March 7th, 2013 at 7:52 am
Advice to DPF and Pete George; don’t give Martyn Bradbury’s new job (which is being funded by several trade unions) any oxygen by linking to it.
I wonder if the members of the unions involved (primarily low-paid workers, whom the Left like to call the “working poor”) know about their union fees being dished out to a failed hack like Martyn Bradbury, and if they do know about it, how they feel. I rather suspect that they’d prefer their union dues to go towards actually having a tangible benefit on their conditions of employment rather than allowing Martyn Bradbury to spout his unique brand of hate speech.
March 7th, 2013 at 7:57 am
That interview is a classic example of why he is pretty much unemployable at any ‘mainstream’ media business be it print or broadcasting. What amazes me is that he has somehow positioned himself as some sort of media ‘expert’. Yeah right.
Vote:March 7th, 2013 at 8:01 am
Martin Bradbury with Jacinda Ardern. ………………….
the mind boggles……. The lunatic and the bucktooth comrade. Straight out of One Flew over the cockoos nest.
Vote:March 7th, 2013 at 8:04 am
I disagree KS, I’ll both criticise and praise The Daily Blog as I see fit, if it can develop into a useful part of the commentariat then it will strengthen the whole political blogosphere.
Decent left orientated information and discussion online is sadly suppressed and lacking at the moment. That’s not healthy for our politics and democracy.
Vote:March 7th, 2013 at 8:09 am
PG – you serious…..?
“Decent left orientated information and discussion online is sadly suppressed and lacking at the moment”
Lacking – yes.
Suppressed – WTF
The left do want to bring in hate speech laws and they would certainly limit what most on the left would say, but no such laws to blame for such suppression yet.
So whats causing the suppression?
Vote:March 7th, 2013 at 8:11 am
Yeah, they’re on your list…..eh Tony.
Vote:March 7th, 2013 at 8:13 am
What exactly did you find patsy in that interview?
Vote:Which question was almost as bad as the idiotic one by Bradbury?
March 7th, 2013 at 8:14 am
There is considerable and well known censorship at The Standard and Red Alert through unbalanced moderation, supported harrassment and one sided bannings.
(I haven’t seen any of that at The Daily Blog, so far the comments seem open there).
Vote:March 7th, 2013 at 8:39 am
Pete George @ 8:14
But that is a problem of the left in a limited media format. By in far the MSM sports left wing propaganda like it was fact. Inn fact the air time left policies get is very disproportionate to the right in the lefts favour, and yet never gets called for what it mostly is ie garbage.
Vote:There is no left suppression in NZ. Its completely opposite, to the point that the left can get away with spouting anything it wants as fact. I am happy it appears that most of mainstream NZ sees through this tripe for what it is.
March 7th, 2013 at 8:41 am
‘I wondered who interviewed her. It was former Green MP Sue Kedgley!’
I guess the ‘by Sue Kedgley’ right under the title was a major give away. Or the fact the first paragraph says ‘Sue Kedgley interviewed Wade-Brown on a range of issues relevant to that decision’, or the first question has, in bold and italics, ‘Kedgley’ in front of it.
But other than that you’re very perceptive DPF.
I giggle every time you claim someone else is biased.
Vote:March 7th, 2013 at 8:47 am
Oh Pete, Pete, Pete……
Thats not suppression. Thats a bunch of halfwits who are afraid of free speech, afraid of what other people think, desperate for hate speech laws, etc
If the people who those two places ever got any sort of power – then youd be well on the way to the sort of mind control that is used in places like north Korea.
What is the real problem ? Its that there is this belief on the left that there is one true road to the future. But everyone on the left thinks only they know the one true way. But they all know that cant be right – so theyre all sort of stuck in the headlights of time.
Vote:Its sort of like a religious movement – there has to someone in control, someone in charge, someone leading the troops.
But at the moment there are several on the left thinking that they are that person – and the morons at the standard and red alert think that they know who should be out in front – and they wont hear a word in opposition.
The left are in little groups marching towards all points of the compass – and the more they march, the further they get away from each other.
March 7th, 2013 at 8:55 am
It could be summed up as a nutter interviewing another.
Vote:March 7th, 2013 at 8:59 am
Bradbury is a bit sad really. Let’s fact it, he is completely unable to see anyone to the right of Helen as anything but a bizarre caricature of a nasty monopoly man. That to me indicates one of the most closed minds you’re likely to run across.
Vote:March 7th, 2013 at 9:47 am
Oh for an “interview” like those by Bradbury..but with a heavy list to the right instead of the left: “David, how do you deal with those who focus obsessively on something you did 30 years ago rather than ask how you achieved the most significant change in our criminal law since the limp wristed liberals abolished capital punishment in 1961?”
Note to Idiots: the above is IRONY…I am not actually claiming what the putative question suggests as a fact; merely positing a right wing version of Bradbury’s “questions”….
Vote:March 7th, 2013 at 10:42 am
This is a hilarious line from the interview:
“It was exciting to go to San Francisco and see their lovely waterfront after their flyover had been pulled down”.
The flyover collapsed during the 1989 San Francisco earthquake and the State Government wisely decided not to rebuild it.
Vote:March 7th, 2013 at 12:22 pm
19 comments and no one has picked DPF up on the word “giggle”?
thats a word chicks use. usually when flirting.
Vote:March 7th, 2013 at 6:29 pm
Wade Brown, the mayor that nobody in Wellington actually wanted.
Vote:March 7th, 2013 at 8:21 pm
Len Brown, the mayor that nobody in Auckland wanted.
Vote:Mayors, Councillors, Civil Servants – all cork soakers