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October 11, 2022 3:00pm by David Farrar

Hooton on Mahuta

Mathew nails it. pic.twitter.com/ux4eYpP0F5
— Ali Smith (@quite2me) September 21, 2022

Matthew speaks truth to power here,

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Old.Mickey.Blue.Eyes

Is this reverse racism? (asking for a friend)
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October 11, 2022 3:23pm
- Geoff1
  
  Is this reverse racism? (asking for a friend)
  Racism is racism regardless of with side perpetuates it.
  Reverse racism is a misnomer – no such thing.
  
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  October 11, 2022 4:14pm
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Unnecessary adjective
    
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    October 11, 2022 7:01pm
- Observer of Life
  
  Matt McLean has got to be the worst TV presenter/interviewer this side of the black stump. Useless is being kind.
  
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  October 11, 2022 6:51pm
- iMP
  
  Aren’t we all reversing racism?. A Friend.
  
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  October 11, 2022 10:16pm
Clyde

Hooton did nail it and said it how it is. The sooner more people stand up to blatant racists who widely populate the Liemore Party, the better. Time for every bleeding heart “liberal progressive” to stand aside NOW. We have had enough.
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October 11, 2022 3:39pm
- redeye
  
  How long before Hooton gets an invite back to TVNZ I wonder.
  Not that I watch that channel.
  
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  October 11, 2022 4:32pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Me too. The Speaker of the House insists on play school TV1 breakfast.
    Keep the queen bee happy and the whole hive is happy.
    I am dam sure she is a closet leftie//
    
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    October 11, 2022 5:52pm
Cinematic

Sure did, well done him. Especially well actually given the word salad nonsense spewing forth from his right.

Why Labour feels such a strong need to pander to a tiny majority of the population because they arrived a few centuries earlier than latter settlers is beyond me.

There can be little doubt that this is a major part of the reason for their plummeting poll numbers.
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October 11, 2022 3:39pm
Mobile Michael

Why is no one on the left arguing that the Mahuta clan are the best qualified to provide the contracted services?
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October 11, 2022 3:45pm
Ghost

Blatant racism in groundswell? Rubbish, there were a few farmers who expressed views that groundswell spoke against.
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October 11, 2022 3:48pm
Swifty

Members of the NZ Labour Party, and their supporters, think New Zealanders who do not support their every move are scum.

They talk about us as though we are scum.

Simply ask questions about Mahuta, Three Waters or co-governance and you are racist scum.

I have never been more sickened by the values and behaviours of the left ruling class as I am today.

The arrogance, the fact that they’re never, ever wrong, the nastiness, the racism, the waste, the corruption, their use of tax-payer money for their own political advantage, the open lying, the re-writing of history, the open hypocrisy, the use of state power for political purposes, the coercion – all of it.

I detest them.
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October 11, 2022 3:49pm
- Sarkozygroupie
  
  Comment of the week.
  
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  October 11, 2022 6:41pm
Sporteone

Maddy looked like stunned mullet.
Hooten nailed it but it will change nothing
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October 11, 2022 3:51pm
RoboRob

The best I have seen from Hooton in a long time. That the lefts best defence (apart from ‘your a racist’) is ‘they did it too’ says a lot.
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October 11, 2022 3:57pm
Rusty

The Labour party and their cohorts are signing their own death warrant if they think they are going to be re-elected next year.

If they think race baiting and trash talking to anyone who disagrees with them is smart politics then they are in for a shock.

Last weekend’s elections proved among other things Nzers are getting sick to death of woke/socialist people and their bankrupted morals running our council boards.
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October 11, 2022 4:04pm
- peterwn
  
  Leave them in la-la land and do not try and bring them back to Earth too early. They are too full of hubris (which right wing parties in power are often accused of) to understand what is really happening. As Napoleon said do not disturb the enemy when the enemy is making mistakes.
  
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  October 11, 2022 4:10pm
  - KiwiSapper
    
    Yes, I agree. For God’s sake don’t deflect them from their chosen path, as the hole they are currently digging will then be large enough to swallow all of them without trace.
    
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    October 11, 2022 5:40pm
- spanish_tudor
  
  Labour always turn nasty when they are up against it. One only has to remember Helen Clark labelling Don Brash as “cancerous and corrosive” once National drew level with Labour in the polls, and her snide remark to John Key that “you might shout over your wife at home, but not with me” in one of the 2008 election debates.
  
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  October 11, 2022 4:43pm
  - igm
    
    Poor old Pete would never dare to put Clark in her place. He needed her to get him out of difficult situations!
    
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    October 11, 2022 5:35pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Yes, we know who you mean, Pete (no other name available atm)
      
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      October 11, 2022 5:56pm
- David Garrett
  
  Rusty: Endless repetition of “Labour will be thrown out next year” doesn’t make it so…When they are polling in the 20’s we might be able to make that prediction with some degree of certainty…When I last looked they were polling in the low 40’s…has that changed?
  
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  October 12, 2022 8:22am
QuiteRight

Yes Hooton nails it on this occasion and good on him.

However I really don’t know what to make of him any longer with some of his output, culminating in this doosey the other week – “If NZ became a republic I’d back Jacinda Ardern for President”
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October 11, 2022 4:05pm
JerJer

Next year will be priceless. They know they are goneburger already. It’s going to be a slow and painful death for them over the next 12 months.
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October 11, 2022 4:56pm
Zorba

Change Her surname back to Ormsby, then ass-bergers waycist whity leave her alone
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October 11, 2022 4:58pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  That is not the ten are coy way. It must be done so both peoples know.
  Ngati Pakeha and Ngati Moari. That is the way it will be.
  
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  October 11, 2022 6:07pm
JimBobJoe

Mr Tepou says the blue side have benefited by millions of dollars.

Hmm.

I note he was careful to make a general smear and didn’t name names.

I wonder why Shane? If you have a case lets see the names and accusation of COI leading to family benefiting.

Rorting the public purse for personal gain is not something that is ok regardless of the side of politics youre on.
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October 11, 2022 5:11pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Good luck!
  
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  October 11, 2022 6:08pm
Handyman

Labour think they can ride out scandals because they control the purse and the press.
Next year will be interesting.
According to Sir Robert Muldoon, people vote with one hand on their wallet. The question is: Will voters be thinking of the cost of living or the latest Labour election bribe? They won’t be thinking of Mahuta and her family.
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October 11, 2022 5:12pm
- Roberta
  
  Well they should be, because once she has the power to deny non-Maori the right to water, there will be such a far higher cost of living that they will always have their hand in their wallet.
  
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  October 12, 2022 5:34pm
Zack Brando

IMO:

Labour’s plan is to fund the merger of RNZ and TVNZ to the tune of 369 million and have it up and running by March 2023.

Labour’s media plants will direct a sustained, pro Labour, propaganda campaign leading up to the general election.
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October 11, 2022 5:59pm
- Ghost
  
  Doesn’t really matter anyway, tvnz and radio nz are pro labour anyway
  
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  October 11, 2022 6:00pm
- alloytoo
  
  And National should auction it off within a 100 days.
  
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  October 11, 2022 6:22pm
- artemisia
  
  Will the media do that though? Bosses and staff will be well aware that the money hosepipe might get turned right down next year. Could be less than 12 months away. The merger big bucks will need to be spent broadly within the plan, as the bosses and Ministers will or should expect that expenses will be scrutinised, questions asked, names named, long lists of fluff involving sausage rolls published and on the interweb forever. Only if there is a change of government of course ….
  
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  October 11, 2022 7:08pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Matty Matt McLean was way out of his depth here. Frowning means he had no fucking clue – and not informed about this at all
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October 11, 2022 6:00pm
- graham
  
  Might also mean that his illusions of Princess Jacinda and the kind, upright, honest and transparent Government she leads have just had an almighty reality check.
  
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  October 11, 2022 6:16pm
  - yossarian
    
    This is it. Matty is not used to anyone on the Breakfast show saying anything untoward about his beloved Labour
    
    You sort of see the realisation on his face, ‘but I thought everyone loves Jacinda and Labour, what is this person saying?’
    
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    October 11, 2022 8:09pm
- Ultima
  
  He’s a typical modern day jounalist. He’ll be promoted to Fair Go next.
  
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  October 11, 2022 7:48pm
Rumblestrip

In terms of debate, saying “That’s racist!” is no different from saying “I find that offensive!” It’s a total non-argument that should be called out whenever seen.

“If someone tells me that I’ve hurt their feelings, I say, ‘I’m still waiting to hear what your point is.’

In this country, I’ve been told, ‘That’s offensive’ as if those two words constitute an argument or a comment. Not to me they don’t.

And I’m not running for anything, so I don’t have to pretend to like people when I don’t.”

–Christopher Hitchens
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October 11, 2022 8:27pm
Monique Watson

That’s hilarious how Matthew Hooten says, “White Male, ” with big eyes in defense of his endangered species. It’s very watchable.
Somebody said they don’t know what to make of Mr Hooten’s latest output:

You can get the point home by playing devils advocate; it also opens up the topic.
That and acting dumb. Watch you aren’t being played if someone acts likeable and dumb. It’s a powerful drug, feeling just a little more clever than another. That can come to a polling booth near you.
Here in the U.S. the politicians can present as both narcissistic and dumb. It’s a valid strategy. It could garner more votes for a certain demographic.
And pushing on the Mahuta contracts might well backfire in the face of this.
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October 11, 2022 9:22pm
NZer In Exile

Isn’t the normal code that you act on even the whiff of corruption??

Didn’t the great colossus Helen of New Zimbabwe throw D Samuels under the bus for there merely being “swirling allegations” around him??
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