TV Review: Campbell Live – Winston Peters & Asian-New Zealanders

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Another excellent Campbell Live tonight where Rebecca Wright gloriously tortured Winston Peters over his eye rolling Asian baiting Takapuna speech.

I wish Auckland was as vaguely interesting as Winston Peters was proclaiming. Auckland as ‘Sin City’ huh? I’ve walked these streets very late at night, trust me ladies and gentlemen, it’s far more like ‘Grim Pity’.

I think the whole angry reaction to ‘Asian invasion’ is driven by the false perception generated by so many students coming to Auckland as opposed to direct immigration.

I’ve lived in the inner city for about two decades now. I remember pre-Asian student Auckland and post-Asian student Auckland. Pre-Asian student Auckland was a dreary meat and three vege kinda town with a random act of extreme violence to punctuate the boredom. Post-Asian student Auckland has flourished into a cosmopolitan smorgasbord of food and design and vibrancy.

The influx of Asian students has given immensely to Auckland and we aren’t being very grateful hosts.

Are there real concerns over Chinese investors flying in and buying up large amounts of residential property? Of course there is, just as there should be real concerns over ANY foreigner coming here and buying up large amounts of residential property. But that in no way can be all directed at Asians, and certainly no justification for the ridiculous race baiting Winston was engaging in during his Takapuna Grey Power speech.

Asian-New Zealanders get a terrible go of it here in NZ. Rather than ostracizing our fellow 1st generation, 2nd generation, 3rd generation, 4th generation Asian-New Zealanders, we should see them as the valuable cultural bridge to Asia we need to develop if we are to do trade, play sports and swap culturally with.

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It’s the Asia-Pacific region, let’s stop pretending it isn’t.

One of the most heart warming things for me about the Rugby World Cup was seeing so many Asian-New Zealanders manically wearing All Black regalia with silver ferns and NZ Flags face painted onto themselves. The opportunity to feel included and to display they were Kiwis was a sudden reminder of how long we had kept our fellow citizens at arms length. Their desperate attempt to proudly state their identity told me that we had a lot further to go on that front.

Campbell Live righteously putting the boot into Winston’s race baiting didn’t make for pretty TV Journalism, but then again, neither did Winston’s playing to the worst elements of our nature.

Well done Campbell Live & Rebecca Wright for actively countering our anti-Asian bigotry tonight.

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  1. are you kidding me? well done Rebecca Wright? she got owned by Peters, she looked and sounded ridiculous.

    • Another case of sometimes not getting the answers to the question says more than getting the answers. Not just to the questioner but to all viewers/listeners.

      Rebecca Wright, just as John Campbell had, elicited from Winston Peters that he is playing a political game in a typical scurrilous, sleazy style. He doesn’t have answers, he doesn’t need answers.He knows there is an audience which loves him and what he stands for and in the aftermath will come out saying things such as “he owned” whoever it was who had interviewed him.

      At least the rabidity of their support for Winston and his extraordinarily predictable and destructive methods is mild compared to that of those who think that John Key is the Messiah.

    • She’s young, give her a few more years and she will do more than ruffle Winstons’s hair do.

  2. Oh , so that’s what the fuss was about . I saw a woman with a microphone chasing Peters along a footpath then I see him scramble into a cab with no small amount of relief on his face while I was doing more important things than watching the work of fiction also known as the MSM News . I was scratching my arse . I though he’d been sprung for running Machiavellian defense for neoliberalism , not for Asian bashing .

    Should someone point out to him that the geographical origins of Maori people was allegedly main-land China ? Oh the irony ! Winston needs to go back to his roots maybe ? Not selling out his Whakapapa for a government salary and entitlements .

    I’ve traveled throughout South East Asia and the worst aspect of those times was that I had to come back to dreary , bleak , cold , old Nu Zilds towns and cities . With their stupid laws and pathetic values and before some of you blow out a brain thing in outrage , by that I mean how our towns and city’s are not much more than edifices to money laundering and greed . Not humanism , joy , love and creativity .

    I’d faint with delight if , for example , someone opened an Asian warehouse in bleak Balclutha . That town is drab on downers . There are no traffic lights in Balclutha because it’s so depressing , motorists would be at risk of hacking at their wrists while waiting for them to change , at the sight of Main Street . Seen The Green Mile ? You got it . Like that but with cars and more depressing . And more flies . They have cafes in Balclutha . And out the back of those cafes they have centrifuge machines in case they make a good coffee by mistake . If they do , they run the brew through the machines to remove all flavour . All the caffeine , all the sweet nuances then add extra bitterness , burnt milk and a taste not unlike sucking on a lead headed coffin nail . Then they heat the whole fiendish brew to beyond scalding in a nuclear reactor . I had to insult the gutter by pouring my undrinkable coffee into it . And while the Indian restaurant , the Turkish kebab house and the most excellent Bakery down a windswept side street struggle , the fush and chup shops do a roaring trade selling soggy shark parts and tasteless spuds boiled in animal grease to the clumping National Party voting masses there . If ever there was a town desperately needing a life saving Asian Injection it’s Bowelclutha . A town on the Clutha River . Perhaps more a sphincter through which all the wealthy , up-stream effluvium passes through on it’s way to a long suffering ocean .

  3. Campbell live blew that one completely! As they do when they pop on their rose colored vision on immigration.
    Sorry Bomber but Downtown Aucks is a dirty shithole. The food is very very average and nothing to write home about. Waterfront occasionally stunning.Oh and before i moved south from the Farnorth some 14 years ago there were Asian prostitutes some on student visa’s(mostly Thai I think) working from the accommodation units at the Kaitaia Hotel.It is real it is happening and cheap mortgage money from Chinese government banks is pushing Auckland real estate prices to unsustainable levels. Chinese have comprised NZ’ education system by running cheat services for assignments and essays. You are in denial. Our immigration policies are a fucking disaster. Wake the fuck up! Winston came out OK Campbell Live reporter sounded like a demented shrew. No winners there.

  4. Campbell Live is the only current affairs show that is calling politicians to account
    while Rebecca Wright was pesky she was only trying to get Peters to produce the evidence to back up his claims he could,nt because he doesn,t have the proof good on Bec,s

    • “Campbell Live is the only current affairs show that is calling politicians to account..”

      Yeah right – how come we never see Key being pursued and hectored in that fashion to answer for all his lies and evasions .. Campbell never seems to get really stuck into the government MP’s, only the opposition ones. The Winston interview was yet another diversion away from the elephant in the room.. the appalling mess the Nats are making of running the country and the erosion of democracy in NZ.

    • BS! She doorstepped him to make him look bad.He was perfectly willing to answer the questions, as he stated, in the studio. Big bad Winnie! meanwhile Bomber supports the avowed racist Hone Harawira.
      Pathetic NZ mainstream media just love to hunt Winston down,as he is the last political voice in this country committed to repealing the Reserve Bank Act and rightly seeks the rewrite of our crap immigration policies that are, along with steady theft of our democracy by the present government, robbing us of our sovereignty and future wealth and ownership of our resources. Meanwhile all the stupid liberal Kiwis run around like headless chooks squawking about racism. The Chinese think we are very very stupid to give our country away without a fight>

  5. Hey countryboy there are plenty of online asian food warehouses. And you can always learn to make your own coffee(cheaper). No traffic lights? Sounds like heaven,(same in rural Northland).
    Oh and there have been Chinese families in South Otago since the 19th Century. Half my whanau are from there and I went to school with NZ born Chinese in Otago.

  6. I reckon Campbell live is another rigged WHITE LIES programme too! GET REAL CAMPBELL live! Theres too many foreigners here – time to close queen elizabeths immigration coat of arms! Put me on TV we’ll talk about all this LYING ADULT behaviour going on! Winston Peters would be a better PM JohnlyingKeys thats 4sure! Lets EDUCATE OURSELVES ON THE TRUTH of History how IMMIGRATION is instructed from queen lizabeths CROWN coat of arms symbol (1953-present same year she was crowned). Its STAND OUTSIDE her NZ courthouses:1.Common courthouses 2. City council chamber courthouses 3.Beehive courthouse Wellington. TIME to replace Queen liz with the FIRST MAORI QUEEN! She will hold the scales of JUSTICE to judge Queen Victoria’s treaty which led to queen elizabeths couthouses!

  7. Excellent post Martyn. Thoughtful, measured and constructive. Keep up the good work.

  8. Scrolling from the bottom up I saw, … “Should read compromised the NZ education system…” and naturally I thought this was about Hekia Parata!

  9. God ! It’s so good to know that one is not alone .

    @ Shona . I do espresso my own coffee and when I smoked , I rolled my own but it can be a bit like having sex by oneself . ( No offense meant ) It’s the event that counts . Not necessarily the end result . ( ? ) I like the whole cafe experience . It’s humanizing . It makes me feel a part of … life .
    That’s why I love to go to Asian warehouses . Sure , it’s to buy stuff , but it’s also for the experience . The smells , the clutter ! I bloody love it all .
    We have a wonderful piece of Earth upon which to exist and yet we seem so unhappy ? And anxious ? And at risk ? And why ?

    Because a few of us have realized that they can make money selling us out . It’s really that simple . And it’s up to us to say ” No , you fucking don’t ! ”

    Would you let a stranger walk into your home and take your cutlery ? No . You would not . You would call the police . So … WTF ?

    We Kiwis … call ‘us’ what you want , are living on the jewels of a few islands . Dick Seddon ( Sorry Tim Selwyn ) said ” I’m going home to Gods own lands . ” ) then , once here he died .

    The greater the beauty , the greater the risk posed to it .

    Ask the pretty girl ? Ask the brilliant mind ? They’ll tell you how they suffer the slings and arrows .

    Been to Lawrence ? There , are the graves of the Chinese . They were buried out of town in their own grave yard . Well away from polite society .

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