Life Lesson – never trust the NZ Herald

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So there I am, reading the NZ Herald when they claim they have a document suggesting Key is going to the IMF – I write a blog, using NZ Herald as a source…

As we all await the second show to drop from Key’s shock announcement to explain the why he’s suddenly abandoning ship, his payment for being America’s plaything has arrived, and surprise, surprise it’s a suggestion that he should go to the IMF…

Prime Minister John Key named as ideal candidate to head International Monetary Fund

Outgoing Prime Minister John Key has been tipped as a potential candidate to head the International Monetary Fund – an appointment signed off by US President Barack Obama.

An article on MSC Newswire says Key’s background in international finance would make him an ideal candidate to replace Christine Lagarde as the managing director of the IMF. Lagarde has been ordered to stand trial in France over the Tapie Affair.

“Mr Key has the required money market experience. He has run a country. He has backed President Obama’s showpiece international thrusts, the TPPA, and the Paris Climate.

He is known to be on personal terms with President Obama who will have the ultimate sign-off on the IMF leadership.”

 

Turns out the Herald have based this story on a year old document…

IS JOHN KEY really in the running for Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)? Well, yes, according to the NZ Herald’s Deputy-Political Editor, Claire Trevett, he is. Upon closer examination, however, Trevett’s story looks a lot more like fake news than real news.

…Life Lesson – never trust the NZ Herald

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10 COMMENTS

    • Hey !!! – your damn right they are !!!

      What gives here?

      I’ll tell you what gives : this whole Key thing has been a bigger con job than we at first thought , that’s what gives.

      It would appear Little John was working to a timeline – and a definite agenda.

      The whole thing. And if the current IMF leader is to be manacled , – that means Key knew he would be on the short list for the head of the IMF.

      Otherwise how else would that article have been put together?

      So if the current head of the IMF leaves a vacant position , then Key would have resigned on prompts, – and pretty definite ones as well if he felt confident about being chosen.

      So that makes the whole excuse about his poor wife getting all lonely in Auckland yet more bullshit and jellybeans, doesn’t it….as is the whole TTPA affair… its obvious now that that’s fallen over because of Trump,… the new line of attack is going to be through being head of the IMF…

  3. You have to be joking. NZHerald has just quoted a December 2015 “MSC Newswire” article which simply forms an opinion that Key would make a good candidate for this job and they have today this listed as BREAKING NEWS as though it’s some big scandal or reason for his resignation. Come on guys, check the facts.

  4. Leader of the IMF?
    You’re kidding. You have to be a money technocrat.
    He was Minister of Tourism and Minister of Politically Shafting the Opposition (and was certainly pretty good at the latter, what ever you think of the former and everything else.) He is about as qualified for the job as Donald Trump for President. Less.

    • He is a money technocrat though. Before he entered politics he was a currency trader at Merrill Lynch. And by all accounts a pretty good one too – he made about $100M in bonuses. He’d be “perfect” for the IMF.

  5. As alluded to in a comment above; this NZ Herald article is based on one almost a year old.

    This year old article is from an obscure media outlet which is an opinion piece, the author of which is a mystery or at the very best indiscernible.

    Rather amusing how such a piece is used in the NZ Herald article as a means of providing it authority. Which itself is just a speculative opinion piece largely quoted from said article.

    It’s almost as if the author, possessing adulation for Key, came up with a half-baked idea of him being material fit for such a supposedly distinguished position; for research then typed–John Key IMF–into a search engine which conjured up a year’s old opinion piece which they then largely quoted into the body of their own.

    Once again, another example of the usual dross journalism from that abysmal publication.

  6. Almost as fun as ‘wanting to have more time with the children’.

    I’m trying to be charitable here, and have politely imagined that he’s unwell. Retiring on medical grounds… I wonder.

  7. Corrupt Key, a perfect choice for the Bilderberg front row IMF stall to operate from in secret against us yet again.

    What happened with Keys involvement in the Panama papers???

    Oh of course that activity fits the IMF cabal perfectly.

  8. I think what this possibly shows is a desire to continue on the cult of John Key even after he has resigned as Prime Minister

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