Wow.
Just.
Wow.
Watch Hillary Barry destroy Bill English on Breakfast TVNZ yesterday…
Prime Minister Bill English is being challenged to front up and “tell us what you know”, as outrage over the Todd Barclay tape scandal continues.
Appearing on Breakfast on Monday morning, host Hilary Barry grilled the PM over his contradictory statements in relation to the scandal.
“You keep saying these things that are at odds with each other, you said there’s no proof that this recording actually existed and then the next day you say, oh actually, Todd Barclay offered to play it for me,” Barry said.
“It’s almost like you need to just front up and tell us what you know, very clearly, instead of drip-feeding these contradictory statements.”
…English is in trouble.
Real trouble.
John Key could look down the barrel of the camera and lie to our faces, but English can’t.
Middle NZ rewards convincing political liars & punishes incompetent ones.
When English is getting mauled like this, he looks incredibly weak, and his train wreck of an interview here should be terrifying National supporters because he looks as clueless in campaigning as Theresa May did.
No one, not even Matthew fucking Hooton or David slim Farrar can look at that interview and pretend  Bill English looked good.
That was the worst political interview I’ve ever seen in my life.
He will implode on the campaign trail.
Breakfast TVNZ just became a must watch each morning, Hillary Barry did more for journalism in that 7 minutes than Seven Sharp has managed all year.
I humbly take back all the shit I’ve given Breakfast TVNZ – yesterday was incredible.
Broadcasting political journalism used to be routinely this 25+ years ago.
Barry only looks “incredible” because the the modern TV news landscape is such a desert.
Kill your television.
Exactly @ RC
I remember seeing something similar when Labour ‘Lost’ to National some years ago. The fuckers don’t fool me for a minute. National are tanking themselves to take a break away from the lime light and giving Labour a go at the higher salaries and better entitlements for a while.
Little bill’s falling on his sword. Winning ( Taking ) one for the Gipper. The punk arse little traitor. Three years from now? After Labour implode trying to wrangle Nationals spillage after gorging themselves on our blood sweat and tears? National will be back with a vengeance.
totally agree !!! no one is that stupid without a plan !
Yes the media is New Zealand is below woeful.
Yep,
Hillary Barry is a gun alright, we need more of these REAL JOURNO’s to find a balance in our media to combat the constant brainwashing by National propaganda “over-wash” of our people.
1000% Hillary Barry.
All the journos shoved out of TV3 by Lame Julie Christie and that Weldon creep. Let’s make a list:
Melanie Reid
John Campbell
Mihi Forbes
Hillary Barry
Mark Jennings
Paula Penfold
Eugene Bingham
Jeff Hampton
Too many to name really, but these are the REAL JOURNOS you’re looking for and to our extreme benefit, they are all still working – you just have to look for them in different places.
I havnt wanted to watch her since she giggled her way throught the “paul henry show”
I think Bill did good in the end as he is basically an honest person. Still don’t like his political view – greedy and self interested. Even Jim Bolger has seen the error of the right for a small country like NZ. However this is from Johnnies time although this man was involved. More to the point is what else has the johnster covered up. As that man was a stranger to the true. We now need to look behind the
mirror. You see this man can’t lie. However he knows stuff. So the media need to learn a different strategy.
I think Bill did good in the end as he is basically an honest person. Still don’t like his political view – greedy and self interested. Even Jim Bolger has seen the error of the right for a small country like NZ. However this is from Johnnies time although this man was involved. More to the point is what else has the johnster covered up. As that man was a stranger to the true. We now need to look behind the
mirror. You see this man can’t lie. However he knows stuff. So the media need to learn a different strategy.
I think Bill did good in the end as he is basically an honest person.</i.
No, he's far from an honest person.
He's perfectly comfortable with deceit. Caught out 15 years ago in recorded conversation smugly describing how National have a hidden privatisation (asset theft) agenda. That was lying over a massively important issue.
An honest person? Give us a break.
This was the man who doubled-dipped on his house expenses, after all. The double-dipper from Dipton. The burden of truth has always been high, as far as the public have expected. It’s just that modern pollies use more and more spin doctors, and the mainstream broadcast media have got weaker. Barry was like a dinosaur in that interview. Campbell shows moments of tenacity. But no one was as good as Kim Hill or Mary Wilson. Back in the day, Simon Walker and Brian Edwards showed a bit of the bull dog in the Muldoon days.
Bill English now has to be held to account about his own truthfulness to the NZ public
Because this is now what its about, blathering on about the 10 month old police investigation is deflecting from the real issue of his dishonesty to the public
It’s almost sad isn’t it. We actually stand a chance of seeing them lose this time because their leader isn’t a stone cold soulless asshole with a complete lack of moral compass and no sense of shame about deceiving people for his own benefit. Just a pity that the media themselves seem to have grown a pair now that they’ve realised this instead of doing their goddamn job in the first place.
More than 7 sharp has ever done since Hosking slithered on to the set.
Another thing though and the likes of Houton and Farrar cannot seem to understand is that lying, deceiving, cheating, manipulating politicians and their support staff ae rreally starting to piss people off and that is how the likes of Trump, ironically, come about.
Its second nature to those b…s, and whenever they do it they are surrounded by a bunch of paid subordinates who’s job is to be sycophants and yes men,
So pissing off people doesn’t rate highly in their scheme of things.
To them it is “business as usual” as our finance minister once remarked.
Nat MPs have refused to be interviewed because the media needed them more then they needed the media.
Now that English needs to get his message out and has to go to the media to get it out there, he finds he is really out of practice and does a terrible job. Karma.
If you are relying on the media to advocate against neoliberal capitalism, you can forget it.
Follow the money.
Look at the owners of the media.
It was only matched by English’s evasiveness on Morning Report yesterday. Suzy Ferguson was far too lenient with him.
She probably had been warned she might have to look for alternative employment if she dared to grill English too hard.
Paul and RC right – follow the money – who are the owners of the media – enlightenment – kill the television – pass it on.
I think its time we see a lot more of Johnny Cash’s song ‘ Sooner or later God will cut them down ‘ accompanying anything to do with Bill English and the senior National party members. They’ve had their time.
And we are paying these lying Mamba’s to poison NZ.
Enough of them and their ‘ small govt’ – that’s not what we pay them for – its time they got off their lying lazy fat arses , quit with the crap and do what they were paid to do ,- govern this country in OUR best interests.
Anyone noticed how Bill’s eye’s seem to keep shifting to the right uncontrollably?
In light of what happened to the name given to Dave Cunliffe during the last election cycle in order to discredit him, “Shifty” or “Shifty Eyes” Bill would be quite fitting LOL
For God sake let it go. Yes some silly ( to young ) MP has made a big Cock Up and let his boss down. The PM and Nastional are doing a good job as anyone with any brains can see. This whole thing is being pushed by the media to try and show how good they are and by the other parties to cover up there total lack of ability.
The PM should not have to waste time on such an unimportant political game!
“The PM and Nastional are doing a good job as anyone with any brains can see.”
Anyone with half a brain will tell you that the record numbers of homeless and record number in poverty, proves you wrong. Or do they not count?
Or were you just being sarcastic?
G Bennett, “let it go”?? There is a prima faecie case of at least one crime being committed and you want it covered up?? WTF??
If it had been a Labour candidate at the core of this scandal, would you want to “let it go”?
You Nat supporters sicken me. This is why the country has gone to the dogs. Not because of Nat MPs but because National supporters like you ENABLE their corrupt behaviour.
Go to hell.
totally agree – no one is that stupid without a plan – a bit of stupidity traded for a fat wallet ! yes no probs guv !
That is because Seven Sharp has nothing to do with journalism, and everything to do with trying to make Mike Hosking look like Mr Cool.
He actually looks more like a bum fresh out of the gutter than a Mr Cool.
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