MEDIA WATCH – Mike Hosking hates Jacinda so much, he’s actually siding with the virus now 

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Mike Hosking hates Jacinda SOOOOOOOO much, that he’s finally taken to siding with the virus in his latest column…

Mike’s Minute: Politics is creeping into Covid-19 response

If you ever needed more evidence that what is going on here is increasingly political, ask yourself why the modelling the government has relied on for this mess was released publicly.

As soon as it was, Ashley Bloomfield dutifully told us this modelling was why we are doing what we are doing.

The first question to ask is, why this modelling? Is it right? How do we know? Are there those who are experts in their field who argue modelling like this is pseudo-science ? Yes there are. We have featured one such piece of work already this week.

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…He argues the virus is misunderstood & that the response is now political???

Mike’s need to side with whatever Jacinda is against is now pathological and his latest u-turns and flip flops on the pandemic tend to see him arguing against his own position 24 hours earlier…

Mike Hosking’s many contradictory takes on Covid-19

Despite being hailed as a source of vital information, Newstalk ZB’s Mike Hosking seems to have used the pandemic to see how fast he can oscillate from opinion to contradictory opinion.

These are the positions the morning talkback host has taken, in chronological order.

If brain eating Aliens invaded Earth, Mike would be the first to welcome our new flesh devouring overlords and offer his services to help enslave the remaining herds of humanity.

Mike’s love language would be forced labour camps.

This Government’s desire to put the health of the people before profit margins is clearly so unknowable to Mike that it seems political to him because that’s the only way he can conceive of saving lives, as a political stunt.

Mike’s criticism of the Government says more about Mike’s limitations than they do about Jacinda’s.

 

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51 COMMENTS

  1. “Mike Hosking hates Jacinda so much, he’s actually siding with the virus now” – very funny – +1

  2. Still the best moment on TV was watching Hoskings live announcing the formation of the Labour NZ First Green government.Not so much a man swallowing a dead rat but more a man forced to carefully chew the dead rat before he swallowed it.

    • his face said it all the horror the shock did you notice he left tv soon after mike the morons bubble world blew up that night

  3. John Key’s and National parties biggest cheerleader out of a job and joining the unemployment queue.

    It’s gotta hurt.

    How will he afford the gas for the Maserati?

  4. Yes Martyn.

    Today even Nationals “shining slick boy Paul Goldsmith” ( in his hope to the next finance Minister) is using a ‘full political front attack’ against Jacinda now.

    • I thought Bridges and his MPs had ceased electioneering.
      That lasted two weeks! A little like his 10 bridges promise.

      • National never cease electioneering. They’ve just replaced Bumbling Bridges with Joe 90, as he’s less prone to violently inserting his boot into his gob while the cameras are rolling. I believe it’s termed ‘making the best of what you’ve got’.

        And National don’t have much of anything right now.

  5. Lets remember that it was Mike Hosking who had a go at a female who accidentally hit his car in Parnell(or was it Newmarket)some years ago.
    And so with that memory in mind methink Hosking HATES ALL FEMALES who are not weak and submissive(like his wife perhaps). Hosking hates strong-minded females and especially those who are quite obviously more intelligent that he will ever deem himself to be.
    I also recall one time seeing a video of him ranting away like a lunatic with rabies in some clip shown on the tail end of a TV One Current Affairs program some years ago. He was driving along and ranting full bore at the same time. Back then I thought to myself “This guy is truly insane. Mind you that could well explain why he so loves the NZ National Party…”
    He is nothing short of just an abysmal excuse of a publicity seeking nutter who really should have been shown the door by the mainstream NZ media years ago but because of his ‘links’ with the NZ National Party was allowed to stay and quite honestly become a bad smell upon the media society.
    If the NZ Herald had any guts, which I doubt they do when all things considered, Mike Hosking and his bimbo wife would be way out of a job by now.
    But when it comes to protecting the NZ National Party the likes of Hosking etc will always be protected by that very party.
    Mike Hosking is a reflection of what is wrong with the mainstream NZ media.

  6. Oh the irony that Arderns biggest fan boy who will never criticize her. Is trying to rally us against Arderns biggest critic who will never praise her. You and Hosking are two peas in the same pod Martyn, you’re just at opposite ends.

    • Martyn probably won’t say it so I will. If you haven’t seen him critical of Ardern you haven’t been on here enough or on the right days.

    • Martyn bags Jacinda fairly regularly, mate. He’s prone to hyperbole occasionally, but he’s not shy about putting the boot into the Red Team when he feels it’s warranted. You obviously haven’t been paying attention.

  7. I’ve known a few rich people who are not intelligent, most of whom admit honestly that they’re not that smart, and there are others who have the Dunning -Kruger thing where they think they’ve got rich by being clever. The former support Labour- the latter vote National or if they’re really convinced of their own superiority vote ACT.
    MH is in the latter group.

  8. Can’t stand the arrogant prick. Mike’s still got his fist up JK’s arse. It’s like the stupid wannabe Amerik#nt is trying to vie for a spot on the Fox channel for retards.

    Oh well, will forever cherish Winston’s press conference and seeing that smirk wiped from his plastic looking face.
    Either listen up dopey Mike and learn something from the Prime Minister – who’s had more battles in such a short time as leader than most of them and handled them pretty well. Or may the virus take you out.

  9. Yes, concepts like altruism and doing things for the common good are so foreign to Mike he can’t made sense of a lot of stuff these days

  10. Perhaps National gobshite Mike Hosking is able to produce the template for the correct way the unprecedented Covid-19 crisis should be handled! Got a lot to say, but nothing productive or of relevance is said.

  11. But he is ironically doing exactly what you do pal.

    (insert problem here)……….Martyn’s answer is socialism.

  12. Hoskins idea of expert modelling would be his idol John Key mincing the catwalk.
    How long till NZME shut down the trumpeting Herald and Newspeak ZB so we are unburdened of this wheezebag’s pompfart.

    • Granny Herald’s in a death spiral, mate, so we shouldn’t have long to wait. I’m hoping they put the entire paper behind a massive, ludicrously expensive paywall so only Bob Jones and members of the New Zealand Initiative can afford to read it. Meanwhile, we can all sit about feeling bad because The Listener’s going down the crapper. It’s okay when factory workers lose their jobs, but when it’s snotty middle-class journos, it’s all a ghastly nightmare, darling.

    • Gary – I’ve never heard anyone refer to Hosking as a her but with that hairstyle maybe he is a her wannabe. What was the vote for where only a third of the population voted for him/her – whatever and which population are you talking about?

  14. Mike doesn’t know what he is talking about. He needs to pull his head out of John Keys arse first to really understand what’s going on!

  15. He has some valid points! Shame he failed to mention our Nation’s annual winter shame ..

    I’m referring to us leading the Western-Score-Board for children and adults admitted to hospital with respiratory conditions – usually related to poor housing. Surely Covid-19 could dramatically compound this problem?

    I don’t know the best course of action, I’m not God. But rampant cases of Covid-19 would definitely be a NZ INC brand killer. These ‘lock downs’ are a global trend ..

    I just don’t know .. “how do you look so good for your age?” .. I just don’t knooow .. walking down the road .. pandemic pass me by ..

  18. I think Mike Hosking, like myself, is frustrated that Jacinda and her clueless coalition are all talk and no do. They shut down businesses yet do not quarantine all returning Kiwis who go to the supermarket. They tell us to stay home while her Minister of Health drives out in his car with his mountain bike. She simply does not follow through. While Jacinda is all talk about handling Coronavirus she is quick to push through the anti abortion law which kills 14,000 last year. She speaks well but her Kiwi build program is evidence that she can’t follow through. When Mike Hosking asked her about our forestry exports she had no dea. Keep up the good work Mike Hosking. You are the only one who can hold our clueless leader accountable

    • Oh look another disciple of the professional blow hards across the country who every day in their own moronic micron minds, lacking any expertise or repercussion, endlessly speculate how they would do things differently.

      Names not a good look here either…..B-r-u-c-e

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