This is why Public Broadcasting is so important in a national emergency.
We have the Deputy Leader and the Leader of the Opposition promoting actual conspiracy theories…
jfc at the “it’s just an interesting series of facts” line pic.twitter.com/vl15YyjVZX
— Justin Hu (@justin_hu_) August 12, 2020
…and that conspiracy is being promoted when far right fringe political parties are saying this…
…so Kim Hill’s brutal destruction of Crusher’s crazy conspiracy theory is a necessary antidote to active promotion of fear and ignorance attempting to manipulate panic for political gain.
This matters!
What National are doing is dangerous!
Of course we need a Loyal Opposition holding a Government with vast police State Powers to account! No one is saying we shouldn’t and Simon Bridges did an amazing job of holding the Government to account when he was running those Select Committees, but this isn’t a Loyal Opposition, this is a Toxic Opposition who are promoting Conspiracy Theories at a time when the electorate is terrified!
This use of Conspiracy Theories to spook people have real world outcomes, remember when National spread the UN Refugee conspiracy theory that inspired the Christchurch white supremacist terrorist?
National are not trying to hold the Government to account as the loyal Opposition, they are a Toxic Opposition openly feeding conspiracy theories that risk destabilising civil society.
They.
Are.
Not.
Fit.
To.
Govern.
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Yes Kim Hill is a legend that I always listened to her during the 1980’s before she went to UK for a job there. She is steely and precise. Go Kim Hill.
Yup go Kim Hill.
Yes, a relentless attack on the crusher was pure enjoyment. But on Morning Report today an onslaught on Chris Hipkins handling of his health portfolio had unnecessary bile. Hipkins handled it well but watch out when your beloved Kim goes over the top for her own edification
Hehehe… well its good she takes no prisoners and keeps it balanced…sometimes its got to be that way in a democracy.
Jacinda has stayed well away from Kim for the last 2 years as well. Oh but that doesn’t fit Martins narrative
“They” wont be governing anytime soon…..its all white-noise….most people have changed the station or switched off to shut the static……..
Kim is a treasure alright. She was virtually a one woman opposition during the dark Shipley years, day after day tackling duplicitous politicians like the “tight five”–Henare and Delamere etc.
We are lucky to have her still in a prominent role as RNZ becomes more and more of a National friendly outfit of timid interviewers. Under John Key’s sinking lid funding starvation, RNZ laid off most of the older hugely experienced presenters.
Hopefully enough people are put off, rather than encouraged by Judith and Jerry’s attention seeking. Labour better wake up soon because National’s idea of co-operation in a crisis is still “a swift kick to the nuts” rather than anything genuine.
Well put. I completely agree.
Kim Hill is indeed a treasure!
Year after year of her steely, uncompromising no nonsense style of interviewing these neo liberal political clowns and cutting right to the chase. And the irony is she’s English born doing the job that these limp slack jawed right wing Kiwi born so-called journo’s should have been doing… there were times when she got those clowns so far into a corner I actually started to feel a tiny bit sorry for them L0L !
Hill is one of the best!
And that’s how you do it.
Wow Kim Hill was like greyhound that had just caught the rabbit with Judith Collins.
Best short interview I’ve heard in years!!
If she’d been allowed out to have a go at Key more often she would have ripped the rabbit to pieces. She’s that good.
Kim Hill is, and always has been a national treasure. She can so brilliantly interview anyone, from a biographer of Leonard Cohen to an accomplished epidemiologist, and in the course of the interview elevate the discussion.
This is but a taste if what this depressingly spiteful woman is capable of. And her warped deputy is no better.
She demands disclosure and information from the government but she cannot be trusted. And they know it. Her history of leaks (even aimed at her own colleagues), lies, manipulation and misinformation makes her as bigger threat to our health as this virus.
Collins was passed over as leader so many times for very good reason. National MP’s knew it. Key sacked her, what does that say?
Roll on the election.
Kim is a joy.
One of my best moments during the dark ages of laissez-faire was her laughing in the face of prick Richard Prebble when he lost Auckland Central. Laterally right. Those pricks for the rich.
You don’t BS Kim Hill.
Please tell me if this is actual news on an actual news website……or is it just more of the same PR work our media is conducting on behalf of the National Party?
How is this even legal? I’m sure the source will surprise everyone…NOT!
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/nationals-happy-camper-collins-ready-for-battle/ar-BB17Vr3K
MSN stands for MicroSoft Network. It’s about as reliable a news source as Farcebook. Any “news” org that is still pushing clickbait through US corporate datafarms like these deserves to be ignored.
The way out of this disinfo warfare is for the public to spend whatever we can afford on subscribing to sources we consider fair and balanced. Definitely use a spyblocker on all your devices, so nobody makes money out of trying to track and target you with clickbait and network ads:
https://shouldiblockads.com/
Yeah… but hang on a minute…?
At the risk of ridicule, which I don’t overly care about, I’ll proffer this for discussion…
What if national are correct in asserting that c-19 is the first wave of an increasingly deadly virus ?
Is that what they’re arguing?
There’s not much worse than when the enemy’s right about something, correct?
As we all know, perhaps with the exception of die hard trump fans, is that the real terror is global heating and we’ve crossed the Rubicon on that one.
Does that not make sense mathematically? That there are simply too many humans affluent enough to keep over-consuming while depleting our only biosphere which is already on a death spiral?
My original thought was that the very rich would hop up into space, drop a virus, then send in Boston Dynamics robots to bury the dead, or what was left of them after the flies etc. And perhaps survey for danger prior to a re landing etc.
But no.
The very riche are already vaccinated! Did bolsanaro lie about having c-19 to make an impressive recovery to prove how strong and virile he is. trump was done too.
Is funny! The soon to be dying are burying the already dead so no need for silly old robots.
When the rich start dropping like flies it’ll be the only way we’re going to know that c-19 is genuine.
Oh, the irony…?
Here’s another irony?
The gap toothed, neoliberal free market fanatic mayor of Auckland’s asking the gubbimint for a bale out of tax payer money to save the trickle-downers from their own trickle-up greed.
RNZ
‘Phil Goff: Auckland will need more government help’
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/423523/phil-goff-auckland-will-need-more-government-help
Sure we’ll help phil. We’ll help you go fuck yourself !
I say help Invercargill instead. Unlike Auckland, Invercargill’s one of a few hubs of our agrarian primary industry which earns our foreign currencies. Unlike Auckland, which spends them.
It doesn’t take much for shit to get real aye phil?
How much to you get paid by the way phil? What’s your net worth phil? We’d like to see your banking records spanning the last 36 years phil? If we’re to give you our money we’d like to know how it’s going to be spent phil. Or were the events of the last 36 years just a silly little conspiracy theory phil?
Dear little, Blue little phil.
…’Unlike Auckland, Invercargill’s one of a few hubs of our agrarian primary industry which earns our foreign currencies’…
And it has Tim Shadbolt and relatively free tertiary education. And blue cod.
It is the first wave of an increasingly deadly virus. If you do not believe your own eyes of noticing people sick around you with diminishing lung capacity or weird deaths among 20-50 year olds of bizarre strokes or heart attacks out of nowhere, then turn to science. The gnome sequencing is showing the Italian strain mixed with something admittingly unknown. So it has been mutating in the community since probably December last year. The virus does not care about politics. But indeed politicians do know this, and no, they are not taking a “vaccine” that is for plebs-they are popping hydroxyC which has over 50 years of studies. Geez they have already admitted it. Too cheap to make any big bucks off though. It is strange because even many experts expected some form of so called “herd immunity” but this seems to mutate and then spread in indoor crowds. But The real problem here is that vulnerable and sick people are not being treated. And there are cheap treatments to help. Confining people to a filthy hotel room and telling them to wash their hands is not treatment it is a scandal and a dehumanizing one at that..
Kim Hill was tough on Chris Hipkins today but bet you will not see that as a headline on this Blog. It has been shown many front line immegration workers have not been tested. When he said they are now she said is that not putting the card before the horse.
Tough questions need to be asked at times. She’s doing her job, and as always, – admirably.
Instead of a vibrant, intelligent and constructive Opposition, we are now confronted with a couple of vindictive, mean-spirited bullies. Surely National can do better than this.
Have they ever?
Well BB, if nashnool R not Fit to guvurn, then what choice has the neuw zeelind voter really got? Choice! lol.
The really huge problem the NZ National Party has is it has become a Toxic and Negative Party. This toxicity and negativity has become more evident since Judith Collins became its leader.
And so having such a background of toxic and negative must surely be a destructive virus for National.
If National thinks they can win an election they need to work well with those they currently deem the enemy i.e the Coalition government.
But Judith Collins has often come across as a vindictive and hateful/hate-filled sort of person. She isn’t exactly an excellent or suitable leader for National but I guess they are now scraping the bottom of an hollow barrel for leaders. They certainly have gone through quite a number of ‘leaders’ in the past 3 years.
I don’t think National will be winning much in votes whenever the next election is held. Reason being they are too much of a party that deem themselves perfection but have been absolute failures at coping with disasters albeit it Aramoana, the Cave Creek disaster, Pike River, the Canterbury Quakes, the Rena. etc.etc.etc.
Now if the rest of the so called political editors could take the approach the Kim Hill takes every week we would have a credible fourth estate.
National have gotten away with their bullshit and prevarication for far to long.
And Radio National NZ lets her do it.
There is still hope for the others.
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