Hahahaha!
ZB eviscerated once again for their Mad Max looting crime spree narrative…
Claims and counter-claims on post-cyclone crime spike
Media on the ground in cyclone-hit communities found road-blocks and local people reporting looting, theft and being threatened with firearms – while police and politicians insisted there was no spike in crime and complained of disinformation in the media and online. Did the media sort the facts from the fiction and the emotion?
…Ding ding – The TDB I told you so express is on time, hop aboard everyone!
Comrades you can read it here first or wait a week for the mainstream media to get their shit together!
We said right from the start that this narrative of a mad max apocalypse looting spree was the usual if it bleeds it leads porn crime clickbait journalism we know and love in NZ!
What makes a natural disaster even sexier in the ratings? CRIME!
You woulda thunk after the claims of homeless tricking 5 star Covid lockdown rooms, supposed sex workers touring the North Island with hidden gang members in the trunk and now its gangs looting in a mad max apocalyptic end of days dystopian wasteland that apparently needs the military to be sent in under martial law according to silly gooses David Seymour and Winston Peters.
I’m not saying there weren’t bad buggers exploiting the misery, there was a gun presented to people at a checkpoint and that’s swful, but come on, the majority of this so called looting is desperation driven by people barely surviving in a catastrophic event.
The Police Commissioner was very clear that the social media frenzy of lootings allegations couldn’t be confirmed by any actual facts.
The crime that was spiking was domestic violence, but that’s a story that embarrasses NZers so it’s Gangs looting here we come!
National have pointed to their planned Police response unit, ‘Raptor Force’, as evidence that National would sorted out these gang lootings, but how would a heavily armed paramilitary police force being dropped into a disaster zone to attack Gang members who may or may not be looting hep with the rebuild?
When the woke got spooked by the dumb lives matter parliament lawn protests last year, they demanded the police come in with tear gas and police dogs, there are unsubstantiated mass looting claims and ACT want the military sent in?
The ease with which the Right want to send the military in is deeply concerning especially when they have so little evidence to justify that.
Why does this matter?
It matters because ACT and NZ First were attempting to use the social media feeding frenzy on Mad Max end of times looting to try and declare Martial law!
Mungo no understand.
Why didn’t ZB point out the person claiming mad max end of days looting also claimed the Government were hiding 1400 deaths?
Manipulating crime stories is one thing, pretending the Cyclone wasn’t serious is another.
ZB Hosts wanted to play culture war talking point games against the need to take the Cyclone seriously.
They wanted to sell the whole emergency as further proof of the weak Left and their sooky baby trigger levels.
The ZB Hosts played up to these cheap right wing talking points while the Cyclone devoured NZ.
They wanted to play up to this right wing myth that the Covid response was a huge over reaction and the Left keep wanting to use fear to bully others into curtailing their freedom!
ZB Hosts were more sexually excited about shitting on the weak panicking about a Cyclone than actually warning people about the worst Cyclone this century.
Cyclone Gabrielle was 960 Hectopascals, that was known before it hit, that knowledge alone tells a person that this was going to be a catastrophic storm if it struck us.
It was more important for ZN Hosts to get off on attacking the ‘fear culture’ of the Left than actually warning people.
Why does this matter?
For many caught in the firing line, all they could get was ZB and here was ZB telling them all that there was no danger!
They heard ZB on radio networks built by the public and which had been built with self reliance into them to handle a natural disaster.
So ZB was heard on public paid networks that were the only ones many people could get and ZB was telling those people no worries.
ZBs downplaying of the Cyclone is so problematic because they were broadcast on networks paid for by the Taxpayer and built with resilience.
If ZB want to downplay a natural disaster and their listeners believe them and drown, hey that’s a great day for everyone, but when ZB downplays a natural disaster on taxpayer funded networks then that’s criminal negligence.
Shouldn’t someone write a complaint to the Broadcasting Standards Authority?
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always ask for a citation and a physical location they usually dry up and blow away….it’s the fault of other media that they don’t ask those questions….I think a half hour ‘todays zb lies’ spot could rate well for any msm with the intestinal fortitude
ZB listeners would call any fact checking show that debunked any ZB hosts, false news.
Cause Mike tells it like it is…
IS that why the PM is eating humble pie in regards to road crews having to deal with armed ‘nice and kind gang bangers’?
Do you want to add a link there RB? Like, a recent one?
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2023/02/cyclone-gabrielle-chris-hipkins-apologises-to-roadworkers-held-at-gunpoint-says-he-got-incorrect-information-from-police.html
Like Luxon eating humble pie continuously. I suppose Chippy having to do it once off the back of incorrect information received and taking the blame is humble, Luxon’s continuous calamities’ aren’t.
Hipkins the Chippie accuses the people of Hawke’s Bay of being dishonest.
Not a nice thing for a Prime Minister to do.
Absolute bs Bob. He did not call them dishonest. Some incidents seem to get reported to media and not police which is not going to do much.
So Bob caught lying, again? Wow, how unusual.
when exactly did he discribe them as ‘nice kind gangbangers’?
as you’ve shat I suggest you get off the pot bratty
Appalling right wing garbage station…
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/heather-du-plessis-allan-ridiculed-teenage-climate-activist-bsa-finds/7FJYCFFWJBESNJSVGOLE4QWJ5E/
HIV HDPA
NSC as a National Party supporter thankyou for your loyalty.
Thank you for finally admitting your pathetic ZB station is garbage. Perhaps your previous dishonesty can be forgiven BTF .
Wow, so many keen ZB listeners, just tuning in to be offended. Maybe you should stick to the Breeze, if you can’t handle the truth.
Of course MR the left love to be offended which I find highly amusing.
and the wilting snowflakes of the right don’t like being offended micheal? do me a favour
Not offended by morons like you. Derisive snort.
your reply suggests you clearly are micheal
What? ZB truth or real world truth, so many ZB sycophants.
ZB ratings through roof as left wingers tune in.
Seriously funny.
ZB lies through the roof, attracts right wingers like flies to shit.
Never mind the actual crime happening and even PM backtracking from his previous comments. Time to throw Coster under the Labour re-election bus?
t’is right, its some radio dudes fault, no criming anywhere. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-today/news/cyclone-gabrielle-police-minister-stuart-nash-told-that-hawkes-bay-residents-are-arming-themselves-during-post-cyclone-crime-outbreak/4FPGL2OZ5ZEJPJ5XYCYBQO7XME/ OOPS!
The first thing the mob did was break into Hunting & Fishing and loot all the guns.
That was probably Nash, he’s always out stealing guns.
Nah, right wingers, they always take the lazy way out.
According to our selected suits and their appointed police commissionaires the mob are community leaders.
Safer communities?
Safer for whom?
as Nashy, he knows about wood and policing i am told.
but gun city denies any increase in firearm sales and not 1 shotty andrew.
This whole crime issues in Napier is an excuse for act to promote the Act gun lunatics and Army style weapons.
That’ll be why they staged the whole cyclone event, it was actually a false flag action by the ACT party, is that what you’re saying? Or is it that the Police can barely keep the lid on a pot that is rapidly boiling over?
The righties cry wolf, underfunded police for years and now complain there isn’t enough and we should bring in the army. An army the righties underfunded for years.
Appalling politics by ACT, so nothing new.
That’s why I’m hiding under my bed with my 12 gauge in Flaxmere, because everything is perfectly fine?
Given what I said, you should be hiding, appalling right wing Government non funding.
ACT is getting our “machine guns” back, then we won’t need the Police.
Actually Michael it didn’t rain in Epsom, climate change doesn’t exist in that locality
Yep, and all the missing roads, and collapsed bridges and ruined houses are just amn ‘act’. We need better lefties, the current crop is getting tedious.
Oh RB you just read my mind about right wing righties
Speaking of tedious RB comments about Simon Bridges collapsed bridges. RB is a woeful and tedious commentator.
as a sidebar why does it take months to throw up a bailey bridge in NZ when the RE’s managed it in a day often under enemy artillery fire….?
just musing
if we are going to see repeats of this let’s have a govt factory making them and a fuckin big warehouse full of them READY FOR WHEN THEY ARE NEEDED
gagarin, you are obviously not an engineer or ever been involved in the logistics and site preparation required for even a bailey bridge. Yes, the final installation may only take a day, but this is only achievable if the planning has been done thoroughly. And also providing a bridge and access for public requires more detail than for army maneuvers.
Watching the different News items of locals in the East Coast area I sense a vast difference in some areas attitudes. It’s almost like in some areas the Groundswell movement is trying to amplify every concern demanding their area is micro managed by the Government and its agencies, where other areas come across as getting things done simply by a community effort.