Comrades.
You know shit be cray when I’m stepping up for the National Party.
Look, I gleefully out myself as the first person to use the Handmaids Tale reference to Luxon’s prescription fee blunder, because it was satirically hilarious and highlighted how Luxon has a history of making a reactionary statement and walking it back 24 hours later.
In this instance it was his religious conservatism that knee jerked his refusal to allow women free prescription contraception and sure Labour are hypocrites for doing nothing for 6 years, but they have made the change and Luxon walked right into it.
Fair cop.
He then tap-danced where angels fear to tread by making some throw away comment about women having more babies, which if you’ll remember is kinda the core of the Handmaids Tale story.
His bewildering ability to open his mouth and have Wayne Brown leap out is at this point becoming extraordinary, but his issue over our lack of babies is a legitimate debate to have because it would demand more actual effort on Luxon’s behalf to help solve!
At the centre of the Gender Pay Gap is the biological reality women carry the babies. If we as a liberal progressive society want to ensure everyone has equal agency, then surely recognising biological reality is a starting point?
The first 12months should be maternity leave – or paternity leave, either one, but one of the parents should be paid to stay home with the infant for its first year of life. Who else do you want to look after an infant other than the parent?
Meanwhile, ECE should be nationalised and made completely free for 2 year olds to 5 year olds while all after school care should be free.
Childcare costs fall unevenly and unfairly on women, so why not eliminate those costs altogether?
Playing the Gender Pay Gap Game even when implemented, doesn’t lead to the outcomes desired.
If women having babies is stunting their pay careers, then subside the cost of having that kid with 12months maternity/paternity leave, Nationalise ECE and free after school care!
That is a debate worth having, unfortunately Luxon wasn’t actually wanting that debate and was just brain farting instead.
So.
All fun and games to date and issues of actual importance alongside real solutions are once again missed by any of the media.
So far, so usual.
Then this fucking happens at a press conference with Nicola Willis…
…???
What. The. Actual. Fuck. Cushla!
Cushla Norman from TVN fucking Z???
The State Broadcaster Journalist?
The State Broadcaster just asked Nicola Willis to compare a flippant question by Luxon (that he wasn’t actually prepared to engage in intellectually with – and neither were our mainstream media for that matter), to the Nazi plan for genocide and industrialised white supremacy mass death cult???
The State Broadcaster asked that of the National Party?
Again.
What. The. Actual. Fuck. Cushla!
Look, I’m a genuine fan of Cushla’s on TVNZ, she’s a really good journalist and I think her body of work is far greater than this moment, but FUCK.
I mean, you can’t as the State Broadcaster make a comment as unhinged as that!
TVNZ must urgently apologise to the National Party for such an insanely off the rocker question, the radioactivity of which damages those asked of it, those who hear it and ultimately the person asking it!
This isn’t a fucking blog or Twitter call out! This is a press conference with a senior member of the Opposition.
Hey, I don’t like National either and think Luxon’s first reactionary knee jerk always ends up being conservative Christian, and that’s fair game, but to manufacture his ‘have more babies’ as a plan to expand our military to invade Australia and kill everyone there because of racial superiority is bordering on the Counterspin level conspiracy theory.
This is an unacceptable question and TVNZ must immediately apologise.
There’s legitimate criticism of Luxon’s conservative Christianity and how he always kneejerks that way, but constructing a Nazi agenda at a press conference by the State Broadcaster is fucking outrageous!
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And another reason why the mainstream media have trust ratings about the same as used car salesman
Oh. Good to see they’re improving.
If RadioNZ is altering the facts in Reuter reports, then it’s no great surprise if TVNZ is also trying to create a misleading narrative. Cushla may have just been trying to look clever, but that’s not her job, and nor is it her producer’s job.
If RNZ had allowed comments on its articles it is unlikely that it would have been 18 months before the biased edits were caught. TVNZ news seems more interested in making the news than reporting the news from my observations of them, that appears to be a common habit with all MSm though.
Bonnie 100%. This seems to be a phenomenon with various western governments trying to control the news, impose censorship of free speech eg criticism of government actions, seen graphically during the pandemic. The Cushla incident is nuts though, because if she wanted to know what Luxon thought or what Luxon knew, then surely she should have been asking Mr Luxon, not somebody else. May be little more low level shit-stirring. RNZ and Ukraine is mind-bogglingly bad.
OTT by Cushla for sure Martyn. We expect more reasoned, not inflammatory approaches with heightened hyperbole from what remains of our public broadcasters.
This is an indication of how wimin so far are not prepared to rein in their prejudices and use restraint and reflection about their thrusting forward in their desire to beat men (over the head) at their own game. Do we have to have equality at the lowest level before women start saying ‘this is not the level of social interaction and civility we want to carry into the future’?
Good on you for seeing this with both eyes open.
But the ship sailed long ago – we dont have independent balanced mainstream media in this country, or even a balance of left leaning and right leaning.
We have woke cultists who accepted government money to run government editorial lines, TVNZ is just government owned straight propaganda, I’ll only watch it to see what the latest government spin on something is.
Trash.
I can get better information on most NZ topics from overseas websites (case in point, ABC Australia stating death toll from Wellington fire was 5 when all NZ media were still saying six with more missing).
We aren’t even at the start of a media slippery slope we are well down it and gathering speed.
See also RNZ running actual Russian propaganda.
Trash.
But I will safely assume their Te Reo in relation to the Russian propaganda was faultless! And really, at RNZ that’s all that matters!
Defund RNZ?
Party, get together, trust, look at us, fucked our leader,, cannot catch, these egits, we will exploit given the chance, party, this finance.
Cushla Norman is a greatly superior journalist to National Party cheerleader Jessica Mutch who has been promoted way above her pay grade!
That obviously poorly educated so-called journalist has no idea how much she offended the victims of Lebensborn evil.
Surely Nicola Willis and Desley Simpson are tired of having to pull their leaders out of the holes they dig by now.
So many comments here majoring in the minors. Pettiness abounds.
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