MEDIAWATCH: Why Mike Hosking’s unhinged bigoted rant says more about him than it does about Labour

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To be honest I don’t read or listen to Hosking very much but if this spittle flecked unhinged hate rant from him today is anything to go by, he has reached the steam-fogging-up-a-sadists-glasses level of political vexation as we race into the election.

His allegations against the Labour Party however really end up saying more about him than the Labour Party.

His argument boils down to, “Haha, stupid Labour Maorified everything and the Maaaaoris gonna turn on them and cost them the election.”

Hosking is such a harlot for capitalism that everything is transactional.

He believes the only reason Labour would attempt co-Governance with 3Waters was because it would ‘win’ Labour something when that isn’t what happened at all!

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Labour attempted better co-governance with 3 Waters because after John Key privatised our hydro assets, Māori had gone to the Waitangi Tribunal for a ruling on their interests and the Waitangi Tribunal agreed Māori have interests in water and that it was the Crown’s obligation to structure that.

Co-governance with 3 Waters was that attempt because Labour are not frightened of doing what is right over what is politically expedient.

To frame that responsibility as Labour bribing Māori for a transactional gain that doesn’t occur just outs Hosking’s own pimp capitalism, it doesn’t drown Labour in the same sin bath of Hosking’s limited sense of human interactions.

 

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90 COMMENTS

  1. So what does Mr f’wit have to say about signing up to the UN Indigenous Rights Charter and other Co governance examples introduced by National? He probably thinks that made sense. He’s NZs answer to Tucker Carlson

  2. “Mi–Cockskin” rarely disappoints does he. “Certainty” is one of the most overused words of the COVID era, certainty? we are mortal beings on a frying planet–there is little that can be assured.

    Yet, for Maserati Mike there is certainty–regular big pay days–A Tory and Finance Capital mouth for hire. His party trick is tapping into lumpen proletariat, middle class and grumpy old bal’heads resentments and concerns. Generational shift will deal to him eventually.

  3. He’s not wrong. Labour have delivered beyond the wildest dreams of Willie Jackson, they never campaigned on it and Maori outcomes are no better, except the few elite. And it’s the sneaking around that severely undermines trust in Labour.

    And although they think they’re right and doing gods work, they disregarded the one thing to ensure their so called legacy stayed. Taking the people with them, the same people they wouldn’t trust!

    On top off that 3 Waters symbolised Labours utter but casual disregard for democracies 1 person 1 vote, so as far as I’m concerned Labour can burn in political hell! And that’s not even judging them on their wall of failures and engrained incompetence!

    I’ve not seen a more divisive government, ever!

    • Divisive why? The governments is responsible for people who are quite frankly unhinged in their thinking? No. People who hide behind democracy when talking about co governance? No. Or the more recent baseless fear that there are droves of transgender people lurking in every public space? No.

      What they are guilty of, is increasing the existing division between the haves and have nots. Just like the government before them, and certainly what’s coming from the mob that’s about to be government. That’s their specialty

      • What’s Wheels democracy, some people have 1 vote, some 2, some 3, depending on who or what they are or how someone is feeling? Worked out by some vague feel good thingy algorithm, by unanswerable bureaucrats in Wellington? Let me know how that flies with the general population!

      • “People who hide behind democracy”?

        Comrade, pesky democracy is always the antipathy of your dream authoritarian state, isn’t it?

      • What do you mean hiding behind democracy Wheel?
        “The baseless fear that there are droves of transgender people lurking in public spaces”

        I have never heard that fear expressed.
        But only 20% of NZders wanted gender self ID. I suspect many of these don’t want men in women’s spaces such as change rooms, public toilets, women’s sports etc.

  4. Yeah that terrible capitalism that has seen the standard of living and life expectancies increase exponentially since the 19th century. How dare he.

  5. I struggle to understand why anyone gives Hosking oxygen. He is not a broadcaster in the same league Campbell or Holmes, he is a right-wing lobbyist, a troll and a twat. Time we started treating him as such. He needs to go back to school and learn to listen twice as much as he speaks.

    • Your above comment demonstrates a distinct lack of appreciation of others views. Therein lies the reason why Hosking and HDPA are so popular – there is A LOT of the population that agree with him, including myself. if you don’t like him – simply don’t listen to him.

      But hey if you think he is so shit convince John Campbell to go up against him on RNZ in the morning slot. See if he goes any better than big Dunc or Tova.

      And interestingly if Holmes was still around today you would also consider him a troll as well. You do realize Holmes was right-leaning don’t you? Cheeky Darkie ring a bell?

    • Hosking has NZ biggest audience ever, and campbell live got taken off the air because of lack of ratings.
      In terms of numbers hosking is miles ahead of everyone.

      • Campbell was taken off air by a hit job from Steven Joyce, fuck are you thick?
        Hosking is a nobody bolstered by right wing listeners who hang off his every word because they can’t think for themselves. Tell me his listener numbers, millions upon millions? Biggest audience? Clearly not by voting numbers.

      • The biggest audience? I would say he has the largest share of the TalkBack audience. And let’s be honest, that’s a shrinking market.

    • The serious broadcasters were virtually all gone 20 years ago (and there weren’t many left in the mid-1990s even). Like print journalism, it was just one big slide into cheap tabloid-ish rubbish.

      I can’t fully understand why Labour doesn’t entirely dump the co-governance policy, however. It could be quickly replaced with something less divisive, and might prevent an election loss. Apparently they are so wedded to Clintonite ideology that crushing the Corbynites and Bernie Bros. is more important than actually winning an election.

    • Oh he’s much more than that JimmyJazz, He’s John Key’s fuck buddy.

  6. The Waitangi Tribunal would happily rule all non Maori are guests in NZ and to quote Tariana Turia “guests can be asked to leave.”
    Any ruling from them should be regarded as biased lobbying and ignored

  7. I tautoko that jimmyjazz.
    Although i think he might just be doing the left a favour now with his petty ranting, even his ZB/Herald followers are tiring of his boring, outdated narrative.

  8. Hosking is losing his shit because his ego is inextricably linked to Nact winning a landslide victory in Oct – he has invested hours of jaundiced commentary guaranteeing it to his angry listeners – all to be stolen by National’s un -electable leader.
    Off to Oz loser.

  9. Sadly lots and lots of people listen to him. I was in the library yesterday and an argument was going on with an elderly group of ex trampers – the woman said ‘Mike Hosking said this and it is a fact……….’ Very worrying this woman had been a school teacher and her comments on Maori were deplorable. Apparently their health issues are mainly because they eat the wrong food. Anyway between Mike and her they knew what the issues were and they were all Facts – Hosking’s that is.

    I sincerely hope one day he is taken to court over his racist rants.

  10. John Key is also the devious fellow who snuck Pita Sharples off secretly to sign up to the UN Declaration of Indigenous Peoples which Helen Clark refused to sign because she understood that this declaration posed a direct threat to the sovereignty of the New Zealand state; it may also have triggered a plethora of not always top quality local courses and workshops, applying the UNDRIP, and the Nth American experience, wholesale to New Zealand, when they’re not always applicable or accurate, more so in terms of the ToW.

    • The foreign banker John Key ranks alongside evil eminences like Roger Douglas in his degree of betrayal of this nation.

  11. You have to listen from 6am to get the full balanced Hosking view. The Alternative is Red Radio, now that Tovas show fell over.

  12. New Zealand’s No1, award winning journalist is rarely wrong.

    The surgery queue thing was the tipping point for well-meaning liberal urbanites. All that airy-fairy stuff about the Treaty didn’t mean much; right until average people realized they are becoming a second-class citizen in their own country.

    • He is a broadcaster, not a journalist. Because when he airs his opinion, as a journalist, his claims have to be backed up with facts. Considering how many times he has been reprimanded by the BSA and fined, that would make him a pretty poor excuse for a journalist. Hell after he slandered Amanda Bailey, he even made that change on the NewstalkZB website, overnight he stopped being a journalist and became a “broadcaster”.

  13. Starving the Hosk of oxygen could start with the Left actually, seriously, fronting up to co-governance. Come on Bomber, make an attempt to try and justify why most of the population should suffer a loss of voting power, with their vote and their say deemed less important than someone else’s of a different ancestry. How does that align with equal suffrage…how’s that for a diminishment of my humanity??

    Is the only way forward to elevate one group at the expense of another, through for example race-based surgery decisions? Why should i pay personally for ToW grievances – i thought that was on the Crown? Ok, next step, i want reparations, and you get an idea of the spiral that we will go down.

    If the Left can seriously have a go at justifying their approach against the above questions, then at least we’ve started down the righteous path. Until then while the Left tries to stay deaf to criticisms by crying ‘dog whistling racism’, the Left just keeps blithely feeding Hoskings.

  14. Bomber you had me at:
    ‘Hosking is such a harlot for capitalism that everything is transactional”.

    I’m a bit of a curmudgeon with a dislike for many journo’s but Hoskings is a whole ‘nother league.

  15. Also, I have to say with what evidence has Hoskings formed his opinion?

    There seems to be a nutty bunch of Nats voters that are convinced that Labour will just be blown away this election. AFAIK, the election is still anybodies with the Left potentially having the edge.

  16. I cannot be bothered with Hosking. He is too much of a Wannabe National MP. But I get the feeling National whilst aiding and abetting his ‘articles’ in the tabloid NZ herald rag wouldn’t want him as an MP because he is too volatile, unpredictable and now I can say unhinged mentally.
    But when it comes to his articles in the herald rag I also get the impression that he lacks the mental capacity to write genuine and decent articles. He is so chummy with John Key that I get the impression Key pens the articles and Hosking applies his name to those articles.
    Mainly because Hosking isn’t the sharpest knife in the National Party drawer. He deems himself to be an ‘expert on everything’ whilst constantly to the point he comes across as a Negative, whiny, wet nut.
    On the odd occasion I pick up the NZ herald for its puzzles section. And the hardcopy comes in useful for my cats’ kitty litter. One time she pee-ed on the portion of the herald that had Hoskings article and I just had to praise her for that little action on her part.

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