MEDIAWATCH: TVNZ takes David Seymour literally when they should have taken him seriously!

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SPOT THE DIFFERENCE: One is a terrorist and the other is Guy Fawkes

TVNZ Breakfast host apologises for misquoting ACT leader David Seymour

A TVNZ Breakfast host has apologised to ACT leader David Seymour for misquoting him during their show.

On Thursday last week, Seymour released a media statement promising to abolish the Ministry for Pacific Peoples and then went further when asked about it in a media interview.

“In my fantasy, we’d send a guy called Guy Fawkes, and it’d all be over, but we’ll probably have to have a more formal approach than that,” Seymour told Newstalk ZB.

On Monday, Breakfast host Anna Burns-Francis paraphrased the statement: “Comments about wanting to blow up the Pacific People’s Ministry”.

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TVNZ made the same mistake about David Seymour that the American Media made about Trump, they took him literally and not seriously!

Outrage Olympics at David Seymour’s Guy Fawkes comment eclipses the real damage of State amputation he’s attempting!

By attempting to conflate and equate David’s comments as a literal terror threat to blowing up the Ministry for Pacific Peoples’, the identity politics virtue signalling Left are only succeeding in giving him ammunition!

The Outrage Olympic virtue signalling doesn’t work because of course David Seymour wasn’t literally talking about blowing up anything and focusing on that only gives him unimagined publicity when the truth is that what he actually intends to do is far, far, far worse!

He isn’t just looking at dumping the Ministry for Pacific Peoples’ (who didn’t help themselves with their ill judged $40 000 piss up), he is intending to dump the Ministry for Youth Affairs, Ministry of Womens Affairs, the Ministry for Māori Affairs, the Ministry for Ethnic Affairs and the Human Rights Commission, while stripping out all the environmental legislation passed over the last 6 years, including any worker rights and renter rights on top of a referendum where he will redefine the Treaty and then just force it upon Māori!

THAT is what he is planning to do, yet the identity politics virtue signalling Left are getting their non binary knickers in a twist by pretending he is going to blow up a building.

ACT intend to amputate the State and implement a referendum that will start race conflict we haven’t seen since colonial times, THAT should be what we are concerned about, not twisting his stupid joke into a literal terrorist threat.

Because the identity politics virtue signalling Left  live in echo chambers determined by cancel culture and strangling free speech, they’ve lost the art of debate and persuasion and it keeps showing every time they try to take on ACT.

Take ACT seriously, not literally. That’s how you beat their far right madness. All TVNZ managed to do is give ACT another 2 points.

 

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55 COMMENTS

  1. Too Woke to Joke.

    Woke media, too echo chambered to bother to report real facts.

    Woke feel the need to cancel comedians in their mean little humour free worlds, that increasingly few can relate to.

  3. Yes, Jim it’s called the Government or old boys network who are donating millions so they can have there way with the National and Act parties.

  4. Take Act seriously? Too right. They appear to have wider appeal this time and if ending up with the numbers on election day it’ll all end badly. The divisive policies Act peddles are not those wanted by most voters. Democracy will certainly be stretched. But the Nats will know this.

  5. If governance with the Min of Pacific People is so lacking in competence, as to imagine they are entitled to 40k of our money for their own entertainment, then clearly they do need to be abolished.

    • Tom Gardner. And if the Human Rights Commissioner thinks it’s ok to demonstrate against women being allowed to talk in public, maybe it needs to be abolished too.

      • That’s not the point. It’s the culture of entitlement/extravagance that exists in this and several other departments.
        Another e.g.: a third of a million dollars for an opening ceremony for the Transmission Gully highway. They could have got a $10 tape from Spotlight, borrowed some scissors for the cutting, and put on tea and bikkies for the guests.
        And don’t get me started on the obscene salaries in Te Pukenga: two-thirds of a mill for the boss, running a show that’s widely seen (at least down here in the south) as a dog’s breakfast.
        Profligacy rules: that’s their mantra. David Seymour may have a point.

  8. This was just an attempt by TVNZ to take the heat off their political sweetheart ACT. Bride of FrankenSeymour, Burns-Francis, projected her image of guilt and issued the grovel apology to try to reduce the impact of Seymour’s illegal threat. It’s projection, inversion, manipulation and pantomime pearl clutching all in one, funded by the taxpayer. Nothing will diminish what the ACT leader has done here though, threatened a state agency and it’s staff with violence, which has set a precedent for all similar legal cases in future.

    • Does seem a bit battered wife syndromy. “It’s not you David, it’s me, it won’t happen again. Look I’ve cooked up your favourite meal my love, the TVNZ inhouse poll”.

  10. To the year ending June 2022 the Min.Of PP received $30.5 m. They spent $15.8m on personnel and $14.2m on operating costs with $0.5m on depreciation.

  12. Some more to get rid of.

    Ministry for Primary Industries
    Ministry for Culture and Heritage
    Ministry for Women
    Ministry of Youth Development

  13. Parliament, will not say,, who in our ranks have been abuse of our honorable privelage only arrogance and disrespect, would dare.

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