Tamatha Paul reveals why she refused to be interviewed by Mike Hosking on election night
Wellington Central’s new MP Tamatha Paul has revealed why she wouldn’t talk to Mike Hosking during his election night coverage.
The Green candidate won the seat convincingly over the weekend, however refused to be interviewed by Newstalk ZB’s Breakfast Host when asked.
Tamatha was right to deny Hosking an interview. He isn’t a broadcaster, he’s an Alpha Right Wing Troll who is out for gotchas and the one of chance to maul her.
Where she is wrong in how she turned it down because there is strategic advantage here.
Hosking doesn’t have Willie Jackson or Chloe on regularly because he’s intimidated at being proven wrong in his echo chamber. He only invites on people he can dominate and humiliate.
He also has the largest radio audience in the country.
As the Greens new role as the Leader of the Opposition starts to formulate in the wake of Labour’s meltdown, they will need to start planning right now how they maximise that.
Tamatha should have said, “Kia ora Mike, thank you for the invitation but I will turn it down because in the past you have shown yourself to be more interested in creating heat than light on any issue and the Greens aren’t interested in pointless arguments. We want to have conversations so if you are open to real ongoing debate I will accept a weekly slot with you on ZB to facilitate a conversation rather than a one off argument. If you are prepared for that, let me know’.
Gaining a foothold into the right wing media empire of NZME to successfully run circles around Hosking weekly is the kind of strategic thinking the Greens need to step up with as they become the new Leader of the Opposition because cancelling media works for the Wellington Woke on Twitter (aren’t they all on Mastodon now?) but woke cancellation doesn’t work in the real world.
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All media is important, including alternative media, and the reasons why are self-evident. Politicians should be able to cope with persons who think differently, it’s part of their job.
The same could be said for broadcasters.
Joe Bloggs from Ekatahuna. Agree, but it may be more than just a Wellington thing. Unfortunately, cancelling and anti-freedom of speech generally is very much a left-wing dynamic globally.
Really Snow White? Most voices that even dare to criticise Israel are cancelled and you can be sure that’s not the exclusive domain of the left.
@snow white it’s not left wing and… I was going to say it’s liberal but it’s not that either… It’s people who are intolerant bullies and they don’t care what the politics are is so long as they get to bully someone.
It used to be that being a conservative racist was a great place to be if you wanted an excuse for being a bully but this generation have found a new place where they can diguise their hatred as self righteous anger.
Real left wingers should remind these newcomers that being left wing is about economic justice and equitable outcomes and real liberals should remind them that being liberal means being open minded – not just for people we like but especially for people we don’t like
Hard to obtain a gotcha moment when there are no gotchas to be found. However, her not fronting at all makes it look like she has something to hide, thus looks like he got her regardless.
Something to hide like Wayne the mayor of Auckland perhaps Hosking should be requesting an interview with him.
no it’s because he’s a fuckwit
Yeah, agree with ya tony he is a fuckwit who wants to ask some fuckwit questions because he is upset greenies won, he hates them and labour. He is a true-blue tory wanker.
I turned off both the despicable TV trolls, Hoskins and Gower, about a decade ago. In fact, they caused me to ditch TV altogether and I saw no reason to seek them out on radio.
My life’s been so much better for it.
Exactly.. you have to back yourself to out debate him. Be confident enough in u convictions. That’s what democracy is and what this country needs.
Have data and facts for u point of view. Not I hate all white CIs males.
Jumped up, ripped jean, highly paid tory mouthpieces like “Mi-cockskin” have no automatic access to anyone and nor should they. Talk to them if you please or not I say. The got-ya/attack school of interviewing is so past its use by date.
Damien O’Connor showed how it can be done yesterday with his “fuck off I’m going to the toilet” that many would have cheered on.
Tamatha can now consider whether to engage with the rat pack at her leisure–that is what Baldrick did with his refusal to go on Moana’s show and many others. The torys pick and choose their terrain so should the Greens and others.
You don’t get more enlightened journalism by pandering to subpar trolls like Hosking.
He’s not qualified, it’s perfectly appropriate to require journalists that are.
Politician or not, life is too short to engage with smarmy fuckwits. Michael Hosking is a smarmy fuckwit and so are those who tune into him. Greens campaigned to their voters, therefore engaging with Michael is not relevant. Michael is no longer relevant.
If Tamatha has had anything to do with the current state of Wellington I hate to think what that may transpose to the country as a whole.
Jack Tamatha signed out the full plan for bike lanes in Wellington which is costing rate payers circa $2 hundred millon. Thanks Tamatha. So few people use these bike lanes, it will do sfall to reduce emissions and council is already financially in trouble with the EQ strenghtening we have to complete. Meanwhle Wellington’s pipes are bursting and need replacing.
Tamatha is 26 years old and a green activist. All I can say is thank god she is off the council and won’t be able to do much in opposition
Anker “ thank god she is off the council…”. Yep! But pity poor Andy Foster, actually a sound chappie on environmental issues, now stuck with her up in Parliament.
Foster’s involvement in protecting the Wellington Town Belt from commercial development, including at one stage by money-grubbing councillors themselves, well and truly pre-dates the woke wee Greenies with their dopey rainbow crossings and buggering up the main drag thru’ Island Bay.
We fought hard battles to save the lungs of the city, in 1987 and 1994, with talk-back radio screaming like banshees about not getting a mini Battersea Fun Fair plastered over Mount Victoria to bring in tourist dollars for the few, and it defies reason that essential water and sewage systems bursting out all over suburbia and the CBD are put on the back-burner for virtue-signallers on bikes, in a very walkable little town. The Greens need to grow up.
https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/27-09-2023/the-hottest-seat-in-the-country-why-wellington-central-is-a-race-unlike-any-other
Oh as the link shows, thanks to Tamatha we are wasting $2,260,000 on the cycleway.
Its an in joke in Wellington to watch the cycleways when you are out and about and she how few people use them. Tamatha is a Green ideologue. The cycleway will cut buggar all emissions
Will the world know Hosking when he dies….answer no!
Mike Hosking is irrelevant, good on her for not going on is show, he is only after controversy,. Now his precious Nats are in Government what on earth is he going to moan and bitch about every morning. Most left leaning people don’t listen to him or engage in talk back so his show is going to be a very boring echo chamber.
I like Tamantha ..she’s pretty ..and I wanted her to…win.
She must also be smart to kick Hosking into..touch!
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