How the hell could Mike Hosking’s ‘clarification’ be more condescendingly offensive?
I just can’t believe this ‘clarification’ by Mike Hosking for suppressing the voter rights of Maori by saying on live TV that only Maori could vote for the Maori Party.
How someone who is apparently the best broadcaster in the country can communicate something as ignorant as that on live TV is a mystery wrapped in puzzle stuffed down the exhaust of whatever uber wealthy car he drives.
His “small clarification” however is a fucking marvel to wonder at!
He starts by offending the Maori Party by saying his stamens ‘confused’ them?!?
He confused the entire bloody country!
He then launches into a convoluted explanation that involves how the meaning of his words which only 24 hours earlier were misunderstood by the rest of the country, and that it was all our fault for misunderstanding him.
It’s honestly Trump like in its delusional self narcissism.
So what Mike Hosking is actually saying is that the Maori Party are too stupid to understand his misunderstanding?
How can he moderate the debates when he can’t moderate himself?
I think Mike’s greatest challenge during the debates will be resisting just interviewing himself while Jacinda and Bill clap.
This is some crazy shit.
I too was surprised at the lack of a genuine apology to the Maori Party, and better clarification from Mike Hosking on his confusing and ambiguous comments.
Mike Hosking should have to have had repeated a genuine apology across a 7 day period at the same time slot so as to ensure that any mislead viewers have been given the opportunity to be informed of the correct situation, and also that Hoskings statements were misleading.
I was not surprised at all. Hosking and an apology was never ever going to happen.
As with Donald Trump, Captain Conceited can do no wrong in his own eyes.
The man is a disgrace to his profession.
That he is.
What profession would that be Priss? Certainly not journalism!
What profession? I can think of one, but it’s not journalist, or political commentator.
“How can he moderate the debates when he can’t moderate himself”? is the burning question. Hoskings is unfit to front a prime time tv show let alone a crucial election debate.
TV One news and the debates need to be boycotted. I know I will be. It goes without needing to be said that all things Mike Hosking should be boycotted
Yes I agree. I certainly won’t watch it and I certainly won’t read the Herald the next day when Fran O’Sullivan says that English won.
Hoskins is too stupid to realise and accept that he’s wrong.
It’s the Dunning – Kruger Effect shown in full public view.
When I look at Hosking I wonder “Apart from Donald Trump, have I seen anyone with more delusions of grandeur than Hosking?’
No, I don’t think so.
Nail him for his words. What he said was,”..you can’t vote for the Maori Party…” That means Party (or List) vote. If it was electorate vote he should have said,”…you can’t vote for the Maori Party Candidate..”
He didn’t say the word ‘candidate’. That means he was talking about the party vote whether he himself knew it or not.
It appears he is too thoughtless to understand this himself.
John Cambell would be up to it, right? As for Mike ‘Love Me’ Hosking, he’s long past his use-by date. Get him off air. Permanently.