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  • Hard News: Aiming for the feet,

    <q>So so dumb to be manipulated by Tova O'Brien into phrasing it the way he did though.<q>

    Yeah, right blame the media. This guy may be new to politics (I hadn't heard of him before but that may not necessarily mean much, I'm getting older) but he should know enough - as a shadow minister - not to say daft things when he's speaking to media.

    The first people I saw at the Tauranga A&P Show late last month were older women in bright blue tee-shirts proclaiming "Conservative Party". Would I like to take their pamphlet? No thanks. But as I was heading off I thought, no darn it. So I turned back and asked the smiling woman if she wasn't embarrassed by Colin Craig? No, he's a lovely man, was the gist of the reply, why should I be? Umm because he doesn't believe astronauts landed on the moon ...

    "Oh," she says, with no hint of a blush upon her lined cheek. "That was just the media. He was misreported."

    At which point I made sure I stopped talking and kept walking.

    (Sorry for being a bit off-topic.)

    tauranga • Since Dec 2011 • 72 posts Report Reply

  • Hard News: Who'd have thought?,

    erm ..

    note to PM: Data are plural (that's what a good education does for you :) )

    And how great would it have been to headline this one:

    Who'd of thought?

    Just been talking to a group of teachers, several of whom were going to be affected by the technology cuts. Not amused by any of it, from start to finish.

    tauranga • Since Dec 2011 • 72 posts Report Reply

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