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And as for that Tearaway thing, am I the only person who thinks both Key and Clark were engaging in a Olympic-level bullshitting?
Q: What is your favourite song right now?
Clark: The Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves in Nabucco by Verdi.Will that swing a few marginal seats? Hardly. The PM is genuinely interested in this stuff (hence the Arts & Culture portfolio), just as she is genuinely uninterested in rugby, but has to turn up (I still blame her for Cardiff).
John Key is not interested in movies, music, literature. He used to just say so, when he was an unpackaged newbie, which didn't make me vote for him but that didn't matter: that's who he is, with other interests and strengths. Now the minders have got to him, and he feels he has to fake an intererest in everything.
When Shania Twain was doing her high country photo op with Clark, the press naturally asked Clark if she liked Twain's music and she just laughed and said she was more into Mozart. Key would have been primed by Robyn's Tron and would try and list the songs, probably mangling them in the process.
Moral: better a Philistine than a phoney.
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Winnie, the poo label ...
(sorry)
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Congratulations, Andrew. It's Dunne.
http://www.tearaway.co.nz/interview-with-peter-dunne
Add jokes here about 'Sound of Silence', 'Homeward Bound', etc.
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Grant and Hadyn both get nice consolation prizes for taking part in my little game. Thank you very much. Well done. It's not the winning that matters. And you didn't.
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Perigo offered criticism of a government.
Perigo on the opposition: "the National Socialist Party".
Insightful criticism, Angus? Or ... poo.
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In the same Tearaway interviews for da yoof, the leaders were asked about their favourite songs.
Key was back on mainstream message, and chose "Anchor Me", hoping the kids' parents were reading (whatever happened to Coldplay?). Clark chose some poncey foreign opera song.
Today's PA quiz (prize: a ride in David Slack's jet):
Which politician chose "I am a Rock" by Simon & Garfunkel?
I have no need of friendship, friendship causes pain ...
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As with all issues on Kiwiblog, commenters have a variety of views on the issue.
"Helen Clark should be shot!"
"Impaled!"
"Boiled in oil!"
"All three!"
"No, just voted out of office ..."
"You bloody lefty!!"
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National's recent "policy" releases have not included any costings, but in essence they can be summarised as follows:
1. Keep what the government has done.
2. In some areas, do more.
This translates as:
1. Spend the same
2. ... and some more.
The absence of dollar numbers means, of course, that the Herald can leave these promises out of its "Porkometer". So we'll be getting all we have now, but for free.
(Finance spokesman Bill English was not available for comment).
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yeah Russ hi Simon here yeah basically at the end of the day if we didn't have like you know Radio NZ the reality is it would just be people like Ralston and all the other old right-white man clones on talkback and basically I mean at the end of the day it's like about information and ideas and that because you got to think outside the square and the reality is in terms of other radio stations who have slogans like "tune your mind" its like you are listening to the permanently drunk and if you listen to that all day then the issue is sooner or later the point is you're going to shoot someone or maybe yourself so yeah I reckon Radio NZ is like good for keeping some faith in human beings and like having a functioning brain and that so if we didnt have it I'd be losing the will to live and so yeah at the end of the day the reality is yeah that's my point dont cut me off I havent fini
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Families of the bereaved? Sorry, blame lack of lunch. I do not condone my vocabulary errors, but ...