New Zealand Journalist Tova O'Brien Gives Master Class in How to Interview Right Wing Politicians Who Peddle in Lies and Conspiracy

[Nepenthe]

"This is the last time you'll be interviewed."

Holy shit.

 

[krae_man]

I know he said "I enjoyed my decade in parlement" but I heard "I enjoyed being the Dickhead in parlement".

 

[Zip]

Is she like that to politicians who aren't on their way out too? He seems an easy enough target given he lost, his party only got 1% of the vote, and he's likely to be done.

 

[Isilia]

Satisfying to watch. Wish it happened over here.

 

[RisingStar]

Tell those people to watch American media where politicians are allowed to come on and blatantly lie without corrections or push back.

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Thing is a lot of people don't think its worth comparing themselves to Americans when they should strive their country to be better than "well it's better than the US" mentality in actual better countries out there. That's why I personally dislike it when Canadians use that as a reasoning to not push for better policies or how they describe the country. Leave that husk of a third world mess posing as first world behind.

That being said, they do agree that right-wing conspiracy theory mentality has no place in NZ, (despite that party still somehow getting 1% of votes).

 

[Luckett_X]

Refreshing stuff. We used to have good regular jugular thrashing interviews here in the UK back in the day with figures like Paxman before the BBC slowly dissolved its soul in a wine spritzer.

 

[Plax]

I know he said "I enjoyed my decade in parlement" but I heard "I enjoyed being the Dickhead in parlement".

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I heard this too.

The interview was excellent. Asking the right questions and shutting down the pandemic misinformation very quickly.

 

[blackhawk163]

Brutal. Savage. Wrecked. If only our news services were like that in the U.S.

 

[take_marsh]

That's the kinda treatment and decorum I wanna see in US. Good stuff.

 

[Teenage Fansub]

Hitching your career to be few hundred Q people in NZ is extra pathetic.

 

[jelly]

It's nice to see but I don't think it would work against most seasoned scum bag politicians who just stick to the same line over and over, time wasting etc. She would never get the chance to do that to most.