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Susie Ferguson oblivious to Alastair Campbell's hypocrisy (May 27, 2020)
Blair's hatchet man railed against "hypocrisy" and "lying"yesterday, but Susie Ferguson seemed oblivious to the irony.
RNZ National, Tuesday 26 May 2020, 7:58 a.m.
The Dominic Cummings scandal has provoked disgust from people all over Britain and indeed much of the rest of the world. Just before the news yesterday morning, Suzie Fergusson was subjected to an extended rant on the matter from a man with a Lancashire accent….
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL: This stuff is just doing my BRAIN in. We're in the middle of a pandemic, we're one of the WORST affected countries in the world, we've got TENS of thousands of people have DIED. We've got BUSINESSES collapsing left, right and centre, we've got UNEMPLOYMENT skyrocketing, and the entire government today has been en-, has been enga-a-aged in NOTHING to do with that, and EVERYTHING to do with trying to protect this ri-DICULOUS character that, for some reason, Boris Johnson can't untie his shoelaces without. And, you know, to have a, to have a—I mean, I was an adviser, I was the Prime Minister's, Tony Blair's press secretary. The idea of an unelected adviser, in the MIDDLE of an event like this, doing a big press conference in the garden, back garden at Downing Street, and then Boris Johnson doing as it were the FOLLOW-UP press conference to try to move the agenda onto lockdown easing, and THIS is what is horrific, I mean phase one of this pandemic, because Boris Johnson is IDLE, and he went on not just one, but TWO holidays, because he when he did come back he basically, his basic message was Oh well everybody else is panicking, there's no problem, we'll send this virus packing with a bit of good old British vigour and resolve and a few Churchillian speeches. Telling people to go off to football matches and race meetings and not to worry, telling people that he was shaking hands with corona virus patients in hospital, so I would say he directly contributed to the deaths of many people, through the messaging. They then realized it was a total disaster, and they went into a completely different messaging which was very effective: Stay home, protect the National Health Service, Save Lives. And the vast m–, the vast majority of the country did that. And now, we discover that his own closest adviser completely broke those rules. And it's just, it's unleashed an absolute FURY in this country, the idea that there's one law for them and there's one law for everybody else. And I think that even though Johnson thinks he' dealt with it today by sticking Cummings out in front of the media and getting him to deal with it—
SUSIE FERGUSON: Boris Johnson's, uh, perhaps thought YESTERDAY he would have dealt with it in his press conference, but today Dominic Cummings has had to come out and speak to the media AGAIN. Has this been put to bed?
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL: It's not been put to bed at ALL, because there's so many unanswered questions. And also I think one of the WORST things about this is that the government is reduced to a laughing stock, I mean one of the most extraordinary moments was when he was aked, um, whether this home, this sort of GRAND country house where he was self, supposedly self-isolating, his parents' residence in County Durham, whether he went out from there, and he said yes he did because he'd not been feeling very well, and one of the problems he had was that his EYESIGHT wasn't very good and so he went for a drive to see whether his EYES were okay.
SUSIE FERGUSON: Is that a good idea?
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL: So that he could decide, to see whether he could decide to drive the whole way to London. I mean, the guy has made himself a complete laughing stock, and then on the BACK of that, any of your listeners who follow any of our ridiculous cabinet on social media, ONE BY ONE, they've been putting out cut-and-paste tweets saying "Dominic Cummings has dealt with all the answers, let's move on and crack on with dealing with the crisis." And the thing is, I don't think the public, who frankly probably don't care two hoots about Dominic Cummings, who most of them until a week ago hadn't heard of, [clears throat] I don't think, I think they wouldn't WORRY too much about his lying and the hypocrisy and the rest of it if they thought the government was competent. And they're NOT. And so-o-o-o phase one they've screwed up, and now they're screwing up phase two, because frankly the lockdown which we still have in place to some extent, is breaking down anyway. I've seen SO many pieces today, there was a thing on, y'know, ENDLESS little films on social media, people saying Well if Boris Johnson can do it, I can do it.
SUSIE FERGUSON: Well this is the thing—
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL: That's what HAPPENS.
SUSIE FERGUSON: Does this then all break down? So how damaging is this not just for Dominic Cummings and for Boris Johnson but potentially for handling the pandemic?
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL: Well I think it is, and it's very interesting how several of the scientists who are on the government advisory committee have come out publicly and said this has fundamentally undermined the government's strategy. The government's chief scientist and medical officer, for instance, as we went into Downing Street today, we were told they were going to do the press conference with Boris Johnson and neither of them were there. I hope it means that they're just refusing to go along with this ridiculous charade any longer, I just don't know. But, look, you're talking to somebody here, don't ask me these questions as if you're talking to some sort of an objective commentator. I utterly DESPISE these people. I've despised them for a long time, because I've KNOWN them for a long time, and KNOW what sort of people they are. They are AMORAL, they do not CARE about people, they care about themSELVES, they got into power by pretending to be FOR the people against an elite, they ARE the elite. And honestly, YOUR prime minister is getting SUCH a lot of love in the U.K. because people have, y'know like everybody, people are following this around the world and seeing who's done it well and who's done it badly, and your prime minister's done incredibly WELL. And even the shot today of her in the earthquake and y'kknow if we-e-e-e could have a prime minister that has a little bit of empathy—what would SHE have done today if this had happened? She'd PROBABLY have sacked the adviser, probably. She might have said, Do you know what, they made a terrible mistake, I'm gonna MAKE them apologize and then move on. But THESE two—NO contrition, NO apology, no humility, nothing.
SUSIE FERGUSON: That's Alistair CAMPBELL, former Director of Communications to Tony Blair.
"L'hypocrisie est un hommage que le vice rend à la vertu." — François de La Rochefoucauld
More on Susie Ferguson…
And more on Campbell…. https://morrisseybreen.blogspot.com/2019/05/lions-players-ritually-humiliated.html
Funniest four words of the year: "And obviously Paul Goldsmith." (May 26, 2020)
Funniest four words of the year: "And obviously Paul Goldsmith."
REPORTER: Where are the Māori shadow cabinet members?
TODD MULLER: [slowly, in order to convey gravity as well as "niceness"] There's Paula Bennett of course. And there's Shane Reti.
NIKKI KAYE: And obviously Paul Goldsmith.
….Awkward pause….
EVERYBODY WHO HEARD THAT ON THE RADIO: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
Andrew Saveloy: New Zealand's worst sports commentator? (Sept. 4, 2003)
Andrew Saveloy: New Zealand's worst sports commentator?
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Pinguid Radio Sport broadcaster Andrew ("Slobber") Saveloy has long
been a figure of fun, even amongst his largely idiotic colleagues.
Football fans know, and despise, the fat man for his ignorant, risible
comments following the 1999 World Cup semi-final loss to France.
Nobody who heard it could ever forget the obese oracle stating,
apparently in dead seriousness, that France should NEVER beat the All
Blacks. That is not a joke: a rugby commentator actually said, on
radio, that FRANCE should "never beat the All Blacks". Amongst all
the stupidity, and ignorance that forced itself on the national
consciousness after that match, that remarkable comment by Slobber
Saveloy still stands out as particularly stupid and ignorant. It is
doubtful that even Martin Devlin at his most ignorant, or Murray
Deaker at his most truculent and obtuse, would ever have uttered
anything as moronic as that.
been a figure of fun, even amongst his largely idiotic colleagues.
Football fans know, and despise, the fat man for his ignorant, risible
comments following the 1999 World Cup semi-final loss to France.
Nobody who heard it could ever forget the obese oracle stating,
apparently in dead seriousness, that France should NEVER beat the All
Blacks. That is not a joke: a rugby commentator actually said, on
radio, that FRANCE should "never beat the All Blacks". Amongst all
the stupidity, and ignorance that forced itself on the national
consciousness after that match, that remarkable comment by Slobber
Saveloy still stands out as particularly stupid and ignorant. It is
doubtful that even Martin Devlin at his most ignorant, or Murray
Deaker at his most truculent and obtuse, would ever have uttered
anything as moronic as that.
Listeners to NewstalkZB will know Saveloy as the particularly
slow-witted and tongue-tied sports "commentator" who, for several
years now, has come on the radio at 6:20 every morning for a
mortifying, often humiliating five minutes, where he reads the sports
headlines then endures a "conversation" with the quick-witted, often
cruel, breakfast host Paul Holmes. The gadfly Holmes usually cannot
resist mocking and teasing the fat man, who seems to have no idea how
to handle it. Certainly, in more than four years of this ritual
abuse, Saveloy's only response to Holmes has been to either lapse into
silence, waiting for the stream of verbiage to cease, or to utter a
loud and sycophantic giggle. It's insalubrious, awful and cruel, kind
of like listening to a daily on-air mugging. One wonders what kind of
misdeeds Saveloy has committed in some past life for him to be daily
put through such a penance.
slow-witted and tongue-tied sports "commentator" who, for several
years now, has come on the radio at 6:20 every morning for a
mortifying, often humiliating five minutes, where he reads the sports
headlines then endures a "conversation" with the quick-witted, often
cruel, breakfast host Paul Holmes. The gadfly Holmes usually cannot
resist mocking and teasing the fat man, who seems to have no idea how
to handle it. Certainly, in more than four years of this ritual
abuse, Saveloy's only response to Holmes has been to either lapse into
silence, waiting for the stream of verbiage to cease, or to utter a
loud and sycophantic giggle. It's insalubrious, awful and cruel, kind
of like listening to a daily on-air mugging. One wonders what kind of
misdeeds Saveloy has committed in some past life for him to be daily
put through such a penance.
Given Saveloy's exacting, some would say unreasonable, even looney,
standards for the All Blacks, it came as somewhat of a surprise this
afternoon to hear him being so positive about the NZ basketball team's
recent embarrassing losses to that..... errrrmmmmm.... world
power,...... errrrrrrrmmmmm.... Australia. The man who could not
abide a rugby loss to France, which has the greatest depth of rugby
talent in the world, had this to say about the prospect of yet another
humiliating basketball loss to Australia, which does not in any way
have the greatest basketball depth in the world: "Errrrrrrrrmmm... I
would be errrrrrmmmmm pleasantly surpri-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-ised if New
Zealand got up and beat Australia tonight."
standards for the All Blacks, it came as somewhat of a surprise this
afternoon to hear him being so positive about the NZ basketball team's
recent embarrassing losses to that..... errrrmmmmm.... world
power,...... errrrrrrrmmmmm.... Australia. The man who could not
abide a rugby loss to France, which has the greatest depth of rugby
talent in the world, had this to say about the prospect of yet another
humiliating basketball loss to Australia, which does not in any way
have the greatest basketball depth in the world: "Errrrrrrrrmmm... I
would be errrrrrmmmmm pleasantly surpri-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-ised if New
Zealand got up and beat Australia tonight."
NewstalkZB drivetime host Mike Hosking listened to these pearls of
wisdom and generosity, then steered the fat man onto the subject of
the new "No Dissent" rule in cricket. Saveloy's take on this: "You
have to have a fairly thick skin anyway, to be a cricket umpire.
Errrrrrrrrrrmmmmm....."
wisdom and generosity, then steered the fat man onto the subject of
the new "No Dissent" rule in cricket. Saveloy's take on this: "You
have to have a fairly thick skin anyway, to be a cricket umpire.
Errrrrrrrrrrmmmmm....."
Then Hosking mentioned the Australian boxer Anthony Mundine, who last
night won a WBA title. Now, long-time Saveloy watchers will be aware
of just what he thinks of Mundine. "Is it just me," he shared with
his audience on the useless radio "Footy Show" a couple of years ago,
"or do others out there hope that Mundine gets DONE tomorrow night?"
Mundine is just too uppity and outspoken for the likes of Saveloy,
whose outrage stemmed from the fact that Mundine had had the gall to
make comments critical of the rogue Bush administration.
night won a WBA title. Now, long-time Saveloy watchers will be aware
of just what he thinks of Mundine. "Is it just me," he shared with
his audience on the useless radio "Footy Show" a couple of years ago,
"or do others out there hope that Mundine gets DONE tomorrow night?"
Mundine is just too uppity and outspoken for the likes of Saveloy,
whose outrage stemmed from the fact that Mundine had had the gall to
make comments critical of the rogue Bush administration.
Hosking, on the other hand, is obviously an admirer of Mundine.
Bubbling over with enthusiasm for The Man, Hosking is very
enthusiastic about last night's world title victory....
Bubbling over with enthusiasm for The Man, Hosking is very
enthusiastic about last night's world title victory....
HOSKING: Have you ever met him?
SAVELOY: Errrrrrrrrmmmm... only in passing.
HOSKING: I just LOVE him!
SAVELOY: Ooooo-er.... errrrrrrrmmmmmm....
HOSKING: So he's got a big mouth. Who CARES?
SAVELOY: [doubtfully] Y-y-y-y-y-y-y-yeah....
HOSKING: The WBA has got some cred?
SAVELOY: Ah yeah. Very MUCH so!!!! Yeah.
HOSKING: All right. Thanks very much...
..............................
For a long time now, this writer (moi) has engaged in the unusual -
some might say odd - activity of logging the number of times that
Saveloy says "errrrrrrrrrrrmmmm" whenever he is on the radio. The
average over several years of intermittingly logging the corpulent
commentator is well over twenty per five minute spot. Quite
remarkable, and testimony to the almost complete lack of standards on
Radio Sport.
some might say odd - activity of logging the number of times that
Saveloy says "errrrrrrrrrrrmmmm" whenever he is on the radio. The
average over several years of intermittingly logging the corpulent
commentator is well over twenty per five minute spot. Quite
remarkable, and testimony to the almost complete lack of standards on
Radio Sport.
This afternoon's "errrrrrmmmmmm" count: TWENTY-TWO.
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"Morrissey Breen" <morriss...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Wayyyyy tooo long, mate.
Pinguid???
Brad
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"Brad Anton" <ant_o...@yahoo.com> proudly parades his illiteracy in
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> "Morrissey Breen" <morriss...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:fb3a0456.0309040156.
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> Wayyyyy tooo long, mate.
message news:<bj7bb7$as7$1...@austar-
> "Morrissey Breen" <morriss...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:fb3a0456.0309040156.
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> Wayyyyy tooo long, mate.
What? If you don't like reading, why the hell are you on a text-based
newsgroup? I'll bet you have never read a book since leaving high
school. Are you related, by any chance, to the Right Honorable Phil
Goff?
newsgroup? I'll bet you have never read a book since leaving high
school. Are you related, by any chance, to the Right Honorable Phil
Goff?
>
> Pinguid???
See what happens when you don't read? No vocabulary.
> Pinguid???
See what happens when you don't read? No vocabulary.
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"Morrissey Breen" <morriss...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> For a long time now, this writer (moi)
There you go with that tautology thingie again. You promised me you'd try
and stop it ...
and stop it ...
Must try harder.
Regards
Steve
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"Steve Parrett" <steve....@btinternet.com> wrote in message news:<bj86cr$m2p$1...@hercules.
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So call moi a backslider. Nobody"s perfect - certainly not this writer.
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"Morrissey Breen" <morriss...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:fb3a0456.0309040846.> "Brad Anton" <ant_o...@yahoo.com> proudly parades his illiteracy in
> message news:<bj7bb7$as7$1...@austar-
> > "Morrissey Breen" <morriss...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> > news:fb3a0456.0309040156.
> >
> > Wayyyyy tooo long, mate.
>
> What? If you don't like reading, why the hell are you on a text-based
> newsgroup? I'll bet you have never read a book since leaving high
> school. Are you related, by any chance, to the Right Honorable Phil
> Goff?
Are you sure you are in the right newsgroup? Isn't there one for failed
writers or talk show obsessives that you wouldn't feel more at home in? I'm
being wholly serious.
writers or talk show obsessives that you wouldn't feel more at home in? I'm
being wholly serious.
--
Ben Longman
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"Ben L" <bjlongm...@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<bj9g8t$gtmce$1...@ID-
<sudden self-recognition> Oh, God! </sudden self-recognition>
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> Are you sure you are in the right newsgroup?
> Are you sure you are in the right newsgroup?
Errrr... yeah... I am.
>
> Isn't there one for failed writers
> Isn't there one for failed writers
Yow! That really hurts, man.
>
> or talk show obsessives that you wouldn't feel more at home in?
"Talk show obsessives"? You're making me sound like a pathetic bimbo. > or talk show obsessives that you wouldn't feel more at home in?
<sudden self-recognition> Oh, God! </sudden self-recognition>
>
> I'm being wholly serious.
> I'm being wholly serious.
<hyper-ventilating> Oh God! I'm finished! I'm GONE! </hyper-ventilating>
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"Morrissey Breen" <morriss...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> "Steve Parrett" <steve....@btinternet.com> wrote in message
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> > "Morrissey Breen" <morriss...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> > news:fb3a0456.0309040156.
> > <snip>
> > >
> certainly not this writer. " " (Steve's quotes)
Ha - well done! You know you can do it!
Regards
Steve
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"Morrissey Breen" <morriss...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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We wish.
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Monday 8 September, 4:35 p.m. Newstalk ZB. Talking to Larry Williams,
Saveloy says "errrrrrrrrmmm" SIXTEEN times. Also one "Heurgggghhhh!"
which is his version of a laugh.
Saveloy says "errrrrrrrrmmm" SIXTEEN times. Also one "Heurgggghhhh!"
which is his version of a laugh.
Also says this, re the Warriors' prospects against the Bulldogs this
weekend: "They've got a good chance, haven't they!.... I heard some
CLOWN ring up last week on talkback and claim that the Warriors played
better without Stacey Jones... mutter mutter.. . errrrrrrmmmm...
mutter.... errrrmmmm..."
weekend: "They've got a good chance, haven't they!.... I heard some
CLOWN ring up last week on talkback and claim that the Warriors played
better without Stacey Jones... mutter mutter.. . errrrrrrmmmm...
mutter.... errrrmmmm..."
Williams cuts him off in mid sentence, put on an advert.
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On 8 Sep 2003 11:24:56 -0700, morriss...@yahoo.com (Morrissey
Breen) wrote:
Breen) wrote:
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More examples of your rich, fulfilling life, Mowissey? Are there any
hours in your day that don't involve listening to the radio or tapping
away on your lonely little computer? Do you ever leave your bedroom?
hours in your day that don't involve listening to the radio or tapping
away on your lonely little computer? Do you ever leave your bedroom?
-- rick boyd
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His name is Andrew Saville.
morriss...@yahoo.com (Morrissey Breen) wrote in message news:<fb3a0456.0309040156.
morriss...@yahoo.com (Morrissey Breen) wrote in message news:<fb3a0456.0309040156.
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"Hey there" <nzfa...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> His name is Andrew Saville.
news:3b356b58.0309081616.
> His name is Andrew Saville.
Hang on, you added ONE FUCKING LINE, and you added BEFORE THE FUCKING
ORIGINAL (hint: do you know what chronological order is?) , and didn't
delete ANY OF THE FUCKING ORIGINAL to tell us that?
ORIGINAL (hint: do you know what chronological order is?) , and didn't
delete ANY OF THE FUCKING ORIGINAL to tell us that?
I'm not a mind reader, but I suspect MB might have been taking the piss, you
fucking retard.
fucking retard.
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