Phil Goff almost broke the national conspiracy of silence tonight
Radio NZ National "Checkpoint", 6:25 p.m., Friday 18 Nov 2011
The Friday night political round-up is not exactly the context you'd
expect for this incident. But there you are: football is always on the
minds of Kiwis, even the Leader of the Opposition during the heat of a
campaign. What follows below constitutes a tantalizing near-miss in
the maintenance of the national blackout….
JULIAN ROBINS: There are just over seven days left before election
day. It's a very big task ahead of you.
PHIL GOFF: Yes, but then the French team were underdogs five minutes
before the World Cup final last month---and look what happened.
ROBINS: But they lost.
GOFF: Yes but…[long, long pause]…I will do it differently.
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Phil Goff NEARLY did it. He nearly broke ranks and said: "Yes, but ….
[long, long pause] … the National Party can't count on a Craig Joubert to deliver them the result they want."
But during that long, long pause, his finely honed political instincts
kicked in and he (not for the first time in his career) suppressed the
urge to state the truth and almost certainly unleash a political
firestorm about his lack of patriotism. So he uttered the lame and
unconvincing Plan B: "I will do it differently."
We wonder who in New Zealand will be the first establishment figure to
commit the heretical act of admitting what rugby fans all over the
world already acknowledge: that the All Blacks were gifted the World
Cup by the possibly corrupt non-referee.
On Nov 18, 7:10 pm, Radio Transcripts Ltd
Can anyone tell me whether you can add fucking morons like this to a
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