comment@whoar:..q&a..a review…

brilliant..!..a knee-slapper from joyce..

“..no..we are not selling the law…we are altering the law for economic-reasons..”

(where is taurima..?..boyd is not up to joyce..he is allowing joyce to bluster all over him..)

second knee-slapper from joyce:..

..’gambling is well established across nz..and as with alcohol and sugery foods..most people have no problems with gambling..’

(ed:..crikey..!..don’t we have an alcohol-sodden culture..?..and serious issues with obesity..?..which country does joyce live in..)

joyce then defends his snails’-pace on broadband..(!)..

..saying he ‘dosen’t believe in deadlines’..(ed:..right ho..!..)

(ed:..while he mastered/won this debate with a not up to it boyd..and thus won the battle…

..joyce helped lose the war…

..his arrogance and spinning couldn’t have been more on show..)

panel:..anderton..roy..robinson..

..robinson tries to sell the pokie-deal…calls opposition..’hysteria’..

..holmes then pitches in in support of this pokie-deal..and is almost hysterical in his support..

roy talks sense:..asking do we even need a convention-centre..and makes the point most others seem not to notice/note..
..that all the profits from lion foundation machines pumps back into the economy/community..

..whereas sky returns 2.5%…

anderton notes that the sth australian govt just told the gambling industry there to take a flying jump when they proposed a similar deal there..

anderton notes that sky made $700 million profit last year..(so could afford their own convention centre..if they want a bigger one..)

..all agree that issue has a long way to run..

..brownlee then rides over boyd..(halfway through his first question..(!)..and hammers at him that ‘the recovery is not stalled’…

..brownlee then just walks all over boyd..

..refusing to answer questions..telling him ‘to go investigate’ himself..

..boyd then asks why are there still portaloos in the suburbs..?..why the focus just on the inner-city..?

..(brownleee blames ‘the legislation’..)

(ed:..three times in the interview..brownlee attacked/abused the interviewer…’stupid’..

(make that four times..tells interviewer to stop interrupting him..)

..and in doing so..like joyce before him..

….brownlee won the battle..and helped lose the war..

..like joyce..his hubris/arrogance could not be more on show…)

anderton then play to his domestic audience..(is he planning on another mayoralty run..?..)

anderton notes that inner-city christchurch was dying before the earthquake..

..and that the council then ‘couldn’t organise a bun-fight in a bakery’..

(holmes then does his best-ever link:

‘coming up next..john huntsman..um..!..’..(ed:..a senior-moment maybe..?..)

(without going into the details..the interview with republican-contender john huntsman is worth a watch..

..he is preaching a centreist-message..and is one very smooth individual..(presidential even..)

anderton raises a chuckle when he says he would like to know what huntsman meant when he talked of ‘tidying up the middle-east’..

..that ‘the devil is in the detail’..(heh..!..)

..they all agree that obama will get a second term..