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Speaker 1: I've struggled with a couple of authors this week, Jacinda

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Speaker 1: Adern and Jake Tapper. What I struggle with is one

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Speaker 1: of them is making money out of the fact they

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Speaker 1: made an astonishing hash of their job, quit, bailed out

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Speaker 1: of the country, and are now collecting the dough for

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Speaker 1: retelling what happened in a way that would suggest no

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Speaker 1: carnage was left behind. The other is making money by

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Speaker 1: exposing what he watched unfold in front of his eyes

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Speaker 1: for four years and really did nothing about. I'm not

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Speaker 1: sure who the bigger fraud is. The Adern book is

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Speaker 1: widely traversed and has been marketed very well internationally. Cadie

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Speaker 1: showed me a snippet from Oprah this week on social media.

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Speaker 1: Let's be frank, postweight watches and a zempic not exactly

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Speaker 1: reputationally untouched herself, whose fascination with Adern appears to be

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Speaker 1: around kindness. I bet you anything you want. Oprah doesn't

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Speaker 1: have the slightest idea about how the country was wrecked

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Speaker 1: under a dern. She sees what Aderne wants you to see, fragile,

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Speaker 1: huggy people who run things on good vibes. Meantime, at CNN.

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Speaker 1: I got no idea what Jake Tapper was watching between

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty and twenty twenty four, because we all watch

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Speaker 1: the same thing, except c and N wasn't spending a

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Speaker 1: lot of time saying, hey, have you know the old

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Speaker 1: guy's getting worse by the day. Given that was CNN's job,

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Speaker 1: is it any wonder they rate the way they do.

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Speaker 1: But for Tappa to then go out and monetize what

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Speaker 1: he was already allegedly being paid to do seems a

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Speaker 1: new low of sorts to me. But back to Aderune.

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Speaker 1: In one review, David Cunliffe, former Labor Party leader, runs

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Speaker 1: the classic line, I have a different recollection. This is

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Speaker 1: in response to Adurne's attack on him, whereby she essentially

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Speaker 1: calls him a fraud and how she couldn't understand how

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Speaker 1: he got the top job and not her mate Grant.

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Speaker 1: You had to, she said, probably in tears, question his authenticity.

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Speaker 1: Are you serious? Authenticity? Jacinda Markle. The only bit of

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Speaker 1: marketing that seems to have been missed, along with the

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Speaker 1: handwringing interviews on Radio New Zealand and TV and Z

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Speaker 1: this week, is some adern jam if she had just

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Speaker 1: been useless it might have been all right, hopeless, but

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Speaker 1: didn't break the china. But she wasn't. She was dangerous.

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Speaker 1: She was the pulpit of truth. She was a control freak.

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Speaker 1: She was a narcissist, dressed up in Kate's silvester, pretending

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Speaker 1: she wrote back to all the kids. She wrecked the

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Speaker 1: joint and then collected the dough in Boston, Tappa and

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Speaker 1: Adern making money for failing to do their job. There

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Speaker 1: should be a law against it. For more from The

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