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Speaker 1: How long can you peddle an invention? There's my question

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Speaker 1: for you. Friday, Friday, March sixth, the poll is out,

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Speaker 1: it's bad for national and the media has concocted the

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Speaker 1: idea that, as a result of these numbers in the

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Speaker 1: previous Monday's press conference about the war, that things have

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Speaker 1: got so bad for the Prime minister he quote is

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Speaker 1: considering his position over the weekend. They've also concluded numbers

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Speaker 1: are being crunched, pressure is mounting, and pressure is building

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Speaker 1: for him to resign by the Monday. On this program

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Speaker 1: March nine, it is clear no such thing has happened.

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Speaker 1: No numbers were crunched, and no considering of positions has

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Speaker 1: been undertaken. Is that the end of the story. No,

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Speaker 1: it is not. It bubbles on for the rest of

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Speaker 1: the week with literally nothing happening apart from the reiteration

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Speaker 1: of what we already know not to be true. By

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Speaker 1: Thursday last week, the Herald runs an editorial declaring he

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Speaker 1: survived the week, survive from what their invention of a problem. Friday,

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Speaker 1: Peter dunwrit's a piece that calls the media invented nonsense.

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Speaker 1: Out Saturday, Bruce Cottal Lads TV and z woes to

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Speaker 1: the list, but also points to the abject absurdity of

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Speaker 1: the previous Monday's blitzkrig at the airport, As said peas

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Speaker 1: M and various Cabinet members arrive in Wellington to a

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Speaker 1: pack of screeching journalists still refusing to believe that the

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Speaker 1: story is entirely of their invention. And then yesterday, March sixteen,

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Speaker 1: ten calendar days since the invention, Radio and New Zealand

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Speaker 1: were to have two talking heads discussing how the PM

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Speaker 1: survived the pressure and the pending consideration of his position.

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Speaker 1: Assuming today there is no more, surely that has to

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Speaker 1: be a record for continuing coverage of a pile of bollocks,

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Speaker 1: which leads to the question how dangerous are our media

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Speaker 1: when they invent a story and run with it, and then,

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Speaker 1: having had it dispelled, continue to run with it new story,

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Speaker 1: new week. The aforementioned PM, ahead of his specific trip,

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Speaker 1: asked for a title. Not true, said the PM's office.

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Speaker 1: Still they ran with it until Monday, when the Sarma

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Speaker 1: and government said it's not true. How many times do

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Speaker 1: you have to say this story isn't true before it's

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Speaker 1: not a story? And is it true to say if

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Speaker 1: a story that isn't true is still run as a story.

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Speaker 1: We most definitely have an agenda here and a bias

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Speaker 1: and a level of dishonesty. And given that, one do

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Speaker 1: they wonder why their reputations are in tatters? And two

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Speaker 1: do they even care for more from The Mic Asking Breakfast.

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