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Speaker 1: What has Hipkins and co. Got to hide over COVID?

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Speaker 1: Yesterday they wheeled out three excuses, not one, not two,

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Speaker 1: but three for not fronting up and answering questions about

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Speaker 1: why they went so hard on lockdowns and mandates, which

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Speaker 1: they then papered over with sixty six billion dollars in

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Speaker 1: spending second in the world only to the US, thereby

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Speaker 1: helping fuel the inflation that we're now paying the price

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Speaker 1: for taming. First excuse, we heard they wouldn't attend the

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Speaker 1: public hearing because they were worried about how the public

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Speaker 1: might react, that some might use their videos to spread misinformation.

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Speaker 1: The inquiry itself basically said that was nonsense. The public

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Speaker 1: interest in them appearing outweighed the risk of some nutter

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Speaker 1: altering their video and sharing it on Facebook. Number two,

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Speaker 1: we then had Hipkins front for a stand up with

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Speaker 1: another reason. I already answered these questions on a daily basis,

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Speaker 1: he said, which again makes no sense. If you were

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Speaker 1: worried about videos being doctored for misinformation and misinformation being spread,

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Speaker 1: would it not apply as much to those comments in

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Speaker 1: the media, which are of course videoed and published as

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Speaker 1: they would be to the video live stream from a

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Speaker 1: public inquiry. Three. Then there's the excuses provided to the

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Speaker 1: inquiry itself. They were worried about blowback from the public online,

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Speaker 1: that it might turn into some sort of witch hunt.

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Speaker 1: This is perhaps the most egregious and insulting excuse of

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Speaker 1: them all. During the COVID years, they were more than

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Speaker 1: happy to troll us members of the public from the

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Speaker 1: podium of truth. They were more than happy to engage

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Speaker 1: in a little witch hunting of their own. Bit Charlotte

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Speaker 1: Ballast the border crosses the River of filth. They used

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Speaker 1: the media to hammer their opponents as conspiracy theoris see

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Speaker 1: anyone who disagreed with them. They anointed many a public

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Speaker 1: enemy number one while they were in control of the narrative,

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Speaker 1: and that's really what this is about. Controlling the narrative,

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Speaker 1: the wall to wall coverage, the one PM podium sermons

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Speaker 1: cynically help secure them a historic majority in twenty twenty.

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Speaker 1: As the old saying goes, you can fall some of

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Speaker 1: the people all of the time, all of the people

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Speaker 1: some of the time, but you can't fool all of

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Speaker 1: the people all of the time. These guys know they've

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Speaker 1: been found out, most recently by that embarrassing Treasury report

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Speaker 1: and now that they can't control the narrative, it looks

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Speaker 1: like they're running for the hills. For more from Early

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