A reflective commentary on Bob Jones' complex relationship with journalism, politics, and media ethics, highlighting his confrontational style, wealth-driven risk-taking, and controversial claims about Sitiveni Rabuka's academic record.
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So where do we end up with? I'm trying to think about this over the weekend. So Thomas Coghlan. God bless him. I don't know him, but I've read enough to know he's straight up and down, so he's got his three sources from the National Party, apparently. So we don't know who they are. If I ever find out who they are, I'm going to name them, by the way. In fact, I might ask Luxon off here this morning to say, give me the names and we'll just name and shame them. Anyway, so you got those three and that's it. So we ended Friday with that freaky little deja vu thing. Remember what was it, two, three, four, five weeks ago that we had Luxon in this very studio and I said, are you going to be the leader of the National Party going to the election? Yes, I am. Hand on heart. Yes, I am. It had that vibe about it. Journalist drumming up things. That was the 28.5% poll. Remember he was going home to consider his position, which wasn't true. And so we ended Friday with three nameless. spineless gormless idiots in the national party who want to talk to Thomas Coglan and that's it and we don't have a challenger we have no coup we have no spill we have no numbers and I had the herald this morning going MPs are arriving in Wellington is that a thing I think they go to Wellington every Monday I don't think that's news so where do I go with this
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