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Thomas Coglin's Waldo Salad

1 items · 1 aliases · peaked week of 9 Aug 2026 · first seen 12 Aug 2026

a reported incident in which political editor Thomas Coglin was seen eating a Waldorf salad during a live political event, interpreted as a sign of media overreach or absurdity

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gone-by-lunchtime Centre-left

a symbolic, absurd political anecdote

Emergency pod: Do you get déjà coup?

12 Aug

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Ben Thomas Gone By Lunchtime (RNZ) Emergency pod: Do you get déjà coup? 12 Aug · 18s

And Thomas Cogling, very very good journalist, one of our best. Um I certainly don't think he was making anything up or gilding the lily. Um I I would have …

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