Lee spitting out the lines in early slanging
And then the dynamic one goes and shows why she was flanked by one of John Key's pair of dobermans (Tremain I think it was) during her TV interview on selection night:
And this coming from an immigrant who carpet-bags entire continents and countries. And it's such a scripted line, it's just naff - and untrue, of course. Absurd even.
She grew up in Asia. Shearer grew up in Auckland and spent many years of his life away from NZ - some of those years trying to sort out Asia's problems. Now his main rival is claiming he knows less of New Zealand than her. She's begging to be tested - and she will be. If she's going to be a bitch, she'll get bitch-slapped. Labour don't play nice - as Russel Norman's treatment from Labour's Standard blog will attest - if she lets out another one of those she's going to get it dished straight back.
As for Shearer, his campaign is wafting along on some puff pieces of his own:
Labels: Mt Albert by-election
posted by Tim Selwyn @ 12:42 am
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What a naive thing for this woman to say - and doubly so for a former journalist! She needs to understand that many young New Zealanders in their early 20s would know more about New Zealand than she does - yet she makes such comments about a full blooded New Zealander - born and bred here. That said I will feel sorry for her when she slips up. I can certainly imagine a situation where she will make a Key-esque slipup perhaps claiming New Zealand came together peacefully (as Key did last year).
According to your own information she has been resident in NZ for over 20 years so it isn't as if she is some recent fly by night arrival.
She in more than entitled to attack Mr Shearer on the grounds that he has been away from the country for a number of years. It is certainly a critisism that could have been made of John Key when he came back to NZ and was fast tracked into parliament.
What Ms Lee is engaging in is standard politics. What you are doing here is dangerously close to xenophobia.
And as if on cue illuminatedtiger has just moved that one step close to taking this discussion down a rather ugly road.
You're welcome to call me a racist but I would ask that you meet my fiance first.
To paraphrase you then...
"Some of my best friends are not 'real' New Zealanders"
LOL!!!!
Someone born in New Zealand is bound to have a greater knowledge of the country he grew up in than someone who didn't. How is that xenophobic or racist? Grow up.
Quite untrue. I lived in the UK for five and a half years and I knew far more about the culture and history of the place after that time than many of the British people I met and socialised with.
The sort of thinking displayed here is illogical and, as stated preciously, perilously close to Xenophobic.
precious indeed gosman
Given there is no objective test for "knowing more about NZ" short of running some version of "The Weakest Link", it's just the usual childishness.
However to say Shearer spent "some of those years trying to sort out Asia's problems." is irrelevant. They weren't Melissa Lee's problems.
Sadly, they've both been flown in to secure some political points.
The plain fact you are all overlooking is that she is incredibly hot and deserves to be the electorate MP due to this. Why are right wingers so much better looking than left wingers?
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