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Topic: John Key on Gone Fishing

Posted By: SeaCamel
Subject: John Key on Gone Fishing
Date Posted: 12 Jul 2008 at 1:58pm

Don't forget to tune to on Gone Fishin today to see Darren spearfishing with your potential next prime minister John Key...

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Posted By: _Jimmy_
Date Posted: 12 Jul 2008 at 5:52pm

a BUTTER ! yeh.

wonder how much he paid to get on the boat?

will i now vote for him... hmmmm...... probably not

i started to like him until he started bagging labour. come on john your fishing on a fishing show.

Posted By: chalkeye
Date Posted: 12 Jul 2008 at 8:01pm

not only is john a gun spearfisher but can hold a camera in his other hand at the same time! fishy.

Posted By: one breath
Date Posted: 12 Jul 2008 at 10:03pm

yea that was surprising, would have been a good time for a 'accident' lol

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Posted By: SeaCamel
Date Posted: 12 Jul 2008 at 11:17pm

Product placement is an important part for the three fishing/outdoor shows but I'm not too sure if John Key's appearance today did himself or the show a favor. It probably didn't have the desired effect.

Posted By: JRDO
Date Posted: 13 Jul 2008 at 12:43am

I thought it was a great option, so was wearing an allblacks shirt with blue on it.

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Posted By: long john
Date Posted: 13 Jul 2008 at 9:11am

Wasn't that a queer piece of television? I agree with Seacamel, I think it backfired, in that I came out feeling suspicious of Mr. Key. I had figured the show was going to try and paint 'Johnno' as a normal kiwi bloke to the middle class folk that watch fishing shows, rather we saw poor Johnno bumbling his way through something he obviously didn't have a clue about, re-inforcing, if anything, the percerption that he's a stiff 'suit'. Power to him for giving it a crack and all but that doesn't cut it for a politician. Isn't he supposed to be astute enough to realise these sorts of events need to be carefully orchestrated to avoid looking out of his depth or awkward? Doesn't he have advisers to coach him on these things? No prospective leader of a country wants any little bit of doubt creeping into the minds of the proles -I bet Butch would never put herself in a position of vulnerability like that.
Then, woe of woes, Graeme starts a political interveiw with the guy. It was obviously contrived, so Johnboy shoulda had all the right answers pre prepared but, no, not really. He ducked and weaved and made suitably vague statements when Greame asked him about the future of fishing. Recreationals needed to iron out the problems of poaching, taking undersized fish and consider bag limit cuts into the future as/ if rec pressure continued to rise. Fine, but not a single word of criticism for the commercial sector though or a hint of a suggestion there could be changes there (primary industry and all Wink

) Just a bunch of hollow rhetoric really.
So, in the end, I just felt he was naive, ill-informed and given how he obviously felt we'd lap him up, more than a little arrogant too. If they'd just taken the guy out for a fish and a few beers, all good. Blatantly involving politics was a major balls up for all parties concerned IMO

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Posted By: Firey
Date Posted: 13 Jul 2008 at 3:11pm

Ive gotta agree with you LJ

Ive done a bit of fishing. Yeah Right

Honest John
Shame on you Gone fishing for allowing that ****e

Posted By: Bounty Hunter
Date Posted: 13 Jul 2008 at 5:04pm

long john wrote:

Wasn't that a queer piece of television? I agree with Seacamel, I think it backfired, in that I came out feeling suspicious of Mr. Key. I had figured the show was going to try and paint 'Johnno' as a normal kiwi bloke to the middle class folk that watch fishing shows, rather we saw poor Johnno bumbling his way through something he obviously didn't have a clue about, re-inforcing, if anything, the percerption that he's a stiff 'suit'. Power to him for giving it a crack and all but that doesn't cut it for a politician. Isn't he supposed to be astute enough to realise these sorts of events need to be carefully orchestrated to avoid looking out of his depth or awkward? Doesn't he have advisers to coach him on these things? No prospective leader of a country wants any little bit of doubt creeping into the minds of the proles -I bet Butch would never put herself in a position of vulnerability like that.
Then, woe of woes, Graeme starts a political interveiw with the guy. It was obviously contrived, so Johnboy shoulda had all the right answers pre prepared but, no, not really. He ducked and weaved and made suitably vague statements when Greame asked him about the future of fishing. Recreationals needed to iron out the problems of poaching, taking undersized fish and consider bag limit cuts into the future as/ if rec pressure continued to rise. Fine, but not a single word of criticism for the commercial sector though or a hint of a suggestion there could be changes there (primary industry and all Wink

pretty much my sentiments too

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Posted By: Snoop
Date Posted: 13 Jul 2008 at 7:10pm

Yeah, but at least he might take out Butch in a couple of months, might need a speargun, probably a 1.5m quad wrap with 90m bungey and double floats to do it...

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