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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-931/
- Published: 2024-03-20T17:30:51.000Z
- Updated: 2024-03-20T00:55:58.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-06-28 02:24

> Winston Peters has been fighting a war of words with the media for decades. But he’s adopted a new phrase in his arsenal in recent times: “leftie shill”.  
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> It popped up in the [wake of last year’s election campaign](https://www.1news.co.nz/2023/11/05/winston-peters-blasts-moron-jack-tame-nz-media-in-port-waikato/?ref=goodoil.news) and has now come back with a vengeance after the Deputy PM faced a wave of criticism for comparing co-governance to Nazi Germany.  
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> He has since claimed it was in reference to an alleged statement by Te Pati Maori co-leader Rawiri Waititi that Maori DNA was superior.  
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> In a typically combative interview on TVNZ’s Breakfast this morning, he used the phrase “leftie shill” four times.  
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> Some “leftie shill like you” he told Breakfast presenter Anna Burns-Francis, was responsible for stirring up the other issue in Peters’ week – the band Chumbawamba asking him to stop using their song Tubthumping at his rallies because they don’t agree with his politics.  
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> He also referred to the media’s “shill leftie biased message” on a couple of occasions.  
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> So what is a “leftie shill” exactly?  
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> 1News

Watch Winston unload on Anna Burns-Francis:

[Read more here](https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/03/20/winston-peters-loves-the-phrase-leftie-shill-but-what-does-it-mean/?ref=goodoil.news). Discuss it on *The BFD.*

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