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# Media of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/media-of-the-day/
- Published: 2023-06-10T18:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2023-06-10T10:37:32.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Election 2023, Media, NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-16 22:22

> “Here is the deal – New Zealand stopped replacing itself in 2016\. I encourage all of you to go out there and have more babies if you wish, that would be helpful.”  
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> It’s true, he said those words. I should know – I was the one interviewing Luxon at the time. But the subsequent reporting of the comment risked unfairly miscontextualising Luxon’s words.  
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> The comments were totally light-hearted and made in the context of a conversation about labour shortages and the pressures of an aging population. I can’t imagine any of the hundreds of people in the room construed Luxon’s joke as meaning anything more. As the person sitting next to him, I certainly never interpreted the comment as relating seriously to women’s healthcare. \[…\]  
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> Election campaigns are nasty affairs, but voters still deserve the truth.  
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> [1News.co.nz](https://www.1news.co.nz/2023/06/09/jack-tame-luxon-wasnt-seriously-urging-us-to-have-babies/?ref=goodoil.news)

The beat up from the left media has been severe. Yesterday morning, Newshub covered Nicola Willis’s response.

> National’s Nicola Willis has unleashed on journalists for their questions after Christopher Luxon jokingly encouraged New Zealanders to “have more babies”.  
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> Willis said some of the questions were “wrong” – saying one even likened the National leader’s comments to a policy introduced by Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany.  
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> [Newshub](https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2023/06/national-s-nicola-willis-unleashes-at-journalists-for-taking-christopher-luxon-s-have-more-babies-comment-out-of-context.html?ref=goodoil.news)

Oh, yes. Indeed.

> [](https://twitter.com/FranOSullivan/status/1667277998276644865?s=20&ref=goodoil.news)

It didn’t take long for interested parties to track it down…

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/cushla-norman.png)

Even Comrade Martyn Bradbury was outraged.

> The State Broadcaster just asked Nicola Willis to compare a flippant question by Luxon (that he wasn’t actually prepared to engage in intellectually with – and neither were our mainstream media for that matter), to the Nazi plan for genocide and industrialised white supremacy mass death cult???  
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> The State Broadcaster asked that of the National Party? \[…\]  
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> I mean, you can’t as the State Broadcaster make a comment as unhinged as that!  
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> TVNZ must urgently apologise \[to the\] National Party for such an insanely off the rocker question, the radioactivity of which damages those asked of it, those who hear it and ultimately the person asking it!  
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> [The Daily Blog](https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2023/06/10/ok-weve-all-had-our-lols-at-luxons-expense-but-national-have-every-right-to-be-disgusted-at-tvnz-by-latest-attack/?ref=goodoil.news)

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