The BFD | Newshub and The Spinoff’s Cheese Meltdown

Both The Spinoff and Newshub have lost their collective minds over the price of a block of cheese in the most silly and lightweight mauling of Judith Collins since a labrador puppy slobbered over her slipper.

The above headline isn’t even accurate as she made no such claim but guessed the answer during a series of quick-fire questions that included her view on euthanasia (she joked that it shouldn’t be compulsory) and marijuana (she supports medical use only). She was also asked if she was a feminist.

I don’t know about you but I don’t enjoy shows where they cover politics in a Women’s Weekly once over lightly kind of a way.

The only thing more ridiculous than the fact that they asked her the price of a block of cheese is that both The Spinoff and Newshub thought that her answer was worthy of a headline and/or an in-depth article.

Instead of commenting on her liberal response to euthanasia and her centrist response to marijuana or her feminism both MSM outlets decided that her getting the price of a block of cheese wrong was the item most worthy of investigation and political commentary!

Here are some of the criticisms they made off the back of her answer.

Newshub

Their in-depth investigation into cheese revealed that…she got the price of a 1Kg block of cheese wrong.
They were “shocked” that she got it wrong.

The Spinoff

They are shocked that she prefers tasty cheese
They wondered if cheese-buying habits were an indicator of class
Tasty cheese is “guest cheese” only for families due to its cost.
Judith Collins’s incorrect answer on the cheese question means that she is not capable of “properly” leading the country because she can afford tasty cheese.
Judith Collins “possibly throws out cheese when it hasn’t been eaten” which means that she is not capable of “properly” leading the country

That Judith Collins doesn’t have to ever consider what cheese is fancy or not, and possibly even throws out cheese when it hasn’t been eaten, in my opinion, speaks to whether she can properly lead the country.

6. Just in case you missed the slur the first time Judith Collins is rich enough to purchase tasty cheese! This matters apparently because people who can afford tasty cheese are completely unable to understand what life is like for people who have to buy Pam’s brand cheese. She needs to work with cheap cheese-eating New Zealanders in order to understand their cheap cheese-eating ways. Oh and one more thing….she should give them her tasty cheese!

Does it matter that our possible next future prime minister doesn’t need to ever consider the price of cheese? Maybe it does, if that’s just one step in understanding what life is like for so many of the people she wants to lead. Judith Collins is, and has always been, a have. Maybe she should spend some time with the have-nots to work out what the real world is like. And she should bring some of her cheese.