Media Release
23 March 2004

Brash Running Scared Says Peters

Rt Hon Winston Peters has accused Don Brash of being too scared to face him in a television debate.

Earlier today Mr Peters offered to debate current issues with the National leader on TVNZ’s Holmes programme tonight after the Prime Minister was unavailable. TVNZ has since declined Mr Peters’ offer.

“It is obvious that Dr Brash refused to meet me on the Holmes programme simply because he is frightened to face me on a public platform.

“A few weeks ago when Dr Brash said he wanted to stand in an electorate, I challenged him to face me in Tauranga but he quickly ran out of town.

“Dr Brash is a virtual political leader, created by spin doctors. When the time comes for the real thing he runs away,” said Mr Peters.

ENDS

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Gordon Campbell: On the Sony cyber attack

Given the layers of meta-irony involved, the saga of the Sony cyber attack seemed at the outset more like a snarky European art film than a popcorn entry at the multiplex.

Yet now with (a) President Barack Obama weighing in on the side of artistic freedom and calling for the US to make a ‘proportionate response’quickly followed by (b) North Korea’s entire Internet service going down, and with both these events being followed by (c) Sony deciding to backtrack and release The Interview film that had made it a target for the dastardly North Koreans in the first place, then ay caramba…the whole world will now be watching how this affair pans out. More>>