On Last Week Tonight, John Oliver’s news recap ended on a bizarre note from New Zealand, where Prime Minister John Keys appeared on a morning radio show, on which he answered ten extremely personal questions with such candor that he might well have believed that he was attached to a lie detector.
See if you don’t agree with John Oliver who has proclaimed this to be “the greatest political interview of all time!” I’m floored by the PM’s amiable cooperation with the two morning drive DJ’s, who probably did not expect the Prime Minister to go along with all ten of the questions, clearly intended to embarrass or fluster him.
You can possibly fault John Keys with many things, but dishonesty (apparently) is not one of them. The PM was ready and willing to give ‘too much information.’ There is one question that Keys answered with a ‘no’ which John claims is always a ‘yes’ although Keys didn’t try to mislead anyone.