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MP jokes about Pacific Islanders, Muslims
MP Maurice Williamson made jokes about Muslims and Pacific Islanders at an awards ceremony last month, it has emerged.
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Williamson turns to stand up comedy
National Government Minister Maurice Williamson might think New Zealanders are racist but he is the one caught out making jokes about Muslim people.
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Humour backfired with Muslim jokes - Key
National Government Minister Maurice Williamson tried to be funny when he joked about Muslims but it backfired, Prime Minister John Key says.
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Slap for Nine over 'racist' Newman gibe
Footy Show host Sam Newman to have jokes vetted after 'monkey' quip breaches code.
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Controversial Aussie TV host will not repent
KUALA LUMPUR: The Australian TV presenter who insulted Terengganu’s famous couple, 108-year-old Wook Kundur and her husband 70 years her junior, has said he will not stop monkeying around.
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Anticon, Def Jux, and the Problem of "Underground" HipHop
The question of what's underground in hiphop is a difficult one - ever since hiphop started infiltrating the charts and the major labels, numerous acts have been labelled "hardcore hiphop", "alternative hiphop", and even "avant-hiphop".
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Williamson goes over the top
Land Information and Building and Construction Minister Maurice Williamson has gone completely over the top in making offensive and totally uncalled for slurs on New Zealand Muslims, says Labour Party Associate Ethnic Affairs spokesperson Dr Ashraf Choudhary.
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• Wineka column: Pastor Bruce the singing chaplain
The Rev. Gene Bruce moves down the Lutheran Home halls at a pace good for any second tenor. You never know when this singing chaplain might break into a song. As Bruce walks up to a nurseâs station where several residents are waiting in wheelchairs ...
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No defence for bigotry
We like to think we're an easy-going, tolerant and egalitarian society, but the evidence suggests otherwise.
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Dont even think of bringing
In reply to 'Peanuts' for monkey quip : Dont even think of bringing freedom of speech and expression into this. Sam Newman doesnt deserve the tag "defender of free speech" hung around his neck. Less said about Channel Nine the better.
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