Duarte Blows Her Top

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An audio clip of ANC spokeswoman Jessie Duarte laying into a Sunday Times journalist, whom she accused of being part of a “third force”, has spread like wildfire on the Internet, writes Harriet Mcela in The Times.

Visitors to The Times website have shared the recording — in which Duarte says “there is no soap that will wash a Times journalist in my eyes” — on Twitter and Facebook.

Almost 13000 people had listened to the four-minute clip by last night. It had elicited 50 comments from browsers.

Opposition parties Cope and the DA have posted a link to the recording on their Twitter accounts.

Last week, journalist Philani Nombembe recorded a call he made to Duarte to ask about the ANC’s online campaigning on Twitter, Facebook and blogs.

Duarte immediately went on the defensive, saying: “I would be interested to know what is your interest in [this], because you know if it was anybody but The Times … You always come from a negative [viewpoint]. What is the actual negative so I know what to do?”

Nombembe explained that he was planning a simple story about campaigning in cyberspace, a tactic used in Barack Obama’s US presidential campaign.

When Nombembe asked whether, like Obama, the “ANC president also gets to answer his blog”, Duarte blew her top.

“Yes. You can write to him if you want to … Ja, he does read it. He does, he does. You know he can actually read, contrary to your opinion. I mean, how can you ask me a question like that? You know, does the ANC president actually read? Good God! Can you guys just get a life now,” she said.

“Ja, no, you must get a life. You people must get a life. You’re terribly classist and if you [weren’t] black I would say you were racist. But, well, I suppose you could be racist, even if you [are] a black like me.

“But you’ve got a very bad attitude, your newspaper has, you know. And seriously speaking now, this man, whether you like it or not, is going to be the president of the country. And actually we’re not so concerned about what The Times thinks. We know where you come from and we know where you’re going to. So yes, Mr Zuma can read, and, yes, he does read his blogs.”

Nombembe tried to continue the interview, but Duarte was having none of it.

Click here to read the full report, posted on thetimes.co.za. Click here to listen to the clip.
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Source: Journalism.co.za

I actually had to laugh at Duarte's thoroughly eloquent and well-worded responses :)
 
gregmcc said:
I heard it on 5FM - classic!! :D
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What I find so funny is that all the journalist asked was, "Does the ANC president read his own blog?" And she went stark :p "Of course he can read!" Because, yes, that's exactly what the journalist asked :rolleyes:

This woman is a bloody nutjob.
 
blunomore said:
Meaning?
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Well, to transcribe:

"We have Facebook, we have blogs - several blogs of various leaders. We've used every poss- you know - also a very clear understanding that we're looking at a very narrow market because it's really middle-class uh, people who do this. So it hasn't been our best support, but we have invested in it as much as we can."
 
Lycanthrope said:
Well, to transcribe:

"We have Facebook, we have blogs - several blogs of various leaders. We've used every poss- you know - also a very clear understanding that we're looking at a very narrow market because it's really middle-class uh, people who do this. So it hasn't been our best support, but we have invested in it as much as we can."
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She says middle class like it's a swear word :)
 
The interesting thing is that during the twitter debate Duarte didnt actually respond directly to the questions put at her, instead she just responded with irrelavant political banter.
 
Thats the problem.. she's on another planet in a different reality.. yet she's the spokesperson for the party that is leading the country....

And like all of them, she's quick to play the race card and take offense at pretty much everything they think is an insult.
 
ToxicBunny said:
And like all of them, she's quick to play the race card
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If you're white. At least they've said it now. Well, they're starting to grapple with the concept of a black racist it sounds like.

And she looks coloured to me, I wonder if she can be racist or not. :confused:
 
Yeah true... but now they're calling black people racists too.. but clearly she was meaning he's racist towards his own people... bit strange that :confused:
 
ToxicBunny said:
Yeah true... but now they're calling black people racists too.. but clearly she was meaning he's racist towards his own people... bit strange that :confused:
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You can be racist towards your own people. Racism can have a very broad definition, from self-criticism to full blown cultural/ethnic contempt. The former should not be called racism, but since the word is thrown around wildly, anything or anyone can be racist - including the one who sees racism against his own race, he is racist towards others, ie has prejudice, paranoia, contempt for non-own, bigotry etc....
 
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