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# FRED, THE SLEEPING MEDIA WATCHDOG, OPENS ONE EYE

Posted on March 7, 2024 11 Comments

Playing victim. Portrayed as a victim.

It has taken Radio New Zealand to prompt Fiji’s supposed newspaper of record since 1869 to finally start reporting the sex and drug scandal that has enveloped the Minister for Bonking and Weed.

It is all so “unfair”, the Fiji Times quotes the Great Temptress as saying. In essence, the argument runs thus.

Dua: As a woman, I should be able to have sex with a married fellow minister and smoke marijuana without being scrutinised. And I am only being targeted because I am a woman.

Rua: I don’t have to prove the truth of anything. They are allegations that have been found proven by lawyers on the PAP’s disciplinary committee but they are only allegations and those lawyers are biased against me.

Tolu: Now, people of Fiji. Repeat the mantra with me. Dua, rua, tolu. “It is all so unfair!”

The venerable Fiji Times doesn’t take the story beyond yesterday’s Radio New Zealand report. And again, the Editor-in-Chief Fred Wesley says nothing about the scandal in his daily editorial, in stark contrast to yesterday’s stinging editorial in the Fiji Sun branding the Minister a “straight-faced liar” and calling on the Prime Minister to sack her ( see previous).

This indicates that the Fiji Times also thinks removing Lynda Tabuya as PAP deputy leader is unfair and that bonking and smoking weed is appropriate conduct for a minister for women and children.

Yes, Fred. As your front page also says: “We Live For Rugby”. Not just the slogan of Fiji Bitter but of the Fiji Times.

Once again, the Fiji Sun coverage of the same story leaves the Fiji Times for dead.

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  1. Perpetually Disgusted says

    March 7, 2024 at 11:31 am

    It was unfair to Sainiana Radrodro to have her husband and Lynda have a brutal bonking time a few rooms away from her in August, 2023. Sainiana is a woman too, what about her rights this International Women’s Day, Lynda?

    It is unfair to Sainiana as she has not had media cover her side of the story, so who is the real victim of cheating!

    Shame on Lynda for playing the woman victim card. A home-wrecker is who you are. Her moral compass is dead and she will whitewash everything to hide her druggist, immoral self. Who knows how many men she has used as stepping stones to the position of Minister for Women?

    Unfortunately, it’s all out there and I hope her victims will find the strength to come out and put their side of the story and rid Fiji of self serving, corrupt politicians.

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    • I’m also Perpertually Disgusted says

      March 7, 2024 at 12:00 pm

      Spot on Perpetually disgusted.

      Narcissists only take pity on themselves.
      Please Saniana speak up. Only you can stop her state of denial.
      We are all behind you.
      Let everyone know it is true and not mere allegations so we don’t have to hear her fake voice anymore.

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  2. Fiji's rotting coalition says

    March 7, 2024 at 11:45 am

    Indirectly Lynda appears to be saying to her beloved PM: “Don’t you dare sack me, or I’ll pull all you hypocritical cowards down with me”, hence the emphasis on the “double standards” she’s claiming to be subjected to as a woman.

    Alright Lynda, let’s hear it then! Do not allow them to push you down alone into oblivion. Take down those shameless hypocrites starting with Rabuka who’s fervently wishing you would just resign and get out of sight since you are ruining his reign… Everyone knows he’s worse than you but he’ll sacrifice you without a blink when push comes to shove.

    Rabuka should never have come back to power but he fooled so many (including our dear Grubsheet) into thinking he had changed for the better. I was convinced of this during the 2018 G/Elections as I watched a particular news footage of an interaction between him and a member of the media, that it dawned on me that this man has not changed at all and should never, ever come back to power. There was something I had observed in his demeanour (in that very short exchange with the media) that made my skin crawl and I do take heed of strong gut feelings about people as it has never let me down. And here we are…

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    • Quack-a-jack says

      March 7, 2024 at 2:43 pm

      I hear you re: skin crawling demeanor; having experienced the exact same feeling when I saw footage of the bastard reading Psalms 23 welcoming the free riders from the aparthied racist country — with a sickeningly smug face, full of pride, prejudice with not an ounce of guilt knowing full well the charter was not and will not be paid for ever. What a disgusting excuse for a human being. Lying sock cockers all of them! Including Blinky with his jambalaya accent trying to string together coherent sentences to explain anything!

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  3. Tinai says

    March 7, 2024 at 12:11 pm

    There (in my lifetime) existed only one faithful man who honoured his God and Country -Fiji. One man-who I was honoured and proud to be related to. One man who asked for nothing and loved his God. A man of intelligence and integrity.

    He’s with his maker now.

    The greedy people trying -trying to rule Fiji – are a travesty.Shame on you all.

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  4. Promise of Change says

    March 7, 2024 at 12:17 pm

    I guess we thought anything was better than a dictatorship. But as we see, the press can be bought, police are unskilled and corrupt.

    We need fresh young new blood.
    People who want to work hard and change Fiii.
    I am so sick of seeing the same overstuffed politicians who seem to be enjoying life to the fullest while the nation suffers. Get off your asses and do something.

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  5. Just ridiculous says

    March 7, 2024 at 12:18 pm

    I reckon the PM should return from Perth on the new vessel being donated by Australia in Perth today. That way he will have perhaps more than two weeks to ponder what to do with his recalcitrant minister. Perth is almost on the other side of the world so it will take time to arrive back. I reckon he has run away anyway, from all the problems in his government. Everyone is waiting for the PM to return with bated breath. He must be feeling really important in all the glory he is basking in. The anticipation of “Moses” return is palpable. What is more, Moses will return to fix all the problems in the FRU as well.
    But what people do not seem to realise is that Moses only has answers to old problems.He does not have answers to modern problems like cost of living, housing, health, roads and the like.

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    • PM must go. says

      March 7, 2024 at 11:48 pm

      Lock him up in Australia or anywhere. Woman abuser #1.

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  6. Raymond says

    March 7, 2024 at 12:40 pm

    I really think that going against the strong current is too much for Lynda Tabuiya.
    The facts are out there as clear as daylight. Why on earth would she go against it?
    After all I believe that most of Fiji’s politicians are Christians.
    Taking oaths but doing the opposite…Matthew : 26 :72
    RABUKA has taken oaths and is trying to save his ass.

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  7. PuppetMaster says

    March 7, 2024 at 1:26 pm

    The hand of Margaret Wise is clear in this coverage. As it is in the glowing coverage of the Coalition government in general.

    Fred and Margaret are the Bai-Kai of FijiTimes. Fred is Bainimarama, Margaret is Khaiyum.

    In other words, Fred is the puppet and Margaret the puppeteer.

    Editorially, Margaret runs The Fiji Times. Fred is just the figurehead.

    Ain’t it ironic, Fiji?

    Get rid of puppet and puppeteer in government, only to be saddled with the same phenomena in the media!

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  8. Kalavo Hunter says

    March 7, 2024 at 4:01 pm

    Linda a victim? My foot. She is just a Kalavo, a married woman with a family sleeping with a another woman’s husband. And when caught pleading her innocence. A far from convincing performance.

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