Greatest show of ignorance

The NZ Herald WWW.NZHerald.co.nz have been running a poll on the greatest living NZer.

Unbelievably heading the list have been the slag who has led NZ into very serious economic difficulties, a maker of very expensive and, based on the small segments I've seen of them, very bad moving pictures and a brave soldier who has a great deal of publicity lately.

Fair enough that the soldier should be included but the others are there simply because most respondents simply can not think for themselves.

Others I've seen/heard mentioned are Peter Snell (once a NZer, now a Seppo) and Dame Kiri TeKanawa.

The former was a very good middle distance runner who left NZ for America as soon as he could and never returned (to live).

The latter a good performer of an endeavour that constitutes mainly very short Italian plays padded out by several songs and is probably the only form of performance in which a 15 stone middle aged woman can pretend to be a lithesome young beauty without being laughed out of existance by the audiance.

Attended by a very small minority and enjoyed by a small percentage of these.

Along with a handful of scientists who keep a low profile and just get on with the job two men stand out as having done genuine service for NZ and deserve the recognition of being among the top contenders for this title.

I refer of course to the two NZers who rescued NZ in the early to mid eighties.

Sir Robert Jones, who as well as being a very good author and commentator on sport, politics and current affairs put aside his business committments to get rid of the mad bastard Muldoon and Sir Roger Douglas who had the courage and foresight to steer NZ towards self sufficiancy.

Are the published results of this poll the greatest show of ignorance by NZers ever?