We have had a number of requests for some footage of the famous awkward moment from Sunday night. So by the wonders of modern technology, the moment has been captured for you. Don’t say we don’t do anything for you!
We have had a number of requests for some footage of the famous awkward moment from Sunday night. So by the wonders of modern technology, the moment has been captured for you. Don’t say we don’t do anything for you!
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Love it…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWjuiAPkEAw
This Herald clip shows the immediate lead up to the incident. The IRB president had just presented McCaw with the cup and was trying to follow up with the obligatory hand-shake when Key attempts to grab McCaw’s hand first.
Etiquette and manners have never been a left wing trait.
When you shake some ones hand you stand in front of them and look them in the eye.
Just as key did.
Mr Laporte was standing to the side.
The front on hand shake goes back to the days people carried swords.
You wanted the person to stand in front of you to ensure they didnt stick a knife in your side.
Any way it was amusing but hardly something to spend time on during an election campaign when your 20 plus points behind
Has anyone worked out the riddle of the fake IRB request to have the clip taken down from YouTube? Some are suggesting Key’s office might have been involved?
What a load of Cobblers. Is this the best you can do – what has it got to do with not playing the man, but Policy Declaration.
Cloaca, live by playing the man (or woman) die by playing the man or woman. National and Labour supporters equally have short memories. If you think Mr Key didn’t play the (wo)man to get to power (directly or indirectly) you are very very naive.
.. imagine if the french had won .. a peck on each cheek ?
Ooo, he does get in:
http://www.tautomaton.com/johnkey.html
I don’t care which party JK is from – this was the action of an incredibly rude IRB president who pushes in on the Prime Minister of NZ.
One is a tarnished representative of an archaic institution, the other is the elected leader of a country.
Respect the PM position and play the ball.
What would the IRB chap have done if our head of state – The Queen – or her representative – The Governor General – had been the one standing next to him instead of our head of government?
Would he still have pushed in front?
And would his actions still have been applauded by senior members of the opposition?
I’m confused…Labour say they are on concentrating on Policy not Personality.
So what do you call this?
I guess its one of those “Do as we say and not as we do” situations.
I still wonder why he didn’t stop trying to shake his hand when the chairman got there before him.
Lance Wiggs… either your brain has gone into reverse or you choose to remain ignorant of the facts.
Let me spell out the sequence of events as can be seen from the Herald video link.
1. The IRB president walked on to the podium from the right holding the Ellis Webb cup. It is the job of the IRB president to present the cup.
2. Richie McCaw walked on to the podium from the left.
3. They met in the middle and the president gave McCaw the cup.
4. He followed that up with the normal hand-shake of congratulations.
5. John Key walked on to the podium behind the president.
6. John Key didn’t have the cup because it is not his job to present it.
7. John Key leant forward in front of the president (very bad manners) and tried to get his hand-shake in first.
I have a question to ask. Should it not have been the Governor General who accompanied the IRB president on to the podium? Or was he shafted cos Key wanted the photo op. all to himself?
@ ROB,
I wonder why he tried to shake his hand at all. Surely, when you present a trophy, you should be first to shake the hand of the recipient?
Firstly to those saying key should have been first. The IRB chairman presented the trophy. It was clearly him who should have shaken Richies hand first.
As for not focusing on Key for the eletion. National has clearly made this election all about Key. Its pretty rich to make the whole election about him and then get upset when something unpleasent happens that makes him look bad.
Labour want it to be about policy and fully expect and prepare to have both policy and personality be attacked by NACT. NACT want it to be about Johhy boy then get upset when someone points out how stupid he looked.
Somebody claiming to be from the IRB requested Youtube remove the ‘embarrassing’ video which had apparently ‘gone viral’. They did so. The IRB has said today they never made any such request. Well, somebody did.
What happened to my comment? I’m sure I hit ’submit’!!!
(not sure, try again, Grant}
Good video, i thought it was Key who over stepped it kind of looks like the French guy grabbed Mcaws when he was reaching for the PM.
If Helen was there this wouldn’t have happened
Typical stuff from your site. I saw Damien O’Connor on Backbenchers the other night – it was amazing to see a sensible Labour candidate who wasn’t horrible and vindictive. I can see what he means about what Labour has become.
But yeah, a stuffed up handshake. We’ve all done it. Good on Key for hanging in there. Not a good start to your smear campaign.
Etiquette and manners have never been a left wing trait.
When you shake some ones hand you stand in front of them and look them in the eye.
Really Inverness. I have generally found centre-left people are more intelligent and better educated – usually with the good manners to match – than your average right-winger. Indeed I have seen international research work which backs it up.
Btw, we’re in the TV age now. High ranking officials like the IRB president know they are expected to stand facing the TV cameras when making presentations like the Webb Ellis cup. There’s a world wide audience out there and they want to see what’s going on.
Key has even taken to wearing a world cup lapel pin which seems a bit naff to me.
Friends in Britain were appalled at Key’s poor etiqutte at as leader of the host nation of the 2011 RWC at the presentation of it’s trophy. “Doesn’t he know the protocol?” said one. “Obviously not,”said I.
In fact I should have said he’s not the only Kiwi not to know, there’s Inverness, Lance, Jem, Jenkins……and so on. To you all, this was the World Cup, not a local Kiwi interpaddock friendly and we were the host nation and the IRB president was presenting the trophy to the winning team in all the world – us at long last.
Mr.Key was not presenting the trophy, so he should have waited until the IRB president had finished his presentation which included a hand shake of the winning team’s captain. All the RWC competing nations know their manners and this protocol. Now NZ and John Key do too.
Correct protocol well described to Lance Anne.
Oh that Mr. Key had had a copy of this so he could have tried to control his natural, pushy, self-promoting behaviour which has made NZ look a little simple in front of the world. What a clot!
Typical Key thinks it’s all about him. He says that they shouldn’t have taken the You Tube clip down – as it doesn’t bother him. He’s assuming that his wishes are the only reason that anyone would do anything.
And this is important because??????????
ANYONE who tries to make a stupid generalisation about right wing people being more polite than left wing, to you I say , John Banks. If he calls people he is running against or who oppose him “losers” one more time….
Some interesting defacing of election hoardings around the place. Some are rude, some are clever, some are just ACT placing their sticker over a Labour hoarding. Now THAT’s rude
Pathetic discussion, a total waste of time and just makes you look rediculous, no matter left or right winger.
I read John Key said the three way handshake had been removed from the web at the request of the IRB.
The IRB came back and said they did not ask for it to be removed and if it has been removed it was someone other than them.
Is John Key being caught out in another lie.