{"id":2798,"date":"2013-09-01T21:18:56","date_gmt":"2013-09-01T21:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=2798"},"modified":"2013-09-01T21:18:56","modified_gmt":"2013-09-01T21:18:56","slug":"jaymes-diaz-did-not-know-the-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=2798","title":{"rendered":"Jaymes Diaz did not know the answer"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Liberal candidate for one of Australia’s most marginal seats has become an online sensation after stumbling his way through an excruciating, six-minute interview.<\/em><\/p>\n

Jaymes Diaz, the candidate for the western Sydney seat of Greenway was caught out by some classic ‘gotcha journalism’ when he was asked to spell out the coalition’s six-point plan to stop asylum seeker boats.<\/p>\n

Clutching the Coalition’s sacred ‘Real Solutions’ brochure to his chest, James Diaz, who last election was known as Jaymie Diaz, struggled to name a single point beyond ‘stop the boats’.<\/p>\n

“We have a six-point plan to make sure that we do stop the boats,” Mr Diaz said.<\/p>\n

“Six points, could you run through them for us,” the reporter replied.<\/p>\n

“Well, I can run through all the details of the points, but look, the main thing is\u2026”.<\/p>\n

The reporter then explained that Mr. Diaz was never able to name the points. He asked the same question no less than three times but was unable to answer.<\/p>\n

Mr. Diaz narrowly missed out on winning the seat in 2010, finishing just 0.9% behind Labor’s Michelle Rowland \u2014 essentially costing Opposition Leader Tony Abbott a place in The Lodge.<\/p>\n

Mr. Abbott has defended his candidate as young and inexperienced, facing off against an experienced journalist.<\/p>\n

A video of the encounter has gone viral on social media and has even been picked up by international media.<\/p>\n

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The Huffington Post<\/em> has published the incident, likening it to 2012 Presidential candidate Rick Perry’s infamous ‘oops’ moment on the campaign trail. (7News)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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