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The Tofino Times
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[color=#800040]Wednesday, June 12th, 2019

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[/hr]VOL. XXXII .. Num. 5571 | In the News: Speaker Foley Sakzi - Samuel Divian Interview

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Full Transcript: Samuel Divian Interview with Speaker of The Chamber, Foley Sakzi
Speaker of the Chamber and Presidential Candidate Foley Sakzi has long been an outspoken critic of news and mainstream networks, conservative and liberal alike. His bi-partisanship is perhaps what he's most admired for, but it also serves as a way to split himself apart from those who are radically far leaning on either side. Samuel Divian, senior political corespondent at the Tofino Times, sat down with him on Tuesday and discussed a wide range of topics from his humor on the campaign trail, his shots at fellow politicians, his opinions of Presidents current and former, and his criticisms of the news media.

Click here to see the transcript of the whole interview: https://zkcastor.wixsite.com/mysite-1/po...oley-sakzi

Regarding Sakzi's Politics and Sense of Humor on the Campaign Trail:

SAKZI: Why don't you show -- do you want to show me doing the voices for all the other people that we do? You want to see my Shuell voice? My Sanctarian voice? Are you suggesting that you and I are the same? Are you suggesting that -- what am I at my highest aspiration and what are you at your highest aspiration? Tell me.

DIVIAN: I think -- honestly, I think you want to be a comedic player.

SAKZI: You are wrong. You're dead wrong. I appreciate what you're saying. Do I want my voice heard? Do I want my voice heard? Absolutely. That's why I got into politics. Am I a comedian in your mind, an ideological partisan comedian?

DIVIAN: Yes.

SAKZI: OK. Then I disagree with you. You can't understand because of the world you live in that there is not a designed ideological agenda on my part to affect partisan change because that's the soup you swim in. I appreciate that. I understand that. It reminds me of, you know -- you know, ideological regimes. They can't understand that there is free media other places. Because they receive marching orders.

DIVIAN: How do you explain me? Do you think I get my marching orders?

SAKZI: I think that you are here in some respects to bring a credibility and an integrity to an organization that might not otherwise have it, without your presence. So, you are here as a counterweight to Frankilun, let's say, or a counterweight to Jamnus Becken, because otherwise, it's just pure talk radio and it doesn't establish the type of political player it wants to be.


Regarding Sakzi's Criticism of the News Media in Regards to Bias:
DIVIAN: How do you explain the fact that they would do that? Would ask the readers to help them go through the Bishop e-mails -- inconsequential as they turned out to be --

SAKZI: Right.

DIVIAN: -- but they never said help us go through the 2,000 pages of the Castovia health care bill?

SAKZI: Because I think their bias is towards sensationalism and laziness. I wouldn't say it's towards a liberal agenda. It's light fluff. So, it's absolutely within the wheelhouse. I mean, if your suggestion is that they are relentlessly partisan and why haven't they gone and backed away from Gough? Now, they jumped into the Gough pool -- so, with such delight and relish, because the bias --

DIVIAN: Some things are indefensible.

SAKZI: -- the bias of the mainstream media -- oh, I'm not saying it's defensible, but the bias of the mainstream media is toward sensationalism, conflict and laziness.

Click here to see the transcript of the whole interview: https://zkcastor.wixsite.com/mysite-1/po...oley-sakzi