Page 4031 - Week 14 - Tuesday, 22 October 1991
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Mr Connolly: Read the whole passage.
MR KAINE: You see, he is bluster, bluster, bluster; bluster and bombast. When you are being done like a dinner, all you do is come out attacking.
Mr Connolly: Will you read the whole passage?
MR KAINE: It is your turn to listen, Mr Connolly. I have listened to you, and you have been nailed to the wall. You were asked a specific question that had nothing to do with increases in specific terms. You were asked the question, "Will there be any changes in the number?" and you said, "No, no".
Mr Connolly: Read on.
MR KAINE: You then made what was really an irrelevant addition to the answer, as you often do. You run off at the mouth because you do not know when to shut up. If you had stopped there - - -
Mr Connolly: Are you going to read on?
MR KAINE: I do not know. I have no intention of reading on - - -
Mr Connolly: No, of course not, because it contradicts what you are saying.
MR KAINE: We will come to that in a minute. Mr Connolly said, "No, no" in answer to that specific question. What he is now telling us is that either he meant, "Yes, yes", or he was saying, "Buzz off, you intellectual inferior; I do not want to answer your question". That is implicit in what you later said about not having names, addresses, colours of hair, telephone numbers and the like.
You see, you are so intellectually superior that you brush people off as your intellectual inferiors, and this time you got yourself caught, because you did not say, "Yes, yes". You did not say, "Yes, there will be a change in numbers". You said, "No, no, there will be no change in numbers". That was the import of the answer that you gave; "There will be no change in numbers".
Mr Connolly: I never said that. That was never said. Read the whole answer.
MR KAINE: Of course, when you said, "No, no" to that first question, you were really anticipating the second question. You knew what the next question was going to be and you were going to answer "Yes" to that. I submit to you, Mr Connolly, that you did not know what the next question was going to be. You had one question before you and you answered it. You answered it, "No, no".
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