THIS is the moment a politician suddenly loses his cool and screams at a dog during a live TV interview.
Footage from the incident shows Australian MP Barnaby Joyce begin his answer before suddenly erupting and shouting “SIT DOWN!”
Barnaby Joyce interrupted his own interview with a startling bellow Credit: ABC/7.30
He suddenly looked aside – and let rip at his dog Credit: ABC/7.30
Joyce was being interviewed on ABC News when the blooper unfolded at around 7:30pm on Monday.
The TV anchor Sarah Ferguson had been pressing him on an important issue about his defection to another party.
She said the leader of his new party was “dragging you further into a place of intolerance and racial discrimination”.
The interviewer added: “You’re defending your leader, but are you really comfortable with where she is taking you?”
The flush-faced politician responded with a meditative “I think…” before suddenly bursting out “SIT DOWN!”
He then retracted his flushed face and told the startled interviewer: “Sorry, it’s a dog”.
He then emitted a short chuckle before beginning his answer again.
One political reporter shared the moment on X and dubbed it the “TV blooper of the year”.
Journalist Sarah Ferguson was probing the politician on his recent defection Credit: ABC/7.30
The interview aired across Australia on live TV Credit: ABC/7.30
Remarkably, it’s not the first time the MP has raged against a pet dog.
In May 2015, Joyce vowed to kill Johnny Depp’s canines after accusing the Hollywood A-lister of smuggling the Yorkshire terriers into the country on a private jet.
The move was a violation of Australia’s biosecurity and import laws and could have brought a deadly disease into the nation.
Joyce waded in on the drama and said: “If we start letting movie stars—even though they’ve been the sexiest man alive twice—to come into our nation [and break the laws], then why don’t we just break the laws for everybody?
He added: “If he doesn’t take Boo and Pistol back, we do have to euthanize them.”
“The reason you can walk through a park in Brisbane and not have in the back of your mind, ‘What happens if a rabid dog comes out and bites me or bites my kid?’ is because we’ve kept that disease out.”
Depp’s then-partner Amber Heard mocked the MP for his hardline stance.
She quipped on Twitter: “To comfort Mr. Joyce in his hour [of] need, I have sent him a box of New Zealand’s finest kiwi fruit (assuming this passes his biosecurity laws).”
In 2021, the actress adopted a new dog and named it Barnaby Joyce.
The MP was flattered and suggested that he was still living in Heard’s head “rent free” six years later.
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