Leighton Smith (b.13 Dec 1947) is an Australian-born talkback radio host based in Auckland, New Zealand. He is on air, Monday to Friday, between 8:30 a.m. and midday NZST on foreign-owned media conglomerate, Newstalk ZB.
He always starts his show with a monologue of a few minutes discussing his thoughts on recent events and setting a few potential discussion topics for the talkback part of his show. Smith is a right-winger, an advocate of social authoritarianism and a denier of anthropogenic global warming. He sometimes posts links on his own personal web site relating to issues he has raised.
In a 2007 interview with libertarian magazine the Free Radical, he described himself as somewhat libertarian. He owns the Clevedon Hills vineyard, near Auckland.
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“If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.”
—Alexander Smith (1830–1867)