Someone atSky Newshad a fun job yesterday, scrolling through the social media of New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern for any hint of scandal.

They scrolled. And they scrolled. And they scrolled.

Finally, once reaching her tweets from 2012 – about 14 Australian PMs ago and the same year a tribunal ruled Alan Jones incited the Cronulla riots – we imagine they fistpumped.

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The unnamed staff member got to typing, between high fives from their colleagues, and not long after,Sky Newspublished an “EXCLUSIVE”.

“Sky Newshas unearthed a personal attack – launched by Jacinda Ardern – against Alan Jones in a 2012 tweet where she referred to the broadcaster as a ‘git’ and claimed he was ‘intensely disliked’,” it read.

I know an Alan Jones. Unlike the Aussie version, he isn’t a git or intensely disliked by the general population.

— Jacinda Ardern (@jacindaardern) September 30, 2012

Now, ‘git’ is perhaps the mildest insult we can imagine and Alan Jones has a history of saying things that are much, much worse. Like… daily.

In fact, Ardern’s tweet came the day after Jones was condemned for saying that Julia Gillard’s father had “died of shame” because of her political “lies”.

To prove our point all we had to do was Google ‘Alan Jones quotes’, which led us to create this list of actual sentences that came from his mouth:

To her credit, Ardern refused to give any attention to theSky Newsreport.

“Of late, you’ll have seen that I have not been offering up thoughts or opinions on the issue of Alan Jones and I don’t intend to now,” she told media on Tuesday.

The whole thing turned out to be a bit of an own goal for Sky. Maybe next time they’ll have more luck focusing on the real ‘personal attacks’ coming out of the mouth of their commentator.