Posts by Joe Wylie

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  • Hard News: Prospects,

    Many Of Obama's Harshest Critics Now Rushing To Praise Him...
    Bachmann: Obama's Victory "A Tremendous Signal"...
    Palin: "God Bless Barack Obama"...
    Lieberman: Obama's A "Genuine Patriot"...
    Bill Kristol Congratulates Obama

    Funny, innit - from the moment of Clinton's first victory as President the Reublican machine painting him as Public Enemy No. 1 went into overdrive. Obama just doesn't seem to have the Slick Willie-type baggage that makes those sort of attacks stick.

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  • Hard News: Prospects,

    And I'm sorry if this offends Joe Wylie once more, but if certain sections of the left don't like being compared to the right-wingnuts that make Kiwiblog such a nasty place they shouldn't behave like it. Work though the whole Keubler-Ross deal, but don't take too long about it.

    Craig, once you move to the beige pastures of the land of the fun run and sausage sizzle your days of being offensive are behind you. You may still give rise to a little bemusement with a convincing impression of a supercilious prick, but on your track record it's a passing thing. Trotter can't help himself. You know better.

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  • Hard News: Prospects,

    I'm liking this idea more and more as we progress. I'm sure we can combine the two suggestions- he could be a crime-solving, conspiracy-uncovering, bullet-dodging, dairy owner.

    I'll bet that both John and Helen would watch it. They couldn't resist.

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  • Hard News: Prospects,

    I "pitched" an idea to a friend who works at TVNZ a couple of years back. It had Winston Peters as a diary owner whose most regular customer was Paul Holmes. It would be like the Odd Couple. From Hell.

    Winston in some kind of Apu from The Simpsons role? Taking a bullet between the eyes during a holdup and not flinching? That has real possibilities.

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  • Hard News: Prospects,

    Winston Peters . . . it was more than time for him to go. On the other hand, I will miss him for his entertainment value....someone should get him his own show. Pronto.

    Good idea - something animated, where he, like, "solves mysteries" and thwarts the schemes of thickly foreign accented villains, with the help of a big excitable overly-aggro Ron Mark-like mutt. Sort of a geriatric version of Bro'Town.

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  • Hard News: Prospects,

    Craig, whatever the post-election excesses you might have detected here, likening them to the "eerie impersonations of Kiwiblog's more unmedicated residents" is downright insulting. If you haven't been "fag-baited" around here in a pointless engagement with a mentally ill beneficiary and his sock-puppet daughter it's not because you're dealing with a bunch of effete liberals who cultivate a self-regarding sense of moral superiority. It's because Russell Brown, unlike the 'basically decent' David Farrar, doesn't tolerate that kind of vileness. More to the point, it's because the majority of people that you deal with here are essentially respectful and decent. Comparing a little post-election anxiety to the daily adolescent dreck of Kiwiblog is being stupidly rude and, once again, you know it. Get well soon.

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  • Hard News: Prospects,

    . Breathe, people, and stop doing these eerie impersonations of Kiwiblog's more unmedicated residents.

    Patronising drivel, Craig, and you know it.

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  • Hard News: Prospects,

    With a Democrat government in Washington, I'm waaay less worried than I was a week ago.

    Good point. Relations with Washington will require vastly more creativity than the steady-as-she-went Muldoon-MCKinnon-McCully standard suppository approach.

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  • Hard News: Prospects,

    It's petty, I know, but I'm v. pleased to not see Tizard there, but she is the next on the list.

    No it's not. With Tizard as Minister of consumer affairs the churches, for chrissake, were more pro-active in protecting the vulnerable from the ravages of loan-sharkery. And this under a government that was supposed to stand up for the disadvantaged. The only downside to Deborah Coddington's departure from parliament was that she kept a certain amount of pressure on an otherwise brazenly incompetent and self-serving politician.

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  • Hard News: Prospects,

    Helen Clark has been a PM of the ages, probably the best since Frazer, and she will be long remembered.
    I count myself lucky to have spent nine years with her as our prime minister.

    Agreed. Only wish, though, that she'd acted a little more precipitately with the abominable Philip Field, and been a little more courageous in promoting talent over time-serving drones. Hindsight shows that she could have afforded to.

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