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Posted at 2:49PM on 20 Jul 08. Permalink.

You thought nothing could possibly be weirder than an operatic life of denunciation and poo-flinging amongst the objectivist libertarians? You thought wrong. Clearly, you are not apprised of Whaleoil's astonishing foray into the land of the gossip queens.

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It goes like this: Cameron 'Whaleoil' Slater, self-regarding attack dog of the wingnutosphere, has become the confidant of Sunday Star Tmes gossip columnist Bridget Saunders; she channels his yawn-inducing tips about political rivals and he plays the unstinting schoolgirl bully to Saunders' grammatically-challenged rival Rachel Glucina, who is referred to by Slater and his chums, including Cathy Odgers, as "the Pork Chop".

Now, Slater is accusing some 23 year-old would-be fashionista socialite written up by Glucina of faking her credentials. If only we could care as much as he does.

But for a flavour of events, let's cross live to Slater, allegedly a grown man:

You know Pearl….if that really is your name it is a big warning flag when info about you suddenly disappears from circulation….like a BIG RED FLAG!!! It screams GOTCHA! Plus unfortunately for you I happen to know how to take a screenshot in case just such and occurrence happens. You aren’t playing amateur gossip columnists masquerading as journalists here deary, I’m a blogger and I happen to be good at it.

Pearl will be finding out at about the same time that Pork Chop reads this that her little fan club of Ricardo and Glucina will dump her like a whore with the clap once they realise that they have been had. Their little tittle-tattling around town on your behalf will dry up faster than a keg in Henderson on Saturday night.

Your call on where you want this to go, but I’ll give you a hint, it’ll all turn out bad for you baby!

The target of this hilarious teenage invective regards Slater's claims about her as defamatory, and has thus hired a lawyer. Who happens to be Steven Price, poor bugger.

Slater, apparently unfamiliar with the idea that lawyers are paid to act under instructions, has railed at Price's "hypocrisy" in drafting a letter to his hosting company (which has resulted in the material being shifted to an offshore website with which Slater rather unconvincingly claims to have no connection) , and complained about being "harassed by a mad cow, her mad father and now by her mad lawyer."

Adding to the general sense of derangement are the comments sections associated with these ravings, where, to take but one example, a poster called 'why this is important' declares " The other reason it is important to show her up for the liar that she is, is because if her lies were accepted as truth by the general public, who’s to say she won’t start spreading horrible lies about other people and ruining their lives."

Eh? But it gets even better with the arrival of comparably mad participant from the left; a "radical" (and possibly fictional) lesbian called HairyArmPit, who accuses Slater of misogyny (well, duh) and gets this back from the man himself:

Listen here StinkyArmPit since when is it misogynist to call someone for all the bullshit they are trolling all over town.

Your are deluded and clearly lonely.

According to you on your blog you are banned from here, so it is with great mirth that I watch for your every “banned” post.

Sad, lonely, lesso….get a life.

And then Mrs Whaleoil wades in:

I question whether you on the other hand have any standards of decency at all.

You brag about the lesbian orgies you have at your place and in the same breath on your site discuss with another poster how to set CYPS on Whaleoil and I to try to have our children removed from us.

You are fanatically anti pro lifers and have no respect whatsoever for the rights of innocent unborn children yet claim to care about our ‘innocent children’

I am sure that you and your friends will make fantastic foster parents for our children.

Your example of angry womanhood and regular casual and multiple partners will be a real eye opener for them and will help make them feel secure in your family unit and loved I am sure.

In surveying this whole, glorious trainwreck I have sought in vain for anyone who brings even a hint of irony to proceedings. It's not there. These people really do take themselves seriously. They're barking. And in seeking a way to characterise this fluttering nonsense, I keep coming back to one phrase. I trust you will take my proper meaning when I say this:

Whaleoil? So. Gay.

PS: No, I haven't linked to all this jolliness I've quoted. Apart from the element of linking to potentially defamatory material, that would be just a bit like getting involved.

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Am I the only one who, on hearing that the police had arrested an Iraqi man over the Vogel lane apartment stabbings -- but could only identify the sex of one of two corpses -- thought "fuck me, this is a weird spell we're going through"?

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Russell Brown
From: Auckland
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 4664
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Posted at 2:49PM on 20 Jul 08. Permalink.

Okay, okay, the limits of scahednfreude and all.

I'll blog about something sensible tomorrow ...

steven crawford
From: wellington
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 780

Posted at 3:20PM on 20 Jul 08. Permalink.

That blog conjures up images of tow trucks, during the 1980s, prowling around Karangahape road looking for scavenge.

Paul Campbell
From: Dunedin
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 420

Posted at 3:32PM on 20 Jul 08. Permalink.

I too wondered about the police being unable to identify the gender of the victims ... but then I realised I do actually have a couple of geek friends who have gone through periods of rather undetermined gender .... or it could just be a case of cultural sensitivity on the police's part ("I'm not going to look under that hijab, you do it. Not me mate, we'll get into trouble, better call back to HQ and ask for instructions ....")

Peter Martin
From: Dunedin
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 71

Posted at 3:41PM on 20 Jul 08. Permalink.

Yes ,I read that stuff from Whaleoil the other day...and on some mirror site he has set up. Kinda wondered what I had walked into.

How much time does all his posting etc take up? When does it begin to take over?

Jackie Clark
From: Mt Eden, Auckland
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 569

Posted at 3:49PM on 20 Jul 08. Permalink.

"fuck me, this is a weird spell we're going through"?

No, you're not the only one to think that, Russell. People are increasingly fucked up, is my analysis of the world at the moment. I don't know if it's because people were always that way, and our increased access to more and more and more information is giving us a glimpse into peoples' fuckedupedness, or whether, in fact, shit is just more weird than it used to be.

steven crawford
From: wellington
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 780

Posted at 3:57PM on 20 Jul 08. Permalink.

"fuck me, this is a weird spell we're going through"?

I'm a big fan of, weird spelling.

Carol Stewart
From: Wellington
Since: Jul 2008
Posts: 24

Posted at 4:12PM on 20 Jul 08. Permalink.

Oh, you Aucklanders do have all the fun!

Shep Cheyenne
Since: Oct 2007
Posts: 791

Posted at 4:48PM on 20 Jul 08. Permalink.

I thought that report about gender was really not required. But they're not people worthy of considerartion, they Iraqi.

Hilary Barry jumping up for the Sencible Sentencing Trust on TV3s recent self promoting ads is a little scary .

Rich of Observationz
From: Beautiful Downtown Wellington
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 970

Posted at 4:56PM on 20 Jul 08. Permalink.

These people live in Auckland, right?

To quote Bill Bryson (on Los Angeles):

I think it's only right that crazy people should have their own city, but I cannot for the life of me see why a sane person would want to go there

Craig Ranapia
From: North Shore, Auckland
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 3263

Posted at 6:25PM on 20 Jul 08. Permalink.

I too wondered about the police being unable to identify the gender of the victims ... but then I realised I do actually have a couple of geek friends who have gone through periods of rather undetermined gender .... or it could just be a case of cultural sensitivity on the police's part ("I'm not going to look under that hijab, you do it. Not me mate, we'll get into trouble, better call back to HQ and ask for instructions ....")

Well, it may be as simple as the position of one of the bodies - and the nature of the crime scene - making it impossible to identify the body visually. And in this day and age, I wouldn't immediately assume that anyone with short hair and no obvious tits is, in fact, male. It is a little creepy, however, that every damn media report has to point this out along with the ethnicity of the alleged killer.

I wonder if this is the Curse of CSI striking again -- enormously fun television shows, but I have my doubts that any RW law enforcement agency could afford such surrealistically well-resourced omni-competent staff...

Russell Brown
From: Auckland
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 4664
Moderator

Posted at 6:56PM on 20 Jul 08. Permalink.

Well, it may be as simple as the position of one of the bodies - and the nature of the crime scene ...

Yeah, I'm sure it's just some procedural thing. It just sounded freaky when I heard the bulletin.

Geoff Lealand
From: Univ of Waikato
Since: Oct 2007
Posts: 136

Posted at 7:06PM on 20 Jul 08. Permalink.

I'll blog about something sensible tomorrow ...

As long as it is not about the Sensible Sentencing Trust. Who's for setting a Senseless Sentencing Trust?

Whaleoil and Co sound like truly AWFUL people and not worth commenting on.

Geoff Lealand
From: Univ of Waikato
Since: Oct 2007
Posts: 136

Posted at 7:08PM on 20 Jul 08. Permalink.

'setting up", of course. Blame it on a long and rainy weekend!

Shep Cheyenne
Since: Oct 2007
Posts: 791

Posted at 7:26PM on 20 Jul 08. Permalink.

"Hilary Barry jumping up for the Sencible Sentencing Trust on TV3s recent self promoting ads is a little scary ."

Wrong Presenter, it was Carolyn Robinson.

Russell Brown
From: Auckland
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 4664
Moderator

Posted at 7:43PM on 20 Jul 08. Permalink.

Police have confirmed both bodies were male.

Carol Stewart
From: Wellington
Since: Jul 2008
Posts: 24

Posted at 8:11PM on 20 Jul 08. Permalink.

>As long as it is not about the Sensible Sentencing Trust.
>Who's for setting a Senseless Sentencing Trust?

Yes, the name of the Sensible Sentencing Trust is up there with the Moral Majority... take that, you immoral minority!

Carol Stewart
From: Wellington
Since: Jul 2008
Posts: 24

Posted at 8:12PM on 20 Jul 08. Permalink.

>As long as it is not about the Sensible Sentencing Trust.
>Who's for setting a Senseless Sentencing Trust?

Yes, the name of the Sensible Sentencing Trust is up there with the Moral Majority... take that, you immoral minority!

Robyn Gallagher
From: Wellington
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 924

Posted at 9:09PM on 20 Jul 08. Permalink.

The funny thing is that the story WO is farting about - wannabe socialite appears to have been creative with her life story - is quite interesting in itself and certainly nothing that wouldn't normally get blogged about.

It's just the way that WO is covering it that's alarming. Perhaps he fancies himself as a Kiwi Perez Hilton?

davidamstalden
From: New Plymouth
Since: Mar 2008
Posts: 45

Posted at 9:33PM on 20 Jul 08. Permalink.

Since no-one in their right mind, (I know, an increasingly shrinking proportion of the population), would even bother to read Whaleoil's blog, let alone comment on it, I wonder if you've considered the legitimacy you're conferring on his ravings by dedicating an entire post to them?

As much as I admire a freak show, surely a guy like that should best be ignored until he goes away.

Grant McDougall
From: Dunedin
Since: Dec 2006
Posts: 181

Posted at 10:03PM on 20 Jul 08. Permalink.

As long as it is not about the Sensible Sentencing Trust. Who's for setting a Senseless Sentencing Trust?

Just recently an anti-SST group was actually set up, also based in Napier. It's called "True Sensible Sentencing Trust" or some such.

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