Hard News: Dirty Politics
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Stephen Judd, in reply to
anything seems possible if someone wants things to happen, is connected and willing...
Indeed, in a world where the US president has a kill list and enemies are bumped off by unmanned drones, our ideas of what is and is not plausible are getting sorely tested.
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Sacha, in reply to
Moonraker
Muckraker
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We all remember Key announcing that he knew the identity of the infamous Rawshark. David Fisher says John Key was approached by police about this claimed knowledge.
A spokeswoman for the Prime Minister said: "Police gave the Prime Minister the opportunity to provide any relevant information. The Prime Minister indicated his suspicions on the identity of Rawshark were based on hearsay."
"Hearsay... it's Keysynonym for bullshit."
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"Hearsay' means "Cam told me ..."
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Excellent. Snout likely to be shut down later this week. #karma
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At the time I didn’t see TV3’s Story episode when Simon Lusk was interviewed (first time on TV apparently), but this evening I caught the Radio NZ Mediawatch segment which looked at how that interview was handled.
Here is the Story segment, for everyone’s reference. I recommend having something handy for wiping off Garner’s saliva.
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Joe Wylie, in reply to
Here is the Story segment, for everyone’s reference. I recommend having something handy for wiping off Garner’s saliva.
Looks like a thin knockoff of NickyNik (there's also a NSFW version of this).
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Simonizing a turd...
That Lusk story sealed Story's fate for me - life's too short to waste watching crap like that - and what was learned?
That TV3 has willing and compliant 'reporters' who will do what they are told, even if it means demeaning themselves and their profession!
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damned if ya do... damned if ya don't...
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/33630-cnn-punished-its-own-journalist-for-fulfilling-a-core-duty-of-journalism -
Sorry if this is slightly off-topic but I can't find a more appropriate thread.
Colin Craig has hit Cam Slater with a "breach of copyright" notice for displaying his love poem to Rachel. In case anyone needs a refresher, here's the prose in question.
Two of Me
There is only one of me it's true
But I wish this were not the case
Because I wish that I could have you.If instead one man, I was two
That would be one for all the others
And one of me, for youI wonder if Craig's initial denials that he'd written the work would play against him in any lawsuit? In any event, Colin has now well and truly taken ownership of the piece and is demanding a retraction, a written apology and a fee of $3000 per month from the oily one for displaying his work in public.
Good luck with that one Colin.
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Sacha, in reply to
life's too short to waste watching crap like that
my RNZ listening between 6 and 7.30 has increased hugely this year.
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linger, in reply to
There's only one of Colin, true,
But one's too many, not too few.
Wise owl? Rather, a twit to woo. -
Sounds like Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings has a rival.
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izogi, in reply to
My first thought on seeing this was that it's really tiresome to see MSM even bothering to pay attention to these inconsequential attention-seeking sideshows (or at least that's how they seem to me). Sadly there's still a chance Colin Craig could return at the next election, even without publicity like this to remind everyone he exists. It'd be a shame if there wasn't much of a public record of these weirdisms if and when he does.
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Alfie, in reply to
It’d be a shame if there wasn’t much of a public record of these weirdisms if and when he does.
I felt that way about Tuku Morgan back in 1997, so I did something about it to make sure there was a permanent record of his antics.
In my defense, the page was formatted for the huge 640x480 monitors we all used back then, and being able to make your own animated gifs was still pretty cool. ;-)
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Apparently iPredict is being shut down by Simon Bridges, reportedly as a money laundering risk stemming from the site not identifying its customers. Or, at the very least, it's not being given an exemption to continue operating in its current state, and is not willing to change.
It’s probably unrelated to the allegations of manipulating odds to generate headlines, but Stuff has still picked up on that…
A number of staff around Parliament, as well as MPs, are known to have used iPredict. Although some of the information brought out in public could be embarrassing to the Government, Todd believed many in the Beehive found the website “useful” and so did not think there was a political motivation to the decision.
[Edit: Whupps. I see Alfie already picked this up in another thread.]
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Pete George is restrained by a court order:
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Hmmm. Using Judith Collins’ new law to stifle debate and silence critics? There’s a reference in this Kiwiblog comment from Alan Wilkinson, the final line of which reads:
The above press release was issued as a PDF which shows that its real author was one Dermot Nottingham!
While I tend to avoid most of the blogs being referenced, this appears to be yet another shot-across-the-bow from some of the participants in the long-running Blomfield/Slater affair. It seems self-defeating when the named author of the press release is the very person who has just been granted name supression in that order.
Dirty Politics is still alive and kicking.
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Sacha, in reply to
Lprent adds some detective work: http://thestandard.org.nz/offending-comment-was-made-from-giltrap/
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John Farrell, in reply to
One can only marvel at the chutzpah.
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Sacha, in reply to
sick fucks
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On reading that post at the Standard again, I don't think chutzpah is involved.
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And now there are 1984 posts on the Dirty Politics thread. Apt, somehow.
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Its refusal to release documentation that should be publicly available showed a lack of respect for the law
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Collins must have threatened a nuclear option of some sort: http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/74795885/surprise-cabinet-reshuffle-will-see-judith-collins-return-to-corrections
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