Posts by simon g
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Spare us the predictable line from Kiwiblog, John. In fact, if you look at Glenn's evidence, he has indicated the opposite of what the right wing blogs have been peddling for months. The deal was not brokered by Labour - according to Owen Glenn.
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Simon - not sure how to break this to you, but Jimmy Stewart and Katherine Hepburn are, erm, dead.
Don't be silly. I saw them last night.
This committee hearing belongs to the world of newsreel cameras and hats labelled "Press". Peter Williams is Gregory Peck.
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Committee hearings make great theatre. From McCarthy to Anita Hill, from Watergate to Ollie North. So where's our TV coverage? Or do we have to wait for Guyon and Duncan to tell us what it all means, saving us the trouble of working it out for ourselves?
I want to see the Jack Nicholson Moment live. Or maybe Jimmy Stewart as Winston, in a plot twist to stun us all.
(also starring Katherine Hepburn as Helen Clark and Matthew Broderick as John Key).
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Which is why you should leave the shamless bullshit misdirection to the professionals, Simon.
Craig, the story was raised by you, at 6.24 above. If you're going to define "bullshit misdirection" as "responding to a comment by Craig Ranapia", then find me guilty. It's a shame you so often feel this need to impute motives to others, rather than accept they might, maybe, see things differently, and just feel like saying so.
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Clark organised that story? And put it top of the bulletin? Damn, she's good.
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Or even pledged.
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You have confirmed my final point, Craig.
Key said: "it wouldn't be possible for him to give anyway - he's an offshore entity."
Key is opposed to that law, and has pedged to repeal it.
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Craig, firstly there is no "Obamagate", just people taking the mickey out of Key's remark. If he can't handle that, he'd better get out while he can.
As for Ashcroft's "courtesy call", you do protest just a little too much. He has donated to the Tories in Australia and Britain, and it's hardly unreasonable to want to know if he's done the same here. When a politician says he has "no plans" to do something, any self-respecting reporter's antennae should be twitching.
John Key didn't just happen to find this appointment in his diary, as he suggested on 3 News. Ashcroft is a big noise, and Key the ex-Londoner would know that better than most. Now, Ashcroft may have had good reason to keep away from the cameras, but shyness wouldn't be one: the same man was more than happy to talk to the media about his reward for the missing medals.
At the very least, Key has reminded us of the rationale for the Electoral Finance Act - the one that he has pedged to scrap. He points out in the 3 News story that the EFA limits what Ashcroft can donate (thought not through Trusts, as we all know). Nice irony there.
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"I'm a bit like Obama": says John Key.
I'm a bit like Usain Bolt myself.
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It would help if they knew the name of the British Home Secretary. Similarly, Radio NZ's website introduces us to candidates "Marian Street" and "Stewart Nash".
I suppose fact-checkers take Sundays off.