Posts by nzlemming
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Akshully, English missed a great opportunity to say "Well, personally, I'm really sorry that any public servant might receive a death threat. They're not elected and don't choose to be in the spotlight. I hope Mr Pleasants is not permanently scarred by his experience. I want to say further that I deplore Mr Slater's website and the uses he's put it to over the years. There's no place for that in New Zealand politics."
I mean, where's Espiner going to go from there? A huge amount of the furore would die away. But that would require leadership, rather than "media management". Wankers.
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to stephen clover,
Hmmm, Espiner seems to have remembered what a journalist's job is. I wonder if English will refuse to talk to him again. I note Key only seems to be talking to
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Hard News: Didn't see that coming, in reply to Alfie,
They're scared.
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Hard News: UPDATED: Media Take: Election…, in reply to Russell Brown,
My memory is that the song was very much seen as affectionate.
Yeah, my memory was based on the words rather than the reaction.
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Turns out they were left(ish) and just capitalising on circumstances.
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Hard News: UPDATED: Media Take: Election…, in reply to Russell Brown,
Part of it may be that there are hardly any right-wing musicians and artists and those who are aren’t currently movement to anger.
I'm not sure if Ebony were left or right, but "Big Norm" was hardly complimentary to Norman Kirk PM (even if he did wish them luck).
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Hard News: Didn't see that coming, in reply to Grant McDougall,
Any ideas why Matthew Hooton has been so open in his calls to sack Collins ? Has he had a falling-out with some of the Nats and their mates ?
I’d have thought he’d toed the party line, but he’s made repeated calls.
Possibly, he's smart enough to know she's now one of the biggest liabilities they've got.
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Hard News: UPDATED: Media Take: Election…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Nah that’s the North and South Islands yer looking at
The Chch rebuild exodus.
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As I cannot find the Prince video, here's Patti Smith (I was kinda hoping Weird Al had done "When Doves Fry" but...)
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Hard News: UPDATED: Media Take: Election…, in reply to Dean Wallis,
Can we ban Granny?
Tamsyn Parker: How to “Labour-proof” your portfolio
I take heart from that. They wouldn't publish it if they didn't think it was a real possibility.