Posts by Craig Ranapia
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then you might not want to be standing for parliament
becuase it happens most every day in the houseAnd if people of good will on all sides of the political spectrum aren't going to say "not in my name, you don't" where does it stop? Russell's cryogenically frozen head opining on Hard News 2108 (Beta) how outrageous it is that the Prresident isn't being stalked by a private investigator? I'm only being slightly facetious, because we seem to forget that politicians are just another pack of civil servants on fixed-term contracts; and the media are part of a market economy where we, the consumers, have the ultimate sanction if not consuming their product.
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Andy:
Well that's a POV, and thanks for putting it forward without the distubing level of peacock machismo flowing from some quarters. But - and I guess this sounds rather pompous - it just seems to me that if you've got to get down to Trev's level you've already lost the fight that really matters.Hell, I can be a bitch on heels but there are some places I just don't go.
Like Craig, I'm unhappy with Clark trying to spin the Mallard incident with the "lady's honour" thing.
I'm not even so much unhappy as completely flummoxed that Clark would say something like that - as if Tariana Turia mused that perhaps Don Brash had a point... Anyway, perhaps I've spent way too much time hanging around old skool butch dykes, farmer's wives and Tory ladies, but the women of my acquaintance can defend their own honour - with extreme prejudice. :)
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You say tomato, I say.. uh.. tomato ;-)
Meh... I say any day when you can remember what you did the night before without cringing, is pure gravy. ;)
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I don't think its necessarily perverted to get off on other people's underwear...
No, but when you wake up grossly hung over, unsure where you are, why you're there, what you did the night before, or why you've got a stranger's jockstrap on your head (and upon further investigation, discover it doesn't belong to the gentleman next to you), you might not be a pervert. But it's taking decadence to unseemly lengths.
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Stephen:
I'm one of these prissy PC old maids {(c) Winston Peters} who takes exception to people's private lives and families being used as offensive weapons in Parliament and the media. And IMO it's not over the top to compare that kind of sewer rat to the kind of pervert who gets off on other people's underwear.
While it in no way mitigates or excuses Mallard's thuggery, I won't hypocritically give Tau Henare a pass for the kind of sleazy behaviour I've loudly criticised Mallard and Peters for in the past.
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Well, I do buy into it. Why isn't Mallard spinning the same line as Helen "He was defending a lady's honour" Clark? He could garner significant sympathy by coming out with something along the lines of "well yes I shouldn't have hit him, but he can't go dragging peoples families/personal affairs (no pun intended) into the debate like that"
Of course the reason he can't do that is because hypocrisy would make him even more of a liability than a potential assault charge. If he hadn't done EXACTLY the same thing to Brash, then he would have had the moral high ground (well, high-ish ground anyway) all to himself.
First, Andy, Clark's 'defending a lady's honour' line had me giggling and wondering if someone dropped a lead coated copy of The Stepford Wives on her head over the weekend. It would actually be sexist, patronising and more than a little creepy if it wasn't so freaking weird. (Or more plausibly, she probably thought it would go down a treat with Newstalk ZB's rabid audience.)
But when it comes to hypocrisy, I'm more worried about avoiding my own. If you want to frolic in Trevor and Winston's salacious panty-sniffing sewer, I'll treat you with exactly the same contempt.
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Sainsbury tried a question along the lines of: "If I punched someone in my workplace I'd be in a lot more trouble..." to which Peters replied, in an instant, "Rubbish. The former CEO of TVNZ threw punches and was promoted to the top job..." (or words to that effect).
Sainsbury was stopped dead in his tracks and Peters owned him for the rest of the interview.
I'm sure Bill Ralston would be terribly amused to find he'd ever made it that far up the greasy pole - and would like the pay arrears deposited to his secret Swiss bank account. OTOH, in Sainsbury's position I'd have turned around and sweetly observed 'and if I told as many lies as you, Winston, I'd deserve a good beating".
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The irony is that Kruger's a joiner: he's on the BOP district health board and has done some great work in education and on reports commissioned by MAF. I really wonder what he was thinking.
I don't know if it's that ironic - the world is full of talented and capable people who have some very cranky ideas bouncing around in their heads. But what was Sinclair's excuse? I agree with Margaret that the interview seemed designed to elicit increasing bizarre - and scary - answers from a willing victim, but I didn't come away feeling any the wiser. Then again, I don't think anyone was supposed to.
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Russell: Fair call. I didn't mean to imply that the DomPost fabricates quotes, or the sources for this story were lying. As they say in the House, I withdraw and apologise - and I actually mean it. :)
My point, not well made, is that I've seen enough fights where one person says "the prick grabbed me" and the other says "I was just trying to get the psycho to back off" and I'd be damned if I knew who was right.
Guess we're never really going to know, because I suspect both Mallard and Henare are under strict instructions to keep quiet, and if they do say anything it would be no surprise if they tried to give their account a spin most favourable to them.
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Well, Tau could always choose to lay a complaint of assault and take his chances. It doesn't look to me like something that should be cluttering up the courts.
Agree with you on the last part - but it would be a matter for the Privileges Committee. After all, if brawling in the lobby isn't a matter of privilege you've got to wonder what is.
Oh, and I should make something quite clear. While Mallard is a nasty prick, and being a believer in the notion of karma, I'm not buying into the notion he's 'getting what he deserves' either. Still, might be room to contemplate the school yard maxim that if you can't take it back, you shouldn't dish it out. Of course, it's preferably that nobody is dishing "it" out in the first place - but I'm not naive enough to think the proxy attack dogs in the House will be muzzled any time soon.
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