Posts by Russell Brown
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But I think it's entirely legitimate to ask questions about Hauiti's judgement, and what the hell it says about whether Eye to Eye wants to be more than talkback radio with pictures.
It just felt like you were, y'know, trying to change the subject ...
The fault in this episode lies squarely with Mr Garrett.
I sure wouldn't blame Deborah Coddington (who was a very pleasant surprise with her relaxed and sparky on Media 7's election day special) if she was more likely to return your call than Hauiti's.
I just don't think she'd be blaming Claudette for Garrett being an oaf.
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And URL embedding is broken now - can someone please sort that out along with the recent video embedding failures.
Testing URL embedding:
http://publicaddress.net/index.sm
Working fine for me.
The Flash embedding is a pain. Flash 10 seems to have broken a bunch of things, and not in a consistent fashion.
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And so it begins. Turia to Hide: on Maori spending, you can stick your private-sector razor gang up your arse.
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Gareth: Hey, perhaps it's the standard M.O. at Eye to Eye to put verbally abusive drunks on the air.
For goodness sake, Craig: Claudette Hauiti, who is a very hard-nosed producer, had to make a last-minute call as to whether her programme could go on as planned.
She wasn't the one who turned up drunk and abusive for a televised discussion on paedophilia: that was the man Act drafted in to a high place on its party list.
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Yo G, let me fix your syntax:
It's not clear to me why the small party should roll over, even when it doesn't increase the number of MPs of the centre left in Parliament -- and could even hurt its list vote due to weak campaigning in the electorate.
And you're right. I'm sure anything in Auckland Central was more in the vein of "shit, that didn't work out well" than "we should have had an arrangement".
Ohariu, though ... it's actually surprising that there wasn't better polling in an electorate where the result might really affect the proportionality of Parliament.
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I was, wasn't I? I will concede, through gritted teeth, that I have made myself look like a dick.
No worries. I, too, may have ventured further in rhetoric than logic would strictly permit, in this thread ...
I told myself to shut up and take a bike ride. I discovered that there is, for the moment, an enormous sandhill on Pt Chev beach. We now heading down to frolic on it as a family.
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Soooo... any truth to the much passed around notion that she went around saying that Roche had conceded to her, when it wasn't the case? If true, I'd find that a lot more damning that any other charge against the woman.
It all seems to emanate from Tim Ellis, who has been tireless in informing the public what a slug JT is, and what a tremendous campaign Nikki Kaye has been running, across the comments sections of quite a number of blogs, for some time now.
All I know is, during the week I spoke to someone who spoke to Denise Roche on Saturday night, who said she was in tears about attracting electorate votes that could have kept the seat with Labour.
It may well be, of course, that the people who voted for were would not have voted for JT. But I'd be wary of attempts to depict ill-feeling between the camps.
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I find all this talk about voting for someone because they're cool and great to hang out with suspiciously similar to the 'I voted for Bush because he'd be fun to drink beer with' mentality that troubles American elections.
That's really quite patronising, and I said nothing like that, but whatever. My point was that she seems to represent a free hit for a lot of people, but that her workrate and ability to network are underrated, and that she's a kind and decent person.
I described that view as personal, rather than political, and perhaps I haven't kept enough to the former. But I do remain surprised by the vitriol. Anyway, I think that's enough from me.
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__Hundreds of of people attended the US Embassy event at the Michael Fowler Centre on the evening of Nov 5. It was a big deal, and ministers would have been invited. No ministers fronting would probably have been written up as a snub.__
I really doubt it; even if this were the case, a local MP with responsibilities in international relations who wasn't on the verge of losing their seat might have been a more appropriate choice. I don't think there's any way to put a positive spin on an embassy party three days out from the election although your loyalty in attempting to do so is admirable.
Okay, Danyl: I checked.
You were pretty much completely wrong about everything.
Tizard wasn't in Wellington. She wasn't at the US Embassy party. And she didn't have champagne -- or any other drink -- in her hand on TV3's coverage.
It would be an easy mistake to make, I guess, but the report shows her in an office at the US Consulate in Auckland Central, politely applauding something on the television. She has a party rosette on.
So yeah, not exactly boozing it up in Wellington while Auckland Central burns.
I think this tends to underline my point about the the way she is oddly vilified.
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There is some spin that Roche was upset that Tizard had lost--yet she has publicly
Sigh ... it's not "spin". I spoke to someone who spoke to Denise Roche on election night.
So here we have the contrast between an inactive, indolent, entitlement MP, and a hard-working candidate from the National Party.
And yes, Nikki Kaye ran a hard-working campaign and did a lot of doorknocking, but I gather campaigning was her job for eight months. I didn't see Helen Clark in our electorate either, but I am interested as to how many readers did see their candidates, without, say, going to a public meeting.
I'm unlikely to convince you differently, and it's not really my intention. I just wanted to write something nice about someone who is more often subjected to idiotic bitching like this from Rachel Glucina, where her crime is arriving in an official arts minister's role (ie: until a new government is formed it's her job to represent Helen Clark, who is the festival patron) in a ministerial car. Further outrage is summoned that road cones were moved so said car could park in the space allocated for it.
It's moronic:
"She pulled up looking like the bloody Queen Mother, but alive," observed one inside snitch. She certainly appeared to swan around the venue with some sort of semi-regal swagger.
Apparently she was supposed to display "feelings of embarrassment or humility".
Whaleoil then wrote a blog about Glucina's article which, for obvious reasons, I won't bother to link to.
The alternative view of this non-scandal is that she fronted up to an official function in the few days between losing her seat and the formation of a new government, when she might have preferred not to. But that would be a human view.
Both Sunday gossip columnists have been doing this sort of thing for a while. I'm not aware of any other MP it happens to.
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