Posts by Kracklite
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Hard News: A week being a long time in politics, in reply to Terry Baucher,
It's certainly something people have tried to fob off as iron pyrite.
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Hard News: A week being a long time in politics, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Alice by Dali, no less.
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And the soup kitchens will serve the Chamaeleon's Dish. Hot.
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Hard News: A week being a long time in politics, in reply to Joe Wylie,
I don't think Farrar believes his own spin either. I don't think belief even comes into it. This is a ... mammal (perhaps)... that admires Carl Rove. If anything, the more he spins, the more he'll congratulate himself on his perceived skill in spinning.
Naturally obsequious though? Oh yes.
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Hard News: A week being a long time in politics, in reply to Steve Parks,
Glad about that (likewise, hopefully Deep Red, whom I quoted).
I await the polls with interest, but even so, polls are predicated on the assumption that people will rationally express their overriding judgements. I don’t just mean that the “proles” are fools, since I’m sceptical of reason and consciousness in general. Prostetnic Vogon Joyce might be right, or rather the shade of Muldoon whom he is channeling, in saying that the public are annoyed by the distraction of this specific issue, but then again, they may or may not start thinking, “Well Key’s a bit smarmy really, and a bit insecure… and really, a bit of a dick when you come down to it… he tries a bit hard… don’t get me wrong, he’s a nice guy and I’d like to have a beer with him, but…”
Choices are often much fuzzier than pollsters will have you believe (after all, they’re trying to justify their own roles). I agree with William Goldman’s axiom, “Nobody knows anything”, wholeheartedly.
That said, I don’t predict a collapse of the National vote (people have too much invested to repudiate it all at once), but I think that there certainly won’t be an absolute majority, and the next term will not be comfortable for the Pry Minster now that the sharks smell blood in the water.
Can’t say that I’m happy with a lot of the protest vote probably going to Winston Peters either. He will be though – he’ll probably think that revenge is best served hot after all.
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Hard News: A week being a long time in politics, in reply to 3410,
Hooton is the punditry version of push-polling, if you ask me.
Couldn't agree more. Had a rant about it on another thread.
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Hard News: A week being a long time in politics, in reply to Steve Parks,
No, not in my case. I’m genuinely sorry if I seemed to be rude. It wasn’t my intention… well, I do often intend to be rude, but not to you or anyone here, in this case.
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Hard News: A week being a long time in politics, in reply to Sacha,
Why am I not surprised? Dorothy Parker, anyone? I'm only surprised it took him this long.
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Hard News: Criminalising Journalism, in reply to BenWilson,
Belatedly, on Hooton
I’m glad he’s being so honest,
“Honest” is not a word that I’d use in the same sentence as the name “Hooton”, ever. If he ever appears to honest, its because he’s found some raw material that he’s going to process, twist and transform and distract you from.
“Disingenuous”, however, is a word I would use. I’d add the adverb “slickly” as well, just to be sure.
that’s great in a political commentator, but I have to say that after watching 3 weeks of him talking about the Machiavellian tactics of the National party
Bit of a problem with “smart” too, I’m afraid. He has a certain low cunning, and a cynicism that basically empty people think of as a superior substitute for wisdom and definitely superior to morality, which they equate with naiveté.
His smugness when he thinks he’s right, and his adolescent petulance when challenged give away his emotional and intellectual limitations.
Hooton’s not genuinely smart, and he’s not honest. He’s paid to do a job and he’s happy to be seen by his masters to be doing it well for them. That’s where he finds his sole validation, whatever temporary feints he may make towards “objectivity”. Don’t mistake him for anything other than a spin doctor.
and repeatedly pointing out that he pretty much agrees with most of the policy of the Labour party, I can’t figure out why such an obviously smart
And that, I think, shows his utter moral and intellectual corruption. Loyalty to tribe and paymaster trumps any sense of what might be right or genuinely intelligent matters less that the cheapest form of loyalty and reward. The man's a worm.
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Hard News: A week being a long time in politics, in reply to Steve Parks,
As Russell has said rhetorically to Paul Holmes, “What is your fucking point?”, I’m intrigued by the fact that Joyce, Farrar et al are emphasising polls that say that the public don’t feel that the contents of the tape matter overmuch, or that the recording may have been illegal and unethical… and studiously ignoring the real question, as many of us see it, whether the response has been insane. Shirley that’s not an acid tent.
It’s “interesting” that supposedly neutral information such as poll results are being used to actively frame the terms of the debate – answer first, question second, as Lewis Carroll might have said (although we’ll see if it’s being done successfully).