Posts by giovanni tiso
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I like how you sneaked the engagement thing in there. Well played.
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Giovani, do you agree that if just teh first 4 exchanges were printed Laws would come out like the dick?
Yes, but so what? He has made a profession of being dickish on our ariwaves, it's really hard to see how this would hurt him in any way. Which is not to say it's impossible to make him look bad - the Otaki kids did a splendid job there.
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I don't think it's HIS standards of response that are really in question here
Actually, not to belabour the point, but I kind of think it is. If the guy set out to make Laws look bad to people who didn't already think he was a wanker, I think it was a massive fail. And he didn't come out of it in particular bright colours either. But clearly that's just me.
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Hands above the table, young man.
Now that's satire. Can you see the difference?
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So, how do you classify the comment about red necks and banjos ?
It seemed to me that he was just riling him. If that's satire, boy, are we lowering the bar or what? Lyndon will be most displeased.
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Satire seems as good a response as any, and I don't think it actually has an impact on the content of Law's verbal diarrhoea.
Seems like people have been using the word a lot in this thread. We agree that there was nothing whatsoever that was satirical in those email sent to Mr. Laws, correct?
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I was suggesting saying that he is unprofessional and demostrably unfit to hold public office.
It's an unwinnable argument. It's not as if he's being revealed to be somebody whom we didn't know he was - everybody has always known that side of him, you just have to turn on the radio to hear it every weekday. By making that statement all you're saying is that his supporters were wrong to vote him in.
And that serves only to alienate them from your side and make them keener to cling to his. -
Scott Hamilton has a useful post on the H thing today.
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Well, I can't disagree with you there, Giovanni, but Laws has still got to be held responsible for his behaviour.
Yes, but how? Saying that he's stupid and that his supporters are stupid doesn't seem a solution to me. I routinely remind myself and anybody who'll listen that one of the most reliably conservative districts in the country gave us Georgina Beyer first as mayor, than as MP, so clearly there is a way for progressives of connecting with a conservative electorate (and let's face it, NZ on the whole *is* pretty conservative).
I think the answer to people like Laws is to put up better candidates, or did what those kids did by sending letters that engaged with him at a level where he didn't want to engage. These emails confront him on his own ground and there he is *always* going to win and make hay with his supporters. There is nothing remotely embarrassing or detrimental to him in the material that Russell posted. It just makes his opponents seem like wankers, like his correspondent.
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It all relates to my PhD, you see.
How excited are you about the new Erik Davis book, on a scale of one to ten?