Posts by Russell Brown
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Thanks for that, Graeme, and, as they say in file-sharing circles, to the original uploader. That's a nice cap.
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Lets play Again. What do the following people have in common.
I'd say "they're all neocons", but National didn't have anything to do with the neocons. Don Brash, er, said so ...
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How's Scoop's traffic this afternoon, Al? Got any crazy numbers or steepling graphs for us?
Oh, and feel free to continue with the "who said this?" quizzes. That's a good game.
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Been trying to find a column by Basset saying what a great speech Orewa 1 was (without disclosing he wrote it)
Try this:
The recent floods could have been a path to the high ground for Helen Clark's beleaguered ministry.Instead it responded late because ministers were too preoccupied with U-turning in response to Don Brash's Orewa speech. In the process Cabinet forgot the catastrophic polls resulting from David Lange's back-track on Rogernomics in 1988. He never recovered, and it will be a miracle if Helen Clark survives the current panic attack. Why follow a leader who loses the way?
Don Brash touched a raw nerve at Orewa. All the warnings Labour has been given by friends, and by their own polling, were ignored. Race-based policies don't command broad public support. Labour's recent sudden collapse in the polls was an accident waiting to happen.
http://www.michaelbassett.co.nz/articleview.php?id=5
Or this:
Helen Clark is hoping history repeats itself. An inquiry into race-based policies that she brushed aside not long ago suddenly looks attractive. Her ministers are making contradictory statements on Maori policy, her Maori MPs contemplate walking the plank, and National has taken the high ground. An inquiry might shut down debate over race-based social funding. The fatally flawed foreshore and seabed legislation could be put to one side, if Maori co-operated. Other victims of Don Brash, like United, also want an inquiry. Anything to take the heat out of that Orewa speech.
http://www.michaelbassett.co.nz/articleview.php?id=54
That Orewa speech ... wot I wrote ...
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1/ Don Brash and the National hierarchy knew more about the EBs than they ever let on. Well, who hadn't guessed as much, really. It's good to see it confirmed and all, but ... is anyone actually surprised?
Not really, but it comes in the face of barefaced denials over a long period - and Brash actually dug himself in about twice as deep in the last two days. God knows what he'll say when he goes back on Campbell Live. He can't even claim to have not read the email, because he forwarded it to Long.
But there's material there that (a) makes National's noisy moral high ground as regards election spending look very cynical indeed, and (b) might well be of interest to the authorities.
Apart from that, there appears to be considerable embarrassment in it for a range of people.
As Craig suggested, Clark is presumably busy forgetting everything she didn't like about Kevin Brady. -
There's a scan of the killer email here
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The Scoop report is being frequently updated. This bit's fascinating:
"Press Gallery journalists tend to regard themselves as a fairly cynical and skeptical bunch, but I doubt that many considered for a more than a micro-second that the apparent gaff – a few short days before the election - when Dr Brash told BFm's Noelle McCarthy that he had indeed met with the Brethren and been told about their pamphlets was not a slip of the tongue but a carefully rehearsed line written for the National Party leader by his chief media minder Richard Long!"
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Check out the post Tim Barclay wrote fully half an hour after the news broke on Kiwiblog. Business as usual.
He's a trooper ain't he?
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Wow. Who reckons "Liarbour" won't be such a funny joke any more?
Given the contacts outlined in those two stories, it's simply staggering that they held to their line for so long. Mind you, 'fessing up would have been pretty tricky too. Electoral Commission, police ...
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First story hits the wires.
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