Hard News: Dirty Politics
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nzlemming, in reply to
at least, in the past they weren’t.
I seem to remember it was a screw up at CNN that set the current standard.
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Before the early 20th century the Republicans were on the whole the more left-wing of US political parties. Lincoln was a Republican and Jefferson Davis a Democrat.
It wasn't until FDR that the current positions became fully entrenched.
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I read "Dirty Politics" on Friday - I wasn't particularly shocked by the vileness of the people involved as that had been talked about on all the blogs. The thing that astounded me was how all the people around Whale Oil, including the journalists just bought into his bully boy routine - National pollies whined to him "why are you attacking me?", the journos cosied up to him to get the quote or the leak. Even worse, the journalists were complicit in his gaining such power to bully and abuse by using him as a source.
Noone actually had the guts or integrity to take him on. And if the media can't take on a (supposedly) lone cannon than how can we get them to keep a well funded, large machine like the government to account.
Thankfully, someone in the end decided to take him on.
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Given the depths the participants in this sordid affair sunk to, I've been surprised at the lack of international coverage of Dirty Politics. I suppose that we're just a little island (or two) at the bottom of the world.
Today's Guardian has an overview from Toby Manhire fittingly called The whale that swallowed New Zealand's election campaign.
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Kumara Republic, in reply to
It wasn't until FDR that the current positions became fully entrenched.
Which was previously kicked off by the 1912 Republican Split, where Ted Roosevelt led a breakaway progressive faction (that later threw in its lot with FDR) from William Taft's conservative rump that forms the basis of today's GOP.
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Kumara Republic, in reply to
Given the depths the participants in this sordid affair sunk to, I've been surprised at the lack of international coverage of Dirty Politics. I suppose that we're just a little island (or two) at the bottom of the world.
Today's Guardian has an overview from Toby Manhire fittingly called The whale that swallowed New Zealand's election campaign.
So far...
* Sky News AU - so far the only overseas in-depth coverage of Dirty Politics outside of the Guardian
* ABC, but only at the end of the article
* The Australian, again only at the end of the article -
Ian Dalziel, in reply to
...overseas in-depth coverage
I'd like to see John Oliver get his teeth into it...
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Joe Wylie, in reply to
I’d like to see John Oliver get his teeth into it…
Nana Van Beynen at the Chch Curtain Twitcher has given it a soft gumming.
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And not sure if it counts, but the Naked Capitalism blog has written positively of Hager's exposé... and Cactus Kate's suspected ties with crime syndicates.
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Michael Savidge, in reply to
…overseas in-depth coverage
I’d like to see John Oliver get his teeth into it…
I'd like to see Russell Brand take a whip to it....
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Kumara Republic, in reply to
I'd like to see Russell Brand take a whip to it....
I've just tweeted him, I'll let you know if I get a response.
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nzlemming, in reply to
And not sure if it counts, but the Naked Capitalism blog has written positively of Hager’s exposé… and Cactus Kate’s suspected ties with crime syndicates.
That is gorgeous! Donkey deep, as they say.
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Dismal Soyanz, in reply to
To paraphrase Russell: didn't see that coming (not).
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More overseas coverage via the Guardian, courtesy of Ant Loewenstein.
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David Fisher in the Herald on his relationship with Slater - the point at which Key moved from "blocking" Slater to talking, texting and posing for photographs at his side, accusations that Fisher was "suffering withdrawal symptoms associated with alcohol and drug addiction" and the latest "Time for all your emails to come out Fish" threat from Slater.
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Tim Michie, in reply to
A very quotable piece.
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Dirty Politics has also made the Times of London, but the article's paywalled. Ditto for this Crikey article by an expat NZer.
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nzlemming, in reply to
I suspect he's pre-empting Slater publishing anything vaguely incriminating.
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Steve Barnes, in reply to
the article’s paywalled.
Not really a problem, its only the rich that need convincing. ;-)
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Steve Barnes, in reply to
Slater publishing anything vaguely incriminating.
My thought too...
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Dismal Soyanz, in reply to
Yes. When I first read the article with that veiled threat by Slater at the end, I did wonder. Quite self-destructive on Slater's part if he did release any of Fisher's emails but after reading 'Dirty Politics' trying to understand his motivations only leads to a very dark place.
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’neoilogism’?
Susie Ferguson and her writers must be credited with a starter for ‘Word of the Year’ describing someone as having been slatered on the Whaleoil website’…
(or my mishearing her)
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Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to
Oh don't give the guy oxygen.
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Joe Wylie, in reply to
Oh don’t give the guy oxygen.
Beg to differ there. Slater's like anaerobic bacteria. That's why his enablers are so keen to put the lid back on.
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