Hard News: Moving right along?
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Ok ok- common expression as in ” A mullet is a lesser crime than socks and sandels"…but ask that the expression be removed and replaced with “this isn’t even as big a deal as”
seconded?
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martinb, in reply to
yeh think this is more false equivalency.
It’s ok to snigger at a name privately- but Henry’s BS was a state broadcaster denigrating a representative of a race, in a fairly insulting, degrading and bizarre manner, in a country where there is already a lot of racism against this race.
Yeh- I’m interested in how the name of a boyo from the valleys came to be the moniker of this young lady from Hong Kong…
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Goodness Gracious.
There's a lot of prima facie defamatory content included in that statement... if there is a VRWC, it fraying more than a little.
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nzlemming, in reply to
if there is a VRWC, it fraying more than a little.
I so get the feeling that this production hasn't even reached the intermission.
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As someone with a name that many with a Niu Zilun ecksunt can turn into an Enochian invocation, I feel a certain amount of sympathy for Mr Wewege. Not the emotional manipulation, lying, arrogance, venality or stupidity, mind; but the name thing must be an irritant on top of everything else.
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The scope of the review has been announced.
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Mark Easterbrook, in reply to
The scope of the review has been announced.
Wow. There's some serious mouth-frothing going on in the comments thread under that NBR story.
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That's a pretty broad scope, particularly the 'any other issues', certainly enough to resolve the matter one way or the other.
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It's going to take 4 weeks. This issue will be well in bed by then.
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For those with strong stomachs and a robust sense of irony, here's Stephen Cook's account of how he and Slater were just honest dudes trying to break a scandal.
In other news, Cook has just told Duncan Garner he offered Chuang $100,000 to star in a porn movie.
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Russell Brown, in reply to
Wow. There’s some serious mouth-frothing going on in the comments thread under that NBR story.
NBR has some very weird commenters. Sometimes it makes Kiwiblog comments look constructive.
It might also be noted that some of those commenters are pretty much making stuff up out of thin air.
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Andre Alessi, in reply to
I believe the offer of a porn role was mentioned in the Herald yesterday too. But the figure he quotes...anyone with even a passing familiarity of the economics of the porn industry in Auckland (ahem) realises that figure is ludicrous. Either Cook is exaggerating for effect, or he really has no idea what he's doing.
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Paul Williams, in reply to
It’s going to take 4 weeks. This issue will be well in bed by then
This timeframe, one that seems a little long to me, ensures it won't be sadly.
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nzlemming, in reply to
For those with strong stomachs and a robust sense of irony, here’s Stephen Cook’s account of how he and Slater were just honest dudes trying to break a scandal.
Dear gods, no wonder Truth is no more.
Luigi can see my point, but suggests I put a story out there anyway. “We were thinking of an American-style smear campaign, smoke and mirrors,” he says to me.
“Just put it out there and see if it gets picked up,” he adds.
Bevan likes the idea and thinks it might work.
I don’t and let them know there’s no way I or Cam Slater would ever be involved in something like that.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
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Very interesting column by Richard Harman setting the affair in the context of National’s infighting:
It is abundantly clear from what we have seen as we have poured our way through literally hundreds of text and Facebook messages and pictures, and talked to the participants that the Slater group genuinely believe what Cameron said on “The Nation” on Saturday discussing the future of Auckland politics.
“Auckland politics is the same as where any politics is, in that it’s a dirty disgusting despicable game, and it involves dirty disgusting despicable people at all levels,” he said.
“And to have this high and mighty belief that New Zealand politics is clean, it isn’t.”
That should be enough to send a shiver through the Beehive.
Simply the National Party now has a group of its supporters who give every appearance of going rogue.
Maybe that’s why one source has suggested to us that it was actually a National MP who first led to Len Brown being tipped off the week before the Council election that a major sex scandal was going to break.
Other sources tell us that senior Nats who are in the loop have been tipping associates of the Mayor off as to what might come next.
You get the picture from Michelle Boag this weekend on “Q+A”.
“Whatever was going on with John Palino and the Slaters is nothing to do with the National Party.”
If people like Michelle Boag have decided that Cameron Slater is toxic — and she probably concluded that a while ago, the next question will be whether his supporters in Parliament, particularly Judith Collins and Maurice Williamson also decide to put some distance between themselves and him.
If they do, that will be a signal that the Tamaki Mafia have taken a big hit.
If they don’t then National’s civil war in Auckland will continue to smoulder away in the background ready to flare at any moment that Whaleoil decides.
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Russell Brown, in reply to
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
I know, right?
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Personally, I think Mr Luigi Squeegee deserves all the ridicule heaped upon him.
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nzlemming, in reply to
Very interesting column by Richard Harman setting the affair in the context of National’s infighting:
Ooh, Slater's put up a comment already saying Harman's got it completely wrong. Now who would I believe?...
Dammit, I have to go to a meeting tonight! My popcorn will get cold!
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Russell Brown, in reply to
Ooh, Slater’s put up a comment already saying Harman’s got it completely wrong. Now who would I believe?…
The fact that Price is associated with Nikki Kaye makes me more inclined to see him as basically sensible, but I think he's been working his angle pretty hard behind the scenes. Exactly where the fissure lies, I wouldn't know, but it's certainly been made more significant by all this.
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Stephen Judd, in reply to
Offering someone $100k for something and paying them $100k are two quite different things.
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While I shouldn't knock my old craft too much, I was amused by the comment from pre-internet British poet, Basil Bunting that journalists were "turd-bakers" in a recent review about his life. Bunting had strong hatreds for many things and I doubt that bloggers would have been spared a choice word or three.
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Key quote: accidental or sly? I reckon accidental, because I don't think he's that quick.
Asked if he expected to hear from Brown should the mayor decide to resign, Key added: "My guess, if that ever happens, [is] he would drop me a text or give me a call."
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Andre Alessi, in reply to
Offering someone $100k for something and paying them $100k are two quite different things.
Very true. He wouldn't be the first "filmmaker" in this town to offer someone "a share of the profits" on a film that will never make its production costs back.
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Paul Williams, in reply to
Might be but his reaction seems predictable and I don't think the PM has much to gain from being involved in this matter even for laughs.
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Lilith __, in reply to
we have poured our way through literally hundreds of text and Facebook messages and pictures
Pored! It's "pore over" not "pour over". Pet peeve.
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