If I was Richard Worth, I'd be looking hard at my page...

Speaking of Richard Worth's wikipedia page, there's an interesting pattern of editing there in the wake of the latest semi-scandal.

Poor old Richard Worth, eh? Missing in action in Cabinet, but he does , it seems, have time to…

Councillor uses Wikipedia to discredit rivals
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=10531375

The programme, like many…

He welcomed the female members of the panel by commenting on their appearance – said they looked smart or stunning (can't recall the exact word). Nothing that wrong with saying people look smart as a welcoming…

Not since "The Demon Profession" have I read such an inspiring tale of one man's…

although parts of it were shot in my dinning room

which is the room you use to make a lot of noise? Sounds appropriate :-)

But Simon inadvertently, as our friend Brian put it, "fell into the drag queen trap"

Yeah, but you know what pisses me off about that scolcing the more I think about it — well, just take a bloody look at a pile of MtM/Express or Out. I know there wasn't…

Squeeze (which he was in!)

And I'm gonna put my hand up and say "so was I" (although not in any meaningful way..unlike David..I was an extra in 2 scenes, although parts of it were shot in my dinning room)

So if someone's talking about being a teenager and living in Masterton or Ashburton or fcuking Timaru and needing some kind of lifeline, I don't give a shit how much fruit there is on their hat.

Yes, that's why the response, sincere as it was, took me a bit by…

I've been reading a bit lately in the US and UK media about assimilation of gay culture

Aaaargh $&%(#!!!!

**WE ARE THE GAY BORG. WE WILL ADD WHAT LITTLE BIOLOGICAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL FABULOUSNESS YOU POSSESS TO OUR OWN. YOUR CUTE BOYS WILL ADAPT TO SERVICE OURS. HOLD MY GOLD, GIRLFRIEND,…

I'm glad Jay Bennie called you on the Simon Pound piece. It made my skin crawl as well.

Yeah but no but yeah...

It was the Pound piece that introduced the idea of Outreach, which really pinged with me. I've been reading a bit lately in the US and UK…

I did not know, so please do not make statements along the lines of "I can't believe he didn't know".

Completely off topic, but I caught David on the panel yesterday, and a couple of times he talked the same way as John Key. That slight drawl, the way he…

Would anybody like to fill me in on what he said before that most disturbing sentence?

I think I'd rather just let it hang there, mysterious and beautiful ...

I did not know, so please do not make statements along the lines of "I can't believe he didn't know".

Fair enough. I had some idea this sort of thing was going on but I hadn't realised it was so extensive. It was referred to in the thread on Kiwiblog.…

I'm glad Jay Bennie called you on the Simon Pound piece. It made my skin crawl as well.

Well, I thought about button-holing Bennie and asking him whether every second story in MtM being about "the scene" wasn't setting up one or two tiresome (and quite damaging) stereotypes of their…

They aren't claiming victimhood and trying to remedy it by some sort of "fairness doctrine"

But conservatives who oppose the EFA will remedy its unfairness by scrapping it and replacing it with their own fairness doctrine when they gain power wont they? They are all victims of big government after…

I haven't seen the show yet (it's been that sort of week, I've been struggling to read email until tonight) but good on you for putting it on and then front up and facing feedback of the positive and negative sort. Important issues that need to be discussed, and…

What an utter crock.What about Key bleeting like a little injured lamb everytime anyone attacks his integrity.

It did cross my mind that National and ACTs current double play on Peters met Key's criteria of "personal attacks".

That's why it was such a lame proposition at the time.

Yes I could have taken the time to go to her Wikipedia page and check the edit history. But I didn't think to do that, and that really wasn't the…

I gave up Usenet myself a few months ago. I needed my life back. Be nice to have threaded discussions on the web but.

What an utter crock.

I'll concede right-wingers regularly claim victimhood of "the innocent children" for political gain. They'll set up a whole self-serving agenda around protecting "the innocent".

But these examples of supposed claiming victim for status themselves are crap.

What about Key bleeting like a little injured lamb everytime…

You talked about the Pink Dollar and the idea of gay affluence. This has been shown to a myth

I sort of said that, but in a different way: if there is a Pink Dollar, it's not apparent to ad agencies. It is very different overseas: Vodafone, Virgin Airlines, Absolut,…

He ain't playing the victim, right wingers generally don't.

Are you kidding? The more alarming the wingnut, the greater the chance you'll find them writhing on the floor if someone barks at them. See: Redbaiter and Whaleoil.

As you've pointed out in this post Aaron has messed with Christine's profile…

You talked about the Pink Dollar and the idea of gay affluence. This has been shown to a myth – I don't have the data to hand, but there have been a couple of very well-researched papers…

He ain't playing the victim, right wingers generally don't

What an utter crock.What about Key bleeting like a little injured lamb everytime anyone attacks his integrity. And just take a look whats happening at the scary republican convention in the states. In defending Palin against the rabid media those mad…

Bhatnagar and his friends can grouse as much as they want. But when they're done with rolling around the floor whimpering and playing victim, they might want to consider how it looks for a city councillor to behave like an out-of-control man-child and then try and cover it up.

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One thing about Judith Halberstam — that shift from old-Disney conformism to Pixar-era rebellion seems a little simplistic. There's an interesting book by Douglas Brode called From Walt to Woodstock that argues that Disney films actually seeded the…

well Russell, the show was ok, but could have been better with more research

Just out of interest, what do you think we could have researched better?

My original script for the set-up piece covered Circle and Gay News in the 70s, as well as Squeeze, but we couldn't get…

And the bizarre things a quick confirming google can turn up...

Oh lord.

is Aaron Bhatnager any relation to Roger Bhatnager

Is that Sir Roger? If so, it'll be his father (I only recall that his father is titled).

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I think the horse has bolted on this one.

And Simon's piece was utter shite – that was the reaction from everyone I talked to as we…

I'm not trying to get you to "fix" all the good bits, and I agree that the programme as a whole was good. ;-)

Yeah, no worries. I've addressed similar qualms over at GayNZ today as well. I think part of the problem is that this kind of show is…

Unfortunately, we have a requirement to record the programme in three parts, so I was obliged to cut of Johnny as he got rolling (I had my director barking "gotta go" in my earpiece). That's TV, and Johnny, as a TV professional, wasn't in the least offended by it.

Oh,…

I like how in October 06 he edited the national party entry to replace the "racist" line:

The National Party presently advocates policies of ...ending what it sees as special privileges for Māori

to the utter spin of...

**promoting…

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I'm glad Jay Bennie called you on the Simon Pound piece. It made my skin crawl as well.

Simon was aware of the response to that track on the night. But I can assure you it was done in good faith and I think "skin crawl" is taking it…

But he also pulls crap like this.

Well it appears Barzini reads your posts and has already removed his user id.

Shit, that was quick! It took him a whole day to get rid of those embarrassing Hubbard pamphlet PDFs in 2004.

What else did he edit that he wishes to keep from the light.

The user…

What else did he edit that he wishes to keep from the light.