Public Address | Cafe | Polity: Hooton’s Zombie Apocalypse

Steve Barnes

Wed, 10 Feb 2016 13:09:25 +1300

Nah. He’s just Hooton an’ Hollarin’ …
Or is that Hooton an’ Houlihan?
Houlihan Lokey?
These guys call themselves a global investment bank. However, a look at their website reveals that they know not, of Li’l’ Ol’ New Zealand, we don’t exist on their map.
So sush, we…

Ian Dalziel

Tue, 09 Feb 2016 14:50:56 +1300

Key's paranoid violent riot delusions...
The rambling excuses Key gave for not going to fulfil his pledge at Waitangi this morning on Morning Report were reminiscent of some schoolboy trying to worm their way out of some onerous duty...
He missed the chance to show that he was still cox…

Kumara Republic

Tue, 09 Feb 2016 14:21:41 +1300

Reductio ad Stalinum seems to be an early part of the "then they fight you" phase of Mahatma Gandhi's famous "First they ignore you" quote.

Rosemary McDonald

Tue, 09 Feb 2016 13:32:41 +1300

There's a part of my brain that makes very weird connections between seemingly random...things.

Read the title "Hooten's Zombie Apocalypse" and flashed back to a MSM headline that I had chosen to ignore...

bob daktari

Tue, 09 Feb 2016 13:30:18 +1300

They don't fear Labour's popularity, rather they can divide and depress labour or potential labour voters over the parties lacklustre TPPA stance (coupled with Waitangi) is my reckoning

whereas Education is all but gone from the current media discourse, for now at least

BenWilson

Tue, 09 Feb 2016 13:14:44 +1300

don’t think its education national are worried about in polling – TPPA has dwarfed any policy announcements by labour – also a topic labour are vulnerable on, as they’ve hardly been consistent about the damned thing

Could be true, I'm not sure. I haven't felt Labour to have distinguished themselves…

Peter Haynes

Tue, 09 Feb 2016 13:07:06 +1300

How strange. Some of Hooton's more recent commentary was beginning to sound reasonably sane.

BenWilson

Tue, 09 Feb 2016 13:04:27 +1300

Most people also recognize it’s important than ever that more New Zealanders have advanced education. As machines and algorithms make ever more jobs obsolete, people need the smarts and ability to do jobs that aren’t easily replaced.

I do wish, however, that the justification of advanced education was less about…

Emma Hart

Tue, 09 Feb 2016 12:55:20 +1300

labels of extreme this or that are but tools employed to control the discussion… please don’t get caught up in justifying left and right cause you’re all bunched in the centre (much to my dismay)

Yeah, from a Person of the Left POV, having Labour accused of being Leftist and…

Sacha

Tue, 09 Feb 2016 12:49:17 +1300

The booing of teflon John at that league game must be worrying the Nat comms folk.

bob daktari

Tue, 09 Feb 2016 12:40:55 +1300

don't think its education national are worried about in polling – TPPA has dwarfed any policy announcements by labour – also a topic labour are vulnerable on, as they've hardly been consistent about the damned thing

BenWilson

Tue, 09 Feb 2016 12:32:14 +1300

It seems like desperate stuff from Hooton, and I concur with the sense that the popularity of the education policy is most likely causing genuine fears among the most extreme right in National. Accuse the other side of being extreme from an extreme position. Relative to where you're shrieking from…

Rich of Observationz

Tue, 09 Feb 2016 12:20:39 +1300

Right-wing commentator attacks left in right-wing magazine. Weather up next.

Why give such people credence, or enable them by kicking their ball on. Better to just ignore.

llew40

Tue, 09 Feb 2016 12:08:29 +1300

Whilst I am sure that MH has (at least in this column) his finger firmly pressed on his big red 'troll Labour tribalists' button, I do think there is some truthiness that Labour strategists should be well aware of (and probably are). Its a fact that they've not been elected…

Gregor Ronald

Tue, 09 Feb 2016 11:49:29 +1300

This sort of distraction is straight from the Crosby-Textor songbook.

Craig Young

Tue, 09 Feb 2016 10:02:27 +1300

It would seem that Hooton is trying out the same smear tactics that are being used against Corbyn in the British Labour context. And as for 'left' credentials, the far left views Andrew Little and EPMU as anathema, given that they are supposedly a 'conservative' trade union, whatever that means.…

bob daktari

Tue, 09 Feb 2016 09:53:28 +1300

National are better players on defence and offence than Labour, they control a much better PR and marketing machine than Labour and if the extreme left card is the one they are playing now don't be surprised if it stays in play right up until the next election – file…

Public Address

Tue, 09 Feb 2016 09:53:28 +1300

Discussion from blog post.