Posts by Sacha
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trollish prickery
I'm genuine in my derision I assure you. And I'm not the one who suggested that line of action as a suitable remedy. If you're looking for "derailment", you'll need to look further.
And Gio, "well" is the trigger prefix you need to look for :)
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Oh look. Cheerful intellectual Kerre Woodham provides a case study in not letting the facts get in the way:
Phil Goff thundered sanctimoniously that Heatley's position went to his head. He'd barely been minister for a year, Phil Goff expostulated, and his sense of entitlement was such that he ordered two bottles of wine with dinner.
Uh no, he expected taxpayers to pay for his wine at his party's annual conference, and the way it was recorded did not seem to match - later explained in detail by the audit office as a misunderstanding involving the Minister's staff.
But getting that right that would require thinking and research of course. Better throw in some blunt digs about Carter's sexuality instead. Let the satisfying talkback sanctimony continue...
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Amidst the Herald editorial's obituary for Jones' leadership aspirations (as if leadership only comes in one flavour) is this detail about Carter's spending I hadn't heard so far:
Most gallingly, he used his ministerial card to buy flowers for Lianne Dalziel after she was sacked as Immigration Minister for lying about having leaked documents to a television channel.
The logic by which he could regard it as a ministerial duty to console a colleague who had sought to deceive the public remains obscure to everybody but him, it appears.
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Yeah because those media standards watchdogs have absolutely spanked liars in the past, haven't they. Journos, presenters and editors will be quaking in their boots.
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Chris Carter threatens to take his ball home.
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But did he pay for his own cigars?
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You need a blue dress to really get them going, I've heard #intern
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Be an uninformed conversation anyway. None of us have ever watched it, nor inhaled.
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Watching porn in public is likely to get you arrested for "offensive" behaviour. Some might argue the same should apply to Meg Ryan's performance, but it doesn't. Most people know this.
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CNN - spill estimate doubles