Posts by simon g
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Continuing the general theme of "unsolicited advice for the Greens from uninformed sources", here's the latest: the Rotorua Daily Post manages three factual errors in one short editorial. Helpfully available on the NZ Herald website, in the ignorance-sharing process known as Hosking (I hosk, you hosk, everybody hosk).
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Hard News: The Day After Tomorrow, in reply to BenWilson,
Eventually that massive sector of the Green support who voted for them so we could get the National Party again will surely rear its head.
Yep. They've had plenty of encouragement to do so, but they do seem remarkably shy.
Regardless of the make-up of the next government, these Centrist greens (or Pure greens, or whatever they will call themselves) will have up to three years to organise and choose one of two options: a) good old-fashioned entryism, to change the Green Party from within, or b) forming a new party to harness this huge desire for Unleft Greenery and storm the 5% citadel next election.
It's not as if they'd have a problem getting seed money. Every astroturfer from the Free Speech Coalition to the Taxpayers' Union would be happy to share their mailing lists (which are probably identical). And they would get plenty of headlines. All they'll be missing is voters.
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Speaker: The Government lost the election, in reply to Matthew Hooton,
I really don’t see any evidence more civics education is needed.
Rebuttal: Two minutes reading Stuff comments.
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That post-election coverage in full:
All five parties in Parliament:
"We will now proceed to form alignments, as promised to our respective voters. Two on each side, opposing each other, and one in between, negotiating. In other words, we will do exactly what we said we would do, before the election."
Sundry commentators: "Do something else!"
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Please don't ban him. Keep providing the rope. It's going to be a slow news week in politics, so it might well interest some in the media to know that National's lying (sorry, masterful) ad campaign came from the furthest reaches of far right.
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Hard News: Media Take: The selling of…, in reply to Glenn Jameson,
You keep referring to a solitary TV3 soundbite as if it were the last word, the tablets of stone, the verdict that shall not be appealed. Such desperation is almost touching.
The fact that you have to ignore all other commentary in all other media (including that cited on this thread) speaks volumes.
Still, if you want to use TV3 as the Incontrovertible Umpire Henceforth, we can play that game too. Mr Gower would love that ... he did explicitly call you and your party liars, after all.
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Glenn's doing us all a service, really. You expect this kind of argument ("blind Labour voters") on Kiwiblog and other homes of the frothing Right, but National have played deniability for years. Separating their nasty followers on the fringe from the nice sensible Nats who we can totally trust.
Now we've been shown it comes from the very heart of their campaign. Thanks for letting us know.
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Hard News: Media Take: The selling of…, in reply to Glenn Jameson,
It's 30 years since the Willie Horton ads, so I think wheeling out the defence of "they only mean exactly what they say, honest guv" was stale a very long time ago. No, it doesn't say "family home", it just wants the viewer to say "family home", etc. The aim was to mislead, and it worked.
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Having just watched Winston's media conference (or onslaught), I am now officially "relaxed" about the negotiations. If NZF can support Labour on confidence and supply only, I'm fine with that.
But if he wants to be a Minister, National can have him.
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Speaker: The Government lost the election, in reply to Neil,
I didn't realise how many senior National and Labour MPs trust and respect Peters. They could have at least told us before the election.
Heh. He's a great statesman, you know.
In 2008 NZF got over 4% of the vote, and if they'd made it to 5% the National Party would have un-ruled him out sharpish. Now it seems 2008 never happened at all. The truth jetted out again.