Posts by Joe Wylie
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In the immediate aftermath of the election John Key came across favourably compared with the spiteful insecurity that marked John Howard's rise to power back in 1996. The generous tribute to Helen Clark, with the expressed hope that she'd continue to serve NZ in some capacity, couldn't have been further from Howard's petty and spiteful purge of dissenting elements, even within his own party, in his paranoid drive to rule the political roost.
I think it was Tom Scott who once described David Lange as the affable front man for a bunch of vicious little kneecappers. That was well into Lange's career as PM. While I should have known better, I'm surprised to see Key cash in on the nice guy credentials that got him elected so early in the game.
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How about "Lyndon Hood has a lend of you".
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. . . some folks in my partner's employer (Kiwirail) are spending a less time flying off to Wellington for the day . . .
Kiwirail - that's two flightless birds. Carbon footprints aside, it's against nature that anyone in their employ should fly at all.
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It's like telling a joke and pausing just before the punchline to say "this is going to really make you laugh"
Perhaps it's done on solid legal advice, à la "serving suggestion only".
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What a barrel of laughs Hone Harawira is shaping up to be. With the right face-furniture he'd blow Jim Hopkins off the stage at the next National shindy.
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You fool! Hasn't Muriel Newman already told us it was the Chinese who got here first?
Thankfully, no. If she had I'd still be receiving spam for whatever it is that her husband's flogging these days.
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Mr Hide, who will sit on the committee, has said as far as he was concerned the committee will get to look at the issue of the science theory behind climate change.
Submissions on the Celtic pre-Polynesian settlement of NZ will be warmly welcomed.
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Ben Wilson:
I see the the parallels though I can a tell Joe's a kiwi by the use of the phrase "dog tucker" - draws blanks stares here.
So, if this was an Australian blog, what would have been an appropriate phrase - torn apart by ravening drop bears?
Hey hey, Blinky Bill
Likes human flesh
He loves to killAnyway, if ever there was a politician who seemed to presume upon an ongoing honeymoon with the media it was Brash. It's a lesson that Key seems to have learned well.
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http://www.uk.youtube.com/watch?v=rAS4ltt7DzI
Richard Thompson does Britney. There's a scattered giggle when the audience recognises the number, which soon gives way to the realisation that a great pop song is a great song. -
__I think journalists are a little mesmerised by him, and, by implication, their own power to anoint and un-anoint__
That's very persuasive analysis, Caleb. Ta.
Isn't it. It's an interesting - and very real - phenomenon. While I'm not suggesting any parallel with Key I remember an Alan Moir cartoon, from the mid-90s Sydney Morning Herald, showing the short-term Liberal leader Alexander Downer, crowned with laurel and borne aloft on a litter, about to be tipped over a precipice by the massed cheering hordes of the media, while John Howard lurks expectantly in the foreground.
The demonstrably gormless Downer never gave the sense of holding the initiative. Once he'd enjoyed his heady media-assisted rush to the top it's almost as if he looked to them to ask Now what? In that moment they smelt blood, and his decline into dog-tucker was as rapid as his rise.