Posts by stephen clover
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Hard News: We can do better than this, in reply to CJM,
Interesting that the Herald have stopped all reader comments on any political stories the past couple of days….
Interesting that WhaleOil has stopped casual readers from being able to browse members comment history...
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Hard News: We can do better than this, in reply to Kracklite,
warnings please!
Yeah look sorry about that. I had intended to leave a warning, but kinda forgot when I ran out of time and had to run for the bus.
Sofie Bribiesca:
Yep, I hit it for 5 secs then
You hit.. your desk with your head? :)
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Hard News: We can do better than this, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
What is the expertise of the Canon Awards Judge? Is there more than one?
There was one judge in the blog category, Deborah Hill Cone. Unsure as to expertise. She apparently wrote that she had to hold her nose in order to give it to him.
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Hard News: We can do better than this, in reply to Kumara Republic,
She swatted away allegations of partisan bias with “I’m just a gossip columnist.”
Content to remain part of the problem, I guess.
Meanwhile, Farrar on The Panel this afternoon. I don't even.
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Jos,
So who or what is Tinkerbelle?
It’s the nasty anti-gay slur directed at Chris Finlayson by Trevor Mallard and Clayton Cosgrove.
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to nzlemming,
[Key] “anyone who knows Cameron Slater knows that he’s a force unto himself”.
almost exactly what Farrar was claiming last week. These guys need better writers.
Not only that, but they say it as if it excuses everything.
Newsflash: it excuses not one damn thing.
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Richard Aston,
Did it actually reveal anything new? Not sure and maybe the full frontal “yes or no” approach will never actually reveal anything.
Poor guy. It must be like a tight-rope act for him. On the one hand he has to try to run the official lines which are designed to insulate National & the govt from damage – but at the same time he has to dovetail those with the lines his private advisers are concocting in order to maintain sufficient distance so that when everything REALLY blows up he can claim ignorance / deception by his Ministers and staff and still walk away smiling.
The stress!
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2008 is a long time ago and I'd been struggling, but thank god for Branko Marcetic whose memory is clearly better than mine: When John Key was concerned about dirty politics
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Lucy Telfar Barnard,
Has anyone asked the PM whether he thinks attack politics are a bad thing?
Guyon v Prime Minister, just now on NatRad: You'd think someone in the media was reading this.
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Interestingly, it appears that a vast proportion of WhaleOil readers use Macs and surf in from... outer space?
Or else they're bots, gaming his stats much as Danyl predicted several days ago.
Wonder it this'll have any impact on his tobacco/alcohol/whatever industry backing...