Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: Barclay and arrogance, in reply to Mandy S,
And this just serves to highlight how incredibly important investigative journalism still is in this country.
Great comment Mandy, thank you for making it.
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Hoo-boy. Newsroom's team is giving a masterclass in follow-up story staging today.
And now, this ...
The National Party is reviewing the selection of Todd Barclay as its Clutha-Southland candidate following allegations of a rushed process, improper votes and “delegate stacking” with his family members and supporters.
National’s rules committee, tasked with providing legal advice and support to the party board, is understood to be investigating nearly half of the 18 electorate branches in the Southland seat and could yet call for Barclay’s selection to be revoked.
The sitting MP was re-selected as the party’s candidate for the 2017 election last December, despite a challenge from former Merrill Lynch banker Simon Flood amid discontent from some sections of the electorate.
This is particularly interesting given that Farrar's list of defensive talking points today included the "sore losers" angle ...
Since then a small group within the local party have been campaigning against Todd. They tried to get elected to the electorate committee and challenge him for the nomination. They failed massively, with Todd receiving the overwhelming support of the members.
The reason the members are supporting Todd isn’t because they approve of everything he has done. They do not, and many members will freely give advice as to how he could do better in certain areas. But they are supporting Todd because they are disgusted with the behaviour of those trying to bring him down, regardless of the damage it does to the party.
His line is similar to what Whaleoil posted after the selection in N0vember.
Perhaps they're part of the same faction in what appears to be a vicious internecine squabble. But that shouldn't be the public's fucking problem.
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But anyway ... the story now seems less that English and Barclay lied after the story broke today, but that they've all been lying about this for more than a year.
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Hard News: Barclay and arrogance, in reply to Trevor Nicholls,
That’s a useful tell. Somebody with lots of time could go back over a few of his older interviews and check them out.
I reckon. It'd be a terrible job but someone should do it.
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Then-Prime Minister Key being totally disengaged about the Barclay thing in March last year.
The actual audio is amazing. His diction flattens right out when he's fibbing.
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Hard News: Barclay and arrogance, in reply to BenWilson,
Yup. I mean, I'm pretty quick at writing blog posts, but ...
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Hard News: Friday Music: Melodrama, in reply to Ken Double,
What is it though with favouring producers who used to be in previously useless guitar pop bands? Who’s next? Does someone from Fall Out Boy have a relevant CV?
Lol. I always thought it was sweet that Ella used to tease Joel about having been in Goodnight Nurse.
Funny thing is, I like almost everything all of them have done since they stopped being a terrible pop-punk band.
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Hard News: Touching Waterview, in reply to BenWilson,
Traffic expanding to use available resources is a bit of a problem
Yeah. Induced demand could be a serious problem.
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Some more details. Yeah, I used a filter on one. It looks nice.
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Wow: Melodrama is tracking at 89% on Metacritic. Raves from Pitchfork, the NYT, Guardian, etc.
