Hard News: The perils of political confidence
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Kumara Republic, in reply to
Meanwhile, dear Media and Politicians, if you’re so concerned #teapottapes are a “distraction from real issues” why didn’t you dedicate the lengthy airtime you just wasted on said real issues instead? Crazy talk, right?
Because real issues don't sell as many papers as Zac Guildford's whatevers, right?
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I for one am sick of all those unemployed lip readers sitting around collecting the dole while trying to work out what people on TV are saying, before heading out to cause criminal mayhem in the leafy suburbs. ACT policy is to put them to work!
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Then there is the genre of "Bad Lip Reading"
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Craig Ranapia, in reply to
Perhaps – but I can at least feel a microscopic grain of grudging respect for tabloid scum who are candidly and shamelessly bitches of the circulation department – and will do anything to feed that Moloch. Wagging your finger with one hand while the other is elbow deep in a steaming shit pile is just rank hypocrisy.
Give me an up front bastard over a two-faced one, any day of the week. At least with the former, you can see where the cowpie in the face is coming from.
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Rich Lock, in reply to
Geddis also raises an interesting point as to whether the clearing out of the media from the café was a legally enforceable demand. The media were asked to leave, but their almost total compliance seems to have been purely voluntary.
A lot of the stills and footage I've seen show a number of Joe and Josephine Punter-types sitting at nearby tables studiously attempting to ignore the WTF-ness going on a couple of metres away. Assuming they are punters and not cunningly-disguised DPS officers, this would tend to add some weight to this point. And also undermine the 'reasonable expectation of privacy' defence.
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Sacha, in reply to
lip readers
nice tweet along those lines yesterday from Bryony Hilless.
"Are they watching?" "Yes" "Do u know if I say colourful, lip readers will think I said I love you?" [insane giggling]
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BenWilson, in reply to
I am surprised the media, one outlet did, hasn't remembered that this tea chat thing is an MMP code word for vote this way not that I'm telling you to.
I think 3News responded in kind by not publishing the tapes, but instead cutting to grilling Banks over a leadership coup. They can play the hint-hint game too.
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Kumara Republic, in reply to
Give me an up front bastard over a two-faced one, any day of the week. At least with the former, you can see where the cowpie in the face is coming from.
Indeed. While the Murdoch tabloids are shallow and tacky, at least we know where they stand. But broadsheets resorting to tabloidism while still presenting a broadsheet face, well, lipstick and pigs, much?
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Has anyone called this the cuppa hacker scandal yet?
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Craig Ranapia, in reply to
A lot of the stills and footage I’ve seen show a number of Joe and Josephine Punter-types sitting at nearby tables studiously attempting to ignore the WTF-ness going on a couple of metres away.
Which is really an endearing feature of the Kiwi character I think. I have a friend who almost had a stroke while standing behind Sigourney Weaver in line at a cafe. She managed to resist blurting out “OMFGOMFGItotallyLOVEyouPLEASEpleasePLEASEsay"GetawayfromherYOUBITCH!”, peeing herself, then fainting. We’re stoic, us Kiwis. :)
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
Has anyone called this the cuppa hacker scandal yet?
or even The Mad Chatters Tea Party?
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3410,
Not since the following has tea so obsessed a nation.
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I was going to go for something like 'chimps tea-party'. But that could be taken as a bit ad hominem, so I won't, and the only reason I was thinking it is because it has that 'feeding time at the zoo' element to it, which applies more to the media scrum than the two participants.
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The best caption i have seen in regards to the picture is '... once more the sith shall rule the galaxy ...'
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
'chimps tea-party'. But that could
be taken as a bit ad hominem......or possibly add hominid
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Kumara Republic, in reply to
or even The Mad Chatters Tea Party?
Merc had it best with the Two Johnnies. One of them is still missing the glasses though.
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it's in the bag...
There is a 'pursed slips' element to it all, lip readers aside they should have got a signer, to make sure it would all fall on deaf eyes...
Defies belief really...
I wish the media would get back to parsing policy and quit with first pass the purse... -
Rich Lock, in reply to
hominid
I had a feeling you'd remind me of the word I was struggling to think of, and pun on it.
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And reliable as the dinner gong, Phil Goff opens his mouth and blows it:
Labour leader Phil Goff says police have better things to do than get involved in a political spat between a newspaper and the National party.
Whatever you think the merits of the complaint are (I'd say the general consensus around here is "invisible to the naked eye"), were the Police supposed to just tell Key to piss off? Really?
It had become a criminal matter because John Key was refusing to be transparent, Mr Goff said.
No, Phil, it became a Police matter because a complaint was laid.
There needed to be media ethics around private conversations, but the public understood that the meeting between Key and John Banks over a cup of tea had been a political stunt, he said.
On-message, but not only really irrelevant but a little rich coming from that quarter. :)
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merc,
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Rob S, in reply to
I wouldn't consider this to be an attack on the police but more querying why John Key felt it to be necessary to involve them in such a marginal matter that would have other forms of recourse.
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merc,
The Johnnies had a reserved table, you can see the sign on the table in the photo. When they walked in Johnnie 1 started hand shaking all the other patrons, Johnnie 2 started issuing his business cards.
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Craig Ranapia, in reply to
I think when you're accusing National of "politicising" the Police (which has been the running headline on National Radio), it would be nice if you weren't quite so open to the same charge. And not for the first time, I find myself wondering why Goff (or his advisors) seem incapable of going for anything but the most silly attack line on offer.
Is everybody off their tits on hash tea today?
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merc, in reply to
That'd be a hell of a waste of hash, leaf on the other hand...
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Sacha, in reply to
attacking the messenger is a tactic as old as the hills
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