Posts by giovanni tiso
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Hard News: Vision and dumbassery, in reply to Jake Starrow,
It sometimes occurs to me that even asking a strident feminist the time has its risks
Don't worry, men think you're an imbecile too.
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I assume Whaledump has pulled the plug and passed on the material because of today's hearing?
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By way of counter-example, my parents both went to Catholic schools and were both molested by priests.
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Hard News: Never mind the quality ..., in reply to David Hood,
Brownlee's press secretary just seems to have been identified by email address, but if the Herald have some good data analysis people they could do a lot more. This aspect may just be getting started.
The other best investigative journalist in the country is working on this. I suspect National's strategy people are changing their underwear on an hourly basis.
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Hard News: Never mind the quality ..., in reply to Pete George,
That shows that they discussed doing it, nothing more. Hide has said it didn't happen and there are no facts to indicate that it did actually happen is there?
The book makes pretty careful claims based on the documents it has. Hide would have pretty strong motivations to deny something that it actually happened - but it doesn't matter, insofar as Hager's claims (Lusk and Slater discussed blackmailing Hide, Lusk said he was going to do it, Lusk reported back he had done it, Hide resigned) are all things that actually happened.
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Hard News: Never mind the quality ..., in reply to Sacha,
'emphatically disputed' doesn't amount to disproved. Why are you so keen to defend these guys anyway?
Plus, you know, we actually have the messages exchanged between Lusk and Slater about the Hide blackmail, and no-one is disputing their veracity. So either they were lying to each other, or...
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Hard News: Never mind the quality ..., in reply to Russell Brown,
Sorry if I've missed it Pete, but have you at any point devoted any of your unending outrage towards the actual hideous content of that rape conversation? Or expressed sympathy for the young women being targeted by these creeps?
You will recall Peter is the guy who compared asking sponsors to give money to Rape Prevention Education to date rape.
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Hard News: Never mind the quality ..., in reply to Susi Maclean,
I just bought the damned book, because I passed a rare thing after my lunchtime coffee today - an actual real honest-to-goodness suburban bookshop and I love to keep great stuff like that alive. So I will digest. And ponder.
So, you called Hager a grassy knoll conspiracist without having read the book? That makes you the quintessential Panel guest.
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Hard News: Never mind the quality ..., in reply to WH,
I've always thought of Phil Goff as a basically decent guy.
Okay, let's not say things we can never take back now.
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Hard News: Never mind the quality ..., in reply to Russell Brown,
That editorial is a trainwreck.
If that editorial is a train wreck, then Jane Clifton's piece in the same issue is a plane crashing into an erupting volcano.