Posts by Wammo
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Unfortunately, the star blogger couldn't get the name of the band right. It's not "Little Bushmen" or "The Little Bushmen". The name of the band is Little Bushman. Perhaps this stuff should be left to the amateurs.
Someone is wrong on the internets!!
The paid blogger boiling my blood this week resides at the herald.
I've no idea where media find these several protesters who yell their homes were "destroyed" and they are "homeless" because of the Beijing Olympics.
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It looks like a fantastic invention, not quite the imagined rocket pack, but definitely a fun toy with probable military applications as well.
I'm sure Ian Sinclair was excited to be the first journalist to give it a spin, but to spend a significant portion of the news item gloating about all the other major news agencies queuing up to have a go was cringe worthy.
The on screen "Sunday Journalist" tag under Ian's name was a clue for the inevitable Sunday program promo from Simon after the item.
The gloating and promo during the news were an unwelcome distraction from the invention.
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The invincible Ross Kemp barks orders at the motley crew while David Bain whimpers in his foxhole as bullets whiz by, eventually forced to hold the rifle in trembling hands and fire his first bullet.
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While we're plugging the virtues of scooting I've been riding my Kymco Espresso 150cc for over 2 years now and I don't see myself on 4 wheels any time soon. I'd discourage anyone thinking about getting anything less than 125cc. If you can't ride with traffic or feel shepherded to the side of the road you're unsafe and at the mercy of more hazards.
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Wammo, didn't you get more frank responses from Dr Brash in his guise as Dr Love?
Well yes and its one of the elements of politics I find very sad. Often the real personality behind veteran and seasoned politicians can get lost in the cut and thrust. So in between questions about tax cuts, the health system and the exclusive brethren we would ask Don honest and frank love advice questions from "listeners". He would answer them in the most honest and frank way he could, a real sport really. You'll have to listen to get the idea.
This also reminds me of a fantastic wee documentary called Journeys with George. A road movie with George Bush during the 2000 election. Its documents a personable fun guy who becomes more and more wooden as polling day gets closer and it becomes apparent that he could actually win.
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it doesn't have the crisp decisiveness of Clark, and Dunne's restating commonsense approach is less circuitous. Do you think it's a deliberate tactic? Or has his media training just not kicked in yet?
Was Don Brash's public bumbling and doddering a deliberate tactic? Probably not. Endearing perhaps, but not a conscious political strategy
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but this is the destructive behaviour of politician getting desperate - and clumsy in his declining days.
I think that assumes that politics needs to be a game played on a chess board or poker table as opposed real world people answering real questions in an honest manner.
Everyone knew what he said is fact before he even said it, just as we know Helen will get a job at the UN.
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If Bill English had gone on Alt TV and said that if National loses, he would be in the running for leadership, do people here think the media should have ignored it?
The media ignored it when John Key expressed the same kind of interest before Don stepped down
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But what was everyone else thinking by running with it?
What was "big tits" doing a promo on Campbell Live the other night? And 3 news wonders where the viewers are going...
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There is no fuss!
John Key was rather smug in parliament yesterday when he advised Helen to watch the 6pm news, already aware that is was about to blow up.
I'd have to dig through my audio archives from my RDU days but I'm pretty sure I've got John Key on record saying something along the lines of "I'm not interested in taking the leadership from Don Brash right now but if that opportunity came up and Don decided to step down..."
Which is exactly what Goff was saying. No fuss back then because John was only stating the obvious. Don't we want our politicians to be bleeding honest and to stop side-stepping questions? I'd expect now we can expect more fancy footwork when they answer questions in the lead-up to the election. Making the the job for the very journalists who blew this way out of proportion yesterday that much harder.