Posts by stephen clover
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to nzlemming,
Hmmm, Espiner seems to have remembered what a journalist’s job is.
Yeah, it's strange. I may be partisan -- though I'm trying to not be -- the day before w David Cunliffe he was just obnoxious and silly.
But that would require leadership, rather than “media management”.
I'm gasping, dying to detect some leadership from our "leaders".
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Alfie,
Judith Collins has put her foot in her mouth again.
Espiner w. Bill English on RNZ this morning on this was... interesting...
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Hard News: Didn't see that coming, in reply to nzlemming,
Any ideas why Matthew Hooton has been so open in his calls to sack Collins ? Has he had a falling-out with some of the Nats and their mates ?
I’d have thought he’d toed the party line, but he’s made repeated calls.
My reading is that there are factions, and factions, and even factions-within-factions. Exhibit A: the non-successful Rodney hopeful Brent Robinson publicly criticizing Mark Mitchell’s public distancing of himself from Lusk/Slater*. Exhibit B: how careful is Bill English with his words these days? Exhibit C: how many times lately have you heard the phrase “rogue element” from a Nat in relation to the Nats? Exhbit D: Collins: (paraphrasing) “Slater’s my friend and I don’t always agree with my friends but I’m very loyal"nek minnit “I always agree with the Prime Minister.”
And on and on. From a distance they’re a political party. Up close they’re an accident – or indeed a collection of accidents – waiting to happen. Hooton’s lining up with one of them – and it’s not the same one as includes the PM.
* Speaking of: knowing what we know, or at least what we think we know.. how is that guy even still in the frame!? Ethics, much?
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Hard News: Didn't see that coming, in reply to Matthew Hooton,
Matthew I suggest you listen to Kim Dotcom on Morning Report this morning pronto so you can stop spouting such oddities as
hacking into Helmut Kohl’s IT
(hint: it involves the German credit rating system SCHUFA :-)
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Giovanni Tiso tweeted:
People who are putting down Pam Corkery have no idea about the tactics used by Internet Parties overseas, do they? Not a clue.
.. and the ensuing conversation was enlightening to say the least.
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Hard News: Never mind the quality ..., in reply to Kumara Republic,
If not, and Key loses 2014, it would be a world first for NZ.
Well, that would be a nice positive note for him to go out on. Something to take away from what would otherwise be a situation with few redeeming features.
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to nzlemming,
Yep, but my point was that (to my surprise) that cat unfortunately was already out of the bag. As they say.
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to nzlemming,
Very unclear why Slater is passing them to Ede, but he has laid into one of them in the past.
Jolyon White was a partner of Green Party co-leader Russel Norman's executive assistant. The same day, Norman admitted vandalism of more than 700 National Party billboard was co-ordinated by White, but said it was not related to the Green Party.
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to nzlemming,
[edit2] The missing one is of Slater sending Ede some details of people that have been identified by their motorcycle licence plates by a third party. Probably withdrawn because it compromised their privacy.
Yep, bingo. Maybe someone will redact all over it and re-publish.
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Kirk Alexander,
However, the imgur posts have everything that was included.
Nope, they are missing one of the images. 11 of 12.