Posts by Jeremy Eade
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"I'd like to point out that I've been hybridising for quite a while now: since 1991, when Hard News was first born as a radio commentary."
Absolutely ,your ancient. In the 90's Hard News was a friday morning current affairs highlight on a radio station that was blitzing a lot of demographics it wasn't supposed to own. It was an incredibly popular news segment and an eye opener to plenty of the common people that Clifton seems to feel can't grasp political discussion. Slagging political bloggers as a frenzied indistinguishable mass is just a poor story that seems to have been written every week in traditional media for the last 5 years...
.... and why the irrational pairing?
Russell is Russell, farrar is farrar. ..hagar/ wishart ??????? I don't see any real connection there. Wouldn't it be more sensible for J.C to challenge ideas rather than fret about the medium . It' s all just written word.
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"Keep up -- you do realise that "Deep Throat" was a notorious (and enormously successful) dirty movie in the 70's? As the little sneak doesn't think we deserve to know his identity, I just thought I'd keep up a fine tradition.'
Where was I when they taught political / porn analogy at school? I thought we stopped (thank god)at "deepthroat" but Craig well done for reviving it. You'll never run out of titles.
"dirty movie in the 70's" - wot naked ladies and that? -
Would a CEO of a company let a senior executive tell 2 different stories to him. He'd want clarity.
.....i mean that you're employing a government for 3 years, you're encouraged to ask questions. That guys got every right to ask and even challenge bill in civil discussion. politics has to be honest and consistent to work.
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"Jeremy: I'm seriously not trying to pick a fight here, but you'd really want to defend a employee covertly taping staff meetings? Really?"
I wanna see your side dude and agree taping is fucked, imagine what mayhem you could cause.
but he's a politician talking politics, would it have been more acceptable if he wrote bills answers down on a napkin?
I can't get passed that when you talk politics to a citizen you are in the public domain.
.....i can't work out the debbie does dallas thing. .....don't bring porn into it, it's distracting.
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"It is not illegal, and in fact is common practice for both members of the public and party members to record conversations on policy with m.ps."
Yes, this isn't secret taping. That's right, we are talking about a politician talking politics...what is wrong with knowing how he answers political questions? why would that be a crime to tape?
Would a CEO of a company let a senior executive tell 2 different stories to him. He'd want clarity.
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"That's one of the biggest problems I have with conservatives: They tend to like talking about how the government should be kept out of people's lives, but often then contradict this stance on certain "moral" issues. I wish a few more conservatives would change their minds as Goldwater did."
Sure , it almost makes tags of liberal and conservative meaningless. I
think we are well over due to move to an issues based political analysis and leave conservative and liberal to family first and the libertarians.Thanks for the article steve it was a good read. Buckley understood history and balance sheets although he was on record in saying he supported the war on cheneys false initial WOMD premise.
Sorry if I sounded overly combative......american political conservatism is just crazy given the political climate that that great country was set up in.
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Secret agenda"?
I think the phrase "secret agenda" is misleading. We are talking about a "suspended" agenda. Thats what secret agent man confirmed for us and while Bills words aren't shocking or that contradictory to his previous historical statements it suggests strongly that national are suffering us an electorate, patting us on the head until they can bring back an agenda they seem to be incredibly keen on, a more aggressive private sector role in the economy.
Which is a policy thats worth investigating? Convince us or go away until you can convince us.
There is an irony too about secret taping in that the whole show now seems to have been secretly video taped by the Wellington town hall. Maybe we do need some better laws about this . Secret taping is scary , who taped Mike Williams? Who started this bullshit.
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"Buckley was a Goldwater republican if we must label him, and nothing could be further from a neo-con on that side of that particular pale.
Correct. (And here’s a good blog on Goldwater, while I’m at it.)"I believe you'll find goldwater was a goldwater republican , (although which goldwater are we talking about? His views changed in later life as far as i can see.)
For sure Buckley never rocked up to work with a "neoconservatism rocks " t shirt but he shouldn't be romantised either. His views are more important than dissociating him from a title.
The neo-cons can't even defend themselves, Buckleys efforts would have been in vain. He is an unfortunate influence. He was forwarding a vision of america uber alles over a better plan for other communities and nations at a time when american political commentary had the potential to do a lot better.
The republican party of america , the political office of american conservatism is an archaic machine that has done incredible damage to the world, i can't get all dewey eyed about its history and i call myself a conservative.
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i think cullen was wrong to berate guyon however his private words weren't inconsistent with his public stance.
...as opposed to say John Tamihere
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i can't read all that poetry craig, it would take me all day. I've got a record collection, it's faster.
I think Pope had it right on butterflies.