Unbelievably awesome
Via Laughing Squid: This morning in NYC international pranksters The Yes Men recruited volunteers through the website Because We Want It to distribute thousands of copies of a […]
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The Nats on Iraq
The Nats have had two responses to English’s “pull the trigger” comments revealed last night: first the taping itself was branded a “dirty […]
English “worried” about Obama
More from 3News tonight on the secret recordings taken at the Naitonal Party conference in August. This time it’s Bill English expressing concern over […]
Synchronised presidential debating
(Via: boingboing.net)
Lockwood vs Lockwood
A different ‘story of two National party guys’ from 08wire:
Google “In Quotes”
This is clever from Google labs – In Quotes. It allows you to compare people’s quotes on a variety of issues, having pulled […]
Debtmonster
UPDATE: The Pink Batts original is youtubed here.
CTU YouTube vid
Yep, that’s a pusy Roger Douglas zombie eye staring at you. Ew.
Live: Helen Clark launches Labour campaign
Hooten shows his true colours
The Herald reports that producers had to interrupt the filming of today’s Eye to Eye because Mathew Hooten called Winston Peters a “f***ing […]
In case you missed it
Here’s the footage from 3News last night on the fresh National Party cocktail revelations. Bill English’s comments again serve to reinforce the message […]
Sarah Palin on CBS News
Apologies for the ad on the start of this but what follows is worth seeing. (Hat-tip: Boing Boing) [lprent: removed cbs clip because […]
Credit where it’s due
I’m usually no fan of Paul Henry as an interviewer but I’m prepared to give credit where it’s due. He certainly didn’t let […]
Cartoon
Burned
Under the headline “National MP ‘least prefered’ in own website opinion poll” the Kapiti News reports that Nathan Guy trails Darren Hughes 5% […]
No policy?
A reader just sent us the screenshot below with the attached explanation: Thought I should start to read up on some of the […]
Who’s clueless?
Visit google.co.nz search for the word “clueless” then hit “I’m feeling lucky”. I wonder where you’ll end up… Update: Make sure you select […]
Sideshow
With an almost Winston-esqe turn of phrase Owen Glenn has labelled Labour Party president Mike Williams an “unmitigated falsifier of veracity”. Yet Glen […]
National on student loans
ACT unauthorised
ACT: the guts to do what’s right1 2 1. except when it comes to properly authorising our election advertisements 2. oh, and global […]
Ashcroft’s jet spotted in Wellington too
An astute reader just sent us this – they spotted Ashcroft’s jet parked at Lyall Bay on Saturday August 30 and managed to […]
Key: “I just followed what was in my diary”
TV3 revealed last night that John Key has recently met with billionaire Tory donor Lord Michael Ashcroft. Lord Ashcroft clearly preferred that the […]
Wave goodbye to National’s crappy slogan
Over to you (click the image below for the high res version – 300K JPG): send us your versions and we’ll post them under […]
Labour’s 2008 list
Comment soon but for now here’s their full list (PDF link). Scoop’s got their presser up. [lprent: Handmirror: A Woman’s Place: The Labour […]
Franks: “grumpy Christians and whining gays”
Here’s National’s Wellington Central candidate Stephen Franks giving his view on Civil Unions. I’m not even really sure what to say about it. […]
Cullen on Nat apologies
Say what you will about his politics, you can’t beat Cullen for wit. Here he is on the similarities between Labour and National following Williamson’s enthusiastic […]
Cartoon: Paying the toll
Greens back emissions trading scheme
The Greens have decided to back the government’s emissions trading scheme saying in a press release that it’s a start but there’s more […]
Nearly half of voters think Nats have secret agenda
Here’s TV3’s coverage from last night. They’ve just completed a poll in which 45.7% of those surveyed think National has a secret agenda.
Sales pitch
He just doesn’t give up does he? Maurice Williamson was spotted this morning still trying to sell his toll booth idea to Auckland […]
Why I love The Daily Show
They’ve just erected this billboard in Minneapolis-Saint Paul to welcome delegates to the Republican National Convention.
Drinking Liberally (AKL) with Laila Harre
WHAT: Drinking Liberally Auckland City WHO: You and any of your left-leaning companeros WHEN: 7.30pm, Wednesday 27th August WHERE: London Bar, cnr Wellesley […]
Policy by focus group
Colin Espiner on the Nats’ energy policy: …National’s energy policy is conservative and lacking in new ideas… What it has delivered is a […]
The Standard turns one
Today’s our first birthday. A year ago I had the privilege of the first post. It was on John Key’s contradictory statements about […]
Cartoon: Attacking the poor
The Child Poverty Action Group thinks that National’s welfare policy is likely to hurt vulnerable children.
Giving with one hand, taking with the other
I’ve gotta admit feeling a little bit sorry for Key over the story of his offer to donate “a good part” of his […]