Things that make you go “Hmmmm”
Sepp Blatter. John Key. Hmmmm.
#dirtypolitics
Rachinger on dirty politics 4 – Ben asks for help
Ben Rachinger was a dirty politics insider, he is telling his story. Ben has asked for help.
Sphinx and Rachinger
The search engine on this site is run by Sphinx search. This is an open source general purpose package that runs a scan on the databases amended posts or comments. However it appeared to have caused Cameron Slater to cum all over his brain and shut down even the minimal amounts of animal cunning that he usually possesses.
Rachinger on dirty politics 3 – Scoop takes up the story
Ben Rachinger was a dirty politics insider. He is telling his story. Alastair Thompson at Scoop writes: “Arguably therefore this is an exceptionally fine piece of undercover investigative journalism into a matter of national significance”.
Rachinger on dirty politics 2
Ben’s story has reached an interesting point.
Rachinger on dirty politics
Ben Rachinger is telling his story about his involvement in the world of dirty politics.
Herald’s interview with the waitress – updated
Late night developments, the “hair pull” waitress states that a Herald interview (to be published today) was obtained under false pretences, and she withdrew her consent for it.
Multiple updates on the changing story.
Cameron Slater has a idiot for a lawyer
Instead of taking the shot granted by the High Court of simply making an appeal, some incompetent legal dunderhead made the idiotic move of not filing. Then they took the much harder step of belatedly attempting to get the Court of Appeal to allow them to appeal. Complete stupidity. But this is a lawyer with Cameron Slater for a client..
I want that left wing bastard gone
Joe Trinder at Mana News claims Key’s direct involvement in the attack on Campbell Live.
And yet the cast of Dirty Politics are still at large in the media
Herald: “Natalia Kills & Willy Moon are no longer suitable to judge X Factor”.
National Ltd™ Battling Truth On Two Fronts
The lies and media pap being distributed for public consumption by the boys down at “The Club” are old and worn out now. Politicians, public commentators, and media heads who really think they can get away with this flimsy “rinse and repeat” justification of the indefensible are treated us with contempt.
Polity: Excluded middle
National counterattack line on Iraq is now out and about, courtesy of National’s tester and parrot of lines – National pollster David Farrar at Kiwiblog. It consists of two contradictory lines about Labour. Also neither line is true. But they are just there for the ‘journalists’ to mindlessly repeat in the evening news.
Interesting story coming up in The Herald
There will probably be a story soonish in The Herald that will be of particular interest to The Standard community.
The truth about The Standard
There are some persistent lies and a lot of nonsense written about this blog. The truth is really simple…
Where is Cameron Slater?
Yesterday I got contacted about Cameron Slater’s current address. Apparently the arsehole of the kiwi blogosphere hasn’t been paying his court ordered judgements against him that have been incurred in recent years. The person who contacted me wanted to serve a notice to bankrupt him.
Lone nutters and suicide by cop
As anticipated, the Sydney cafe siege was caused by a lone nutter with a dubious history. He committed suicide by cop apparently after killing a hostage. Meanwhile we have had opportunistic jerkoffs like National MP Mark Mitchell displaying their paranoid fantasies (probably as urine dribbles down their leg) to justify recent poorly written and rushed legislation.
The line on Little…
The Nats have finished focus-grouping their attack line on Andrew Little and are moving in to deployment. As narrated by Twitter this morning…
First review results
“Labour’s review panel has reported its findings back about the party’s election campaign and the reasons for the low 25 per cent result, identifying problems ranging from a failure to unite behind former leader David Cunliffe to resourcing and confusion over its “Vote Positive” slogan.”
Police neutrality
If anyone thought that David Parker was content to fade quietly into obscurity, they been proven thoroughly wrong. Parker has confronted one of politics’ sacred cows – police neutrality.
National’s campaign of false equivalences
John Key has been advertising us in parliament. But he has a problem distinguishing how his right puppet blogs operate compared to the volunteer blogs of the left. It says more about how John Key thinks than it does about us. Key prefers sites that recruit prostitutes in order to blackmail reporters.
Petition for Royal Commission on dirty politics
“Please take immediate steps to call for the establishment of a high calibre, non-partisan Royal Commission to investigate the inner workings of government in New Zealand and recommend a form of governance that has integrity, is truly democratic, and fit for the 21st century.”
Nothing to hide nothing to fear?
I guess we can conclude that Key has something to hide, otherwise what could he possibly have to fear?
Key calls Slater’s bluff
Key says he is not concerned about his calls with Slater being made public.
Two guilty approaches after Dirty Politics
There are two approaches to being a star of dirty politics and not wanting to answer questions about it. Both were displayed on Campbell Live last night by Jason Ede and Cameron Slater. And Andrea Vance has details on taxpayers paying for Slaters legal bills.
Textses
rOb somewhat scooped me, but here’s my twitter round-up of the reaction to the PM’s office releasing the texts last night.
Cut the crap
Andrew Little invokes the phrase that is going to forever haunt our lying, denying and obfuscating PM.
Updated: Question time video of Little added, followed by John Key “lying, denying and obfuscating”.
Updated: General video of Little added – better in the house than expected. PM’s staff writing blogs for Cameron Slater
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A Breakdown.
There’s a lot of smash flying around concerning the SIS, the PM’s office, OIA requests, Judith Collin’s and what not. So here’s a simple, stripped back, breakdown
Armstrong: Key’s Cynical Politics
Herald: The Key administration has plumbed new depths of arrogance and contempt for the notion of politicians being accountable for their actions, writes John Armstrong. Also: Andrea Vance
John Key vs the truth
Trying to dodge the fallout from the Gwyn report Key simply lies and refuses to accept the facts. He can’t get away with it. Can he?
Key: I’m Lazy, Incompetent
Q&A with our fearless leader on his many reports.
Gwyn report
The Gwyn report finds that the SIS failed to maintain political neutrality.
What did Key know and when did he know it?
Gwyn Report to confirm dirty politics
What did Key know and when did he know it?
A late run succeeds
On October 4th Andrew Little was looking to see if he was even going to be in Parliament because he hadn’t achieved the near impossible task of winning New Plymouth. He was at the bottom of small list and only got back into parliament on special votes. But Andrew Little has a well deserved reputation is a organiser and a campaigner. It showed.
Should Right-wing newspapers just shut up?
In the spirit of Philip Matthews…
Key’s “high ethical standards”
Key’s “high ethical standards” were on display in Parliament again yesterday. So many questions. (And a bonus note – apparently Key knows the identity of Rawshark.)
Bat Bean Beam: Dirty journalism
Giovanni Tiso on Bat Bean Beam is pulling at the threads of the connections between National’s dirty politics and journalism.