Best spin attempt ever
After calling Don Brash “corrosive and cancerous” Helen Clark then tried to claim this was not a personal attack because she did not mean Don personally, but the “Don Brash brand”.
She has obviously been spending too much time with Alistair Campbell.
This did not impress The Press, their editorial quoted below:
The personalised attack by the Prime Minister, Helen Clark, on the Leader of the Opposition, Don Brash, is something quite extraordinary in New Zealand politics.
For a serving Prime Minister to attack her chief political adversary as a “corrosive and cancerous” person and as “not fit to be a leader in New Zealand” is probably unprecedented. Not even in the rancid days of Robert Muldoon was such bitter, venomous language used by a politician in public discourse. That it should be possible to make a comparison with Muldoon – a model in personalised politics no-one should wish to follow – shows how lamentable the Prime Minister’s attack is. Despite Clark’s promises to raise the tone after the descent into the gutter in the last couple of weeks, she has regrettably only succeeded in lowering it.
caucus, and ultimately, voters to decide. By wading in with her two-cents worth, Clark clearly hopes to divert attention from herself and her own party’s misdeeds.
In the end, it all comes back to Labour’s profound discomfiture over its election mis-spending. In addition to assailing Brash, Clark this week again launched into the Auditor-General, Kevin Brady. It is very hard to see how this can be anything but an attempt to put public pressure on the Auditor-General at a time when he is considering his final report on the matter, with the aim of discrediting it in advance. It is a disquieting manoeuvre and further evidence of how far Clark has become unnerved.
September 22nd, 2006 at 5:45 pm
The fact that Clark and Muldoon are being spoken of in the same breath must be unnerving to Clark. She gives every sign of becoming unhinged. Instead of dealing with the pledge card issue calmly and constructively she appears to have lost her marbles. I described her as a demented catherine wheel. But I did not realise how demented she has become.
September 22nd, 2006 at 6:07 pm
What a load of biased nonsense.
First it asserts there has been misspending – on what basis – allegation and presumption of guilt?
An editorial stating the guilt of a person on charge, in a defended court case, would be anathema. Yet here the kangaroo court judge sits and then has the gall to suggest others, who don’t agree with their finding of guiilt, are placing pressure on the court to find the defendant innocent.
What a joke.
FFS, did anyone not find Orewa, the woman without children line and the mainstream profiling of National’s campaign personally offensive to them as New Zealanders. It was cancerous and corrosive to our national unity.
And the use of the word “corrupt”, because of yet to be upheld charges and here we have the media parrots repeating it all as “facts”.
Bias and nonsense.
September 22nd, 2006 at 6:40 pm
She was made to cry at Waitangi once, is that why we had the foreshore and sea bed bill passed SPC.
You are saying that it’s valid for the PM to slap back for something that personally offended her in the past (like a child), so what other connections should we be looking for?
September 22nd, 2006 at 7:13 pm
Sorry guys, anyone who lunches with Helen Saunders to [brash honesty]discuss seeing the film “An uncomfortable truth[/brash honesty] and then leaks his own email to the media telling his colleagues not to respond with personal attacks is worse than cancerous.
He is an ozzing ulcer on the rear end of the Business Roundtable that is rapidly being lowered on our faces.
Gee, since when did Anne Nicole Smith-like figures control the purse strings (and thereby the leadership choice) of the once great National party?
Can you imagine Bill English or Jim Bolger having lunch with Helen Saunders?
No wonder Jim Bolger refused to endorse Brash at the last conference.
September 22nd, 2006 at 7:30 pm
Sean:
Good God, if you can’t even cut and paste the Labour hack talking points – Bridget Saunders, dear not Helen. And I frankly neither know nor care who Jim Bolger and Bill English lunch with.
And on a personal note, do you have problems finding sex workers to indulge your bizarre fetish fantasy life?
September 22nd, 2006 at 7:35 pm
in a definite moment in NZ politics where the government is wilting under its own corruption, and is soon to be seen as by Act of parliament corrupt, in election spending,
wimp, pussy, lepra corn dancing queen
rodney hide
comes to helengrad defence and says she is not corrupt,
what kind of pussy is this rodney,
September 22nd, 2006 at 7:40 pm
Campbell Live just showed an interview with Idour in which he said that Labour-linked figures employed private investigators to spy on Brash and Key, go through their rubbish, etc.
True or not, these allegations are explosive and must be examined closely and seriously, especially in the light of the stolen emails. Mind you, I suspect that if such spying truly is rife in politics, that all parties will have been involved at some stage.
September 22nd, 2006 at 7:40 pm
“Bridget Saunders, dear not Helen.”
Mea culpa, I am not very familiar with right wing bucket droppers.
I can’t even remember the name of the Business Roundtable’s Anne Nicole Smith who gets to pick who leads National these days.
“And on a personal note, do you have problems finding sex workers to indulge your bizarre fetish fantasy life? ”
Never – since I joined the young nats. The amount of sexual desperation and frustration in those ranks is simply extra-ordinary.
No wonder they are so obsessed with the sex lives of the left.
September 22nd, 2006 at 7:45 pm
Hey guys and guyesses —- what’s been sneaking in under the radar while everyone is distracted by this nonsense.
September 22nd, 2006 at 7:49 pm
Labour should call an election, it’s the only way to stop their complete meltdown. Do a Muldoon, take the punishment lightly now and retain at least 20 MP’s in the house. By 2008 it will be all over red rover.
September 22nd, 2006 at 8:10 pm
Helen, your a vile, vindictive, paranoid, hippocrite, corrupt, criminal, compulsive liar of fugly lesbian darth vader with a gay husband
Hey man, I was just attacking the Helen Clark brand, I am sure your really nothing like that in real life
September 22nd, 2006 at 8:49 pm
Check this regarding private investigators and who was tailing who.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3805983a10,00.html
September 22nd, 2006 at 9:26 pm
Nice to see your NZ based mirror site is doing so well.
September 22nd, 2006 at 10:08 pm
Sean:
If you ask really nicely, I’m sure some Young Nat would give you a pity shag, but you’ve really got to work on your pick up lines. Try for class not ass.
September 23rd, 2006 at 3:29 pm
If that’s how our Cadarvorous Cow reacts when Dr Brash goes up two points in the preferred PM polls, what is she going to do when the next lot of polls puts him a further ten point up? I smell a desperate attempt by her to besmirch Don Brash the person because the drum beats are telling her he’s catching up on the only poll which still puts her ahead. Ithink average Kiwis, like ever more journalists, are seeing the bluster for what it is.
As Tim Barclay said elsewhere, she’s playing with fire.
Oh and now that I’ve read the transcript of Agenda I’d have to say the Dom POst is up itself printing the Scurrilous Skinhead’s call for Dr Brash to resign.
This Labour lot is really so, so, so —- kintergarten!!
Pay the money back and she might start to recover. Of course, they can’t pay it back if they haven’t got it. Oh dear, who will she hang out to dry for that?
September 23rd, 2006 at 3:48 pm
If that’s how our Cadarvorous Cow reacts when Dr Brash goes up two points in the preferred PM polls, what is she going to do when the next lot of polls puts him a further ten point up? I smell a desperate attempt by her to besmirch Don Brash the person because the drum beats are telling her he’s catching up on the only poll which still puts her ahead. Ithink average Kiwis, like ever more journalists, are seeing the bluster for what it is.
As Tim Barclay said elsewhere, she’s playing with fire.
Oh and now that I’ve read the transcript of Agenda I’d have to say the Dom POst is up itself printing the Scurrilous Skinhead’s call for Dr Brash to resign.
This Labour lot is really so, so, so —- kintergarten!!
Pay the money back and she might start to recover. Of course, they can’t pay it back if they haven’t got it. Oh dear, who will she hang out to dry for that?
September 23rd, 2006 at 3:50 pm
If that’s how our Cadarvorous Cow reacts when Dr Brash goes up two points in the preferred PM polls, what is she going to do when the next lot of polls puts him a further ten point up? I smell a desperate attempt by her to besmirch Don Brash the person because the drum beats are telling her he’s catching up on the only poll which still puts her ahead. Ithink average Kiwis, like ever more journalists, are seeing the bluster for what it is.
As Tim Barclay said elsewhere, she’s playing with fire.
Oh and now that I’ve read the transcript of Agenda I’d have to say the Dom POst is up itself printing the Scurrilous Skinhead’s call for Dr Brash to resign.
This Labour lot is really so, so, so —- kintergarten!!
Pay the money back and she might start to recover. Of course, they can’t pay it back if they haven’t got it. Oh dear, who will she hang out to dry for that?
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