Gallery soft on Winston
I am somewhat amazed that the press gallery have deemed it acceptable to allow Winston Peters to not provide any more details of his denial of what his own party president has claimed, until Wednesday. This gives him six days to shall we say align what everyone says.
What other politician would be let off so lightly? He in in Seoul tomorrow for the swearing in of the new President. I hope one of the media outlets at least has a reporter there to ask him to explain exactly how Dail Jones is wrong, and who the money actually came from.
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Tags: Dail Jones, Owen Glenn, press gallery, Winston First
February 25th, 2008 at 8:44 am
OTOH he’s let the tension build nicely for a burst of TV exposure when he gets back and blasts the media with a mix of contempt, threats and the products of 7 days research into his political opponents. Bob The Builder will likely feature.
JC
February 25th, 2008 at 8:46 am
Yes it must be wonderful to have the cream of the MSM investigative prowess appropriated as your personal PR team.
February 25th, 2008 at 9:10 am
“How dare you have the effrontery to ask such a stupid self-seeking beat-up question on such an important international occasion as I am, so you can wait until I return home to lambast the media again on this and then delay any answer until a special announcement, and as you are already wanting for further information on who we will try to off-load Owen Glenn’s donation on to, instead of paying this unstolen, not-misappropriate amount back to Parliamentary Services, and also as you await my decision on whether I will exposure myself again in Tauranga to Bob the Builder, you should just hold our breath, and with any bloody luck you won’t be around to report my reply whenever I deem it as being opportune to make it.”
February 25th, 2008 at 9:10 am
Oh, I don’t know. I think the media might think he’s like bacon – he’ll keep till they’re ready to fry him. If he’s obfuscating overseas then the media know they’ve got him when he does get back. It would have been smarter for Peters to have dumped the info en masse while he was doing his job overseas, and say, I’m far to busy to give interviews on this petty trivia, I’ve given you the information, not leave me alone.
February 25th, 2008 at 9:10 am
If only there was some reputable NZ blog that could catch the media’s attention on this issue.
February 25th, 2008 at 9:19 am
wouldn’t it be ‘choice’ if the money was traced back to condi..?
(’supporting a ‘friendly’ political party..?..)
phil(whoar.co.nz)
February 25th, 2008 at 9:21 am
The Poodle Party is stuck between a rock and a hard place.
Either Dail had a dream which was so “real” that he couldn’t resist relating it to the media or Fidel Peters is telling porkies.
Personally based on extensive long term character analysis I believe Dail.
Either, slightly less than 100k found its way into the NZF account or it didn’t.
If it did, it was either anonymous or it wasn’t.
If Dail says he doesn’t know where it came from but Peters can assure us it didn’t come from Glenn then Peters must know where it came from.
Winston, you voted for the EFA to “clean up” the influence of “big money” in politics. Cough up with the details now or you are NZ’s second biggest hypocrite (Helen still beats you to the number one slot).
February 25th, 2008 at 9:30 am
Why would you be surprised DPF?
Most of today’s journalists lack the skills to probe/question/interrogate politicians and to pursue proper political analysis. They prefer the easy way of asking pansy questions and reporting on inanities.
NZ political journalism is well below the standards practised across the Tasman, let alone the USA.
February 25th, 2008 at 9:39 am
Like vultures they know they have all year to chew his carcass.
February 25th, 2008 at 9:44 am
I think there are a number of NZ First MP’s who see their jobs disappearing at the next election and might wonder if they should stay loyal to Winston over this issue. It could give them an excuse to distance themselves from Winnie and perhaps fight a different campaign than Winnie has in mind which is going to be all about me, me, me, me,me and beating bob the builder, not about the party. If he loses he will get a plum job but the others might not.
February 25th, 2008 at 9:46 am
And this morning on ZB in CHCH Helen was complaining that the media were giving National a soft run. If there is one consistency in the political game it’s that the media are never on your side and every politician feels hard done by. The reality is that the truth finally does get out and the public albeit rather slowly figure it out for themselves and the media follow behind. After all the media are merely recording history and not making it despite their over inflated opinions of their place in the world. Peters is a pawn trying to play the King in a game he can’t win because anything he does will only enhance the perception that he is a manipulative and coniving sod that no-one can trust any more. Time to get over himself and piss off.
February 25th, 2008 at 9:51 am
“NZ political journalism is well below the standards practised across the Tasman, let alone the USA.”
That’s why the better journalists have latched on to the better bloggers. We have a small pool of underfunded journalists who can’t hope to match bigger countries in investigative work.. and who are easily threatened by Govt. with denial of access if they get too curious.
But the bloggers can act as eyes, ears and investigators for the MSM.. and also provide more diversity on what ordinary people are thinking. Could we even have had Glenngate without the bloggers?
JC
February 25th, 2008 at 9:53 am
Mal:
She has again and very conveniently all of a sudden got very short memory. Someone should ask her who the PM was for about 5 years starting in 1999 who had whole press gallery acting like cheer leaders for this certain PM. This woman is nothing but a hypocrite.
February 25th, 2008 at 9:55 am
What other politician would be let off so lightly?
Well, it would take zero imagination to picture the shit-tsunami that would land on John Key’s head if he engaged in the same old, same old immigrant-baiting Winnie trots out with monotonous regularity.
And this morning on ZB in CHCH Helen was complaining that the media were giving National a soft run. If there is one consistency in the political game it’s that the media are never on your side and every politician feels hard done by.
A large grain of truth in that, Mal, and I guess it’s human nature. When your arse is being kissed every day, and twice on Sundays and public holidays, that’s just your due.
I heard Richard Griffin on Nat Radio this morning, and thought he made an interesting point: Labour has wasted a lot of time and energy selling the line that John Key is Ruth Richardson in man-drag with an evil “secret agenda”. The only problem is that nobody is buying.
February 25th, 2008 at 10:00 am
Bloggers (see Kiwiblog) are going to provide balanced news “Yeah Right”
I do agree with JC that NZ jouralisim is sub-standard but i would suggest that they are not paid to be jouralist these days but to provide sensational stories. When lately have you heard any kind of positive stories, they are generally trying to put as negative slant on it as possiblle.
And i mean by that all news not just politics.
February 25th, 2008 at 10:08 am
What other politician would be let off so lightly?
John “we would love to see wages drop” Key?
February 25th, 2008 at 10:09 am
Why doesnt Winnie just say
he got the email but didnt read it,
or deny saying that at the time and then give a detailed rebuttal 3 days later when his memory has ‘recovered’
or best of all tell them the Clerk of the House said its your ‘intent’ that matters.
All these strategys are all ready proven.
February 25th, 2008 at 10:19 am
The reason the Press Gallery are not hot on the “we would love to see wages drop” statement is because it is one throwaway line in a speech in Kerikeri! This story does not have legs, despite the Labour Party, the EMPU, the Greens and the Standard all trying to put extra legs on it like some demented game of pin the tail on the donkey.
Besides, pictures of Owen Glenn and Helen Clark are so much funnier.
Now, can we possibly get Winston, Dail and Owen in the same room and see who ignores who?
February 25th, 2008 at 10:28 am
Right of Way has pointed out clearly that Key is so ….. colourless.
Wheres a Smoking Blonde when you want a story to beat up.
Even Don had an ex doctors receptionist to sparkle up his mis steps
February 25th, 2008 at 10:47 am
Is there a retraction of your smearing of the gallery now that you have admitted there was questions asked ( just you didint look hard enough)
[DPF: I did not smear them I criticised them, and I still think they are too lenient.]
February 25th, 2008 at 10:51 am
I do believe Winny the poopoch is a pathological liar, who fits in well with all the consummate liars from LABOUR. Oops into the negative water for a dip, sorry Sir? So typical of combo commie rats to drag the EB & Hollow man crap again, yawn, yawn, how’s – Trevor, Tim and Phillip??? Get ready – FIRE ALL the karma scuds. All launched Sir. Stand down and back into cell.
February 25th, 2008 at 11:00 am
GWW, Key “colourless”? Sure beats the wicked witch and Winnie the waffler.
February 25th, 2008 at 11:20 am
D4J history wasnt your best suit ( even after the horse bit a piece of it)
Don Brash resigns as Leader of national on a Thursday, The Hollow Man released to book shops on the Friday