Mallard’s blond confusion
June 7th, 2008 at 9:36 am by David FarrarSome of the blogs on the left go feral whenever there is any comment on a female MP’s appearance or if they are called a female warlock. So I look forward to their comments on Trevor Mallard and Shane Jones.
We have Shane Jones on radio calling Katherine Rich Katherine Witch, but then clarifying that she isn’t a witch any more as she is leaving National’s Caucus.
And the Herald reports on Trevor Mallard:
In the House last week Mr Mallard couldn’t resist firing a barb in the direction of National’s female MPs, saying they looked very similar and it was hard to work out who was who.
“Some of us have a little bit of a problem in that a number of the women on the National Party benches look very similar,” Mr Mallard said.
“Certainly in looking at their hair colour, I can say it looks like they share their shampoos or hair dyes, and they do look somewhat similar.”
Yeah, and all those grey haired women in Labour look the same too. Well that is the equivalent of what Trevor is saying.
The blonde brigade includes Otago MP Jacqui Dean, Aoraki MP Jo Goodhew and list MP Nicky Wagner.
Indeed, they all are. At least Pansy Wong and Georgina te Heuheu are not blond or Trevor would be getting them confused also. Here are the three MPs:
Jacqui Dean
Jo Goodhew
Nicky Wagner
You really only have to meet them all once to tell them apart. There are those cunning subtle differences such as different faces.
And it seems that National’s production line of blonde women is far from finished, with three new candidates in this year’s election _ Nikki Kaye (Auckland Central), Louise Upston (Taupo) and Amy Adams (Selwyn) _ also fitting the bill.
Ms Upston and Ms Adams both brushed off Mr Mallard’s comments.
Both said they would prefer people judged them on their abilities and what they stood for, rather than their hair colour or appearance.
How novel. Some Labour MPs might agree with them.
But how will Trevor cope with three new MPs to tell apart. Well again it should not be difficult:
Amy Adams (Rakaia)
Nikki Kaye (Auckland Central)
Louise Upston (Taupo)
Now again, those subtle differences such as different faces, different heights, different hair styles may help Trevor cope.
Tags: Amy Adams, blondes, Jacqui Dean, Jo Goodhew, Katherine Rich, Louise Upston, Nicky Wagner, Nikki Kaye, Shane Jones, Trevor Mallard
June 7th, 2008 at 9:40 am
On current polling, Mallard will be very confused when he sits in the opposition benches.
If polling gets any worse for Labour, then Mallard won’t have this problem. He will however, be job hunting, where it’s likely that a blond mid thirties woman at the employment consultancy firm will be examining his CV with some disdain.
Vote:June 7th, 2008 at 9:47 am
A pity Trev’s so worried about National’s female members and members in waiting. He should be trying to represent the ever diminishing Labour voters instead of bleating about blondes in the National Party.
Vote:Mallard represents the worst of the Labour when it comes to playing personality politics,followed by Shane Jones. Jones must have been on talkback, many of my neighbours have been complaining about his negative and quite nasty attitude.
Just follows. Labour have no style or class, all they can do is dish the dirt and try to play class warfare.
Kirk played the class game, as Helen Clark. Get rid of them !!!!!
June 7th, 2008 at 9:48 am
I guess that people who voted for Mallard got exactly that, and lame as well – a duck by name and a dumb duck by nature, and whose perceptions are clouded by hair.
Vote:June 7th, 2008 at 9:50 am
I have only met one of the MPs in the photos. However, I would be willing to bet Trevor $10,000 that the photos bear at lot closer resemblance to the real person than tha photo cropped photo of Helen.
Vote:June 7th, 2008 at 9:54 am
unknown backbencher alert..!
(dpf..have you sublimated your previous affection for gun-toting blonds in uniform..
..for the sad/impotent tragedies that are a (blond) backbenchers’ life and times..?
phil(whoar.co.nz)
Vote:June 7th, 2008 at 9:54 am
Don’t forget Judith Collins, she is blond too.
Vote:June 7th, 2008 at 9:59 am
Excellent, Chuck Bird!
I guess that David Cunneliffe will be quite pleased by this. After inadvertantly revealing himself as a racist, he has probably felt a bit isolated. Now the sexist Mallard has taken a bit of the pressure of him.
Of course, as I noted in an email to Paula Oliver re: the article in question, Mallard’s comments simply reflect his treatment of his own wife.
Vote:June 7th, 2008 at 10:00 am
is she..?..really..?
and um..!..how are you looking these days..?..chucky..?
..needing a bit of photo-shopping..?
eh..?
phil(whoar.co.nz)
Vote:June 7th, 2008 at 10:08 am
David: any chance of some pictures of Labour’s female MPs?
Actually, don’t bother. I know that you’re busy, so will do it for you:
http://www.patriotresource.com/lotr/races/orcs.html
Vote:June 7th, 2008 at 10:14 am
The childishness from Labour is amusing. Their frustration at not being able to keep up on the treadmill is getting to them.
Vote:June 7th, 2008 at 10:23 am
Not meaning to tread on any toes, or act like Mallard, but there’s an MPILF in waiting with Nikki Kaye.
[DPF: I would prefer terms such as MPILF not be used on this blog.]
Vote:June 7th, 2008 at 10:24 am
Is it just me, or do women politicians and activists tend to fall into categories of appearance? Left-wing ones tend to be grim-faced, with hard-set jaws and steely eyes, and frequently, severe haircuts and grating voices. Environmentalist ones tend to be blathering, harum-scarum, and dowdy in appearance. It is the moderately righty ones who look like cheerful, well-adjusted human beings, and dare I say it, the real “lookers” are the out-and-out “free marketers”? Pardon any “sexism” showing here, we could run the same exercise for the various men too, but this thread IS about the women…….
It does seem to me that in past times, it was the norm for all politicians to follow a tradition of a certain dignity of appearance, about which there was a certain sameness. Some of today’s politicians might THINK they have dignity, but that is very much in their own eyes. The left-wing men today, for example, tend to exude a certain trendy “smarm”, a world apart from, say, Eddie Isbey or Bob Tizard.
Vote:June 7th, 2008 at 10:34 am
Trev has long had a wandering eye – does his latest/current squeeze appreciate him going so public to point it out again to everybody?
I shudder to think what’s going through Trev’s head as he sits in parliament and gazes across the house at these ladies, but he should try thinking of them as 3 individuals, not a “threesome” – and stop fantasising about them sharing shampoo in the shower. Trev himself admitted he acts like a 4th form schoolboy, now he wants to tell us all he thinks like one too.
Trev’s also prone to confusion and frustration with the ladies, and can go all wobbly at just the mention of a woman’s name (even a “non-existent” woman’s name , eg Shazza, will have him step you out and punch you on the nose) – so any counselling should only be undertaken by a professional.
Trev – if you can’t grow up, at least shut up.
Vote:June 7th, 2008 at 10:39 am
Seamoney: “Is it just me, or do women politicians and activists tend to fall into categories of appearance? Left-wing ones tend to be grim-faced, with hard-set jaws and steely eyes, and frequently, severe haircuts and grating voices. Environmentalist ones tend to be blathering, harum-scarum, and dowdy in appearance. It is the moderately righty ones who look like cheerful, well-adjusted human beings, and dare I say it, the real “lookers” are the out-and-out “free marketers”? ”
I’ve said it before (on this site and elsewhere), but Left-wingers are inherently dour, negative, depressed individuals.
Vote:June 7th, 2008 at 10:52 am
“The left-wing men today, for example, tend to exude a certain trendy “smarm”, a world apart from, say, Eddie Isbey or Bob Tizard.”
I remember seeing Tizard leave a private booth in an Auckland strip-joint after a lap-dance……..
Vote:June 7th, 2008 at 10:54 am
Duhhhh, my name is Trevor Mallard
Blonde = Stupid
Vote:National = Blonde
Therefore National = Stupid
June 7th, 2008 at 11:00 am
PhilBest: You beat me to it. My theory is that left wing women are ugly on the inside, so it eventually shows up on the outside. They were the ones who never got any male attention when they were younger. Politics is their revenge on the world. Whereas the ones on the other side of the house are simply normal ordinary people. It’s true of the men as well, though I’m not sure it translates to physical attractiveness in their case.
There’s also another huge difference: Women of the right have children and families, but you can probably count the female Labour MPs who’ve done this on one hand. Even then, many of those ones don’t get anywhere.
Vote:June 7th, 2008 at 11:11 am
So first they’re bitching about not enough women in National now too many for Bully Boy to tell them apart?
Funny funny little man.
BTW David the masculine of witch is witch. Warlock is an old Anglo-Saxon term meaning “oath-breaker”. It may still apply to people in parliament but for different reasons.
Vote:June 7th, 2008 at 11:24 am
Yeah, BlairM, your “Hot Women of the Right” site (or have i got the name wrong), is an inspiration……….
Duxton, is the “seamoney” label a mistake of identity or a shallowly-buried insult? But on Bob Tizard, yes, I know, but my point was that all politicians made a thing of looking dignified regardless, and according to the same conservative standards of appearance, in those days.
I do agree with Blair M’s point about the insides tending to permeate through to the outside. There might have been a certain hypocrisy involved in those old days, but nevertheless the overall standards and expectations of one another REMAINED HIGHER than under the modern paradigm of “If-it-feels-good-I-do-it-and-I’m-not-ashamed-to-flaunt-it”.
Vote:June 7th, 2008 at 11:52 am
Is he implying cloning or is trevors confusion that he is not used to seeing female MPs wearing makeup?
Vote:June 7th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
PhilBest: “seamoney” was a typo – it should have been “Seamonkey” (whose post I thought I was quoting). It was a genuine mistake, I can assure you.
I’m not sure how it could have been seen as an insult, though. Please enlighten me.
Vote:June 7th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
These are the sorts of comments that have me wondering about the basic common sense of Mr Mallard, he happens to have absolutely NONE.
And I had the dubious pleasure of listening to Shane Jones in his temporary talkback slot on Newstalk, and I quite frankly found his broadcast offensive. I am sure many other people did too.
It’s no wonder that National Party are in no hurry to release all thier policies at once. First of all the need to govern and control spending in order to meet the requirements of the EFB mitigate gainst it.
Secondly, as no policies, apart from the 16 as set out by John Key, have been released yet, Labour have resorted to personal attacks on the opposition, which do the Labour party no favours at all.
This EFB is going to seriously bite Labour right in the Arse!!
Vote:June 7th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
Oh great politics is fashion week crap and clever Trevor Mallard Duck Mauler needs a blonde to smack in the face.He must be due to step somebody outside of the debating chamber. What a lickspittle wimpster !!
Vote:June 7th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
Best of luck to all of them I think they will need it, atleast they are having a go.
Vote:June 7th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
It seems as though that since Trevor has realised that he will never be PM he has decided to go into self destruct mode instead, or is it just that now that he is without the calming influence of his wife the true Trevor is being exposed?!?
Vote:June 7th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
Are these lovely ladies safe in politics with a head case violent man like Mallard lurking around as Aunt Klark’s enforcer?
Vote:June 7th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
Right!
Lets attack this in left wing fashion, first of all I want one of you to find a feminazi type, preferably the uglier the better, she will have extensive media contacts and will be able to call on them to publicize her faux outrage, we need TV (all channels) coverage of this fat feminazi wimin seething in anger at this insult to sheliahood, we can rely on the press to pick up on this as well, obviously the more grotesque the pictures are of our obese feminazi the better.
Secondly (perhaps Whale and DPF can do this one) I want demonstration marches organised down Lambton Quay and Queen Street, all participants in this march are to remind the public what Mallard said and they are free to accuse him of things he did not actually say as well, from what I have witnessed when the left do this sort of thing the wilder the accusations are the better, the truth is irrelevant, the greater the faux outrage the better.
Now rip into it people before the story goes cold.
Vote:June 7th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
Maybe Trev only remembers those that he decks.
Vote:June 7th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
Valerie Morse must be available for this sort of thing? Give Peace Action Wellington a call they are great at organising rent-a-mobs that never let the truth get in the way of a good protest.
Vote:June 7th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
Is Valerie a blond?
Vote:June 7th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
@ D4J, She sure is:
http://cache.viewimages.com/xc/56091034.jpg?v=1&c=ViewImages&k=2&d=17A4AD9FDB9CF193CC300C081D9F4700B73B71F1DAB4BEFDB75D4998770A9709A55A1E4F32AD3138
Vote:June 7th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
Thanks for the clarification, Duxton. If you’d spelt “Seamonkey” correctly, it would have been more obviously a case of mistaken identity…….
Valerie Morse was blonde last time I saw her photo in the paper……..
Vote:June 7th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
Some of the blogs on the right go feral whenever Israel is mentioned.
last week the left and the green movement was wrongly accused by Red of someone, that they were responsible for surging oil prices.
How is it that last night Israel came out with the astonishing remark about pre-emptive strikes against Iran, and lookie here the price of oil did it’s biggest ever one day jump (not even seen during the oil shock).
Some reality needed, and who cares if Mallard said what he said. How could any Kiwi other than white middle aged middle classed male feel that national represents them. Watching the Budget the right benches were a sea of suits and grey or thinning hair. I could see 2 visible female faces (yes they were there but hardly jumping out at you), where were the brown, yellow, young or ‘other’ faces.
Vote:June 7th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
PLAN APPROVED
Vote:June 7th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
What else do you expect from Mallard? This is the guy who couldn’t tell his own wife from someone who wasn’t.
Vote:June 7th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
Paul (1058) –2 Says:
June 7th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
Some of the blogs on the right go feral whenever Israel is mentioned.
=====
Who mentioned Israel?
How did Israel get into a discussion of Trevor Mallard and National’s blondes?
Oh, sorry, I forgot about the Great Conspiracy. The buffoon we know as Trevor Mallard is really one Tobias Milstein, and he’s undermining NZ Labour on behalf of the Israelis.
Vote:June 7th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
Duxton: “I’ve said it before (on this site and elsewhere), but Left-wingers are inherently dour, negative, depressed individuals.”
“I remember seeing Tizard leave a private booth in an Auckland strip-joint after a lap-dance……..”
So Dux, did you enjoy your lap dance? Like hanging out with dour, negative, depressed individuals like Bob T?
Vote:June 7th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
“How did Israel get into a discussion”
I was playing on the intro sentence of DPF, for being a little ‘hollier than thou” as he was trying to do.
Simple analogy.
Vote:June 7th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
Somebody needs to punch Trevor then claim they were defending a womans honour. Dear leader will then support the actions of the “puncher” and do her level best to ensure they get some new and exciting work to do.
Move on!
Vote:June 7th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
cashlycrumb
When asked if Valerie Morse blond…
I saw her protesting naked, I’m not so sure….
Vote:June 7th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
burt – was Valerie naked as a jay bird and not wearing a pinky pooh vest
Vote:June 7th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
So, I will vote for Nikki Kaye for my electorate (Ponsonby/Auck Central) and ACT for my party vote. Dang, I wish there is a blonde ACT candidate in Central Auckland.
Vote:June 7th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
you are a walking psychiatric textbook…aren’t you d4j..?
..am i correct in feeling somewhat uneasy/queasy at the prospect of actually finding out just what a ‘pinky pooh vest’…is..?
phil(whoar.co.nz)
Vote:June 7th, 2008 at 8:01 pm
Is it just me or is Trevor Mallard becoming a little unhinged of late – he seemed more delibrate when he taunted Don Brash over the American Bagman and ‘speaking of affairs’, but of late his outbursts have become over the top, quite nasty and very destructive to the Labour party image.
The death of his father and the breakup of his marraige both must have been very traumatic, perhaps he needs a month or so completely away from politics to perk himself up?
Vote:June 7th, 2008 at 8:16 pm
Indeed:
“Trevor Mallard is complaining that he can’t tell the difference between
Otago MP Jacqui Dean, Aoraki MP Jo Goodhew and list MP Nicky Wagner, because they are all blonde.
Hmmm three identical blondes, now that’s some elephant in the room, isn’t it? …. With Mallard’s track-record with ‘the ladies’ methinks he protests too much…”
MWT
Vote:June 7th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
Mallard is an old perv and would have been confused about identity without looking at their tits.
Vote:June 7th, 2008 at 10:37 pm
Could you imagine the PC outrage if anyone stated to the maori party “Certainly in looking at their hair colour, they do look somewhat similar.”
Vote:June 7th, 2008 at 11:00 pm
They all look damn hot to me. Smart too. They can join my party anyday.
Vote:June 8th, 2008 at 9:16 am
Mongrel Mallard should be thankful the Blonde Bombshells didn’t defend their honour by taking him out to the lobby for a tag-team ass-whupping.
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