Quote of the Day
July 29th, 2008 at 10:36 am by David FarrarFrom Colin Espiner:
Asked whether she planned to urge Peters to be straight with the public at her meeting today, Clark said: “I think there is such a long history of the nature of Mr Peters’ relations with the news media that that might be asking for a state of affairs that is not possible to achieve.”
Did the Prime Minister really just say that it is Impossible (not possible) for her Minister of Foreign Affairs to be straight with the public and the media?
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July 29th, 2008 at 10:48 am
And it seems to be genetic if you listen to his brother on Nine to Noon yesterday: http://homepaddock.wordpress.com/2008/07/29/can-blustering-be-genetic/
Vote:July 29th, 2008 at 10:49 am
The Prime Minister does have a rather dry sense of humour. I’m not sure she meant that to be taken literally.
Vote:July 29th, 2008 at 10:59 am
Dear old Winnie is about as straight as a post staple.
Vote:July 29th, 2008 at 10:59 am
Hold on
This is a much more significant event!
Did H1 just tell a truth ?
Vote:July 29th, 2008 at 11:32 am
dave strings Dont get excited now Why would she break a tradition that goes back to 1981 27 years of not telling the truth
Vote:July 29th, 2008 at 11:35 am
This is what I have meant about Winston’s influence in Parliament effectively lowering the bar of our expectations for our elected representatives. The only recourse for Helen Clark is to be like Winston – brazen this out, in a flippant and off-hand approach to the media andt e public’s right to know what exactly they are doing for their salaries (and in this case, their little perks).
Vote:So, adding the EFA to her epitaph evidently will not be enough – now she is content to add:
“She came to defend what she set out to destroy.”
July 29th, 2008 at 12:38 pm
Obviously she’s talking about Winnie’s famous relationship with the media **whenever allegations about money and dodgy deals are involved!** This is legendary and so firmly in the public domain that it would be more ridiculous to pretend it wasn’t.
It seems the PM is more interested in his performance as Foreign Minister than in how how funds his party – especially (but I suspect not solely) since she can’t really afford to piss him off. In that sense, Clark seems to understand the old motorsport adage: “If you’re not cheating, you’re an idiot.”
Vote:July 29th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
LOL – slightly off subject. Denis Welch media commenting on nine to noon this morning, says DPF/Kiwiblog is working around the clock to keep the Winnie “non-issue” in the public arena.
Did anyone hear him?
He claims not to understand the fuss.
Media commentator? Hummmmmmf.
Vote:July 29th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
Lee C IMHO the Parliament is a damaged good at present Most thinking citizens and I chose my words carefully regard its inhabitants as less than satisfactory examples of the species.
All is not lost must it will take will capability and capacity for the Parliament to restore itself to being the pre eminent law making and governing body in teh land.
Alas there is a vacumn of leadership and Clark and Key are yet to filln that vacumn.
The winner is going to have to display good ethics and good morals at least to the standard the citizens expect In fact they are going to have to exceed excpetations
Neither have articulated a clear and expansive vision of where they want to take the citizens into the future.
Both have focused on minuatiae and low level uninspiring he said she said.
Peters merely highlights everything that is wrong with the Parliament and why for the majority of citizens it and its inhabitants have been totally irrevelant and worse still regarded as the problem in their lives not the solution.
The ball is in their court
Vote:July 29th, 2008 at 1:05 pm
kkb – i turned on the radio and heard Kathryn Ryan say “Denis Welch is here” and turned it straight off again. On being able to be straight with the public and the media, isn’t it about time Radio Pravda’s Brent Edwards started disclosing he’s a hard-left sympathiser before launching into supportive monologues about Labour?
Vote:July 29th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
kaykaybee:
I have a lot of respect for Denis, but on this issue he’s either naive, stupid, or both. My day yesterday started at 5.00am and ended at around 8:00pm answering phone calls and emails from journalists from just about every title and media outlet I can think of. TV3 even paid for a satellite linkup so I could pop into Channel 7.
(I’m still waiting for Wimmins Daze to offer to pay me for my “story of incredible heartbreak” or however they’ll headline it. Maybe I’m not shamelessy self-promoting enough
)
None of those journos were DPF and most of them have more information than is out there at present (and thus is on blogs like this, which tend to reflect media stories and encourage comment).
So yes, Denis, DPF spent all day yesterday getting journalists to call me about a story they’re otherwise not interested in.
Pfffft.
Vote:July 29th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
Why should she expect him to be straight with the media when she isn’t and doesn’t have to.
Remember Speedgate – she had no idea she was speeding, it is not her fault – she never instructed the driver to go so fast.
Remember Pledgegate - she never instructed H2/Williams to spend the money illicitly, she didn’t even know.
etc – etc yada yada,
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