Trevett on Question Time
December 17th, 2008 at 11:00 am by David FarrarClaire Trevett has a good article on question time yesterday:
Both sides went into the House primed for action – an Opposition ready to put the new National Government through the wringer and a Government eager to show what it was really made of.
Instead, those who had become so adept at answering questions over the previous nine years suddenly found they had little idea how to ask them. Those now responsible for answering them seemed to be under the misapprehension that the people in Opposition were still running the show.
It was very funny.
Three times Mr Carter stood up to ask the initial question and muffed it by adding extraneous words. He did no better on his follow-up questions, which fell foul of the rules because they did not begin with words such as how, why or when. Eventually Dr Cullen stood and used a point of order to give him a lesson on how to begin a question.
“Wassup?” yelled Mr Key – and by the time Mr Carter was done, the howls of laughter drowned Ms Tolley’s answers.
Poor Chris really had shocker of a day.
Labour whip Darren Hughes showed the game of Gerry-baiting had lost none of its novelty – when Mr Key mentioned “stationary energy” Mr Hughes chipped in “we call that Gerry Brownlee”.
But Claire passed over Simon Power’s slam to Hughes earlier on
9. JOHN BOSCAWEN (ACT) to the Minister of Justice: On what date is the Government planning to repeal the Electoral Finance Act and introduce new electoral law?
Hon SIMON POWER (Minister of Justice) : As part of its first 100 days’ commitment the Government intends to repeal—
Hon Darren Hughes: Fight them on the beaches.
Hon SIMON POWER: Well, that member should go back to his seat. Oh, that is right, he does not have one.
Ouch.
December 17th, 2008 at 11:12 am
Oh thats great, comedy gold. Brings a tear to your eye.
Now stop arsing about an run the damn country with some dignity or we’ll fire you too. Our BS threashold has had a decade of erosion so don’t test us.
Vote:December 17th, 2008 at 11:24 am
(i was unable to get into previous questiontime thread..
..where you said..
“..# philu (3702) Vote: Add rating 1 Subtract rating 14 Says:
December 16th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
yeah right..!
..then of course..there is this more nuanced view of the proceedings at questiontime..
..(i know you meant to ‘link’..dpf..i’ll save you the trouble..
..shall i..?
http://whoar.co.nz/2008/questiontime-at-parliament16-12-08/
phil(whoar.co.nz)
[DPF:This more nuanced view is from Phil who for two years posted every day how Key got slaughtered at question time, who posted how Key would get slaughtered in the head to head debates, and who posted how National would never win. I guess we know the value of Phil's nuance - more blind than Stevie Wonder]
the actual reality of my commentary on questiontime yesterday is that it contains these observations..
“..key then sees off goff..accusing labour of being slum landlords..(and he has a point..eh..?..)..”
then later on..
“..english alleges labour set no money aside for greens’ (promised) housing insulation fund..”
then later on:..
“..background shot of clark/mallard..side by side…looking like a pair of ageing tuataras..”
then later on…
“….key then scores a goal against labour..
..by throwing their (shameful) record on the environment..
…back in their face….”
then later on..
“..heatley says labour have left a legacy of a two billion shortfall in state-house maintenance..”
but hey d.p.f..!..don’t let the/any facts get in the way of your stories..eh..?
..you never have before..eh..?
..(c.f…yr exercise in lies/yellow journalism against peters..
..eh..?..).
..phil(whoar.co.nz)
Vote:December 17th, 2008 at 11:46 am
The tag-team act of Nick Smith and Craig FDoss was especially impressive:
http://keepingstock.blogspot.com/2008/12/tag-team-of-day-award.html
Vote:December 17th, 2008 at 11:48 am
It takes an impressive level of ego driven self-delusion to be as consistently wrong as philu and still claim to be right, about anything. Beyond insanity, I don’t know why he bothers. In philu’s world the Right is always on the verge of total defeat, and all the evidence to the contrary simply does not enter his tiny little mind.
Vote:December 17th, 2008 at 12:17 pm
Claire Trevett must be holding the fort for the MSM
her colleague Paula Oliver made such a fast jump from being paid to spin national party talking points as herald articles to being paid by the tax payers for the some work
Vote:December 17th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
Jacob
You do not need to “spin” the truth.
Vote:December 17th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
Jacob……….. please … buggeroff back to Holland and take up clog carving( with pretty daffodills painted on them) because thats all your pathetic little brain is good for. Politically minded you are a cockroach…………
Vote:December 18th, 2008 at 8:23 am
*Snort* Stationary Energy!
And Knowing how much Darren valued representing the people of Kapiti, He would have been spitting tacks!
Too Funny!
Phil: No one reads your blog. No one comments. Your typing is illegible. Your Thought Processes are suspect. Your partisianship is laughable. You are the kid sitting alone in the back of the class of the blogosphere. Ever wondered why?
Vote:December 18th, 2008 at 8:47 am
jacob van hartog coughs up his usual verbal phlem and sprays it onto the wall.
trot back to the substandard and opine there.
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