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The life and times of Pita Sharples

July 4th, 2009 at 11:34 am by David Farrar

The Weekend Herald has a lengthy profile of Pita Sharples. It is an interesting and complimentary read.

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5 Responses to “The life and times of Pita Sharples”

  1. Redbaiter (13,197) Says:
    July 4th, 2009 at 12:18 pm

    “Sharples has the ear of the Prime Minister in a way that other MPs don’t.”

    Yeah well, Key obviously knows who to listen to.

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  2. the deity formerly known as nigel6888 (830) Says:
    July 4th, 2009 at 12:42 pm

    meaning of course that Pita Sharples’ people (or the 9th floor people) have organised their PR to prepare a “feature article”

    I guess without reading it it will have large Photo and cover 2/3 of the page or more. It will use words like

    influential
    mana
    gravitas
    approacheable
    statesmanlike
    keen sense of humour
    family
    responsible

    yup cutting edge and insightful journalism at its finest. I will now go and read the article and give myself 10 points for every time the key words that his PR people are trying to leave us with are mentioned.

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  3. the deity formerly known as nigel6888 (830) Says:
    July 4th, 2009 at 12:48 pm

    my goodness they are good. Never would have expected him to be sexy and earning his spurs fighting racism (rather than advocating it) by supporting poms!

    That is industrial grade PR. First class work.

    I feel all warm and fuzzy about access to services based on the colour of my skin now.

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  4. Redbaiter (13,197) Says:
    July 4th, 2009 at 1:29 pm

    Thanks for the chuckle Deity. You’ve for sure nailed those pathetic posturing fakes.

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  5. starboard (2,447) Says:
    July 4th, 2009 at 5:50 pm

    …I used to think Sharples was a racist shit stirring radical..same ilk as syd jackson , moana jackson , annette sykes , et al
    after a while I started to warm to the guy , thought he was ok , maybe someone to watch…then he opened his mouth and started spouting on about free access for mouldy into university…now I think he’s a racist shit stirring radical , same ilk as syd jackson , moana jackson , annette sykes et al…

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