Another bizarre post
February 5th, 2010 at 1:15 pm by David FarrarTrevor’s post at Red Alert are just getting more bizarre. And I say this as someone who said many times last year Trevor was an excellent blogger. Something has happened over summer.
Trevor’s latest missive is to call John Key racist for criticising Hone Harawira!
So why has John Key been so aggressive in his criticism of Hone?
Hone is a sometimes an easy target. He puts his head up and I’ve certainly had a go at him when it is appropriate.
But contrast this question of a perceived (but not actual) conflict of interest of a member of Hone’s family with the decade of the English whanau ripping the taxpayer off by pretending to live in Dipton. And Wiremu was found to have an interest. And it is continuing.
So is Key kicking Hone because he is Maori and if not what is his explanation for his hypocrisy?
First of all Trevor is lying about Bill. No less than the Auditor-General, Jonathan Hunt, Margaret Wilson and Lockwood Smith have all ruled Bill has been eligible for the Wellington accommodation supplement.
But even putting that falsehood aside (and teh stupidity of trying to compare an issue about a flag with housing allownaces), it is pitiful to suggest that John Key is racist because he criticised Hone Harawira.
Calling the Prime Minister a racist is not an accusation an MP should make lightly. I wonder if Phil Goff would agree with Trevor that Key is a racist for criticising Hone? Maybe someone could ask Phil in front of Hone as he welcomes him onto Waitangi.
February 5th, 2010 at 1:23 pm
Shit, John Key and I have something in common. We both criticised Hone Harawira. Like 95% of the country.
Vote:February 5th, 2010 at 1:25 pm
Yeah I’m fucked too I think Hone’s a wanker as well.
Vote:February 5th, 2010 at 1:28 pm
The thug Mallard is undergoing male menopause. No doubt about it.
Vote:February 5th, 2010 at 1:32 pm
And who the heck is this Wiremu Pakeha that John Key is supposedly backing? Trev is a plonker of the highest order.
Vote:February 5th, 2010 at 1:34 pm
I think its safe to say Key would never punch a maori…..eh Trev?
Vote:February 5th, 2010 at 1:37 pm
Patrick: Twenty +ve Karma for that one if we still had them.
Vote:February 5th, 2010 at 1:48 pm
Well, he’s only an infant in the blogging world ain’t he??
And what you see is what you get. Warts and all.
Would it be any different if any other/ all politicians were blogging? Be good if they were, then as we now know what Trevor is, so would we know what they were.
Vote:February 5th, 2010 at 1:51 pm
it’s indicative of how Labour have sold out on race relations. since the departure of Clark their approach has run the whole gamut from petty vindictiveness to outright bigotry.
even though they they like to pretend the tino rangatiratanga flag is just empty symbolism they can’t help but be obsessed with it. if they can’t have any postive contribution they should just leave it alone, lots of people have no problem with it.
Vote:February 5th, 2010 at 2:03 pm
‘Not so clever Trevor’ merely is representative of the paucity of intellect on the Labour Front Bench. When Helen left, the overall IQ average dropped into double figures. and of that ’11′ is repesented alone by Cunliffe.
Vote:February 5th, 2010 at 2:05 pm
They all went to different BBQs?
I would have expected Labour to review what went wrong last year and come back focused on putting it right. But they seem more disjointed and misguided than ever. Too many steaks and not enough gas.
Vote:February 5th, 2010 at 2:13 pm
manalo
either menopause or maybe testosterone or brain tumour?
To bandy about like this is not a good look as unlike us dweebs on the internet he is looking at the country taking him seriously.
Vote:February 5th, 2010 at 2:16 pm
The duck is nothing more than a scaremongoring bullshitter. The problem is that he has nothing constructive to moan about so he is becoming more bizzrare and being outed for the meatsack that he is. Clearly he is losing the leadership stakes.
Vote:February 5th, 2010 at 2:18 pm
Perhaps he may do something in the corridors of power or the lobbies he later regrets.
Vote:February 5th, 2010 at 3:35 pm
Where’s the “Countess” or Ms Curran to leap in and fearlessly defend the noble Mallard ?
Since they haven’t turned up, I’ll explain for them. Any criticism by someone in National of anyone Maori is racism, OK ? But, any criticism of anyone Maori by anyone in labour (or further to the left like the Greens) cannot ever be called racism because they’re their “friends”, and we wouldn’t criticize if you unless you show “Uncle Tom” tendenecies by supporting someone other than us anyway, and that’s a wor=se sin than racism, so there too. And since it’s Trevor talking, nyah, nyah, nyah !
And, by the way, even criticizing this criticism is racist anyway.
Vote:February 5th, 2010 at 3:39 pm
Typical new left bullshit. Happens all over the world and is part of the attack on the principles of free speech.
Vote:February 5th, 2010 at 5:52 pm
Labour at its best, name calling and finger pointing. Trevor did refrain from describing Key as a “white motherfucker” rapist, which was nice of him I suppose. Not that that is a racist reference at all.
Vote:February 5th, 2010 at 7:54 pm
I sometimes wonder if John Key is deliberately giving Hone and his ilk enough rope to hang themselves. If so, that isn’t racist, just good common sense.
Vote:February 5th, 2010 at 9:01 pm
LOL,
has Twevor been told to:
* STFU
* don’t bother coming to any top table meetings
* play nicely with the rookies
* “don’t bother parking your bike in my rack any more”
?
Vote:February 5th, 2010 at 9:52 pm
Mallard, the mad red duck squawks again.
However, Duck Man isn’t alone on this. Looks as though Radio NZ’s Labour Radio is going to take a similar tack in Insight on Sunday morning (8.12 am) according to the promo bit on their web site. This is what the promo bit on its web site says:
Sounds like an interesting PC rant coming up.
Labour Radio is just getting back into swing as its radio stars return from a long summer vacation. Like the sahibs coming back down from the hill stations to resume intellectual command.
Vote:February 5th, 2010 at 10:42 pm
“That view appears to have provoked an outpouring of shock and rage from” – well, everyone that isn’t on the treaty gravy train which is approx. 99% of the country but I guess RadioPravda never let reality get in the way of a good bit nationhood self flagellation.
Vote:February 6th, 2010 at 7:30 am
Trevor is a little lost soul.
Bless.
Vote:February 7th, 2010 at 10:50 am
Trevor complaining about the English Whanau pretending to be from Dipton….. How about Hutt South Electors complaining about Trevor pretending to be a caring MP???
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