Written By: - Date published: 11:52 am, October 15th, 2007 - 119 comments
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Tags: national
Shortly after Jim Anderton published a press release saying that he was adding his signature to our petition asking John Key to apologise for claiming the the war in Iraq was over we received the following email from the National Party.
I guess when you’re so heavily reliant on style over substance, these are just the kind of things you’d get your knickers in a twist over.
So National’s all for freedom of speech – but only when it suits them.
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Being called shameless, wow I’ll take that as a compliment from you guys.
Robinchicken how about you name the place and time, I don’t know any cheap places in wellington that would accept your kind, but I am happy to go to a place of your choice.
I must say though that you guys seem obsessed with homosexuals ina 12 year old kind of way. I mean you think a picture of a guy scratching his nuts in boxer shorts is gay porn and delight in trolling my blog calling me of all things gay and fat and blubber. Real kindy kinda stuff. But hey if that’s what gets you going fine by me, I’ll not complain.
Your righteous indignation is so touching.
Oh and still waiting for that apology Tane and Robinson, not expecting it though because that would mean you have to admit you were wrong.
Jordan and I may not like each other online but I have never attacked his sexual preferences.
Go on try something for the first time, admit you were wrong and apologise.
Oh and Mr Oil
Do you have copyright on that image, or did you just steal it off the internet.
Good God. Unbelieveable. A blind man could see that a line has definitely been crossed here. And this is the son of a prominent National party figure? burt and co: have a good hard look at the company you keep – and do something about it. If there are not repercussions from this I’ll be very surprised.
Whale – like I said on your blog – I’m sorry I can’t distinguish one bigot from another. As for meeting you? It was pointed out to me that you’d just use it as an opportunity to out me and as I’ve had several serious physical threats made against me by your loony rightwing mates that’s probably not a good idea. Which is a shame as a few lefty folk wanted to video the meeting for youtube posterity…
So, who is Whaleoil’s dad?
Amk
“From your post above am I to assume that anyone who does something you find disagreeable, nay disgusting, is thereafter consigned to the trash can and deemed incapable of saying anything of value, or, that anything they say is an opportunity to attack previous unrelated actions?”
No. It’s all covered in my post. It’s the bit about conclusion vs premiss.
In your example of what you claim is the woeful treatment handed out to wailywhaley, you forgot to include his snark in your quote from him. This kind of colours the argument a little. Also you neglected to include the actual attacks made against him. Indeed there were attacks, the first one at the end coming in the very next comment. However the first half of that comment replies to whaleoils point.
The “attack”, as you would have it, is a reference to the fact that, (and I’m astounded that you failed to pick up on this rather subtle point), whaleoil himself uses images he does not own in photoshop gags!! quelle horreur, pass the smelling salts, etc.
Do you think, with your highly tuned hypocracy meter that this has any relevance to his comment?
Seeing you are so very concerned about the quality of debate and the standard of the Standard, how about you address the issue raised directly by the post.
Do you think it’s ok for Key’s tax payer staff to be shooting off legally dubious requests for bloggers to shut the fuck up?
John Slater, former National party president, so I understand. Whale posted a picture of his dad with GW Bush a while back.
I hate to ask, but was it photoshopped?
[chicken sounds]Pussy, then again i suppose 12 year olds aren’t allowed in pubs. Perhaps we could have lunch at Maccas’s, bring yo mammy or your union thug mates, the more the merrier, if that would suit.[/chicken sounds]
You’d think given all the bad press given to Bill English’s son recently, that the son of a National MP would be a little more careful with their choice of pictures and language.
Sigh…..
Oops just saw the other posts, and that wasn’t quite right. Got my John Carter and my John Slater confused.
Anyway, yep it’s true. What an embarrassment.
Unfortunately for Key – he is a public figure. There isnt a lot he can do about people using pictures of him anymore.
all gay pinko commi labour party supporters are pissed off how high national is in the opinion polls,we are going win this election , and yes we will give tax cuts and save new zealand from political correctness,as a country we need to reform the labour market bring in a work place flexibility act ,get the government out of the economy leave the balance to the magic of the market get back on track 9 years of labour has been a disaster, asset sales are good they bring much needed investment and expertise just look at telecom electricity reforms. privitsation of acc will bring in competition greater profits.to control inflation we need unemployment to keep inflation under control.we will get money for tax cuts by cutting kiwi saver.and other welfare new zealand stand on your own two feet.
[lprent: That aroused my troll killing instincts. However it was just a lack of capitals, punctuation, typos and appalling sentence structure. I really can't ban someone for having bad written english despite what Billy and the 'sod think.]