So which was it? Was this press release written on epmu time or was this post written on epmu time?

I’m sure the six and a half people in New Zealand consumed with this issue will have plenty of time to froth about it for the rest of the year. But please forgive the rest of us if we don’t share your obsession at this moment. Sorry.

You would think a small reference would be warranted surely? Just a single post to set the record straight?

I can think of three plausible reasons why this hasnt happened, and they are by no means mutually exclusive.

1. Paul M has you dead to rights, and there is little wriggle room.

2. You haven’t been able to come up with a consistent story thus far.

3. If you put it on the front page, any one that happens to stumble upon the site will be blissfully unaware of your humiliation and by your Labou-funded, anti-National propaganda.

All in all a crap piece of journalism during dead time that basically amounted to “I read this thing on Kiwiblog and it sounds kind of bad for labour – haven’t bothered to do any more research. Next story.”

I know no-one in blogosphere. I judge them all by what they say.

I am a right winger. So I have always been inclined to think all of Tane’s “DPF what’s your game [insert conspiracy about being in the pay of a the vast right wing conspiracy]” posts were all paranoia. Maybe I am naive.

I am not going to lie: when I read DPF’s post, I was delighted. The Standard being plausibly exposed as being potentially involved in exactly what they have tirelessly accused DPF of doing. What delicious irony.

But then I remember Hanlon’s Razor: don’t attribute to maliciousness that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. And, for the same reason I suspect (without knowing) that DPF is just a guy who is interested in politics and is a right winger by conviction, I suspect that the Standard people are just people who are interested in politics and are left wingers by conviction.

Now maybe I am just naive and Heather Simpson is smirking whilst composing her next post as Tane. Almost certainly Nih will pop up and call me gay. But I suspect I am closer to the truth about both sides than any partisan hack will admit.

And isn’t it funny that, pretend as we like that this is all about ideology, what really gets everyone’s juices flowing is a good old conspiracy theory where, rather than having to show why our respective ideas are better, we can simply leap to exposing the other side as being dishonest.

And now I am going to go, because I am worried everyone is reading this in the voice Sam Elliot used in ‘The Big Lebowski’, Dude.

why did you post more than 3,000 words here in one evening, opposing the EFB on the night National tried its lame arsed filibustering?

just a passionate hobbyist are you?

Sounds a lot like the only “independent expert” David Farrar wrote the “story” for him. About as long and interesting as a Bog post too, even Williams (often quite good at mock-outrage) sounds like he can barely keep awake till the end of the piece.