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Coming unstuck

Written By: all_your_base - Date published: 9:08 pm, February 16th, 2008 - 51 comments

Only days after trying to eat a plate, in yet another freak (can I call him that?) accident, National Party blogger David Farrar has glued his hand to his face. Bystanders (standing by too close by if you want my opinion) were powerless to help. Could a one-handed Google search save David? Stay tuned.

Curia-ser and Curia-ser

Written By: IrishBill - Date published: 9:01 pm, February 12th, 2008 - 61 comments

You’ll probably know about the rumour around the traps that blogger David Farrar is running his polling company Curia out of National Party HQ. This information first came up when Newzblog blogger James Sleep posted on a conversation he had with a young Nat in which the lad in question told him that he worked […]

Push polling

Written By: all_your_base - Date published: 12:30 pm, February 8th, 2008 - 8 comments

Tony Milne responds to National Party blogger, David Farrar’s recent post on push polling. Tony points out that any push polling undertaken during the last election was most likely a three way affair between the National Party, the Exclusive Brethren and conservative political consultants Crosby and Texter. National have repeatedly tried to distance themselves from […]

Substance, not style

Written By: Eddie - Date published: 1:37 pm, January 31st, 2008 - 46 comments

I don’t know if this is breaking some cyber protocol (oh, but I don’t much care if I am) but I want to put Jordan Carter‘s post on Helen Clark’s speech up here on The Standard. The reason is that while I agree with a lot of what IrishBill said – mainly that her speech […]

DPF takes the moral highground

Written By: IrishBill - Date published: 1:19 am, January 27th, 2008 - 133 comments

As you will know National Party Blogger David Farrar gave us a wee razzing for publishing an out of date list of Bob Clarkson’s vast parliamentary achievements on Friday. Much high-horsing followed: [DPF: I now understand why you don’t post under your full name. You would be unemployable. No one would ever hire people whose […]

Apologies for Burqa Bob

Written By: Tane - Date published: 7:03 pm, January 25th, 2008 - 109 comments

It would appear David Farrar is deeply concerned about the amount of traffic his mate Bill has been drumming up for The Standard this week, judging by his strange attack on our site this evening over a trifling error in our earlier post on Bob Clarkson. The article in question was a repost of an […]

Same old faces, same old tactics

Written By: IrishBill - Date published: 2:06 pm, January 23rd, 2008 - 251 comments

Well it looks like Free Speech Coalition founder Cameron Slater has taken a break from stalking John Minto and photoshopping underage bloggers’ faces onto porn and decided to finally publish the Coalition’s updated donors list (and only a month after he said he would). Interestingly, a “P Shirtcliffe” is listed as having donated $5000. Now […]

They just don’t learn

Written By: Tane - Date published: 1:38 pm, January 22nd, 2008 - 109 comments

I see the Free Speech Coalition hasn’t learned anything from the ramshackle PR fiasco that was their launch and have posted up another billboard in Invercargill today, this time featuring Robert Mugabe and criticising the government’s ‘silencing’ of Mayor Shadbolt, who is ironically one of the least silent people in the country at the moment. […]

Interesting times…

Written By: IrishBill - Date published: 8:20 pm, January 15th, 2008 - 22 comments

It seems the cats at newzblog have decided to bring our old mate Robinsod on board as a blogger and his first shot is at Farrar and Whale. I’ve spent more than a few nights on the booze with ‘Sod and the guy’s pretty smart and has definitely been around the traps but I’ve gotta […]

New left-wing blog

Written By: Tane - Date published: 4:36 pm, January 14th, 2008 - 22 comments

While I’ve been away some regular left-leaning commenters here at The Standard and elsewhere have banded together to start NewZblog, a new Kiwi blog that describes itself as “a fine blend of politics with a left twist”. So a big welcome aboard to Red Bus, Illuminatedtiger, Policy Parrot and James Sleep – you guys are […]

What’s National cooking up for 2008?

Written By: IrishBill - Date published: 11:58 am, January 13th, 2008 - 195 comments

Well, I saw my first Farrar billboard in the real two days ago and I gotta tell you I laughed. I was with a companion who is politically aware and has a pretty good idea about the EFB and when I pointed it out to her she was baffled. When I told her the story […]

Billboard shambles

Written By: all_your_base - Date published: 10:16 am, December 20th, 2007 - 51 comments

Here’s some coverage from TV1 last night on what’s looking more and more like a PR disaster for National, Farrar and their wealthy backers. The PM, in good humour, commented: “You’ve got to laugh haven’t you. We have a country with the most amazing liberty and I will defend that to my last breathing moment… […]

DPF’s bloody good deal

Written By: IrishBill - Date published: 4:34 pm, December 19th, 2007 - 94 comments

There’s plenty of comment about Davey’s/National’s Billboards here and at Blogblog so I’ll not bore you with my analysis of these dreadful things. ‘Cos as you know I’m a man who likes to know what things cost. And guess what? I’ve done quite a few billboards and if Dave’s getting them for $7000, then he’s […]

Rules of the game

Written By: IrishBill - Date published: 9:59 pm, December 3rd, 2007 - 55 comments

Just had a read of Colin Espiner’s latest opinion piece. He certainly doesn’t pull any punches. Here’s what he has to say about the EFB: But despite attempts by Labour to patch up the worst of the bill’s flaws, it remains a shoddy piece of legislation that should be consigned to the dustbin. And, in […]

Blogwhistle

Written By: all_your_base - Date published: 7:59 am, November 28th, 2007 - 19 comments

Never one to let the facts get in the way of a little party propaganda Farrar really has become the partyline-parrot. It’s a shame he just couldn’t resist the opportunity to dogwhistle his party’s line on public servants with his meaningless and distortive post on relative growth between (in his words) “teachers and nurses” versus […]

Ramshackle PR fiasco

Written By: Tane - Date published: 6:02 pm, November 22nd, 2007 - 175 comments

It’s a bit late, but a reader who was at yesterday’s anti-EFB march has mailed us through some pics from the rally. As David Farrar has noted, the protest march was joined by a small group of activists in John Key and Mr Burns masks chanting things like “What is it that we support? John […]

Just in: photo from David Farrar’s march

Written By: all_your_base - Date published: 3:04 pm, November 21st, 2007 - 61 comments

From Kiwiblog: Okay just got back from the march. Didn’t quite go as I envisioned. You see while I have promoted the march here, I’m not one of the organisers and my involvement was purely to stroll along at the back, and see how it goes. Not a large turnout (but around what I expected […]

Which was it David- anonymous donation or trust?

Written By: Ralph Malcolm - Date published: 10:47 am, November 21st, 2007 - 35 comments

The Hysteria- with a capital H- over at Kiwiblog around the Electoral Finance Bill has been mystifying for many of us in blogland. Sure David Farrar is a key National Party figure, and is no doubt worried that the Bill will mean his party will no longer be able to buy elections, or more rightly […]

Free Speech Coalition – defending their right to hide

Written By: John A - Date published: 10:03 am, November 20th, 2007 - 96 comments

The reason for National Party Kiwiblogger David Farrar’s obsession with megaphones is now clear. It’s about electioneering speech, and the logic goes like this. The Electoral Finance Bill prohibits election advertising “in any form of words” unless published with a name and address. So if you are on the other end of a megaphone, you […]

Electoral Finance – Apoplexy at Kiwiblog

Written By: John A - Date published: 2:23 pm, November 19th, 2007 - 84 comments

Now we know why Kiwiblog wants the Electoral Finance Bill killed – it could cost Farrar money! Kiwiblog “has some significant advertising lined up” which may be “at serious risk”. Certainly, Kiwiblog is a dyed-in-blue-wool National Party supporter. Kiwiblog also goes on a rave about other straw men, such as placards in demos having to […]

Ask not what your country can do for you, DPF…

Written By: IrishBill - Date published: 1:02 pm, November 14th, 2007 - 63 comments

Interesting to see National Party blogger David Farrar is inciting his readers to start a political party to bypass/oppose the Electoral Finance Bill. Even more interesting is the fact that his rabid hoard are already calling for him to be its leader. Here at The Standard we couldn’t agree more – if anyone has the […]

‘Political commentator David Farrar’

Written By: Tane - Date published: 12:39 am, November 12th, 2007 - 60 comments

You do have to wonder sometimes who’s making the judgment calls in our newsrooms. Last night One News decided to use a National Party staffer, David Farrar, to comment on a poll that showed the Maori Party leading Labour in the Maori seats. As you’ll see in the picture, Farrar was introduced as an independent […]

The power of the web

Written By: Eddie - Date published: 1:11 pm, November 9th, 2007 - 1 comment

All election addicts are casting their eyes to what is happening in other countries & especially over in Australia and in the States. The US political teams lead the way on the integration (and spend power) of web resources & but as this article points out, much of the firepower is pointed at Hilliary Clinton: […]

New blog

Written By: Tane - Date published: 4:46 pm, November 6th, 2007 - Comments Off on New blog

University of Otago political studies student Geoffrey Miller has set up a blog about the ACT Party, called Douglas to Dancing. It seems to take a rather academic, non-partisan approach and looks like it’s got some interesting stuff. Turns out former ACT MP Gerry Eckhoff wants to start a new Country Party. Wasn’t he the […]

Kiwiblog loses the plot

Written By: Tane - Date published: 10:48 pm, November 5th, 2007 - 79 comments

Regular readers of David Farrar’s National Party blog will be aware that it’s been in a bit of trouble lately. Aside from the setting up of robust left-wing opposition in the form of The Standard, Kiwiblogblog and others, DPF’s had to contend with an increase in left opponents in his comments section who are willing […]

DPF: Death Penalty Facts

Written By: all_your_base - Date published: 10:13 pm, October 10th, 2007 - 2 comments

There I was just reading this when I notice DPF doing a post on the same thing. Stuff reports that under Clark’s leadership “New Zealand is working with other countries to put a resolution to the United Nations seeking the abolition of the death penalty world wide”. Of course National Party blogger and HQ staff […]

Hollow Men new season at Circa 2

Written By: Eddie - Date published: 11:54 am, October 10th, 2007 - 3 comments

Good news for Wellingtonians. It looks like Dean Parker’s play The Hollow Men (based on Nicky Hager’s Don-downing book) has got a new season at Circa 2 for almost 3 weeks in early November. More details when we have them. Good news too for National Party blogger David Farrar who said the reason he hadn’t […]

A disturbance in the force?

Written By: IrishBill - Date published: 5:36 pm, October 9th, 2007 - 23 comments

I might be coming to this belatedly (forgive me if you’ve already noticed it) but it seems the left/right blog war has heated up considerably in the last couple of weeks, and there’s some palpable right wing cyber-paranoia going on. It seems the right have got rather used to New Zealand’s blogosphere being their own […]

So trickledown does work!

Written By: all_your_base - Date published: 5:14 pm, October 4th, 2007 - 5 comments

Apparently when the senior members of the National Party are having a tough time, they take it out on their workers. How else to explain today’s meltdown by National Party blogger and HQ staff member, David Farrar? DPF isn’t his usual chirpy self at all and one can’t help but think that it might have […]

You can fool some of the people…

Written By: all_your_base - Date published: 1:02 pm, October 4th, 2007 - 2 comments

…all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time, said Abraham Lincoln. John Key appears to be learning that lesson the hard way, much as Brash did with the Brethren. The PM once referred to Key as “insubstantial”. A […]