Disrespectful

Written By: - Date published: 10:02 am, November 10th, 2011 - 44 comments
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An obscure little article from 3 News yesterday:

Key ignores Christchurch quake minute’s silence

The Prime Minister has ruffled people’s feathers after being shown on television talking during a minute’s silence for Christchurch quake victims.

Mr Key was shown on a TV3 broadcast talking to colleagues at the Addington Raceway while others remained silent.

He was attending the Christchurch Casino NZ Trotting Cup Day, an important event for Cantabrians and one of the first chances for Christchurch to celebrate since the February quake. …

The piece has been updated this morning with Key’s claim that he “didn’t know” about the minute’s silence. Everyone else seemed to know.

44 comments on “Disrespectful ”

  1. grey lynn girl 1

    Give the guy a break – he was just asking where he could get some ghost chips. He was starving – cause he’s been working 19 hours a day for all you ungrateful poor people. Just wait till after the election – you’ll all pay!

  2. Uturn 2

    Hey John, Monique says you’re dumb.

  3. Anne 3

    A photo op. you have when you don’t want a photo op? What an ignoramus!

  4. didn’t know? didn’t care I’d say – too busy listening to his own voice – key will fall hard eventually.

  5. Blue 5

    So, a huge raceway crowd all go silent suddenly, and Key doesn’t even notice?

    Another Tui billboard.

  6. Lanthanide 6

    I guess Key didn’t know about the minute’s silence because he wasn’t the one to announce it.

    Although if he had, we probably would have ended up with his super-sized 2 Minutes of Silence, like he called for to remember the Pike River miners.

  7. toad 7

    I guess Key wasn’t at the meeting where the decision to hold a minute’s silence was made.

  8. Can you imagine if this was Goff?  The slithery one and Farrar would be aploplectic and this line would be worked into every second sentence.  There would be an avalance of “Goff disreptful” posts and their willing minions would be spreading the word far and wide.
     
    Having said that this was really poor form from the energiser bunny.
     
    His spin merchants were out immediately spreading the word.  They reckoned he did not know it was happening.  Maybe he thought the crowd had become quiet at the majesty of his presence.

    • Waldo 8.1

      I’m wondering if the irony of this particular comment has dawned on you yet.

      • mickysavage 8.1.1

        Not at all.  I am just pointing out that if this was Goff there would be a huge onslaught of comments.
         
        On the left we have a bemused post a couple of days after the event.
         
        The severity of the response is entirely different.

        • Waldo 8.1.1.1

          I think I understand.
          Your position is, that if this was Goff there would be a snide response from a partisan political blog, which would assume the worst about the incident in terms of Mr Goff’s character and provide a platform for others to make nasty comments (which is almost certainly true).

          This post is different because a partisan political blog has made a snide response which assumes the worst about the incident in terms of Key’s character and provides a platform for others to make nasty comments… but a couple of days after the event.

  9. felix 9

    I said I work 19 hours a day and I fucking well meant 19 hours, not 18 hours and 59 minutes.

  10. grumpy 10

    ….I was there. Hardly anyone heard the announcement for the minute’s silence – me included, in fact it was only when I saw the Press this morning that I knew there had been one…….

    • ghostwhowalksnz 10.1

      How convenient . The crowd goes silent but you claim ‘hardly anyone’ knew about it.

      • Andrew Scobie 10.1.1

        I just watched the video on the 3 news site and half the crowd were still chatting and yahoo’ing … i’m not surprised that a fairly large portion of the crowd didn’t hear the call for a minutes silence.

        beat-up

  11. ak 11

    It’s perfectly understandable behaviour from the PM, knowing him as we do. He reads the papers too, don’t forget, and probably genuinely thought that the crowd was simply straining to hear every dinnamically witty word he said.

  12. grumpy 12

    What???? You didn’t vote for Nikki Kaye?????

  13. randal 13

    hey kwee wee is different to the rest of us. he makes up his own rules.

  14. fender 14

    Key is a slimy little disrespectful shit and this does not surprise me at all. He would have been made aware of the moment of silence prior but he wont dance to any tune but his own. A lack of respect for protocol and an ability to make poor decisions is at least consistant though.

  15. ghostwhowalksnz 15

    Considering TV3 did a beat up on Goffs description of the TOP 10 fails as nothing to be ‘smug

    about’, which when it came to a promo repeated during the night turned into

    ” Find out at 10.30 the four letter word used against Key”

    Of course the disrespect shown by Key is played straight with his own response to make it right

  16. randal 16

    who wants ot bet that if he wins the lection then he doesn’t see out his term.
    once he has got his cut then he will be off leaving us to the tender mercies of three dollar bill and landslide nik.

    • Hami Shearlie 16.1

      His cut would be a knighthood, and a voucher for free lunches with the Royal Family for a lifetime plus a Trelise Cooper voucher for Bronagh? And maybe a personal bodyguard for life? Or am I not being aspirational enough?

      • fender 16.1.1

        I’d welcome a return to the days where a knighthood was only given to folks that have actually achieved something worthwhile for the country….not given to nation wreckers.

  17. aerobubble 17

    I’ve been in, guessing, a couple of hundred
    different supermarkets, in the UK, US, Europe,
    Australia and now NZ.

    Never have designers moved from
    a consistent theme, of flat floor space.
    Where designers have placed areas above
    the shopping floor the public have had access
    to them, e.g. Malls the world over. So
    I was struck recently about a revamp of
    a supermarket in NZ that, well creates a
    platform above the cashier area, where
    only staff may cross, much like a cattle
    yard also found in the city.

    The contempt the design has for
    customers is stunning, while consumers
    pay for their goods, they are looked
    down upon and to get out they must go
    under the bridge.

    A bridge that looks
    like it allows managers to cross over
    to main complaints area from their
    offices, and so not have to mix with
    the general mob.

    The NZ economy is structured for a fast
    turnover of profits, lacking in a CGT
    as it is. Consumers seen as cattle hurried
    and herded through a cattle gate, a
    kind of subliminal message, subconsious
    expression of the supermarket owners,
    even a fraudian design slip???

    A meek submissive consumer mob who
    regularly bow down to their lordly managers,
    who quite literally look down upon them.

    Key represents managers in NZ, we’re
    cattle to him.

    • Bored 17.1

      What a wonderful observation. I also feel we are treated with contempt by the universal nature of “malls”, they look the same and have the same shops anywhere on the planet. We the customer offered the same universal bland sameness. Cattle fed G.M grain, hoofing false marble halls for the same unsatisfying purchases.

      • aerobubble 17.1.1

        Yeah, and the manager class, who have less law to abide to, less taxes to
        pay, are now growing arrogant and callous harming their shareholder
        interests. We can select the type of capitalism we have, if we select
        for cheap sugar foods we have to have more highly qualified
        dentists who do root canal work, it pushes up the cost of health
        care and the size of the pension coverage. Its a frigging industry
        growing bad teeth. Yet a tax off fresh greens, less sugar intake
        would mean less cost from pension blowouts. Stands to reason
        why so many are desperate to keep herding the majority around.

  18. Wayne91 18

    I have no doubt, that know matter what you think of John Key, or Phil Goff for that matter neither would never deliberatly disrespect a minutes silence. Seriously

  19. Because he is a narsistic meshuuggener ,nothing more, nothing less,and unless all us lefties get out and vote we will be burdened with him.

  20. infused 20

    No one would do this on purpose. He said himself he came in just after everyone else and didn’t hear an announcement.

  21. Terry 21

    What is the surprise? Has not Key observed a permanent silence as concerns Christchurch?

  22. Treetop 22

    Key’s observation skills really need polishing. Maybe time to get a hearing test to.

  23. Bill 23

    “Christchurch dead? Yeah well, that’s got nothing to do with me, has it? And we all know it’s all about me. Fuck. I didn’t die. Tell you mate, even junkies don’t have a look in when it comes to my ‘me’ shit. No kidding….Sorry. What were you saying? Nothing! Oh, well. See. There you go. Proves my point really. If it’s not about me, it’s not anything worth paying any attention to, is it? Now. As I was saying…”

  24. Neil 24

    There’s arrogance…and THEN there’s being too self-important to observe the minutes silence in Christchurch yesterday.

    What a swell guy our Prime Minister is!

    http://fearfactsexposed.wordpress.com/2011/11/10/theres-arrogance-and-then-theres-being-too-self-important-to-observe-the-minutes-silence-in-christchurch-yesterday/

  25. hoom 25

    If it was Goff it’d be front page news for a week.
    Well actually it’d be front page & half the main section coverage of Key & every rich/famous person they can find condemning such terrible disrespect.

  26. John Key is a member of the 1%. Enough said.

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