Heart you too, John

• Eddie
• 15 years ago
• Categories: Media
• Tags: msm whining about blogs

In former journalist John Armstrong’s piece today, he also writes:

“a frustration and impatience towards National still displayed by some of the shriller Labour-aligned blogs, which find fault with anything and everything the Key Government does while expecting their breathless critiques to somehow bring forward its demise”

Aww, you noticed 😀

Seriously though, John. Any substantive critique or just empty attacks because you don’t like hearing robust criticisms of your mate Key?

Here’s what we’ve criticised National for this week:

• taking away sports funding from poor kids to give to rich kids
• reinstating knighthoods
• making false attacks on Labour’s economic record, rather than trying to fix the economy
• failing to set an emissions reduction target that matches the science
• the ‘competition has failed, more competition is the answer!’ power review
• Bennett’s attack on our rights
• not doing anything about unemployment
• Not inviting workers to a conference on workplace safety
• deploying the SAS while clearly being ignorant of the situation in Afghanistan
• their ideologically driven privatisation agenda (re Auckland airport)
• poor design of the home insulation programme
• Ripping off the taxpayer with their accommodation rort
• Beneficiary bashing

Were any of these criticisms baseless or gratuitous? Should we not have made this criticisms because they’re not going to move the polls? 

This is a left-wing blog, we’re going to disagree with the ideas and policies of a right-wing government quite a bit because we are espousing opposite views (incidentally of 30 posts, only 20 were anti-National and one agreed with English).

Passionate? Yes. Forceful? Yes. But our posts are substantive, they’re issues focused (in stark contrast to your writing, John), and they are grounded both in data and in ideology. We welcome people who want to come and debate against our arguments.

If you can’t come up with any real rebuttals of our arguments, John, and resort to bitching instead, then I feel a bit sorry for you.