DPF and the National Party have made much of a Helen Clark quote unearthed from her conference speech in 2000 on tax cuts.
I’ve just read it on Kiwiblog and was puzzled by the elipsis in the middle. DPF writes:
“Tax cuts are a path to inequality… They are the promises of visionless and intellectually bankrupt people”. Who said this and when?
So I went looking for the complete quote (found it via Google in Vernon’s piece in the Dom):
“Tax cuts are a path to inequality and underdevelopment in today’s circumstances. They are the promises of vision-less and intellectually bankrupt people”
To misquote her so deliberately – by removing the three crucial qualifying words – is an absolute disgrace. While it’s just the kind of thing you’d expect from an increasingly desperate “one-trick-pony” National Party, I’m a little surprised that DPF went there too.
It’s common knowledge he’s a National Party insider – he’s on the payroll and spends all day blogging from their headquarters – but this has to count as a cheap shot, even for him.
On reflection, this isn’t “quoting out of context”. It’s “quoting having removed the context”.
UPDATE:
Puzzling how this quote from John Key’s address to the Police Association National Conference escaped media attention:
Kiwis fear that ours is not a safe society. They fear . police officers… Increasingly, police are . high on drugs and unaware of their surroundings. Tasers are the obvious answer.
Certainly gives new meaning to getting tough on law and order.
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