Posts Tagged ‘dpf’

No Changes for Kiwiblog

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 9:34 am, August 19th, 2014 - 112 comments

David “Princess Parties” Farrar at Kiwiblog is trying to wash off some of the stench of Dirty Politics. Turns out it’s after the election (of course) – and so heavily qualified as to be meaningless. Expect business as usual at the sewer.

David Cunliffe’s grandfather’s medals

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 11:01 am, April 29th, 2014 - 136 comments

Man ban – Geddis on DPF

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 4:09 pm, July 4th, 2013 - 108 comments

Labour is proposing female-only candidate selection in some cases. Andrew Geddis has indecent fun as he schools DPF on his “man ban” spin. Extracts below but go read the whole thing on Pundit.

POAL, DPF, and the politics of envy

Written By: IrishBill - Date published: 7:31 am, January 12th, 2012 - 142 comments

DPF has joined the chorus of overpaid righties calling for working people to have their pay cut.

That’s despite him being on a pretty good wicket himself.

What is it with the right and the politics of envy?

DPF putting his readers in harm’s way

Written By: IrishBill - Date published: 8:52 am, November 12th, 2011 - 72 comments

David Farrar is encouraging his readers to put themselves in harm’s way by authorising and distributing a misleading election advertisement he’s created.

Of course he won’t take the risk himself – instead he’s hiding behind “personal opinion”.

Even DPF attacking government’s urgency

Written By: Eddie - Date published: 7:32 am, April 14th, 2011 - 6 comments

The Herald reports that National party blogger David Farrar and Grant Robertson have spoken out against the government’s misuse of urgency and its bypassing of the select committee process.

Ironically the call comes as the government jams more bad legislation through under the cover of urgency.

Why the Right is worried 2: Key

Written By: Marty G - Date published: 11:59 am, October 19th, 2010 - 56 comments

While the economy burns, Key is  fiddling with spiders. He is the good times PM. He’s all about getting  himself in front of a camera and having a grin, as if he’s on a 3 year  project in collecting pictures for his photo album, rather than Prime  Minister. Key’s inability to handle Paul Henry like a real leader put a deep scratch in his Teflon. The brand is fading.

Murdering statistics

Written By: Marty G - Date published: 9:36 am, July 12th, 2010 - 16 comments

Something that really boiled my blood a few weeks back, but which I haven’t had a chance to write about yet was this post by National Party pollster David Farrar on the topic of a recent lull in homicides in a single police district. It was the worst kind of politics – a person who knows his argument is false taking advantage of the suffering of people and the ignorance of his audience for petty party political points scoring.

John Key discovers new word. Country celebrates.

Written By: lprent - Date published: 12:09 pm, February 23rd, 2010 - 17 comments

This morning the DomPost ran an article by Tracy Watkins about several ministers misusing their ministerial credit cards for personal entertainment. They obtained the information by doing OIAs (Official Information Act requests). Now I’ve come to expect that NACT ministers will do (in John Keys words) “stupid” things in office. But what I found significant was that John Key appears to have discovered the use of a new word “disappointment”. This is a major advance for the NACT political vocabulary.

Kiwibob-each-way on Melissa’s video

Written By: John A - Date published: 7:33 pm, May 14th, 2009 - 13 comments

Interesting comment on Melissa from Kiwiblog’s Farrar: There is also the issue of the video produced by her before the election, placed on You Tube. I haven’t covered that in detail yet because so far I can’t see anywhere what Melissa has done wrong – my stance will change if such details emerge. Not exactly […]

Farrar back on the PS payroll?

Written By: all_your_base - Date published: 12:12 pm, December 6th, 2008 - 135 comments

A mate just pointed out that the metadata of David Farrar’s election analysis document suggests it was authored on a Parliamentary Service computer. With the document open in Microsoft Word go to the ‘File’ menu then down to ‘Properties’. You’ll see something like the image below: Of course you’ll notice that the document title looks […]

Farrar’s company, Curia, polls for Family First

Written By: all_your_base - Date published: 1:32 pm, May 29th, 2008 - 16 comments

I’d thought at the time that it seemed a little odd for David Farrar to pass up a free hit regarding the Family First commissioned study on smacking. The headline in Granny Herald was: “Poll shows we’re still smacking our children”. What an opportunity! Turns out though, that it was Farrar’s company, Curia, that did […]

Media policy

Written By: Steve Pierson - Date published: 3:30 pm, May 17th, 2008 - 47 comments

As The Standard has grown, we’ve started to receive inquires from the media and requests for a comment or interview. We’ve been a bit hesitant about what to do in this regard. On the one hand, like most bloggers, we blog under pseudonyms and we believe what’s important is the writing and the arguments, not […]

Mistakes, I’ve made a few

Written By: Steve Pierson - Date published: 2:22 pm, April 26th, 2008 - 91 comments

David Farrar’s three more prominent weaknesses came together in a speculator PR disaster yesterday. The weaknesses are his ego, his trick of using pictures of naked women to boost hits on his site, and his reverse midas touch, whereby every he touches turns to, well, it doesn’t turn out well. See, Farrar led the campaign […]