When they’re laughing at you…
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Saturday’s DomPost Diary (not on-line) reports :
When actress Chelsie Preston Crayford spotted Prime Minister John Key at a recent event, she leapt at the opportunity to get a photo with him – not because she’s a fan. Preston Crayford recalls: “I just saw an opportunity and asked him for a photo. In fact I had to ask him for it twice because the first time mum (film-maker Gaylene Preston) had her finger over the lens. Preston Crayford told your Diarists that there was a political motive to the snap in that she felt it summed up her objections to the National-led Government’s partial sales of state assets and amendments to the food bill.
Good on her for showing what many others feel.
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Well done!
Well done indeed! I’ll bet Gaylene was ready to vomit ubtil she realised
Much as some of the commentators would hate it…Chelsea Preston Crayford is a very successful actress on both sides of the Tasman. And a woman of intelligence with a great sense of humour, obviously!
Silly young girl, very quick way to fuck your career.
I’d bet money, shes another melon.
Really? I’d have thought the opposite. Or maybe you think Key will take revenge by getting his own personalised intelligence agencies to monitor and neutralise…!?
I’d say all the films she’s been in rely heavily on NZ on Air money.
Biting the hand that feeds you, is very dumb.
Reallly? So NZ on Air is dictated to by government?
And I think asset sales are not really part of the “hands that feed” most kiwis.
Not at the moment but Key will pass a law that says people who get photos taken with him while holding up signs saying “I’m with stupid” are economic terrorists and then another law that says economic terrorists can’t get NZ On Air funding.
Mary, people may one day wake up and decide not to vote into office any silly bugger that has aspirations to “govern” people.
This young girl is a nobody, there’s plenty more aspiring and talented actors out there to choose from then this silly young girl.
This will get a bit of media coverage and I’d say there will be a lot of slacked off and disgusted people out there.
Films have to make some sort of return,so why would a director pick this young girl for a role especially after she’s pissed off a lot of your potential audience.
What a bone head
So a nobody will get a bit of short-lived ineffectual coverage as well as a career-crippling audience polarisation that will shut her out of jobs.
pfft. Stoopid Tory.
In the age of Facebook and an unrelenting push of the younger generation to change things, this picture is displaying feelings of a lot of them and will in the long run not do any harm.
I thought she was awesome in Underbelly, and she won a Logie for that. And as an Aussie production it would not get NZ on Air funding. Great to see an actor who is not a total suck-up. Same for Robyn Malcolm – turns out she was TOTALLY FUCKING CORRECT over that whole Hobbit / Warners bullshit.
Exactly…. Two women who don’t need to leave their brains at home, agree with things they don’t agree with, “be good sweet maid and let you will be clever” and keep their mouths shut ………in order to work in an industry that often expects just that. I am impressed with Chelsea Preston-Crayford for seeing and taking the opportunity and a bit worried that Mr Key, a supposedly savvy businessman, is too smugly confident in New Zealand’s collective adoration, to even consider that a young, good-looking woman might actually disagree with his policies and dare to make fun of him.
BM, you are either deluded or you’re actually John Key (possibly the latter means you are also the former). He’ll laugh I’m sure. This girl’s career has a lot more years left in it than his. She mostly works in Australia anyway, she just won a logie a few months ago for Underbelly.
Chelsie is well respected actor. She was one of the leads in The Ozzie TV series Underbelly. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2642787/ BM you’re the nobody around here.
Well said guy
This talented young woman that you are calling a bone head actually won the most recent Australian Logie award for Most Outstanding New Talent. Perhaps you thing that the asset sales and amendments to the food bill are smart moves for the government. In that case i would call you a ‘silly girl’. I think that a persons career should not stop them from making political statements. What a brave young woman for expressing what so many of us feel, that these recent proposals are nothing but utter stupidity, despite her public persona.
just sounds like you’re a bitter troll. shutup
BM – you’ve come here by mistake. Whaleoil is somewhere else.
Oooeerr!!!!
I don’t think JK is a lot of potential audience.
She will continue to be picked by directors because she’s very talented (and has won awards for the quality of her work), unlike Don, I mean John, Key.
Didn’t seem to harm Vanessa Redgrave or Jane Fonda’s careers too much did it?
come on John, stop this charade and post under your own name. I mean do you really think anyone in the fim industry give 2 flying f*cks about a cretin like JK?
If I was a director I’d pick her because she is, talented, clever, witty, very pretty and because all publicity is good publicity.
but now i want to see everything she is in …a) she is hot as, b) she is a good actor and c) she has a great sense of humour
BM, do you think that Key is such a stupid, petty, corrupt prick that this is a real risk?
Yes, yes, yes, and no.
Or principled……
Well, at the moment the hand that feeds her is Australian, who’s the dumb one now!
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2642787/?ref_=sr_1
I think you have proved her point.No single politician in our democracy should wield that amount of power…..
Christ on a crisket mate, settle down. She’s having a laugh. Reign in the entitled vitriol!
As I just saw something else posted on my Facebook but thought it quite appropriate “Everyone was thinking it…I just said it!”
So is incorrect use of the comma.
NZ on air didn’t fund underbelly … that is an Aussie show … good on her!
BM you couldn’t be more wrong. but you’re allowed your opinion.
Well done Chelsie, doing your own thing as always. rock on.
Oh I think she’ll be just fine.
The Feelers, on the other hand, have been fucked for a few years now.
Yep.
BM, are you going to report her to the Committee for Un-New Zealand Activities?
CUNZA?
I’m usually quite the sophisticate, but that makes me lol
I thought they were the Committee Un-New Zealandish…
A buncha CUNZ…
Thats the trouble with you fcuktards. Someone expresses a political opinion and you want to stuff up their careers. Talk about latent fa$cist tendancies …
Latent? How so?
Yep, right you are …
What felix said. What do mean, ‘latent’?
‘talent’, spelled differently…
Not really, it’s just such a lame thing to do. NZ politicians are accessible. I or anyone else could easily turn up at a function where say Turei is present, or mojo mathers, or shearer, or parker or Mallard or Norman or Winston or any NZ politician and get a photo with a surrepititious bunny ears behind their head or a little message on a badge or a dumb childlike msg on a card like hers if my silly mate or silly parent takes it.
What does it prove? Apart from that the person doing it is obnoxious and thinks they’re really clever, nothing. I mean sure John won’t care, but it’s just so lame, “I’m with stupid” really? Even my 8 year old thinks those are lame. It’s lame. So we should all go stand next to a politician who kindly agrees to take a photo with us who we disagree with and go “I’m with stupid”, how pathetic. LOL
Great idea, UpandComer! Keying is so now; planking and corpsing are dead to me know. Just wait til the kids hear about it!
As long as they don’t get mixed up and go around scratching cars, I’m all for it!
Maybe we should call it Keyling, to differentiate?
Lame? You say? From a private citizen expressing their politics and pov?
Dude, in a country where the professional free-market press destroys a leadership challenge with “cats that look like Cunliffe” all over the tv (where were you decrying them for that one?) no one should blink an eye at this.
Politics is all perception. Stupid there should have been more careful, less keen to cuddle up.
It’s up to you, UpandComer. If you want to do any of those things, go for it. Probably best if it’s spontaneous though, people can smell effort a mile off.
If your timing is right and you capture a certain mood that happens to be sweeping the country in certain demographics, you might even get in the paper. That’d be cool.
It might even touch such a raw nerve that people who disagree with you turn up on internet forums to argue about the merits of it. Even people who say they don’t care might turn up to say how much they don’t care!
Give it a crack. Let us know, eh?
Righto Felix.
If I do it, gosh, people might even interpret it as some kind of harbringer of a non-existent sweeping revolution, full of Chris Trotter Litotes and grand meta-explanations and self high fives of “I’m with stupid”. That would be highly amusing for me, and everyone else.
Who knows. Anything might happen.
Maybe you’ll even get that ‘attaboy’ you’ve been after from the old men at kiwiblog, if you can get them to shut up about Islam, maorification, cultural marxism and ‘how the feminists stole my penis’ for ten minutes.
Unlikely in your case. People just don’t seem to like you much.
But by all means have a go, no-one’s stopping you.
You want lame and stupid!!!.Then take some time out to watch johnkey in action in our hallowed Parliament at question time.His own personal stage for inanity.A three yearold would tear him apart verbally and rhetorically if ihe/she were allowed to.
I think it’s a great photo,especially as the message is true.He has already admitted in Parliament that he is clueless.Can’t argue with our “esteemed” pm.
This photo is so effective because JK is so narcissistic, and can’t resist a photo opportunity.
but it is just sooo funny …. funny coz it is true … she was with him and he is stupid! … you and your 8 year old need to get a sense of humour!
Silly old man! Very quick way to fuck a Proim Minsta’s kreer.
I’d bet money he’s just another Slik Willy
You patronising, holier than thou, you know best, gittus
EKSHLEE BM, if we could arrange it, we’ll put Chelsie’s brain power up against the Proim Minsta’s shall we?
Perhaps ‘Breakfast’ might oblige – or 7#.
Let’s see who’s the “silly young girl”.
My pick would be that its Slik Willy that’s the silly guuuuuurl
Waiting waiting waiting waiting BM. I note the timestamps of our respective posts. You ARE about – so how about that challenge huh?
jeez, you think there’s some kind of blacklist in the entertainment industry? Bow down to the PM of the day or get fucked? Like something out of 1950s Hollywood?
I bet the fascist/ in you loves that little day dream.
You’re a silly sour old thing BM.
That’s so very “North Korean” of you, BM.
I’d start worrying if critics of this “government” started disappearing.
We have – overseas
I find it increasingly difficult to find reasons to come home…
only if she ever tries to get a Job in the Key/Jackson Studio of tourism filmography. A great move & tbh, sometimes just need to say what was said.
I had the misfortune to run into Rodney Hyde on the hustings. As he shook my hand I pronounced as loud as everyone could hear “Your’e a dangerous scab on New Zealand”
damned cathartic!
The Key/Jackson Studio of tourism filmography will be closing soon. Australia has offered a cheaper deal on big holes in the ground as open air sets and we’ll have no pristine wilderness to compete.
Scabs are much prettier than Rodney though!
Haha, this whole thing is awesome.
I am an up and coming director and I will definitely keep her on my radar as she has just gotten and held my attention by being forthright about her politic’s.
I wish more people in cabinet could be as honest.
Anyway, I’m quitely amused and impressed by Chelsea but you five15design get my full rousing applause and congratulations for your heroic and cathartic actions.
I feel you deserve me writing a film about you people.
Awesome, go New Zealand.
So, people can’t dare speak against there ‘rulers’ for fear of being crushed?? What century is this? Evolve
That’s soooo Tory thinking… sad really…
Will JK call directory service for Warners’ number, or is it on speed dial?
From the point of view of a casting director, this would have very little impact on her career either way, positive or negative. For someone to not be cast due to fear of a public backlash, the transgression needs to be considerably worse and most likely illegal.
BM: “Silly young girl, very quick way to fuck your career.”
not everyones a prostitute to the system, scared to speak their mind about the parasitical puppets of the globalist “elites” but we appreciate your perspective.
smart young women .Key is a failure ,name ten things he has done in his two terms that have worked as announced .
I find it bizarre that you can use the words ‘two terms’ and Key in the same comment.
What’s wrong with people, are they blind as well as stupid?
One does not simply “fuck one’s career”…
Sean O’Cheaigh, the Irish Fiddler and one string wonder, on March 17, about to take a final bow?
The green bow tie…. the weak comb over…
Criticising his appearance, karol? Now I know that’s OK, I will do it more often. Look out, Nanaia Mahuta.
I’m not criticising his basic physiology, or body – just his way of presenting himself.
Wow, all those skills and all that education and still acts like an 8 year old . How proud you all must be.
Yep quite, Key’s been a real disappointment. A PM should act like one.
BM – what a pathetic response. So, in your world a person’s personal protest against a lying PM should be penalised by a government intervening with NZ On Air on political grounds to penalise people who don’t like them? Get a life. You right wingers are truly horrid people.
Well if he must have his photo taken with pretty young things what does the old fella expect?
Pomp and Circumstance = The Overtones, Oscillate Wildely “with worship, and conquest and the voice of myriads”.
Sorry to disappoint you all, but she’s not holding that ticket/sign.
Sorry everyone, Nick K did not post that comment.
Key wears red fingernail polish? I mean…..RED?
Not if you see the uncropped version of the photo.
Aww, Karol, my version’s better. Huh?
Even if your version proves Nick K wrong.
hahaha…if only he had his arm around her as well.
Jeepers Mr/Mrs/Ms BM. Such protectiveness of Shonkey Python ! You really are in the running for a knighthood now you blowhard dolt.
Waiting waiting waiitng …… I think we all know where that BM ‘chap’ is at.
Still, In the overall scheme of things, I suppose it’s useful to keep in touch with chicken shit ranters and ravers – though you’ll never get me to visit a Whaleoil blubber who I will ‘suppress on sight’, let alone click on his virtual reality and contribute to any statistics that could be construed as POZTIV.
Oh how I wish I could give him my address!
Wheres that BM chap at, Timothy.
He’s all flash and no substance. So you tell me how we do this aye BM? I’m sure we could arrange something with the aid of lprent. You get you’re mate John Key to front up, and I’ll guarantee you a Chelsie!
You are SO FULL of SHITE it ain’t funny.
Lprent can give you the full email address I’m supposing, and you can contact me directly or supply me with yours.
Put your bullshit money where your bullshit mouth is!
Oh – btw – you’ll be paying the airfares
You seem to be taking this very personally, are you this young girls father, brother?
“Young girl”? Needs defending by a male relative?
You idiot.
Maaaaaaaaate! If I were her dad I’d be called Jonathan and not Tim. It’s not personal – it’s just a dislike of total wankers who think they’re always right, and always have to have the last word. You have to wonder why you bother – is it that you’re so arrogant that you think you could convert contributors to an internet site that openly presents the view from the left with your superior logic and intellect.
As an interloper on this site, I often wonder why people engage with you at all, other than to point out the bleeding obvious – something you do a better job yourself, rather than most of your opponents (i.e. that you’re basically a fuckwit – and one I’ll certainly no longer engage with since you weren’t prepared to put your money where your well exercised mouth is)
Adios hombre – and commiserations and deepest sympathy to whatever or whoever evolves as a result of your carnal desires – if you possess them at all.
It’s too easy to do that, because John makes himself accessible. It’s cheap. I could do that to Shearer probably. You probably couldn’t do it to Helen because I imagine if you did one of her ‘people’ would have smashed your camera and threatened you with Defamation or sth. Pretty silly really, this young girl should have more respect.
“You probably couldn’t do it to Helen because I imagine if you did one of her ‘people’ would have smashed your camera and threatened you with Defamation or sth.”
Yeah right, welcome to planet wingnut where Clark is the PM who traveled everywhere with a team of bodyguards to heavy insubordinate members of the public.
Sheesh you guys are losing your grip.
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Yeah, like John Key who has so much Christmas Spirit.
I agree, it would have been the gulags for her if she’d done that to Clark.
Thankyou, Steven Joyce.
There’s a gulag with your name on it, remember that.
Fortunately, it exists only in the toriverse where Key tells the truth, the economy is thriving, and everyone is employed in cycleway-related jobs. Oh, and taking the piss out of dunnokeyo is a criminal offence.
In the real world you’re just a scared little proto-fascist who thinks that mocking a shit prime minister is a bigger problem for people than a shit prime minister who makes a mockery of the office.
I admit to googling proto-fascist.
The wikipedia article seems a bit lean though.
This is more you.
lol
I can go with either
That is not true and I will demonstrate it.
Tomorrow, I will video tape myself goose-stepping around the streets in my finest lederhosen.
It should be up on you tube by night fall, weather permitting.
It’s so boring when people joke by exaggerating for effect to show they’re not actual extremists, as if it somehow negates the extremist views they’ve actually expressed before they started joking.
My god, I wrote my previous comment before I realised what an unpopular idiot the others think you to be.
By the way BM, can I get a photo with you? And Chelsie, can I borrow that ticket?
You couldn’t put it together yourself?
Sigh…
You mean the Helen Clark who, when out and about in the community, some guy asked her if her husband knew she was out? The Helen Clark who had people heckling her with homophobic slurs, when she was in public?
Respect is something that is earned, UpandComer, so if she doesn’t have respect for Key, that is his fault not hers.
Please explain why New Zealanders shoud have respect for Key.
I don’t see him showing a great deal of respect to average New Zealanders.
Respect is something you earn. Didn’t anyone teach you that?
This isn’t some kind of feudal kingdom….or is that what you’d like it to be?
Off with her head.
Its all good Key will have no memory of it by now. It will be like it never happened. Fat German what fat German?
Akshully, I think I was in Hawaii at the time and Bill was standing in for me so it must be photoshopped
Or Maybe I was in the Peking Restaurant
Akshully, my secretary said I was in Cambra advocating for expat Kiwis’ rights to sleep under Stralian bridges and railway platforms
I’ve never seen that mansion in my electorate before.
When they’re laughing at you, it’s time to go. Yep.
So could Key and Shearer please hold hands and jump, together? Win-win.
The post title being chosen – without irony – by one of Shearer’s insider clique doesn’t make me laugh. It makes me weep. Is Mike Smith so oblivious to how his leader is perceived? Wake up, man.
Key is much worse than a joke. We don’t need a joke to replace him.
When will the Labour Party caucus wake up to the realisation that it is foolish to challenge yesterday’s joke with tomorrow’s joke?
The country is not well served by either.
What a heavenly creature Fran.
Paul seemed to get it in one, just above with …
“Please explain why New Zealanders shoud have respect for Key.
I don’t see him showing a great deal of respect to average New Zealanders.
Respect is something you earn. Didn’t anyone teach you that?
This isn’t some kind of feudal kingdom….or is that what you’d like it to be?”
This sort of thing don’t happen too much so it is most defnitely a pointer. Sort of like when Don Brash did most things.
Great form of protest. Utterly effective and nary a word was spoken.
Funny but not clever.
More clever than key on letterman.
And it didn’t cost ten grand, either
I’d give her a job..innovative, cheeky, and not afraid…not to mention with an accurate sense of assessment.
Could we all do this every time JK grasps & gasps at a photo opportunity? Damn I can’t . I’m not a pretty woman…
It’s not the badly cut dinner jacket but the ready-made green bow tie that does it for me. Ms Crayford is entirely right: it’s an outfit that only a stupid millionaire would wear; it’s a clown suit.
John Key is quickly becoming George W Bush of the South Pacific . If he or his guvermint botches up something (quite a long list he is accumulating) he has this amazing ability to “not recall” it .Maybe photo’s like this will help him remember things . Now we need a photo of him standing in front of the Nova Pay logo , we already have a photo of him having tea with John Banks, etc..
He might want to review this video …”making the boat go faster ” towards the “brighter future” ,yeah right.
http://www.3news.co.nz/Highlights-from-Keys-2008-no-job-cuts-speech/tabid/370/articleID/246605/Default.aspx
She deserves a Knighthood. More wellknown people need to stand up to this government. If the sign had said “John Key my hero” she would have got a knighthood or at least some sort of recognition- maybe appointed head of our Spy agency.
Remember all those Young National turds who followed Key around wearing those fucking awful “Key Person” shirts?
Yeah well it makes me happy to know that they take this as a personal insult.
lol.
There’s a lot of unhappiness about the place. Check out this thread on the “hey Clint” thing: Unrelenting fuckwittery:
http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2013/04/hey_clint.html/comment-page-1#comment-1130650
Oh, the Green using Maoist methods to stifle dissent is….. Gareth Hughes? Because he asked a comms person if the Greens are pleased with the suspension of MRP shares?
And so what do they call a PM who won’t answer oral questions and asks them to submit them in writing?
I know right? And look at the votes, from the Registered Kiwiblog Posse (get down wid RKP, yeah you know what? nah.)
Brilliant!
BM, you are a fuckwit! Just calm down…its funny.
yeah – i thought it was the left that was meant to have no sense of humour
at least thats what we were accused of for so many years
Accurate sign would be ‘I’m with the bloke fronting the great NZ sell out with the smile and wave routine’
Stupid is one thing Key isn’t
Watch out! PinoKeyo might give her a subsidy for movie if she’s lucky!
i think people need to show a little more respect for our prime minister. Society has placed people in certain roles, which in my opinion deserves a little respect. Regardless of what you think of him, I think this is a bit petty and rude… obviously trying to gain a little publicity. Shame on you, you lemon!
BM. You are a fool to think that this will effect her career in any way. NZ on air generally partially funds the makers of a film/ tv show. The maker then pays the actors.
and GENERALLY actors tend to be hired on their ability to portray a given character as opposed whether or not they have gently poked fun at the PM.
If you REALLY think that DonKey will put his crack team of media ninjas on a mission to blacklist this ‘silly young girl’ when they are far too busy putting out his fires, then you Sir/ Madam are
A FUCKING MORON.
A rather obvious PhotoShop! Note the difference in focus between card and coat!
And the kerning in ‘stupid’ is all up the whack.
The sign should go both ways. Toi Whakaari lowered there acceptance age and quality to let this [r0b: deleted – no need for that] in because her mum was a NZ film icon.
UGh this girl isn’t a actress, shes a wannabe with a famous mother. Her career only started after Toi lowered their standards and age limit to let her in.
How many Logie’s have you got Ben?
You know, you’ve looked stupid through all this…now you are looking like a petulant little child throwing their toys out of the cot. Grow up and grow a sense of humour.
Toi?… I assume you mean Toi Whakaari? Go there did ya? Bit jealous?\
I don’t necessarily agree with JK’s policies of even like the guy, but what a lame stunt. I guess she thinks shes clever? For a stupid person JK has done pretty well for himself eh? countless millions and leader of a country. If this is not photoshop its totally unclassy. Good publicity for her though.
Maybe she thinks he’s a dick.
I think you’re right saying for a stupid person he’s doing well for himself. Being leader of a country. But then, maybe it’s a stupid country that would have him as a leader. He’s our George Bush. Wouldn’t it be great to see Bush and Key debate?
It says more about who she is than it does about Key. Typical nasty comment the likes of which have become too common in the facebook era.
I doubt her parents and grandparents would be proud she’s shown such lack of class.
Beautifully said Bobby. I’m embarrassed for her.
I’m not a political person but John Key has managed to turn the NZ economy around since he’s been in power… an absolute change from Labour (who by the way were bringing in immigrants for the vote who weren’t even going to make an effort in contributing to the country. Immigration is good, but bring in people who are going to at least make an effort and care. By the way this came from an ex labour minister who is a family friend).
While Labour and Greens have some “in theory” great policies, you never hear how they are going to fund them, or the actual impact on the average New Zealander (like higher taxes and increased pressure on small businesses, resulting in less opportunity and bigger debt).
I feel for Key, who really has this country’s best interest at heart and yet, small minded, business inept people feel they need to poke fun at him rather than try to understand the bigger picture…. Living on hollow promises from other parties, and believing that it is their right to get everything for nothing.
Sometimes sad to be a NZer.
You lost me when you said ” I feel for Key, who really has this best country’s best interest at heart…”
And after all that, it WAS in fact a PhotoShop job!!!
Says who? Dunnokeyo? Granny’s photo shop ‘expert’?
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=10879956
She’s blond. Nothing else needs to be said.