This is, and always will be YOUR forum, but I want to do something a bit different today. I posted late yesterday about a smear against John Key on Prog Blog, but it got a bit lost in all the goings-on around the place. So here's what I said yesterday, under the heading of Know Thine Enemy #1:
The Progressives, Jim Anderton's Personal Political Party have a blog, And guess what - in a stroke of genius and originality, it's called ... Prog Blog! And it self-describes:The strength to care in '08 - an unofficial blog by Jim Anderton's Progressives.
Jim will be very glad that it is an unofficial blog. "Why?" I hear you ask. Well, there is a post there that reads:Young people are a group I'm passionate about says Mr Key
So is Gary Glitter
Now this is an outrageous smear against John Key, linking him with the former rocker turned paedophile, In terms of sheer nastiness, it even leaves Clinton "Steve Pierson" Smith's efforts at The Standard for dead - even he and his mates haven't stooped this low. But it adds weight to the argument of those who suggest that 2008 will be the dirtiest election campaign we've ever seen
Keeping Stock is performing a public service by bringing this to your attention, and looks forward to Jim Anderton publicly distancing himself from the lowlifes who peddle this kind of crap and innuendo under his banner.
A commenter this morning has suggested that "the Press Gallery should be pinning Jim to the mat over this." What do you reckon? And is it a given that this is going to be the dirtiest election campaign we've ever seen?
Have your say on this, or on anything else you'd like to rant and rave over, right here at Keeping Stock's Friday Forum.
7 comments:
I have no time for the politics of Jim Anderton and he does not rate near the top of my list of favourite people. In saying that he has never struck me as a man who would stoop to the depths of writing such a comment.
The question I ask is who is writing this blog - is it coming from the 9th floor ah la the Standard and Jim is just being used as another vehicle to `spread the venom'?
Anderton is one of Parliament's smirkers. Labour women MPs who ask patsy supplementary questions in the House can't help smirking as they complete carefully scripted lobs to guffawing Ministers of the Clown.
A couple of rants (I should set up my own blog):
1. The use of the word alleged. In this story check out the use of alleged: http://www.stuff.co.nz/4689469a11.html
Isn't it only the perpetrator that is alleged not the crime!
2. So called Journalists repeating Labour party press releases as per this one:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10531802
John Key did not say he would get rid of the Families Commission, Labour did.
I thought Claire Trevett was above the rest but obviously not.
Rant over.
Rachael
Welcome Rachel - just a warning if you set up your own blog - it's addictive!!
But you're dead right on the second one - recycling press releases in nothing but laziness.
Whoever writes it, Anderton has to take responsibility for what goes under his name.
Yet another example of people forgetting - or not caring - that mud sticks to the hand that throws it.
The best response would be a defamation claim!
As a former country boy I know all about mud sticking homepaddock. It used to hurt like hell to scrub it off once it dried.
The question is who did write it.
Time for some of the `blog sleuths' to get on the case perhaps.
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