These days, we generally avoid The Standard. Part of that is because it's become irrelevant, gazzumped on the left by Labour's official blog, Red Alert. The other reason is because we're banned there - for six months!
Our crime? Well, it was HEINOUS! We actually suggested that "Eddie" who writes there was a Labour part staffer. We didn't name names - sheesh - that would have been a life ban! But anyone who follows the blogs will know that it's never been denied that "Eddie" is none other than Jenny Michie, who ran Labour's Mt Albert campaign last year, flown in from Wellington. And if that's the case, we're not just talking ANY Labour staffer. Perhaps that's why they're so touchy!
So where's this leading? Well, "Eddie" must have a case of the blues - (s)he's posted a nasty piece this morning about John Key, and the fact that he is having a holiday in Hawaii with his family. Sadly, this post is typical of what The Standard has become - nasty, petty and vindictive - and if you dare to offer a dissenting opinion, you're outta there!
But we want to say this to "Eddie" and we have to do it here, as we can't go there. We don't begrudge John Key a holiday with his family. And we don't care where he goes. We didn't begrudge Helen Clark holidays either, but there's a subtle difference. Families suffer when someone takes up public life, and the higher up the food chain that person gets, the greater the pressure on the family. Helen Clark made a conscious decision early in the piece that career was more important than children, and that's fine. But the Clark years are over.
From what we see from the outside, the Key family is normal and healthy. Family holidays are part of what keeps a family that way. The Key family makes enormous sacrifices to allow their husband and father to be PM. We've been the parent of teenagers, and we know what a turbulent time it can be, and we appreciate what John Key does to provide normality and stability for his family, whose life since November 2008 has been far from normal.
So we say to "Eddie" - pull your freakin' head in! Play the ball and not the man, or by implication, the man's family. Labour used to bleat when Helen Clark's childless status was attacked, and they have a point. But their bleating becomes sheer hypocrisy when it is led (we believe) by someone far enough up in the party organisation to know better.
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INV2 would you like me to go over to the Standard and tell it to Ms Eddie as it is in words of one syllable. I am still `alive' over there mainly because I don't frequent the place in case I catch a social disease.
You can then help me out at Red Alert where Mallard has just given me 3 months for `politely' challenging him on the Labour reinventing itself thread.
You just cannot debate an issue with those people.
Thanks for the offer pdm, but it's probbaly for this to be debated at places like this and Kiwiblog (I've posted on the GD thread) where dissent is perfectly acceptable.
Eddie isn't Jenny Michie Inv2. He is Conor Roberts, working for Len Brown. Conor also worked on the MA campaign, which is why he has an obsession with Melissa Lee all this time. It also means Conor can take pot shots at Phil GOff because he's not beholden to him.
I2: None of you know who 'Eddie' is. Even I don't know who Eddie is. The person who recruited them knows who they are.
That is why we discourage speculation strongly. Because you have no information to go on - therefore any ideas that you have are simply guesses. They then leave us open to libel actions from people falsely named.
But you do look like a hypocrite. I cannot ever remember you defending Helen through all of the attacks on her home life. It wouldn't surprise me if I could scan and find you dishing the dirt with the worst of them - probably in 2007 or early 2008.
However that is beside the point. We don't pay a prime minister those extra bucks for their home life. We pay them to do a job. That is the same as every other employee.
John Key skivving off is not what we pay for.
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lynne Prentice knows who Eddie is, he knows that Eddie is none other Conor Roberts. Prentice is a liar and he has been playing games ever since the standard began about who its writers are. prentice puts up a smokescreen for the labour party so his commenters can thrwo dirt at the national party.
Anon (12.50pm) - when The Standard appeared in late 2007, it quickly became apparent that it was a tool of the Labour Party, supported by the union movement, in particular the EPMU. Given that the general secretary of the EPMU now moonlights as Labour Party president, that link takes on added significance.
Of course, The Standard has now been surplanted by Red Alert, Labour's "official" blog. But those links have never been categorically denied. Prior to the 2008 election, we often took The Standard to task for their "John Key eats babies" line, and it was clear that The Standard was running the Labour Party's talking points on Key. That Key, a year after the election, is rating around 60% on the PPM polls suggests that no-one was listening to either the Labour Party or The Standard, and that Key is not the monster that lprent and his colleagues would have us believe.
The Standard now is a shadow of its former self, and continuing to run personal attacks on Key, having condemned similar lines against Helen Clark is, as I blogged yesterday, hypocritical in the extreme. But why would we expect anything different?
Inv2, even Prentice is not arrogant enough to directly lie about Eddie being Conor Roberts, he has made denials before about who the standard writers are. Funny how all the pro Len Brown posts by Eddie stopped when somebody pointed out Eddie's connection to Len Brown, then another standard poster popped up under another name who writes nothing except abuse about John Banks.
Knowing the labour party intrigue and Prentices involvement in it he is lying when he says he doesn't know who the posters are. Prentice knows that Eddie is Conor Roberts and he knows which Engineers union Irish is as well. Prentice threatens people who comment with publishing IP addresses, he really is taking the piss when he says he doens't know who the writers are. Labour party liars think they can lie and never get found out, so predictable.
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