But with respect Dr Norman, when this inquiry was announced, all you said was that it should be a transparent process; you had no issue with the Inspector-General carrying it out. So why have an issue now, rather than then?
That would have to be one of the better questions asked of a political leader in the last wee while. The obvious conclusion, and not the waffling answer that Dr Norman gave was that the outcome of the Inspector-General's inquiry was not the one that the Green Party and the Labour Party wanted. He has also shown considerable disrespect to Justice Paul Neazor, a former Solicitor-General and High Court Judge, and a man of far higher integrity than Dr Norman.
And now, Russel Norman is calling for an inquiry into the inquiry, and he also wants the Police to waste time on yet another inquiry. He is grabbing at straws in trying to draw parallels between this case and the Teapot Tapes, where information was recorded unlawfully (in the opinion of the police who investigated), and then made available to news media organisations and politicians.
Russel Norman's request to the police is blatant political grandstanding. Oddly, when he tried to front-foot revelations just prior to the election that a Green Party activist whose partner worked in his office had coordinated a campaign of billboard vandalism, he did NOT call for a police inquiry; perhaps the only time in living memory that the Greens haven't called for an inquiry! So perhaps it's time for the police to revisit that as well.
As for Nadine Chalmers-Ross; if she is going to ask the hard questions of politicians of whichever hue, perhaps the Breakfast producers need to find a way of giving her a higher profile way, given that Petra Bagust avoids tough interviews like the plague, and that Rawdon Christie has made no attempt to hide his political leanings in recent weeks.
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An inquiry into billboard vandalism...and one into illegal spying on New Zealanders...
Yes, Keeping Stock, I can see that they are of equal importance. Thank you so much for making that clear to me.
John Key called for an immediate inquiry.
Did you say that he was wasting Police time?
Russel Norman calls for an inquiry.
Did you ... oh, of course you did!
The Greens and Labour and New Zealand First and any journalist or blogger with a brain is hunting Key down on this one. Key is skewered now. He'll have to lie, plead ignorance, shift the blame, wriggle and squirm just to survive. But he won't survive, not this time. He's already mortally wounded. And he knows it. Just watch him.
I must say KS you must be stoked that your site attracts these pesky little greenies & liarbor supporters, I never see them at Cams place or the gurus either for that matter.
You must be the honey in the pot. Lucky you.
GIVE ME BACK MY FLAG Norman is a weasel. Simple really....I just wish the rest of MSM would catch him out more often as he is easy meat for a dedicated journalist.
We have too many child reporters with no questioning skills.
Ummm how many electorate seats do these useless tossers hold again?
Ah we'll while we accept that pile of steaming dog turd called MMP, we are stuck with weasely little Aussie gingas
Jordan Best took the words right out of my mouth.
The state of our broadcasting is well and truly screwed if we have to rely on "Breakfast" to ask meaningful questions of our politicians.
A show that inconsequential and lightweight that it makes hydrogen look like one of the heavier gases and fronted by a man who appears to have any trace of a personality surgically removed, surrounded by assorted airheads, says it all really.
Lofty, your sensitivity to Russel Norman has brought you out in a rash of dizzy mutterings that reveal your insecurity. I say to you, embrace the Greens, look deep into their eyes and feel the love they have for you.
Lofty, everyone, especially you, is green at heart. The greenies of New Zealand love you, Loft.
Let their love take you and soothe you.
U 2 KS!
Yes it was a good question, KS, but I didn't see Russel struggling particularly. As you would have seen yourself the report was hardly robust and the Prime Minister's role or knowledge of the background wasn't covered. There was no assurance from the report that something similar won't happen again and we are left wondering what else has happened without us knowing. Seeing both Key and English's discomfort I think there is more to this than we realize, we do really need another inquiry.
Carried out by whom BS?
Someone who was ok last week & is not now?
You and your Weasely leader have about as much credence as a Maori king at QE2,s court.
You can only fool dilly pickles BS (unfortunate moniker that eh) the young and impressionable are your fodder but they grow and learn, enjoy your smal popularity while you have it...it won't last long. That's right isn't it RG?
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