BLOGWATCH: Cameron Slater takes another blow

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Just days after seeing how delusional desperate Cam had become in believing Ben Rachinger was really going to give him all the evidence he needed to prove that a vast left wing conspiracy was trying to take him down (honestly Cam – it’s more a hobby than professional sport), another blow for the big man.

His joke attempt at defending his sources in a  defamation case against Matt Blomfield has failed spectacularly.

It’s not pretty.

Cam was never going to be able to protect his sources because while he wears the veneer of a Journalist, his work isn’t journalism. A Journalist can get permission to protect their sources (as Hager has) if there is genuine public interest. Dirty Politics revealed outrageous abuses of political power, that’s in the public interest. Slater on the other hand humiliated and abused a small businessman based on information he gained from a stolen computer and has tried ever since to hide the sources of the information. There’s no public interest in what Slater did to Blomfield, so he doesn’t get to protect his sources.

These credibility blows to an already radioactive reputation placed alongside the sad and pitiful punch drunk blogs he’s publishing now seem a bit foamy mouthed and from the bunker.  It’s like that moment in Labyrinth when the hero realises David Bowie has no power over her.

Cam will only rise from the grave again if Judith Collins becomes leader – that should send shivers up the spine of all National Party members.

18 COMMENTS

  1. You realise that by comparing Slater to The Goblin King, people are going to imagine Slater in tights, complete with glaring package. Yet here you are, talking about responsible journalism. Tsk, tsk.

  2. I hope Collins does become leader, this of course would shed the brain-dead 20% who vote National because they think Key is a ‘nice guy’ and just leave the hard-core reptiles who would eat their own young if there was a dollar in it.

  3. The mentally sick were kicked out onto the streets decades ago, instead of getting the help they desperately needed.

    Hence, Cam.

  4. ‘Couldn’t happen to a NICER GUY”

    Come on Slater!

    We have all gotten over you and moved onto other matters far more pressing then you.

  5. I dunno, I think Slater is the natural successor to Key – how else can they maintain the momentum of diminishing expectations? As Robespierre leads to Danton… A Gnat PM should fill informed New Zealanders with loathing like a mouthful of maggots – Collins is a vicious and unprincipled old cow, but frankly much too clever to lead National. Maybe she should try for Mayor of Auckland – she’d be a plague on that wicked city of biblical proportions.

    • The law of diminshing expectations must mean that its like water going down the plughole. Eventually it will disappear. This will happen eventually to Key and Co, the sooner, the better.

  6. Interesting to know how much time and effort the Police put in trying to identify who hacked Whales website/computers?

  7. Slater and Rachinger. Reminds me of an old Dungeons and Dragons RPG joke about whether you would rather spend a day with a demon or a devil. Their tactics may be different but in the end they are both just as evil as the other.

  8. What’s that fat beached whale whining about, Key protected him from any investigations from the police. Crawl back into your hole Slater, we’ve got more impirtant issues than your gutless smearing.

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