The forensic Keith Ng has done a damaging job of unpacking much of the craziness between Rachinger, the impotence of the Police investigation of Hager and the pitiful depths that poor old Cam has had to sink to.
Keith highlights his own interaction with Rachinger and notes many of the things I felt about Rachinger, that there seemed to be a lot of misdirection. Either Ben was playing Slater for altruistic reasons or he was playing Slater for a con, Ben’s claims that Slater paid him money to hack the Standard still needs serious investigation, but Rachinger’s halo has slipped.
The purposeful release of images of a senior journalist is disgraceful and Keith uncovers some of the truth behind that in his blog.
The discussions between Ben and Cam are ludicrous, Ben keeps claiming to Slater that he has the information, and Cam keeps paying him. I think keith puts it best when he says…
At this point, even I feel sorry for Slater. Ben was very obviously taking the piss with him, and still, Slater is so isolated and desperate that – even after saying out loud that this is just all just a scam – he still can’t accept that this was all just a scam. Ben feigns outrage and indignation, declares that he’s “on Team Cam, dw” the following day, and things return to normal.
That the NZ Police seem to have been conned into believing all this junk is a real indictment on them and finally it just shows the depths of desperation Slater himself was prepared to fall to in believing things that simply couldn’t have been true.
Slater likes to make a big deal out of how wrong I called the election, but I think the deluded trust he put into someone telling him what he wanted to hear is far worse. I was wrong because I thought the people of NZ would be disgusted by Key’s abuses of political power, Slater was wrong because he just wanted to believe that a fantasy world of conspiracies against him was true and because he was paying to have the con spun to him.
At least Slater is a known entity and fairly predictable. With Rachinger who knows what the motivations and loyalties are. Having someone like that deliberately muddying the waters for no obvious reason is bad for both right and left, and the media too.
Who is RK ? (mentioned at line 21)
I forget the pseudonym the person used to hack whale whole. Raw skark? Something like that. That guy
Ok, thanks.
His name was Rawshark and it wasn’t RK (Rangi Kemara of Urewera fame). That was part of the big con job Rachinger pulled on Cameron Slater and Slater passed it on on to john Key who also believed it. The whole thing was nothing but a made-up fanciful tale and the police also fell for it. Hence the raid on Nicky Hager’s house.
Thanks for clearing that up.
Well this has been a policy failure all around hasn’t it. No wonder everything in NZ is us idea down. There chasing ghosts.
Those officers could do with some punishment duties in a small 3 man town or Antartica. There a disgrace really.
I just looked on Whale Oil to see headline on a post ‘LIES UPON LIES UPON MORE LIES’. Is it meant to be there or did it slip sideways from the masthead on the left with the blog’s name?
slater and rachinger. Two idle libertines slapping each other around with their penises at our expense. Yuk .
Made worse for that fact that there are good people doing amazing things out there who will forever go unnoticed. Double yuk .
Aliens ? Virus please?
Well, they started with Charlie Sheen.
I’m no fan of Slater and it shows his petty mindset, but it’s hardly the Watergate Tapes. I think all the best bits have already been spilled in Dirty Politics.
[…] 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 w…(honestly Cam – it’s more a hobby than professional sport), another blow for the big […]
Rachinger conned Slater. It’s as simple as that. And despite what Prentice thinks there is no evidence that Slater paid Rachinger to hack The Standard. None. Slater paid Rachinger because Rachinger promised him he could dig up some serious dirt. There is nothing to suggest that he was paying him to do something illegal.
Yes, Slater plays dirty and fair enough. Politics is dirty. But there’s nothing to prove that he’s ever crossed the line and hacked into someone’s computer system or stolen their emails (and viewing something on a website that’s hidden but publicly available isn’t hacking).
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