It was amazing watching so many supposedly ‘liberal’ twitter accounts gleefully attacking Willie Jackson last night based on a story from corporate media pundit Vernon Small that Willie Jackson had thrown a wobbly and flown to Wellington to get a higher place on the Party list.
This manipulation by corporate media shows how shallow those on Twitter can really be and highlights the ease with which narratives can be manipulated.
The truth is that Willie Jackson (who was this morning announced as the Campaign Manager for the Maori electorates) had flown to Wellington last night, not to try and gain a higher place for himself, he wanted to challenge the Labour Leadership over why there were no Maori at all in the top 15.
Labour need to win Maori voters over if they have any chance of getting to 35% in the election and they will be fighting hard against the Maori/MANA alliance and resurgent Green ambition.
The ease with which Willie’s concerns about Maori representation in the top 15 became an ego driven rampage all concocted from a mainstream media story that was gleefully echoed by the Identitarian factions on Twitter who are still smarting over Jackson being a candidate in the first place, does however give real insight into how the puritans within Labour would still prefer to lose the election than allow working class Maori inside the tent.
The loudest critics on the Twitter left are also those with comfy Wellington jobs and have the resource to survive another 3 years of National. Actual working class people however don’t have that fucking luxury.
All this election, as the real chance of a change of Government increases, expect the corporate media to spin lies as filthy as they were when they were all secretly in cahoots with Slater. They are the mouthpieces of the elites and they love telling you that the Opposition are in disarray. That’s their job.
Your job is to not believe their bullshit.
Hell Martyn,
I would never believe anything Nactional pundits say it is like falling into quicksand doing that.
This Nactional junta has only one policy now and they will constantly demean anyone who is a threat to them no matter if they are brilliantly constructive as Willie Jackson is.
We desperately need you there and Willie, as Nactional have taken over all of TVNZ/RNZ broadcasting content now and are heavily censoring the content to remove any “negative statements about their policies and performance.
Is there time for Labour/Green/NZ First and others to place an application to be filed in the High Court for taking over half of the Public Broadcasting Media through TVNZ/RNZ for the public interest in ensuring a fair balanced public broadcasting ahead of September General Election???
I agree Cleangreen – no matter what channel/radio station you turn to there is someone spouting forth the great and wonderful that is National and at every turn denigrating or sneering at Labour being disorganised or whatever is negative they can dredge up.
Just today I heard the sports jock on the AM morning show on TV3 giving a free commercial for National, denigrating Labour about Willie’s “so called” tantrum and how disorganised that Labour was, he even suggested that Labour had probably deliberately had the video of Pike River leaked as an election ploy to upset National being election year. I couldn’t believe my ears how disgraceful his comment was – a disgrace to the families and the lost miners and a disgrace to the channel that allowed such comments to be aired.
Being election year surely there should be equal time allowed for the major parties comments to be aired – at least some balance in the reporting of “news” – how intelligent people can listen to this drivel is beyond me – its a bloody insult to the sensibilities of listeners. Somebody please, who has the financial means, for the sake of the democracy of this country buy airtime on a channel or a radio wave so we can have some intelligent balance in the affairs of our country.
We used to be a country where everybody got a fair go – what a bloody laugh that is these days.
Why do we trust mainstream media when they put this shit in the paper…
Just ask Audrey( I love John Key) Young…NZ Herald
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=11848325
Sue Moroney is a loss for the Labour Party…a wasted solid Left Labour woman talent!…and imo more electable than Andrew Little and Jacinda Adern
‘Labour MP Sue Moroney to step down at 2017 election’
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/92061647/labour-mp-sue-moroney-to-step-down-at-2017-election
“Labour’s Sue Moroney will say goodbye to Parliament at election time.
The Hamilton-based MP has spent 12 years in Parliament but on Sunday announced her decision not to run again in September.
“I made my decision after being notified last night that I had lost support from the party’s ruling council for an electable position on the Labour Party list,” she said in a statement…
Good trolling there Red Buzzard.
what do you mean trolling?…I am serious about this
first they got rid of Annette King and now Sue Moroney…where are the serious experienced committed Labour Party middle aged women? ( extinguished)… ageism and sexism?
….make way for for youth and johnny -come- lately (s) to give Labour a new look
The Smallminded opinion pieces of hackery appeared several times with varied headlines, but all with the same anti Labour mischief making. How stupid do they think people are? Umm – don’t answer that.
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Got it loud and clear , Sir ! Will do !!!
Those identitarian elites can go stuff their heads down a toilet and flush it til all the shit they speak runs dry.
And then some !
‘corporate media pundit Vernon Small’ I have a lot of time for Vernon he is a very good journalist. I certainly have never ever regarded him as on the right politically.
I suspect some of what has been said is true, that Willie was very cross about his place. Frankly I thought it was a nonsense getting him on board. And if he wants to get on with getting in there then he is hardly going to say I am pissed off at my ranking. I see that the ex cop is well down the rankings which seems good to me, you know the man who wanted the force to all have guns so more people could be killed by them.
Let me guess, ‘unconscious bias’ perhaps? Most in the MSM, certainly most editors and those in charge, appear to be white, middle to upper middle class NZers. They cannot easily comprehend how people from other cultural or ethnic groups may think and behave. Hence they prejudge such persons somewhat “alien” to them, by presuming they behave like they do themselves.
Willie Jackson may have thought as a Maori about the treatment of his people, before thinking about his own placement in the candidate rankings, but the MSM folk, described above, have not had the ability to understand and see this. They thought he would only think like a selfish individual such as themselves, the white, middle to upper middle class NZ MSM professional and careerist.
https://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/ldc/researchers/opportunities/development_support/e_and_d/unconscious_bias/unconscious_bias_-2_june.pdf
(See slide 7)
Listen to Andrew Little on yesterday’s morning report. Seems to confirm that Willie did discuss his position on the list. I thought Matt McCarten had sorted out all this foot shooting. Andrew Little in some urgent need of media training particularly on radio. Sounds like a distant fogwarn
Compared to Bill English, Little is like a soprano. English is the most droll politician in history and now a sad indictment of the intellect of N.Z.
His legacy, 90 billion and rising ( something to be proud of)
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