I’ve been working on tracking down this smear against Clarke for a couple of months. Tracing the Troll Army that was acting as an echo chamber, desperately trying to catch the people who were leaking this venom and watching who originally launched it.
The National Party have scrambled and claimed they had nothing to do with it.
Based on the recent history of National’s role in dirty politics coupled with their bitter resentment & refusal at acknowledging they lost the election, suspecting them of being behind the rumours is perfectly reasonable.
The co-ordination of this smear against Clarke, the anonymous troll army echo chamber promoting it, the fact the story suspiciously never changed and the place it was originally launched from – this was all a concerted effort by ‘someone’ to destabilise the Government.
I do believe Simon Bridges however when he says he had nothing to do with it. Perhaps he should be talking quietly to other members of his Party to see if they’ve had any dealings with the people who launched this?
It shouldn’t be hard for the cops to track down the perpertrators of this dirty little campaign and pay them a visit, preferably in marked police cars so the neighbours will be wondering what they’ve been up to.
How very sad our media have stooped.
This from a very outdated sorry Soper…
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12043768
This kind of behaviour will be relentless over the next three years. The Nats are desperate and it’s the only way they know how to operate. They don’t even need social media – the mainstream media are doing it nicely for them.
The fact that this has completely backfired now will only entrench Labour to be Government over the next 9 years, The Nat trolls are extremely thick!
Martyn, As I have said before, I can point you to one of the most disgusting, filthy pieces I have ever seen.
It was about violence and sexual attack on our PM.
I will not post the item on here, but will send it to you if you wish ?
I would sooner send it to you personally.
Can the people behind this be traced and exposed? They fully deserve to have the lights shone on them and be held accountable for their actions
They should start with the usual suspects….
If a formal complaint is laid, like Key with the Teapot Tapes, the police will act on it, so I very much hope that this happens, and the culprits are identified and dealt with.
This is now in today’s Guardian, which neither Ardern nor Gayford – nor NZ deserve.
I don’t think people who didn’t actually read Hager’s ‘Dirty Politics’ know quite what a vile filthy core the NP has.
We are following the Crosby Textor Handbook and the tricks used by certain organisations in the USA ?
Soymun is probably telling the truth. Think: plausible deniability.
Nope, ‘mediawhores’ is hardly an outfit that anybody would take all that serious, even the Nats would not bother using such kinds of fake news forums.
This was some crap that should not even have necessitated ANY comments to be made on it, as that has only given the BS ‘news’ more oxygen.
People such as those that cheer on Trump, and the alt right idiots in the US, they may take such nonsense serious, any person with a bit of brain, knowledge and common sense would ignore the shit.
The Nats have better spin masters than the ones behind that absolute fake news item.
Sending a lawyer out to stop media reporting may have been effective, but for some it will only make the stories more ‘believable’. Stupid really, should never have hit the ‘news’ on MSM, now it has, some will search the web and find the nonsensical trash. There are sadly enough idiots that may actually fall for it, in Little Sleepy Hobbit Land.
What saddens me is, “Is this what Kiwis have devolved to? “
However, I tend to think not, so maybe the rotten core of this defaming operation is internationally based; oil, money, trade, other natural resources, whatever.
The best we can do as New Zealanders, is to be pragmatic. Rally against those trying to interfere with the politics of our country, by getting wholly in behind our government , not party by party, and stop whoever it is trying to tear NZ apart.
So shut your ears to the crap and Get in Behind Kiwis for New Zealand’s sake.
Are you serious? The same old shit about NZers being all moral examplars and there are no crooks, no criminals, no deviants, no murderers, no liars, no machiavellians, and no malevolents here. Always blame the ‘other’, especially if they are English. It’s no surprise that NZ does not make any real progress when you have this totally rose-tinted view of yourselves (I suppose I’m in too, being an NZ citizen).
Kiwis are pure Saints, I suppose, that is what many Kiwis believe of themselves and their country folk. Many of them voted for one John Key, the Merchant Bankster. As long as you can smile and come across as ‘easy going’ and ‘matey’, anything goes, as the people will only look at your smile and ignore what you do.
In this regard this country is unique among developed nations, it may only bear such similarities with some real back stop places on earth, where cargo cult and the likes are normal ways of thinking and behaving.
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