BLOGWATCH: Who knew what a greasy sycophantic prick Tim Groser was?
I never appreciated what a greasy sycophantic prick Tim Groser really was.
Look at how this Washington insider blog managed to catch the real stock of our Ambassador to the US…
The party circuit began for many at the Embassy of New Zealand last Tuesday. Perhaps the island nation known best to Americans as the filming location for the Lord of the Rings movies could fulfill Barrack’s prediction. But Ambassador Tim Groser made no attempt to hide his elation about the evening’s guest list. There was senior adviser Rick Dearborn and campaign field director Stuart Jolly, and campaign committee chairman Michael Glassner. The White House’s incoming chief strategist, Steve Bannon, was reportedly spotted, too. Jon Voight, Trump’s most famous Hollywood supporter, was en route. Breitbart writer Matt Boyle, who once joked that he would be Trump’s White House press secretary—alas, the job went to Sean Spicer—manspreaded on a couch near Groser’s lectern.
“Getting access to Trump will be everybody’s ambition,” the ambassador said. He beamed at all of his new friends. “We have got off to a flying start.”
It didn’t matter that Groser had helped craft the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the trade agreement from which Trump today withdrew. It didn’t matter that Groser has spent much of his career promoting other trade policies antithetical to Trumpism. Disagreements be damned, what mattered now was access—something everyone scrambles for with each regime change in Washington, but always demurely. Yet Groser was unabashed: he regaled the crowd with the story of how he first snagged Trump’s cell phone number (he knew a guy who knew a guy), and professed his own thrill about the end of “PC” culture. The Trump campaign may have decried Hollywood, but Groser and the scores of guests in black tie were openly star-struck by the new folks in town. (Except, perhaps, Alabama Senator Richard Shelby’s wife, Annette. Asked if they planned to stay long, she looked at me with eyes that seemed to say, “Darling, you must be joking.”)
…remember, this arsehole not only attempted to sign away our democratic and economic sovereignty with the TPPA, but John Key had the GCSB spy on diplomats to try and get Groser a job as the WTO boss.
Ugly that we have an Ambassador excited to play with a fascist.
Spot on post. What a joke Groser represents the country!
Groser was, and apparently still is, a total embarrassment to this country. Why won’t these people just fuck off and disappear entirely already? They tried and (thankfully) utterly failed to leave their “legacy”, I just don’t see why he thinks he’s still relevant.
He won’t disappear cause thats how syncophants are. They love the lime light. I bet he is being well paid at our expense aswell. The guy is a waste of space to be frank…
“and professed his own thrill about the end of “PC” culture”…WTF does that mean exactly??.
Which aspects of Obamas policies did he consider to be too PC. I think we have the right to know.
He loves the tipple so he will be in his element, what a repugnant little man he is.
Groser is Mr Slime and goes with the flow. He was once Climate Change Minister, now he is keen to grease up the climate change denier Trump’s arse-hole.
Anything goes when it furthers one’s career and opportunity, it seems.
But what else do we expect from such characters, the former PM Key was a prime example of a greaser, loving the photo shoots with Obama, the Queen and heads of state from all over the globe. So Groser was a fitting Minister in a cabinet line up that was led by one John Key.
Master and Apprentice, I presume.
Cirrhosis of the liver shouldn’t be far off.
Typical Nat MP, so nothing new here, just more grist to the mill.
So Groser was deliriously happy to meet alt.right neo-fascist, Steve Bannon? Does he also hang out with Cameron Slater, our own home grown version of Bannon? Oh, wait, no. That Judith Collins.
A lot of people do not realize that all these creeps are also members of the ”Democratic Union of which Key is the Chairperson,
A right wing organization that helps National .I have always believed that the D.U.financed the infamous Cossack Adverts that helped to defeat Labour.
Grosser and the Nat’s are members of the Democratic Union ,A far Right organization of which Key is the present chair.
Isn’t this a New Zealand thing though? Doesn’t matter who the powerful or famous person is, New Zealanders suck up to them big time. It’s that little wee New Zealand gets noticed by the big wide world thing