Cameron Slater just said WHAT regarding the Clarke Gayford smear???
In the one breath Slater says he had nothing of do with the smear, and then in the next breath he says…
Deconstructing Headlines
Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
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Of course the smear on Clarke was Dirty Politics
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.
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Police formally speak out against Right Wing Troll Army Dirty Politics against Clarke Gayford
…it is my belief that right wing operatives have built a Troll Army to propagate hateful lies and spread them through social media.
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Trusting Israel on Iran is like getting Deborah Hill Cone to write a character reference for Clarke Gayford
It looks like America will calm nuclear tensions on the Korean peninsula while creating a whole new conflict in Iran.
Surely Trump can’t be this stupid?
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The only way to get Aucklanders out of their cars onto public transport (and it’s not bloody pets)
Your pet is your responsibility, not my obligation to have to put up with on board a moving fucking vehicle.
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We get it, rich people want to live on the waterfront – how ‘visionary’
The utter denial needed to think that a decades long re-creation of our waterfront minus any extreme weather events or rising sea levels is so outside the realities we need to actually plan for now it should be held up as proof positive of how flawed our planning process has become.
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When will Grant Robertson come to the aid of the party?
There will be a moment when all good men must come to the aid of the party. Grant is simply waiting for that moment.
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Labour Party attack Kim Dotcom – major blunder
The new Government should not be challenging this case, they should be accepting the Human Rights Review Tribunal’s decision and should be trying to cut a deal with Kim.
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The rats you need to swallow to believe the Public Service is neutral
The predictable outcry from the PSA that any suggestion their members actually have to implement policy by the Government of the day by screaming they must be neutral is funny.
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National pledges to do nothing and take a huge step backwards
This is a Party who actively went out of their way to bleed infrastructure spending and all of a sudden National are willing to fund it?