Extraordinary interview exposes Garth McVicar as anti-science flat earth creationist when it comes to sensible sentencing
Garth McVicar is to reasonable social policy on prisons what ISIS is to inter-faith dialogue.
Media Watch
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Ali Jones rips right wing blogger a “new one” on Radio NZ’s “The Panel”
Unexpected fireworks erupted on Jim Mora’s ‘The Panel’ on Radio NZ yesterday afternoon (Tuesday 15 May) when PR consultant and former Christchurch City Councillor, Ali Jones, took on National Party apparatchik, pollster, wannabe Bond-villain, and right-wing blogger, David Farrar.
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What the online Left don’t get about National Party propaganda
We of the online Left have openly mocked these weird memes which keep showing Jacinda winning as a weird message to use in attempting to denigrate the new Government. What we on the online Left however are missing is that for rump National voters who believe erroneously they were cheated by Jacinda winning, this constant winner framing is rubbing salt in still open wounds.
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Q+A Review
Labour are too frightened to do anything meaningful with Industrial Relations – strong unions are the only mechanism for better equality & Labour recoil at waking the sleeping dogs of the free market debate.
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This interview by Simon Wilson is devastatingly good journalism
There are points during this interview you actually think Dan Bidois is a bot caught out in an AI test…
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The NZ Herald Troll Farm and their predictions of doom for the Left
This isn’t a media holding power to account, this is competitive malice.
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Spinoff 100% right about Waiheke Island Supergold card rip off
We all suspected the Waiheke Ferry Supergold Card scam was bad, but I don’t think anyone knew it was this bad.
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Mike Hosking really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really hates Pacific Islanders doesn’t he?
This isn’t the first time Mike has lashed out at Pacific Islanders, but by trying to paint out this aid budget as robbing the poor in NZ to splash cash around for feckless Islanders is ugly, especially because I can’t recall Mike ever articulating any concern for poor people needing access to cheaper health care in his entire media career.
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Tracy Watkins – Getting it half right on the “Decade of Deficits”
Writing in the new, tabloid compact-sized Dominon Post on 2 May, political columnist Tracy Watkins mentioned the oft-parroted cliche from the Right, the so-called “decade of deficits”;
“Labour spent years in the wilderness after the global financial crisis gave it a “decade of deficits” as its legacy.”
Watkins left out a crucial factor in National’s ongoing deficits – a fact to be pointed out;
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Q+A review
Catriona MacLennan is on defending why she attacked a Judge who showed mercy on a husband who was out with his family and saw a sexual text message to his wife from a family friend who was across the road passing them by in Queenstown. In a fit of rage, the husband attacked the family friend once he realised that he had sent his wife a sexual text and realised they were having an affair.