MEDIAWATCH: Newsroom’s character assassination of David Seymour is the puritanical left at its ugliest

ByMartyn Bradbury

Seymour fronts up on Snapchats with school kids

Act Party leader and senior minister David Seymour says he stands by his interactions with school-aged young people on social media platform Snapchat, some as young as 14.

There are many, many, many good and decent reasons to detest ACT and David Seymour.

To insinuate as Marc Daalder has here that he is a pervert grooming children is ugly, outrageous and the tribal left at its worst.

I love Newsroom and I think Daalder is one of the best environmental political journalists we have. Newsroom has become a must read weekly site whose journalism is some of the best in NZ.

But Newsroom and Daalder have really let themselves down with this character assassination of Seymour.

To frame and insinuate that Seymour was grooming kids on snapchat is a smear, it’s not a story.

A bunch of children who initiated contact with David via snapchat who have now had a revisionist view of their own past and are selling that new story by trending it on tictok is pretty much how the Salem Witch Trials started off.

Look, the kids will say their kid things on their social platforms, for Adults to step in and pick that narrative up and try to push it isn’t Journalism, it’s a hit job and Daalder has a long history of doing this with David.

We get it Marc, you hate Seymour, we all do, but attempting to insinuate what you have is disgraceful smear mongering at its worst!

We are all a bigot about something, Daaldar is a bigot when it comes to David.

We don’t need to demonise our enemies any more than they are demonising themselves.

We should collectively hate what ACT are doing but creating false narratives to attack our enemies is beneath the movement.

 

 

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50 Comments

    1. If you’re aiming for truth and fairness and goodness MK, which I think you are, you will gain more respect if you pass your prejudices through a filter to see if they match up to the t,f,g standard. Then when you find fault we know it is based on fact, just saying.

  2. Act Party leader and senior minister David Seymour says he stands by his interactions with school-aged young people on social media platform Snapchat, some as young as 14.

    Of course he does, that’s his age group bracket.

  4. There are some parties calling for 16 year old to vote so 14 is a good age to start political education. The environmental groups take their message into schools so they also should be exposed to the other side of the argument

    1. True Trevor. Rainbow groups have been very successful at inserting their ologies into schools too.

      1. Yeah sure. It’s like no one was gay or transgender until people talked about it. Let’s go back to burning witches too.

        1. And some kids have always liked hard work and enterprise. Since these kids will be paying for everybody else, Seymour is encouraging them.

  5. There are some parties calling for 16 year old to vote so 14 is a good age to start political education. The environmental groups take their message into schools so they also should be exposed to the other side of the argument

    1. FFS Trevor. You mention the environment like it’s something that we can do without. “ The other side of it.” Haven’t we f*cked things up enough for you yet?

    2. … 14 is a good age to start political education”.

      Well … in that sense Seymour is engaged with ‘grooming’ young folk. But not that much different to what happens with the YoungNats and Young Labour. Nothing sinister here.

  6. Has anyone actually read the bloody article, and the preamble saying there is no suggestion that any of Seymour’s content was inappropriate? Who is doing the insinuating here?

    1. The extreme left, who are bitter and twisted, and far removed from Jacindas “be kind” message.

      1. Wot about the not so extreme left middling in between who consider Seymour a fuckwit eh

        1. Exactly Clive. All these defenders of the current government have to call people “left” rather than admit this mob are a f’ing disaster.

  7. Sicko seemore wasn’t he one of the ones running down parents for taking their children to protest.

  8. Davis Seymour, or Scrotus as he is known in the vapour lands of the pink and yellow jackets, is nothing more than an irritable grain of sand in ones woolen wet togs.

  9. Is it ever a good idea for adults like David Seymour to talk to teens online? No–it is not. Act’s hastily replaced ex pressie has a court case pending which will emerge eventually in public. Act and Atlas are dodgy cultures to say the least.

    Mr Seymour is a creep, and has downgraded nutritious hot meals for vulnerable kids to $3 sandwiches…which illustrates where his values are at.

  10. I don’t think it’s a good look for a guy in his 40’s to be messaging teenage girls who are not his daughters or nieces. Even if the messages were harmless.

    Imagine if some middle aged guy messaged your daughter on Snapchat?

  12. I’m no lefty but if that little toad ever sent a SnapChat message to my fourteen year old I’d been fuming. I’m leaving it there.

    1. ACT talk a big game about reversing Jacinda’s semiauto crackdown, but it seems to be all smoke and no fire so far.

      Seymour concerned about a Gary Plauche type scenario?

  13. Well, I just read through this and the bitter vindictive descent into personal insults that followed. Half of you are a disgrace for (a) allowing yourself to be baited, and (b) responding with race-to-the-bottom insults. You know who you are, and this isn’t pretty. Any outsider from overseas looking at this would question, with a certain degree of exactitude, whether NZ males do indeed have IQs that match those of our largest animal group. They’d be forgiven if they concluded from the above, that they are right.
    You’re supposed to be the best of the left, so FFS smarten up your act. These comments are a pig feast of literary degradation, about the intelligence level of 12 year Olds.

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