MEDIAWATCH: Will Alt-Right Canadian Billionaire make Detective Ani O’Brien and Inspector Ian Wishart Editors of the NZ Herald?

Over at the hard right culture war hate blog that Alt-Right Canadian Billionaire James Grenon helped set up, Detective Ani O’Brien has been joined by Inspector Ian Wishart in a grand slam tournament of pedophile hieroglyphics and TINA definitions of ‘bussy’.

This would all be delightfully absurd if it weren’t destroying a young father and their son and their whanau and inspiring a vast harvest of death threats from people who read conspiracy theories like this and then patriotically go get a shot gun.

Fun times.

Fun times for all.

Detective Ani says she had her shoulder figuratively popped out of her socket by good decent people who had done the Internet Sleuthing and the goodness of these people endeavouring to keep our kids safe was so overwhelming she had her arm twisted to demand she step up with her platform.

Because what’s a platform for, if not to raise baseless allegations in a culture war descending increasingly into pure malice?

Inspector Wishart is another kettle of fish entirely.

Firstly, isn’t it lovely knowing Ian is still alive? I thought he was dead, it’s like finding out Nickelback are still touring.

Inspector Wishart didn’t need to have his arm twisted to stand up, no, he had his hands in the air praising God already.

Ian is an evangelical conspiracy theorist who argues he’s a journalist.

His body of work has covered his claim of a connection between abortion and breast cancer which as a feral anti-abortionist always seemed like a very convenient argument, and of course he is a huge proponent of ‘Intelligent Design’, which effectively boils down to, ‘you have fingers, there is a God’.

How can one argue with that?

So THAT Inspector Ian Wishart  joins forces with Detective Ani O’Brien to drag from the stinking sewers the vermin who need cleansing.

Neat-o.

Their evidence amounts to: Bussy, Blue squiggly line, adult emojis.

That’s all we need to hang and convict people these days, why even bother with a Police Force when we have Detective Ani O’Brien, Inspector Ian Wishart and a cavalcade of lonely foaming Internet Sleuths suffering from the lack of any direct human emotional contact for at least 5 years?

So seeing as Alt-Right Canadian Billionaire James Grenon seems to believe the type of editorial line of the anti-Trans, anti-Māori, anti-vaccine, climate denying, anti-Treaty culture war hate blog he helped set up is what NZME should aspire to if he wins control over the organisation, and seeing as Detective Ani O’Brien and Inspector Ian Wishart are currently lead stories on that anti-Trans, anti-Māori, anti-vaccine, climate denying, anti-Treaty culture war hate blog, is it a stretch that Detective Ani O’Brien and Inspector Ian Wishart  could be the new Editors of the NZ Herald?

We are seeing in real time what kind of ‘journalism’ Alt-Right Canadian Billionaire James Grenon is adjacent to.

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