Ummmmm – on the whole ‘Paula Bennett is a champion for victims’ narrative
If there are issues with how Labour handled an allegation of serious sexual assault, Paula Bennett is the last person to make political capital out of that.
New Zealand Politics
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MEDIAWATCH: MSM ask questions about crime TDB answered in June
You can read it here first or catch up on it a couple of months later in the mainstream media.
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Wait, what? Corporate Farmers are scaremongering about water???
Listening to Farmers scream about timid water changes while all this is happening is like hearing Trump complain about his coverage by the media.
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MEDIAWATCH: Shouldn’t all the journalists screaming for Jacinda to resign have an obligation to investigate the counter claims?
Rather than just repeating the original allegations – shouldn’t the Journalists who have foamed and screamed for heads to roll in the Labour allegation scandal be forced to actually investigate Simon Mitchell’s claims?
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Comrade Simon says ‘I’m no apologist for China’ – which is true, he’s a cheerleader for China
Can Comrade Simon be trusted to pass laws in the interests of Wellington and not Beijing?
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Confused about Local Elections?
I guess most of you have seen the hoardings and know it’s Local Council election time again. But do you know the voting day? How to vote ? The candidates standing in your area? Do you know what they believe?
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The extraordinary nonsense we need to believe for NZDF war crime claims
Last week, the SIS & GCSB were able to get away with CIA renditioned torture by pretending they weren’t aware…
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Behind Every Good Woman Should Stand – Another Good Woman.
TOO MANY BLOKES. Those three words sum-up the burgeoning problems afflicting Jacinda’s prime-ministership. Just consider the names that dominated the headlines of the past week: Nigel, Grant, Andrew, Rob. You don’t need a PhD in Political Science to know what’s wrong with this picture. Where, in the tight circle of advisers surrounding the Prime Minister are the women’s names? Helen Clark had Heather Simpson – who does Jacinda Ardern have?
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MEDIAWATCH: Mike Hosking is incandescent with rage about Labour’s handling of the allegation scandal – remember what he said defending John Key?
The difference between the ponytail pulling case and the allegation of the Labour Party staffer is that there was evidence in the ponytail pulling case.
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MEDIAWATCH: “No one told me about sexual assault complaints” – wheels start falling off Spinoff story
…Mitchell must release the emails to back his version of events up because this is an extraordinary counter claim that undermines the Spinoff story considerably.