MOCK outrage from local right wing bloggers (the usual suspects) at left wing criticism of left wing activists appears disingenuous. At best.
A RWNJ blogger and chorus have been wailing about some public criticism (blogged) of some left wing activists by some LWNJ activists/bloggers and their anonymous feral commenters … even breathlessly interpreting references to Battlestar Galactica (I swear I’m not making this up) as death threats.
How awful he sighs, all a-vapour. How disgusting, he laments, oh me oh my, they must be sooo worried, while Punch (or Judy? or good cop?) David Farrar describes the interchanges as ‘sad’ and ‘a bit vile‘. Oh please.
David Farrar: @ImperatorFish That post is just sad – and a bit vile coming from someone who won’t even use his real name to smear people who do
The only trouble being this: the RWNJ pretending to sympathize with the Labour activists under friendly fire hasn’t exactly got a great track record himself, in this regard, routinely smearing in nasty personal terms his own fellow National Party members with calls for action to be taken against them.
I recently pointed to a comment where he described a former Party president in these terms:
MICHELLE BOAG IS A LYING, POISONOUS SCUMBAG
That same nasty diatribe offers this:
Michelle Boag is a cancer on the body politic of this country. She needs to be excised. Along with her long list of acolytes and supporters. She is as popular as herpes and as lethal as cancer.
“She needs to be excised”? Gee, could one read that as a death threat? Ya think?
Meanwhile, the defiantly politically correct Cactus Kate (Deputy Whale) seems to conveniently ignore her mentor’s bilious ravings …
CactusKate2: @dpfdpf @imperatorfish @johnpagani Apart from calling u a pinko DPF I don’t think right wing bloggers r capable of such a show #astonishing
Yes, #astonishing all right. Astonishing that she can suggest RW bloggers are not ‘capable’ of such a show, when she HERSELF called for Matthew Hooton to be drowned …
There are those on our side who are weak. And on the right, the weak need not be cuddled, they need to be drowned.
I am calling time on Matthew Hooton.
(Or have I misread you Cathy?)
Then there’s this dose of dubious ‘sympathy’ she adds to the insincere and histrionic ‘tsk tsk’ of her co-dependent mate
CactusKate2: @dpfdpf @imperatorfish a bit vile? @johnpagani should wield a knuckle duster find out who wrote it and mess his face up
Agents provocateur, anyone?
– P
Never had a single bo-peep from Hooton in response and he knows precisely where to find me because I put my name to the comment.
Whereas poor John and Josie are banned from Lynn Prentice’s blog and cannot respond as they do not know the people writing about them.
Perhaps you should focus on that rather than your weird obsession with making Whaleoil more famous than he is.
Thanks for your comment, Cathy, and your advice about what I ‘should’ focus on. Mmm-bokay.
As for [alleged] ‘weird obsessions’, yeah, that’s how Cameron tries to frame my criticism. Yawn. (At least he doesn’t call me a “sanctimonious unctuous twat” or “lefty c**t” as he described law professor Andrew Geddis following a reasoned critique of Cam’s name suppression criminality, see: Cameron Slater’s slightly wonky jihad.)
My observation: You tend to loyally fall into line with your teammate, and defend his irrationality and malice. Andrew Geddis quoted you:
Hypocrisy is unattractive, Cathy, wherever one encounters it, whatever the packaging. And I’ve never been taken with the ‘I was only joking!’ defence for offensive acts or statements, sorry. That’s weak.
– P
PS: Refer to my quote of Richard Armitage here: http://www.thepaepae.com/quick-and-easy-reach-for-allegations-of-mental-illness/25431/
Oh no! What would the hysterical double-Standard (pun) bearing RW bloggers make of THIS reference to a sci-fi fantasy story and a real company!
eeeek!
Is combining the Death Star and ATT ‘beyond the pale’, d’ya think?
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Hypocrites – the Whole. Darn. Lot. Of. Them. (Right Wing Bloggers and their nuttier than squirrel poop supporters)
The. End.
Nutcases… all of them.. complete and utter nutcases
Because there is no hypocrisy or double standards here on this site.
As time goes on here the fact the same arguments and siding against anything and everything against the current government either this an ongoing joke (and I am one of the ones being laughed at) or people here are plain thick.
As I have stated before there is no reasoning with Labour (right wing) cult followers/people here either.
I find it amusing the arguments people repeatedly use here are a reflection of from the opposing view. The only difference is its done in a more mature less vile way here but does not detract from the fact most here are blind and just as extremely bias. And just because someone presents a more polished less personal attack approach of criticism does not mean they are correct.
Points well made Pete – and very clear too.
No seeing of all sides of the argument – just the assholes and the non-assholes.
Which is entirely how the world needs to be before this nasty National Government receives its DCM from the voting public.
[…] and ‘concern’ by certain right wing political propagandists. (see: ‘Wailing about death threats, forgetting what they’ve written themselves‘) They’re just exploiting the evident divisions between some on ‘the left’. […]
I apologise for the barely-forgivable repetition of topics discussed here on ThePaepae.com Craig.
Perhaps I can save you some time:
(a) Yes, I am a one-eyed hypocrite, just as you have suggested to me a number of times.
(b) No, I am not a Labour stooge, although I agreed with John Key when he said something like: ‘All New Zealanders have a socialist streak’.
see: http://tvnz.co.nz/politics-news/key-stands-socialist-streak-comments-4368086 and http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/5509870/Wikileaks-Key-said-Kiwis-have-socialist-streak
Thanks for describing my content as “more mature less vile“.
It means a lot coming from you. Whoever you are.
– P
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