Pretty sharp cartoon from Emmerson in today’s NZ Herald:
But last night’s Campbell Live report on the GCSB bill featuring an international observer* expressing astonishment at the Key Administration ‘kissing the feet’ of Washington DC, tells a different story. Watch it: Dissecting the GCSB bill
Click to watch at 3news.co.nz
The team Campbell Live is doing a sterling job … and anyone who (stupidly) paints them as politically partisan is ignoring history and demonstrating gob-smacking shallowness or self-deception.
My hat’s off to them at Campbell Live.
Campbell Live making the links … good journalism. (click to watch)
Rock on.
– P
* Human rights lawyer Robert Amsterdam, now working with the Dotcom defence team.
Great work by the Campbell Live team. The evidence presented in that episode is very circumstantial, but yes, there is much to worry about in what this government is trying to do to telecommunications and the internet and for the GCSB.
Thanks Chris. Yes I agree.
I remember *blanching* at the time seeing Mr Key’s transparently childlike, wide-eyed pleasure at being invited into the Oval Office … “luckiest prime minister” etc.
“Foot kissing” Mr Amsterdam called it. Fair comment it seems to me.
I don’t think Campbell and crew set out to *impeach* Mr Key or Mr Finlayson (not saying you did), but rather to draw some of the timings and connections to our attention.
The Ian Fletcher appointment, and Mr Key’s changing story about that process and his knowledge and involvement in it, appear to me to be shabby. This is not a political statement: Mr Key looks to have been dishonest. Serially.
I hate hidden agendas. That’s definitely how this looks to me.
-P
Yes, Peter, that’s very much how I “read” the Campbell Live piece. They’ll need to drag up a bit more evidence before they’ve got anything that’ll stand up in court, so to speak, but there definitely seems to be a lot more to this story than Key and Co. are letting on.
The same childlike wonder was on show at the Royal Wedding also. He should have worn a twinset and pearls … perhaps impregnated with minute granules of nephrite jade (pounamu).
I dont think its anyones feet being kissed … more something infinitely more fragrant and below the line as it were.
I’m only glad our armed forces arent bigger … or we might become a co-belligerent … with someone else. Perhaps more so than we have been to date.
LOL!! (but ew)
Cheers Ivan. – P
Now now now Peter … i used extremely carefully chosen language. Unlike the shit happens post further up the page.
While i attempt to behave myself – it seems you are on a degenerative path.
You know how i feel about Key and his cronies … i’ve trying to be more forgiving and inclusive. It isnt working though … not one bit. The very thought of becoming “aranyi-ised” is anathema to me.
No worries, Ivan. That ‘Shit happens’ thing makes me laff.
BTW “fragrant” reminded me that term was used to describe Jeffrey Archer’s wife.