Now, Megan Campbell is a social media friend of ours. She's a National Party supporter, and narrowly missed selection for the Coromandel electorate this year, but her time will come. And she had an interesting exchange with Phil Goff on Twitter the other night which we reproduce with her permission. She said this to Mr Goff:
@MeganCampbellNZ Megan Campbell@phil_goff refusing to go on@RadioLIVENZ with Key,McCaw,Branson because his MPs said it was a lame idea yesterday.#canthaveownspotnow
Phil Goff responded, and in light of the complaint about John Key's talkback session, his response is very interesting indeed; here 'tis:
@phil_goff Phil Goff@MeganCampbellNZ@RadioLIVENZ That's wrong. I haven't been asked to go on the show, I would if they asked. I love going on Radio Live.
"I would if they asked. I love going on Radio Live." That's a pretty emphatic statement from the Leader of the Opposition; if he was given the chance, he would do the same as the PM did; get an hour's free publicity, without mentioning politics. And all power to him if he did.
That, of course, begs the question; if Phil Goff did a politics-free hour of talkback radio on RadioLive, would Chris Flatt, general secretary of the Labour Party complain to the Electoral Commission that his party leader breached both the Broadcasting Act and the Electoral Act?
Or is Labour's outrage over DJ John's radio session of the faux variety, and somewhat hypocritical? Ah; so many questions...
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An hour on radio with goofy...what a ratings winner that would be for a radio station.
Boom, another own goal by Labour... Sheesh Labour would be great to beat in a game, you don't even need to field a team!
Labour, you all should be ashamed of yourselves
Maybe no-one in Labour follows what the leader says/writes?
the logic will be, goff didn't go on the radio irrespective of whether he wanted to or not, so we are within our rights to complain about Keyster's indiscretion, because he actually did it (please ignore the fact that our man is so lame that radioLive wouldn't have a bar of him)
Honestly - i never realised until this past year just how childish politics is.
This stuff is so pathetic.
Jacqueline - I couldn't agree more.
That was a short breal away from Keeping Stock Robert; but your friend Idiot/Savant sees things in a similar manner to me:
http://norightturn.blogspot.com/2011/10/labours-hypocritical-complaint.html
Both embroiled in pish then.
And I only ever take short breals, Inv2, u no that.
Point taken! I blame the fat fingers after all the potato planting that went on at the weekend...
Spud-finger!
It's a curse.
Inv2, I reckon the reason that Robert can't stay away is that he likes it here, and at HP. He is actually part of a community in these places, where people interact with him and engage in the odd debate with him (yes I am on to the pun there).
I would go so far as to say he feels welcome.
So he will keep coming back to the friendly right places, spud-fingers or not.
Mind you - I went to the Ireland-Italy game in the weekend, and it has generally been a good month, so it could just be that all is well in my world, and this is clouding my judgment.
Cheers
Ross
I think you're onto something Ross. This place IS a community of sorts; there's a core of regular commenters, some of whom are known by name, some by pseudonyms, and some who choose to remain completely anonymous. Everyone comes here with a different motive, and I try my best to accomodate them.
Some people come here with an agenda, including those who demand (anonymously, of course) that I identify myself. Others attack me for my religious views. I guess I'm enough of a pragmatist to accept that things like that go with the territory of blogging.
Robert's a bit of an enigma. Much of what he says should be taken with a truck-load of salt, and he has at times admitted that he has a provocative streak. But Ross; I think you're right; I think he does enjoy being part of a community of bloggers. We all have our reasons for wanting to have our opinion heard, and Robert is no exception.
Enough psycho-babble for one night!; cheers for the insight Ross.
Nah.
That's not it :-)
He's not welcome anywhere else, that's the reason.
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