Ruminations on the eve of Friday the 29th of March, following the special public memorial service
held in Christchurch this morning to mark the tragedy which afflicted our nation two weeks earlier.
Good on ya, Paul [Professor P Spoonley] for having the the gumption, the moral fibre, honesty, integrity - and sheer courage, yes, and temerity! - to state what many (of the *liberal-leftwing class, anyway) have evidently long been thinking...vis-a-vis the Right Honourable Winston Peters, Deputy Prime Minister - or, more precisely, 'things' he has said in times gone by...
To wit, that Mr Peters' own, seemingly politically expedient and opportunistic, utterances in particular may well have majorly contributed to helping create the sort of political climate (over recent decades, especially from 1996 on) in which the sort of event occurred that has so powerfully, seismically even, affected our little nation - ushering this tranquil little kiwi *****Shire into the front and centre of the war long underway for the very heart of Planet, I mean *****Middle Earth...
Yes, that what took place in 'God's Own' a fortnight ago this afternoon - the tragic events that shook our little ('shaky') isles to the very core - were given their oxygen to breathe as it were by just such emotionally-laden language as was wont to proceed from the gentleman's mouth, especially during the periodic general election campaigns in which his political cunning was so masterfully employed...
Yes, it's verily a legitimate matter/subject of debate...and at this very time, moreover - however understandably distasteful to the likes of Peters (& Co) himself/themselves...
But...by the same token, I'm 'fraid to say, Professor Spoonley, you've doubtless well and truly set the cats among the pigeons this time...and will speedily get pushback thereabouts...from one quarter in particular...to wit, one particular 'gentleman' not especially well known for retiring unobtrusively from the scene (of conflict, whether actual or merely potential)..when his 'good name' and reputation have been brought into question/are actively under attack/assault...
No, as you - when later provided the perfect opportunity - hastened to qualify said comments, WP has not been (previously) guilty of any 'hate speech' as such - no indeed, as the various'Project' co-hosts themselves readily attested...
...and doubtless the P.M. herself - reliant for the very survival of her Coalition Government upon keeping in the good graces of Mr Peters - will be exceedingly careful not to *******scare the horses and *******ruffle some very sensitive political feathers and sensibilities...
To Be Continued (after sufficient shuteye)...
*Of which 'class', incidentally, this particular punter no longer considers himself a member in good and regular standing...having long since jettisoned the politically correct baggage that so many of this 'class' have seemingly impenetrably and inextricably encased themselves in... -but I simultaneously consider myself objective enough to be able to stand outside the fray and see, **recognize and applaud due merit (or at least 'chutzpah') whenever I perceive it...
**Or as that great boss of British sitcom, 'the Rise and Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin', fame was wont to repetitiously and tediously intone, "I didn't get where I am today by not knowing true dinkum ***/****spunk and chutzpah when I see it!"
***No, he never actually used all the words from 'true' to 'chutzpah'...
****The word I intend to rail against when I undertake a class action in the not too distant against those young lasses who periodically made my walk home from high school an on-again, off-again misery by using it, with a little 'y' attached to the end, in systematically objectifying Yours Truly without consent and thus destroying his emotional innocence at a time when my self-esteem was doubtless still formative and rather fragile...
*****Due credit to J R R Tolkien's creative genius for the universal applicability of these geographic terms he employed to situate his Third (and other) Age/s of the world he ******re-created in his mythology brought to global attention through The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings (as well as their long-subsequent Jackson (Walsh and Boyens) cinematic reinterpretations thereof)...
******As the chief purpose he had, according to the notes he made, was to recreate a mythology worthy of the British peoples and their classic history...
*******To rather shamelessly mix my metaphors...
held in Christchurch this morning to mark the tragedy which afflicted our nation two weeks earlier.
Good on ya, Paul [Professor P Spoonley] for having the the gumption, the moral fibre, honesty, integrity - and sheer courage, yes, and temerity! - to state what many (of the *liberal-leftwing class, anyway) have evidently long been thinking...vis-a-vis the Right Honourable Winston Peters, Deputy Prime Minister - or, more precisely, 'things' he has said in times gone by...
To wit, that Mr Peters' own, seemingly politically expedient and opportunistic, utterances in particular may well have majorly contributed to helping create the sort of political climate (over recent decades, especially from 1996 on) in which the sort of event occurred that has so powerfully, seismically even, affected our little nation - ushering this tranquil little kiwi *****Shire into the front and centre of the war long underway for the very heart of Planet, I mean *****Middle Earth...
Yes, that what took place in 'God's Own' a fortnight ago this afternoon - the tragic events that shook our little ('shaky') isles to the very core - were given their oxygen to breathe as it were by just such emotionally-laden language as was wont to proceed from the gentleman's mouth, especially during the periodic general election campaigns in which his political cunning was so masterfully employed...
Yes, it's verily a legitimate matter/subject of debate...and at this very time, moreover - however understandably distasteful to the likes of Peters (& Co) himself/themselves...
But...by the same token, I'm 'fraid to say, Professor Spoonley, you've doubtless well and truly set the cats among the pigeons this time...and will speedily get pushback thereabouts...from one quarter in particular...to wit, one particular 'gentleman' not especially well known for retiring unobtrusively from the scene (of conflict, whether actual or merely potential)..when his 'good name' and reputation have been brought into question/are actively under attack/assault...
No, as you - when later provided the perfect opportunity - hastened to qualify said comments, WP has not been (previously) guilty of any 'hate speech' as such - no indeed, as the various'Project' co-hosts themselves readily attested...
...and doubtless the P.M. herself - reliant for the very survival of her Coalition Government upon keeping in the good graces of Mr Peters - will be exceedingly careful not to *******scare the horses and *******ruffle some very sensitive political feathers and sensibilities...
To Be Continued (after sufficient shuteye)...
*Of which 'class', incidentally, this particular punter no longer considers himself a member in good and regular standing...having long since jettisoned the politically correct baggage that so many of this 'class' have seemingly impenetrably and inextricably encased themselves in... -but I simultaneously consider myself objective enough to be able to stand outside the fray and see, **recognize and applaud due merit (or at least 'chutzpah') whenever I perceive it...
**Or as that great boss of British sitcom, 'the Rise and Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin', fame was wont to repetitiously and tediously intone, "I didn't get where I am today by not knowing true dinkum ***/****spunk and chutzpah when I see it!"
***No, he never actually used all the words from 'true' to 'chutzpah'...
****The word I intend to rail against when I undertake a class action in the not too distant against those young lasses who periodically made my walk home from high school an on-again, off-again misery by using it, with a little 'y' attached to the end, in systematically objectifying Yours Truly without consent and thus destroying his emotional innocence at a time when my self-esteem was doubtless still formative and rather fragile...
*****Due credit to J R R Tolkien's creative genius for the universal applicability of these geographic terms he employed to situate his Third (and other) Age/s of the world he ******re-created in his mythology brought to global attention through The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings (as well as their long-subsequent Jackson (Walsh and Boyens) cinematic reinterpretations thereof)...
******As the chief purpose he had, according to the notes he made, was to recreate a mythology worthy of the British peoples and their classic history...
*******To rather shamelessly mix my metaphors...
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