The Mendacities of Mr Key #4: “Trolls & bottom-feeders”

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Key has given Judith Collins “time out” and told her to stay off social media such as Twitter. According to Dear Leader,

“My view is there’s a lot of trolls and bottom-feeders on that and in the end they get in people’s head. It’s an anonymous situation, it’s a form of cyber bullying, I don’t engage in that.”

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“Trolls“?

“Bottom-feeders“?

Isn’t this the same man who, recently, admitted to regular phone conversations with perhaps the worst troll and sleaziest bottom-feeder in New Zealand cyberspace – Cameron Slater?!

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Why, yes, it is!  John Key admitted on 14 February this year that he is in regular phone contact with Whaleoil blogger, troll, and sleaze-merchant bottom-feeder, Cameron Slater.

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L-R: Rightwing blogger Cameron Slater & current prime minister, John Key

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Isn’t it terrible, the sordid company that one keeps?

Charge: broken promise/deflection/half-truth/hypocrisy/outright lie/mis-information?

Verdict: Hypocrisy

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References

Fairfax media:  Judith Collins quits Twitter

Radio NZ: Key confessions over Whale Oil

Fairfax media: Looks like Slater is Key’s Peters source

NZ Herald: PM hints tip-off came from Cameron Slater

Scoop media: Gutter tactics by John Key staffer backfire

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The Mendacities of Mr Key #3: tax cuts

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Above image acknowledgment: Francis Owen/Lurch Left Memes

This blogpost was first published on The Daily Blog on 7 May 2014.

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