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Gordon Campbell's Election Launch 2008 Review
Monday, 13 October 2008, 12:15 am | Gordon Campbell
Gordon Campbell on whether not believing what the politicians aren’t telling you is any way to run an election More >>
Gordon Campbell on John Key’s economic package
Thursday, 9 October 2008, 9:42 am | Gordon Campbell
The National Party has billed this tax package release as an “economic management plan,” which could land them in truth-in-advertising trouble with the Consumers Institute. The reality is far more modest. What we got yesterday was a ‘me too ... More >>
Gordon Campbell previews the Obama/McCain debate
Wednesday, 8 October 2008, 10:23 am | Gordon Campbell
At least the ‘Town Hall’ format for today’s debate between John McCain and Barack Obama should play to some of McCain’s folksy strengths - which would be the first good news in a fortnight of terrible setbacks for the Arizona senator, ... More >>
Campbell:Post PREFU Preview Of National's Tax Cuts
Tuesday, 7 October 2008, 2:39 pm | Gordon Campbell
Tax cuts are a flexible piece of political ectoplasm. To those who peddle them, as Paul Krugman once noted, there is hardly an economic ill for which tax cuts are not claimed to be the best possible medicine. Your economy is running a healthy surplus? ... More >>
Campbell: The Greens election campaign launch
Monday, 6 October 2008, 11:19 am | Gordon Campbell
Hard to credit such a thing from the Green Party, but their television ads were the star turn at the Greens campaign launch at Te Papa yesterday. For years to come, those “Vote For Me” spots with the child on the wharf will be cited as a model ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Key and Clark's debate refusal
Thursday, 2 October 2008, 11:03 am | Gordon Campbell
The debate about the television debates rages on. In the television election debates this year, it seems that Helen Clark and John Key will only be presented in a one-on- one format by TV3 and TVNZ. In effect, the networks have let Clark and Key veto any ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: House rejection of bailout plan
Tuesday, 30 September 2008, 12:03 am | Gordon Campbell
So the House has rejected the bailout plan – or more correctly, the House Republicans rejected the plan concocted by their own President and Treasury Secretary. Has any president ever been so humiliated as Bush? President Bush was treated like a plague ... More >>
Campbell on Palin’s bad week and the bailout plan
Monday, 29 September 2008, 2:59 pm | Gordon Campbell
Luckily for Sarah Palin, the focus on the presidential debates and the $700 million bailout plan helped to bury a horrific series of news events for her last week. First, Palin kept stonewalling her way through the investigation into her role in the attempted ... More >>
Gordon Campbell interviews Hone Harawira
Friday, 26 September 2008, 12:07 am | Gordon Campbell
While the Maori Party does at times consciously project an image of guilelessness, they have been highly successful – more so say, than the Greens - at concealing their major party preference in this election. Currently, the Maori Party is a good ... More >>
Election 08: The US Bailout, Kid-Gloved Key
Wednesday, 24 September 2008, 5:15 pm | Gordon Campbell
This is crunch week for the US financial system, and the Democrats need to play hardball and vote against the $700 billion bailout plan. Because (a) the plan probably won’t work (b) isn’t fixable and (c) will be politically suicidal in the presidential ... More >>
The contemptible behaviour of Peters and Key
Tuesday, 23 September 2008, 10:34 am | Gordon Campbell
This week, the public itself could be forgiven for treating Parliament with contempt. In a majority decision, the privileges committee has found that New Zealand First leader Winston Peters had “ some knowledge’ of the $100,000 gift made in December ... More >>
Henry’s last stand at the privileges committee
Tuesday, 16 September 2008, 5:43 pm | Gordon Campbell
The final lingering image of the privileges committee investigation of Winston Peters was an apt one - a scrum of journalists gathered round Rodney Hide afterwards, virtually begging to be spun. As it happened, the last day’s testimony in the privileges ... More >>
Election 08: ‘Horse race’ political journalism
Monday, 15 September 2008, 2:17 pm | Gordon Campbell
So election day is November 8 which – it seems from media commentary over the weekend – was 'totally obvious' to political insiders all along. Or had been at least, since they stopped thinking it could be an early election - in which case October ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: Winston Peters' Rebuttal Of Glenn
Thursday, 11 September 2008, 10:27 am | Gordon Campbell
Winston Peters goal last night was simple survival. And if the rules of natural justice rules still apply, he did manage to shake Owen Glenn’s testimony just enough to avoid summary execution. Glenn’s account of events may still sound like the more ... More >>
Gordon Campbell interviews Robert Fisk
Wednesday, 10 September 2008, 2:27 pm | Gordon Campbell
Robert Fisk was born 62 years ago in Maidstone, Kent – and if you’ve ever wondered about the residual worth of Latin and what happens to people who study it, the man did his BA in Latin, and in linguistics. He has since been reporting and commenting ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Owen Glenn testimony
Wednesday, 10 September 2008, 10:53 am | Gordon Campbell
With hindsight – or even you’d think, with foresight - it was not a great idea for Michael Cullen to be leading the Labour bloc’s attempt to dent Owen Glenn’s testimony to the privileges committee. It only made Cullen, Russell Fairbrother, ... More >>
Campbell on Defence, and strike three for Peters
Friday, 5 September 2008, 11:24 am | Gordon Campbell
Strike three may signal that Winston Peters and New Zealand First are soon to be out for the count. Beforehand, and despite all the sins, evasions and ‘ mistakes’ on NZF’s record regarding its non-declaration of political donations, the two investigations ... More >>
The Bad Blood Between the SFO and Peters
Wednesday, 3 September 2008, 12:01 am | Gordon Campbell
Like clashing CGI dinosaurs in a Peter Jackson movie, the Serious Fraud Office and Winston Peters seem to be creatures from another era, and not entirely real. The credibility problems of the SFO - which hinge on the allegedly politically selective ... More >>
Gordon Campbell Reviews PM's Presser 01.09.08
Tuesday, 2 September 2008, 9:54 am | Gordon Campbell
Realistically, how long should it take the Serious Fraud Office to establish whether a prima facie case of fraud really does exist against Winston Peters – or not ? In the run-up to the PM’s press conference yesterday, the SFO seemed to have been ... More >>
Campbell on Sarah Palin, and Key’s likeability
Monday, 1 September 2008, 2:14 pm | Gordon Campbell
Well, it didn’t take long for detail to surface on one of the problems Sarah Palin brings to her new role as vice presidential candidate for the Republican Party. More >>
