This afternoon, we'll save Rob the trouble of pasting a link; under the heading Key grins like loon as Japan suffers he blogs:
The sight of New Zealand's Prime Minister John Key hamming it up on a cricket pitch, rubbing shoulders with such luminaries as that model of piety Shane Warne and looking for all the world like the reincarnation of Laurel Hardy, seemed quite incongruous in light of the disaster that Japan finds itself central to right now.
Gravitas, Mr Key. And timing. Not on the cat walk and not in a basin.
Is it any wonder that so many people have the perception that the Greens are party-poopers, or the Fun Police? Now we don't know whether or not Rob watched the cricket yesterday, but here are a few salient points:
- Before the Fill the Basin for Christchurch match started yesterday, the 10,000-strong crowd stood for a minute's silence in memory of those who died in Christchurch, AND IN JAPAN
- John Key received a raptuous reception from the crowd at the Basin Reserve yesterday. He mixed and mingled, signed autographs, and engaged with people of all ages, not just the luminaries Rob refers to
- John Key had made a commitment prior to Friday's tragic events in Japan, and by keeping his commitment, raised an additional $100,000 for the Christchurch relief effort.
Let's face it; John Key is an exceptionally popular Prime Minister. There has been no-one quite like him in my 55 years on this planet. And he is the Prime Minister of New Zealand, not of Japan.
The Christchurch earthquake is a New Zealand crisis; even moreso now that events in Japan will dominate the world's media. Yesterday's match was a chance to raise money to help people affected by the Christchurch earthquake, and by whatever standard it is judged by, it was a huge success. One only had to hear the emotion in Bob Parker's voice at the post-match ceremonies to understand how much yesterday meant to him and to the people of Christchurch.
Key's demeanour yesterday was entirely fitting for the occasion, in our ever-humble opinion. And we reckon that Robert Guyton would do well to heed the words of the first person to comment on what he has authored today:
Put the tiresome "John Key/National sucks" aside and grow up.
We couldn't agree more.
14 comments:
More likley Bobg was gazing contentedly at his composting thunderbox I2.
Sport is something for the underclasses to participate in and not the liberal elite of which Bobg undoubtedly wants to be a member!
The mental imagery of your opening sentence is just a bit much for a Monday Alex
I wonder what Helen would have done .. raced to the basin at 155k, had someone else pay her entry, do her silly wave to the crowd, sneered at those booing (would be a long sneer) hope like hell none of the spectators/players wanted to hug her or give her a peek on the cheek then race back to the airport at a 155k and go for a walk up a hill with Chris Carter and Dazza.
Like a greenfly to a turd???
Oh Ciaron; that's a bit mean; the kind of comment I would have expected from a Village Idiot
(Context here: http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/demerits)
A miscalculated attempt at humour...
I withdraw & apologize.
Actually, it was very subtle Ciaron! The subtlety might have been lost on some readers, hence the helpful link, where those readers can join the dots.
Dude!, you said what I said sounded like something he would have said, and I would never want to be compared or confused with him ;)
wow. you political types are all like 6 year olds fighting in a sandpit. and that's being generous. toddlers more like. whining whining whining. selfish too.
Wow! When you learn the proper use of the full stop Anon, then we may take you seriously. Untill then, you may want to repeat new entrant grammar.
My very own post. Crumbs!
I read your post with great interest Inv2 and was struck by this passage'
"John Key received a raptuous reception"
Rapturous! - as in 'rapture'?
Then this,
"There has been no-one quite like him in my 55 years on this planet."
Now it's fair enough Inv2, that you slate me for expressing my dislike for Key, but I have to say I'm more than a little disturbed by your ... adoration of what is, I hope you'll agree, merely a man.
Once again Rob, you missed an important contextual part in quoting me. What I said was:
Let's face it; John Key is an exceptionally popular Prime Minister. There has been no-one quite like him in my 55 years on this planet. And he is the Prime Minister of New Zealand, not of Japan.
Here's a list of those who have been Prime Minister of New Zealand in my lifetime (since 1955):
Sid Holland, Walter Nash, Keith Holyoake, Jack Marshall, Norman Kirk, Bill Rowling, Robert Muldoon, David Lange, Geoffrey Palmer, Mike Moore, Jim Bolger, Jenny Shipley, Helen Clark, John Key.
Key is a totally different personality to any of those on that list to have preceded him. My belief is that it's because he HASN'T been a career politician; he's had a tatse of life on the "outside". If there was a rulebook for being PM, he's discarded it, and is writing his own.
I don't have a problem at all in you disliking Key, and in fact have given you the opportunity to take a free hit at him a couple of times lately. I just think that you're being a bit churlish criticisng him for being who he is, especially when it was being done for a good cause. I also reckon that if you sat down with him over a glass of cider or a plate of Peasegood and blackcurrant pie, you'd probably find that he is a thoroughly pleasant bloke, no matter how much you despise his politics.
"outside"
Merryl Lynch?
He might be a great fellow INV2.
But I don't think so.
The shining wit of Riverton dribbles again.
Who the hell is Laurel Hardy?
Mr Key didn't "play" in a cricket match, he took an opportunity in response to a pledge by Fujitsu to earn 100 k for the CHC EQ appeal by hitting a Shane Warne delivery to the boundary during the change of innings. He actually hit three of the six admittedly slow full tosses on leg stump to the rope one just short of clearing it. For a man with no cricket background ( his chosen sport was swimming) I thought it showed a bit of intestinal fortitude as the chances of a less than stellar outcome were there and we all remember how the media crucified Mr Brash for his "plank walk".
A tremendous day of fun and nostalgia for the cricket tragics and the people of Christchurch and all the shining wit can come up with is a flail at his lack of "gravitas",sheesh.
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