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Whaleoil Awards

by Whaleoil on December 31, 2011

The voting has finished and the winner (and losers) are:

Rookie of the Year – Maggie Barry, for her relentless sledging of Andrew Williams and her mocking of Phil Goff during the campaign

Worst SMOG – Darien Fenton, for her stupid and ill advised attacked against a Kiwi icon. This stupidity and the resulting media storm probably cost Labour a good 2-3% of the party vote. She scored 63% in the Army vote.

Best Political Jounalist – Sean Plunket for skewering Phil Goff and his silly police numbers claims during the election campaign.

Best Political Blog – my loyal army members voted overwhelmingly for me. However I’d like to award Red Alert an award for providing me and other bloggers with endless mirth and opportunity to mock.

Worst Politician: Darien Fenton won this with 51% of the vote.  She epitomises the nastiness of Labour. Her attack on the Mad Butcher in the middle of the election campaign just shows how truly nasty she is.

Worst Political Blog: No contest here, The Standard won this despite all the self proclaimed technical genius of Lynn Prentice.

Worst Political Journalist - Patrick Gower, for his tirade against “dirty deals” under MMP, which all happened to involve right-leaning parties, whilst ignoring the fact that Labour kept Jim Anderton in Wigram for years by standing dud candidates, and that the Greens were openly encouraging people to give the electorate votes to Labour, and in the case of Kevin Hague, actually bragging about voting for another candidate rather than for himself. Had Gower been as acid-tongued towards the Left as he was to the Right, he could have been nominated for best journalist; as it stands he is a partisan hack.

Best Electorate MP – Damien O’Connor by  nose. There were just 6 votes in it and second place winner Sam Lotu Iiga. An honourable mention there for Sam.

Best Minister – Judith Collins took this out, she smacked around Corrections, implemented container cells and launched private prisons again, replaced Barry Matthews. In Police she turned around morale, gave Howard Broad his beans, sidelined useless contenders for his replacement and got in a solid Commissioner that the troops respected. She also stepped up to take the hard jobs that Simon Power refused to do, the implementation of 3 strikes, car crushing legislation and dealing with a wayward Supreme Court judge. One of the things she pushed for as well as Minister for Veterans Affairs is the funding of travel for Veterans going to commemorations. Wayne Mapp dropped the ball on that one and Crusher again stepped up to clean the mess.

Worst List MP – Darien Fenton, she takes out her 3rd Oil award. Spectacular consistency taking out all the awards for worst. Worst SMOG, Worst Politician and Worst List MP.

These awards speak for themselves. Though I must point out that David Shearer really needs to axe Darien Fenton, she has manged to become New Zealands most loathed politician, she is easily costing Labour 5 in the polls.

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  • http://keepingstock.blogspot.com/ Inventory2

    I’ll send you my bank account number so that you can pay me for the quote you have pinched word-for-word with regard to Patrick Gower.

    Actually, on second thoughts, and in the spirit of the season, I won’t charge, nor will I call you a repeater. But I do stand by the description of Gower as a partisan hack. About the only thing he has in his favour is that at least he was open about it and didn’t try to run with the fox and hunt with the hounds as so many of our journos do.

    • Paulus

      But with his haircut and buck teeth he is still a pretty boy.

  • Bart

    Finally, Darien Fenton has won not one poll, but three!

    She must be so proud.   Probably will have a nice celebratory BBQ tonight.   I’ll happily pop down to the Mad Butcher and pick up a meat pack for her! 

  • Gazzaw

    I do think that Barry Soper was at least worth a Mentioned in Despatches in the Worst Political Journalist category. Having said that I have no beef at all with Gower receiving the overall award.
    TRN must also award Soper the DCM (Don’t Come Monday) as not only are his daily briefings to Larry Williams an insult to our intelligence but his political news flashes are biassed in the extreme. The politically aware members of the audience are wise to his tricks but  those who just take a passing interest in national politics accept his views without question. Soper abuses his position as a neutral political journalist and therefore he must go.

    • Anonymous

      Totally agree. Soper is a snake. When he presents a story it is a wolf in sheeps clothing. He quietly sows seeds of negaitivity to the right whilst pretending to deliver a balanced view. At times the wolf appeared and he positively b*tched.

      • Gazzaw

        You are absolutely correct Azalea. He is usually very measured but when Larry Williams confronted him on two consecutive evenings over the tea-tapes Soper really showed his true colours as a mouthpiece of the nasty party. He turned very ugly. I hope that the child bride had his slippers out in front of the fire for him when he got home & his dinner on the table.

  • Blair Mulholland

    I feel like a lone voice here in the sea of adulation for Mrs Collins, but while she’s been a great Minister for the police, I’m not sure that has helped their image or their standing with the public. This woman, remember, defended the Gisborne police for refusing to give crime figures to the media.  Overall, the police are still collecting revenue, wasting too much resources on drug crime, and not doing enough to stamp on burglaries and any crime which doesn’t get newspaper headlines.  You’d be hard pressed to find a worse case of poacher-turned-gamekeeper in my opinion.  I hope the new minister does much better.