Veuve Clicquot

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I have just had it confirmed that John Tamihere was present at corporate whore and political svengali Matthew Hooton’s house for the plotting to support his Manchurian Candidate. That makes every media commentator and political observer who was at Hooton’s party 100% behind David Shearer before he even put his name forward.

John Tamihere has an article in the Sunday News…backing Shearer. He even says he will re-join Labour if Shearer is the leader. Every dot connects now.

I do have one correction though. It wasn’t a BBQ it was fully tax deductible catered corporate fare complete with NBR supplied Veuve Clicquot champagne.

The day after the election there was a BBQ at Matthew Hooton’s house. Sean Plunket was in attendance, he talks about it in his radio show with David Farrar, Felix Marwick and Josie Pagani.

The VRWC is backing Shearer by whaleoil

In attendance at what Sean Plunket calls a “National party operative’s” house along with Plunket were Cameron Brewer, Lockwood Smith, Tim Groser, the blogger Busted Blonde and Cactus Kate. All were quaffing Veuve Cliquot and all sharing the company of David Shearer. David Farrar and I were invited but refused to attend.

To cap it all off the champagne they were drinking was provided by NBR. I know the champagne was meant for charity, but saving the Labour party really takes the cake.

A key Young Nat was busted by Cactus Kate at this same event, she commented in her NBR column:

When I saw the ridiculous sight of a Young Nat loudly giving advice to a worthy Labour leadership contender, I had just about had enough. As I am sure had he after months of such sideline commentary.

As Plunket states in his radio show prior to this event David Shearer had expressed no interest in the leadership of the Labour party and the very next day he launches his bid.

BBQ’s are famous in the political lexicon of New Zealand and here we have a real one at the house of a corporate whore and political svengali, with plenty of right wing advisors and thinkers in close proximity to David Shearer and a leadership bid comes from nowhere.

Coincidence is a fine thing, but I do believe there may be some explaining to do.

NBR is sick of people cut and pasting their articles and is now going to lock that down too. Well sort of.

They clearly haven’t heard of screenshots. Cactus Kate has…I taught her how to do it. Rest assured when there is something behind NBR’s paywall that I want I will get it and nothing Barry Colman tries will stop me. People were even commenting in their article how to get around their stupid policy but like good like socialists they were censoring the comments. Not even the courts of New Zealand could shut me up and so if you want to use their content then these commands are your friend.

Mac: Cmd+Shift+4

Windows: Check out the handy hints here for Windows print screen solutions.

Right problem solved.

One thing irked me though and that was the comment from Busted Blonde. She slags off people who want to know about something behind the paywall and describes them as bludgers.

This is the same cow that bludged off her mates in the blogging community to win a contest which no one has seen the results of. Namely the copious amounts of free piss she promised us all in a party. We helped her win the damn competition, then we helped shame Barry Colman into dipping into his own pocket after NBR welched on the deal. Not a single one of us so much as got an email of thanks and not a single one of us has seen so much as a glass let alone a bottle  of Veuve Clicquot as a mere token of our awesome hitting power.

If anyone is a bludger it is her. Not mention I just bet her state-funded government job paid for her access in the first place, she isn’t one to dip into her own pocket, like ever.

The NBR gets all catty…has someone shown them the readership stats of interest.co.nz?

NBR’s stand-off with the Serious Fraud Office remains finely poised.

If it goes the wrong way, editor-in-chief Nevil Gibson (or Neville, as the SFO insists on calling him) faces up to 12 months jail and a $40,000 fine.

The worst-case scenario, according to fringe business commentator Bernard Hickey, would see Mr Gibson sharing a cell with Cameron Slater.*

But Private Bin thinks the above photo** show NBR’s helmsman has been working out and is in good shape to hold his own in the prison yard.

* Yes, we know Whaleoil has only been fined; just go with the joke and imagine he doesn’t pay.

** Supplied by a staffer who can’t be identified, beyond that her surname is Phillips, and her first name begins with H.

I do have some sympathy with Bazza and the folk at NBR after we smashed them and their stink Veuve Clicquot competition up. They coughed the plonk, only for a thieving maori slapper to take it all and not deliver on her promise for a piss-up. If I was NBR I would be crawling all over her massive fat maori arse asking where her promised party is? No one I know who helped int he viral smash-up has even received a single teaspoon of Veuve Clicquot in thanks for helping her win her massive weight in booze.

See Busted Blonde, I never, ever, ever forget a sleight.

So we all helped Busted Blonde take home the piss in the crass Veuve Clicquot/NBR competition.

What the silly bitch didn’t know was just how much work went in behind the scenes to amp the the pressure on the stupid Managing Editor who clearly had a rush of shit tot he brains when engaging with social media.

Chaos and mayhem was sole driver to blogosphere support, In between extensive tweets, facebook posts and blog post there were also pre-emptory emails to the idiot managing editor predicting the coming shit storm across the blogosphere. The fool even emailed me to ask what he could do to avoid making NBR and Veuve Clicquot famous in a “bad way” and then spectacularly failed to take my advice. Make no mistake the blogopshere saw this as a chance to kick Barry Colman, his pay-wall, his rag of a mag and Veuve Clicquot squarely in the nuts.

Another person who prefers the sound of her own voice and fails to listen to advice is the Busted Blonde also known as Brunette. She caved just when NBR was flat on the floor and settled for about half the amount of piss she could have got had the sting continued to run.

It was out of complete disgust with her blancmange pudding like softness that stopped me dropping a copy of the birthday edition of NBR and a bottle of Veuve Clicquot with some hookers and a video camera.

As the kicking was being administered across the blogosphere Busted Blonde was desperately trying to appear concilairoty in an attempt to “make bloggers appear nice”. Well excuse me, but who asked for her fucking opinion. Bloggers aren’t nice, we are evil and especially when delivering one of the best kickings ever to the double target of a mainstream media outlet (The owner of which hates bloggers) and a worldwide premium brand in the guise of Veuve Clicquot.

The fact that we were getting a blow by blow account of Barry Colman’s rage as it unfolding on the poor fool of a managing editor was even more special.

And the ultimate aim, a whole pile of piss to the weight of an extremely fat woman and a party in Frank Kitts lagoon.

Have we seen the party? Of course not, because Busted Blonde, the bloody great pudding wants to have a charity function woth the free piss comepletly against her stated ambitions for winning the competition. It seems only fair that if we kicked the shit out of “Liar” Joe Holden then we should do the same to Busted Blonde.

When Barry Colman finally realised what his fool of an editor had unleashed he dipped into his own pocket to stump up with the piss. This si what that tough blogger Busted Blonde had to say about it in emails.

We won. They have apologised. I win my weight in veuve clicquot. Now we under no circumstances gloat. They are putting up a full apology on nbr. So say nothing till it goes up. Now we have a party for charity to organise. And thanks everyone. NBR themselves are putting up the veuve.

That was the first anyone had heard about a so called charity function. The equally spongy soft Farrar likewise thought gloating wasn’t in order. Screw that, this was a massive hit against the big boys and the really big were going soft. Trying to stay good with Barry Colman. Like good little troughers suckling at the trough they didn’t want to bite the hands that feed them.

Well, the legal attache and the enforcer of the VRWC had two words to say about charity, especially as Colman was a tight-arse and only coughed 58 bottle of Veuve Clicquot.

I called for a vote to evict Busted Blonde from the VRWC because she was now fawning all over Barry Colman, even begging me to remove the image of a Veuve Clicquot bottle jammed p someones arse. My answer was that I wasn’t playing her game, I never was. she was now off on a tangent far removed from the piss up of wankers in Frank Kitts lagoon. She doesn’t want to raise money for charity, she wants to make herself look good and to create her own “legend”. The fact is that without Dpf, me or Cactus plus the other heavy hitters of the VRWC she would never have made it across the line and would have settled for what she got in the first place, a stink magnum of the vile Veuve Clicquot.

I waited for the thanks to arrive too. And waited. And waited. None, not even one little bottle was forthcoming. Neither was an invitation to the pissup. The reason apparently was “her integrity” would be at risk. Right…let’s examine that shall we….an anonymous blogger who likes to brag about her posts on Facebook, so isn’t so anonymous, who got in trouble at her job for blogging so retired the character only to revitalise the lifeless corpse for a compeition to win piss, all the time still blogging under the new blogname of Brunette, in the same style as Busted Blonde, still posting the posts to Facebook and all the time pretending they aren’t the same person. Hmmmm….how is that integrity holding up…..straining as much as the elastic on her panties one would suspect.

Once I started pointing out that 60 bottles of low-class Veuve Clicquot would be hoovered up in about 60 seconds by all her leeching media mates in Wellington, who would refuse to attend said charity function unless they had a freebie and starte to also work out that the fat slapper was mouthing of around Wellington what a great job she did in winning the competition I hit the roof. Hel Cactus Kate and I drank 10 bottles of champagnes election night 2008 between us. How long does Busted Blonde think 60 bottles are going to last once Sean Plunket and the other media heavy weights hoe into it. nd how long did she think her pretense of anonymity was going to last at her public sector trough job once she started promoting a failure of a charity event.

The problem Busted Blonde has is this, she caved when put under pressure, she craves the limelight but her job precludes it, which was why we got the gay V3 cartoon image of a blonde several hundred kilos lighter than the real thing, and she promised literally hundreds of people a party which she now wants to charge us all to attend.

My idea of dropping the pallet of piss down in front of the City Mission and watching chaos and mayhem ensue and video it all for Youtube holds more apeal than sharing a third of a glass of champagne with people I can’t stand. Well screw her and her non-thanks, and screw her and her stupid idea of a charity function. Next thing she will be wanting to raise money for the uninsured of Christchurch.

I almost wish “Liar” Joe Holden had won, at least he would have had a piss up.

I have a new policy in place now that stands for all the fuckwits that I have helped without a word of thanks, its called the Fuck You policy. I can and will go postal on you when I get the chance, think of it as my way of saying fuck you very much. I will no longer be taken for granted.

De-friending and de-linking policy is in force. FFS sake everyone, except Busted Blonde/Brunette knows not to piss on the Whale. She must be stupid, but then that is probably why she works for a government department.

So Barry Colman has returned from his holiday to find his flagship brand has been assaulted and violated by his inept staff and conscientious, diligent, vicious bloggers holding them to account.

He, note he…because as NBR have announced:

The National Business Review unreservedly apologises for the confusion surrounding our 40th birthday competition. It was never our intention to cause confusion about the voting for the Win Your Weight in Veuve promotion but people have expressed frustration and we have listened to their concerns.

The official winner (as chosen by the judges from the top 10 voted entries) will be announced, on schedule, in NBR print tomorrow.

In addition, the publisher will personally provide Busted Blonde’s weight in Veuve Clicquot to her to demonstrate that NBR will not allow its integrity, transparency or honesty in its dealings with its readers to be compromised in any way. She received the most online votes in the competition and NBR happily salutes that success.

As a responsible host, the publisher would, however, appeal to Busted Blonde to urge her guests to wear life jackets if celebrating their win on Wellington Harbour.

Let the festivities begin.

So NBR found a conscience, or at least Barry Colman did, whilst Veuve Clicquot have remained staunch in spiking Busted Blonde. But the win isn’t as the press release says. “The Publisher” isn’t providing Busted Blondes weight in champagne, he is providing only 62 bottles. That is 62 x 750ml bottles of Veuve Clicquot. Given that 750ml of champagne weighs around 800gms without the bottle then either Busted Blonde has had the fastest weight-loss known to man and is now a svelte 49.6 kilos or “The Publisher” is a tight-arse cheapskate and included the weight of the glass receptacle holding the champagne.

Given their Terms and Conditions state that the prize is the winners weight in champagne, not champagne bottles, this seems stingy and mean. The only reason the VRWC backed Busted Blonde is because she said she weighs heaps, which means heaps of booze, sans bottles. 100kgs of Veuve Clicquot is actually 125 bottles or rounded to 22 cases of champagne.

NBR-Veuve Clicquot - T&C

NBR, Colman and Veuve Cliquot need to man-up and settle properly. Their reasons for Busted Blonde not winning in the first place were because her entry was too crass, yes, that’s right, too crass. Exactly how that is measured when the competition is to win your weight in piss, flying in the face of Pedobear Power’s concerns over binge brinking, albeit high priced piss is beyond me. The competition is crass in and of itself. Not only that the competition also encourages rapid weight gain and obesity linked with excessive alcohol consumption….responsible advertising involving alcohol…I think not.

They had a competition, they enlisted social media, they changed the rules and got smashed via social media. It isn’t good enough to get away without a penalty payment, and I say they should pay her weight in champagne, as per the terms and conditions, without the bottle.

Here’s hoping NBR enjoys their birthday as much as I am going to. I’m thinking….another sponsor….100 kilos of champagne…a real party….and no Veuve Clicquot in sight. My ban on Vueve Clicquot stands. Anyway it is rubbish champagne, especially when you can get Champagne Bruno Paillard from The Wine Vault for the same price. The nice guys at the store and the distributor even said to me today that if you buy Champagne Bruno Paillard from them and mention that you heard about it on Whaleoil then you can get a 10% discount on it, making this champagne, not only better than Veuve Clicquot but better priced too.

NBR - Veuve Clicquot Award

Well NBR and Veuve Clicquot really know how to pile on the FAIL!

Things are pretty bad when even the moderate David Farrar has lost trust and respect in NBR.

My message to the National Business Review is that you have lost something infinitely more valuable than my subscription. You have lost both my respect and my trust. That is hard to do, and even harder to undo.

Search Veuve Clicquot Fail and look at all the NZ blogosphere retribution. Which leads me to use a phrase that is used in the war against tobacco giants to describe the dishonest actions of NBR and their advertiser who strong armed them Veuve Clicquot.

NBR ran a competition to celebrate their 40th birthday, in conjunction with Veuve Clicquot. Here in the blogosphere we have had issues before with Veuve Clicquot and their less than transparent competitions. We had suspicions that NBR and Veuve Clicquot would conspire to rob the rightful of their prize.

It is ironic that NBR and Veuve Clicquot utilised social media, including blogs, Facebook and Twitter to encourage entrants to solicit support and publicity for NBR and Veuve Cliquot yet they ignore the results of the ensuing online voting. They have rigged a vote before when they spiked Lisa Lewis for their business woman of the year award.

Yes you heard it here first NBR have chosen their winner and it isn’t Busted Blonde who won by a margin as large as her arse. We are unaware of who the winner is but I doubt it is Liar Joe either considering votes didn’t seem to matter and the simple fact fact he couldn’t spell the sponsors name. This will be a spectacular FAIL, I promise.

We think this is akin to compiling the NBR Rich List and then placing Terry Serepisos as number one because BMW, the sponsor, sold him three cars last year and miraculously got paid, or perhaps picking a loser beneficiary from South Auckland as the Richest Person in New Zealand because they have the most love with 22 children…..hold on that would make Bob Jones number one.

Quite simply NBR and Veuve Clicquot can no longer be trusted as either a source for news or as a decent luxury brand when they blatantly make up rules as they go along and when an outcome doesn’t suit their PR firms pitch for the competition just  completely rubbish the input of the thousands of people who in good faith voted for Busted Blonde, including we must add many members of the media who were looking forward to consuming free piss on someone’s ticket.

The VRWC now places a boycott on Veuve Clicquot and it’s associated brands.

Since 1987 the Veuve Clicquot company has been part of the Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy group of luxury brands, and today owns a controlling interest in New Zealand’s Cloudy Bay Vineyards.

They strangely think their brand has the following;

characteristics of vision, innovation and tenacity.

In actual fact both NBR and Veuve Clicquot can now be characterised as mendacious, crooked, malleable and leaves a bad taste in the mouth. If I had a subscription to NBR I would not renew it. It is a tawdry hack rag. No further needed is that it has just hired repeater Matt Nippert from Herald on Sunday.

I warned Todd Scott that failure to adhere to their published terms and conditions would lead to an online brand destruction, yet they have continued down that path with attempts to bribe the real winner Busted Blonde with a cheap arse Magnum of their crap product.

Here is the screen shot I took well after the competition closed officially at 5pm, according to their T&C’s

Veuve Cliquot 40th Birthday winner

Here is the weasel email sent to Busted Blonde today, days after the result was supposed to be decided.

Hi Busted Blonde

First of all congratulations on winning the impressive number of social media votes that you did with your “win your weight in Veuve” entry!

I am told that you feel we changed the terms & conditions of our promotion.

We did extend the entry period beyond 5pm Friday 20th, till midnight Friday 20th, this was to allow for late entries following an ad placed in NBR print last Friday.

I would like to point out that this was the only thing that was changed and as stated in the terms and conditions this was within NBR’s discretion to do so.

With the help of a Veuve Clicquot representative we judged the top ten voted entries based on their creativity and decided an overall winner. This was not a popular vote and, as such, the terms and conditions on the competition page stated that the judges’ decision was final.

The judges have awarded the overall winner to a very deserving and creative entry and this will be announced in NBR this Friday. You are however being recognised as our social media vote winner and will receive a magnum of Veuve Clicquot for your efforts.

Regards Todd

Quite what NBR and Veuve Clicquot were thinking running a social media campaign and ignoring the results of the social media is beyond me, but it will be a hard lesson for them to learn in what happens when you do ignore the power of the blogs and social media that you have used like a cheap whore to promote your products. If you unleash the online world in promoting something expect an online backlash when you root them over.

NBR and Veuve Clicquot can’t be trusted to run a raffle in a bowling club anymore, in future all competitions that they run are to be ignored for the jack-ups that they are.

We feel no obligation to keep NBR’s secret about the hi-jacking of the award. Happy Birthday from the blogosphere.

BTW more people read Kiwiblog and Whaleoil than your dirty rag of a paper, your statistics (these have as much integrity as Simon Ewing-Jarvie) show that. In fact more people read Whaleoil a week than NBR, worse, more people read The Standard than read NBR…..a bunch of anonymous pinko losers who couldn’t afford to buy even the cheapest version of Veuce Cliquot’s rubbish product have more readers than NBR. By the time you announce the jacked-up winner of your crap competition more people will have read this post than will buy your paper, in fact readership of your paper this week may well drop after all the other blogs tee off on you. I bet you website traffic stats have already dropped off after the competition, expect that to drop further now the blogs are at war with NBR and Vueve Cliquot.

You might be able to buy the silence of some of the cheaper bloggers out there with a free subscription but some of us have more integrity than that. In retrospect, when you have your crisis management meeting that you will pay thousands to your PR company for, you will work out that having a whole heap of bloggers on you side and drinking the sponsors product would have been a whole lot cheaper for you in the long run than pissing them all off including your own MSM friends many of whom voted for Busted Blonde. You have guaranteed for sure that your 40th birthday will be remembered for all the wrong reasons.

Ok we are down to the wire for the pwning the NBR Veuve Cliquot competition.

Joe “The Cheater” Holden is still hanging in so it is time for some VRWC crushing to show him we shan’t  be messed with.

Go and give Busted Blonde the big thumbs up

Now the fat slapper has said she has been putting in the effort on the boil-up so it would be a shame to miss out.

Busted, in between mouthfuls of Pizza, pork and puha, and gobs of cold mutton bird has mumbled that there are 3 places at the party available deserving candidates. To enter in the comp for those places, of which Cactus and I are the sole, self-appointed judges you need to tell us why Cactus and I would want to give you even so much of a glass of Veuve Cliquot and more than a sentence of polite conversation.

Oh and for sure we will be having 2010 Veuve Cliquot Business Woman of the year nominee Lisa Lewis at the party. Can you believe the tight wankers never even invited her to the awards night? If Veuve Cliquot won’t honour honest working women, we will.

Don’t let a skinny ass liar with a body like a half sucked throatie beat Busted Blonde. It is literally a ton of piss at stake here.

Vote for Busted Blonde and not Joe “the liar” Holden.

As you will know, dear readers, we are endorsing Busted Blonde’s attempt to win the Veuve Clicquot competition at NBR.

Currently our Busted Blonde is coming second but this blogger has smelled a rat, so has Cactus Kate.

The current leader Joe Holden is a big fat skinny liar and a cheat. He says he isn’t married and wants to, plus it looks like he is in the wrong competition because he is touting some product called Verve. He at least could learn to spell the sponsor’s product. Even Lisa Lewis managed that.

Joe Holden says he isn't married

Unfortunately for this chump he has decided to take on the vast resources of the Blogger’s Union and we have sprung him as a cheater. You see Joe Holden claims he isn’t married and yet his Facebook profile proves otherwise.

Joe Holden is a liar

NBR needs to pull his entry now, he is in clear breach of their rules, and he is telling lies.

Joe Holden is a liar

Plus he is only 90 kilos, so my prediction of a body like a half sucked throaty was correct. Busted Blonde all the way, at least she is honest and can spell the sponsors product. Joe Holden made the fatal mistake of pissing off bloggers. Busted Blonde is the ONLY officially endorced candidate for this competition by the NZ Bloggers Union. A vote for her is a vote for at least 10 kilos of extra piss for the party.