John Banks talks to Willie Jackson on Partnership schools
The PPTA are unhinging over Partnership schools. Meanwhile the government and those involved are getting on with setting them up. John Banks was on Radio Waatea with Willie Jackson and explains just...
View ArticleWillie and Whale?
Rachel Glucina has raised an interesting conundrum about what is happening in radio: Last week’s radio survey results yielded little groundbreaking news with both networks spinning their own positive...
View ArticleWillie Jackson on Rihanna’s disrespect
Willie Jackson comments on two stars and their differing respect or lack of it of Maori culture. Pop princess Rihanna needs to have a good look at herself after covering up her traditional Maori moko...
View ArticleWhere David Cunliffe wants people to live in Christchurch
David Cunliffe says people can live in the red zone under Labour’s new housing policy…just while they build 50 houses a day week for the next 4 years. He said the party would also investigate the use...
View ArticleFaces of the Day
Jackson and Tamihere came under fire after an 18-year-old woman, who called herself Amy, called the show on Tuesday to talk to the pair about the Roast Busters. During discussion, the hosts described...
View ArticleHooton vs Willie & JT
Matthew Hooton walks out on Willie and JT over their excuse making for rape culture. Quite apart from their outrageous beliefs Matthew actually went to Auckland Grammar. Matthew is dead right. If...
View ArticleThe axe must be hovering by now
Willie and JT won’t have to go far to find out what happens when advertisers bail from your show. All they have to do is ask Paul Henry what happens. The writing must be on the wall now though as...
View ArticleThe carnage continues, Telecom and Vodafone bail too
Two more companies have bailed from advertising on the Radio Live Willie and JT show. NBR reports the ongoing carnage: Vodafone has followed suit and suspended all advertising from RadioLive. Vodafone...
View ArticleReality bites: Is there free speech on commercial radio?
The Willie Jackson / JT storm has left its teacup and everyone is distancing themselves. They are even being thrown under the bus by traditional allies such as David Cunliffe The Prime Minister won’t...
View ArticleJudith Collins on rape culture
Judith Collins writes a short and to the point column at the Herald on Sunday: I’ve never been a big fan of short skirts. With our robust Kiwi figures, they’re best left to super models. So, I’ve been...
View ArticleGuest Post – Rex Widerstrom on the Jackson/Tamihere debacle.
As someone who’s sat in a talkback studio, waiting for the lights to blink to indicate a caller wants to fill a few minutes with something other than my increasingly desperate blathering, I know...
View ArticleTough guys prey on 13yo girls then run like cowards when things get hard
These “Roastbusters” turkey are a bunch of blouses…the brag about raping and stupefying 13 year old girls…then do a runner when things get a bit heated. The Herald on Sunday reports: “Roast Buster”...
View ArticleA reader emails about the attention span of the media
A reader emails me about the state of the media and their attention span of a gnat. I’ve noticed today that yet again the media has managed to get itself off-topic and be distracted by a side show...
View ArticleWillie and JT off air until next year at least
At 12:10 today Radio Live announced via a statement from Willie Jackson and John Tamihere that they will be off air at least until the new year as they speak with management about the implications of...
View ArticleContrasts
Alasdair Thompson said some incorrect things, and rightly lost his job and his career. Paul Henry used the correct name and pronunciation of an Indian woman, leftists howled with outrage, unions...
View ArticleJT to sue Mediaworks, slams the sisterhood
John Tamihere is going to sue Mediaworks over his dumping from Radio Live. NBR reports: Former RadioLive host John Tamihere says he will sue MediaWorks over his departure. Mr Tamihere and co-host...
View ArticleQuestion for our media: why don’t you ignore fabricated ‘race’ attacks?
It must be election time again, when the usual Maori political suspects need to cheaply raise their public profile. How, what has worked in the past? Oh, wait! Let’s call people racists! Iwi are to...
View ArticleShane Jones valedictory
If you think that Labour won’t miss Shane Jones, then watch this speech. Makes you wonder why it was that Labour got UMR to poll about Shane Jones’ legacy. TVNZ reports: One of Parliament’s more...
View ArticleColin Espiner on Kim Dotcom and his marriage of convenience
Colin Espiner is snarky in his article…very snarky indeed. Say what you like about the sacrifice of conscience for cash – a great big German spanner has just been flung into the machinery of this...
View ArticleRodney Hide on the Internet Mana joke
Rodney Hide laughs his moobs off about the Internet Mana Party: I used to think politics was all about achieving good government. That proved invariably disappointing. These days, politics is no longer...
View ArticleWonders will never cease, keyboard interviewer Drinnan actually made a good...
John Drinnan, usually renowned for interviewing his keyboard has actually made a good point in his column yesterday. It has been intriguing to see the reasoned response of opinion-makers to the Kill...
View ArticleDo we really still need the Maori seats?
The Maori seats are becoming a bit of a joke. They have the lowest voter turnout, were supposed to be temporary and now after the last election seemingly irrelevant when 19 Maori were elected in...
View ArticleCrippled by Crazies
Russel Norman has come out swinging. In an interview with Willie Jackson at Radio Waatea he described Dotcom and his pals in the Internet Mana party as “crazies” and they crippled the Greens campaign....
View ArticleSome more thoughts on today’s watershed Charter Schools article from Fairfax
A reader emails about Charter Schools: Simon Day of Fairfax has gone where few have gone before him in NZ and gets some depth into the Charter School situation. He notes the good beginning for Vanguard...
View ArticleAn Embarrassment to the University of Auckland
Drama Professor Peter O’Connor goes even further than his indulgent self interviewing on Charter Schools by getting his comments published in the University of Auckland alumni magazine. (Interesting to...
View ArticleNOTICE: Cameron Slater on with Willie and Ali at 1 pm
Willie and Ali will host Cam on their show on Radio Live between 1 and 3 pm today. UPDATE : only between 1 and 2, sorry Listen Live Online.
View ArticleBoag vs. Slater 2.0
On Friday night the poisonous lying scumbag that is Michelle Boag was on the Paul Henry show…with my mate Willie Jackson. Willie called her a sycophant repeatedly, which she is. She probably believes...
View ArticleGiovanni Tiso’s fondness for “Grandpa” Stalin
A reader emails about Giovanni Tiso’s affectionate tweet about Josef Stalin. @ColeyTangerina @stephanierodgrs @mizjwilliams @AndreAlessi @Megapope I prefer to think of him as grandpa. — Giovanni Tiso...
View ArticleWillie Jackson comes out punching on Charter Schools
Willie Jackson refuses to drink the Labour and union Kool Aid on charter schools and has established his own charter school. He has hit out at the status quo. Radio New Zealand reports. A new south...
View ArticleWill Twitter Terrorist Tiso apologise now?
The first mass action instigated by Twitter Terrorist Giovanni Tiso has resulted in what is likely to have been a massive settlement in favour of John Tamihere. This of course has emboldened Twitter...
View ArticleWhy Lefties should learn to love Charter Schools
Lefties should learn to love Charter schools for the same reasons Liberals in America should because… President Obama is a strong supporter of charter schools, and many prominent progressives are now...
View ArticleINCITE: Politics launches today
Today is the day and shortly the first editions of INCITE: Politics will begin landing in people’s inboxes. Little in trouble – David Farrar writes about the fundamental problem for Andrew Little, his...
View ArticleWillie Jackson calls for a bigger trough
If there is a trough then Willie Jackson can be found nearby. If it needs to be bigger then Willie is calling for a bigger trough. The Chairman of the Maori Radio Network Te Whakaruruhau, Willie...
View ArticleINCITE: Politics March edition due shortly
Simon and I have compiled a bumper INCITE: Politics this month. We are just completing the final polling andeverything else is edited and ready to go. We await the numbers. Our focus has been on what...
View ArticleINCITE: Politics – March edition out now
This month’s INCITE: Politics examines closely the problems currently besetting the Labour party and attempts to look at solutions for them. We start off as usual with our exclusive polling from David...
View ArticleGuest Post – What to do about Radio New Zealand?
My good friend Willie Jackson has sent in this Guest Post. He called me and said he needed a bigger audience than other blogs and most newspapers. I think he might have been blowing a bit of smoke up...
View ArticleWillie Jackson on Trumping Key
Willie Jackson is making the same mistake many other media have or still are making. Thinking that the result in the US will somehow translate to New Zealand. The polls continue to tell us that our...
View ArticleThe Alliance takeover of Labour appears complete
It would appear that with Laila Harre and now Willie Jackson moving to Labour that the hard left former Alliance members are in ascendance inside Labour. Willie Jackson has dumped the Maori Party and...
View ArticleWillie Jackson pins his hopes on Old Scribble Face
Willie Jackson thinks that the media ban unless they pay brown-mail koha is nonsensical. Willie Jackson has described the banning of media with cameras from Te Tii Marae as “absolutely bloody...
View ArticleTrotter on the outbreak of war in Labour
Open warfare has broken out within the ranks of Labour with a sitting electorate MP, Poto Williams, attacking list candidate Willie Jackson and now the unofficial mouthpiece of activists, The Standard,...
View ArticleThe hard-left continue to smash Willie Jackson with vigour
Willie Jackson is also in trouble for daring to be a bloke, and for supporting charter schools. Both things are anathema to the modern and politically correct Labour party. Labour leader Andrew Little...
View ArticleAndrew Little’s promise to Willie Jackson rings hollow
Andrew Little is dying in a ditch defending Willie Jackson, but at the same time, he is walking back his promises after an activist and caucus backlash. Labour leader Andrew Little said he would...
View ArticleIs Little walking back his statements on charter schools?
It looks like Andrew Little may have had a call from the teacher unions. The other day, while defending Willie Jackson, he made this statement: Little clarified that Labour did not agree with the...
View ArticleLittle walks back his promise to Jackson completely
It is hard to see this revelation as anything other than total defeat by Andrew Little in the face of a caucus revolt. It also means his promises to Willie Jackson of a winnable list placing are as...
View ArticleThere really isn’t any way Willie-gate can be spun as positive for Andrew Little
DPF over at Kiwiblog summarises “Here was a party that spent last week standing up to Trump and for progressive values, and this week we’re proposing to slot a right-wing, shock-jock into Parliament?...
View ArticlePoto Williams swallows huge rat to restore fake party unity
Party leader Andrew Little shoulder-tapped Mr Jackson, a former politician and broadcaster, to stand for Labour in the September 23 general election and is still backing him. Ms Williams took to...
View ArticleTrotter on the damage Labour inflicted upon themselves
Chris Trotter explains the damage Labour have caused themselves in the past week: WHAT AN EXTRAORDINARY WEEK it’s been! Two years of exemplary discipline within Labour’s ranks have been unceremoniously...
View ArticleLittle Andy damaged after rebellion says Aunty Audrey
Audrey Young doesn’t think much of the past week for Andrew Little: Rating the start to the political year, Bill English scores 8 out of 10; Andrew Little 2. Little started higher, after his state of...
View ArticleMaori Party mocks Labour using Willie Jackson
You have to admire the rat cunning of The Shark with this exchange in the House yesterday: Switching support from one political party to the next has its downsides when past comments come back to haunt...
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