Tau Henare accuses TV3 of stalking

A former National MP has accused TV3 of stalking after one of its journalists attempted to question a former Beehive spin doctor. Today’s episode of The Nation featured an unsuccessful attempt to question former advisor to the National Party Jason Ede outside his Wellington home. Ede was accused of working with right-wing blogger Cameron Slater to attack political opponents in Nicky Hager’s book Dirty Politics. Journalists spent two days outside Ede’s home and had a brief encounter with Ede’s wife, and got Ede on camera but he refused to answer questions. Former National MP Tau Henare, both in a panel segment and on Twitter said The Nation’s tactics had more closely resembled “stalking” than a stake-out and Ede did not have an obligation to answer questions from the media.

Two things.

One – I’m surprised anyone gives a damn what Tau Bloody Henare has to say about anything.

Two – I’m surprised anyone watches The Nation.

The mainstream media have been pathetic at investigating any of the Dirty Politics allegations, if you look at the majority of the coverage during the election post the printing of the book, all the media did was regurgitate 3 points.

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1 – Kim Dotcom was the hacker.

2 – It was all a Communist Conspiracy.

3 – Nicky Hager is a hypocrite for using stolen emails.

The media did not investigate the allegations of candidate rigging, blackmailing an MP, hacking into and downloading the entire Labour Party database, the smears of public servants and Corporate hate merchants paying Slater for hate campaigns against public good organisations.

Let’s be specific shall we?

Why didn’t the media investigate these allegations? Because the majority of these media outlets had been working hand in glove with Slater for 6 bloody years smearing everyone they hated!

The only investigations that did occur were by Key’s ridiculously narrow investigation into Collins, which the former head of the SFO has already branded as “inevitable” and the Inspector General’s report into handing over SIS information to Slater which concluded that the PMs Office instigated and colluded to smear the Leader of the Opposition with falsified SIS information months out from an election by leaking to a far right hate speech blog.

The media’s response to what is effectively evidence of a coup has been spineless and gimpish.

Ede should be hunted down like the dirty dog he is and forced to answer questions about his role in all of this, shrugging and saying ‘meh’ isn’t an answer.

I believe that not enough NZers read Dirty Politics and that the book desperately needs to be made into a documentary so that as many NZers as possible can see what Key and his corrupt Government really did. We simply can’t trust the mainstream media, who are so contaminated through their own relationships with Slater, to do the job we require of them in a properly functioning Democracy.