July 21, 2006

Squarehead Nats set aim on "cool", miss by miles

Thanks to Mike for this link.

This is quite hilarious. Their idea of "cool" is The Feelers? So much for taste in music.

They want to link to Dawn Raid? Do they even realise where the phrase "Dawn Raid" comes from? Why not try to appeal to African refugees by creating a Kaffir brand? Why not just go into a pub in Porirua and start calling everyone horis and boongas? How clueless can a white boy be?!?

I work in the same building as a National Party office. They're on the 14th floor, I'm on the 15th, so we ride the lift together quite often. In all honesty, young Nats look about as hip and cool as your Nana at a crochet meet. I mean, how cool can a blue suit and tie possibly be?

Playing up the female MPs is a joke as well. Have they forgotten all the bad publicity about Boss Brash's all-male posse? (I know the one women who worked for Brash at the Reserve Bank, and she was just a contractor.)

They also want to hop on the charity bus. Yes that's right - Nats want to use teenage cancer patients and battered women as an ad for themselves. I know that politics is more about opportunism than any desire to actually do the right thing, but this is a poor effort even for the blue-ties.

I work for a charity, and a running joke here is that if our neighbours downstairs get voted in, they'll be able to take over our offices 'cause they'll cut our funding. But then I guess we're not a "hip and cool" charity like daffodils for cancer.

Screw you, National. You're eternally that fat kid with glasses from The Far Side.

Posted by joey at July 21, 2006 11:18 AM
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Someday I'll write a clever and insightful blog post about the veiled racism behind their anti hip-hop tour stance, and point out the millions spent here on hip-hop related lifestyles (not just music but clothes and the like); instead I'll leave it up to the Nats TO SHOOT THEMSELVES IN THE FOOT AGAIN.

Posted by: dritchie at July 21, 2006 11:56 AM

Couldn't have put it any better myself sir!

I found the Dawn Raid side of things particularly ironic considering it's origins!

Posted by: Scott C at July 21, 2006 11:57 AM

Is anybody else worried about the complete ineptitude shown in the .ppt file?

Posted by: dritchie at July 21, 2006 12:10 PM

if the nats were cool they wouldn't be worrying about trying to be cool. Worrying about trying to be cool is uncool.
Trevor Mallard is also uncool, for saying 'cool', like it was in quote marks when trying to dis national in the house during the week.

Posted by: samm at July 22, 2006 9:21 PM

Just to be clear: crochet is cool. Not as cool as knitting but still with some cool. Crochet is more cool than National.

Posted by: cal at July 23, 2006 4:45 PM

I hear Brash is putting out a hip-hop album... Many rumors about the title for the album!

Fear of a Brash Planet
Straight Outta Owera
It takes a nation of 4 million to hold us back!

Of course it may turn out that he can't rap so we should look at some more traditional styles I guess and you never can dismiss him having support from his party...

Dr Brash's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Highway to Helensville
BrashShipleyBolgerMagik
The Miseducation of Lockwood Smith
Jagged Little Bill (English)
Brash out of Hell
(What's the Story) Boring Tory?
Automatic for the (Rich) People
Electric Singaporean Ladyland
Brash Over Troubled Water
Appetite for Welfare System Destruction
Brash Motor Finger

[mostly shamlessly stolen from a thread in NZmusic.com!]

Posted by: Scott C at July 24, 2006 2:58 PM