A reader braves the words of Kat
A reader e-mails me:
I’ve been enjoying your herald columns – noticed that you almost always attract comments from “kat” who I always imagine is a kind of desperate and slightly unhinged cat-lady type of person (probably totally inaccurate and certainly unfair of me, but her breathless, vitriolic, and wildly optimistic writing style somehow seems to lend that kind of impression….)
Anyways, I went through her 240-odd comments over the last year or so and pulled out some of her best work, so here for your enjoyment, is “Kat: Redux”….
PS – no comments since her last one on Nov 25 – funny that…
A brave man to go back and read all of Kat’s comments. She seems to sit all day on the newspaper sites waiting for a new post, so she can be first to denounce you and pronounce victory for the left.
I’ll post below his amusing summary of Kat’s utterings, but thought it could be amusing to have a wee challenge for readers. How about going to certain blog sites and extracting the most hilarious quotes – you know the ones – that insisted the Horizon poll was right, insisted Labour would win etc etc. Post them in comments below and I’ll try and blog the best of them. The more arrogant and confident the prediction, the better.
Kat (New Zealand)
Tuesday, February 1, 2011 at 1:13 PM
Goff will be PM after the election.
Equality will be the main game. The way NZ used to be before the Vandals arrived will slowly return. Roll on election day.
Kat (New Zealand)
Friday, February 4, 2011 at 11:14 AM
Lets do a bit of ‘someone else’s money gambling’ now eh Garth?
Key is dog tucker come December. Goff will be PM. Care to gamble? go on, bet against me, be like wee keyboy, or are you just full of hot air, as usual.
Kat (New Zealand)
Sunday, February 6, 2011 at 11:51 AM
Playing devils advocate Kerre?
. Key is certainly coming across as the petulant child by exhibiting his naive arrogance with regards Winston. The people will decide who is the govt. Key will be licking his wounds in Hawaii come next Christmas.
Kat (New Zealand)
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 at 12:59 PM
Money is made round to go around.
All this talk of ‘middle class’ getting something they shouldn’t is a nonsense. National are reverting to type, they have no plan and never did other than slash and burn if the going gets tough. How bad do things really have to get before this inept govt led by its Alice in Wonderland PM is finally consigned to the political wilderness? The election in November will be about substance over style. Good riddance to the rat swallower’s and their Act thug mate.
Kat (New Zealand)
Sunday, April 3, 2011 at 9:50 AM
What will really blow all this nonsense out of the water is when Goff becomes PM in November.
History repeats itself on many occasions and I sniff a repeat of the Muldoon/Rowling rise & fall in the mid 1970’s.
Only this time MMP is going to end it for National rather than the phoney cossacks that rolled Labour at the time. The constant attempts to destabilise Goff will ultimately backfire but in a round about way. The electorate in November will be voting for anyone other than the current merchants of despair; Act, National and the Maori Party.
Roll on November.
Kat (New Zealand)
Wednesday, April 20, 2011 at 10:00 AM
Same old, same old.
Goff as opposition leader does not have to win the election, Key will lose it. Govts are voted out. Wasn’t that the most publicised story with Clark? Stay tuned Audrey and you may get a surprise lesson in political science come November.
Kat (New Zealand)
Sunday, April 17, 2011 at 12:53 PM
Roll on November.
Kat (New Zealand)
Sunday, May 22, 2011 at 11:42 AM
Key is a one trick pony, always has been, with no plan other than self adulation.
He and his bunch of tricksters will be thrown out in November. I for one don’t care that he has no clothes, the weather is warm in Hawaii.
Kat (New Zealand)
Friday, May 27, 2011 at 3:32 PM
Your a well know right wing supporter Mr Farrar so why is it not surprising your comments are so pro National to the extent you use bogus poll results as the benchmark for your opinions.
November the 26 is the real poll and get ready to be surprised, very surprised.Kat (New Zealand)
Sunday, August 21, 2011 at 8:36 AM
Quite simply Fran we won’t have acceptable youth employment until we next get a Labour govt.
Nationals tinkering and blatant election grabbing media bites is never going to solve the problem. Its up to the people of this country and how they vote on November 26 that will determine the foreseeable future. God defend NZ will certainly be an appropriate anthem if we are delivered another term of National.
Kat (New Zealand)
Sunday, August 28, 2011 at 8:35 AM
What is bizarre is articles like this that continue to tell everyone that Goff and Labour are history.
National and in particular Key has had and continues to have the near full adoration from the media and that has an effect. Throw enough mud and some will stick.
This election is about Asset sales and the selling of NZ. Its about a poor performing economy. Its about the ever widening gap between the haves and the have-nots. Its about a govt that has no plan. Its also about substance vs style.
The media just love the celebrity style of Key and that is where Goff is given a raw deal. Goff will make an excellent PM, he is well qualified for the position from experience. Goff has a genuine heart for the people. Goff is the real deal.
Kat (New Zealand)
Friday, September 2, 2011 at 12:47 PM
More push polling Mr Farrar.
We are not stupid. The assets that National intend selling are strategic. Also your ‘insert’ mentioning Phil Goff and asset sales from the 1980’s is a cheap shot to further slur his name. Your articles are becoming more and more biased and only serve as feel good fodder for dyed in the wool National/Act supporters.
Kat (New Zealand)
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at 10:47 AM
Woodham can’t be taken seriously when she cutely refers to the Prime Ministers lie and misleading parliament with ‘dropping the ball’ and then on one hand chastising Labour for ‘throwing money at desperate people from an ever-diminishing number of taxpayers’ yet not mentioning Nationals tax cuts which was clearly throwing money at wealthy people from an ever-diminishing number of taxpayers.
Kat (New Zealand)
Sunday, November 6, 2011 at 2:06 PM
Well its never too late Matt, better get on your bike and have all those 250,000 voters that didn’t vote for Labour in 2008 vote in 2011.
Thats what will win it for Labour, turnout!
And what about the current Horizon polling?
Kat (New Zealand)
Friday, November 18, 2011 at 12:09 PM
Mr Farrar, if your beloved ‘Brand Key’ is able to cobble together a right wing coalition following the election how long do you give that administration before it implodes?
The media, after stroking the ‘Brand Key’ dog for 3 years, will ultimately punish the dog that has now bit it. Although disastrous for the country if ‘Brand Key’ returns it would be poetic justice, in a way to see the sycophantic media devour its own pet and suffer the obvious digestive rejection.
Roll on November 26.
Kat (New Zealand)
Sunday, November 20, 2011 at 3:53 PM
‘Ultimately, National’s lead in the polls is such that this will be a minor bump in its campaign.
Not according to recent polls that you the media live. And the latest Horizon poll in particular sees Brand Key booted out.
Oh that was fun.