Tea party recording
 

http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/electi...arty-recording

So this is... I dunno, kinda bizarre. I'd love to know what was said. This shit needs to get accidentally leaked like it was accidentally recorded.

Fuck the fucking Herald on Sunday, I'm disgusted that this UK tabloid "anything to get eyeballs" shit has arrived in NZ.

Wtf! Get off your lazy ass and go to the police station like everyone else......cunt!

Breath-taking??? I would have assumed it was boring chit chat, especially with all the media there. I too would like to know what was so breath taking!

That sounds like horse shit to get readers.

What a beat up from the herald.

They just interviewed the cameraman that did the 'accidental' recording on radio and he's pretty much contradicted what the herald said.

Should be interesting to see this played out. Watch out for the news tonight.

I read that the cameraman stated that he didn't listen to the full tape.

edit: http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/poli...ecret-tea-tape

Also from that article 'the prime minister's office had returned his microphone'. They must have listened to what was on it surely.

meh if there was anything decent in the recording then it would have been made public by now.

Secretly recording a private conversation between two individuals without their knowledge or consent is illegal.

Listened... to a microphone?

I'm assuming it was a dictaphone?

edit: lol yeah sounds like an accident . . . . not

It was a wireless lapel mic streaming to a camera. Which had to be powered on and recording.

BUT IT WAS AN ACCIDENT AU

Not denying that :)

there's a real (and hilarious) fear from supporters of the right that their elected leaders unguarded moments might one day be exposed.
bill last time, now...

Even if there was nothing said, they have now made it seem like there was, and that people will start to wonder about ACT/National.

If anything was said, I bet it was that Key is going to help destroy Len Brown for beating Banks

I think if there's one person in the country that can be lazy in this regard, it'd be the prime minister, eh?
This.

I'd like to know what was on it too but privacy laws far outweigh my curiosity. Keep it private.

Two seasoned politicians were having a cuppa with the NZ media an arm's length away. Does anyone seriously imagine anything remotely exciting was being talked about?

The Herald deserves everything coming to it. To try to make money from illegal activity (if that is what it is ultimately shown to be) is despicable.

lol You actually believe that don't you?

Ah, so you have no respect for our country's leader - gotcha. Stay classy.

So there's a random, unclaimed black bag sitting on a table right next to the countries leader.

Way to go DPS.

^^ haha so true.

Ok, so apparently it was about how long Brash was really going to be the leader of the ACT party.

In terms of taxpayer dollars it would be way more expensive (not to mention disruptive) for the prime minister to visit a station rather than a couple of cops turn up at his office.

You're just being annoying

How it's going to play out:
PM will resist the 'leak' of the material, media will whip the chubbies of this world into a frenzy.
PM wil then release the material of his own free will, after a suitable length of time, to be the good guy.
Material will turn out to be a chat about suit tailors.

Would be full pro, if he set up the recording.

Yah fucking right.

Also: The paranoid part of me thinks this may be a deliberate baiting by the PM & Banks to obtain more control over the media.

Sounds like blackmail!

Soo....who's got odds than on Sunday the Herald will publish a transcript of the recording anyway and deal with it later?

2-1?
3-1?
Even?

Paranoid part of you is probably right :)

Only if it's something super juicy, like their wives favourite panties, otherwise Heralds 'big story' will be a story about how they can't tell the big story and how big the story is that they can't tell. The big story, that they totally have, that's big.

bunch of fucking homos.

ILLUMINATUS!

*sigh* :(

Controlling a major population base near you, TODAY!

Sadly, this headline really sums this entire thing up (don't even need to read the article): http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/poli...un-than-policy

It was a public photo-op with full media prescence, the recording device was placed during the initial public "look at us we're having a cuppa" segment - before the two Johns suddenly decided to kick everyone out of a cafe to have a "private" conversation.

Don't really see how this is much different from Sarkozy's recent gaffe about Israel's PM. Or Obama's "this off off the record right, Kanye is a jackass".

I would prefer this scandal be called Teabaggingate

So... that makes it okay to copy the tape and shop it to a newspaper? Riiiight.

..."much ado..about nothing.."

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/5970...ns-police-past

This story keeps getting better and better.

Beautiful!

Yes, like our police have nothing better to do than run around after the PM over an eavesdropping issue.

Don't get wrong, i respect the position of PM, but if heading to the station isn't a security threat, then there's absolutely no reason why he shouldn't.

Really? And how did you work that out?

So sitting in full public view having a cuppa with another politician is less disruptive for his security and the public than being driven to the police station and laying a complaint?

Now who's the annoying one...

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/n...ectid=10766167

Oh no doubt they are both illegal Mr Key, but seriously? Comparing the taping of your little tea-cup discussion to the hacking of a dead girls phone that interfered with the subsequent murder investigation?

You are ::facepalm::