That's the conclusion you would have to draw after reading Nicky Hager's introduction to his new book at the Dirty Politics
website.
Hager's earnest one-eyedness is quite pathetic. Quite Chaplinesque. On
Campbell Live he got more cringe worthy the longer it went on. The lack of communicative credibility was overwhelming. But I wouldn't shoot him down on that shortcoming alone.
So I went to look at his on-line evidence of nasty attack, social media politics somehow unique to and especially sinister on the Right. Yet the activity of Left blogs
rates no mention.
Of course Hager would protest their relevance.
But it beggars belief that Labour Party connections to
The Standard and
The Daily Blog don't exist.
The degree of involvement between Whale Oil and National is unknown to me. Sometimes Cam runs a submission from me for which I am grateful. I am not a cheer leader for National.
But right now Hager is religiously hell bent on making it look like the Whale Oil/National relationship is ugly and
unique. That's the flaw in his assault.
Update:
David Farrar has understandably taken an interest, given a chapter is devoted to him:
Cam does not work for anyone, or even take guidance from anyone. He is his own force of nature.
The Left just doesn't get individualism. Their deep-seated superglued-stuckness to collectivism cultivates conspiracy at every corner.