The communist lesbian dictator discourse, like hate discourses in general, was not particularly consistent. If the discourse isn't exactly expansive (indeed, it is as numbingly repetitive as any Soviet tract), perhaps it is, at least, consistent? Alas, no: Which makes it all the more surprising that there is only one incidence of the word in the paper, which involves the government allegedly being paranoid. Perigo's (and to a lesser extent Banks') commentary is explicitly paranoid, not least in its characterisation of all other media, which are in general 'craven cowards' and 'somewhat to the left of Joseph Stalin' and specifically 'pommie commie' (Press gallery chair Vernon Small) 'bastion of Islamofascism' (Morning Report) 'racist TV' (Maori Television) 'communist tabloid' (The Dominion Post) and 'run by NationalвЂ™s biggest enemies' (The New Zealand Herald). Indeed, I'm not sure that Perigo can now be said to have a mind, rather than a space from which various elements of his psyche throw poos at the world. I'm not sure what such an interview would draw from Perigo's mind now. The result was sufficiently satisfying that Perigo was moved to suggest that perhaps I could join his merry band of libertarian freedom fighters. I can further report that he used to be a good interview subject: I spoke to him at length two or three times in my 95bFM Wire show in the mid-1990s. (And also, at some points, the acquiescence of various conservative politicians to what Stoddart characterises as the 'anti-government communist lesbian dictator discourse.')Д®veryone knows that Perigo used to be a good interviewer. I am not qualified to assess its academic merit, but it has an appealing dry humour, and I can recommend the paper for the insight it provides into the intellectual descent of Lindsay Perigo. The paper does not aim to comprehensively examine the Helengrad phenomenon, although it notes what Stoddart believes to be the first use of some of its key terminology in blogs and comments, but to analyse it as it emerged via Radio Pacific's First Edition breakfast show under first John Banks and then Lindsay Perigo. David Haywood has kindly directed my attention to Clark Vader and the Helengrad Labour Lesbians, a paper submitted by Lewis Stoddart toward a graduate diploma in political science at Victoria University last year.

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