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Scoop Satire: Moorephing
Moorephing
Those who have followed recent commentary from former temporary Labour Prime Minister Mike Moore may recall a request for a cartoon of current Labour Prime Minister Helen Clark morphing into former National Prime Minister Rob Muldoon.
So while Mr Moore spent the weekend recovering from Orwellian doublespeak and Nixonian paranoia, Scoop sent its research team into the archives for morphing politicians. After trawling through the floppy disks and the punch cards and so forth, we regret that we have found nothing to match his imaginings.
But we did uncover a certain amount of morphing.
Strangely enough, the first example we found involved Mr Moore himself...
And next was a former National Leader who we discovered last week was a victim of Helen Clark's personality politics, rather than (as we might have thought) the way he lead his party to a landslide election defeat.
The current leader may prove more durable (he certainly looks better in National's shop window)...
...despite vicious attacks from Labour's Pete 'Mad Dog' Hodgson.
One former parliamentary attack dog has remade himself:
Leaving us to speculate which one will go on the postage stamps.
But his achievement which is somewhat overshadowed by the most unlikely political transformation in recent memory:
It's interesting that, viewed in slow motion with advanced technological appartus, the above actually looks like this:
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