Dodgy pics from an NZ Green MP's Instagram account get ignored by mainstream media.

How bad does it have to get for the mainstream media to care about the compromising pictures on a Left politician's personal Instagram account?

Disturbing screenshots from what is purported to be NZ Green MP Benjamin Doyle’s hidden Instagram account, began emerging on X on Friday. The word from credible sources is that these are legitimate pictures.

Apparently, the releaser of these images, @2ETEKA, was sent them late last year by a very concerned (now ex) Green voter. @2ETEKA couldn’t find anyone in the media to take an interest in them, so finally let them loose on X. Now, the NZ Herald has a journalist on it. There are no guarantees, of course, that they’ll run the story, or whether it will be a soft-soap job or not, considering the mainstream media’s strong Left-leaning bias.

Benjamin Doyle’s hidden Instagram account, now locked down, is called ‘biblebeltbussy’. Bible Belt is the common name for the Southern USA, where evangelical Protestantism is considered to exert a strong social and cultural influence; and ‘bussy’ is a portmanteau word of ‘boy’ and ‘pussy’, to refer to a male anus in a sexual context. There are more pictures than the one below, but this one with the caption of “Bussy galore” in it will suffice for now.

When the location of ‘Cognitive Dissonance’, as is written under the name of his account, is typed into Google, it turns out it’s just outside a town called Cumming.

A number of NZ Greens appeared to follow ‘BibleBeltBussy’, including co-leaders Chlöe Swarbrick and Marama Davidson, as well as a TQ+ lobby group, of course - i.e. InsideOUT - and there are also some names from Te Pāti Māori (the Māori Party) listed. As mentioned, the account is now locked down, but I expect there’s still been a mass exodus of followers since Friday.

Reddit NZ, which I’m told is a Leftie haven, went on the warpath and deleted comments about BibleBeltBussy as fast as they popped up, and then bombed the conversation from existence altogether.

Benjamin Doyle even named his Master’s Degree diploma ‘Bible Belt Bussy’.

Seemingly, it’s a labour of love for queer Māori.

Benjamin Doyle is the most recent addition to the NZ Greens, replacing an MP who resigned following an investigation into her conduct and allegations of involvement in migrant exploitation. He refers to himself as non-binary, is the Greens spokesperson for Early Childhood, and previously worked for the Burnett Foundation, which used to be called the NZ Aids Foundation. The Burnett Foundation, to put it politely, has recently decided that the public deserves nothing less than explicit messages about gay sex.

His profile on the Greens website, written in Manglish (Māori/English mash-up), reads more like he’s a member of the barmy army, than a Member of Parliament. If it’s decided he needs to resign as an MP, none of those next in line to replace him, including a pole dancer, are very inspiring, either.

When the Greens moved away from focussing on the environment, and focussed on wokery instead, they lost the plot. There will be die-hard Green voters who’ll never vote any other way, so I don’t know how much support they’ll lose from this latest fiasco in a series of fiascos, but Labour must surely be beginning to wonder about the wisdom of having the fiasco-riddled Greens as a coalition partner by now.

So far, NZ First leader Winston Peters has been the only politician of any stripe in Parliament to not be coy about saying something about BibleBeltBussy.

The rest are hoping that if they say nothing it will fade away into the void, I guess. If the NZ Herald do actually run a story, perhaps the void will spit it right back out at them.

• Also, Rex Landy’s piece on it here.