My correspondence with a genius by MORRISSEY BREEN (from the 2003 Archive) http://tinyurl.com/34j8z Newsgroups: nz.general Date: 2003-10-02 16:00:46 PST
After nine o’clock this morning, this writer chances on the dapper NewstalkZB “pundit” Leighton Smith talking, in rather elevated, some might say pompous, tones about his grave concern that society is suffering from an “erosion of values”. So impressed is this writer that he (i.e. moi) is moved to compose a letter to the great man, which is sent off, via e-mail, shortly before ten o’clock…..
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Dear Leighton, It is interesting to hear you talking this morning of your concern about the “erosion of values”.
Just yesterday, you were defending Paul Holmes’s racist comments (“People are calling Paul Holmes a racist. Good GRIEF!”)
How does defending someone who calls a black man a “cheeky darkie” show a “commitment to “values”? And how does calling Muhammad Ali a “nigger”, as you did a couple of years ago, show a commitment to “values”?
Yours sincerely, Morrissey Breen
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Shortly after, the great baritone deigns to reply!
LEIGHTON SMITH: Coming up to, errrrr, twenty minutes to eleven. Just taking a look at the e-mails. M-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-Morrissey. You’re an IDIOT. Let’s just leave it at that. To the phones now….
And, errrr, that is it. THAT is, apparently, what the station means by “Tune Your Mind”.
Reminds me of the response fromTau Henare at the time of the Child “Smacking” Bill. After a reasonable question to him his email reply to me was “You’re an idiot!” The next day Key announced the about face and joined the Bill.
Morrissey, I hope you were suitably chastened by the Great One’s incisive brilliance. You should don sackcloth and ashes and flagellate yourself for a week after such insolence.
Morrissey, I hope you were suitably chastened by the Great One’s incisive brilliance. You should don sackcloth and ashes and flagellate yourself for a week after such insolence.
Actually, what I did was to get in contact with him on air on a few more occasions. I’ll post up one or two of those encounters in the next wee while, along with a brief transcript* of a revealing few minutes of his programme this morning. Keep watching this excellent forum, my friend.
* All right, all right, Felix, a rough apology for a transcript.
Excellent, can’t wait. I had a good chat to one of their late night hosts sometime in Nov/Dec last year. Can’t remember the name, but he had money on Grant Robertson for the Labour leader, I told him he was dreaming mate.
The USA used to try and deal with citizens who were rorting the system eventually, rather than the system itself being rorted and rooted.
I liked this from 100 years ago today. for 17 January 1915. https://onehundredyearsagotoday.wordpress.com/ BORN TODAY: (only in the USA) – Vincent Kosuga – American onion farmer “best known for manipulating the onion futures market. Though he made millions of dollars on commodity trading, his actions were highly controversial and attracted government scrutiny. This scrutiny led to the passing of the Onion Future Act, which banned the trading of futures contracts on onions.” [Wikipedia] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Kosuga
by MORRISSEY BREEN (from the 2003 Archive)
http://tinyurl.com/34j8z
Newsgroups: nz.general
Date: 2003-10-02 16:00:46 PST
It is interesting to hear you talking this morning of your concern about the “erosion of values”.
Morrissey Breen
housing bubblefinancial genius has maderent-seekersus all rich!https://onehundredyearsagotoday.wordpress.com/
BORN TODAY: (only in the USA) – Vincent Kosuga – American onion farmer “best known for manipulating the onion futures market. Though he made millions of dollars on commodity trading, his actions were highly controversial and attracted government scrutiny.
This scrutiny led to the passing of the Onion Future Act, which banned the trading of futures contracts on onions.” [Wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Kosuga