Possibly the most repellent Panel pre-show ever. Radio NZ National, Monday 16 December 2013 Jim Mora, Linda Clark, Jane Clifton
Each week there seems to be at least one edition of this program that is so bad, so depraved, so determinedly ignorant, so vacuous and so vicious that you swear the nadir has been reached. And then along comes a horror show like this one….
JIM MORA: I think Linda Clark is with us right now. I can hear her! Linda are you there? LINDA CLARK:[perkily] Yes I’m here! My God, here I am, chattering away! Hellooooooooooo! MORA: Hello! LINDA CLARK: How ARE you? Merry Christmas! MORA: Thank you! She’s talking to you too, Noelle! NOELLE McCARTHY: Thank you. MORA: It’s Noelle McCarthy with what the WOOOOOORLD’s talking about! ….[suddenly grave]…. And not a nice topic to start the round-up today. Roger Waters the lead singer from Pink Floyd is stirring up a controversy. NOELLE McCARTHY: Yeeee-e-e-e-es. He’s been doing this for a whiii-i-i-i-i-ile now. He has compared the state of Israel to Nazi Germany. MORA:[concerned tone] Mmmmm. NOELLE McCARTHY: But he’s provoked a vigorous response. This is not new for him of course. In one of his concerts last year he had a giant PIG-shaped balloon with a Star of David on it. He says there were a whole lot of political symbols on it, and that he did not single out the Jews—- MORA:[grave tone to indicate moral seriousness] Hmmmm….. NOELLE McCARTHY: Now at least one U.S. rabbi has come out and answered him in print. MORA:[with utmost gravitas] He’s not the first rabbi to speak out about this, is he? NOELLE McCARTHY: The Jewish Chronicle and the Simon Wiesenthal Centre have been keeping a watching brief on him, but he doesn’t seem to be tempering his message however. MORA:[grimly] No he hasn’t. NOELLE McCARTHY:[grave tone] There’s more about this on our Twitface pages. MORA: Twitface—that’s our shorthand for Twitter and Facebook, by the way! LINDA CLARK: Ha ha ha ha! I just love that! NOELLE McCARTHY: Ha ha ha ha ha! We’ve broken the fourth wall! MORA: Ha ha ha ha ha! Okay, anything else? NOELLE McCARTHY: Yes, a study shows that girls’ schools are places which enforce conformity more than other schools! MORA: Oh really? They enforce conformity? NOELLE McCARTHY: Yes, there is a lot of pressure on you to be a more “girly” kind of girl! LINDA CLARK: Hmmmmm…. NOELLE McCARTHY: Shall I talk about Kanye? MORA:[sarcastically] Yeah, let’s talk about Kanye! Please! NOELLE McCARTHY: He says rapping is as fraught as fighting the Taliban or serving as a police officer! MORA: Ah, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! LINDA CLARK: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! NOELLE McCARTHY: He says that when the Taliban start shooting, the soldiers should just stand up and start rapping! MORA: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! LINDA CLARK: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Yes, THAT is going to work! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! MORA: Jo McCarroll, the editor of Gardening magazine has just texted, saying she thought Kanye was talking about Christmas wrapping! NOELLE McCARTHY: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! MORA: Very good, Jo! Noelle McCarthy, thank you very much!
Incredibly, the show got even more puerile after the 4 o’clock news. But more on that in Part Two.….
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Radio NZ National, Monday 16 December 2013
Jim Mora, Linda Clark, Jane Clifton
LINDA CLARK: [perkily] Yes I’m here! My God, here I am, chattering away! Hellooooooooooo!
MORA: Hello!
LINDA CLARK: How ARE you? Merry Christmas!
MORA: Thank you! She’s talking to you too, Noelle!
NOELLE McCARTHY: Thank you.
MORA: It’s Noelle McCarthy with what the WOOOOOORLD’s talking about! ….[suddenly grave]…. And not a nice topic to start the round-up today. Roger Waters the lead singer from Pink Floyd is stirring up a controversy.
NOELLE McCARTHY: Yeeee-e-e-e-es. He’s been doing this for a whiii-i-i-i-i-ile now. He has compared the state of Israel to Nazi Germany.
MORA: [concerned tone] Mmmmm.
NOELLE McCARTHY: But he’s provoked a vigorous response. This is not new for him of course. In one of his concerts last year he had a giant PIG-shaped balloon with a Star of David on it. He says there were a whole lot of political symbols on it, and that he did not single out the Jews—-
MORA: [grave tone to indicate moral seriousness] Hmmmm…..
NOELLE McCARTHY: Now at least one U.S. rabbi has come out and answered him in print.
MORA: [with utmost gravitas] He’s not the first rabbi to speak out about this, is he?
NOELLE McCARTHY: The Jewish Chronicle and the Simon Wiesenthal Centre have been keeping a watching brief on him, but he doesn’t seem to be tempering his message however.
MORA: [grimly] No he hasn’t.
NOELLE McCARTHY: [grave tone] There’s more about this on our Twitface pages.
MORA: Twitface—that’s our shorthand for Twitter and Facebook, by the way!
LINDA CLARK: Ha ha ha ha! I just love that!
NOELLE McCARTHY: Ha ha ha ha ha! We’ve broken the fourth wall!
MORA: Ha ha ha ha ha! Okay, anything else?
NOELLE McCARTHY: Yes, a study shows that girls’ schools are places which enforce conformity more than other schools!
MORA: Oh really? They enforce conformity?
NOELLE McCARTHY: Yes, there is a lot of pressure on you to be a more “girly” kind of girl!
LINDA CLARK: Hmmmmm….
NOELLE McCARTHY: Shall I talk about Kanye?
MORA: [sarcastically] Yeah, let’s talk about Kanye! Please!
NOELLE McCARTHY: He says rapping is as fraught as fighting the Taliban or serving as a police officer!
MORA: Ah, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
LINDA CLARK: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
NOELLE McCARTHY: He says that when the Taliban start shooting, the soldiers should just stand up and start rapping!
MORA: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
LINDA CLARK: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Yes, THAT is going to work! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
MORA: Jo McCarroll, the editor of Gardening magazine has just texted, saying she thought Kanye was talking about Christmas wrapping!
NOELLE McCARTHY: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
MORA: Very good, Jo! Noelle McCarthy, thank you very much!