Brian Edwards insists Holmes made "one little slip" in his racist career. (Jan. 23, 2013)

The Panel, RNZ National, Tuesday 23 January 2013
Jim Mora, Michelle Boag, Brian Edwards

If you are silly enough to have been listening to the increasingly
dire Jim Mora vehicle The Panel this afternoon, you will have heard,
during the chit-chat shortly before four o'clock, silly old Brian
Edwards make the bizarrely dishonest assertion that "Sir" Paul
Holmes's crazed rant against Kofi Annan was the only time he had done
anything like that in an otherwise distinguished career. I sent the following

email to the host....

Holmes made "one little slip"? You must be joking 
Dear Jim,  

Paul Holmes did not make "one little slip" over his entire career,
contrary to Brian Edwards' protestations. He was found guilty of
having grossly violated broadcasting standards when he instructed his
viewers to "prepare to go ballistic" over a Maori land claim in
Tauranga (Holmes, Monday 18 November 2002). Just last year, he angered
many people by writing a foul anti-Maori tirade in the Herald. That
was his contribution to Waitangi Day.  

And the "cheeky darky" rant was not a simple "slip"; he raved for at
least two minutes, repeatedly using the crudest and most vicious
language he could. 

In 2004, when the Abu Ghraib scandal broke, Holmes laughed
sardonically at the prospect of Iraqi civilians being tortured: he
chortled, "They won't like THAT!" Last year he joined in the campaign
against Julian Assange, and was quoted all over the world for his
bloodthirsty opinion that "they will have to kill him".  

"One little slip"? You are dreaming, surely.  

Yours in concern at shoddy commentary, 

Morrissey Breen
Northcote Point 

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