Monday 8 January 2018

Correspondence with Brian Edwards, re "Sir" Paul Holmes (Jan. 24, 2013)

On Radio New Zealand’s The Panel yesterday, Dr Brian Edwards made the remarkable claim that Paul Holmes had had a magnificent, stellar career, and that his racist, profanity-laced verbal barrage against the U.N. Secretary-General in 2003 was just “one little slip”. 

I decided to remind Brian that Holmes’s behaviour on that infamous day was anything but “one little slip”, and was in fact part of a consistent stream of vicious race-baiting and inflammatory, ill-informed comments about international affairs by Holmes. I posted Brian the following e-mail…. 


Paul Holmes made “one little slip”? You must be joking 
 
Dear Brian,  

Paul Holmes did not make “one little slip” over his entire career, contrary to your protestations on The Panel this afternoon. 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 standards of commentary, 
Morrissey Breen Northcote Point 

A couple of hours later, the good doctor took the trouble to write a rather irritated reply.... 

Well,  Morrissey Breen, he'll almost certainly be gone by the end of this week, so you can carry on feeling smug and superior after his death.  For my part, I'll take a flawed performer like Paul anytime in preference to an unforgiving, judgmental, self-righteous prick like you.  

Please don't write to me directly again. Pour your venom out on the website where everyone can read it. And if you want this reply posted as well, I'll be happy to oblige.  

Brian 

You can follow the fun by clicking HERE... 
http://brianedwardsmedia.co.nz/2012/12/paul-holmes-starry-starry-knight/ 


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