Good grief, Mrs Elliott, where is your PASSION? (Jul. 22, 2009)

NewstalkZB's Kerre ohoWmad

7/22/09

Good grief, Mrs Elliott, where is your PASSION?
4:00AM Sunday Jul 26, 2009
By Kerre ohoWmad

YOUR VIEWS: Is Clayton Weatherston's sentence fair?

I and my faithful band of callers have blathered all evening about
Sophie Elliott and that little pink and white rodent Clayton
Weatherston, so I won't cover the issues again. But I would like to
ask Sophie's mum, Lesley, to show publicly some of the passion and
pain she's bound to be feeling right now and to use it for good.

Lesley failed her daughter Sophie, and now, because she's so “calm”
and so “dignified”, it looks like she's failing her remaining children
---ARE there any remaining children? Was Sophie her only child? Yikes!
I don’t know!--- But just to be serious for a moment: any decent
mother would surely be depressed and angry. Compare Lesley’s spookily
unruffled demeanour with the FIRE and PASSION of Leanne Cameron
(however misguided that unfortunate woman may have been).

There is (thankfully) some anger---correction: make that a L-L-L-LOT
of anger---being felt (and articulated) by Sophie’s defacto extended
family, with one of my callers saying he'd like to rip Weatherston's
eyeballs out. Personally, I’m not so sure about that---I reckon
ripping his eyeballs out is going soft on that piece of inhuman scum.

With her mother opting out of the grieving process, it will be up to
Sophie’s new, caring, radio talkback family to be strong and to
support one another by ranting about what we’d like to do to Bruce
Eme-- , errr, Clayton Weatherston.

But let’s not be too hard on Lesley Elliott. Eventually, I am sure
that we will all see that her apparent lack of feelings, as well as
her apparent absence of despair, are totally understandable.

But she absolutely needs to lose that sang-froid. It doesn’t go down
too well with moi. Ha ha! It rhymes, Glen! But seriously: how is being
a cold fish honouring Sophie’s life? Surely the most fitting tribute
to her daughter would be for Lesley to show she is a human being. If
someone killed MY daughter, I’d be boiling with hate and bitterness
for her killer.

Lesley no doubt feels she's let down her daughter - any grieving
parent would feel the same way.

But unless she can manage to show a little human emotion (and, yes,
even a little bit of good, old-fashioned rage a la Leanne Cameron)
she'll undoubtedly let down her three remaining children. (ARE there
any other children, Glen? Check it out, will you?)
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Okay, okay, okay! I’ve changed a lot in the last six months! Just six
months ago, after another frenzied knife-killing, I was urging the
mother of the so-called victim to keep the good old-fashioned stiff
upper lip. See for yourself...
http://tinyurl.com/lpckde

A_ L _P

7/22/09

NewstalkZB's Kerre ohoWmad wrote:

>
> ---snip---  Clayton Weatherston ---snip---
>
Morrissey, there was a time some years ago when you had an interesting
if often irritating voice and wry humour.  Time has turned you into a
twopenny-ha'penny vindictive queen posing as a champion of decency and
scourge of the unrighteous.  Your humour has dulled to leaden and you
have become a tawdrier version of the worst  of what you essay to
criticise.

While it appears you are a veritable Weatherston in your
self-admiration, why don't you quit before you slip even farther in
other people's estimation?

A L P

Radio Transcripts Ltd

7/23/09

FORMAL REPLY BY PROFESSOR JAMES Q. LONGHAIR:
One A _L_ P assumed a stern attitude and delivered a prim little
lecture:

> NewstalkZB's Kerre ohoWmad wrote:
>
> >
> > ---snip---  Clayton Weatherston ---snip---
> >
> Morrissey, there was a time some years ago when you had an interesting
> if often irritating voice and wry humour.

Thank you Agnes. We will inform Breen of your generous assessment of
his past work when he gets back from Pukekohe.

>
> Time has turned you into a twopenny-ha'penny vindictive queen

A word to the wise, Agnes: calling Breen a queen won't upset him. He's
confident in his sexuality, as you could verify yourself if you wanted
to slip round to Chez Breen one evening...

>
> posing as a champion of decency and scourge of the unrighteous.

He sticks up for the victims of murderous violence, and rages at those
who support their murderers. That's not a "pose", that's a fact.

>
> Your humour has dulled to leaden

Ooooh, that really is a judgment call. Without a lot of sound judgment
on your part, Agnes. Sadly...

>
> and you have become a tawdrier version of the worst  of what you essay to criticise.

Breen's targets are without exception the powerful, the brutal and the
hypocritical. How does his scourging of a a vicious woman like Kerre
Woodham make him like her?

>
> While it appears you are a veritable Weatherston in your self-admiration,

Ooooooh, I think Breen is more Wildean than Weatherstonian in his self-
regard.

>
> why don't you quit before you slip even farther in
> other people's estimation?

Agnes, you are on record on this very newsgroup sneering at the corpse
of a murdered teenage boy and commending his murder as an effective,
albeit bloody, example of Darwinian selection. It might be an idea for
you to hop off of your high horse and indulge in a little
introspection.

Kindest regards,
JAMES Q. LONGHAIR
Professor of Women's Studies
Denver State University
>
> A L P