Graham Bell says there's no poverty in New Zealand. (Jan. 22, 2014)

21 January 2014 at 4:02 pm

has anyone heard dull explosive-thuds from the region of northcote point..?

..if morrissey is listening to moras’ panel-fuckwittery..

..that’ll be him..

..among other drivel..the ‘there is no ‘real’ poverty in nz!’ riff is being reprised..(and mora did not demur..)

..(one of those far-right shits is there..)

..and we can expect ‘incoming’ soon..from morrissey..i’m picking..

..phillip ure..

• Morrissey20.1

  22 January 2014 at 2:30 pm

  Yes, phillip, I did indeed hear Graham Bell make his solemn pronouncement that there was no poverty in this country. I am presently preparing my report—I guess I’d better heed the upbraiding of some of my friends on this forum and refrain from calling it a transcript, although most of it is just that—on yesterday’s dismal show.

  I’m sure I’m not the only listener to have noted that, on the evidence of the first three shows, there seems to have been no rejuvenation of Afternoons at all. Every feature is exactly the same as it was last year and the year before that and the year before that and, just three days in, host Jim Mora is already audibly stifling his yawns and condescending to the oiks from the provinces that he is compelled to talk to, interminably, in that godawful “Best Song Ever Written” slot after the 1 o’clock news. These daily interviews with folk from Ahipara and Pahiatua and Geraldine and Kaitangata are quite clearly a calvary for Mora; it is often quite clear he is giving minimal attention to the person on the other end of the line, and wishes he was at one of those smart dinner parties he often mentions, where everyone reads the New York Times and quotes David Brooks as if he were a serious thinker. Maybe he offers it up as a penance.

  To underline the moribund quality of the whole show, the first three days’ guests on The Panel are all recycled from last year’s undistinguished list. On Monday it was NBR nasty girlEllen Read and Andrew “No Dice” Clay; on Tuesday it was (God help us) Graham Bell andBernard Hickey; and today it is one of the world’s more repellent double acts, Michelle Boag and Brian Edwards.

  I’m sure this little critter speaks for every National Radio listener who learned that Boag and Edwards are on this afternoon….
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