“I’m a big fan of tasers.” Jim Mora’s light chat show is actually getting WORSE. (Aug. 21, 2015)

21 August 2015 at 4:57 pm

“I’m a big fan of tasers.”
Jim Mora’s light chat show is actually getting WORSE.
The Panel, Radio NZ National, Friday 21 August 2015
Jim Mora, Andrew “Dire” Clay, Neil Miller

Incredibly, this dog of a program somehow continues to decline in quality. But then what else can we expect with guests of this calibre?

First discussion for the day: Should the police be armed or not? Miller opined that New Zealand is an “out-lier” on this issue, but that nothing will change until not only policemen, but members of the public start getting shot.

Of course, members of the public are getting shot—by the police. Sadly, however, neither Jim Mora nor Andrew “Dire” Clay had the presence of mind to remind him of this.

Miller then announced how much of a fan he is of police using tasers. Clay, who often refers to himself as a “liberal”, endorsed Miller’s view, burbling: “I’m a big fan of tasers.”

To introduce some informed comment on to the program, the producers had arranged for Mora to cross to Deakin University Associate Professor in Criminology Dr Darren Palmer, who quickly and eloquently showed that neither Clay nor Miller had a clue what they were talking about. Politely but devastatingly, he showed that every single point that they had made was fallacious.

Neil Miller had nothing at all to offer by way of counter-argument. However, once he had departed, Miller said: “Very cynical comments from an academic, I must say.”

It would be interesting to see if Clay and Miller maintained their enthusiastic pro-taser stance if either—or preferably both—of them were to be set upon and perhaps paralyzed by a gang of licensed thugs in police uniforms.

Masochists can read more about Andrew “Dire” Clay HERE…..
http://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-04122013/#comment-738941

Miller-watchers might like to peruse the following….
http://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-10082012/#comment-505179

• Paul14.1

  21 August 2015 at 5:20 pm

  Miller and Clay sound appalling.
  Do you know what they have done in life to get a platform to espouse their repugnant views?
  • Morrissey14.1.1

    21 August 2015 at 5:55 pm

    Neither of them has any discernible talent, as far as I can see. Clay has made some astonishingly ignorant comments on his many appearances on this chat show—-on one memorable occasion he expressed anguish at finding out “that the Khmer Rouge was SUPPORTED by the United States for political reasons! It just does my head in!”
    http://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-28032013/#comment-611053

    That revelation of horrifying government cynicism has not stopped him from going to Afghanistan to “support our troops”, which is really, of course, supporting our government’s decision to send them there. His anti-war comments have ceased since his government-sponsored trip.

    While Clay comes across as well intentioned but a bit dim, Miller is an altogether nastier case. I’ve written about him before….
    http://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-02122013/#comment-737424

    As the late great Bruce Jesson used to say, a lot of people go a long way by being pushy and self-centred. That’s certainly the case with Neil Miller.
• Gabby14.2

  21 August 2015 at 10:18 pm

  To be fair, he said “Very SENSIBLE comments”
  • Morrissey14.2.1

    22 August 2015 at 7:18 am

    Thanks for that Gabby. Now I am totally embarrassed. I am a more abject human being than any of my critics here has rated me in the past, and Neil Miller is a far better human being than I have been portraying him to be.

    I thought I heard him say “cynical”, but there you are—-another Breen mis-step.

    What’s even more impressive is that Mr Miller made that generous comment after Dr Palmer had shown him to be utterly ignorant and out of his depth.

    Well done, Neil Miller—and thanks for correcting my horrible misconstrual, Gabby.