The man who knew too much for Griffin and Bell: Gordon Campbell on Jim Mora’s Panel

27 January 2015 at 10:05 am

The man who knew too much for Griffin and Bell:
Gordon Campbell on Jim Mora’s Panel

“Someone like Scoop’s Gordon Campbell would be ideal. He wouldn’t let Hooton get away with anything.”—Anne

“Gordon Campbell would be great! (although I don’t think I’ve heard him on radio before).”—weka

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Actually, Gordon Campbell WAS a guest on The Panel a few years ago, on at least two occasions. In the dire history of this dog of a show, Campbell supplies not one but TWO highlights: on one occasion confounding the bullying ex-copper Graham Bell and on another confounding the superficially jolly back-slapper Richard Griffin. On each occasion Campbell simply pointed out that they did not have a clue what they were talking about. A humiliated Bell retreated into a glowering, resentful silence, while Griffin made a groveling apology and retraction on the spot.

• Anne8.1

  27 January 2015 at 3:28 pm

  Yes, I remember that. We never heard Campbell again but whether it was because he wasn’t invited back or whether he chose not to return because he considered it a waste of time I don’t know. I suspect it was the latter.
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