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Paul Henry channeled the late Paul Holmes this morning. (Sept. 24, 2015)

24 September 2015 at 10:41 am
“They ALWAYS give them Maori names.”
Paul Henry channeled the late Paul Holmes this morning.
PAUL HENRY, TV3, Thursday 24 September 2015
shallow /ˈʃaləʊ/ adj. 1. of little depth; 2. not exhibiting, requiring, or capable of serious thought.
This program gets worse every day. I tuned in this morning just as the 8 o’clock news was finishing….
HILLARY BARRY: ….And the new Cook Strait ferry the Kaiarahi has arrived in Wellington. It has been blessed by iwi, and will start services next month.
Now for most people that would have been an uncontroversial, even boring, little news item. But for Paul Henry, like it was for another hateful multi-media pontificator, Paul Holmes, Māori culture is intolerable, an affront, its very existence a provocation. So, in the mind of Paul Henry, naming a ferry the Kaiarahi was “political correctness” gone mad.
Intolerable!
After a short silence, he made his assault…..
PAUL HENRY: Would it be so hard for them to give the ferry an ENGLISH name? They ALWAYS give them Maori names.
HILLARY BARRY: I think it’s LOVELY!
PAUL HENRY: Do you? It must be all right then, if Hillary likes it. But honestly….
Henry’s slave Jim Kayes looked troubled, but kept his own counsel….
Shortly after that, it was time for the daily “Panel”. Today it featured a particularly gruesome twosome: Christine (Spankin’) Rankin, the self-described “children’s advocate” who believes in hitting children, and Bill Ralston’s ghastly wife Janet Wilson. I had better things to do than listen to three vicious and vacuous people chuntering on at the intellectual level you’d expect at a golf club booze-up, but I did catch the tail-end of it just before 8:30….
JANET WILSON: See, here’s the thing: Len still thinks he’s going to win. Quelle horreur! He’s got a hide like an elephant.
PAUL HENRY: Yeah, he has.
JANET WILSON: The problem for Phil Goff is that he comes from the same end of the political spectrum as Len Brown. The thing is: who would want to run for mayor, when you get paid two and six for it?
CHRISTINE SPANKIN’ RANKIN: [speaking slowly to emphasize how serious she is] He failed as the leader of the Labour Party, and he will fail as mayor of Auckland.
JANET WILSON: Christine Rankin and Janet Wilson, thank you very much for coming on the Panel this morning.
SPANKIN’ RANKIN: Best Panel ever!
JANET WILSON: Ha ha ha ha! Yeah!
More on Christine Spankin’ Rankin….
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0605/S00213.htm
  • save NZ11.1
    24 September 2015 at 10:47 am
    +1 – as I’m assuming most people on this site, can’t bear to watch this crap, (and from the falling ratings more and more of the public) great to have the opportunity to have it dissected.
  • DoublePlusGood11.2
    24 September 2015 at 11:55 am
    That “two and six” the mayor gets paid is many times the average wage. Methinks Janet Wilson needs to live on the average wage for a while to get some perspective.
  • les11.3
    24 September 2015 at 12:19 pm
    funnily enough as far as morning ‘news’ goes there are some segments of Henrys show I dont mind…his interview with Ruby Wax for example and I must begrudgingly admit his SOH is not without appeal.I expect this show to be a winner.
    • Morrissey11.3.1
      24 September 2015 at 7:55 pm
      I must begrudgingly admit his SOH is not without appeal.
      Yes, Henry can be very funny. I heard him on radio in December 2013 telling Dom and J.J. and Mike Puru about the passive-aggressive glares he gets from people whenever he goes out in public; he was simply hilarious. Some of his antics on his present television show are also quite amusing.
      However, the funny bits are less and less apparent now. What might have seemed like irreverance has hardened into the most extreme intolerance and hatefulness, whether directed at refugees, or at the victims of bombs and bullets, or (as it was this morning) at Māori.
      I expect this show to be a winner.
      It’s not. The ratings are in free fall, as they were when he had a breakfast show in Melbourne three years ago….
  • infused11.4
    24 September 2015 at 12:25 pm
    You know Paul hates Len and bags him pretty much daily. Nothing new here.
    • Draco T Bastard11.4.1
      24 September 2015 at 4:50 pm
      That fuckwit hates anybody that’s not a National supporter.
      • half crown11.4.1.1
        24 September 2015 at 7:42 pm
        “That fuckwit hates anybody that’s not a National supporter.”
        That is the most honest bit of wisdom I have read for ages. Cant make up my mind which bit is the most honest, so I settle for fuckwit.
  • Draco T Bastard11.5
    24 September 2015 at 4:49 pm
    Would it be so hard for them to give the ferry an ENGLISH name?
    Why would we give it an English name when we’re not English?
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