Heaping scorn and pouring filth on a political dissenter.
Jim Mora’s light chat show gets ugly and depraved again.
The Panel, RNZ National, Thursday 18 October 2018
Jim Mora, Stephen Franks, Lavina Good, Caitlin Cherry
Jim Mora’s light chat show gets ugly and depraved again.
The Panel, RNZ National, Thursday 18 October 2018
Jim Mora, Stephen Franks, Lavina Good, Caitlin Cherry
https://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-18-10-2018/#comment-1538040
Later in the program, Stephen Franks—an ex-ACT list MP and S.S. Trust supporter— bloviated about his great regard for investigative journalists and stoutly defended their right to secretly record what he called “liars” and “hypocrites.” Of course that was humbug: Franks doesn’t give a toss about free speech and finds the plight of the dissident Julian Assange an occasion for laughter. You can hear him guffawing, along with Jim Mora, during this ridiculing of Assange.
It was written up, obviously by the egregious Caitlin Cherry, on RNZ National’s website in the following sarcastic and flippant manner….
Story of the day for 18 October 2018So Poor old Wikileaks founder Julian Assange – he’s clearly outstayed his welcome at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, they’re quite cross with him.
JIM MORA: Now, where am I? Oh, I know where I am! I’m about to say to Caitlin, “Story of the Day, please.”
CAITLIN CHERRY: Yeah, so POOR old Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, he’s CLEARLY outstayed his welcome at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, in fact they’re QUITE cross with him. He’s been there since 2012 as I said, and, ahhh, recently they cut off his internet access, ahhh, he IS getting it baa-a-a-aack, but they say it’s only if he cleans his bathroom, —
MORA: Hur, hur!
CAITLIN CHERRY: —- STOPS interfering in the internal affairs of OTHER STATES—
MORA: Hur hur!
STEPHEN FRANKS: Eh?
CAITLIN CHERRY: —AND, most imPORTANTLY, needs to take better care of his CAT. And if he doesn’t, it will be taken to an animal shelter.
MORA: REALLY? He’s been told to stop interfering in the affairs of other states?
CAITLIN CHERRY: And clean his bathroom.
MORA: And clean the bathroom.
CAITLIN CHERRY: Yeah, So, they were, they were QUITE cross with some of his behavior, and, um, if you think it sounds a bit like dealing with a teenager or a bad flatmate, YOU’D BE RIGHT. And so the Guardian has published a VERY informative piece which provides some advice, probably to the Ecuadorian embassy, entitled: “How to Get Rid of an Unwanted Housemate.”
MORA: Hmm! Hmm!
CAITLIN CHERRY: So in it the author, whose name is Juno Dawson, says: “Any of us who have survived the second year of university know the horror of the WRONG ROOM-MATE”—or as we say here, flatmate—“I mean, you could just ask them to leave, but it’s WAY more fun to make life so unBEARable that they’re convinced they’re going of their own volition.”
MORA: Like what?
CAITLIN CHERRY: Well, she has a five-step plan. Number ONE: Even if you’re not a morning person, become a morning person. Get up at six a.m.—
MORA: Hmm, hmm!
CAITLIN CHERRY: —and start using your JUICER!
MORA: Hmm, hmm, hmm!
CAITLIN CHERRY: or I would use the, um—
STEPHEN FRANKS: [drily] Vacuum cleaner!
CAITLIN CHERRY: Ha ha, yeah, ha! Or the, the one where you make your, y’know, kale smoothie.
MORA: Ha! Ha!
CAITLIN CHERRY: The special noisy whiz! AND she suggests you WHISTLE! You know,
MORA: Oh, whistling! Yeah, that’s a GREAT idea!
CAITLIN CHERRY: Number two: get a PET. So she says Phoebe in the T.V. show Friends opted for a tarantula to try and scare Rachel out of living with Joey, ummmmm, but she says a PUPPY is quite effective because they pee, they howl, and they chew EVERYTHING.
MORA: That’s true. You wouldn’t like that tarantula, would you?
CAITLIN CHERRY: Aww no, tarantulas are gorgeous.
MORA: Oh really? You, you don’t like a white-tail but you’d love a tarantula.
CAITLIN CHERRY: Yeah, they’re kind of fluffy.
MORA: Okay.
CAITLIN CHERRY: Ahhhhh, get a LOVER at ONCE, she says. Ah, she says there’s nothing more repulsive than coming home from a hard day at work to find your flatmate canoodling on the sofa—-
MORA: Hmm!
CAITLIN CHERRY: —with their LOVE.
STEPHEN FRANKS: Hmm, hmm!
CAITLIN CHERRY: And she says, also push your bed up against the adjoining bedroom wall.
MORA: Oh, yes, I suppose, if you’re VERY Machiavellian.
CAITLIN CHERRY: Ye-e-e-e-esss. Ahhhhmmm, steal food from them, and then deny it, when confronted.
MORA: Oh THAT is SHOCKING!
CAITLIN CHERRY: Mmm, hmm.
MORA: That’s a SHOCKING thing to DO.
CAITLIN CHERRY: Aa-a-a-and then leave THEM passive-aggressive notes about stealing YOUR food, or ANYTHING ELSE. So, she says, infect every square inch of the house with your stuff, leave passive-aggressive notes and things like a roster on the fridge.
MORA: When’s it gonna become untenable, emotionally, for Julian Assange to STAY in the Ecuadorian embassy.
CAITLIN CHERRY: Oh look, I would’ve left a LONG time ago if I was him.
MORA: Oh well, he’s a bit SCARED to leave, isn’t he.
CAITLIN CHERRY: Yeah, well. [snort] Who wants to be stuck INSIDE, though, the whole time?
MORA: I know, it’s been a, how many YEARS has it been NOW?
CAITLIN CHERRY: Z[archly] I mean, he can’t HELP but interfere in the affairs of other states.
…..Silence for several seconds
MORA: Uh, a Wellington water slide, you’re getting ACCLAIM for this idea!
CAITLIN CHERRY: Excellent!
MORA: Uh, from texters. …..
ad nauseam….
Five years ago, the hatchet-wielding producer was Susan Balducci:
https://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-14062013/#comment-648511
https://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-14062013/#comment-648511
