“Where was the haka for kids in Aleppo being bombed by the Russians?” Josie Pagani was, yet again, embarrassingly inept on a dire edition of The Panel RNZ National, Wednesday 2 November 2016 Jim Mora, Stephen Franks, Josie Pagani, Zara Potts
Outside of ACT Party cocktail gatherings or Sensible Sentencing klaverns, it’s rare that someone, anywhere, would be so crazed and/or so ill-informed that the S.S. “legal counsel”, Sheriff Joe Arpaio fan and former ACT MP Stephen Franks looks sane and sensible in comparison. But that’s just what poor old Josie Pagani managed to achieve on Wednesday afternoon. The always consistent Franks was up to his usual shenanigans, i.e., long-winded, sententious, swingeing attacks on any persons or institutions he disagrees with. Pagani, a useful idiot if ever there was one—Cameron Slater calls her “my punching bag”—played the role of patsy, endorsing nearly everything Franks said.
There was one area of major disagreement, however: Pagani wants to increase the level of bloodshed and mayhem in Syria, while Franks believes the United States, and its vassals and proxies, must stop supporting ISIS and Al Qaeda, AKA Al Nusra Front, AKA “the rebel groups”. It is an indictment of Josie Pagani’s naïveté, her lack of smarts, that she comes on National Radio and presents as considerably less rational and less humane than an S.S. operative and former ACT MP. But, even more, it is an indictment of the Labour Party that Pagani plays any part in its policy formulation on ANY topic.
So this edition of The Panel, more than normally, was a farrago of frabjous, footling, fatuous foolishness. Sensitive readers are warned that the following contains several instances of mad ranting, brutal lying and maddening imbecility….
Jazzy musical intro….
JIM MORA:[breezily] On the day when Auckland’s Sky Path across the Harbour Bridge gets consent from the Environment Court, we welcome two ELEVATED panelists! The lawyer and former MP Stephen Franks, and someone who COULD’VE been an MP—-
JOSIE PAGANI:[winsome snicker] He he.
JIM MORA: —-but is now instead the director of the Council for International Development, the umbrella organization that represents New Zealand NGOs like World Vision, Save the Children, Oxfam, and so on, Josie Pagani. Hullo Josie, hullo Stephen.
JOSIE PAGANI: Hul-LO!
STEPHEN FRANKS: Good afternoon.
Brief introductory pleasantries follow, then it’s down to the, er, “serious” stuff….
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Yes, I can visualise Kiwibloggers getting into their Sunday-best clothes and forming an orderly right now, before clicking on your link to The Standard. Just out of interest, have you told LPrent to expect a flood of internet refugees from Kiwiblog?
Morrissey
I didn’t put the whole thing on Kiwiblog, Nostradamus, because the last time I posted a magnum opus here it elicited some adverse reaction.
I linked to The Standard because that’s where the entire post is; Mr Prent doesn’t mind me posting the occasional extra long piece as long as its my own composition and not simply a cut and paste.
Nostradamus
I see – fair enough.
I’ve noticed that you often transcribe interviews from The Panel. Is this some sort of hobby? I doubt many people will find Jim Mora’s interviews with a bunch of people he’s cobbled together for a panel discussion of great interest. So why transcribe them?
Morrissey
It’s actually more of a vocation than a hobby. It started in earnest in late 1999, as I listened, astounded, to the abysmal ignorance and bad sportsmanship that filled the airwaves after France outclassed the All Blacks in the RWC semifinal.
I scribbled a lot of transcripts down at the time, and recorded on my old BASF tapes quite a lot of the bile being spewed by the likes of Doug Golightly, Martin “Moron” Devlin and Murray Deaker. A lot of it is still “resting” on the pages of old exercise books, and occasionally I type some of it up and put it online.
In the beginning, I transcribed mostly the inane, vicious, mean-spirited and ignorant conversations I monitored on Radio Sport, occasionally transcribing stuff from Larry Williams, Leighton Smith and Paul Holmes on NewstalkZB, and more substantial but equally flawed conversations from (mainly) National Radio.
I also spent a lot of time transcribing some of the startling and disturbing comments by NewstalkZB hosts that followed the killing of Pihema Cameron in 2008, and the Tony Veitch attack on his partner about the same time.
I got into transcribing Mora’s ridiculous vanity vehicle as early as 2005, and started posting up my rush transcripts (some of my frenemies at The Standard call them transcrapts) a few years later.
So why transcribe them?
Because I was determined that I would not let these conversations, many of them simply terrible and awful beyond bearing, almost, simply disappear into the ether.
mikenmild
I’m not sure the kind of ignorant babble we he often hear on The Panel needs to be preserved…
Morrissey
I’m not sure the kind of ignorant babble we he often hear on The Panel needs to be preserved…
I sometimes wonder that myself, Mike. But I carry on, cheerfully, in the expectation that a Hollywood production is just around the corner. I want the part of me to be played by either Will Smith, Michael J. Fox or Clint Eastwood.
AgentBallSack
Morrissey is more likely to be played by Peewee Herman. Or perhaps a mutilated corpse. To add personality to the script
Morrissey
Morrissey is more likely to be played by Peewee Herman.
Ooooh, now that was a good one. Anyway, I’m a great fan of Paul Rubens, so by all means, keep it up, my friend!
stephieboy
It is simply untrue that the US and its “vassals ” etc are supporting ISIS and Al Nursa etc in Syria . Certainly rebel groups like the anti-ISIS and Assad Free Syria A Army
The dumb idea is the stuff of Assad,Putin and the later’s RT Propaganda They know full well the US are making Targeted airstrikes against ISIS in Syria not forgetting the US-led assault on Mosul by Kurdish , Iraq armed forces and Shia militias .
Morrissey
Rubbish, Stephieboy, you know perfectly well that the United States and its vassals—the U.K., Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar—have armed and diplomatically supported the fanatics that comprise ISIS in Syria from the very beginning of the 2011 insurrection.
Josie Pagani was, yet again, embarrassingly inept on a dire edition of The Panel
RNZ National, Wednesday 2 November 2016
Jim Mora, Stephen Franks, Josie Pagani, Zara Potts
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No fraud here!
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Or perhaps a mutilated corpse. To add personality to the script
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http://www.democracynow.org/2016/5/17/noam_chomsky_on_syria_conflict_cut
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