Ingrid Hipkiss grinned vacuously and called
Ruth Money a “victim’s advocate” this morning.
a.m., Newshub, Tuesday 11 December 2018
Ruth Money a “victim’s advocate” this morning.
a.m., Newshub, Tuesday 11 December 2018
Flashback to Manurewa, ten years ago….
Late one night in 2008, a man called Bruce Emery chases down a fifteen year old boy and stabs him repeatedly, killing him. Emery is Pākehā , his victim, Pihema Cameron, is Māori. What follows this killing will turn out to be one of the most vicious and disgraceful sagas of racist hatred in this country’s sordid history. Taking their lead from the Crown Prosecutor, who routinely dismisses the dead boy as “a tagger”, the media unleashes a seemingly non-stop tirade of abuse and belittlement against not the killer, but the victim. Perhaps most disgustingly of all, one of the loudest and most vociferous denouncers of the dead boy and his “useless” family is an organization called the “Sensible Sentencing Trust”. In a rare moment of moral decency, Noelle McCarthy memorably confronted that organization’s Grand Dragon about the affair three years later. [1]
Fast forward to a.m. News at 7:30 this morning…..
In a story related to the murder of British tourist Grace Millane, smiling but vacuous newsreader Ingrid Hipkiss refers to someone called Ruth Money as a “victim’s advocate.” In fact, contrary to that descriptor, Ruth Money is a disciple of Garth “The Knife” McSticker. Money parted from the S.S. Trust not because it was a bunch of racist knife enthusiasts, but because of a disagreement over political tactics. [2]
Now, anyone with an I.Q. in triple figures would know that; Ingrid Hipkiss, however, seems oblivious.
After the news, anchor Duncan Garner weighs in with a typically weighty, thoughtful observation:
“Y’know, f you were a visitor from Ma-a-a-aars, you’d think that the world was quite an evil place.”
Less than a minute later, Garner makes the following extraordinarily foolish contention:
“Chris Finlayson is the brightest person to ever serve in parliament. He’d have thebiggest brain in parliament.”
Sports meathead Mark Richardson and Ingrid Hipkiss are reduced to a stunned, disbelieving silence. Remember, Hipkiss has just had the gall or the brass or the hide or (most likely) thenaïveté to read out with a straight face that Ruth Money was “a victim’s advocate.” But even she is stunned at that pronouncement from Garner.
After the silence, Mark Richardson laughs: “How do you KNOW that?”
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Garner did proffer an answer; I know that because I saw his lips moving. But his words were drowned out in a torrent of criticism from the crew at Chez Breen. I picked up the phrase “that stupid c**t” from Hector Stoop and “Oh my GOD! Ha ha ha ha ha!” from the lovely Serena Sopwith-Fotherington amidst the general hubbub.
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Garner did proffer an answer; I know that because I saw his lips moving. But his words were drowned out in a torrent of criticism from the crew at Chez Breen. I picked up the phrase “that stupid c**t” from Hector Stoop and “Oh my GOD! Ha ha ha ha ha!” from the lovely Serena Sopwith-Fotherington amidst the general hubbub.
