“The victims’ rights advocate Garth McVicar.” Jim Mora plumbs a new low (Apr. 18, 2013)

Morrissey28

18 April 2013 at 6:27 pm

“The victims’ rights advocate Garth McVicar”
Jim Mora plumbs a new low
The Panel, Radio New Zealand National, Thursday 18 April 2013
Jim Mora, Michael Deaker, Irene Gardiner

A few weeks ago, NewstalkZB listeners enjoyed the delicious treat of hearing Janet Wilson indulge in a thinly coded tirade against her husband Bill Ralston. Under the pretext of a critique of Kevin Rudd, she snarled that “he” (ostensibly Kevin Rudd) was “rude, moody and controlling.” As she developed her analysis of “Kevin Rudd”, her voice wound up to a pitch indicative of real psychic pain; any astute listener realized that this was a woman on the edge of clinical hysteria.

This afternoon, National Radio listeners were treated to another coded attack, this time on someone even more odious than Janet Wilson’s husband. The target of today’s roundabout but unmistakeable criticism was the hateful S.S. Trust führer Garth “The Knife” McVicar….

JIM MORA: It has been announced today that there is a new website to critique the judges in our courts. Just before we speak to the victims’ rights advocate Garth McVicar, we’ll see what our Panelists think. So, is it a good idea?

IRENE GARDINER: I don’t think this is a very good idea at all.

MICHAEL DEAKER: This sounds like a group for those people who think they know better than everyone else, the ignorant, the vengeful and the kind of people who are on talk radio in the small hours of the morning.

JIM MORA: It sounds like he’s talking about you, Garth!

Of course, McVicar is too dull and insensate to even register a full-frontal assault, leave alone an oblique one like that handed out by Michael Deaker. He merely plowed on with his sub-moronic version of reality. But the comments were made, and did something to balance up Mora’s outrageous definition of McVicar, that monstrous hypocrite, as a “victims’ rights advocate.”

A very small victory for the forces of decency, but a victory nonetheless. Well done, Michael Deaker.

Click the following link to see my take on Janet Wilson’s tirade against her husband….

• Te Reo Putake28.1

  18 April 2013 at 8:38 pm

  Jim Mora wuvs Mozza! Heard two of your emails read out in the last few days, I think you’re wearing him down. Can’t be long before you’re on the panel yourself 
  • Morrissey28.1.1

    19 April 2013 at 7:18 am

    Jim Mora wuvs Mozza! Heard two of your emails read out in the last few days, I think you’re wearing him down.

    Thanks for the heads up, my friend. I did not hear either of them; in fact I’ve only heard scraps of the program for the last few weeks. I thought Jim had given up on reading my stuff out on air. He’s back on my Christmas card list now.

    Can’t be long before you’re on the panel yourself

    That would be horrific. I would be more mealy-mouthed and stammering and apologetic than anyone that’s ever been on…

    CHRISTINE RANKIN: Ha ha ha ha ha ha!

    MORRISSEY BREEN: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Um.

    JIM MORA: Ha ha ha ha ha! It’s time to find out what our Panelists have been thinking about. Christine Rankin, what’s been on YOUR mind lately?

    CHRISTINE RANKIN: Well, Jim, look, I’ve been so busy working for the reintroduction of corporal punishment for the under-fives that I haven’t had TIME to do any thinking at all for several years now. I really can’t think of one thing to talk about.

    JIM MORA: [long, irritated silence] Mmmmm-kay. Morrissey, have YOU got something on your mind?

    MORRISSEY BREEN: Ummm, ahhhh, I’m going to abandon my, uh, carefully prepared speech about foreign policy, and comment on Christine’s failure to ummm, errr, honour her, ummmm, commitments to your show.

    CHRISTINE RANKIN: [indignant] I’ve been BUSY.

    MORRISSEY BREEN: Ummmm, ahhhh, yeah. Ummm…to paraphrase Dr. Johnson, I will say this about Christine: “This woman’s thinking is like a dog’s walking on his hind legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it not done at all.”

    JIM MORA: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! That’s very funny! I think he’s talking about you Christine!

    MORRISSEY BREEN: And that’s all I have to say, Jim. Um.

    JIM MORA: Short and sweet. That’s the way we like them on the Panel! Okay, next up, Lanthanide will tell us why he thinks a nuclear reactor in the middle of Christchurch would be a good idea. First, though, what do the Panelists think of this?

    RANKIN: [fervently] That’s a SPLENDID idea. At last, somebody talking some sense….
    • Te Reo Putake28.1.1.1

      19 April 2013 at 7:48 am

      Ha, that transcript would still be an improvement on most of the shows! Can’t remember the one read out earlier in the week, but yesterday’s was about mad Monckton and space aliens. Very apt.
• felix28.2

  18 April 2013 at 10:51 pm

  Probably never happened.

  “Janet Wilson’s tirade against her husband”

  Definitely never happened.
  • Morrissey28.2.1

    19 April 2013 at 6:50 am

    It happened all right. Her outburst was followed by a long, awkward silence. Even that notorious thicko Larry Lackwit Williams realized what she was really saying; I’m sure you do too.

    As Ms. Wilson clenched her teeth, snarled and steadily ratcheted up that attack on “Kevin Rudd”, listeners were given a perfect example of what we rhetoricians call argument from analogy.

    I look forward to your demolition work on “Humpty Dumpty”, “Spiggy Topes” andAnimal Farm.

    FRIENDLY ADMONITION

    One should not allow oneself to be driven by one’s own personal problems with a fellow Standardista into denying what even the most addle-pated host on the world’s worst radio show can recognize.
    • felix28.2.1.1

      19 April 2013 at 8:15 am

      Oh Morrissey that’s nasty.

      It looks like you’re talking about Wilson but you’re really talking about your mum.
      • Professor Longhair28.2.1.1.1

        19 April 2013 at 9:34 am

        A nice riposte from felix sees off Morrissey for the time being….

        “It looks like you’re talking about Wilson but you’re really talking about your mum.”

        A hit! A palpable hit! Well done, sir!
        • felix28.2.1.1.1.1

          20 April 2013 at 6:37 pm

          You may find it juvenile but the logic of it is precisely that which Mozza is asking us to accept in his comments about Wilson.
          • Morrissey…

            20 April 2013 at 7:20 pm

            I think he was praising you, felix. Take it, and be grateful. The Professor doesn’t seem to hand out too many plaudits around here.
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