Paul Henry resigns
October 10th, 2010 at 7:15 pm by David FarrarPaul Henry has offered his resignation from TVNZ and the CEO has accepted it.
Will he move to 3? Or radio? And who will replace him?
UPDATE: 75 comments in the hour from when I blogged this (which was while waiting for my luggage at the airport) and making it into my hotel room. I think that must be a record.
UPDATE2: You can vote in my blog poll in the left hand sidebar as to whether or not you think TVNZ did the right thing by accepting Paul Henry’s resignation
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October 10th, 2010 at 7:18 pm
I think you answered the question of his replacement in your previous post.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 7:18 pm
Well more to the point, how much was he paid to leave?
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 7:20 pm
Sean Plunkett?
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 7:20 pm
I hope a whole lot of advertisers pull the plug on Breakfast in protest!!! Had similar thought to CK.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 7:22 pm
where do you stand on the right for freedom of speech, DPF?
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 7:23 pm
Well, I am one of those people that watch breakfast online. I won’t be doing that anymore, Paul Henry was breakfast.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 7:23 pm
“Sean Plunkett?”
He was supposed to be taking Justin’s job on Wgtn.ZB.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 7:25 pm
What he should do is leave New Zealand shores and find a place that isn’t controlled by liberal facists.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 7:25 pm
Shitloads, in my opinion. As well he should when all along he likely was just doing the bidding of his employer.
I imagine his lawyer might have played to the CEO during today’s interview the tape of Henry’s ‘on interview’ instructions during his interview with the PM. That would have been worth at least ten years’ salary, capitalised into a lump sum.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 7:26 pm
A victory for good taste.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 7:26 pm
“Well, I am one of those people that watch breakfast online. I won’t be doing that anymore, Paul Henry was breakfast.”
Have you ever heard the phrase. “Get a life”. Oliver1?
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 7:27 pm
Paul Henry can go exercise his freedom of speech wherever he likes. He can start up a blog. He can stand on a street corner and preach to the assembled multitude. There’s nothing to stop him from saying what he likes. The only difference is that now he won’t be paid for doing it, and given a particular platform from which to speak.
[Edited to fix up a typo]
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 7:28 pm
“A victory for good taste.”
A victory for FASCISM.
What a stinking miserable despicable little country.
I detest you poisonous socialist scum.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 7:30 pm
Deborah I am sure he will be replaced by someone non-offensive and far more bland. That eliminates Sean Plunket. My pick is Rawdon Christie or Peter Williams leading to the death of Breakfast within 6 months….which is what most of the industry critics wanted anyway.
Reports have it that Henry was only paid $300k for that gig. This being the case quitting isn’t a hard decision as I am sure he’s already got a private radio gig lined up.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 7:31 pm
That whistling sound you now hear is Breakfast’s plunging ratings.
On the plus side, they can wheel Oliver Driver out of the morgue and put him back on the box for no one to watch.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 7:32 pm
@Johnboy, myself and the 23,900 other people that joined the boycott breakfast until Paul Henry returns facebook group – on one week.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=130906296960115&ref=ts
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 7:33 pm
Ellis might grow some balls though CK and appoint Redbaiter to take his place.
“I detest you poisonous socialist scum.”
Now that sort of comment would really get up the collective PC nose’s.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 7:33 pm
He will have a job in Aussie in no time if he wants one…A victory for PC rantists…..a victory for boredum.
Vote:If Rawdon gets his job , three people will watch it in the first week..than it will be canned.
October 10th, 2010 at 7:35 pm
If TV3 don’t see how much revenue they could get instead of reruns …
Vote:He’ll move to Prime like Mr Holmes, away from the jursidiction of the state broadcaster and then after 2 1/2 years tvnz will kiss and make up
October 10th, 2010 at 7:35 pm
I doubt Christie or Williams will get it, they’re far too in the straight newsreader gig to actually front a magazine programme like Breakfast.
Wouldn’t be surprised if this would be a good excuse for TVNZ to use to complete the rehabilitation of Mike Hoskings though.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 7:36 pm
If SKY have been on the ball he’ll be on air there ASAP with a far higher salary….and his former TVNZ audience with him.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 7:36 pm
Shit oh dear Ollie you mean to say that 23,899 other people have a life as boring and sad as yours.
You poor bastard.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 7:36 pm
Redbaiter – you really are over dramatizing. If you are so keen to stage a revolution get off the blogs and start a terrorist cell.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 7:37 pm
What about his cowardly co-presenters on the show?
Not one of them had the balls to stand up for Henry or even say one word in his defence.
Crawling PC yellow backs.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 7:38 pm
Deborah.
Vote:Im sure he can…. but he wasnt ‘given’ a platform, he earned it.
Only a week ago he was awarded NZers (by public choice!) favouite tv personality.
If someone can be vilified and forced to quit for those comments then, for example, a drink driving conviction should be 6mths prison followed by 10 lashings.
October 10th, 2010 at 7:38 pm
“Crawling PC yellow backs.”
Shit I love that.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 7:39 pm
lol… replaced with Oliver Driver or Rawdon Christie…
as that pommy comedian said, if you wanted to off yourself but lacked the courage, sitting through Breakfast with them would do the trick.
What a fucking pathetic nation we are. And what an utterly fucked MSM we have, turning a silly comment into a diplomatic incident. If there was anyone out there who still thinks the media report the news, not make it, this will have disproved them.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 7:40 pm
No, Rawdon is plain boring.
Willie Jackson? Sue Bradford? Someone to wind up the righties, for a change.
On the other hand: John Banks, Michael Lhaws.
Actually, my pick is Jack Tame.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 7:40 pm
Red. When Paul Henery accepted his award he was most praisng of Pippa.
Will she support him?
Sad.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 7:41 pm
Radio Live could ask Paul Henry to co-host the 9-12 slot with Michael Laws. That would streamline the BSA complaint process.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 7:41 pm
“If someone can be vilified and forced to quit for those comments then, for example, a drink driving conviction should be 6mths prison followed by 10 lashings.”
Not if you can cure cancer.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/4213983/Cancer-doctor-off-drink-drive-conviction
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 7:42 pm
Another big mistake from TVNZ who fail to connect with the silent majority of their viewers. I hope Breakfast advertisers now demand a lower rate because I for one (and no doubt like 1000′s of others) can stick the Breakfast show where the sun don’t shine. Love him or hate him, Henry was THE Breakfast show. RIP
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 7:43 pm
I’m glad to say I don’t know anyone who might be able to take Henry’s place because I’ve made a habit of ignoring FTA television and all of NZ’s media.
As far as I am concerned this absolutely disgraceful episode is even more reason that the whole stinking edifice of TV One should either be sold off so it is completely private, or just closed down and the equipment auctioned off.
It is a Chavez style stain upon our democracy.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 7:44 pm
Jake Tame?? .. whoever will have to be a lily white bland safe option .. the handshake will be good and maybe it is the right time to let Rick go as well.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 7:45 pm
Close Tv One down and let it rust in a paddock just like our Skyhawks.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 7:46 pm
What someone still in nappies. You are joking, aren’t you. Aren’t you Toad.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 7:48 pm
One thing for sure. There’s now a bloody good reason to sell the stinking outfit.
I will say that Wendy looked very sad in her promo’s for tomorrow morning. Mind you being all pc and shit she should be at home minding her kids and nuturing the new one on its way. Homes the place for mums. Give others a job.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 7:52 pm
Politicians love owning TV stations.
I think they have the silly idea that we would regard them as utterly irrelevant if they couldn’t project their ugly faces into our very living rooms whenever it suited them to.
Hence Lockwood TV, channel 94.
If only they realised what a complete pack of horse’s arse’s they really looked like I am sure they would sell TV1/Lockwood TV tomorrow.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 7:53 pm
This is the leftwing media’s tall poppy syndrome. Keep it in the spotlight and get rid of him. He is no friend of leftwing media drones. They have succeeded and taken a scalp.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 7:53 pm
In all seriousness, my vote is Redbaiter to replace Henry. His/her comments have been fantastic over the last week
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 7:53 pm
People watched the show just to see who Henry would make fun of?
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 7:54 pm
Want to know why Henry was pushed?
This little comment from our Green troll Toad says it all.
“Willie Jackson? Sue Bradford? Someone to wind up the righties, for a change.”
The left just cannot allow anybody who does not share their view of the world to have a voice, I used to think that it was just political with these low life but the older I get the more I find out that it is all about power.
Bradford and Jackson are two of the very worst, they have no real desire to help the poor, they are both racist, duplicitous and both have an evil streak.
As for Jack Tame…no chance, the people of NZ will not take kindly to that precocious little shit.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 7:54 pm
leading to the death of Breakfast within 6 months
Oh Lord, please let it be sooner!
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 7:57 pm
I’ve heard of Jack Large, he was the dwarf in Blackadder 1 but who the fuck is Jack Tame for Gods sake???
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 8:00 pm
Currnetly blogging on TVNZ sports from far away in India. 20 secs a day sports flash at what cost?
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 8:00 pm
Redbaiter (11,845) Says:
“October 10th, 2010 at 7:28 pm
“A victory for good taste.”
A victory for FASCISM.
What a stinking miserable despicable little country.
I detest you poisonous socialist scum.”
A common sense decision by TVNZ and Henry and Redbaiter if this coutry is so dispicable the answer is in your own hands and can you take Rodney Hide with you.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 8:01 pm
I just want to see TVNZ sold off in an IPO. PDQ.
It needs to be entertaining, and not a megaphone for the Left or the Right.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 8:01 pm
We on the right should really start to fight fire with fire, we should pick a left wing media target and flood their employer with complaints.
My pick would be that racist wanker Willie Jackson, in the past he has called for the assassination of Sir Roger Douglas and applauded the passing of Sir Ron Trotter, can you imagine how the left would be up in arms had Henry called for the assassination of Sue Bradford or a if he applauded the death of Rod Donald.
Time to fight back chaps, every time they take out one of our we should target one of theirs, I have had enough of “playing nice” like all conservatives are supposed to, lets give the lefty scum a dose of their own medicine.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 8:01 pm
Did Paul Henry make the right decision resigning from TVNZ?
Yes
1794 votes, 38.3%
No
2887 votes, 61.7%
Total 4681 votes
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 8:01 pm
Ironic that toad pops up to speak on this issue, with his beloved Green Party having fully supported the fascist EFA through Parliament.
The Greens: supporting civil liberties and freedom of speech*
*whenever it suits us
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 8:01 pm
The Redneck King is dead.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 8:02 pm
Prime Minister John Key says Paul Henry’s resignation has brought “closure”.
“This episode has been sad and regrettable,” he said through a spokeswoman.
“Mr Henry’s resignation brings closure to the matter and we should now put it behind us,” he said.
So perhaps he was complicit in the resignation?
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 8:03 pm
It hasn’t been entertaining for years Guido unless you find bloody adverts exciting!
That’s why I stopped watching it.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 8:04 pm
Political career
Vote:Henry ran as the National Party candidate for the Wairarapa electorate in the 1999 general election. He lost to former radio colleague and New Zealand Labour Party candidate Georgina Beyer by a majority of 3,033 votes.
October 10th, 2010 at 8:05 pm
“He will have a job in Aussie in no time if he wants one”
I think Australians have more taste Joanna and they actually have a sense of humour something seriously lacking in Henry’s audience.
A bunch of brain dead retards.
Redbaiter.
Enough said.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 8:06 pm
“A common sense decision by TVNZ”
One supported by indoctrinated fascists like you, too politically limited and too ignorant of history to know what you really are.
I don’t know who is worse, those with deliberate fascist intent, or those like you, too damn stupid to know what it is you have done.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 8:06 pm
Redbaiter says: “I’m glad to say I don’t know anyone who might be able to take Henry’s place because I’ve made a habit of ignoring FTA television and all of NZ’s media.”
Hmm yes, I’ve noticed. For someone who has a lot of opinion you do seem to spend a lot of your time griping and trolling on blogs that allow you to make comments. Good work. I only hope that you are gainfully employed and don’t just sit in front of your computer all day on the tax payers dollar waiting for someone to post something on their blog (no wind up intended, but I expect the response will be inevitable). I’m sure that you contribute your fair share. Keep those golden post flowing.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 8:08 pm
I would say that John Key is only complicit in that he is trying to shut down any further discussion from his point of view. Any further questions to him will probably be met with – “That matter is closed”.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 8:08 pm
“Henry called for the assassination of Sue Bradford or a if he applauded the death of Rod Donald.”
I have always applauded the death of Saint Rodney Donald. He really did his bit to shag this country by conning the dickhead populace into MMP.
Pity he got it through before he carked it.
We know what to do when the referendum comes up.
[DPF: 20 demerits. No applauding any NZ MP dying]
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 8:08 pm
big bruv “We on the right should really start to fight fire with fire, we should pick a left wing media target and flood their employer with complaints.”
Isn’t that a little paranoid ? I can see politicians being a target of organised attacks ( e.g. Len Brown & the right wing blog credit card beat up) but journalists ? Sounds unlikely.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 8:09 pm
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/05/irony-motoonist-lars-vilks-attacked-while-giving-lecture-on-free-speech.html
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 8:09 pm
““Mr Henry’s resignation brings closure to the matter and we should now put it behind us,” he said.”
He really said something that lame??
FFS…!!!
Bring back Helen Klark.
At least she knows what she is.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 8:10 pm
A decade ago, Breakfast had many political interviews and discussions. In recent years, much of the programme has been merely Paul Henry and Pippa Wetzell talking to each other – as stimulating as listening to two old women chattering at a garden fete.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 8:11 pm
..next show to go should be that putrid foul good morning show with that smug little tart and the lanky basketballer..what a complete dose of mind numbing drivel….3 hours of it no less…
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 8:11 pm
Dead right Red.
Vote:I’m really pissed off that Henry resigned …. another nail in the coffin of free speach.
October 10th, 2010 at 8:13 pm
“At least she knows what she is.”
Wish she would tell us then and put paid to all the rumours.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 8:13 pm
This.
Also, this.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 8:15 pm
“Hmm yes, I’ve noticed.”
You are a typical cowardly commie. You can never defend your position but always seek to attack your critics personally. This is another aspect of NZ that has turned it in to a shit hole. As socialism has tightened its grip on our culture, so have the number of people who think like you increased. Lame indoctrinated fools who cannot defend your political position and only know that anyone who oppose or crticises you or challenges your doctrine must be personally destroyed.
You are neo-fascists, and you can never defend your political position because you don’t have the thinking skills that would allow you to.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 8:17 pm
Getting up early in the morning to watch TV. Does anybody work in New Zealand? To watch a grown Man act like a school boy who’s balls haven’t dropped. Must be a chick thing.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 8:17 pm
Good one Johnboy.. and that’s another issue that reeks of PC bullshit.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 8:20 pm
WebWrat – “I’m really pissed off that Henry resigned …. another nail in the coffin of free speach.”
You think Paul Henry is free speech in action ? You need to get out more.
Free speech is not taking the piss out of a politicians name.That is infantile and in an adult possibly symptomatic of a personality disorder.
Free speech is Sean Plunkett nailing politicians.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 8:20 pm
Fuck I hate leftards.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 8:21 pm
It would seem in NZ John that free speech is whatever leftards like you and the MSM deem it to be. Which is the problem.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 8:21 pm
Ollie and 23,899 others do it Jimbob. Must be good.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 8:24 pm
Good night Kiwi… turn out the light… the socialists have won.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 8:26 pm
John Gibson
“Isn’t that a little paranoid ? I can see politicians being a target of organised attacks ( e.g. Len Brown & the right wing blog credit card beat up) but journalists ? Sounds unlikely.”
Clearly you are not a stupid man Mr Gibson (although your political leanings would suggest otherwise) but if you do not think that the attack on Paul Henry is anything other than a coordinated effort on behalf of Labour and the Greens then you have your eyes closed.
Actually, I suspect you are well aware that this is the work of Labour and the Greens, but like all lefties you claim no knowledge when confronted with the truth.
Make no mistake, the union scum, Labour and the Greens are behind this, the EFA might have been repealed but those bastards have not given up on the idea of controlling speech in NZ.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 8:30 pm
Totally agree with you Big Bruv: 8.26pm.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 8:30 pm
John Gibson – your definition of free speech shows why you don’t actually know what it is. It is the freedom to be annoyed, insulted, outraged and even repulsed by what other people say – and sticking up for their right to say it.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 8:31 pm
Dear nickb,
Free speech is what I say it is.
Sincerely,
Vote:Dr Gerard D. Moonbat,
Professor of Sociology at Auckland University
October 10th, 2010 at 8:31 pm
You must be very young Johnboy..only revisionists under 25 credit Donald with MMP.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 8:33 pm
I hear that Rick Ellis is talking to Jeremy Corbett and the 7 Days team to to the early morning show.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 8:34 pm
We will miss Paul Henry.
Vote:The lefties have won yet another battle…
How pathetic that it came to this..there is noone better to front breakfast…Roydon- give me a break!!
Bland as but not enough to make me watch. We only watched because of Paul Henry.
Six months and it will go down the road like TV3′s breakfast programme…Sad!
October 10th, 2010 at 8:34 pm
No it bloody well isn’t Moonbat.
Free speech is what the Waitangi Tribunal says it is. (But only if there is some money in it). Eh Bro.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 8:39 pm
” the union scum, Labour and the Greens are behind this”
No they’re not. Sure, they agree with it but they’re not running it, the journos are. To the extent you can equate lefties with politically correct precious outrage, they’re responsible, but unfortunately, PC psychobabble has taken on a life of its own and many if not most journos have taken to it with a vengeance, as have teachers and lecturers.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 8:40 pm
Hell Joana I must have been imagining seeing the plonker debate the subject on TV with Peter Shirtcliffe then.
Still as a 60 year old I accept your compliment.
Your place or mine to see how young some of my bits might be.
PS: Hope you are not too wrinkled. I hate wrinkled old tarts.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 8:40 pm
Is Rick Ellis New Zealand’s floppiest cock?
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 8:40 pm
Redbaiter (11,849) Says:
you assume that I have a political position? cute.
Come on, how bout you get off that computer for 2 seconds and take a look at the real world for a second.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 8:42 pm
“Is Rick Ellis New Zealand’s floppiest cock?”
It isn’t Johnboy’s. Joana’s going to test it.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 8:44 pm
“In all seriousness, my vote is Redbaiter to replace Henry. His/her comments have been fantastic over the last week”
Thanks for the compliment (assuming its not a pisstake). After 10 minutes of Redbaiter on breakfast, the commies would be down on their knees begging and screaming for Henry’s return.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 8:47 pm
“Come on, how bout you get off that computer for 2 seconds and take a look at the real world for a second.”
You’re still doing it. You cannot defend your political position, or apparently even express a POV. All you are capable of is personally attacking the critics of socialism. You are a typical dumb, uneducated, well indoctrinated liberal fascist.
The kind that has crucified Paul Henry.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 8:47 pm
I’m not sure I want to see the commies down on their knees in front of you Red at breakfast time.
Joana may be a starter though.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 8:50 pm
Excellent TVNZ saves me 1/2 an hour in the morning, that I usually waste eating my breakfast infront of breakfast will skip it all together . Useless bastards couldn’t run a bath..
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 8:53 pm
TVNZ seem to be the only ones in the country that think Jason Gun is a “presenter” so I wouldn’t be surprise if they went there!!!
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 8:53 pm
Thanks Mike.
That’s 23,898 now Ollie!
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 8:53 pm
The only thing worse than this whole saga is going to be reading gloating comments, letters, and articles about it over the coming weeks from such intellectual luminaries as John Minto, Tapu Misa, Chris Trotter, Peter Davis (what the fuck is ‘sociology’, anyway??) et etc.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 8:54 pm
Pathetic debate. Paul Henry = free speech!
He’s free to say whatever he fucking feels like in his own time.
On national television he’s being paid. Those that pay him have an absolute right to terminate his contract with maximum prejudice if he brings the reputation of his emplyers into disrepute.
A no brainer.
All you wankers wanking on about this being about free speech try working in the real world and speaking your mind.
Try criticising the company that’s paying you and see how your high minded ideals stack up.
Bottom line….in the real world a company needs to protect it’s bottom line. Any employee that trashes the brand is going to struggle to keep their job for good reason.
I’m sure Henry will reconnect with his moronic audience, those who find his ‘humour’ funny, poor sods.
You deserve each other.
I just don’t want this type of ‘humour’ in any way representing brand NZ.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 8:56 pm
@Caleb 7:40 pm
Pippa Wetzell resigns from TVNZ
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 8:58 pm
“All you wankers wanking on about this being about free speech try working in the real world and speaking your mind.”
So Chris Carter is or is not in the “real world” ?
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 9:00 pm
“I just don’t want this type of ‘humour’ in any way representing brand NZ.”
Who the hell are you to presume to speak for NZ? A commie knuckle dragger with no education and no knowledge of history you should be just keeping your mouth shut out of good manners, except you don’t have any of them either. You make me ashamed I was born here.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 9:00 pm
“So Chris Carter is or is not in the “real world” ?
Chris Carter lives in Gayworld.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 9:02 pm
Don’t forget Brian Rudman, nickb. He’s usually a good source of beer and sandwiches Old Labour outrage.
Butthurt much, Lloyd? You won, get over it.
Toad, that was about as witty as what I’d expect from the likes of the eco-totalitarians.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 9:02 pm Vote:
October 10th, 2010 at 9:03 pm
“Pippa Wetzell resigns from TVNZ”
Not satire, just witless unfunny cowardice.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 9:03 pm
All this does is give TVNZ an even stronger reason to be sold off, or even better, closed down.
Can anyone else see the problem with politicians and racist bureaucrats such as Joris telling a state funded broadcaster what is acceptable to screen?
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 9:03 pm
A degree in history actually RedBaiter. It pleases me no end that I make you ashamed to have been born here.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 9:04 pm
Johnboy,
He is now. (unless, of course, he’s about to get Henry’s job)
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 9:05 pm
Have you heard from Joana yet Red? She hasn’t called me either.
Maybe she is very wrinkled or has bad knees. Who knows!
[DPF: And that is a further 20 demerits]
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 9:05 pm
You’re saying you have a real job? I thought teaching or policy analyst jobs are standard issue for people like you.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 9:06 pm
“A degree in history actually RedBaiter.”
Degrees from where you were “educated” are clearly worthless.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 9:07 pm
What an immature, offensive, load of humourless drivel, Toad.
How ironic that you cheer far worse than what you attack Paul Henry for.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 9:08 pm
Maybe TVNZ will get Peter Davis to host the show with whoever is handy? Just a thought.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 9:09 pm
Lloyd’s history degree obviously wasn’t good enough to teach him how to use apostrophes in possessives. Hint: “its” not “it’s.”
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 9:09 pm
“I just don’t want this type of ‘humour’ in any way representing brand NZ.”
And there was me thinking it was just for entertaining the NZ breakfast audience.
The Leftards have won a skirmish. I just smile, when I think about how it will come back to haunt them!
And it will. The protesters vote outside TVNZ offices were bedecked with their Labour Party fags and banners.
The Watermelons are also cock a hoop, and played no small part in the pressure brought to bear on the Broadcaster and Henry himself.
The Reef fish are going to connect the dots, and the vast Majority are going to be very pissed off.
India totally misused official diplomatic channels, and morover I have yet to meet a more elitist, class ridden, and wholly racist populace.
The bigger story is the Sikh Singh who broke Electoral Law for the first time in this Country. Now that is a story about corruption in the Country. Labour just can’t help being sleazy, and skanky.
They peacefully seem to hate everyone.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 9:09 pm
is toad John Minto? would make sense. Both are old, unfunny communists completely detached from reality.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 9:10 pm
lloydois = a degree in history actually (hands on hips) = Michael Cullen.
Well I’ll be damned.
Met your match eh Red.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 9:11 pm
Nah. Toads much smarter than bloody Minty ever was.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 9:11 pm
Johnboy..name calling and no knowledge of history..you fit the stereotype.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 9:12 pm
Just an indication of what weight this story carries over this side of the Tasman.
The Herald Sun have this listed under their “The Other Side” section, alomg with “more wacky stories”
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/lifestyle/the-other-side
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 9:12 pm
But my knees are still supple and I’m not very wrinkled Joana.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 9:13 pm
Its a privilege to live in NZ, but various, successive governments have prostituted that privilege at huge cost to the tax payer and with little thought to the consequences. The diabetes endemic currently facing NZ (and which will eventually bring down the health system) is a a good example, primarily afflicting the Polynesian population. Not only that, we have also lost our true identity along the way. Tis’ any wonder why PH and co express such views.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 9:14 pm
And it’s a good reflection of the preponderance of racists who spew their bile here, DPF.
Henry reaffirmed his absence of remorse even in his resignation speech, apologising only to those “genuinely hurt” by his comments, as opposed, obviously, to those only pretending to be hurt. What a bumptious, bullying prick. And this from someone who couldn’t even beat a transvestite in an election in heartland territory!
But very few come out of this with any credit: not John Key, not Phil Goff, not Rick Ellis. Since we, the taxpayer, pay their wages, I would say we deserve better.
What should have happened is that Key gave Henry a dressing down on the spot, live on TV, then called Ellis and expressed his displeasure, and Ellis then fires Henry on the spot. Problem solved.
Ah well, back to the racists…
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 9:16 pm
To those who say he’s bad for brand NZ – says who? We regularly have guests from overseas who watch Breakfast in the morning. They come in to work in a state of shock, awe and absolutely pissing themselves laughing. They all comment how fantastic it is to hear absolute free speech and think how great it is that he can talk so freely. Must admit, haven’t had any visitors from India. They are predominantly from USA, UK, Switzerland and Australia.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 9:17 pm
If you want a laugh go onto Youtube,find a thread on one of the Henry clips and stir with the slumdogs getting all prissy over Henry.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 9:17 pm
And the resident Kiwiblog bigot reveals himself again.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 9:17 pm
“Ah well, back to the racists…”
Eh Lucy Hunsin, somebody should remind Key and TVNZ that every hour and forty minutes an Indian woman is lit on fire.
Ah well, back to the fire starters!
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 9:18 pm
ahahaha – redbaiter wants to bring back helen clark! you guys must be too busy kissing his ass to back him up on that one…
the left didn’t win today – india won, non-white people won. racism and bigotry lost.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 9:19 pm
“Ah well, back to the racists…”
We interrupt this program to cut to our resident anti-semite Luc Hansen.
“Luc how many Arabs have the facist Jews killed toda——— Sorry we have lost the link. We will get back to our normal program as soon as we can”.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 9:20 pm
Lucy Hansen for Breakfast host.
Him and his chicken neck whining about Israel would kill off the show in three months.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 9:20 pm
“What should have happened is that Key gave Henry a dressing down on the spot, live on TV, then called Ellis and expressed his displeasure, and Ellis then fires Henry on the spot. Problem solved.”
Nah what should have happened was that Paul should have challenged Anand to a bare-knuckle fist fight live on Breakfast, then the winner takes on Dikshit.
That would have been good.
Sure, it was racist. I’m surprised Henry can’t see it. However, it’s not the worst end of the spectrum as far as that stuff goes, quite a long way toward the mild end IMO. Not exactly the crime of the century.
The problem is, the faux outrage of the media and other commentators – so self-righteous and precious.
Harden up FFS.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 9:22 pm
What? You are obviously having no problems living up to your apt moniker.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 9:23 pm
From one of the 20 or so Standard posts on Paul Henry:
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 9:24 pm
From Guy Fawkes
Well, no, TVNZ is government owned, therefore the general overseas perception would be that it reflects the government view, so the Indian government was quite within its rights to protest. We may not like it, but Western convention needs to be shunted out of the way anyway as the former colonies move to surpass us. It’s called progress.
And India is many things, and may well be “elitist, class ridden and wholly racist” but does that mean we have to be the same? Have you ever heard, Guy, of the power of example?
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 9:28 pm
Sonny, keep up chap, Maori’s cannot be racist. This is old news.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 9:28 pm
It’s what happens when the Pollies own a TV station but try to pretend they don’t.
Vote:Just like they pretend not to own a power generator when your power bill goes up.
Sell the fucken outfit to the highest bidder.
It ceased to have any relevance years ago.
They have a sop for the Murri called Murri TV.
Why does anybody with half a damned brain even watch it.
Its 50% bloody ads anyway and the rest is bullshit.
October 10th, 2010 at 9:31 pm
Henry is no loss at all. Absolutely zip. His departure is a blessing for all who might watch TV.
If this is some concerted attack by the left it is a hollow victory – “We got rid of the biggest no hoper you have got, ’cause we didn’t like what he said. How good are we, eh?” Exactly. Pretty bloody useless. You focus on the least important target. What a waste of effort and resources.
Let them rejoice. It’ll keep them distracted.
If someone worthwhile had been removed it would be a real issue
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 9:33 pm
This is it? This is what gets people frothing at the mouth? A fucking dispute between employee and employer?
Redbaiter says he is embarrassed to be born here because of this decision.
I’m embarrassed that an issue like this automatically becomes a partisan shitstorm of ad hominems, straw men and false analogies. The almost complete inability of Kiwis to discuss politics rationally, while at the same time not succumbing to crowd-pleasing banalities, is the sole reason we are sinking further and further into a hole.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 9:36 pm
No transmogrifier the whole Henry thing is merely a canard so Red and I can get Joana to foam at the mouth.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 9:38 pm
From Luc Hanson:
Since we, the taxpayer, pay their wages
Get your facts right Luc, TVNZ is funded by advertising revenue and in fact return a dividend to The Shareholder.
Not that the facts ever mattered to the left.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 9:39 pm
Actually I did not know much about Paul Henry.
So I had a look at some clips on youtube.
I was surprised. The fact is he is actually very very funny. He has a unique antipodean sense of humour. The rats cleaning themselves with urine thing was a crackup.
There was nothing racial to the Dikshit thing at all.
Laughing at accents, names of foreigners etc, while in poor taste is not necessarily racist.
But the GG thing crossed the line and was racist. Moustachegate was also appalling.
An apology was in order. And a suspension.
But I think the loss of his job is going too far. Its like life-imprisonment for shop-lifting.
The Indian government getting in on the act is just plain ridiculous and an interferences in NZs internal affairs.
If Henry was more contrite right from the beginning he would have kept his job.
The worrying aspect to this of course is there will be a backlash from mainstreet New Zealand against Asians – even in thought if not in action. And talkback hosts like Leighton Smith will use this as a grand opportunity to bash the ‘divisiveness’ caused by multiculturalism.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 9:39 pm
With regards to the poll, I would vote “Depends”. If TVNZ calculate that they would lose a significant number of viewers keeping him on, then right decision. If they are going to lose a significant number of viewers by ditching him, wrong decision. If it wasn’t going to make much difference either way? Up to them, and depends on the contract and what they think of the rest of Henry’s performance.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 9:42 pm
Don’t get splinters in your arse from all that fence sitting.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 9:43 pm
Does anyone know Rick Ellis’ email address?
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 9:45 pm
“If someone worthwhile had been removed it would be a real issue”
How spineless and unprincipled can you get? It doesn’t matter who the hell it was/ is.
It is a rank example of liberal fascism and should be a matter of complete and utter disgust for anyone who values individual liberty.
Here is the real issue- The outcry against Henry is a signal that this country is as deep as any country has ever been in the sick disease of liberal fascism.
What was said and who said it matters not one jot.
It is the over-the-top reaction of the populace and the fact that government force was brought to bear that is the issue.
Unbelievable that some people (who profess to be rightists) apparently still cannot understand this.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 9:45 pm
Johnboy suggests:
the bird is the word seconds it:
I’d vote for that too. See, even though he himself doesn’t seem to understand the difference, I can’t recall Redbaiter ever chiding somone based on what they look like or where they were born or where their parents were born. He attacks their ideas and beliefs, challenging them with his own and that’s fine, whether you agree with him or not.
And that is your much vaunted freedom of speech… not some overpaid windbag collecting $300k to make stupid schoolboy remarks which don’t add any additional information to the debate (which is, after all, the job we pay an interviewer to do).
We need some fire and real controversy in our news, not the manufactured sort that’s engineered purely to boost the egos of sad middle aged men. I’d rather hear Redbaiter take John Key to task for leaning too far left (and maybe get some sort of an answer) that watch Henry snigger with him about the supposed racial traits of Indians.
Meanwhile Cactus Kate (who also seems not to know the difference) suggests;
Only? If he’s that good why would he stick round in the small pond that is NZ? He’ll be off to sell his unmatchable talents to Fox News or at the very least to the Australians. Unless of course he’s just a mediocre presenter who knows that upsetting insular little NZ is about as far as he’s going to make it in life.
Well considering Lhaws is happy to stir Henry’s porridge by having a go at the GG in the hope he gets splashed with some of the publicity perhaps he’ll arrange for his hero to get a gig on Radio Live. It’s rating an average on tenth in most markets, being thrashed by Newstalk ZB in every one of them, so it’s not as if anyone will be listening.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 9:45 pm
“Does anyone know Rick Ellis’ email address?”
Try wanker@tvnz.co.nz
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 9:45 pm
Im boycotting all 4 squares until India pulls its head in….that’ll fuck em!
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 9:46 pm
Ironically TVNZ have an “OnDemand Feedback Form” http://tvnz.co.nz/content/869443. I suggest we demand the return of Paul.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 9:49 pm
I’d watch Hosking and Hawkesby for breakfast.
She’s way hotter than Pippa and she’d keep a short leash on Hosking as well.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 9:52 pm
Hey Zhumao we don’t need any advice from commies who keep dissenters jailed in their country. Dissenters who dare to demand democratic government. Don’t come on here lecturing us you pompous hypocritical coward. You are just another brainwashed Chicom thug. How many citizens did you murder in Tiananmen Square?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/8051148/China-voices-fury-over-Nobel-Peace-Prize-for-criminal.html
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 9:52 pm
“the fact that government force was brought to bear”
So where did you hear about this fact, RB?
Zhumao, don’t mind RB. He’s quite a pussycat once you get to know him.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 9:52 pm
My suggestion wasn’t purely in jest Rex but it will never happen in the shitty little country we have created here where the government feels it must control the media to use as a a propaganda arm of its supposed social policies.
Red just wouldn’t fit in with the sad shits that try to control our thinking.
Thank Christ for the internet is all I can say.
When they try to control that be very fucken afraid!!!
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 9:53 pm
Red, you are deluding yourself.
Henry gone is a good thing – no talent, huge ego, no value to anyone.
Next on the list (should have been first) is Paul Holmes. Can’t expect any help from the left on that one.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 9:57 pm
Sux to live in New Zealand.
Luckily I don’t.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 9:58 pm
bhudson, Henry is a much better interviewer than Holmes ever was, and he used to be our best.
Personally, I think it’s quite good to keep someone with that talent around.
But whether he’s good or not isn’t the point. At all.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 9:59 pm
“So where did you hear about this fact, RB?”
Maybe you didn’t hear all of the comments from government ministers criticising Henry Reid, (you appear to miss so much that is important) but I did.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 9:59 pm
im stoked. cant stand the geek. hes a bully.
the other plus is the whole country is talking about how they hate PC bullshit. thats always a good thing.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 10:00 pm
nickb: please stop thinking about my arse. Thanks in advance.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 10:01 pm
You are a racist prick James.
My nice Indian lady at the 4 Square sells me very good Crosswords and Lotto tickets and she isn’t fat and doesn’t smell of curry even if she doesn’t look like a proper New Zealander.
I will continue to use her even if the Indian Government declares me persona-non-grata.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 10:02 pm
Johnboy says:
Nor was my support of it Johnboy. My preference for holding politicians to account goes like this:
1. A well-informed, well-researched interviewer who is either genuinely non-partisan or is capable of recognising their partisanship and ensuring it doesn’t affect their interviewing.
2. A well-researched but entirely partisan interviewer who will elicit information more through direct challenge and forcing the interviewee to justify themselves against the interviewer’s attack (e.g. Redbaiter).
…
100. Some uninformed, unresearched pillock who thinks the sun shines out of their fundament and that every interview is just another chance for them to show off (e.g. Henry).
A digital TV channel is, relatively speaking, peanuts to set up and run. It still amazes me that someone with some dollars to invest and an ideological bent hasn’t resurrected Radio Liberty and set themselves up a NZ version of Fox News.
Sadly, with a few exceptions, it seems to me the wealthy in NZ aren’t really interested in the country itself, ony what they can make out of it. While in the UK and the US there’s a long tradition of right wing proprietors running various media (even at a loss) so as to provide what they believe is much-needed balance.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 10:02 pm
Good riddance to an attention-whoring little idiot.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 10:04 pm
“Maybe you didn’t hear all of the comments from government ministers criticising Henry Reid, (you appear to miss so much that is important) but I did.”
So which particular comments did you hear that made you conclude those ministers weren’t responding merely to the diplomatic issues but were rather suggesting he should be fired?
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 10:04 pm
He has included parents in his abuse excuses. But you’re right, he usually doesn’t base his attacks on anything factual.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 10:05 pm
Whats your arse like Trannie?
I was having fantasies about Joana’s but she seems to have gone away. God knows why.
You could be a substitute if you are that way inclined.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 10:09 pm
Reid, it is not the government’s role to shape speech and thought among the citizens. It matters not what they said. They should have stayed right out of it.
When asked to comment, the response should have been- “this is a matter solely for Paul Henry and his employers. It is not a matter for Government Ministers to comment on.”
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 10:13 pm
Will never happen Rex. Witness the pathetic bunch we call politcal reporters.
Could you ever imagine a useless arse like Barry Soper putting the hard questions to a pollie?
Like shit he would be protecting his so called sources.
They are all just a good old boys club just like the local bodies and all the bloody time servers there.
Fuck I would love to see Red dealing to them!
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 10:14 pm
reid suggests:
If we take (as I do) our definition of news as that proposed by Lord Northcliffe:
when has an interview by Henry ever elicited from the interviewee some piece of information that they would rather not have told the audience? When was the result of an interview by Henry ever that the audience was left truly better informed, armed with information that politicians, spin doctors and/or corporations didn’t want them to have?
The answer, I suggest, is never. Asking obvious questions and occasionally playing devil’s advocate by putting an alternate point of view is not hard. Most young journalists can do it (though granted, increased levels of credulity seem to be infecting graduates of jouanlisms schools every single year). Making an interview a chance to eclipse the interviewee (and thus the information they hold) is easier still… behaving like an ass will do it, as Henry has shown.
None of that, however, is good interviewing, let alone “the best”.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 10:20 pm
Rex,
Agreed. I would ask the same about Holmes.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 10:30 pm
It just goes to show how fast things can change in showbiz. Last month, Henry turned 50, and was fawned over in women’s magazines, newspapers, etc, and got the People’s Choice award where he was cheered on by his contemporaries as he read his expletive-filled “viewers letter”. Cut to this month and he is made the lead story several nights running on One News – his own network, and on Close Up, slagged by everyone from the Prime Minister on down – including advertisers and protest groups on the street.
Fickle.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 11:03 pm
Wimmin with moustaches will be burning, hopefully unused, tampons in rejoice. But that aside, I would have thought “front-bums” and “white motherfuckers” would have netted the same result, sadly not in this country of twisted knicker wearers with them bunched up hard, what would one expect?
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 11:10 pm
big bruv says at 8:01 pm:
How about Russell Brown? There’s an easy target if ever there was one.
No need for a public campaign though. Just one call from a well conected National party supporter to Murray McCully will set the wheels in motion. Murray talks to Jonathan Coleman, Jonathan talks to Rick Ellis, Rick talks to the production company about the future direction of TVNZ and formating issues. Hey presto, Russell Brown effectively blacklisted from TVNZ and all done from the shadows. A job well done and the Right’s desire for blood over this issue is sated by the removal of this token Leftist.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 11:43 pm
TVNZ is owned and funded by the state. Advertising is revenue. The return to the government is called: Return on Shareholders Funds.
Idiot.
Vote:October 10th, 2010 at 11:59 pm
Looks like the left have been hard at work lately, using and abusing their most useful tool (MSM). First David Garrett and now Paul Henry. two of the left’s most hated individuals.
Vote:October 11th, 2010 at 12:02 am
Makes you wonder if he was trying to get out of an employment contract.
Vote:October 11th, 2010 at 12:10 am
Everlasting, I suspect you will find its called a good ol’e lynching at an oak tree. The left do like to see the bastards swing from their necks. Pol Pot was pretty good at it.
Vote:October 11th, 2010 at 12:29 am
Another sad day in this sad nation. Will the last respecter of rights and of the right to disagree please turn out the lights?
What’s sad is that this is a victory for all the people who don’t watch Paul Henry. They get nothing more than the smug satisfaction that they won. Anybody who actually liked watching him didn’t get a say and lose. The country is poor for this in every way.
Another victory for the socialist thugs. It isn’t enough that they can choose to change channel. Fuck you you thieving, lying looters.
Vote:October 11th, 2010 at 1:46 am
Has Fun now been outlawed in New Zealand?
What a depressing country to live in.
Vote:October 11th, 2010 at 2:32 am
The insane thing is how this ever became an international incident?
Deserves about as much international attention as that crank who decided he was going to waste money burning a pile of Quar’an.
As much as the comments were stupid, there has been little discussion about how ‘news items’ such as this are used by the Indian government to stir up nationalistic sentiment. I wonder if this could be to divert attention from things such as the obvious corruption that has gone on in the lead-up to the commonwealth games.
Vote:October 11th, 2010 at 2:44 am
Well can’t say i’m amused, TVNZ may as well jump on their bike and fuck off because i won’t be watching breakfast anymore.
Vote:October 11th, 2010 at 5:39 am
I never watched breakfast TV, some of us have to get ready for work and TV demands your total attention like a small child.
Vote:October 11th, 2010 at 6:05 am
Sorry Jonhboy, you’re barking up the wrong tree on that front. Good luck though!
Vote:October 11th, 2010 at 6:08 am
Ok. Making fun of someone’s name. Yes, I laughed when I first read her name too and I’m that Indians have fun with European names that sound like particular words in their language(s) too. Not sure if I would go on about it at length though.
But exactly what did Henry mean by the above comment? I fail to see any humour in this. I can’t see how it’s appropriate “because she is an Indian”. What is Henry trying to say with this “dick in shit” line? Can any of you supporters of Henry’s “humour” explain what he meant or what is so funny about it?
Vote:October 11th, 2010 at 6:51 am
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=130906296960115&ref=ts
A total waste of time.
Good riddance. Bye bye Paul Henry.
Vote:October 11th, 2010 at 7:00 am
The left blaming is amusing – always trying to find excuses for what others do.
I don’t see how “the left” were responsible for what Henry said, I don’t know how they were responsible for his infantile sense of “humour”, nor how they were responsible for his feelings of superiority over people of Indian descent.
Was it “the left” that caused Garrett to get a fraudulent passport? To (allegedly) lie in court? To stand for the Act party? Was it a lefty plant in the Act party who revealed his problems with the law in Tonga and New Zealand?
I thought “the right” prided itself in personal responsibility. Why should Henry and Garrett be exempt from that? You can argue over the severity of the consequences, but the blame game is lame. The so-called right, on Kiwiblog anyway, sound like a pack of whiners.
The quality of current affairs and news on TV is widely lambasted – but the Henry saga indicates that all a sizable minority seem to tune in for are the verbal train wrecks. Don’t blame the media when you get what you bargained for but the target may not be to your liking.
Vote:October 11th, 2010 at 7:18 am
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Vote:October 11th, 2010 at 7:25 am
All you people saying Paul Henry had no talent, a waste of space….he won a people’s choice award voted on by his Viewers at the TV awards a few weeks back. Some people must have liked him. What you are sayign is You don’t like him – tough luck – obviously a lot of people did hence the award and good ratings of the show.
Vote:October 11th, 2010 at 7:39 am
Once again the noisey fucking PC brigade have shouted someone out of a job. I wish they would just dig a hole and bury their head in it… or better still, bugger of to Europe.
Vote:October 11th, 2010 at 7:42 am
Brian,
A New Zealand media award (even one voted for by the people – those that could be interested enough) is the equivalent of winning a junior class spelling bee. Makes the participants feel better about themselves, but doesn’t change the world
Vote:October 11th, 2010 at 8:09 am
NZ should not be apologising for freedom of speech, hell it’s not as if India has got anything to teach us in that area.
Paul did push his “brand” to far though and he was always going to, seemed like more of a game to him than a serous attempt to combat the rampant political correctness that afflicts our country.
And in that regard, screw you Paul Henry you had an opportunity and you wasted it on your own notoriety and pride, you are just another self obsessed prick with a golden opportunity wasted like so many other insecure Kiwi dick heads.
Vote:October 11th, 2010 at 8:21 am
I think we have found the leader of the next centre-right party in NZ.
Vote:October 11th, 2010 at 8:30 am
I think we have found the leader of the next centre-right party in NZ.
Lol! He couldn’t even beat a transvestite at the elections last time!
Vote:October 11th, 2010 at 8:36 am
@Gwilly 8:21 am
You mean the No Darkies Party.
Vote:October 11th, 2010 at 8:38 am
bhudson – maybe not but it is the New Zealand market we are talking about. Henry is popular within THAT market. He is not on TV in the UK or heaven forbid, India. If so he might have problems with the Marathi name “Shitole”
Vote:October 11th, 2010 at 8:55 am
…the Marathi name “Shitole”
Look, we can all have a little chuckle cos it’s quite similar to an expression that gets used here, but to ridicule it live on morning Tv causing an international outrage, and with the NZ taxpayer picking up the bill. No thanks.
Vote:October 11th, 2010 at 8:59 am
Well that’s just the thing Robinson, it didn’t cause an international outrage, but what should is the caste system in India, now that is outrageous.
Vote:October 11th, 2010 at 9:12 am
Chris Trotter on support for Paul Henry:
“LIBERAL KIWIS said it so often that conservative comedians turned it into a joke: “I don’t know how Rob Muldoon got elected – nobody I know voted for him!”
You’d be surprised how many liberals struggled to see the humour in that sentence. Conservatives, on the other hand, got the joke straight-away.
They, at least, understood that liberal New Zealand constituted a small, self-referential elite that was ideologically, culturally and socially cut off from the overwhelming majority of the population.
And that, of course, was the whole point of the joke.”
Vote:http://bowalleyroad.blogspot.com/2010/10/driving-in-illiberal-circles.html
October 11th, 2010 at 9:18 am
It’s possible the current furore woke Henry up to how much of a puerile panderer he had become on Breakfast, it’s possible he is happy to get out and re-invent himself as something more than amusement to some pensioners and rednecks.
Vote:October 11th, 2010 at 9:19 am
Oh Toad…
Do you realise that you look more pathetic than normal when you highlight the selective racism of the Greens?
You muster up as much faux outrage as you can about Henry, Laws and co yet remain hypocritically silent about John Harawira, Willie Jackson and Mad Delahunty.
Vote:October 11th, 2010 at 9:21 am
I don’t know why people think he was pushed.
My first thought on hearing Henry resigned was that he was probably annoyed that TVNZ ever suspended him and with hurt feelings and confident ego has stepped out to what he expects to be greener private enterprise pastures.
Vote:October 11th, 2010 at 9:30 am
And wasn’t it devilishly clever of Phil Goff to throw everyone off the scent by declaring in his initial response that it was merely “Paul Henry being Paul Henry”? No one would suspect him then!
The alternative explanation is that this is a hilarious conspiracy theory developed to help you avoid the pain of reality.
The unfortunate truth is that Paul Henry wasn’t done in by some faceless and fanciful conspiracy of covert actors — he was done in by himself. He realises that. You guys witter on about free speech, but that’s not really what you want. What you want is speech without consequences, and that’s something different.
Vote:October 11th, 2010 at 9:34 am
“What you want is speech without consequences, and that’s something different.”
Bullshit!, what I want is an even playing field, something that you on the left just will not allow.
What I do not want is for the lying and dishonest left to be the ones who decide the consequences.
Vote:October 11th, 2010 at 9:34 am
Jesus. Are you really as creepy as that makes you seem? For the record, there are a great many places I’d rather be than in your sweaty revenge fantasies.
Vote:October 11th, 2010 at 9:39 am
‘Bring Back Paul Henry’ page on Facebook – 27,000 people and climbing.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bring-Back-Paul-Henry-NOW/123680317686085?ref=ts&v=wall
Vote:October 11th, 2010 at 9:44 am
You know, I’ve actually worked with Paul Henry. He’s a charming man, and I enjoyed his company on-camera and off. I haven’t ventured an opinion on whether he should be sacked or anything else. I’d have trouble saying that of anyone in my business.
But the series of comments leading up to the deeply offensive suggestion that the governor general was less of a New Zealander because of the colour of his skin was going to have consequences. It was inevitable.
And no matter how hard you try to validate your raging sense of victimhood, it had nothing to do with some dark conspiracy of hidden leftists.
Vote:October 11th, 2010 at 9:45 am
Wasn’t it Paul Henry who decided what the consequences would be? He decided to resign.
Vote:October 11th, 2010 at 9:47 am
I thought Paul Henry had decided the consequences. Do you want to try and force him to do something different? He might have been stupid, but he’s not dumb, and he’s old enough to make his own decisions. There’s a strong possibility this has woken himself up to the rut of irrelevance he had become stuck in. Maybe he’s interested in doing something else now? His choice.
Vote:October 11th, 2010 at 10:18 am
Its been a great period for the Drive of left wing activism. The demonisation and dispatch of first Garrett then Henry. The overwhelming victory in the Super City elections, even in the face of their widespread visible corruption, and the swing to the left in other centres, was achieved by skilful organisation ,and the mobilisation of Union stooges and media puppets. Strategies still progressing to undermine the Government by the destruction of the film industry, and the revolt of `the Labour faithful within the education system..The National Government regards it all with benevolent tolerance and conciliatory gestures, as their key ministers struggle to overcome the financial mess that the Clarkist era bequeathed them.
Vote:October 11th, 2010 at 10:27 am
Could you be any more delusional? Garrett was an oaf and a raging hypocrite who was stitched up as part of the poisonous infighting of his own right-wing party.
Vote:October 11th, 2010 at 10:28 am
The whole Henry saga has gotten out of control because there is simply no “hard” news in NZ. So when something a wee bit controversial comes up (another eg. is the Garrett saga) the media goes feral and the PC brigade come out of their shallow holes and complain. They even tried to make it about John Key rather than Paul Henry FFS so that should indicate to people who is behind this. So a minority of people again spoil the enjoyment that the majority of people received from watching Breakfast TV. Sort of like MMP really.
Vote:October 11th, 2010 at 10:30 am
“Could you be any more delusional? Garrett was an oaf and a raging hypocrite who was stitched up as part of the poisonous infighting of his own right-wing party.”
Yeah we know that’s the NZ “journolist” left wing spin Mr. Brown.
(Any chance of getting a list of names?)
Vote:October 11th, 2010 at 10:38 am
Agreed Red. The man is in denial.
Vote:October 11th, 2010 at 11:15 am
Actually, it appears to be the view of Mr Garrett himself. Y’know, “dark forces” in Act and all that.
But do feel free to continue living in your cartoon conspiracy universe.
Vote:October 11th, 2010 at 11:19 am
“OECD rank 22 kiwi”, you do realise that’s the sort of shit that went down in the soviet union don’t you? ah irony, always so amusing
Vote:October 11th, 2010 at 11:26 am
“You’re still doing it. You cannot defend your political position, or apparently even express a POV. All you are capable of is personally attacking the critics of socialism. You are a typical dumb, uneducated, well indoctrinated liberal fascist.
The kind that has crucified Paul Henry.”
And you’re still posting on blogs moaning about the loss of someone who has become a liability to the country and it is something you just can’t seem to get your head around for some reason. Blame the fascists. Thats the easy way out.
I have absolutely no point of view here, I never came out with one but thank you for pointing out the obvious. You’re powers of observation are fantastic.
I simply do not care. I do not care about Paul Henry, I never watched breakfast. I don’t care about the comments he made about the GG – but I can see how they could be seen as offensive, but in reality it is just rubbish that distracts everyone from problems such as talented people leaving this country at an alarming rate (despite our wonderful national/act government with its fantastic 2025 taskforce), the fact that these ‘tax cuts’ so far have COST me and my family $8 extra (more to come) and a castrated ACT minority party that has been so fixated on Law and Order reform that it has almost caused itself to self-implode.
Henry says a racist thing about our GG. He is an asshole, but I do not watch his programs anyway. It does not affect me. I don’t care. You clearly do, so long as you are at least 10 feet away from an internet connection with access to a blog.
I am just as capable of personally attacking critics as you are, but it is not a world I want to be in. Because I just…don’t…care…about…this. I have better and more important things to worry about.
Vote:October 11th, 2010 at 11:52 am
Redbaiter (11,871) Says:
October 10th, 2010 at 8:06 pm
“A common sense decision by TVNZ”
One supported by indoctrinated fascists like you, too politically limited and too ignorant of history to know what you really are.
I don’t know who is worse, those with deliberate fascist intent, or those like you, too damn stupid to know what it is you have done”
That to express an opinion that Henry was an infantile twat and deserved to be fired and TVNZ and the Key were gutless in their resonse is pretty much on the mark. The irony of it all is if Key had stood up for his Governer General on the show and put Henry in his place at the time the momentum that this affair gained may have had some of the heat taken out of it and Henry may well have survived.
Vote:October 11th, 2010 at 5:55 pm
Looks like I hit a raw nerve.
Excellent!
Now to bring the plan to fruition.
Vote:October 11th, 2010 at 6:21 pm
Luc Hansen (2,069) Says:
October 10th, 2010 at 9:24 pm
Well, no, TVNZ is government owned, therefore the general overseas perception would be that it reflects the government view, so the Indian government was quite within its rights to protest. We may not like it, but Western convention needs to be shunted out of the way anyway as the former colonies move to surpass us. It’s called progress.
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Quite apart from the obvious cultural insensitivity displayed by the Government of India towards western culture and rights, you have articulated a truly excellent reason for TVNZ to be privatized immediately.
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