Meet another funny comedian

Guy Williams is a comedian. He thought it would be funny to mock John Armstrong for his appearance. Why? Presumably because John dares to write columns that sometimes criticise Labour and Greens. Incidentally he wrotes heaps of columns criticising National also.

Now it is widely known John as Parkinson’s Disease, a long-term degenerative disorder. He’s had it for over 20 years yet kept up full-time journalism during that time. Finally it forced him to retire last year. but since then he has still managed to write occasional columns for One News and The Herald.

Now Williams has now said his tweet was not about his disease. That is probably true. But that still means he was mocking his appearance – again because John has written things he doesn’t like. He says it was because the photo didn’t look like other photos of John. Yeah that is because he has decided to use an up to date photo which reflects who he is today.

Now Guy of course is not just a comedian. He is an active campaigner for Labour and the Greens. In fact he was the MC for the combined Labor/Green State of the National launch earlier this year. Yet to hear a single word from any of their MPs about the behaviour of their MC.

In response to my inadvertently insensitive tweet, I’ve donated $100 to Parkinson’s New Zealand. Sorry, I stuffed up. pic.twitter.com/r0RXn4I6fZ

— Guy Williams (@guywilliamsguy) September 29, 2017

Williams is now in damage control and donating money to Parkinson’s New Zealand. But that isn’t the real issue. Even if John didn’t have Parkinson’s, why did Williams think it was appropriate or funny to mock his appearance?