The Paul Henry thread

[98tls]

All things said n done a strange place we live in,call a spade a spade so to speak and you lose your job but kill a couple of babies kick back and stay stum and await the offers from Womens Weekly.

[phill-k]

lol what??
Fucking letters to the editor pages were filled with letters about those cases for weeks!

Ok seems I can't get my message across - I see the other two issues that were subsequent to Paul Henry's situation on the news last night as actually being serious issues reflecting the sad state off affairs in NZ.
Paul Henry made a couple of comments that seem to have offended the righteous pink bloused brigade in NZ and in the scheme of things you all are just a bunch of politically correct tools.
For fucks sake one of the turban wearer's has just attempted to subvert our political system are you all jumping up and down about that,

[BoristheBiter]

lol what??
Fucking letters to the editor pages were filled with letters about those cases for weeks!

What i guess he means is that the other stories are more important but the PH story leads the news.

[98tls]

For fucks sake one of the turban wearer's has just attempted to subvert our political system are you all jumping up and down about that,

Mate nobody cares,the political system was beyond redemption the day Rodney Hide showed up in his grandfathers clown suit and was granted admisson to the Beehive.

[motor_mayhem]

All things said n done a strange place we live in,call a spade a spade so to speak and you lose your job but kill a couple of babies kick back and stay stum and await the offers from Womens Weekly.

Well no let's be more realistic here, Paul Henry would call a spade a retarded piece of equipment with a moustache if it didn't dig a hole, decorate his house and take out the garbage at the same time, all of it's own accord.

[I'll C U Jimmy]

Seems like Paul has been the victim of bad timing. The Indians are all huffed up with indignation in an attempt to divert attention onto yet another Kiwi and away from their CG stuff-up. As I write, it looks like Paul has sucked the kumera and resigned. Pity really, I used to hate the little shit, but then got to appreciate him pushing the envelope.....and the frequent use of arrrrrse!

[Maki]

I call a spade a spade, so I will call Paul an idiot. Good riddance.

[RiderInBlack]

I gaurantee that if our prime ministers name was John Ghandu the indians would be pissing themselves.

That maybe but if they did that on their National TV programme, They would need their Arses kicked too. Name one time in the last ten years that an Indian TV presenter took the piss out of any of our Leaders or Country Reps? Would be interesting if ya could.

[tri boy]

The death of children, and such tragic similar situations should never be compared to Henrys childish remarks.
The Kahui case is being reported on everyday on the "world at noon".
It's in the hands of the coroner for the next month.
The news is out there, if people actually tune into reputable reporters.
A coroners decision will be "reported" by all in sundry, but the real journo's are doing it every day already.

The dumbing down of NZ reporting is directly related to what the people want to see/hear. Henry is tragic, because he has tragic supporters. MHO

[Berries]

What a crock. I am genuinely surprised at the reaction of people to this on a motorbike forum and elsewhere, and the amount of vitriol it has produced. It was light entertainment FFS, not investigative journalism.

The world has gone Ghandu all right.

[Clockwork]

IMO Paul Henry was paid to speak his mind and be controversial with TVNZ's tacit (and maybe even on the quiet, explicit) approval. Anyone who thinks Paul Henry hasn't been paid a substantial amount of money to resign and not reveal TVNZ's part in this matter is being very naive.

I expect he's giggling all the way to the Bank.

[Swoop]

a sad day for "free" TV.

"Free TV" is an oxymoron with TVNZ. They are the voicepiece of the politicians from Wellington and as such are not "free".
If PH had been on TV3 he wouldn't have been fired (or forced to resign). TVNZ has just shown how bound to the "public purse" they truly are.


Listening to the radio instead of watching TV1 Breakfast, was very nice indeed.

Let's hope he is picked up by TV3 and starts another breakfast show on that channel.

[Grubber]

It's a no brainer to me.I think he is a dick so I simply don't watch him.

I was starting to cut him some slack lately, making allowances for his crappy comments as it could be said that it does get some topics out in the open..... NZ is too pc now after all....... But, that clinches it for me,now I just see him as a pureile little gnome.

The racist comments I take with a grain of salt, as has been said, the Maori party members have said far far worse.

What tipped it for me was the childish giggling at the womans name, what a knob.

I call a spade a spade, so I will call Paul an idiot. Good riddance.

I just happen to like all of the above.
I tend to find the best option for me is to just turn the channel else where.
Paul Henry is pretty much a childish little man and i have little or no time for him.
It's not so much the free speech thing that is the problem, it's the racial implications that are the issue for me. As well as the infantile comments made about peoples looks and or intellect.
I'm not even too sure weather i remember having people at primary school who were quite as inadequate is this man.
What i would ask is, if he was pointing his prongs at one of us, would we react the same. It all seems very funny when the comments get slammed into someone else, but if it was one of us that he was directing his idiocy at, would we be saying the same.
I think not!

[Banditbandit]

Yeah .. Paul Henry was an idiot ... and not for the first time. If I was still working in the media I would not trust him in front of a live camera or with a live microphone ... he was totally racist and a dick .. I'm pleased he's gone ...

On the other hand - the Indian Government should butt out of our affairs ... if Anand Satyanand is a New Zealander then he is a New Zealander and it has nothing to do with the Indian Government - just because we have a GG BORN in NEW ZEALND ... who happens to be of Indian descent .. this is nothing to do with India and they should have been told to BUTT OUT and should not have received an apology ...

[mashman]

"Free TV" is an oxymoron with TVNZ. They are the voicepiece of the politicians from Wellington and as such are not "free".
If PH had been on TV3 he wouldn't have been fired (or forced to resign). TVNZ has just shown how bound to the "public purse" they truly are.

The PM says there was no political pressure whatsoever... so I think you're making it up