Newstalk ZB you disgust me

A man picks up a knife and chases two teenage boys from outside his house, he subsequently stabs and kills one of them, and is eventually convicted of Manslaughter. Yet Newstalk ZB has continually portrayed this man as the victim, and went so far as to interview someone close to him, and giving that person the ‘call of the day’ award.

The man is a convicted killer, he unlawfully took the life of a young boy, the whole bloody case is tragic, but there is a family out there without their son for his actions.

I can’t help but feel if the murder was dark skinned and they were convicted on the same day – oh that’s right they were. Where was the interview with their family or close friends of the Mob guys going down on the same day, asking how that family is doing? This interview with the ‘close friend’ should never have gone ahead, but even worse, it should not have taken the line that he’s the victim.

Well done to Campbell Live tonight. It was a touching interview with the mother of the boy killed. It was sad and depressing, but very well done. Shame she wasn’t evil and lawless, like they would like us to believe. The mother signed the petition making parents accountable for tagging, she had reprimanded her boy for tagging a table, she was a woman with boundaries, but a child who was like all children rebelling and breaking laws. Not something that should be your death penalty.

Did he really say that.

Quick game.

Who said the following about Barack Obama on the radio today. Here’s a clue, it wasn’t ultra conservative right wing fuck heads out of America.

“I don’t consider him a Black Man”

This was supposedly made in the context of talking about the psychology of who you vote for. You see this radio station spends as much time talking about the US election and beating down Obama, you’d think we were in the US and that it really mattered to us. Apparently there’s a race and gender issue with regard to who people vote for in America (of course there is, the KKK still exists), so this presenter was trying to talk about correlations with that here in NZ?

Anyway this presenter is described as the following;

“Urbane and smooth, Leighton Smith delivers the most intelligent talkback radio around. His ease with developing in-depth, meaningful conversation brings an extra dimension to this predominantly talkback programme. Leighton’s love of wine, food and music are also featured in this programme.”