Aussie union boss floors Paul Henry with Kiwi, small audience jibes
There's been more grief for Paul Henry across the Tasman, with the Channel 10 Breakfast host coming off second-best in a verbal joust with union boss David Noonan.
Henry attempted to push Noonan into apologising for a Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union protest, blocking a Melbourne street.
Noonan hit back with jibes about Henry's nationality, and the size of this audience.
According to media commentary site Mumbrella, Henry was impressed by Noonan's cheeky comeback. "It's like we were separated at birth," he's quoted as saying later.
But at the time, the exchange ended in several seconds of awkward silence:
A transcript:
Paul Henry: Do you want to apologise to the taxpayers and the people of Melbourne who’d like to use that street and the taxpayers who’re funding the police activity there.
Do you want to apologise to those people now?
David Noonan: Well you know Paul I think you’ve got a particular political view of the world.
You were bought over in the last few months from New Zealand.
Mate, construction workers in New Zealand earn a lot less than they do in Australia and the sort of right wing shock jock stuff you want to go on with really isn’t going to faze me.
We have a right a right to peaceful protest. We’ve got an important issue here and cheap shots like that really aren’t going to impress anybody.
Paul Henry: Right, so no apologies. Thanks for joining us this morning, David.
David Noonan: So no apologies to you mate. And no apologies for the fact your show has so few viewers.
[An awkward pause follows, before the camera cuts away to a news headline update before Henry comes back onscreen]
Paul Henry: Alrighty. I disagree with almost everything he said with the exception of the too few viewers thing. That is a shame.
Meanwhile - either because he's on a Snickers high, gripped by fin de siècle madness or just because he's Paul Henry - the ex-pat appears to be taking a damn the torpedoes approach to his behaviour in from of Channel 10 brass.
In the clip above, from last month, he recounts, "Actually I got hopelessly drunk on Friday afternoon, and management were there – you know, God – and I was drunk and I picked up a piece of food on my fork and stuck it into my cheek …. It hurt too. I was trying to pretend it was a party trick. I’m making a new mouth … forking myself!”
(Hat Tip to Dan News for spotting these clips.)
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Comments and questions60
IQ of New Zealand definitely went up when Henry left.
god hardly
Average IQ also went up in Australia when Henry left.
Fact.
The infinite monkey theorem states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type a given text. Your response has finally proven this to be true. Fact!
haha, that was pretty funny
So glad we don't have him in NZ any more. Bummer is, there are actually people here who miss him.
Name ten people who miss him!!
I miss laughing at him...
So typical of PC-obsessed, tall-poppy syndrome Kiwis kicking another kiwi while their down. It's embarrassing and pathetic. Maybe you don't have a pair to speak your mind and stand up for what you believe in, but don't knock those that do. PS - I'm pretty sure Paul's IQ would far exceed the majority of you pot-smoking hippies that populate NZ.
But isn't it the Aussie media and that Aussie union guy who's kicking Paul?
And you guys are having a field day over it. See my last comment - it's all I've got to say.
Paul Henry was, in my opinion. never a tall poppy. Tall poppies who really qualify for that title are not knocked. It is quality and substance that Paul Henry lacks. His IQ could well be quite high, I don't know about that. Unfortunately he lacks the common sense to shut his mouth, and as a consequence alienates the very people he's trying to get to watch him.
That is true - and he's an idiot, keep him Aussie lol
I think that union guy would do a better presenter job on the show than Henry.
This is gold. Come back Paul, we miss you.
Paul Henry is a douche. Sorry we had to un-load him on you Australia, you probably didn't deserve that..
"Look there she is there, Sheila D-iK Sh-t [hysterical laughter] ... Anyway, that’s so appropriate because she’s Indian, so she would be a d-ck in sh-t, wouldn’t she, do you know what I mean, walking along the street."
http://www.bsa.govt.nz/decisions/show/4183
What Paul has in the way of a "small" audience, he more than makes up for the size of his *%*&#
Sorry Oz...we might have had a few to get even with you...but you really didn't deserve such a dickhead.
Must admit your Union boys are tougher than the rest...well done that man!
A Fine Scotsman! Taking no cr*p from the English.
Smashed big time
We miss Paul Henry, only the lefties hate his fair dinkum attitude, and his cutting through their swamps of cr*p.
The lefties can't stand him because he is an idiot, playing to the audience for a few laughs---like the village idiot of times gone by.
Of course the lefties hate him, but not because he's an idiot, but because he makes lefties look like the collective village idiots they are! Too right!
Hate is such a powerful emotion, I'm not sure that Paul henry is worthy of any emotion, are you his fan club?
I second that. Only Henry has the balls to call it like it is. As has been said so many times before, he says what most NZ rs 'thinks. Hurry home cobber.
Has it been microsopically proven that Paul Henry has balls? I don't think so!!!
That aint true. He's an idiot!
Give the Aussie union guy a Snickers ad. He's much more mean.
I'm so pleased he went to Australia. It would seem he fits better there.
Pls stay there Paul and dont come back...you belong there better! Trust me I still switch channels when I realise am watching 3!
Im with Paul Henry To the point with humour, wit and laughter.
The aussie union guy would be singing a different tune if Aussie didnt have mining money lying on the ground.
Such a lot of words have been wasted on this man, this jumped up little man who thinks he knows everything about everything, and who thinks hos opinion is valuable. Of course his opinion is valuable---to himself and those that like him. That adds up to about 10. Thank goodness for the off switch!!
Well that's 55 words right there.
Indeed---you must have time on your hands to have counted them so meticulously!!
Satch you must have been savaged by Paul sometime to have so much pent up venom in your system. You didn't really reach for the off switch did you? Still up reading his book are you?
Sometimes I watched Paul Henry, because there was a certain fascination with the way he made a fool of himself with the idiotic things he said. That novelty soon wore off, but things he said were often reported in the newspaper------why I'm not sure, because the more that was reported the worse he appeared to get. His words are weasel words, and he's a weasel man. Racist comments, and comments about the physical characteristics of some women he interviewed are uncalled for. Maybe Australians are more tolerant of things like that.
Hey that's so true Satch! I cant believe anyone watching The Good Morning Show liked him.. they must be sheeple, and believe anything they see, and hear on the television, including that idiot too sadly.. Now Aussie has to watch him lol
He's written a book?????
Personally I haven't been savaged by Paul Henry, but he has savaged people who do not deserve to be savaged. Yes, the off switch was regularly reached for, and used.
While he was in New Zealand it was difficult to avoid reading about him in the press---because he was a so-called celebrity.
You need look no further than the comments here to grasp the real problem with Paul Henry and others like him - he polarises opinion - which is great for entertainment (which unfortunately is what current affairs are reduced to in the NZ media) but not so good for building understanding of the issues. We only have ourselves to blame for this sorry state of affairs - we appear to have no appetite for anything unless is can be superficially dealt with in no more than 2 minutes airtime! We are all the poorer for it. We need the range of opinion - its healthy; its democratic - but we also need to understand that until we as individuals are prepared to - and demand - that current affaires be treated in a much more mature and measured manner - the Paul Henry's of this world will continue to dominate our screens.
I agree with what you have said about the 'dumbing down' of news in New Zealand. I dislike this dumbing down so much, I will obtain my news from overseas sources and recently the New York Times is 'filling the gap' for me. And yes, I do enjoy Paul Henry - purely as a source of entertainment not as a source of news. If I relied on the light and fluffy television breakfast shows for my news, then of course, I will be very disappointed and I would dislike Paul Henry because he isn't doing a good job as Journalist. However, as an Entertainer, he is fantastic because he is prepared to play the idiot and take the micky out of himself.
Paul Henry masquerades as a serious journalist, but as you say, he is an entertainer. Even as an entertainer, he is poor quality.
He laughs at his own jokes-----cardinal sin.
..Which results in an idiot.
The Aussies have had enough of him too.. How long can the the television network sustain losses with running a show with dwindling viewership ?
Satch, deriding the messenger has always been symptomatic of the left.
The left hate anything that is not conformist with their agenda. Political correctness, the infallibility of the nanny state system, assisting criminals whilst ignoring victims, punishing innovation that makes tall poppies, anti-immigration, closet racism, and being dark green and anti-establishment are the traits of the left.
Paul Henry is a mixture of all things the left really hate, but the one part they hate most is his freedom of speech. I find that strange.
That's not what this is all about..this is about him being an idiot, why go off on a tangent like that with all those words. And believe me..he aint no 'tall poppy', if you think that..then you need to talk to a psychiatrist lol
Once a fork wit, always a fork wit!
Why would anyone try to eat Snickers with a fork?
I love Paul. But the hyena laugh in the second clip - gimme a Panadol
Eating when you're really, really drunk is pretty hard. We're all thinking it. Paul's got the guts to say it. Good on him. Come home soon.
A lot of educators, parents and politicians are trying to fight our binge drinking culture.
Yet Paul Henry thinks its funny when he has an afternoon meeting with his boss and is so drunk he stabs himself in the cheek with his fork.
Not cool Paul. Not cool at all.
With idiot postings like this, it's no wonder people like Paul Henry leave NZ. If you can't laugh at yourself, don't take it out on others who can. All you moaners are probably insecure from being kids who were picked on and therefore you can't TAKE A JOKE. Lighten up, or at least take that stick out of you @ss!
Please follow him
Because I happended to be in Australia last week enjoying the sunshine. And I was entertained as always by Paul Henry, and I was thankful that we don't have those insufferable union plonkers telling us all how to live our lives. I thought it a bit rich when the Union guy put the boot in as the other guy they have fronting union issues over there sports a ripe pommy accent (remember those days people??they must have all gone to Oz)
Hopefully Paul has realised that publicly cr@pping on the underdog is not an Australian news value.
Paul Henry is a legend; a NZ man who hasn't been dumbed down by NZ's woeful love of political correctness because its still blaming itself for what colonists did 200 years ago, and because tree hugging dikes have somehow got a strangle hold on policy development in Wellington.
I used to work with, believe me he's odd
Mr Henry is an entertainer, and appart from Jim Hickey he is probably our most talented.
NZ takes itself way to seriously. The rest of the world in fact finds it completely irrelevant. NZérs need to lighten up and have the confidence to say what you think . I found Pauls boarder line comments hilarious, because it was entertaining - we need more like him.
Jim Hickey? Dear god, you need to get out more.
Paul Henry is pure awesome, I haven't watched morning tv since he left tvnz. The other presenters are just drab and boring.
Bring back Paul Henry!