Duncan Garner

Yesterday I posted that Duncan Garner had jumped the shark when he wanted everyone to come listen to the Chicken Man singing a song.

But I was wrong.

Today he managed to sink even lower.

Can someone please take pity on him and give him a call?   I think someone should tell him that Marriage Equality is done and dusted.

Drive time radio should be bringing you the news.  Not dragging the Family First attack lines back from the dead.

Jumping the shark and flogging a dead horse.

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Radio Live is slowly spiraling towards a self inflicted death.  They are getting stale and are bleeding talent.

Duncan Garner was to be the Great Hope in taking on the king of the drive-time slot, ZB’s Larry Williams.

I bet Garner gets home and takes two showers while he cries to himself for leaving his last job.

David Parker was the chair of the panel that appointed State Services Commissioner Ian Rennie. WARNING this video contains extensive footage of Helen Clark speaking.

Perhaps Duncan Garner might want to reconsider this tweet:

Last word missing. Rennie takes it up the jacksie for the PM.

— Duncan Garner (@Garner_Live) April 4, 2013

Labour, and particularly Grant Robertson, have launched a nasty attack on Ian Rennie and GCSB Boss Ian Fletcher over the past few days.  Read more »

Following the post this morning about the fat kid and his dumb mum this came in via the tip line.

Looks like Duncan Garner and Guyon Espiner’s The Vote has all the activists desperately trying to rig the public vote on tonight’s show.

WO spies tell me there were some right nutters at the screening on Monday night and the panel team of Robyn Toomath and Geoff Simmons were aghast at the audience poll result. No wonder then that these activists have rallied up their allies in an effort to spike the vote.  Read more »

Duncan Garner put a few decent questions to Labour Leader David Shearer on his secret offshore bank account on his RadioLive Drive show last night.
David , um, Shearer was at his eloquent best.

Doesn’t know why he hasn’t put his money where his mouth is and invested in New Zealand, doesn’t remember how he was able to fill out tax returns every year and forget the register of pecuniary interests, unable to respond to Garner’s speculation about it being more than $100K.  Read more »

The Civilian reports

via The Civilian

A MediaWorks focus group put together last Wednesday to gauge reaction to TV3’s new current affairs programme, 3rd Degree, reported that viewers felt that they’d just had a sexual experience they didn’t quite understand.

Those who watched the programme as part of the hour-long focus group pointed to the disturbing, even aggressive levels of sexual tension between hosts Duncan Garner and Guyon Espiner as the primary reason for their discomfort. “It was just the way they stared at one another with that intense gaze as they awkwardly traded lines” said Michael Grange, a 42 year old participant in the focus group, who described Garner and Espiner as “sexually frustrated.” “You really got the sense they were having trouble keeping their hands off one another” he said.

The pilot of the current affairs show comes after an intense two week advertising campaign featuring Guyon Espiner and Duncan Garner having excessively passionate conversations about news and “digging deeper.” In one advertisement, a visibly upset Garner confides in Espiner that he finds “nothing more frustrating” than “seeing the real story get missed.”

Read the rest at The Civilian.

—–Original Message—–
From: Todd Scott
Sent: Tuesday, 5 March 2013 2:09 p.m.
To: Duncan Garner
Subject: Duncan, I am really sorry.

Hi Duncan,

I just wanted to drop you a personal apology for that egregious headline and article yesterday! When it was brought to my attention, I ordered its immediate removal from the site. I am sincerely sorry for any stress that it caused you and your family!

We have one of the best resourced, business focused news rooms in the country. Our readers deserve better than what was served up yesterday by Jock Anderson.

On a personal note, I wish you every success for the new show.

Todd Scott – Publisher
The National Business Review

This is not an apology   Read more »

As you may recall, I reported on the NBR thinking it was funny to have a headline “Duncan Garner Dead” on one of it’s articles.  An article behind the Paywall, so people couldn’t see it was in fact a satirical piece.

It quickly dawned on the NBR it wasn’t really that funny to broadcast to the world that someone had died, for fun.

They published a correction, but now Garner is taking his pound of flesh.

NBR, I suggest you leave the cute Social Media stuff to the cool kids.  Like MPs *snigger*

Here’s just a couple of nuggets from the Duncan Garner interview with current Labour Leader, David um Shearer on asset sales today.

Shearer says he won’t be buying the assets back because “I’m not sure that the economic argument stacks up”, he could become an owner through KiwiSaver, and he can understand why Kiwis might want to invest in Mighty River Power to keep it Kiwi-owned.

All-in-all.. a good chunk of um…