New Zealand TV host resigns after sparking diplomatic protest

[Frank Martin]

New Zealand TV host resigns
after sparking diplomatic
protest

Wellington - A controversial New
Zealand TV presenter who
sparked a diplomatic protest by
ridiculing the name of Delhi's
chief minister Sheila Dikshit on
air resigned Sunday.
'It's Dik-****,' Paul Henry said on
Television New Zealand (TVNZ),
'so appropriate because she's an
Indian.'
The Indian government called in
the New Zealand High
Commissioner in Delhi to deliver
a formal protest.
'It was conveyed to him that the
government strongly and
unequivocally denounces the
racist remarks of the journalist in
question,' India's Foreign Ministry
said. 'These remarks are totally
unacceptable to India.'
'I am astonished and dismayed
that my comments have created
a diplomatic incident,' Henry said
in a statement that announced
his resignation.
'My style is conversational and of
course unscripted. I walk the
finest of lines and accept that I
have inadvertently crossed it
from time to time.'
Henry had earlier been
suspended for on-air ethnic slurs
against New Zealand's Governor-
General Sir Anand Satyanand, an
ethnic Indian.
Interviewing Prime Minister John
Key, Henry questioned whether
Sir Anand was really a New
Zealander, and asked whether
somebody who looked and
spoke like one would be
appointed next time.

 

[third eye]

'I am astonished and dismayed
that my comments have created
a diplomatic incident,' Henry said
in a statement that announced
his resignation.
'My style is conversational and of
course unscripted. I walk the
finest of lines and accept that I
have inadvertently crossed it
from time to time.'
Henry had earlier been
suspended for on-air ethnic slurs
against New Zealand's Governor-
General Sir Anand Satyanand, an
ethnic Indian.
Interviewing Prime Minister John
Key, Henry questioned whether
Sir Anand was really a New
Zealander, and asked whether
somebody who looked and
spoke like one would be
appointed next time.

If he is ' astonished' by the reaction to what he said,he needs to get his head examined.

 

[Frank Martin]

If he is ' astonished' by the reaction to what he said,he needs to get his head examined.

Also should install a Filter to his tongue