The Smoking Socks award is presented to a letter writer in a South African paper whose funky smelling socks have induced him/her into a bout of prejudiced stupidity.
This week's smoking socks award goes to the the self righteous Damon Kalvari for his letter to this week’s Jewish Report which sports an off the charts insanity-to-credibility ratio.
In his pathetic letter, Kalvari argues that the SABC was fully justified in axing journalist Paula Slier.
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| Well done Damon...you must be very proud. |
Kalvari is no stranger to IAS. The last time we mentioned him he even dropped a comment defending his puppety attack on the film Obsession.
Kalvari writes
'I suspect the SABC’s axing of Paula Slier’s Ramallah reports to be more a case of quality control than anti-Semitism. Incorrectly reporting Arafat’s death would be considered a very serious error, and I think the SABC was justified. A journalist “on the ground”, close to a story shouldn’t be relying on other news services, especially Sky, not the most credible of news providers in my opinion. I suspect Paula Slier was just watching the TV news, and doing her reporting second-hand. A dead-giveaway is the perfect audio, with no background noise, and no sound-bytes either.’ |
The SABC didn't just blacklist Paula Slier. Does Kalvari side with the SABC's decision to blacklist journalists that were critical of President Mbeki or of the South African government's stance on Zimbabwe?
It's worth noting that Kalvari is actually employed by the SABC he so fiercely defends. He is the content producer for 5FM’s Gareth Cliff show. (He previously worked at Talk-Radio 702.)
Kalvari pretends that its only Paula’s Ramallah reports that were axed when Zikalala actually banned all of her reports. In fact, as Paula revealed to us, she has had problems with Zikalala since she was first employed at the SABC because he feared that he would not get the slants on the reports that he wanted.
Kalvari deliberately smears Paula’s character in what can only be a bid to pander to his bosses at the SABC. His claim that she was ‘just watching the TV news, and doing her reporting second hand” is slanderous and reveals a spiteful, jealous and nasty nature.
Paula was in fact outside the Muqata when she reported on Arafat’s death and despite Kalvari's impertinent analysis, her presence there is indeed confirmed by the live reports that she delivered for 702 over the subsequent two days.
With his assertion that Sky is not a credible source of information, Kalvari reveals a bug-eyed nuts anti-Western bias. It's interesting that he doesn't mention anything about al-Jazeera. Both Sky and al-Jazeera reported on Arafat's death prior to Paula's report.
But these personal attacks are just subterfuge. Zikalala’s own testimony before the commission of enquiry into the SABC blacklist proves that his decision to ban Slier had nothing to do with quality and were purely politically motivated. “From the movement where I come from we support PLO” and the conflict is a “Jewish war”. He described her support for a two state solution as “very, very negative towards us.”
How on earth does Kalvari side with Zikalala on this issue? Do his negative attitudes towards Israel cloud his thinking on every related issue?
Damon Kalvari, while we present you with this award, at the same time we also remove from you any credibility that you may have once possessed.
View previous Smoking Socks Award winners:
- The Red Ronnie Rage
- SA should help the Palestinians
- Bashing Israel over Immigration
- Apartheid Israel
- Kasrils: Zionist myths rooted in racism
- ANC laughs at Jewish Board
- Is Kasrils honest?
- Courageous Iran
- Radical Right Wing Jew: I disengage and I engage
- Two state solution is no answer to the conflict
- Palestinians need a Robert Mugabe
The fact is that to be a fashionable lefty today , you have to be anti-Israel , anti-Western , pro-Third World and Islamic dictatorships and pro-Islamic terror.
This is what guides the likes of Kalvari and ZAPIRO!
Posted by: Gary | November 05, 2006 at 16:25
By the way , my condolences to ZAPIRO , Ronnie Kasrils and Damon Kalvari on the death sentence of their hero Saddam Hussein.
Before I celebrate I will spare his admirers club a thought or two :))
Posted by: Gary | November 05, 2006 at 17:04