The Saint is rather amused - which he can honestly say has never happened with anything this particular chap has done before - by Mike King's recent conversion to become the new self-proclaimed, patron saint of all things porcine.
This "comedian" - and that's a real misnomer if there was ever one - who is actually about as funny as a dose of swine flu, claims he will no longer be the front man for the NZ pork industry. This is despite the fact, he has happily done so for the past seven years and taken an estimated $250,000 in payment for his troubles. King claims he did not realise - despite fronting a national TV advertising campaign on behalf of the NZ Pork Industry for the better part of a decade - that pigs in New Zealand were farmed in less than fairy book fashion. Next thing, King will be telling us that he believes in the tooth fairy, Santa Claus, and that he actually is a witty, funny and entertaining stand up comedian!
Now the Saint is no fan of whingeing, lefty, pain-in-the-arse NZ Herald commentator Brian Rudman, but couldn't agree more with his comments on this subject... "to hear King plead forgiveness on the grounds he didn't know stretched the bounds of credulity. It was like listening to a World War II concentration camp guard claiming afterwards he thought he'd been working at a holiday camp."
Meanwhile, all those punters and latter-day pig lovers around the country who seem to have got themselves all exercised and bent out of shape over the welfare of the nation's pig population, might just want to stop and ask themselves a couple of questions.
Firstly; if animal activist/terrorist group SAFE was actually really so concerned about the condition of the pigs it had filmed with Mike King - rather than it being a pure publicity stunt - why did it take them six months before making the footage available to TV programme Sunday. And secondly, again if they were so conered about the pigs' welfare, why did SAFE want to wait another 48 hours - and yet another TV appearance - before they would give the details of the farm to the authorities for MAF to investigate.
Now we have the fun police - or as they are more commonly known, the Green Party - insisting we all immediately take the bus, train or drive our Toyota Prius's down to the nearest organic shop and demand free range bacon. They neglect to mention that free range pigs tend to eat their young, suffer terrible diseases and costs around $2 a kg more than ordinary pig meat.
Maybe if the Greens concentrated on more important issues like why :.. for the seven days before Duwayne Pailegutu died, he was kept inside his mother and stepfather’s small flat in Nelson - so no one could see he had been beaten so badly he was paralysed, incontinent, and slowly suffocating on his own blood. The left side of his body was disabled after repeated blows to the right side of his head which caused a stroke, and he struggled to eat or drink... as reported recently in the NZ Herald rather than suggesting pointless laws stopping parents discipling their children if they are little shits or worrying about how pigs are housed, they would be a more serious contender in NZ political scene.
Meantime, if sow crates mean that the Saint will never have to put up with seeing Mike King's smug, unfunny, foul-mouth face on our nation's TV screens again then it is a small price to pay.
Bacon and eggs, anyone?
oh how wise is the Saint? I was outraged and incensed by this ridiculous show I even wrote to the Sunday programme to tell them it made me sick to see Mike (not funny at all) King lining his pockets on Pig Welfare after he was quote "fired on Xmas Eve" the guy is a twit with an axe to grind and I can't agree with your comments more! Hear Hear the Saint!!!
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