Along with many, I too heard you this afternoon, Monday, January 17, 2010 on Lloyd Richardson's 'show'.
And a 'show' it was indeed.
Alas, one fraught with blatant bias and hypocrisy on the part of the 'award-winning' host.
All of a sudden, Mister Man is demanding that his guests are people with 'degrees' to qualify as such.
I remember once been complimented as an 'educated fool' by the 'award-winner'.
Of course, at that time it did not matter to him that this 'educated fool' was one of the very few St. Martiners with a drs.-degree in Biology on St.Maarten.
Nor that 'this educated fool' was the founding-, and first director of both the havo and vwo sections of the MPC.
Perhaps, if the name of the 'educated fool' was another one than Leopold JAMES, it would have seriously mattered.
Now, when you called in today and offered to be on his program to give your opinion on the matter, the 'award-winner' questioned whether or not you were qualified enough to be invited and had the papers to 'prove' being knowledgeable.
This because he would not allow for 'uneducated' people to be his guest and to 'mis-educate' his listeners.
Mon dieu, wattating.
Talking about blatant bias and hypocrisy.
By the way, what degrees, if any does the 'award-winner' himself have to be able to inject his very intellectual opinion on a daily basis into the minds of the listeners ?
But then again, perhaps having been appointed 'award-winner' , is the most credible degree anyhow can ever hope to achieve to be a talk-show host on the 'Friendly island'.
In ending Olivier, as a listener, I would have liked to hear what you had to say and to be able to make my own opinion AFTERWARDS.
Having the 'award-winner' decide that I was not to hear what you had to say as guest, is barely tolerable to me and I am sure many others as well.
Leopold JAMES