That spineless toady Michael Parkinson to Jane Fonda: "Do you REGRET..."
Posted by Morrissey on May 20, 2025, 11:48 am
Parkinson once claimed with a straight face that he "should have hit" Muhammad Ali when the great man was ranting at him in a studio interview. Unfortunately, the Barnsley Brawler restrained himself, denying posterity the pleasure of witnessing what no doubt would have been an epic encounter.
The road not taken, and all that.
In this typically dull interview, with an embarrassingly needy film star, his Hanoi Jane reproach comes at about the 12:25 mark...
...and yet wanted us to believe he thought about hitting Muhammad Ali? 'Course you did, Parky! The usually ingratiating, sycophantic ouanqueur, never like Ali, it was plain to see...too much hard hitting truth for him to handle...and coming from a black guy too, who refused the Vietnam war draft and didn't know his place! I despised Parkinson, the little slime monster.