Perkins and I had our disagreements

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It is in exceedingly poor taste, broadly and with an acute recognition of one's own frailty, to lambaste the recently deceased, when in life one could not have summoned up enough courage to defend one's criticism of him, before his face, so to speak.

Immediately after the death of former Prime Minister Michael Manley in 1997, Perkins took to the airwaves with a blistering attack on Manley, the public man. It bordered on a celebration of his death. As terrible as I saw it - and went on to criticise Perkins harshly in a column -


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In response, Mutty hit back with, "Mr Wignall reminds me of that type of Jamaican with a small brain and a large penis.

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[Islandman]

Good read.

On Manley, Mutty used to say that it was folly to suggest that he should not criticize the sick and the dead, as he was not criticising what they were doing while they were sick (or dead I suppose) , but what they did when they were healthy and strong.

I am sure he would have no problem with being criticized in death and in fact would view those that suddenly started to praise him as hypocrites.