‘Honestly Speaking’ is no VIP mouthpiece – Claude O. Skelton Cline
At a VIP press conference on Saturday, December 1, 2018, Mr Skelton-Cline was confronted on whether “Honestly Speaking” is a VIP slanted one, to which he responded emphatically, “absolutely not.”
He instead proffered, “I suspect and they have been invited, I suspect persons are cautious about coming on my programme because they know full well, they would be on the receiving end of thoughtful and provocative questions, that they would not be allowed to get off the hook with superficial and shallow answers and hence you do have to think twice when you agree to come on Honestly Speaking.”
Substantive
He assured, the programme is designed to be one of content, to be substantive both to inspire and to inform.
Asked whether he had been less lenient and critical of the VIP, as against the governing National Democratic Party (NDP), VIP Chairman, Hon Fahie, jumped to the defence stating, “If you are going to slant his show as VIP slash Honestly Speaking, there are a lot of other radio show now and especially in the past that we could have slashed NDP slash whatever they had named.”
He suggested that, “a matter of fact, some of those (NDP slanted) talk show helped put the VIP in the opposition with a lot of misinformation…So they have a hand in a lot of misinformation and they are still walking around here and those have to be cleared up because one of the things the VIP is going to do is we are going to look to the future.”
Meanwhile Skelton-Cline did not hold back his personal political affiliation and made no bones of saying, he is confident that there is no other choice other than the VIP in terms of party that has what it takes to lead the Territory and has committed to sticking with the party.
“What we are saying, no matter what has been your party affiliation we cannot reward failure and the NDP government has failed the people of these Virgin Islands, they have betrayed the trust they have breached the contract.”
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