AUSTRALIA
Daily Mail
By CINDY TRAN FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA
Conservative TV personality Steve Price has come under fire for defending Cardinal George Pell, who is due to testify at the Royal Commission into the child sex abuse.
Appearing on Channel Ten’s The Project on Tuesday night, the radio host slammed comedian and musician Tim Minchin over his new expletive-filled song titled ‘Come Home, Cardinal Pell‘.
In the charity single, Mr Minchin labels Australia’s most senior Catholic ‘scum’ and a ‘god damn coward’ for not attending the hearing as it ‘stinks to the high heaven’.
However, Mr Price – who appeared on the panel alongside hosts Carrie Bickmore, Peter Helliar and Waleed Aly – criticised the tune as an ‘insult’ after it debuted on the Network Ten program.
‘Look, obviously, Tim Minchin feels really strongly about that but I just think it’s really disgusting the way he resorted to personal abuse there of George Pell,’ Mr Price said.
‘To write a song like that and use your talent to just simply abuse someone from a distance, I think is just pathetic.’
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