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ABC is Political

More commentary from Malcolm Turnbull,


Australian Human Rights Commissioner Tim Wilson,


Both government representatives are now boycotting tonight's Q&A.

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-polit...ge-pulls-out-of-qa-appearance-20150629-gi05cy
 

They always try to outdo ISIS or something.

You Deash Death Cult, you reckon you can terrorise Australians? I'll show you!

"All a person need to be a terrorist is a knife, an iPhone, and a victim".
 
How unpalatable they find it, a little taste of their own medicine.

ABC staffers playing the victim for all they're worth. Not much of a sense of irony though.



 
How unpalatable they find it, a little taste of their own medicine.

ABC staffers playing the victim for all they're worth. Not much of a sense of irony though.
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Isn't it the pinnacle of hypocrisy when a News journo accuses his ABC colleagues of bias?

"Here, Pot, meet Kettle. Kettle, this is Pot." comes to mind. Carrying on like kids on a playground.
 
Don't attempt to trivialize this with a straw man argument.

The ABC is the national broadcaster. It has a legal charter to be balanced and impartial. The ABC is funded by taxpayers.

News is a private company, if you don't like their publications, don't read them.
 
Miranda Devine is one of the female journalists that ABC Q&A guest Zaky Mallah is on record as suggesting ought to be gang raped.

His reward - an ABC chauffered appearance on a nationally broadcasted podium, where he could suggest to a Minister of the Crown that he ought to leave the country.

 
It's there to publish stories and points of view that don't get published elsewhere.

Nope, you are wrong. You should check the ABC's own terms of reference. Even if that were the case, should the ABC give favorable treatment to neo-Nazi's cause their view's do not get aired elsewhere?

The same thing is after happening with the BBC, which even the BBC admit is a problem. They commissioned a report a few years ago about it and their own internal findings gave way to a blatant left wing bias. They have no done anything to remedy the situation though.
 
I heard from a debate on ABC that the guy's against ISIS, that he's always been against them and in his blogs have said no Australian should go, that is, do not join ISIS.

ISIS is our number one enemy right?

There are thousands of respectable, knowledgeable, rational Muslims who could have come on and expressed their anti-ISIS views. Apart from the "thrill" factor why choose this guy, with his bomb threats, gangbang twitter accounts and so on?

Duckman
 

I'm sure the ABC got him on for the shock factor, but maybe it's good TV for someone who, like the question he was asking, would have had his citizenship revoke and banish under the current proposed law.

Anyway, I won't be too hang up on ISIS. They're a terrible bunch of crazies and deserve what they're getting... but given how war and politics aren't exactly about good against evil, given how US General Petraeus did spent some $500 million US dollars buying off the Sunni insurgents during the much glorified "Surge" in Iraq and "won", the Saudi being a close ally, the also crazy but more organised Israeli... it's not going to be a big surprise if they're bought off and won't be so evil if it's more convenient and we want peace with honour and all that.

I mean, look at Iran - not so evil now is it? Not that much of an existential threat to Israel now that uncle sam thought maybe having wars on too many front might not be a good idea, especially when it's a proxy with Russia in the Ukraine and another potentially bigger one containing China in the Pacific - you don't really want to be too occupied with other minor fronts in the entire Middle East and North Africa and South Asia.

Man, there's a bunch of wars, potential clashes between major powers, economic collapse (again), climate change and potential natural disaster of biblical proportion... and we're all shook up over some idiot. We are quite the lucky country.
 
Not a word of criticism from the anti Aunty mob about Mallah appearing on Channel 10's The Project the night after the Q&A show.

Kinda makes me wonder whether this is just another anti ABC vendetta rather than any attempt at a rational debate.
 
Not a word of criticism from the anti Aunty mob about Mallah appearing on Channel 10's The Project the night after the Q&A show.

Kinda makes me wonder whether this is just another anti ABC vendetta rather than any attempt at a rational debate.

First you brand them as un-Australian, as leftist socialist fabian lynch mob... then you cut their funding. That'll teach the realist among them to get in line real smart.

I still remember watching Fast Forward way back then when they did a skit during the Howard years where ABC was cut to the point where Kerry O'Brien was presenting the news with just a light globe barely hanging and some fabric for background.

Lucky they got Play School paying for most of the stuff.
 
Not a word of criticism from the anti Aunty mob about Mallah appearing on Channel 10's The Project the night after the Q&A show.

Kinda makes me wonder whether this is just another anti ABC vendetta rather than any attempt at a rational debate.

of course it is.
Abbott is concerned that some sectors of Australia's media are subjecting his irrational scaremongering to scrutiny. Scared that people might see the propaganda for what it is: A grab for ongoing power under the cloak of secrecy and claims of National Security. In reality, it's all about suppression of different ideas that might jeopardise his plans of becoming the Supreme Leader of a White, Catholic Australia, neatly divided in Rulers and Serfs.
 
This thread is getting ridiculous.

So is the rhetoric from the Right Wing loonies.

To see Tim Wilson , Human Rights Commissioner (WTF ???) who has prided himself on defending the rights (as he sees it) of people to be "offensive" suddenly deciding that he and his right wing cohorts have the monopoly on deciding what constitutes offensive behaviour, is completely laughable.

That man's hypocrisy is blatant, he is someone who ideologically dislikes the ABC and will attack it at every opportunity. He has no credibility at all on this issue.
 
Tim Wilson owned the ABC and Tony Jones in particular.

Jones continually interrupted his answers, including a snide comment which Wilson rightly called him out on.
 
It was good to see someone different on the panel-an intellectual.(Krauss). He was able to cut through the tit for tat political crap.
There has to be a better standard of debate and conversation somewhere and you will not find it from politicians and their handmaidens.
Politicians trying to drag the debate down to their level for political advantage like "two bald men fighting over a comb"
 

Are you saying Tony Jones and the ABC are credible?......They set up a "GOTCHA" ambush to embarrass the Liberal Party and it back fired......If the ABC and Jones consider themselves legitimate in what they did, why did they apologize and admit it was a mistake?

I think we all know who lost credibility.
 
I'm disappointed in Jones I thought he was better than that. The show has lost some credibility now.
 
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