Alan Jones has no shame

[Macquack]

It is time Alan Jones fell on his sword.

Even by his own admission, he has to "man up".

The man who never admitted to his guilt in the "cash for comments" rort, continually gets away with blue murder.

This time he has gone to far by saying Julia Gillard's father died of shame.

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/alan-jones-has-no-shame-20120930-26t5d.html

 

[CanOz]

It is time Alan Jones fell on his sword.

Even by his own admission, he has to "man up".

The man who never admitted to his guilt in the "cash for comments" rort, continually gets away with blue murder.

This time he has gone to far by saying Julia Gillard's father died of shame.

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/alan-jones-has-no-shame-20120930-26t5d.html

Yup, he's an idiot...but honestly what do you expect from the media these days?

Australians need to tune him out, shut off the radio or switch the station. Until his ratings drop, expect more of the same.

CanOz

 

[Calliope]

I guess we will never know if Alan Jones's father died of shame.

 

[basilio]

Totally and completly mistaken in IMHO.


This is clearly one of the most brazen false flag attacks ever conceived and delivered in political history. In my mind it is clear that Alan Jones and The Murdoch Press have secretly rejoined the Labour party and have achieved a stunning blow to conservative politics.

Lets look at this rationally. The attack by Alan Jones on Julia Giliards family was so over the top and viscious it could only cause revulsion amongst anyone who has vaguely more than cotton wool between their ears. He makes it in large gathering and it is recorded and reported by the Murdoch Press.

Then he comes back with a shambing ridiculous excuse for an apology which simply throws another can of petrol on the fire and confirms the nastiness of his original comments.

Meanwhile the political maestro Julia Gilliard just lets him twist in the wind of public disgust.

So what will the fallout be from this cunning Jones/Murdoch/Labour Party trick ?

1) The next polls will show at least a 2% jump in Labour Party support and probably a 3-5% jump in Julia Gilliards support from all the nuffies who can't see how they are being played.

2) Alan Jones is effectivly lost as a megaphone for the true conservatives because no one will touch him. And anyone who does refer to him will be tainted with the same bucket of bile he so cleverly tipped on the Prime Minister

3) Malcolm Turnball starts to look better and better as an alternative leader .

So in one masterful stroke Alan Jones and the Murdoch Press prove their new found loyalty to the Labour party by publicly destroying one of the most virilent Labour party attack dogs, ensuring it gets plenty of publicity and making it practically impossible to blame the bleeding liberal press or labour hacks for the deed.

And they could almost get away with it unless true conservatives rise as one to denouce this wicked false flag attack and demonstate how Alan Jones and The Murdoch Press are now secretly in cahoots with Julia Gilliard and Malcolm Turnball.

Thats all folks...

 

[Calliope]

Thats all folks...

Promise??

 

[IFocus]

Totally and completly mistaken in IMHO.


This is clearly one of the most brazen false flag attacks ever conceived and delivered in political history. In my mind it is clear that Alan Jones and The Murdoch Press have secretly rejoined the Labour party and have achieved a stunning blow to conservative politics.

Lets look at this rationally. The attack by Alan Jones on Julia Giliards family was so over the top and viscious it could only cause revulsion amongst anyone who has vaguely more than cotton wool between their ears. He makes it in large gathering and it is recorded and reported by the Murdoch Press.

Then he comes back with a shambing ridiculous excuse for an apology which simply throws another can of petrol on the fire and confirms the nastiness of his original comments.

Meanwhile the political maestro Julia Gilliard just lets him twist in the wind of public disgust.

So what will the fallout be from this cunning Jones/Murdoch/Labour Party trick ?

1) The next polls will show at least a 2% jump in Labour Party support and probably a 3-5% jump in Julia Gilliards support from all the nuffies who can't see how they are being played.

2) Alan Jones is effectivly lost as a megaphone for the true conservatives because no one will touch him. And anyone who does refer to him will be tainted with the same bucket of bile he so cleverly tipped on the Prime Minister

3) Malcolm Turnball starts to look better and better as an alternative leader .

So in one masterful stroke Alan Jones and the Murdoch Press prove their new found loyalty to the Labour party by publicly destroying one of the most virilent Labour party attack dogs, ensuring it gets plenty of publicity and making it practically impossible to blame the bleeding liberal press or labour hacks for the deed.

And they could almost get away with it unless true conservatives rise as one to denouce this wicked false flag attack and demonstate how Alan Jones and The Murdoch Press are now secretly in cahoots with Julia Gilliard and Malcolm Turnball.

Thats all folks...

LOL but seriously one problem is the future Liberals attitudes and values are still in the past

More worrying are the circumstances surrounding that evening - that here, we have a University Club made up of Young Liberals (many of whom will no doubt have aspirations to enter politics one day) not only brandishing the kind of obscene privilege that would enable university students to organise and attend exclusive, $100-a-head dinners at posh Sydney restaurants, but also reflecting through their choice of guest speaker exactly where their current politics and values lie. It's evident that the SULC - who, as stated earlier, deleted a next day tweet praising Jones for his 'brilliant speech' - are still firmly tethered to the kind of close-minded, misogynist politics of a man like Alan Jones. The Liberal Party is struggling to discredit their current image of an unprogressive party led by a moralistic misogynist. It hardly bodes well for them to have the public see their most youthful members extending a VIP speaker's invitation to the only man in Australia considered more disdainful of women than Tony Abbott. Nor does it help to hear them braying with laughter at Jones' 'black humour', when those with even a shred of decency would recognise this as a bridge too far. It looks especially bad to see that the SULC's idea of a good jape is to auction off a jacket made out of chaff bags, both signed and successfully bid on by Jones himself.

http://www.dailylife.com.au/news-an...ng-offended-by-alan-jones-20121001-26u7m.html

 

[dutchie]

Alan Jones is a d@ckhead.

He did not apologise because he cannot.

There is no excuse for this type of attack on anyone.

The Liberal Party should condemn him and his words and if they don't they will not be worthy of governing this country.

(Tony do not sit on the fence on this issue!)

 

[Julia]

Alan Jones is a d@ckhead.

He did not apologise because he cannot.

He has said that he was quite wrong to make the remarks. He has attempted to contact Ms Gillard to apologise personally. She has refused to take his call.

The Liberal Party should condemn him and his words and if they don't they will not be worthy of governing this country.

(Tony do not sit on the fence on this issue!)

Both Mr Abbott and Mr Turnbull have condemned the remarks.
The whole issue is now blown out of all proportion and is becoming just silly.

 

[dutchie]

[He has said that he was quite wrong to make the remarks. He has attempted to contact Ms Gillard to apologise personally. She has refused to take his call.

Don't blame her for not wanting to talk to him. I would not either.

Both Mr Abbott and Mr Turnbull have condemned the remarks.
The whole issue is now blown out of all proportion and is becoming just silly.

Abbott has to distance himself and Liberals from Jones and not go on his program.


These people don't think its silly:-


Sponsors that have cancelled:

Freedom Furniture

Challenger

Mercedes-Benz

Woolworths

Lexus of Parramatta

Considering cancelling:

JJ Metro West

Sponsor clarifications:

Harris Partners says it sponsors 2GB, not Jones

 

[pixel]

It is time Alan Jones fell on his sword.

Even by his own admission, he has to "man up".

The man who never admitted to his guilt in the "cash for comments" rort, continually gets away with blue murder.

This time he has gone to far by saying Julia Gillard's father died of shame.

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/alan-jones-has-no-shame-20120930-26t5d.html

http://www.change.org/petitions/2gb...1372&utm_medium=email&utm_source=action_alert

Change.org has opened a "petition" asking 2GB to sack AJ.
While I have my doubts about how effective my vote would be, at least it's a way of letting "them" know.

 

[moXJO]

Abbott is basically called a woman basher by the labor party and just about every misandry loving leftie and just shrugs it off. One redneck shock jock that even the right dismisses as an idiot makes another dumb comment and you think the world is coming to an end. And what is the first thing labor does?
Why attack abbott of course. Complaining about hateful shockjocks while they dish out their own serving. Ah but the whiteknights are all out in force to save the day.

 

[Uncle Festivus]

This says it all........

[video=youtube_share;tB5nhn9ajag]http://youtu.be/tB5nhn9ajag[/video]

 

[Miss Hale]

He should not have said what he did, completely uncalled for and bottom of the barrell stuff. I can never understand personal attacks - just stick to performance if you want to criticise.

I do agree with Julia though, the reaction has been over the top. Everytime I tuned in to ABC radio today they were going on about it.

I was also appalled by a comment from Nicola Roxon that, once again, palyed the sexisim card, she said something like (paraphrasing) "when will these anti-female, disgusting attacks stop". What Jones said was appaling but what was anti-female/sexist/misogynistic about it? Roxon must think we are idiots.

 

[sails]

Firstly, I will say Jones' comments were unacceptable and insensitive.

But no-one has mentioned this from Carr's speech writer? Why are labor so hell bent on cherry picking anything they can and then dragging it on for days and days while conveniently ignoring any such insensitive writings from their own side?

Do labor supporters ALSO condemn this written by Bob Elliss (Bob Carr's speech writer). Or are they just hypocrites?

She fled an important conference, and a meeting with Vladimir Putin, because her father had died at 83, and fled home weeping to Adelaide.

Leaving a battlefield because of a dear one’s death is not what she lets our soldiers do. They must stay, and fight on till battle’s end.

Yet she thinks she is different somehow. She is allowed her girly tears and her time off, playing hookey from her national obligations, her duty.

The latest conference had a day to run. The funeral wouldn’t occur for about five days. There was time to get home and comfort her mum before then. Her sister was on hand, doing so already. Many Australians overseas when a parent dies don’t get to the funeral. That is the way things go sometimes.

But not for Gillard. She is what Schwarzenegger might call a ‘girly man’. She goes AWOL.​

Read more:
Will Carr apologise for the disgraceful comments his speechwriter made about Gillard’s late father?

 

[MrBurns]

Probably shouldn't say this but my guess is that Gillard, rather then being insulted and hurt, is actually enjoying this, watching Jones suffer.
Certainly the rest of her crummy party are.

 

[bellenuit]

I do agree with Julia though, the reaction has been over the top. Everytime I tuned in to ABC radio today they were going on about it.

Apart from being politically biased, doesn't the ABC have a vested interest in getting Jones off the air. I presume Jones has a large audience and the channels he is broadcast on would be in competition to the ABC.

 

[drsmith]

If this is the biggest of the Coalition's problems, the boats have well and truely left with Labor stranded on the dock.

 

[Calliope]

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But no-one has mentioned this from Carr's speech writer? Why are labor so hell bent on cherry picking anything they can and then dragging it on for days and days while conveniently ignoring any such insensitive writings from their own side?

A bit of Bolt hyperbole here. Bob Ellis is usually wrong, but he got this right. He made no comments about Gillard's father, disgraceful or otherwise.

Will Carr apologise for the disgraceful comments his speechwriter made about Gillard’s late father?

 

[drsmith]

As for Alan Jones himself, his greatest contribution to public life was this,

 

[Julia]

These people don't think its silly:-


Sponsors that have cancelled:

Dutchie, for heaven's sake: I wasn't suggesting Jones' remarks were silly. I have already expressed my disgust, though I have no surprise, given this sort of thing characterises him.
I am, however, suggesting the concerted response by Labor, blaming Tony Abbott for 'setting the scene where such attacks are considered acceptable' is way over the top, farcical in fact, and therefore quite silly.
That advertisers should withdraw their business is imo a logical response. We do not need the government's antics in addition.

Everytime I tuned in to ABC radio today they were going on about it.

Exactly. And then it was the lead item on "7.30" this evening.

I was also appalled by a comment from Nicola Roxon that, once again, palyed the sexisim card, she said something like (paraphrasing) "when will these anti-female, disgusting attacks stop". What Jones said was appaling but what was anti-female/sexist/misogynistic about it? Roxon must think we are idiots.

Yes, Labor seems to credit the electorate with minimal intelligence and no capacity to draw their own conclusions.
They are insulting us.

But no-one has mentioned this from Carr's speech writer? Why are labor so hell bent on cherry picking anything they can and then dragging it on for days and days while conveniently ignoring any such insensitive writings from their own side?

Do labor supporters ALSO condemn this written by Bob Elliss (Bob Carr's speech writer). Or are they just hypocrites?

She fled an important conference, and a meeting with Vladimir Putin, because her father had died at 83, and fled home weeping to Adelaide.

Leaving a battlefield because of a dear one’s death is not what she lets our soldiers do. They must stay, and fight on till battle’s end.

Yet she thinks she is different somehow. She is allowed her girly tears and her time off, playing hookey from her national obligations, her duty.

The latest conference had a day to run. The funeral wouldn’t occur for about five days. There was time to get home and comfort her mum before then. Her sister was on hand, doing so already. Many Australians overseas when a parent dies don’t get to the funeral. That is the way things go sometimes.

But not for Gillard. She is what Schwarzenegger might call a ‘girly man’. She goes AWOL.​

Fascinating, Sails. Thanks for this. Clearly it was given no media attention at the time.
One rule for the Left and another for the Right, it seems.

Probably shouldn't say this but my guess is that Gillard, rather then being insulted and hurt, is actually enjoying this, watching Jones suffer.
Certainly the rest of her crummy party are.

I almost made the same observation earlier today but thought it would be howled down by the Left as being insensitive and unnecessarily political.
But yes, Ms Gillard now may justifiably adopt the moral high ground. Jones' stupidity is manna from heaven for the government.

Apart from being politically biased, doesn't the ABC have a vested interest in getting Jones off the air. I presume Jones has a large audience and the channels he is broadcast on would be in competition to the ABC.

Sure. They have certainly milked it to a completely hysterical level.