Alan Jones has no shame

[banco]

(Leaving out the old biddies who listen to him and would be shocked to hear that Alan is a confirmed bachelor) Alan's problems with women are rather well known.

 

[drsmith]

She was sooo hot.



The subsequent plastic surgery though was much worse than Alan Jones's silly comments.

WARNING: The following video has the capacity to destroy memories of the beauty of young ladies past.


Still, she sounds much better than Celine Dion, and Alan Jones.

 

[drsmith]

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

If "7:30" is anything like the butchery performed on Jennifer Rush's face, I'm not watching it.

 

[drsmith]

I'll finish this little off-topic diversion on a positive note.

Even in a foreign language, she sounded (and looked) much better than Alan Jones, or Julia Gillard.

 

[wayneL]

This is a media shi1tstorm over here as well.

What an over-reaction. AJ is well known as a tosser with a propensity for offensive turn of phrase, but really, what importance is this in in the grand scheme of things.

Nuttin' folks. Just turn off his stupid radio show.

So many major issues need to be faced and people are distracted by a petty slur?

It's just the pathetic "Sorry Industry" gone nuts.

I find some of the reactions (such as the Roxon moron) equally puerile and offensive. But hey, c'est la vie, such is the quality of politicians and people's discernment of them these days, where minor, unimportant issues decide votes rather than important issues.

 

[DB008]

This is a media shi1tstorm over here as well.

What an over-reaction. AJ is well known as a tosser with a propensity for offensive turn of phrase, but really, what importance is this in in the grand scheme of things.

Nuttin' folks. Just turn off his stupid radio show.

So many major issues need to be faced and people are distracted by a petty slur?

It's just the pathetic "Sorry Industry" gone nuts.

I find some of the reactions (such as the Roxon moron) equally puerile and offensive. But hey, c'est la vie, such is the quality of politicians and people's discernment of them these days, where minor, unimportant issues decide votes rather than important issues.

+1

ABC News just ran a 5 minute plus segment on this and the sponsors that are having doubts and might pull out. Surely there are more important issues at hand?

 

[Calliope]

This is a media shi1tstorm over here as well.

What an over-reaction. AJ is well known as a tosser with a propensity for offensive turn of phrase, but really, what importance is this in in the grand scheme of things.

Nuttin' folks. Just turn off his stupid radio show.

So many major issues need to be faced and people are distracted by a petty slur?

It's just the pathetic "Sorry Industry" gone nuts.

I find some of the reactions (such as the Roxon moron) equally puerile and offensive. But hey, c'est la vie, such is the quality of politicians and people's discernment of them these days, where minor, unimportant issues decide votes rather than important issues.

You are exactly right. Also attempts by the right to criticise remarks made by Bob Ellis which they would normally agree with, are equally pathetic. I certainly agree with what he said.

"She fled an important conference, and a meeting with Hillary Clinton, because three of her soldiers had died by gunfire in a war, and went not to the warfront but Canberra. She fled an important conference, and a meeting with Vladimir Putin, because her father had died at 83, and fled home weeping to Adelaide.

"The doctrine of 'Gillard Exceptionalism' should now be abandoned. She should either do the job, or get out of it."

In response to hostile comments on the post, Ellis responded: "A prime minister has a higher duty than the concerns of his/her private life? How contemptible? It's like FDR saying, 'Can't go to Yalta, I'm crippled'."

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...for-attack-on-pm/story-fn59niix-1226486164496

 

[MrBurns]

I think this will blow over fairly quickly now, the comments were supposed to be off the record and I think the sponsors will return and I think after the initial shock people will soon forget, I mean .........who cares ?

Gillard however will milk this for all it's worth and the idiots behind her likewise.

I dont think there'a a compassionate bone in Gillards body and I cant help but think she will play this along to get sympathy. Nothing is more important to her than approval and Jones has played right into her hands.

 

[moXJO]

I think this will blow over fairly quickly now, the comments were supposed to be off the record and I think the sponsors will return and I think after the initial shock people will soon forget, I mean .........who cares ?

Gillard however will milk this for all it's worth and the idiots behind her likewise.

I dont think there'a a compassionate bone in Gillards body and I cant help but think she will play this along to get sympathy. Nothing is more important to her than approval and Jones has played right into her hands.

There is the danger that gillard will look as weak as pi$$ if labor keeps this in the headlines. Libs just need to turn it around as being a case of labor being emotional softies that need a tissue. I seem to remember the abuse heaped on Howard by the unions as being a lot worse than this. Anyone who thinks this whole thing isnt just political spin is fooling themselves.

 

[MrBurns]

There is the danger that gillard will look as weak as pi$$ if labor keeps this in the headlines. Libs just need to turn it around as being a case of labor being emotional softies that need a tissue. I seem to remember the abuse heaped on Howard by the unions as being a lot worse than this. Anyone who thinks this whole thing isnt just political spin is fooling themselves.

The whole way of Governing now is political spin, it's making me sick.

TRhe Libs should ignore it ,it's nothing to do with them and Jones should stop apologising and just get on with it and Gillard can get beck to lying cheating and ruining this country.

 

[DB008]

Newman is getting in on the act too....

'The Queensland Labor Party owes me an Alan Jones-style apology, says Premier Campbell Newman'

CAMPBELL Newman has demanded Labor apologise to all Queenslanders in the wake of broadcaster Alan Jones saying sorry to Prime Minister Julia Gillard about comments he made about her dead father.

Mr Newman on Monday said Mr Jones "had the guts" to apologise to Ms Gillard for suggesting her father died in shame and he would be happy to appear on his program.

However, Mr Newman said unlike Mr Jones, Labor were yet to say sorry for the series of accusations they levelled at him during the March election.

"He (Alan Jones) stood up and apologised," he said.

"Why don't they have the guts to do the same thing?

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/national/the-queensland-labor-party-owes-me-an-alan-jones-style-apology-says-premier-campbell-newman/story-fndo1yus-1226486139256

 

[drsmith]

Niki Savva sums this up well,

As one candid Labor strategist was quoted as saying in The Australian yesterday, if the next election is a referendum on Labor, Labor will lose. Its only hope is to keep attention focused on Abbott.

"It's about scaring people, basically, into having a look at Abbott," he said.

As if on cue, enter Alan Jones, to make indefensibly bad-taste comments about Gillard and her recently deceased father.

However, if Jones was stupid and insensitive -- and he was -- efforts by Gillard's ministers to turn the story against Abbott were unseemly.

Jones's remarks and Labor's response had this in common: they all used a deeply personal tragedy for base political purposes. It was tawdry.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/new...-to-a-march-poll/story-e6frg6n6-1226486136457

 

[dutchie]

This has been a very tawdry event by Alan Jones and the follow up comments made by a number of people.
But I must thank Kevin for giving me something to laugh at;

From the Herald Sun:

Mr Rudd says he backs sponsors withdrawing support from Jones's show.

"I think what this guy suffers from is absolute delusions of grandeur," he told ABC Radio this morning.

(my bold)


It really is amazing how many hypocrites there are with absolutely no idea how idiotic they sound.
Labors Abbott Abbott Abbott squealing is just as crass as Jones comments.

 

[drsmith]

Labors Abbott Abbott Abbott squealing is just as crass as Jones comments.

Labor's over cooked it with the result being the smell of something burning.

Mr Bowen said his wife had simply re-tweeted another person's tweet, which did not indicate an endorsement.

Asked about the tweet, Mr Combet said: “I don't know if that's the case or not. I don't know what was said but if it was something like that was said then I condemn that too.”

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...ence-tony-abbott/story-fn59niix-1226486507321

 

[dutchie]

This sums it up well.

 

[Julia]

But I must thank Kevin for giving me something to laugh at;

From the Herald Sun:

Mr Rudd says he backs sponsors withdrawing support from Jones's show.

"I think what this guy suffers from is absolute delusions of grandeur," he told ABC Radio this morning.

I thought the same. The ultimate irony, really.
The original interview was on ABC Local Radio Evenings last night. Probably pointless, but I sent an email to the producer asking why they are giving a back bencher so much exposure.
Just another example of the ABC fanning the political flames.
They have well and truly overdone it.

 

[dutchie]

Kevin Rudd - "Abbott should sack Alan Jones from Liberal Party"

Duh Kevin don't tell anyone but Alan Jones is not a member of the Liberal Party.


Idiot.

 

[Julia]

How funny. Once again Kev's grandstanding falls flat on its face.

 

[DB008]

John Laws on this topic.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-10-02/laws-labels-jones-comments-an-unfortunate-mistake/4291860?WT.svl=news0

(Same clip, but off youtube)

 

[bellenuit]

I just watched the interview with John Laws on the 7.30 Report. It was mainly about Alan Jones. Although condemning Jones' remark, Laws wasn't very critical of Jones. Leigh Sales expressed surprise that Laws held back, as he and Jones were bitter enemies in the past.

I was thinking afterwards that maybe that was the very reason that Sales decided to interview Laws in the first place. She had sought out someone who hated Jones purely to drag this non-story out a further 24 hours by providing the ABC with a couple of more condemnatory soundbytes that they could air on their news programs.