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Garpal Gumnut

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Whether you voted for or against Ms.Julia Gillard, she is our Prime Minister.

I detect a certain disrespect of her in the bipolar aspects of our media, the ABC on the Left and the Shock Jocks on the Right.

She is the legitimate leader of our Commonwealth, and her treatment by jocks of the ABC and Commercial Radio/TV is a disgrace.

We all have an opportunity to disagree with her via the ballot box, but this pursuit of her , on the one hand by left wanking trolls at the ABC and on the other by right wanking trolls chasing advertising revenue on Commercial TV/Radio, devalues us as a nation.

Let us get some perspective on the political process and not get carried away by onanists.

gg
 
I thought Gillard promised us 'No more political thread starters by gg on ASF' pre-election?
Lying b!tch.
 

And what has inspired this out of character mission of respect for someone who has done nothing to earn our respect, gg?

Unless my memory is letting me down, you are decidedly contradicting many of your previous comments about Ms Gillard.

Or perhaps (sigh) you are just a bit bored, so committed to doing a bit of stirring once again.
 

Many reasonable assumptions Julia.

My main concern is with the Office of PM.

Once louts like the Jones' of this world, take over political stature, the less democratic our society becomes.

She may be a a dill. Whitlam and Fraser were massive dills.

But they were Our dills and had some respect in the meeja.

Future PM's will suffer if the bollocking of this PM by low IQ jocks from the ABC and Commercial Media continues.

And we as a nation will suffer.

gg
 

I think it is completely un-Australian (I know - a hated pepperism) to show respect to anyone in authority just by the nature of their position.
 
Well, on this occasion I shall respectfully disagree with you gg.

I don't listen to Alan Jones unless it has been re-broadcast on the ABC, but am quite happy that he should hold her and her government to account.

It goes some small way to offsetting the ultra left reverence shown to the Labor government by the parliamentary press gallery and the ABC in particular.

People like Mr Jones may be philistines, but they perform a necessary role imo.
 
Respect is usually earned... Why should this be any different? What has Ms Gillard actually done to earn our respect? Lies most certainly don't help.

She wasn't elected by the people - she negotiated her way to the job by pork barrelling with tax payer funds. I understand that the majority of Aussies did not vote for her on primary voting. She only won 72 seats in her own right vs. the coalitions 73. That's not a win in anybody's book.

Although ahead on the 2pp, that doesn't mean anything. Howard won the 1998 GST election with a several seat majority and yet the 2pp favoured labor. It's the number of seats that normally win or lose elections.

When you assume a position or title that is not wanted, lack of respect is a common outcome. Goes with the territory...

lol...
 
Well I have to agree with GG on this one. The particular point he makes is that for lots of very good reasons we should respect the office of PM. In that sense the aggression and sneering of Alan Jones is not a good look.

If we were also trying to have a reasonable debate about what direction the country should be going we would focus attention on policies and policy alternatives rather than shrill diatribes with the argument Big New Tax - end of story.
 
sails said:
Respect is usually earned... Why should this be any different? What has Ms Gillard actually done to earn our respect?
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Yes, respect has to be earned. If she can't stand the heat she should get out of the kitchen

GG, I have this picture of you like a knight in shining armour riding to the rescue of a damsel in distress. Do you know how ridiculous this makes you look. Too many sherbets perhaps? She is a much tougher cookie than you are. She is indeed a lying treacherous rodent, and her carbon tax is founded on lies.

Incidentally, Howard copped far more abuse from his political enemies than Gillard gets.
 
Good heavens GG,

You're not going to slap her tender hand as it reaches into your wallet ?
 
Agree with GG on this..
Jones needs some respect or at least manners..

Watching Q&A people were constantly calling her by her first name.. Perhaps cause she is a younger female ?

When Julia referred to Obama and Clinton she used President Obama and Secretary of state Clinton, she didnt say Barack and Hillary..

Good manners are free
 
Shes horrible... she has no idea what she's doing.

Just put a levy on everything and then carbon tax us all.... she wont make it past the next election anyway.
 
Julia said:
It goes some small way to offsetting the ultra left reverence shown to the Labor government by the parliamentary press gallery and the ABC in particular.
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That is a matter of personal perspective Julia.
Posts yesterday mentioned that Q&A was 60% left, 40% right - that is hardly a balancing act for the pro-right talkback radio/tabloid media that seem to be those most fervently clamouring to the lower depths of political "analysis".
 

Holding a politician to account can be done without resorting to namecalling which, I fear, is an art form employed all too often by Alan Jones and his ilk in the media.

I fervently hope that Australian media does not follow the path blazed by Rupert Murdoch's Fox News but given the concentration of media in his hands, my hope is dissipating.
 
McCoy Pauley said:
I fervently hope that Australian media does not follow the path blazed by Rupert Murdoch's Fox News but given the concentration of media in his hands, my hope is dissipating.
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*shudders*

US Political commentary has already been reduced to whoever can yell the loudest over their opponent. The shrill shrieking of the talkback jocks in Australia is close to on par already.
 
adobee said:
Watching Q&A people were constantly calling her by her first name.. Perhaps cause she is a younger female ?

When Julia referred to Obama and Clinton she used President Obama and Secretary of state Clinton, she didnt say Barack and Hillary..
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This I do agree with. She should not be addressed as "Julia".
 
That was my post. I don't think 60/40 is balanced. In a political program, which it is, why should the audience not be 50/50 with the questions and guests balanced similarly?

Plus you have the added factor of the presenter being absolutely clearly pro government and anti liberal. He sets the tone.
 
GG, just likes to stir the pot. Probably had one over the eight at the Ross Island Hotel.
He has to be a good bloke! He lives in Townssssssssville.
 
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