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Clutching at Straws?

Somebody call the waaaambulance - the ABC has been mean to Abbott

Tony Abbott used to be a working journalist. In fact we worked at the same mag, The Bulletin, home of Banjo Paterson and Henry Lawson, although none of us ever crossed paths.

Abbott tucked a press ticket into his fedora during the Hawke-Keating era and he could be as bruising in print as he was in the ring at Oxford. About as stylish too.

There is no record of Tony Abbott, two-fisted reporter, giving the government of the day an easy time of it. No free hits. No benefit of the doubt. He earned his pay cheque honestly, by finding things out and telling stories.

Like the Jesuit education he turned his back on, he seems to have forgotten a few things about what reporters do, what role they play in a free society.

Tony Abbott the working reporter, the bloke who paid his bills punching a keyboard, would have laughed in the face of Paul Keating or Bob Hawke if they'd gone whining to their favoured pets in the tame media about not getting the benefit of the doubt, about the press not seeing their interests as being in the national interest. Tony Abbott the journalist would have touched them up good and proper just for the cheek of it.

Tony Abbott the Prime Minister, though? He makes Hawke's constant calls for the waaaaaambulance because some journo, usually from the ABC was mean to him … well, he makes Hawke look like John Howard.

You could cut Howard's fingers off and poke him in the eye with them, he wouldn't blink. He wouldn't give you the bloody satisfaction of it. John Howard might have looked like a brylcreemed super nerd but he was a hard nut who could absorb inhuman amounts of damage without flinching, because he'd learnt that to show weakness was to lose. Spectacularly.

Tony Abbott is no John Howard. His petulant waaaaaambulance call on talkback radio yesterday, whining about the ABC – not individual journalists mind you, the whole institution, thousands of hard working Australians – all of them, his puerile and disgraceful lie that they do not act in the national interest?

That would have made John Howard shudder. Not because Howard loved the ABC. No Prime Minister since Menzies has. But because Howard knew that, as soon as you start complaining, you're done. You look like a loser. You are a loser. You don't look like a bloke who's got the ticker for the hard work.

Abbott disgraced himself yesterday, and he disgraced his mentor in doing it.

Lawson and Paterson would probably be ashamed of him too.
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DB008 said:
Clutching at Straws?

Somebody call the waaaambulance - the ABC has been mean to Abbott



http://www.theage.com.au/comment/blogs/blunt-instrument/somebody-call-the-waaaambulance--the-abc-has-been-mean-to-abbott-20140130-31nt0.html#ixzz2rsLfCIG5
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Yup, they are all running scared, I don't know what of.

Maybe with some good reporting, they can tell me why Abbott has them $hit scared.:xyxthumbs

At the moment it just looks like a bunch of lazy fat ar$ed reporters, trying to find a story without going out of the office.
Also without stepping on Labors toes, it's a hard life, when you've painted yourself into a corner.
All just my opinion of course.
 
The Left-wing propaganda machine is in full swing....

This one is doing the rounds...



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On second thought, mercy please. :eek:

Living the Gillard experience once was bad enough. I think even Labor would like to erase it from their history as they erased her from leading the party to the polls last year.
 
Now they are running with 'Workchoices" to scare people...

This article is a joke. The CFMEU is corrupt and l'm sure that other unions need a good house cleaning too.

Tony Abbott's Royal Commission into unions: It’s all about WorkChoices

PM Abbott knows he must significantly weaken the union movement before he can bring back WorkChoices ”” which is why he needs a union witch hunt, writes Sally McManus.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott and his new Coalition Government have long planned a Royal Commission into the union movement.

This was not, of course, a policy that the Coalition took to the 2013 election.

Such a naked attack would have ‘scared the horses’, exposing what the Coalition has been desperate to hide ”” its plan to reinstate WorkChoices.
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http://www.independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/tony-abbotts-royal-commission-into-unions-its-all-about-workchoices,6115
 
Good article by Amanda Vanstone in today's Age. She espouses a good argument for not helping SPC Ardmona and supports the choice of Peter Cosgrove as governor general then goes onto the attack on Kevin Andrews throwing $20 mil away on marriage counselling.

Then there is the decision to offer couples a voucher for relationships counselling.

Wanting people to have stronger relationships is a very desirable aim. Achieving that is not necessarily simple. Presumably the government is not writing to all newlyweds offering a voucher. That would be like saying: ''Congratulations, you might think you're happy but we're putting 20 mill on the table that says you won't be.''

This decision has all the hallmarks of a government wanting to be seen to do something. That does not make good policy. Consider this: to get this so-called benefit you need to know about it. Unless the government is about to waste a whole lot of money on an advertising campaign, the most likely place you will learn about it is through a counselling business. That is, you are already in the door as a customer. This then becomes nothing more than an industry subsidy disguised as benefaction.

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/comment/ho...nd-your-20m-20140202-31uwz.html#ixzz2sCdMvQMC

Amanda was a very good minister and I wish she hadn't retired. There are too many B team ministers at the moment. I hope Abbott considers a reshuffle, there is plenty of talent waiting at the wings.
 
So_Cynical said:
So she didn't put up with the most vile media campaign ever...want me to go and dig up some quotes from you guys?
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You need a reality check.
What would have happened if Abbott's minders had set up a riot against Gillard.
What would have happened if Abott stood up in parliament and ranted that Gillard is just a man hater. Remember the uproar in the papers when Abbott said to Gillard "you're a piece of work".
Yet the garbage she spewed out without foundation or proof, was hailed as long overdue.
You need to look back through the SMH, Age and ABC to see what a media campaign looks like.lol

You can tell how bad Labor was in government by the fall in support for a republic. People have seen how bad it could be, if meglamaniacs were given absolute control.:2twocents
 
It would be impossible to point out to resident fascists how nasty and sustained the campaign was against Julia Gilliard. You are collectively blind, deaf, dumb and intellectually destitute

For the other 3-4 people who follow this thread who arn't so afflicted a few reminders

1) The chant of Juliar started by the Alan Jones of this world and echoed everywhere.
2) "Put Julia in a chaff bag and drown her at sea" Another Alan Jones special and widely repeated
3) The abusive slogans and posters used at anti government rallies . Seeing the Honourable Tony Abbott under a Ditch teh Witch sign for instance
4) Finally. The absolute deliberate refusal of the Honourable Tony Abbott to say that such personal abuse was inappropriate and should be stopped. That it degraded the office of PM and that discussions should be about policy issues not personal attacks.


The Honourable Tony Abbott let the fires go. They will come back and burn him.

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And wasn't there a ASF thread on teh abuse of politicians ? Or perhaps you can't remember back that far.:mad:
 
basilio said:
Finally. The absolute deliberate refusal of the Honourable Tony Abbott to say that such personal abuse was inappropriate and should be stopped. That it degraded the office of PM and that discussions should be about policy issues not personal attacks.
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And in the end it was Labor and her own sisterhood that ditched her as PM before the electorate got its chance as summed up so well at the time by Liberal Senator Michaelia Cash.

 
Deniers, fascists, faux outrage (and monumental hypocrisy) etc?

Methinks she doth protest too much.

wayneL's Law proven yet again.
 
basilio said:
It would be impossible to point out to resident fascists how nasty and sustained the campaign was against Julia Gilliard. You are collectively blind, deaf, dumb and intellectually destitute

For the other 3-4 people who follow this thread who arn't so afflicted a few reminders

1) The chant of Juliar started by the Alan Jones of this world and echoed everywhere.
2) "Put Julia in a chaff bag and drown her at sea" Another Alan Jones special and widely repeated
3) The abusive slogans and posters used at anti government rallies . Seeing the Honourable Tony Abbott under a Ditch teh Witch sign for instance
4) Finally. The absolute deliberate refusal of the Honourable Tony Abbott to say that such personal abuse was inappropriate and should be stopped. That it degraded the office of PM and that discussions should be about policy issues not personal attacks.


The Honourable Tony Abbott let the fires go. They will come back and burn him.

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And wasn't there a ASF thread on teh abuse of politicians ? Or perhaps you can't remember back that far.:mad:
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Talking about intelectually destitute, deaf and dumb. I notice you are quoting what Allan Jones said.

We are quoting what Gillard said, try quoting any reference to Abbott slagging off or ranting at Gillard.

As for your highlighted paragraph, what a joke, are you saying Gillards personal attack on Abbott in parliament, was about policy.
Your dreaming, or drinking.
 
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