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WA Senate election. Turn back the Votes
Have wiser heads prevailed?
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.
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
The Left-wing propaganda machine is in full swing....
This one is doing the rounds...
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Lucky there's no validity to it...
The Left-wing propaganda machine is in full swing....
This one is doing the rounds...
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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.
The Left-wing propaganda machine is in full swing....
This one is doing the rounds...
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Don't forget Bill Shorten's quotes.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?
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?
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?
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?
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.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.
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.
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