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well, on the evidence so far, they'll get neither!

it's well known amongst wonk circles that campbell newman genuinely has absolutely no idea what he's doing. like, no idea.

ps. the budget would have gone into surplus this year anyway. just by-the-by

Last edited by Spark (2012-09-12 03:37:14)

#Galaxy Poll NSW Who is the Premier: O'Farrell 62 Other 5 Uncommitted 33 #nswpol #auspol

May have lost a little confidence in democracy.

http://www.news.com.au/national/libs-in … 6477135076

lol, what an idiot

I've noticed many arch conservatives saying people should be deported for holding signs saying "behead those who insult the prophet" and the very next day harp on about free speech because an elected official should be allowed to compare homosexuality to bestiality. What a bunch of halfwits. Take your banjo and your buck-toothed kids and fuck off.

Cybargs wrote:

KuSTaV wrote:

http://www.news.com.au/national/libs-in-crisis-over-hysterical-gay-marriage-claim/story-fndo4eg9-1226477135076

lol, what an idiot

how did we find these assholes

he's a serious lib party right faction leader, and a heavy. one of those cunts who's just impossible to shift.

Dilbert_X wrote:

Jaekus wrote:

I've noticed many arch conservatives saying people should be deported for holding signs saying "behead those who insult the prophet" and the very next day harp on about free speech because an elected official should be allowed to compare homosexuality to bestiality. What a bunch of halfwits. Take your banjo and your buck-toothed kids and fuck off.

Where is the contradiction?

Free speech doesn't cover incitement to murder, OTOH it does cover people making stupid comments, however insulting, as long as they aren't inciting a crime.

Well this put it this way, if I'm offending muslims technically I'm inciting murder because I pissed them off.

The violence committed during the protest is a whole separate issue.

So.. Alan Jones eh.

I just hope Tony Abbott gets a fucking clue. I know lots of people including Nicola Roxon and Bob Carr are calling for Abbott to apologise for another fine example of Alan Jones' displays of idiotic spiteful misogyny but I don't think he should or needs to. But some kind of recognition that Jones is a cunt would do Abbott good, especially given the fact that people will automatically assume Abbott is fine with the comments just by association. Which is a shame as Abbott himself was gracious and kind when Julia Gillard's dad died.

I don't think Abbott is in the wrong at all over the comments but if he had a clue he'd realise that Jones is more trouble than he's worth. Abbott just so loves getting his balls tongued by Jones that he's not willing to distance himself from him.

Also, the Young Liberals who tweeted “brilliant speech by Alan Jones last night.  No wonder he's the nation's most influential broadcaster! #presdientsdinner" afterwards. I guess it was a long speech and that comment was only one part of it. Really though, Jones going on about how Gillard was given an easy ride because she's a woman, that her polling was improving because people felt sorry for her, then going on with that joke about her recently deceased father and repeatedly calling her a liar - which apparently Liberals aren't bored with yet. Is that what people get behind politically? Christ no wonder Aussie politics is just clashing egos and stupid sideshows.

Jones is the chief git in a network of gits that include people like Howard Sattler in WA. It's a shame people like this get their own show in lieu of being thrown out to sea in a chaff bag.

Well apparently they're not distancing themselves from Jones, quite the opposite in fact.

Jaekus wrote:

Ty wrote:

I just hope Tony Abbott gets a fucking clue.

I don't, I want to see him out of politics.

Don't get me wrong, so do I. It's just as things stand he is the most likely person to be the Prime Minister after the next election and I'd quite like him to try and show he'd be, you know, adequate as PM. Nothing he has done so far has shown this.

Alan Jones will always make these daft comments that paint him as the clueless irritable twit he is but while they are generally offensive they are mostly hyperbole and used for some point he was making to back up his twisted little world view. Like "I'm putting her into a chaff bag and hoisting her into the Tasman Sea" comment in regard to Julia Gillard last year. It was a dumbarse comment sure, but it was just an exaggeration, he could have said 'get rid of her' or something along those lines but he wanted to be colourful and came off as insulting. That's his game, that's fine. The comment, however inappropriate, served his argument.

But the comments about John Gillard dying because he was ashamed of his daughter are just mean. Not even a month since he died. My mother lost her father, (my grandfather,) last week, to joke about something like that is ridiculously mean, to joke about it in the way Jones did is even moreso. It serves nothing, it doesn't back up any point Jones was making. It's mean for the sake of being mean. And sure, Jones likely didn't know what he was being recorded, I don't think it's something he would say on his radio show, it just shows what a mean-spirited and hateful little man Jones is.

If the Liberals are so hooked on the love Jones gives them then that's their business I suppose. I just don't know why they would.

No surprise. It's well known that the Libs had a pre-07 dirt file on Gillard, they were both shit-scared of her (this was back when she was one of the country's best political communicators, not one of the worst) and furious that she was so successful.

About an hour ago Tony Abbott was moaning about how the Government blames him for everything regarding the Alan Jones comments.

Maybe he'll remember that next time he's out with the fishing industry people crying about how the carbon tax is responsible for a 400% rise in the cost of some refrigerants, (without noting that the 400% rise was due to a policy to phase out the use of that particular harmful CFC gas that was planned and supported by the previous Coalition Government.)

Abbott says he won't boycott the Alan Jones radio show over the comments. Proves he hasn't learned anything.