Comments on: News(poll) hits new lows

By: joe2

joe2 — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:24:46 +0000

“…..and ignoring the people who tell them they’re not welcome.”

If I were a cartoonist I would have Turnbull, Sharman Stone and Barnaby in the front row, decorated in leaves with blackface, waving spears at the approaching asylum seekers.

At the back encouraging them, from a safe place, would have to be Dolly and Johny in an appropriate loincloth and stockings for the former, of course.

By: Paul Burns

Paul Burns — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:36:10 +0000

FB @ 56,
Ah. 1788. The indigenous population on the shores of Botany Bay and the cliffs of Port Jackson shook their spears and shouted “Worra, woora, woora”, which politely translated by Captain John Hunter, was supposed to mean “Go away!” Personally, I reckon it meant “Fuck off!”
Funny how this current crop of boat people are behaving exactly like the first lot and ignoring the people who tell them they’re not welcome.

By: Fran Barlow

Fran Barlow — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:14:36 +0000

Have I broken Godwin’s Law?

Smashed it I think. The Newspoll beatup wasn't in the Goebbels big lie class, though it might have lived in the next suburb. It was more a combination of sloppy technique and overexcited journos playing into a well-established narrative: Aussies hate boat people. And let's face it --look what happened when the indigenes let in those boat people in 1788.

By: Paul Burns

Paul Burns — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:58:09 +0000

ABC coverage of the new poll was indeed very muted. When is K.rudd going to put a dose of salts through the place. After all, Ratty had no compunction stacking the board. Time for Goody-Two Shoes to get his act together.
Oh, and if the current Newspoll doesn’t prove the last one was a Goebbels-like lie, nothing does. (Have I broken Godwin’s Law? )

By: joe2

joe2 — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:30:37 +0000

This is how Aunty buried the new Newspoll on it’s site this morning that proved conclusively the last one was crap.(It’s down the end of a totally unrelated report).

Note how they are still rabbiting on about asylum seekers even when there is no evidence it hurt Labor at all or they might have been party to spruiking a dodgy poll, last time, with that as its cause.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/11/17/2744532.htm

By: Paul Burns

Paul Burns — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:49:05 +0000

Because, adrian, as I understand it, the Mafia bloke got his visa because some people in the Mafia in Italy were not happy with him and would have done him some serious damage if he stayed in Italy? That info. is by the way, courtesy of our ABC2 breakfast program yesterday or the day brefore, I think.
OTOH, I too am very very annoyed about the ABC pushing the asylum seeker thing ad nauseam, but if Ministers are going to keep on giving interviews on the topic what is the ABc to do?

By: adrian

adrian — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:11:41 +0000

As discussed on Poll Bludger, could someone please explain why ABC news is still rabbiting on about the asylum seeker issue for all it’s worth, while apparently completely ignoring the Amanda Vantstone links to the Italian mafia story, that you would thinkany impartial news service would at least cover.

By: Zombie Bon

Zombie Bon — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:36:46 +0000

I’d come and eat your brains but from that comment @49, there wouldn’t be much there for me.

By: The Ghost of Shirl

The Ghost of Shirl — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:03:55 +0000

*looks pained*

*wanders off, dragging chains*

By: ACDC

ACDC — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:46:04 +0000

horror show there, right there on my TV …. it’s the 6.30 news