Political loyalty
I am beginning to wonder about the nature of the Australian voter.
For the last 2 1/2 years, up until a few short weeks ago, Kevin Rudd
was the most popular Prime Minister that Australia ever voted in.
He won the 2007 election, with the biggest majority ever achieved in
our short Political History. Amongst the faithful, he was the epitamy
of the second coming, who, in spite of 1 or 10 total stuff ups, was
looked upon as the founder of the new vision for Australia. On top of
all that, he took on, a vocally, very loyal woman, as his deputy. Now,
his loyal deputy has stabbed him in the back & done a deal, that will
put the Greens in charge of the Senate.
I have to wonder if Brutus had this level of support after he inserted
the dagger into the back of the allmighty living God, Ceaser?
I would be very interested to know just when and how
Mr Bolt's writings became infallible as he is so often quoted on this site.
It seems to me as long as he is slamming the Labor Party or the Greens'
and writing just how good The Mad Monk is, he is nigh on infallible
according to some in here anyway.
Bolt preaches to the converted as they avidly read his column [b]telling them exactly what they want to hear.[/b]
Notice in the link that koko gave there is not one comment disagreeing with him. Maybe any comments against his rhetoric are edited out.
People here talk about biased reporting, well Bolt beats them all.
Yep fwed my sentiments also.
I thought Political writers were supposed to be neutral
and print the facts not their biased view.
about Mr. Rudd stepping aside for Julia
God dont you just love Labor spin?
STEPPING ASIDE? Oh come now surely you Laborites can do better than this bullshit?
Rudd was electoral poison. Gillard went to him made an agreement about him stepping down. Then once he left the room, found out she had the numbers -- due to factional heavyweights and the unions -- so she welched on the deal and took his bloody job away from him. She virtually [b]forced[/b] the Prime Minister of this country to resign.
Please dont insult honest people's intelligence with this crap, now people are wising up to Gillard being a cold blooded bitch, with hollow policies.
Even the enquiry in to the wasteful BER was rigged.
Well Tanwin can you please explain Just HOW you know the above post to be fact?
You were there when it happened ??
You were told by someone who cannot be named ????
As there were only 3 people at this meeting (Confirmed by K.Rudd and J. Gillard)
I don't think so.
Is there really any need for you to call the P.M. a B***h
She is after all the leader of our country whether you like it or not!!!!
If Mr Rudd can get over the events that happened that day why can't you
I seem to recall that you were one of the ones Baying for Mr Rudd's blood.
Wern't You????
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Bolt preaches to the converted as they avidly read his column [b]telling them exactly what they want to hear.[/b]
Notice in the link that koko gave there is not one comment disagreeing with him. Maybe any comments against his rhetoric are edited out.
People here talk about biased reporting, well Bolt beats them all.
No more or less biased than many comments on here.
Bolt is a [i]columnist paid to write his opinions.[/i]
Also, any facts he quotes are backed up by links to sources.
No more or less biased than someone like Philip Adams [i]who is paid by the taxpaye[/i]r, yet has openly been a member of the Labor Party until Rudd was sacked. I see no point in shooting the messenger. Bolt is read very widely, here and overseas and is entitled to his opinions. He researches extensively.
This is after all a democracy, and he, as is every other journalist or columnist or radio reporter or whoever else, entitled to air his opinions.
Have a read of some of the comments on the ABC's message boards, and you will find they are mainly from the Left. That is their right. I don't go onto their blogs and accuse them of bias....what would be the point? If I go onto [i]their[/i] blogs or any other forums I write [i]my[/i] thoughts and opinions as is my right. If they coincide with a columnist or reporter, so what?
Twould be a very strange world if we all thought the same.
One last thought, Bolt has many times criticised actions of Liberal Party people. He was also openly a fan of Julia Gillard until the assassination.
He also worked for the Labor Party at one time, and not all that long ago either.
koko, I respect your opinion as you are one of a very few liberal supporters who does not insult, deride or be sarcastic to other members of this forum.
But as you choose not to read some blogs, so do I.
I only had a look at Bolt's page because you provided a link to it and along with a few other times I have looked at his writing , I consider him to be biased.
A couple of reporters I think look at both sides fairly are Laurie Oakes and Kerry O'Brien.
I see that some here disagree with me re Kerry O'Brien so maybe I look at him the wrong way.
I think you say Bolt is not biased because he agrees to your way of thinking.
This is not meant to be unfair criticism to you, it is just my personal thoughts.
I agree with you fwed, koko doesn't dump insults on people who don't agree with her point of view, the trait of a true lady. The thread is about political loyalty and koko is a very loyal Liberal supporter but we shouldn't be blinded by it - getting to the stage where we believe that everything the opposition has to say is rubbish. That's why I dislike Bolt - he's totally predictable, he would never criticize the Liberals on anything and that makes him a bad reporter. Laurie Oakes on the other hand gives both parties hard questions.
This is an interesting answer by Annabel Crabb to a question .
Question:
[i]How do journos ensure their own political views don't colour their writing?[/i]
Answer:
[i]Same as usual. The best political journos I know, I wouldn't have any idea how they vote. It's your job not to express a preference for one party over another. I do think sometimes there is a potential for Stockholm Syndrome to develop, where a journo - surrounded exclusively by staff and supporters of one side - starts to empathise with that side. News organisations deter this tendency by swapping staff round regularly so that they don't spend more than a week or two with the same candidate[/i].
From Laurie Oakes column this morning.
[i]There is much joyful dancing on Rudd's political grave. But the ghost of the assassinated leader haunts the election campaign and voters in his home state resent the way he was done in. Gillard's campaign falters.
So she swallows her pride and sends out an SOS asking the bloke whose job she took to come to her rescue. It is political pulp fiction.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/election/will-the-reborn-rudd-be-gillards-saviour/story-fn5zmod2-1225902259065[/i]
Thanks Toot--that article is laughable if it wasn't so darn serious, we really have an interesting time in the next few weeks
Did anyone see Landline today 8-8-2010 ? about how the greens has got the NSW Government to stop the red gum forest logging mainly along the river Murray in a few months,
putting about 500 MEN out of work ,and the NSW Government will get the greens 2nd preferences.in the state election
Oh and people think the greens are wonderful. they don't think of the people they have put out of work no I suppose the great BOB BROWN was behind this,
Now you green voters tell me this right
jessej
I bet those beautiful huge red gums are happy....
Once cut down never to return....
Do we have to use these beautiful trees for furniture etc. NO..........
The way they are going generations will never see a Beautiful Huge Red Gum...
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What about all the jobs because of every new technology for goodness sake
Once upon a time manual labour was the go and not enough man/woman power
to fill jobs.
The Greens have a lot of good things going for them - I know SOME of them are nutters
true enough, but so are many in the Labour and Liberal Party.
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Re clearing for fire hazards etc the Greens sure have it wrong and in fact Greenies cost us
thousands of dollars building huge sheds for our Emus to get in out of the weather etc.
Did they use the sheds? NO - they sat there with our Emus looking at and pecking them
but get in them to sleep/shelter? never.....
Also at Loch Sport where we lived for years the
mosquitoes in their millions there (bringing with them Ross River Fever and other
contagious diseases) love the Tee Tree surrounding the place but the Greenies declare
no person can cut the Tee Tree back at all.
Difficult to say the least knowing which way to vote this time.
All the best
Phyl.
Nicely summed up by Andrew Bolt.
So let’s sum up: the leader whose government lost its way is now rescuing the successor whose campaign has lost its way.
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