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He did go too far, his attitude was it was light a hearted segment but when he persisted it went too far but the annoying part is we will have to hear about this for a week or until the next episode of "Julia is offended by men" hits the news waves.
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/...ifies_abbott_in_a_sexist_menu_based_on_a_lie/The Age editor says sexist and rude menus mocking Julia Gillard are vile:
The Age has long campaigned against sexism and does not regard it as a trivial issue. The emergence, coincidental or not, of a vile example in the form of a menu for a Liberal National Party fund-raiser - supposedly a joke that never made it to the table - is evidence of a culture of sexism in some quarters.
In fact, the menu was not produced for the LNP fundraiser at all, as the editor should know.
It was a private “joke” between the restaurant owner and his son, unlike the sexist and rude menu mocking Tony Abbott which the Age editor distributed to every Age reader this morning in retaliation for something of which Abbott is entirely innocent:
If there was no excuse for the menu drawn up by a restaurant owner as a joke with his son, there is no excuse for this menu drawn up by Age cartoonist Michael Leunig for a collective s****** with more than 200,000 readers. What’s more, the cartoon is based on a lie - that Abbott was somehow implicit in the Gillard menu and needs this payback.
The Age has done to Abbott precisely what it damns when done to Gillard - but done it worse. Here is the typical sanctimony and hypocrisy of the Left, for which there are not principles, just sides.
Vile.
If the past week is anything to go by, we won't have long to wait...
Can't wait for the next attack. The nastier the better.
Don't worry, I'm sure she has a lot more up her sleeve.
The ABC replayed the interview this morning and I would have to say after listening to it that poor old Howard Sattler lost the plot.Does it matter whether it was tongue in cheek? Either way he's a moron. Can you imagine the American press pursuing a similar line of questioning with Obama about his wife?
Or John Howard about Janette being a lesbian, for that matter.Does it matter whether it was tongue in cheek? Either way he's a moron. Can you imagine the American press pursuing a similar line of questioning with Obama about his wife?
Agree.I think Sattler went too far, and got his just deserts, being suspended by the station.
You don't treat any PM like that.
That's disgusting. I'd have thought better of Michael Leunig and The Age should be ashamed.Julia will on doubt be full of praise for The Age's smartarse cartoonist Michael Leunig.:bad:
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Has the cynicism and loathing of Julia Gillard ignited such a level of disrespect that the nation is being subjected to this childish and ugly free-for-all with apparent impunity?
I cannot believe such a hideous level of personal abuse.
Is that recent (this week) ?Julia will on doubt be full of praise for The Age's smartarse cartoonist Michael Leunig.:bad:
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so who knows how low we can go.
The nature of the discussion this week from the PM and her political strategists has been one of distraction.This all revolves around Gillard who stokes the fires and has no respect for anyone and receives non in return.
Even the Prime Minister’s closest allies privately concede her leadership is finished but self-righteously insist they will not get their hands dirty by pushing her out.
Cabinet ministers look hopefully to Bill Shorten to “do something”. At a particularly pathetic moment this week, they argued Bob Hawke should tap Julia Gillard on the shoulder! What courage.
What on earth has happened to our media ? Has the cynicism and loathing of Julia Gillard ignited such a level of disrespect that the nation is being subjected to this childish and ugly free-for-all with apparent impunity?
I cannot believe such a hideous level of personal abuse.
Re Leunig, I would say that he was trying to highlight the 'sexualisation' that occurs when society comments on female figures in the public domain.
That's a generous interpretation, Bushman. Alternatively, I'd suggest he has further diminished himself and The Age by stooping to such muck.Re Leunig, I would say that he was trying to highlight the 'sexualisation' that occurs when society comments on female figures in the public domain.
Maybe. :dunno: Not long ago some of the comments made by the left on Gina Rinehart's body and looks were nasty. Many were on ASF. Clive Palmer seems to have escaped that.
Lets face it Gillard gets insults because .....she's a bitch, plain and simple a smart mouth, lying backstabbing arrogant user.
Nothing to do with her sex in fact she is a disgrace women in general.
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