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J o h n S m i t h
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by J o h n S m i t h » Tue May 09, 2017 1:41 pm
Rorschach wrote:Oh dear and I've posted them in the past and now that they've change their stupid website it makes finding those things much much harder if not impossible because they don't seem to keep them anymore.
oh dear... obviously you don't watch the show often enough or are so biased you are clueless about this... that isn't my fault either.
More often than not the "Conservative" voice is outnumbered on the show... just a fact....

don't try to move the goal posts. 4:1 you said. Now stop with the pissy excuses and provide evidence, or admit you're a lying troll.
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by Rorschach » Tue May 09, 2017 2:26 pm
DOLT - A person who is stupid and entirely tedious at the same time, like bwian. Oblivious to their own mental incapacity. On IGNORE - Warrior, mellie, Nom De Plume, FLEKTARD
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by Rorschach » Tue May 09, 2017 2:40 pm
Just one example of many...
Biased Q&A panel ignored the obvious issue
Talking Point
The Australian
12:00AM September 24, 2014
I WAS looking forward to a thoughtful debate on the Middle East when I sat down to watch the ABC’s Q&A on Monday night. Instead there was a panel comprised of two Muslim women, a Greens senator, Labor’s shadow attorney-general, and the federal Justice Minister.
Add Tony Jones and its 4 v 1.
oh dear...
There was no debate, only admonishment from the Muslim women. They were joined by other women in the audience who contributed more admonishment. The Greens senator applauded the admonishments and the Labor spokesman meekly offered platitudes. Host Tony Jones did not ask one difficult question of the Muslims on the panel.
The obvious issue, the brutality of beheadings and crucifixions of civilians and threats for more of the same for random Australian citizens, was not mentioned. The Justice Minister was derided for suggesting he was acting to protect Australians.
I was dismayed by the lack of balance in the discussion. Shame on those responsible.
Even if you don't count Jones and that's virtually impossible the panel would be 3 v 1.... and I've seen several occasions where Barnaby Joyce was in such situations too.
YOU lose again...

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by Rorschach » Tue May 09, 2017 2:45 pm
4 v 1...
IF Q&A is designed to explore issues, question them and inform an audience, it only does so if you are gullible enough to accept a public forum that comprises an audience, a majority of panellists and a presenter who subscribe to a similar view.
Monday night’s effort dealing with terrorism, the Muslim community and planned anti-terror legislation was a classic casebook study in misinformation. A biased audience and biased panel loaded against the only voice of reason, Justice Minister Michael Keenan, who was left to argue the case that we have a problem with extremism and we must deal with it.
In typical ABC fashion, the ploy was to shift the collective blame for the Islamic community’s woes on to all Australians. Predictably, there was no discussion on parental responsibility in Muslim families or on how Muslims could clean up the cancer within.
Well, I won’t be going on a guilt trip with tour leader Tony Jones. The lack of correction or balance by him on many matters was breathtaking.
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by Rorschach » Tue May 09, 2017 2:59 pm
4 v 2...
Tonight’s Q&A does feature three Queenslanders, not one of them is involved in state politics: Craig Emerson (Brisbane, appearing on Q&A for an astonishing 10th time) is the Federal Trade Minister; Senator George Brandis (Brisbane, 8 apps) is the Federal Opposition’s shadow Attorney-General; and Larissa Waters (Brisbane, 2 apps) is a newly elected senator for the Greens. Of the other two guests, Grahame Morris (4 apps) was formerly John Howard’s Chief of Staff and is now a lobbyist for Barton Deakin Government Relations; while the only new face on the show tonight, Liberty Sanger, is a Melbourne-based lawyer working for Maurice Blackburn, as well as the wife of Victorian Labor Senator David Feeney.
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by Rorschach » Tue May 09, 2017 3:06 pm
https://billmuehlenberg.com/2015/06/18/ ... d-bigotry/
5 v 1...
My apologies that I cannot come up with better comparisons here. But this is exactly what just happened tonight on the ABC show Q&A. Christian politician Fred Nile bravely had to go it alone as the only Christian and conservative voice, while the other panellists were all homosexual, lesbian, transgender and so on. Five against one.
It would have been six against one had the usual host, Tony Jones been on. His replacement was only mildly more even-handed (but is also a homosexual!). But just imagine this: here is a network and a show we all pay for with our tax dollars. It has one conservative Christian lined up against five others all antagonistic to him and his position.
And of course we had an audience also filled with homosexuals, drag queens and you name it, all getting a free run to share their emotive stories. So you had a full 90 per cent or more of the time dominated by the pro-homosexual, anti-Christian audience and panellists, with one courageous Christian leader taking them all on.
Leave aside wherever you sit on these issues for the moment. In the simple name of fairness, there should have been a bit more balance here. But no, there was none. All pretence of neutrality or objectivity was blown out of the water tonight.
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by Rorschach » Tue May 09, 2017 3:17 pm
4 v 1...
Michael Keenan vs
Mark Dreyfus, Scott Ludlum, Randa Abdel-Fattah, Tony Jones.
The list goes on and on and on....
Q&A's weekly theme seems to be what Conservative shall we crucify tonight....

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by Bobby » Tue May 09, 2017 10:46 pm
Here it is:
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/qanda/txt/s4643426.htm
DAN TEHAN
So, Virginia, the first thing you have to do to start repaying the debt is to get your budget back in surplus. That is the first thing you need to do. And so, what you will see in tomorrow night’s Budget is us showing the path for our budget back to surplus. And once you can do that, then you can start paying back the debt.
We’ve already paid off $22 billion of debt,
we’re $22 billions of savings since the last election. And you will see us deliver a pathway back to surplus. Then we can start addressing the debt. But until you can get your balance sheet right, you won’t be able to do that. And as we’ve seen, previously, it’s always been a Coalition Government which is able to balance the budget and repay the debt.
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by Bobby » Wed May 10, 2017 6:21 am
Where is an apology from Rorschach?
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