Watch the leftys heads explode

[IQS.RLOW]

Barnaby Joyce has accepted his nomination for preselection in New England which brings him a step closer to running against Tony Windsor.

Joyce will not only thrash Windsor but with a seat in the lower house, the left will eventually be looking at Abbott and PM and Barnaby as deputy PM.

All we need to do is award Howard the GG role and listen for the crescendo of the howls

[Rorschach]

Ah yes.... the truth and nothing but the truth.... how the media is populated by LW Progs and media bias...

Bank on the wails when Abbott wins the election
* by: Tim Blair
* From: The Daily Telegraph
* April 01, 2013 12:00AM

A COUPLE of weeks ago, following the official apology to Australia's victims of forced adoption, we were given a preview of how the left-leaning media might deal with a potential Tony Abbott government.

During that apology, Abbott joined Prime Minister Julia Gillard in expressing his deep regret over forced adoptions. His words didn't seem particularly inflammatory: "We honour the birth parents, including fathers, who have always loved their children. We honour those adoptive parents who have tried to do the right thing by their children. And we honour all the children, who have tried ... "

By that point, however, Abbott was compelled to halt his speech due to angry shouts from the audience offended by the terms "birth parents" and "adoptive parents". Given the emotion-charged nature of the event, their response was understandable. Grief can lead to furious overreactions and a hunt for scapegoats. Abbott became a target.

The yelling and the screaming, and the apology itself, were largely overshadowed because Labor decided to spend the rest of that day again attempting to destroy itself. But the tabloid Age newspaper, physically and influentially a shrinking Melbourne institution, took a swing at Abbott anyway in the next day's editorial. His use of the term "birth parents" was, wrote The Age, "unfortunately controversial". Abbott had caused "grievous offence". It was a "discourtesy" and "inexcusable".

It quickly emerged that The Age itself had repeatedly referred over the previous couple of years to "birth mothers". Apparently the prefix "birth" is only offensive to the Left when Tony Abbott uses it.

Look for this type of thing to occur throughout Abbott's prime ministership, should he be elected in September. Let's work through a few possible examples:

Scenario: Tony Abbott misidentifies Tanzania as Tasmania during an important speech.

Leftist reaction: Having given Julia Gillard a free pass for her own frequent verbal blunders - including references to "high dungeon", a place called the "hyperbowl", and the "Taliband", a formerly unknown Middle Eastern musical combo - Abbott's Tanzania/Tasmania confusion will be held as evidence of the Liberal prime minister's ignorance and stupidity. Video of the error becomes a Twitter meme.

(Incidentally, a prime minister has already committed exactly the error described. In her closing speech to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in October 2011, Gillard thanked "the President of Tasmania". This appears never to have been reported by either Fairfax or the ABC.)

Scenario: In records of a 1995 interview with Tony Abbott, he off-handedly describes a construction worker and union official as a "big Greek bullshit artist".

Leftist reaction: Outraged response is sought from both the overweight and Greek communities, who both call for apologies. The arts lobby also demands justice.

A planned Q&A program on the incident is abandoned when the studio floor collapses beneath the mass of several obese Athenian poets. An attempted march on parliament by the so-called "Grecian 2000" (in fact just 20 people each weighing 100kg) ends at a souvlaki joint near Belconnen.

(It emerged last year that Gillard, in an interview with former employer Peter Gordon, described former AWU figure and house renovator Bill Telikostoglou as a "big Greek bullshit artist". Not much complaint emerged from the Left, but Bill later had this to say: "I changed my bloody political party to support her. I'm a capitalist and I changed, I joined the Labor Party. She never replies to my emails. I don't think she is a nice person now. I was amazed when I saw what she said.")

Scenario: Tony Abbott imports a senior media adviser on a 457 visa, typically granted in circumstances where Australian applicants are unable to meet required skill levels.

Leftist reaction: Journalists, from whose ranks media advisers often are drawn, boycott press releases from the prime minister's office. Angry speeches at the Walkley Awards denounce a PM who doesn't value Australian media jobs. (Gillard's Scottish-born communications director John McTernan is on a 457 visa. Marvel at the fact that the Prime Minister doesn't believe anyone in Australia could do a better job.)

Scenario: Tony Abbott and treasurer Joe Hockey promise on hundreds of different occasions to deliver a budget surplus, then abruptly cancel that promise, citing global economic factors. Oh, and they also design a mining tax that costs more to implement than it generates in revenue.

Leftist reaction: Suddenly a surplus becomes an extremely desirable outcome, and failure to achieve it is a clear sign of Liberal economic incompetence. As for the mining tax, this is obviously an indication the Coalition is involved in a conspiracy with Big Coal.

Scenario: Tony Abbott invites Kyle Sandilands to Kirribilli House.

Leftist reaction: Thermonuclear meltdown.

[Rorschach]

Policy, not gender, will decide Gillard's fate at ballot box
April 2, 2013
Gerard Henderson
Executive director, The Sydney Institute

If Julia Gillard's supporters really believe the Prime Minister's political discontents are due to prevailing misogyny in a contemporary patriarchal society, they are delusional. Unfortunately they are...

Writing for Fairfax Media last week, left-wing historian Professor Marilyn Lake (me old buddy and delusional LW prog) described Gillard's problems as being due to a gender gap and a generation gap.

If the Gillard government falls, the reason will be found in policy and administration - not gender.

She declared that ''it is now time to say goodbye to the old men of politics - Kim Carr, Simon Crean, Martin Ferguson and Kevin Rudd - and give the new team a go, relieved of the heavy burden of a patriarchal past''.

Lake seems to have acquired an academic fondness for models. To her, it is the old white men who are opposed to the Prime Minister in the Labor Party and the young and the women who support her. This overlooks the fact those advocating a leadership change included former cabinet minister Chris Bowen, who has just turned 40, and former whip Ed Husic, who is 43. Marilyn seldom gets anything right... a LW prog trait.

According to Lake, ''the advent of Australia's first female prime minister … was clearly a shock to the political system and the national psyche''. But was it? In June 2010, Labor parliamentarians replaced Rudd with Gillard because they did not like the way he ran the government and feared that Tony Abbott would lead the Coalition to victory.

In the event, Gillard was moderately successful. She narrowly won a majority of the two-party preferred vote and managed to establish a minority government with the support of independents Rob Oakeshott, Andrew Wilkie and Tony Windsor, along with Greens MP Adam Bandt.

Labor did relatively well after the 2010 election and Gillard earned kudos as Australia's first female prime minister. Newspoll's net satisfaction rating indicates her support went into free fall around February 2011, when she broke her promise not to introduce a carbon tax. Liar Liar Pants On Fire JULIAR....

Since then, Gillard's satisfaction rating has surged and declined but has never approached the positive rating held immediately before and after the 2010 election.

If Lake's theory is correct - and Gillard's prime ministership ''called up the misogyny that lays deep in Australian culture, brought to the surface by the terrifying sight of women in power'' - then Labor would not have done as well as it did in late 2010 and early 2011.

The misogyny/patriarchy interpretation of contemporary Australia appears to be fashionable within academe. No Gerard just with female LW Progs.

Last October Professor Susan Sheridan, of Flinders University, wrote in The Australian Financial Review that Abbott ''inhabits a culture with a long tradition of hatred and fear of women - and he reflects that culture''. Hmmm... I don't know any australian men that hate women... quite the opposite really.

In September last year a couple of dozen academics at the Melbourne University law school - headed by Professor Ann O'Connell - wrote an open letter to all federal MPs. They expressed their ''concern over the lack of respect being shown for the role of Prime Minister of Australia and the vilification of the Hon Julia Gillard MP (an alumna of this law school) personally in that role''.

O'Connell and her colleagues, some of whom were male, linked the vilification to ''the example set by some members of Parliament and by shock jocks and certain cartoonists''. But no one was named.

It is true that, on the web and elsewhere, there have been some sexist attacks on Gillard - principally from some members of what I have termed the lunar right.

But it is also true that John Howard, when prime minister, was abused by sections of the radical left - who were wont to link him with Nazism. Similar barbs have been directed at Abbott.

Successful democratic politicians have long recognised that such verbal anger goes with the job.

The likes of Howard and Bob Hawke did not complain about sledging. Nor did Margaret Thatcher in Britain, Helen Clark in New Zealand or Anna Bligh in Queensland. Nor does Angela Merkel in Germany today. But Gillard is using it as a wedge to try and silence not only the leader of the opposition but any male dissenters.

Gillard is not the first leader in recent memory who has experienced a loss of support in the electorate when, judged by international standards, the economy is in good shape. The economy was doing just fine when Paul Keating and Howard experienced big defeats in 1996 and 2007.

Lake believes ''most women and fair-minded men support [Gillard] in her program of change and her vision of a fairer society''. If this is the case, Labor will win easily in September. If the Gillard government falls, the reason will be found in policy and administration - not gender. Amen to that...

Gerard Henderson is executive director of the Sydney Institute.

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[mellie]

Barnaby Joyce has accepted his nomination for preselection in New England which brings him a step closer to running against Tony Windsor.

Joyce will not only thrash Windsor but with a seat in the lower house, the left will eventually be looking at Abbott and PM and Barnaby as deputy PM.

All we need to do is award Howard the GG role and listen for the crescendo of the howls

I like Barnaby, and think Tony Windsor might as well start cleaning out his desk.

[Rorschach]

Interesting that somebody decided to run against him.

[mellie]

Interesting that somebody decided to run against him.

To whom do you refer?

[Rorschach]

Barnaby...

[mellie]

Barnaby...

Barnaby ran against Barnaby did he?





Again, to whom do you refer?

Who ran against Barnaby, other than who we would expect to run against Barnaby, and why was it so interesting that they did?

You know Rorsch, you can respond with more than one sentence.

[Black Orchid]

I read Rorschach to mean that it is interesting that Barnaby Joyce decided to run against Tony Windsor. Not Barnaby Joyce running against himself.

God knows how anyone else reads posts around here lately

[mellie]

I read Rorschach to mean that it is interesting that Barnaby Joyce decided to run against Tony Windsor. Not Barnaby Joyce running against himself.

God knows how anyone else reads posts around here lately

Even so, why would it be interesting that someone (or even Barnaby) would run against Windsor?

Quite understandable I would have thought...given Windsor has proven himself to be quite the traitor and Labor fan-boy.


Windsor is to the Nationals what Malcolm Turnbull is to Liberals, only Turnbull still has the temerity to call himself a Liberal.


Besides, Windsor is no longer a "National" and hasn't been for quite some time... he was dumped remember, over something to do with drink driving if I recall...well so legend has it.

Was probably the best they could come up with at the time. Who could blame them? He's treacherous.

Anyway.... it's not "interesting" that Barnaby would run against Antony Harold Curties, he's a go-getting self-interested turncoat internationalist who flogged the family farm out from under his family to bankroll his own political career and business interests.

So why does this come as a surprise?



Curties is an interesting surname, i'll give you that.

And it's interesting as to why he changed it to Windsor.

But other than that...I cant see what the big fuss is re- Barnaby taking him on.

It's a good thing.

Wouldn't you agree?