The Australian: my unpublished letters
Posted by John, August 23rd, 2012 - under Free speech, Julia Gillard, The Australian, Tony Abbott.
We all know Rupert Murdoch’s Australian newspaper is big on free speech. (Its own, if no-one else’s.) And investigative journalism. And making sure our leaders are people of integrity. So I thought I’d post the letters I sent to The Australian in the last few days that it hasn’t published. They are in the order in which they were sent, earliest first.
John
19 August
I am looking forward to the Australian prosecuting the possible real criminal case against Rupert Murdoch in Britain with the same vigour you are displaying in splashing the non-case against Julia Gillard on your front pages.
No doubt in the interests of free speech and the much vaunted commitment The Australian has to it this letter will not be published.
20 August
I know you are your own man, Paul Kelly, for you have told us that and we could not doubt you. With a number of Rupert Murdoch’s former senior UK staff charged with criminal offences, when does your incisive questioning of Murdoch begin?
21 August
I am looking forward to the next episode in The Australian’s long running soapie, Unfit to be Leader. Tony Abbott is next for your blow torch, isn’t he?
22 August
There are unanswered questions, but thankfully Paul Kelly is around to pursue those many questions relating to the fitness for office of the next Prime Minister.
Did Tony Abbott really grope Helen Wilson, Paul?
23 August
It is a bit unfair to call this letter unpublished since I have only just sent it, but its chances of publication are zero, so it will be unpublished.
Keep up the good work. I read The Australian to see what the fruitcake faction of capital will be like when their epigone wins government. Scary. Tony Abbott will be Campbell Newman with a lobotomy on steroids. And ice. Yeah, definitely ice.
Oh and in case you missed it here is a link to the Leigh Sales interview with that man of integrity The Australian wants to be Prime Minister. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXhbg80E2JE&feature=player_embedded
Or here http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-08-22/tony-abbott-blames-carbon-tax-for-uncertainty/4216308
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Comments
Comment from John
Time August 23, 2012 at 10:44 am
No need to doubt yourself Paul. Your reaction is perfectly normal, and you are definitely not alone. Hopefully there were hundreds of thousands who reacted in the same way you did. I did, and all of the people I know who have seen it did.
Comment from Ben Courtice
Time August 23, 2012 at 11:17 am
That faraway look in the eyes was presumably just envisioning what he’s going to do to the ABC and Sales when he becomes fuehrer…
Comment from paul walter
Time August 23, 2012 at 4:32 pm
Absolutely, Ben.
In his mind he is the khaki-shirted Man of Destiny but is actually Snoopy on top of the kennel mock-duelling the Red Baron.
But just because he is a deranged fantasist, doesn’t make him less dangerous. A cut snake is the more dangerous,for its anxieties.
Labor’s slimy back door tricks re internet surveillance will make it the easier for him if he gets into power.
Comment from paul walter
Time August 23, 2012 at 10:40 am
I couldn’t believe the Lee Sales interview with Abbott.
I suppose the mistake was made elsewhere.
Tony Abbott’s usual nanny, Chris Uhlmann was somehow missing, inadvertantly not assigned his usual task and then the second complication developed as Lee Sales, presumably suffering some sort of Freudian flashback to earlier times, actually remembered to interview in a manner that was once second nature for ABC current affairs people.
But Abbott’s behaviour and unheimlich delivery of answers to questions asked, quite frankly struck me as very bizarre.
Topic after topic was raised and for each topic, a Lewis Carroll type nonsense answer that would have earned a slap from teacher if given at kindergarten.
The answers to asylum seeker policy were typical: both irrational and furtive and callous.
There was a faraway look from the eyes about the opposition leader that must have many viewers alert, if the likes of myself could catch on.
The longer I watched, the more astonished I became.
I can’t beleive this ramshackle shambles of a human is any fit shape to run a chook raffle at the local, let alone the Australian nation.
Can I hope that someone can come forward with an explanation for it or was it just me.
If so the latter, I must start to doubt myself beyond retrieval.