By Alasdair Black
A State Liberal MP in South Australia was was just jailed for defrauding the public purse. Crickets in the National Corporate news media.
You can guarantee if it was a Labor MP, it would be front page in every state, all over the web and would be the leading national news story on TV.
Who said? Quote: “… back and forth between thinking, Trump is a cynical a–hole like Nixon who wouldn’t be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he’s America’s Hitler.”
Or who said? Quote: “You all have friends that are thinking about voting for Donald Trump,” Friends do not let friends vote for con artists.”
Just two quotes of more involved criticisms of Donald Trump, from two Republican politicians.
Have you figured it out yet?
The first quote was from Trump’s Vice President JD Vance and the Second quote was from Marco Rubio, Trump’s Secretary of State.
The Corporate media loves them a bit of blood in water when it comes to current of former Labor PMs.
People currently serving in Trump’s cabinet have been far harsher critics of Trump, saying far worse than Mr Rudd.
But you won’t be hearing that in the Coalition foaming Australian corporate news media.
This is a distracting storm in a tea cup, that the Coalition and corporate media are furiously stirring for all it’s worth. The corporate media have been trying to sell a narrative of tension between Australia and America because of Albanese.
The meeting between Trump and Albanese went so well, the spiteful nay sayers of the corporate newsmedia are spitting the dummie, desperately trying to confect a disasterous narrative about Rudd, because they disapointedly missed the mark with Albo. They want a consolation scalp, to feel justified in their “Labor disasterous for Aus-US relations” narrative.
A narrative they’ve been peddling since the Federal election when they were trying to boost their rightard poster boy, Spud the Dud, who not only got jettisoned out of office at the election, but lost his seat as well.
Boy, are the Coalition-biased media still salty about that.
The successful Albo-Trump meeting is eating their guts out so badly their cognitive dissonance has made them desperate to grasp the next best thing that came along, flogging a long dead horse with their detestation of Rudd. They’ve been predicting Rudd’s downfall ever since he lost office in 2013 and have been obsessed with his downfall – and have been working on it for 12 long years. Mostly because Rudd and Turnbull, another Murdoch Newscorp target, supported a petition for a Royal Commission into the Murdoch Empire’s sinister hold over Australia’s news media. (Although fortunately not as bad as Murdoch’s FOX News America.)
Why the rest of the corporate media pile on is beyond me, it’s the default position of the billionaires that own it, along with their major shareholders.
The Australian corporate news media are being spiteful brats, because their long-composed narrative just took a nose dive and face planted like a dead cat thrown on the White House table for all to see during the meeting between Trump and Albanese.
The Australian corporate news media had to come out with a face saving story to blow up and distract from their now dissipated former narrative.
This will all blow over in short order, but the rightards in the corporate media will stew on it for a while; they love to harbour grudges, especially against the Labor Party and their favourite whipping boy.
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I’m just amazed that ANY politician has been held accountable.
The dummies do not understand Trump or his characterisitics. This was Trump “humour”, self focussed ignorant laughable shitheadery by the Donald, super dickhead and as funny as a boil on the bum. All over. Now, what was that Ley or the New England drunkydribbler raving about..?
I think the corporate media’s faux outrage says more about them than anything else; no longer relevant, just like Ley.
Once again we have been dragged into experiencing more extortion from so called friends desperate to hide their own incompetence, much the same as the zionist lobby took over the country over Gaza.
re. the now-jailed Liberal South Australian MP, Troy Bell… noted that he fought the allegations for eight years, that he never admitted his criminality, that he would appear to fit neatly into that oft-noted descriptive paradigm ‘to the manner/manor born,’ or more crudely, another pig with its snout in the trough and to hell with the consequences.
A fraudster & thief, his disgrace is complete.
Noted also that the Labor Party has, historically, had a few rotten apples but the Liberals/Nationals outweigh considerably on the malfeasance/criminality scale. Never ceases to amaze how smart people can also act so stupidly.
Canguro, re the situation is South Australia, you probably aware that their last leader got busted and sacked for snorting cocaine.
God knows what the reaction could have been if he said some thing like, why all the kids killed in Gaza…antisemitic!
The substance of blancmange. Not even a storm in a teacup. Just an irrelevant whimper, a fairy’s fart, geed up by an alsoran so-called journo exec from the rag-tag losers, Sky. It didn’t work when they revved up Farage to do it a year or so ago. Pathetic then and moreso now.
As for Ley’s act … well there ya go then … zzzzzzz … back to the Puritans for a makeover.