Post by pim on Oct 8, 2012 0:26:42 GMT 10
I agree that the Labor Party is milking the "Tony doesn't get it about women" thing for all it's worth and there's quite probably a lot of fatuous nonsense to it all.
It's called "politics, australian style".
Here's how it works:
You take an issue like, say, the carbon tax and you work it into every utterance you make. It helps if you can blackguard the other side too so you attribute every sort of moral turpitude to the other side and it also helps if you have Hate Radio whip up a lynch mob mentality.
For their part the other side dredges up damaging material from 30 years ago and attributes all sorts of sexist moral turpitude to the leader of the other side. It helps to have a Handbag Hit Squad to have carriage of that one. This was given a big boost by Mr Hate Radio Himself having a brain explosion at a dinner and all the bats from hell flew out of his mouth.
The sledging contest is by no means over and there's plenty of moral turpitude still to come for everyone. But right now I'd say the Handbag Hit Squad is doing rather well.
The reason is the way Tony has handled the handbags that the Handbag Hit Squad have swung at his head. It's like this: just as it sounds pretty lame when someone who makes racist comments about Aborigines protests: "Some of my best friends are Aborigines!", so too does it sound pretty lame when a guy suspected of behaving like a bully to women starts protesting that "some of my best friends are women" by trotting out his wife, his daughters, his Mum, his sister and even his pet dog who also happens to be female.
He's hanging a lantern over the problem. He doesn't get it.
It's called "politics, australian style".
Here's how it works:
You take an issue like, say, the carbon tax and you work it into every utterance you make. It helps if you can blackguard the other side too so you attribute every sort of moral turpitude to the other side and it also helps if you have Hate Radio whip up a lynch mob mentality.
For their part the other side dredges up damaging material from 30 years ago and attributes all sorts of sexist moral turpitude to the leader of the other side. It helps to have a Handbag Hit Squad to have carriage of that one. This was given a big boost by Mr Hate Radio Himself having a brain explosion at a dinner and all the bats from hell flew out of his mouth.
The sledging contest is by no means over and there's plenty of moral turpitude still to come for everyone. But right now I'd say the Handbag Hit Squad is doing rather well.
The reason is the way Tony has handled the handbags that the Handbag Hit Squad have swung at his head. It's like this: just as it sounds pretty lame when someone who makes racist comments about Aborigines protests: "Some of my best friends are Aborigines!", so too does it sound pretty lame when a guy suspected of behaving like a bully to women starts protesting that "some of my best friends are women" by trotting out his wife, his daughters, his Mum, his sister and even his pet dog who also happens to be female.
He's hanging a lantern over the problem. He doesn't get it.