Peter Costello Thinks The ABC Is Full Of Filthy Lefties
Oh, I am so glad there’s a newspaper out there happy to publish the fabulous opinions of Mr Peter Costello! I love getting hits from his smug-bong. I think I must like punishing myself, like the albino dude in that Michael Moore documentary about the Catholic church called The Da Vinci Code.
Peter has been tap-tap-tapping away at the keyboard and has unveiled a rather brilliant and unexpected thought for someone with a conservative background – the ABC is full of filthy pot-smoking pinko Commie bastards!
I am not now at the mercy of the media so I can afford to say what everyone on the conservative side of politics knows: the ABC is hostile territory.
I once walked into ABC headquarters at Ultimo and was confronted by an employee who began hissing at me. The station manager was so shocked he organised a written apology from management. He told me the employee would be “counselled”. I wasn’t shocked, I knew I was on foreign soil. I never worried about what occurred off air. I worried about what would be broadcast.
The on-air interviewers for the ABC are generally aggressive, which is a pity. In my experience, if a subject is relaxed and lulled into dropping their guard, they are more likely to make revealing disclosures. With the ABC, the line of questioning is always predictable. It always comes from the Labor/Green perspective.
Labor will tell you sometimes it gets a hard time on the ABC – and sometimes it does if it is perceived to be betraying ”true Labor principles” or being too “pro-business” or being insensitive to the environment. But Labor will never be criticised for entrenching union power, or going soft on law enforcement, or spending money it doesn’t have.
There are rural and regional programs that stick to local issues and leave the politics aside. But the flagship national current affairs programs – AM, PM, and The 7.30 Report – have a consistent editorial perspective.
Blah blah blah blah… how much are you paying for Peter Costello’s dead boring column again, Fairfax? At least Andrew Bolt peps up his column with exciting references to “Barbarians at the gate” and “kitchenazi glitterati clanging their saucepans of hate”. I may have made that last one up.
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The ABC’z have hated for the buckets since always.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6PbofLM538
There is bias, both perceived and real, in all forms of media due to the subjective content. Whilst Peter may have taken umbrage with the Politbureau at the ABC, he could always pick up a copy of the Daily Telegraph to get his fix of right wing sensationalism. Anyone who truly expects balanced coverage on a consistent basis from any media outlet is smoking too much of the ABC’s (alleged) weed supplies.
A comment from a weak man who never had the stones to take on Howard, and instead chose to fire shots across the bow from behind a keyboard. Some timely advice Peter and follow the former member for Bennelong into private life with the minimum of noise please.