Watching Julia ad libbing on Tony Abbott, sexism and misogyny,
first I was all
then I was
and
before finally being all
Edited to include a link to the full video of Julia’s comments - h/t to delirieuse
So Julia Gillard just tore Tony Abbott a new one…
An article in the Australian yesterday under the title ‘Sick of the drivel’ grossly misquoted me from a speech to the National Press Club on 25 August 2010. Attributed as direct quotations were a medley of quotations taken from other sources in a cut-and-paste collage of misinformation. Of the 157 words used in a key quotation attributed to me personally, only 44 of those words were actually spoken out of my mouth; 15 per cent of those words, including ‘they can damn well change the WoolworthsColes democracy’, were actually those of the member for Kennedy.
That is the misrepresentation. Thirty-five per cent of those attributed to me as direct quotes, including ‘if you people are sick of the nonsense you’ve had to put up with’, were those of the member for New England. Even more concerning, nearly one-quarter of the article—again attributed to me as a direct quotation, including ‘I’m hearing the optimism, I’m hearing the new paradigm vibe’—was in truth the actual words of the Australian’s own chief political correspondent, Matthew Franklin, in his very own question at the Press Club on that day.
There can be little doubt that this menagerie of misquotations from four separate sources goes beyond simple research error and once again raises questions over agendas within political reporting of some publications via misrepresentation.
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Rob Oakeshott, utterly pwning The Australian [the derp of the nation]
Sauce: page 55.
Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) takes down anti-gay witness for mis-characterizing study.
BOOM!headshot.
like a boss.
I LOVE MY SENATOR.
bitch got told.
Al Franken is awesome.
YES
I think this is a simple, to-the-point, great sign.
No woman asks for an act of violence to be committed against them. Nobody.
![thedailywhat:
Last Laugh of the Day: Staffers at the now-shuttered News of the World apparently ignored orders from above to avoid mocking News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks in the tabloid’s final edition, managing to slip a few knocks into the paper’s puzzle page.
The Telegraph reports that clues for the Quickie puzzle included “Brooks,” “stink,” and “catastrophe,” while the Cryptic Crossword contained more explicit slights like “criminal enterprise,” “mix in prison,” “string of recordings,” and “will fear new security measure.”
Perhaps most obvious was the clue for 24 Across: “Woman stares wildly at calamity” — believed to be in reference to a now-iconic photo of Brooks leaving News International HQ after News of the World’s demise was announced.
An unnamed NotW source who spoke with The Daily Mail said two Sun journalists were under orders from Brooks to peruse the paper in search of such “tricks.”
“She brought in two very senior Sun journalists to go though every line on every page with a fine tooth comb to ensure there were no libels or any hidden mocking messages of the chief executive,” said the source. “But they failed and we’ve had the last laugh.”
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Last Laugh of the Day: Staffers at the now-shuttered News of the World apparently ignored orders from above to avoid mocking News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks in the tabloid’s final edition, managing to slip a few knocks into the paper’s puzzle page.
The Telegraph reports that clues for the Quickie puzzle included “Brooks,” “stink,” and “catastrophe,” while the Cryptic Crossword contained more explicit slights like “criminal enterprise,” “mix in prison,” “string of recordings,” and “will fear new security measure.”
Perhaps most obvious was the clue for 24 Across: “Woman stares wildly at calamity” — believed to be in reference to a now-iconic photo of Brooks leaving News International HQ after News of the World’s demise was announced.
An unnamed NotW source who spoke with The Daily Mail said two Sun journalists were under orders from Brooks to peruse the paper in search of such “tricks.”
“She brought in two very senior Sun journalists to go though every line on every page with a fine tooth comb to ensure there were no libels or any hidden mocking messages of the chief executive,” said the source. “But they failed and we’ve had the last laugh.”
vegetarians even
This gives me a happy.
