The Pits - how low can they get?
By grandpa_lash
@grandpa_lash (5225)
Australia
October 1, 2012 3:58am CST
Media, particularly the radio style talk-back hate hosts, have a lot to anser for. We have one mongrel here in Australia who has taken the art to its extreme.
He gave a speech at a Liberal (Conservative) Party student meeting at a major university last week, and in the course of it he said about our female Prime Minsiter, who he has been lambasting for 18 mothes and whose father died at 83 a couple of weeks ago, "The old man recently died a few weeks ago of shame to think that he had a daughter who told lies every time she stood for parliament.
A senior pressman got the whole thing on tape, and with an ounce of luck this moron will get booted off air, as he so richly deserves.
But he is not alone, there's a whole sub-human tribe of the bast*rds. What do you think should be done with these populist rabble rousers?
Lash
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6 responses
@sid556 (30960)
• United States
2 Oct 12
Like the others have said, the best thing to do is hit the "ignore" button. The paparrazzi (sp) get rich off from exagerated stories and some out and out lies. Why? Because the public just eats it up. Politics is much the same. That statement reflected more about him than it did the person he was talking about.
@yoyo1198 (3641)
• United States
1 Oct 12
The best we can do about them here in the US is refuse to listen to them. We have the radio personalities just like you described, about four of them are in the news pages all of the time. The government 'heads' are actually afraid of them. At least, that's what I think. They have a huge following.
Maybe someone could bring a lawsuit against your rabble rouser. Your Prime Minister? Is it possible that he get kicked off air? I don't know anything about Australian law and politics.
@6precious102 (4043)
• United States
2 Oct 12
Extend to him the same freedoms you expect for yourself, and if you don't like what he's saying, either don't listen or use your voice to expose him for what he is.
@grandpa_lash (5225)
• Australia
3 Oct 12
"or use your voice to expose him for what he is." ..... You mean unlike what I am doing here?
By the way, I don't extend to myself the freedom to make hateful, sexist, bigoted, racist, etc. remarks, which this man and his ilk do constantly on a daily basis, so I certainly ain't extending any to him (them). He also suggested earlier on that the same female prime Minister should be put in a chaff bag and thrown out to sea, in much the way one would drown kittens. He cannot tolerate a woman in power, nor can he tolerate any political stance that isn't extreme Right.
The deputy Prime Minister, Wayne Swan, has certainly raised his voice.
"I'd rather eat cardboard for breakfast than tune in to Alan Jones in the morning. Listening to someone spray his microphone with such vitriol as you're waking up isn't just bad for your eardrums - it's bad for the country. Bully boys and whingers like Alan Jones and his poster boy Tony Abbott (leader of the Conservative opposition party) are trashing our country and filling our national debate with bile, aggression and needless personal abuse."
From what I see in these discussions and from reading news reports, I perceive American politics to be just as filled with bile, aggression and needless personal abuse, also mainly from the conservative side. Makes me so glad I left the conservative fold 40 years ago.
Lash
@thesids (22180)
• Bhubaneswar, India
1 Oct 12
It is unfortunate that politics is nearly the same all across the globe. I was of the belief that such rabble rousers existed here in India and developing countries only where all the politicians cared about is their own good.
Australia is more developed and people have an eye for the facts. (This is what my experience with my Australian Boss tells me). So going by that, I am sure that the people will vote as they think good for the nation. The filth that politics causes exists only because we as voters allow it to exist.
@Tam1204 (59)
• United States
4 Oct 12
Unfortunately, the type of things you are talking about sell. The make money for the radio stations, television, newspapers, etc. It is "accepted" bullying, which has become a hot topic lately. I dont think they should be allowed to spew the vile things that they do in public.
@grandpa_lash (5225)
• Australia
7 Oct 12
The feedback has been surprising, with a number of sponsors withdrawing their support, including Mercedes Benz, which had lent him a courtesy car. Now that's a real kick in the teeth when you come to think of it, since Mercedes Benz supported Hitler, but not Mr Jones. If he didn't have a significant shareholding in the radio station he'd have been sacked by now.
Lash
