When Savva believes even Bronwyn Bishop it’s time to call her out
Andrew Bolt always says opinions needs facts if a professional columnist what are his? Savva says Bishop claimed Abbott's office instructed her to hold off. Bronwyn Bishop was not only held in high regard by Tony Abbott but Savva cites sources not mentioned by Bolt. Bolt's opinion of her "self serving rubbish". However no sources from Bolt are forthcoming to prove the opposite. So he must think Abbott is an idiot because he certainly doesn't think highly of Bishop.
Bolt does what every amateur opinion writer does and that is proffers a fact-less idea. Abbott has a history of throwing people under the bus when push comes to shove. Slipper, Hockey and Bishop are just a few examples. Why did Abbott wait two weeks if his office didn't instruct him, another captain's call? How does Bolt know what was said privately between Abbott and Bishop? A threat to shame her out ? Was it the sort of threat he'd constructed to shame Peter Slipper out? I guess experience tells us Abbott was the sort of person to do just that and even more if necessary. However with no sources it's just "trashy speculation" on Bolt's part. Why is it Bolt's opinions in so many cases aren't backed by anything solid but those he criticizes are?
What did Keneally know? Why didn’t she speak up?
One thing is for certain while Bolt has access to far more information on a broad scale than I have. Information he tends to manipulate to suit his arguments. He doesn't hesitate to ignore differences in circumstances of space, time , location organization and structure etc to say correlations exist. In order to suggest inferences that simply can't be drawn. The behavior of one man a government official in a heterosexual organization isn't comparable with the behavior of large groups of celibate men in a religious environment with a global history of molestation over a long period of time. The well known suspicions and rumors abounded within the organization of the Catholic Church as opposed to the more fluid movements within governments. The two are simply not comparable. The differences immense yet Bolt like some media fakir or alchemist tries to convince us that these incomparable facts have significance beyond his or Devine's fantasy and in reality they offer up explanations to favor whatever argument he wants to present. In this case Kristina Keneally is comparable to Pell because they are both Catholics leaders of organizations in which sexual molestation occurred.
I guess the Tas Liberals discovering Damian Mantach was a thief covering that up and recommending him to the Victorian party to ransack. Is comparable to the CBA policies of encouraging their financial advisers to ignore the conflict of interest when selling their products. Just take the commissions and smile and accept bank culture. Eric Abetz and CBA executive heads of departments could be regarded as comparable in their actions but they weren't the same. We never did hear a word from Bolt at a time when he was railing about Trade Unions and the culture of corruption and it's attempted cover up. Financial transgressions are common to all circumstances but you'd never bring them together to suggest they were all similar or that it proved unionists were the least guilty even though there are arguments to say they are. Bolt's Devine analogy is Devine nonsense. Square pegs round holes and different colours aren't the same.
On trashing Abbott. UPDATE: Why has Savva kept her job when Akerman and Sattler lost theirs?
" It wasn’t just those rumours, it was everything else to do with their behaviour. Their behaviour, the way they ran the office, the way they ran the government, ultimately led to their downfall." Savva
Andrew Bolt said as much and worse how is it he's hasn't called for his own sacking? He praised and published Paul Sheehan's disgusting racist false hoods about Muslim rape and like thief in the night removed the evidence of his support from his blog. He has been totally silent since. It seems he thinks it significantly different treating something as the truth which he did rather than declaring it just rumor as Savva has. Had Sheehan written it as just a rumor Bolt would have left it standing we can be sure of that.
As for Piers Akerman the ABC is not a publishing company and Savva's publishing company is not an independent but state run broadcaster. The comparison is frivolous. News Corp print press if held to the same standards as Bolt demands of the ABC would have no staff. Bolt in fact was found guilty under Section 18C of racial vilification act but still remains employed. Savva it seems has only been found guilty of abusing Bolt's hypocritical standards. It remains to be seen whether News Corp is prepared to listen to Bolt and have her sacked. I doubt it. Further what was being said by Akerman and Savva is comparing apples with broccoli and simply deflecting the issue to swipe at the ABC
On trashing Abbott
UPDATE"Among the smearing, bitching and score-settling this nugget of good sense from a man I respect:"
The weather cock Bolt has forgotten the days when he was bellowing and railing against Peta Credlin and the PM's office. How he was calling for a total change to Tony Abbott's media advisers and the running of Abbott's office. Bolt in fact was the most vocal insider calling for a change and waiting for Tony Nutt. It's all there in print. Now he's telling us what a love in it all was supporting Savva's reference to the origin of rumors. The man is a documented fool. Abbott’s excuses – » The Australian Independent Media Network
And the Liberals thought they’d be getting a better salesman
"Just look at what Turnbull has (not) done in the six months he has been leader. He has merely kept the foundations Abbott built to win the next election — policies on boats, global warming, free trade deals and union corruption — without building anything of his own on top.
His tax policy is still completely unknown. His own spending cuts are a mystery. Turnbull is still just a big cheesy smile painted on Abbott’s facade."
Does anybody want to remember what Tony Abbott's first six months were about..broken promises. The next two years were about uniforms ,flags, increased security and wanting to take us to war away and at home. He told us what it means to be an Aussie,not Muslim, not gay and married, not jobless and young and not multicultural individuals. But to be an apartheid, self interested, a corporate nation given over to entirely private interests and big business that provided little or no concern in state welfare or of the planet it's citizens unless worthwhile in bottom line terms. Now that's a club most Australians would find hard getting into. That's a club that doesn't need salesmen but only lots of bouncers.
These race claims should be irrelevant. Why encourage them?
Bolt is the absolutist who says race and history are irrelevant. Stop talking about genocide, stolen children, poverty we are all just individuals born on an equal playing field. However he spends an inordinate amount of time telling us we are under attack by anybody who believes otherwise. Any importance to Australian identity is insignificant if outside bolt's parameters. Being indigenous is irrelevant. Bolt hasn't thrown being Dutch overboard however despite the Dutchness he never mentions.
Isn't it great that the children can't be blamed for the crimes of their forebears. If it were the case the generations that came from Aalsmere like Bolt would be constantly reminded of their Nazi past and required to prove their innocence. Bolt rarely talks of his father Michael who seems an enigma. He doesn't mention the history of the anti-Semitic town his forbears came from. I suspect he's too ashamed. How is it that indigenous Australians need be forced to forget and deny theirs rather than remember it with pride? How is it Bolt seems to want to to force them into the shame of wanting to remember.
Yes, maybe, who knows
On trashing the Liberal Party.
An unknown quote by an unknown person unless of course you pay to read. It's " get your Australian read all about it" by paper boy Bolt. Guarantee: It's not exciting and a waste of $$
On trashing Abbott
1 Niki Savva didn't say Abbott and Credlin were having an affair which Bolt would have us all believe. She said that the ACT abounded with rumors so much so that even LNP members believed it. That" trashy speculation " was alive and very real and could have been answered by Abbott & Credlin at any time. What basis has Bolt to declare it just "trashy speculation"? It's what Andrew Bolt is known for hanging his hat on and spreading it's what makes him a non journalist. It's what he's built his celebrity on. He didn't invent it he took it on board 10 years ago when he foregoed being a man of news. He was just a hack opinion writer who wanted to role model himself on O'Rielly and Hannity at Fox News USA and Rupert's News Limited at the time gave him the vehicle. Andrew Bolt just copied "trashy opinion". The Murdoch organization made him.
2 How's this for "trashy speculation" from Bolt about a respected very senior member of the ACT Press Gallery now a senior political editor for News Corp 's national flagship The Australian."So let me understand Savva: she did not contact Abbott and Credlin in part because she thinks they’re liars who’d just lie again?" What is the basis for this factless opinion by Andrew Bolt? Oh his knowledge of book writing!! The one book he's ever published is the best of Andrew Bolt.
3 Bolt moves on to an attack on Concetta Fierravanti-Wells who a conservative even went on to tell Abbott "“Politics is about perceptions,’’ Senator Fierravanti-Wells told Mr Abbott. “Rightly or wrongly, the perception is that you are sleeping with your chief of staff. That’s the perception, and you need to deal with it.’’ Bolt has portrayed her as less than a confidant for warning him. But more so history must remain in the shadows unless useful for the team.
Column - Liberals love Abbott more than Turnbull, but he must change
Bolt's evidence "But then Alston introduced Abbott, and the crowd went nuts. It roared. It cheered. It gave huge applause for the scarred Liberal warrior." is in his own melodrama his operatic fantasy. He just spent this week telling us just how misunderstood Pell was. He got that from 2 years of practice telling us just how misunderstood Abbott was so it's easy for him because nonsense is his shtik. News facts and information have no place in selling News Corp media it's simply a paper for the business of profit and influence 70% Sport Entertainment and fluff 5% News and the rest political influence. Radio's 2GB operates much the same way as does Sky News which represents Rupert Murdoch's business model to a tee.
Tony Abbott's the greatest and is typical you won't find it anywhere else in print in MSM. Why because at the moment somebody needs to distract attention away from Niki Savva's book Road to Ruin. The wounds that still fester Former PM ignores repeated peace-making moves, a new book reveals, and internal ructions persist amid claims Abbott slapped Peta Credlin's behind.
Pell is innocent. See for yourself
20 hours before the Royal Commission he looked tired and spoke as if he was then 6 hours with Bolt in rehearsal with his media man and he was quite chirpy almost as if he was doing an Alan Bond. The memory far less faded. However Bolt has to claim the super reporter ground " I felt seduced by the media praise when I did this, and know I would have been hailed as a hero if I’d kept kicking him, rather than apologising after I rechecked the transcript and realised my mistake." If he was to interview Pell he needed to be on the front foot and he'd screwed up. After all he wasn't a reporter but Pell's Advocate and spin doctor. Pope Francis' cardinal problem or would Bolt now say Pell had a pope problem
"Pell like Tony Abbott is simply misunderstood"He is not as emotionless as he seems." "And, yes, he is the victim of a witch hunt." "how many more people were just as guilty, or far more?" "even parents of those hundreds of victims did not believe their own children" "test yourself, to make sure you are not being unjust to an individual in your fury at his church." Bolt's conclusion if Pell is guilty and Pell said the "Catholic Church does not need to change" he is the least guilty of men.
Many more guilty in the church than Cardinal George Pell
The Bolt Defense
- The Vatican
- The Archdiocise
- Fellow Priests
- The Police
- The Parents
All these evil others
stood in the way of St George. Yet it was the The Catholic Church that
George Pell declared innocent of any systemic guilt. Guilt that Andrew
Bolt principally declares the fault of the Church despite Pell saying
the opposite. So Bolt, a true advocate and in typical spin doctor
style says if George is not totally innocent he's less guilty than
others. Furthermore Bolt even calls forth the grand history of the
Catholic Church to convince us that George's sin is venal if not
original.
Bolt pictures Pell as a Christ like figure standing before his accusers "In short, they seem to me ready to call Pell, the third-most senior Catholic in the world, a liar — and a liar who has lied and lied and lied on oath."He even paints Pell as a humble man. Strips him of his red satin in order to make him look less a prince of the church in order to make him small and seem less guilty "For some people, albeit a minority, that may be even more improbable than Pell’s story — of an honest priest who didn’t notice the evil conspiracies around him, headed by his bosses, until it was too late for hundreds of devastated children."
Bolt pictures Pell as a Christ like figure standing before his accusers "In short, they seem to me ready to call Pell, the third-most senior Catholic in the world, a liar — and a liar who has lied and lied and lied on oath."He even paints Pell as a humble man. Strips him of his red satin in order to make him look less a prince of the church in order to make him small and seem less guilty "For some people, albeit a minority, that may be even more improbable than Pell’s story — of an honest priest who didn’t notice the evil conspiracies around him, headed by his bosses, until it was too late for hundreds of devastated children."
Andrew Bolt has a very sick mind. Pell said the errors committed were those of ordinary men, sinners and that the structure
of the Catholic Church didn't really need change. Bolt's fantasy world however
goes way beyond that and he is almost operatic. " is he the innocent who must now be destroyed to pay for the crimes of his church?"
He certainly doesn't reflect or even pay attention to his reluctant
client who seems a puppet. Andrew Bolt only wants our attention yes but
not for Pell's sake but only to sell News Corp media news, truth and
information have only an accidental place.
Pell asks for an Aussie Fair Go even when it's obvious he doesn't know what that means
Pell asks for an Aussie Fair Go even when it's obvious he doesn't know what that means
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