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Scott Morrison won, but can he govern?

After an entirely unexpected election win, Morrison is being hailed as a genius

Matthias Cormann is hailed as a competent strategist.  It was his idea to court Pauling Hanson before the Western Australian state election, and it was his backing that led to Peter Dutton challenging for the leadership.  He retains the Finance portfolio despite his disloyalty and obvious inability to count.  When he assures us that the economy is strong, it’s about as believable as when he said he was loyal to Malcolm Turnbull.
When you knowingly surround yourself with unscrupulous incompetents for political purposes, the question needs to be asked – were you just trying to win an election or do you seriously want to take on the job of actually running the country?

 Following on from Yesterday


 

How conservative figures turned a flimsy rumor about "concrete milkshakes" in Portland into a meme

  

How Andrew Bolt and Sky News follow Fox Fake News

Good stuff from Fox News who quietly changed its headline that amplified the hoax that Antifa was throwing cement milkshakes at the Proud Boys in Portland without issuing a correction, or even acknowledging it

 While there is plenty of video evidence of people throwing milkshakes, and members of the left-wing contingent were handing them out, there’s no actual evidence to suggest that the “quick-drying cement” rumour is anything more than that -- an unsubstantiated rumour.

 Conservative journalists and commentators began running with the PPB’s tweet as confirmation that there was concrete mixed into the shakes when, of course, this was far from a statement of certainty.

 Fox News published a story to its website headlined “Antifa, conservative protests turn violent as demonstrators throw milkshakes of quick-dry cement at police and onlookers.” Mother Jones reporter Ali Breland noted that Fox later quietly edited its headline to remove the reference to the milkshakes without issuing a correction.
 https://iview.abc.net.au/show/media-watch/series/0/video/FA1835H021S00
Paul Barry Media Catches Andrew Bolt out again for Faking Facts Like the ban on plastic bags will
 wreck the economy. Bolt just prattles on withotfacts to back up anything he reall has to say. He delivers
it as information but it's fake and without fact.