Previously I have written about the tremendous hypocrisy of the left, today, I return to again share my chagrin for the ridiculous nature of the left.
When things turned ugly, is written by a man described as, “a former problem gambler who has turned his attention to gambling reform and the industry in general. He blogs, he tweets and he often annoys people.” I don’t know whether he ‘often’ annoys people, but he has certainly infuriated me.
In the current political climate, there is a great deal of heat and intolerance in our discourse. This is in no way limited to the right. Is it any wonder why Alan Jones might have taken offence to the suggestion that he had accepted a fee to appear?
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Australians are angry!
Australians are furious with the contempt and the denial of democracy being perpetrated by their government.
Cummings, the author of this piece of propaganda, claims that, “Jacqueline Maley is a journalist; she was doing her job” and he is right. However, what he fails to recognise is the lack of respect displayed by Maley.
Maley was attending a protest, a protest organised and conducted by ordinary Australians, and rather than reporting on the protest, rather than speaking to the truck drivers present in the crowd, rather than asking why they were protesting, she decided to obfuscate the truth. Maley chose to ask if Jones had been paid to attend.
Did Jones step over the line? Perhaps.
But when faced with the unrelenting ridicule of government and unabashed attacked from journalists of the left, it is perhaps understandable for those on the right to be defensive and as a result, to go ‘on the attack’.
I really agree with what you've written here, so often media focus is on the controversial, outlandish rhetoric of the right and doesn't recognise that the left is just as guilty. Though because leftists often position themselves as social progressives in favour of free media they are not scrutinised for the way that they deliver these messages, which is often from a rather imperialistic moral standpoint. Sure, there is great entertainment value in the nonsense of Bill O'Reilly and his ilk, but I agree that sometimes the left isn't much better, fervent in their ideology and refusing to concede to the right. The left is just as stubborn and single-minded and you're right that they come off as hypocrites for accusing the right of the same thing.
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