Andrew Bolt
Essential reading. The Left-wing media (read: the media) have been strangely silent on Julia’s “lie” about a carbon tax, and some have even attempted to portray it as the brave act of a strong leader! Compare and contrast that muted whisper with the cacophony of outrage that would have erupted had Tony Abbott been elected PM in August 2010, and then promptly introduced Work Choices again.
REMEMBER how so many journalists hated John Howard, who nevertheless won four elections in a row?
Remember how almost all the media backed a plan for a republic, only to have it rejected at the 1999 referendum?
How often have we seen this gulf in opinion between the mainstream media and the public they report to?
I suspect Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s lie may be the latest example.
It’s rare to see such overwhelming fury from a public at having been so brazenly deceived by a politician.
Before the election, as everyone now knows, Gillard repeatedly promised she would not introduce a tax on carbon dioxide emissions—in effect, a great green tax on electricity and petrol.
“There will be no carbon tax under a government I lead,” she said.
But six months later Gillard says she will indeed give us that carbon tax, and from next year, without even going to another election for a mandate.
The reason? Just one of the 150 members of the House of Representatives, the Greens’ Adam Bandt, demanded this tax, as did his leader, Bob Brown, holding the balance of power in the Senate.
Everyone knows Gillard broke her solemn word. And a great many people hate politicians lying to them so flagrantly, which is why the talkback lines are smoking, protest rallies are planned, and Essential Research, in a poll this week, detected a huge and election-losing drop in Labor’s support.
But in one part of Australia, that anger is not felt. No zephyr of protest wafts. No objection is raised to Gillard stealing an election with a lie.
That part of Australia is where some of our most influential political reporters and commentators work. To them, it seems, Gillard did no worse than make a compromise, and, indeed, she may have even risen to glory.
Australian Climate Madness 
The problems started when journalists stopped doing cadetships and started doing arts degrees. In the old days, they learnt the ropes by doing the hard yards in the newsroom. They were ruled by editors only interested in the truth and fearful of their newspaper or tv station picking up a tag of biased or incorrect.
Nowadays journalists come straight out of humanities departments at university. They come with an agenda and a pre-conceived desire to change the world. I know some of these people through acquaintences and they are insufferable bores. Always moaning about being underpaid, always moaning about their perceived grievances of the world. Always with a chip on their shoulder, and eager to use news channels as a way to push their barrow and to whack people they don’t like. Perhaps it’s a consequence of the rise of the celebrity announcer or columnist that they all want to skip the news reporting part and jump straight to opinions. It’s no wonder that many newspapers are failing when the product has become so stale and unprofressional. Haters of the coalition forget that 50% of the country support them, and you cannot alienate 50% of your customers and still think your business is going to prosper.
What you say is true brc, but there is another thing to consider and that is that although the journos themselves are not what they used to be,that is pursue and expose the truth no matter where it leads them or at what personal cost, because at the end of the day back in the 1800s The House of Rothchild bought Retuers news service and in the last 20 years Reuters bought Associated Press.These are the two largest wire services in the world,the very institutions where the newspapers get their news.The Rothchilds also own and control the global banking and finance industry,hello carbon tax and ETS>$$$$$$$$$$$
Not only has the media hardly said boo about the “lie”, they’ve been reporting on the Lib’s reactions only; virtually nothing about the public backlash which, by independent outlet reports, is huge.
Where is Newspoll?
It’s just a “jump to the left” – and the Australian Public are expected to bend over and take a “pelvic thrust” from the greens..
SA Liberal Senator Mary Jo Fisher starts out slow…then fires up with this “Time Warp” to the dark ages
Worth a gander…
http://www.abc.net.au/news/video/2011/03/02/3153400.htm
Senator Mary Jo, I think I love you! 🙂
Yes, much of the media certainly leans to the left… and is in limbo now, too scared to attack Gillard like they would have done to Howard. Nevermind… the media will soon learn what Australians think.
Just give us the place, time and date of “Protest Against Carbon Tax” day… and the people will be there… filling the streets, town squares, parks, etc sending Juila the message!
If this Prime Minister is prepared to lie to voters on a matter that was destroying Labor’s campaign in the last election (climate change policy) so as to look less radical and therefore win votes, then she is capable of doing anything at the whim of the Greens.
Gee… Frank is on TV singing… The Lady is a Tramp!
Hang on! Joolia said things have changed since she said there would be no carbon tax. What has changed? Temps have gone done? US House of Reps has resolved to unfund the IPCC? Northern Hemisphere having its third blindingly cold winter in a row? No, what has changed is the Greens and independants are the government. Joolia needs them to maintain her puppet prime ministership, and Labor needs them to maintain their puppet status as the government.