Howdy dear availees...fast becoming the foremost critical issue in this 2022 Federal Election campaign is not the candidates, not the Partys, not the agendas or policy platforms, no, it's the extraordinarily pro-LNP bias of the Main Stream Media and the ABC...(few people expect better from the Murdoch/Costello/Skase controlled MSM, but it's the blatant and relentless pro-LNP conduct of the National Broadcaster that's really depressing/infuriating/concerning many people-Ed)...indeed, and as we've covered many times on this 'ere blog, as the situation has deteriorated over recent years, but it's gotten particularly bad with the Scott 'Scummo' Morrison appointment of Ita Buttrose to ABC Chairperson...(and wholesale recruitment/employment of former Murdoch stooges like David Speers-Ed)...exactly...and in response to this very justified criticism about their blatant bias and non-professionalism, multiple ABC 'professionals' have had a very precious whinge about how nasty Twitter is...(and done so not least of all on Twitter-Ed)...yep, used Twitter to complain about how bad Twitter is...(how very meta of them-Ed)...well some would call it pathetically hypocritical, but whatevs, we quibble over terms...
Basically, these alleged professionals are not used to being held to account for their conduct/opinions, and when that happens, as it can now via media platforms like Twitter, they don't like it...(they don't like it one li'l bit sir!-Ed)...and in their estimation of things, it's not their responsibility to accept criticism and consider the issues raised, etc, rather, they believe they are beyond reproach and are not to be questioned, and therefore it's dirty, broken Twitter that's the real problem...(Twitter and all the grubby proles like us who infest it!-Ed)...exactly...and even more infuriating for these alleged 'professionals' is that there are many on Twitter/Facebook/TikTok/etc whom are far better journos than anything the MSM/ABC can offer...(and in many cases single Twitter/etc accounts, eg, FriendlyJordies, Ronni Salt, Kangaroo Court of Australia, MichaelWestNews, and numerous others, these people are the ones doing actual factual journalism-Ed)...and often/usually on issues that the corrupted MSM/ABC abjectly refuse to even acknowledge-...
So it unfortunately came as no surprise that last weekend (around 15th April 2022) ABC news presenter Fauziah Ibrahim was caught-out for having Twitter Lists entitled "Labor Trolls/Thugs (Trolls)" and "Lobotomised Shitheads (Shitheads)...(wow, she actually wrote that?-Ed)...yep...(and where's the list about 'Liberal Trolls/Thugs'?-Ed)...that's the point, there ain't one...well there ain't any now 'cos she's deleted them, but the good ol' Twitterati have screen-shot saved the originals, as per the link below...forget for a moment that there are/were many very reasonable commentators/journos and even current Labor figures on these lists, it's the obvious bias illustrated by the one-sided collection....(no 'Liberal Trolls' list, and literally every single "Labor Troll" and/or "Shithead" is critical of the LNP and/or the ABC?-Ed)...yep, that's the bias, that's the agenda, and that's why it's of such huge concern that this person is a prominent presenter regularly interviewing Labor politicians and/or Labor/'Leftist' aligned persons...(or doing anything at all related to 'politics' on the National Broadcaster-Ed)...preeeeecisely...
Before these lists were identified/exposed, Fauziah Ibrahim had long-established a reputation for doing the sort of borderline apoplectic, foaming attack interviews on Labor interviewees that one would quite rightly expect from unhinged pro-LNP narcissists like Andrew Bolt, Chris Kenny, Peta Credlin, etc, pretty much anyone on the wildly 'cooked' Murdoch SKY News...scowling, aggressive, belligerent, staccato interruptions, when interviewing anyone Labor, but then smiling, respectful, almost affectionate behaviour when it's someone LNP...(Lisa Millar does much the same-Ed)...indeed...(and Jane Norman, appallingly fan-girl to anyone LNP and scowls and sneers at Labor-Ed)...absolutely...and we're not using "scowls and sneers and foaming at the mouth" as any sort of gaslighting gendered narrative, these people literally scowl/frown and literally snap at and interrupt, etc, etc, and many of their male colleagues do exactly the same, eg, David Speers, Andrew Probyn, Greg Jennet...(oh gourd, Greg Jennet, he is fundamentally unwatchable-Ed)...I know right?...it's all a shits and giggles love-in for one side, and scowls and accusations hurled at the other...and that's the issue...
Just Twitter search Fauziah and you'll find heaps about this...here's a link to one Twitter thread and related comments, regarding this extraordinary turn of events, and including a screenshot of those lists...(I see where there's some discussion about Ibrahim claiming she was hacked, but it's unclear whether that's her actual response or a sarcastic joke referring to Christopher Pyne's laughable excuse when he was caught 'liking' a gay porn account at 2am one morning-Ed)...yeah, not sure about that either, so we'll mention the 'she was hacked' stuff, but leave it at that as an unproven 'something'...
https://twitter.com/search?q=%23FauziahMustGo&src=typeahead_click
Here's someone who found themselves on one of Fauziah's lists...there are also numerous people who have contacted the ABC to lodge official complaints about the lists, but apparently there have been few if any actual responses, and certainly no action against Ibrahim, she was still on-air last weekend...***
And the proof in the pudding that is the rancidly pro-LNP corrupted ABC...(she's got a payrise?-Ed)...not quite...(she'll be hosting Insiders and Q&A this week?-Ed)...no, but I get what you're sayin' there, no, but she was back on ABC News 24 as co-presenter last weekend...multiple as-yet unresolved complaints about a specific, defined, and clearly unacceptable issue...(abusive and biased conduct that directly breaches the ABC's very specific 'Charter' of self-imposed guidelines of acceptable conduct on Social Media-Ed)...yep, and the ABC seems determined to just 'ignore it out', that is, just ignore it and hope the complaints just go away...
But it gets better...(it always does when we're talking about the LNP-Ed)...not my fault, just the way it is...(fair enough-Ed)...last week the wholly corrupted MSM went nut-sack ballistic cray-cray all week about 'Albo's Monster Gaffe' 'cos he fluffed a coupla' albeit important statistics...(it was still being discussed on the ABC yesterday-Ed)...of course it was...but during a presser Scummo thrice referred to "Mr Speaker" when answering a question, something he does dozens of times in a single 'answer' in Parliament...(well that's a concern about his cognitive functioning surely, either not knowing where he is or who he's talking to, or even that he's just such a performative automaton that he can't function 'normally' outside of that rehearsed rhetoric-Ed)...indeed...(and at the very least it's a major 'gaffe' that, had Eggs Over done it, would have been front page for a week across Murdoch's various outlets-Ed)...and on the ABC, absolutely, but not one word...in fact, the ABC played that clip/response with the "Mr Speaker" bits carefully edited out...(wow-Ed)...yep, that ain't an accident, it's quite deliberate, and they replayed that edited clip multiple times across that afternoon and have never once mentioned the "Mr Speaker" bit...
Here's the link to an excellently crafted study into exactly how the MSM/ABC pro-LNP manipulate and quantify the debate...in this instance it's about how Stan Grant repeatedly harangued and interrupted Labor's Chris Bowen, redefined the audience questions to fit LNP rhetoric/ideology, and laughed along with the LNP's Andrew Bragg...
https://twitter.com/strangerous10/status/1514898094231474178
Also, ABC Afternoon Briefing had the Liberal's former Defense Minister Christopher 'Prayer Room' Pyne on and didn't ask him at all about the report that named him as one of the people 'allegedly' having sex with young male sex workers...(commonly being referred to as "rent boys"-Ed)...sure, sex with 'rent boys', in the Prayer Room, in the Federal Parliament building in Canberra...(as covered by the most excellent FriendlyJordies expose we recently posted about-Ed)...yeah, hugely concerning potentially National Security-compromising behaviour from the then Defense Minister, and at the very least, using sex workers to have sex in the workplace during working hours...and not one single word on the rancidly complicit ABC or anywhere else in the wholly corrupted MSM...(despite the fact that the Prayer Room Sex Scandal was first aired a year ago on Channel 10's mainstream program The Project-Ed)...and similarly the MSM/ABC seems entirely disinterested in the rankly corrupt series of connections between the law firm Sparke Helmore that did that supposedly 'independent but never to be released Prayer Room investigation', the $160m SH has received in LNP/government contracts, or that senior SH lawyer Nell McGill is the current Liberal candidate in the seat of Shortland...(well roger me with a prize winning leek-Ed)...perhaps later...anyhoos, here again is the very excellent Michael West article on this issue...
https://michaelwest.com.au/sparke-helmore-has-received-162m-from-morrison-government/
The ABC is also notorious for cutting-off any Labor press conference/announcement...(particularly if it's Anthony 'Eggs Over' Albanese talking-Ed)..indeed, and usually only a few sentences in, and that has continued into the Election campaign, with multiple incidents already of 'failed audio', interruptions, etc, and it's gotten so bad they're even doing lame apologies for doing it and assurances that it is just an accident/unavoidable...(and definitely not a definable pattern of pro-LNP bias and agenda-Ed)...but then continuing to do it...it apparently happened again yesterday...
To close today, a massive cheers to whoevs recorded and uploaded this clip below to Youtube...it's guest commentator Scott Burchill on the ABC calmly eviscerating the entire MSM, including the ABC...absolutely spectacular viewing, please enjoy as much as I have, kudos Mr Burchill...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jwcoEzIvMM
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And even on the ABC's 7.30 program last evening, playing clips of the Leaders Debate on Murdoch's SKY News, they played Scummo's response to a question about the Integrity Commission he promised in 2019, thus promoting his well-rehearsed 'lie' about his '380+page draft', and that 'there's $60m in the budget for it'...(but then cutting Eggs Over's response?-Ed)...not one word...this deliberately gives specific unchallenged credence to Scummo's lies...the reality is that 1)...(virtually every professional commentator has dismissed that 'draft' as un-workably pathetic and pointless?-Ed)...yep, and 2)...(Scummo refused to table his legislation in Parliament, even when directly challenged to by Eggs Over?-Ed)...true again, and 3)...(Scummo/LNP has then blamed Labor, saying it's Labor's fault it was never tabled 'cos they wouldn't unquestioningly support it?-Ed)...yeah, how bizarre is that...(it's some next level gaslighting, that's what that is-Ed)...indeed...
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