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Soren Gold Member Offline Posts: 25654 Gender:	Re: Is Aunty moving too far right? Reply #30 - Apr 26^th, 2011 at 10:24pm The BBC ABC is not impartial or neutral. It’s a publicly funded, urban organisation with an abnormally large number of young people, ethnic minorities and gay people. It has a liberal bias not so much a party-political bias. It is better expressed as a cultural liberal bias.”
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Reply #31 - Apr 27^th, 2011 at 8:20am

" It’s a publicly funded, urban organisation "

Methinks urban is the keyword above. Had to giggle last night watching dear Graham do the weather. You want detail in NSW? You get one detailed overview of Sydney followed by a regional report covering Western Sydney. You want rural drama? Then watch the horrors of ABC as it parades row after row of slicker stereotypes in RM gear. Perhaps Soren is correct about the 'Abnormally large number of young people'. Perhaps it is just naivette.

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Grey Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 5341 Gender:	Re: Is Aunty moving too far right? Reply #32 - Apr 27^th, 2011 at 10:12am Yep I have to admit Soren's not far off the truth there. Mind you there's quite a few old foggies too.
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Reply #33 - Apr 27^th, 2011 at 10:32am

Grey wrote on Apr 27^th, 2011 at 10:12am:

Yep I have to admit Soren's not far off the truth there.

Mind you there's quite a few old foggies too.

Well Phillip Adams is 72 for one. I always enjoy listening to LNL (I guess I must be a gladdy)

You don't get much more LW than Phillip Adams. He was a member of the Communist Party at one stage. At the same time, he's a multimillionaire and past entrepreneur from his "Life Be in It" campaign.

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Grey Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 5341 Gender:	Re: Is Aunty moving too far right? Reply #34 - Apr 30^th, 2011 at 9:08am From one Glady to another
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Reply #35 - May 3^rd, 2011 at 11:13am

muso wrote on Apr 27^th, 2011 at 10:32am:

Grey wrote on Apr 27^th, 2011 at 10:12am:

Yep I have to admit Soren's not far off the truth there.

Mind you there's quite a few old foggies too.

I always enjoy listening to LNL (I guess I must be a gladdy)

I used to listen to him until about 6-7 years ago but can't any more. He reminds me of the Nietzsche quote about people with shortish attention spans whose minds are perpetaully flitting and darting about like "nature's winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind".

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Grey Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 5341 Gender:	Re: Is Aunty moving too far right? Reply #36 - May 3^rd, 2011 at 11:25am And there's Caroline Jones 73
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Reply #37 - May 25^th, 2011 at 2:33pm

muso wrote on Apr 27^th, 2011 at 10:32am:

You don't get much more LW than Phillip Adams

This is why the left is buggered the world over - the Philip Adamses are its 'intellectual' voice: multimillionnaire advertiser, film producer and tv critic. Only the semi-educated proles would let such a man usurp their political platform.

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Reply #38 - May 25^th, 2011 at 3:50pm

The left is buggered the world over because it handed the reins to communists. Philip Adams never made money, he did creative things. You might as well disbar Bob Marley because he got money. I don't think that left and right positions, which are problematic in anycase, have much to do with money. MORE A Question of individualism Versus totalitarianism. I think capitalism has more in common with communism than communism has with Anarchism. As an Anarchist I feel more in common with conservative libertarians like Ayn Rand and PJ O Rourke than with communists.

The semi educated proles are more often than not to be found amongst the conservative 'aspirational voters'.

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Soren Gold Member Offline Posts: 25654 Gender:	Re: Is Aunty moving too far right? Reply #39 - May 25^th, 2011 at 4:02pm Anarchism is for teenagers. Adams is a 'media studies' type, an urban media junkie and advertising copywriter (where he made his fortune). A talker.
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Grey Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 5341 Gender:	Re: Is Aunty moving too far right? Reply #40 - May 25^th, 2011 at 4:23pm Nothing wrong with being a talker, we are all that. To say that Anarchism is for teenagers just reveals your own ignorance. Adams made money in advertising a long time ago. It is what he has done with his money and said and written, the big ideas he has explored since that matter.
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Reply #41 - May 29^th, 2011 at 8:54pm

Soren wrote on Apr 22^nd, 2011 at 10:52pm:

Australian accused of spying for Hamas
By Middle East correspondent Anne Barker

Wed Apr 20, 2011 11:53pm AEST

An Australian man has been arrested in Israel and charged with working as a spy for Hamas.

Eyad Rashid Abu Arga is a Palestinian refugee who grew up on the Arabian Gulf but later moved to Australia and took out Australian citizenship.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/04/20/3197237.htm?section=justin

This is why I have turned away from the ABC as a news source - it is for lisping, sashaying Darlinghurst types and middle aged shrill women with silly red glasses and dyed hair.

This fvcker is no Australian. He is an Arab with an unknown place of birth who managed to get an AUstralian passport (to add to his Saudi and Jordanian one) under false pretences (there are thousands like him).

For the ABC to refer to anyone with an Australian passport as an Australian is tendentious, mendacious bullsh1t.

Agence France Presse is not better than the ABC:

Family plead for Australian accused of Hamas ties
(AFP) – 7 hours ago

SYDNEY — The family of an Australian man detained in Israel over alleged links to Hamas has called the charges "preposterous" and urged Canberra to intervene.

The Palestinian-born Eyad Abuarga, an information technology expert, was arrested in March as he tried to enter Israel through Ben Gurion airport and charged with "belonging to an illegal organisation", in this case Hamas.

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"My husband cannot admit to something he has not done. I am calling on the Australian government to intervene and to do all it possibly can, to return my husband back to his family and homeland, Australia."

SO now Australia is the 'Palestinian homeland'. They don't even want to return to 'Palestine' any more. And what IS his name? Abuarga? A burqa? Abu Arga?

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Reply #42 - Jun 6^th, 2011 at 5:47pm

Soren wrote on May 25^th, 2011 at 2:33pm:

muso wrote on Apr 27^th, 2011 at 10:32am:

You don't get much more LW than Phillip Adams

This is why the left is buggered the world over - the Philip Adamses are its 'intellectual' voice: multimillionnaire advertiser, film producer and tv critic. Only the semi-educated proles would let such a man usurp their political platform.

Oh, yes. The educated proles get their political platform from Today Tonight.

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Cliff Richard Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 558	Re: Is Aunty moving too far right? Reply #43 - Jun 6^th, 2011 at 6:33pm i love today tonight
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Big Donger Gold Member Online Australian Politics Posts: 102269	Re: Is Aunty moving too far right? Reply #44 - Jun 7^th, 2011 at 12:57pm Honey, I love Chicken Tonight. Go figure.
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