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The Daily Telegraph (Sydney)
19 Mar 2015
What a shameful beat-up by journalists of the Prime Ministerâs St Patrickâs Day âgaffeâ. How deranged have Tony Abbott haters become?
What a shameful beat-up by journalists of the Prime Ministerâs St Patrickâs Day âgaffeâ. How deranged have Tony Abbott haters become?
Sydneyâs Lansdowne Club of Irish Australian businessmen had invited people to come âenjoy a Guinness or threeâ at its annual St Patrickâs Day lunch.
Sydneyâs Lansdowne Club of Irish Australian businessmen had invited people to come âenjoy a Guinness or threeâ at its annual St Patrickâs Day lunch.
Abbott couldnât make it, but sent a short video in which he said this was âa great day for ... everyone who cares to come to a partyâ.
Abbott couldnât make it, but sent a short video in which he said this was âa great day for ... everyone who cares to come to a partyâ.
He was just sorry âI canât be there to share a Guinness or two or maybe even threeâ.
See anything offensive there?
Yet a ninemsn report immediately claimed Abbottâs speech had âbackfiredâ by focussing on âstereotypes around drinkingâ, with âIrish business leadersâ calling it âpatronisingâ.
Yet a ninemsn report immediately claimed Abbottâs speech had âbackfiredâ by focussing on âstereotypes around drinkingâ, with âIrish business leadersâ calling it âpatronisingâ.
In fact, âIrish business leadersâ turned out to be just one person, unnamed. Why the exaggeration?
In fact, âIrish business leadersâ turned out to be just one person, unnamed. Why the exaggeration?
But that was all the media Left needed for yet another pile-on.
âAbbottâs cringe-tacular St Patrickâs Day video,â crowed one Sydney Morning Herald headline.
âAbbottâs cringe-tacular St Patrickâs Day video,â crowed one Sydney Morning Herald headline.
âThe rise and rise of Tony Abbott as an international laughing stock,â gloated another, over a startlingly juvenile article by barrister Charles Waterstreet, abusing Abbott for his âflurry of patronising punishing jabs from his onion-breathed mouthâ.
âThe rise and rise of Tony Abbott as an international laughing stock,â gloated another, over a startlingly juvenile article by barrister Charles Waterstreet, abusing Abbott for his âflurry of patronising punishing jabs from his onion-breathed mouthâ.
The ABC news grimly reported the offence Abbott had allegedly caused before finishing its TV news with its own St Patrickâs Day tribute â with shots of, yes, Irishmen drinking Guinness.
The ABC news grimly reported the offence Abbott had allegedly caused before finishing its TV news with its own St Patrickâs Day tribute â with shots of, yes, Irishmen drinking Guinness.
But hereâs the full measure of these hypocrites.
Abbott is hanged for merely saying heâd like âa Guinness or two or maybe even threeâ.
Abbott is hanged for merely saying heâd like âa Guinness or two or maybe even threeâ.
Yet not one journalist attacked the Labor prime ministers who actually accused the Irish of being drunks.
Julia Gillard in her own St Patrickâs Day tribute to the Lansdowne Club in 2012 joked it was âa very good thing that you all have the weekend to recover from this lunchâ.
Julia Gillard in her own St Patrickâs Day tribute to the Lansdowne Club in 2012 joked it was âa very good thing that you all have the weekend to recover from this lunchâ.
Kevin Rudd in 2009 told St Patrickâs Day guests that âcourtesy of a Guinness or twoâ theyâd muddle their premierâs name.
Kevin Rudd in 2009 told St Patrickâs Day guests that âcourtesy of a Guinness or twoâ theyâd muddle their premierâs name.
In 2010, Rudd added they werenât just drunks but rebels, and âa glass or seven of Guinness is the first step towards fomenting political insurrectionâ.
In 2010, Rudd added they werenât just drunks but rebels, and âa glass or seven of Guinness is the first step towards fomenting political insurrectionâ.
And he offered to open âthe Lodge to all Irish Australians for St Patrickâs Day, with an open bar and Guinness on tapâ.
How could Abbott have possibly topped Gillard and Ruddâs Irish jokes for âoffenceâ? So why the mediaâs double standard?
How could Abbott have possibly topped Gillard and Ruddâs Irish jokes for âoffenceâ? So why the mediaâs double standard?
PressReader - Connecting People Through News
19 Mar 2015
What a shameful beat-up by journalists of the Prime Ministerâs St Patrickâs Day âgaffeâ. How deranged have Tony Abbott haters become?
What a shameful beat-up by journalists of the Prime Ministerâs St Patrickâs Day âgaffeâ. How deranged have Tony Abbott haters become?
Sydneyâs Lansdowne Club of Irish Australian businessmen had invited people to come âenjoy a Guinness or threeâ at its annual St Patrickâs Day lunch.
Sydneyâs Lansdowne Club of Irish Australian businessmen had invited people to come âenjoy a Guinness or threeâ at its annual St Patrickâs Day lunch.
Abbott couldnât make it, but sent a short video in which he said this was âa great day for ... everyone who cares to come to a partyâ.
Abbott couldnât make it, but sent a short video in which he said this was âa great day for ... everyone who cares to come to a partyâ.
He was just sorry âI canât be there to share a Guinness or two or maybe even threeâ.
See anything offensive there?
Yet a ninemsn report immediately claimed Abbottâs speech had âbackfiredâ by focussing on âstereotypes around drinkingâ, with âIrish business leadersâ calling it âpatronisingâ.
Yet a ninemsn report immediately claimed Abbottâs speech had âbackfiredâ by focussing on âstereotypes around drinkingâ, with âIrish business leadersâ calling it âpatronisingâ.
In fact, âIrish business leadersâ turned out to be just one person, unnamed. Why the exaggeration?
In fact, âIrish business leadersâ turned out to be just one person, unnamed. Why the exaggeration?
But that was all the media Left needed for yet another pile-on.
âAbbottâs cringe-tacular St Patrickâs Day video,â crowed one Sydney Morning Herald headline.
âAbbottâs cringe-tacular St Patrickâs Day video,â crowed one Sydney Morning Herald headline.
âThe rise and rise of Tony Abbott as an international laughing stock,â gloated another, over a startlingly juvenile article by barrister Charles Waterstreet, abusing Abbott for his âflurry of patronising punishing jabs from his onion-breathed mouthâ.
âThe rise and rise of Tony Abbott as an international laughing stock,â gloated another, over a startlingly juvenile article by barrister Charles Waterstreet, abusing Abbott for his âflurry of patronising punishing jabs from his onion-breathed mouthâ.
The ABC news grimly reported the offence Abbott had allegedly caused before finishing its TV news with its own St Patrickâs Day tribute â with shots of, yes, Irishmen drinking Guinness.
The ABC news grimly reported the offence Abbott had allegedly caused before finishing its TV news with its own St Patrickâs Day tribute â with shots of, yes, Irishmen drinking Guinness.
But hereâs the full measure of these hypocrites.
Abbott is hanged for merely saying heâd like âa Guinness or two or maybe even threeâ.
Abbott is hanged for merely saying heâd like âa Guinness or two or maybe even threeâ.
Yet not one journalist attacked the Labor prime ministers who actually accused the Irish of being drunks.
Julia Gillard in her own St Patrickâs Day tribute to the Lansdowne Club in 2012 joked it was âa very good thing that you all have the weekend to recover from this lunchâ.
Julia Gillard in her own St Patrickâs Day tribute to the Lansdowne Club in 2012 joked it was âa very good thing that you all have the weekend to recover from this lunchâ.
Kevin Rudd in 2009 told St Patrickâs Day guests that âcourtesy of a Guinness or twoâ theyâd muddle their premierâs name.
Kevin Rudd in 2009 told St Patrickâs Day guests that âcourtesy of a Guinness or twoâ theyâd muddle their premierâs name.
In 2010, Rudd added they werenât just drunks but rebels, and âa glass or seven of Guinness is the first step towards fomenting political insurrectionâ.
In 2010, Rudd added they werenât just drunks but rebels, and âa glass or seven of Guinness is the first step towards fomenting political insurrectionâ.
And he offered to open âthe Lodge to all Irish Australians for St Patrickâs Day, with an open bar and Guinness on tapâ.
How could Abbott have possibly topped Gillard and Ruddâs Irish jokes for âoffenceâ? So why the mediaâs double standard?
How could Abbott have possibly topped Gillard and Ruddâs Irish jokes for âoffenceâ? So why the mediaâs double standard?
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