kirbysuperstar posted:

McCormack wasted no time in prying open his fat maw

https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/world/us-news/trump-news/2021/01/11/michael-mccormack-donald-trump/


also

https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/2021/01/10/trump-twitter-ban-christensen-facebook-australia/

Sparticle posted:

Frydenberg shocked that the white nationalists the LNP have been courting for decades also don't like jews.

Also, multiple Liberal MPs have been known to share Soros conspiracy poo poo.

https://twitter.com/SenatorAbetz/status/871928209834508288?s=20
If your great uncle was a high-ranking nazi maybe you should avoid posting anti-semitic conspiracies.

quote:

Why is the concept of 'news' at the heart of the stoush with Facebook so broad? Because the two biggest media companies demanded it be like that.

peter dutton posted:

“I’ve been here 20 years, this is the first allegation that I’m aware of, of somebody being raped,” he said. “No doubt there will be other people who allege that they’ve been sexually assaulted or they’ve been in a circumstance where somebody believed there was consent and there wasn’t.”

hooman posted:

If it had long been your view Scott, how did you only just find out about it?
EDIT: Or am I getting confused, I can't keep all the deflections about LNP rapists straight.

Eediot Jedi posted:

Historical that cannot go anywhere legally because the victim is dead. The LNP have to decide if they think it's worth keeping the alleged rapist around.

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News Corp Australasia chairman Michael Miller has completely rejected Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s “simply untrue” claim that an employee had been the subject of an internal sexual harassment complaint.

Mr Morrison made the extraordinary claim during a tense exchange with Sky News political editor Andrew Clennell at a press conference on Tuesday, where the PM addressed the sexual harassment and assault crisis engulfing the government.

But Mr Miller said the PM’s claim was “wrong”.

“Prime Minister Scott Morrison was wrong today to claim an investigation is under way into a complaint accusing an employee of harassment against a woman in a female toilet,” Mr Miller said in a statement on Tuesday afternoon.

“No complaint has been received and News Corp and Sky News are not dealing with a complaint. News Corp and Sky News take seriously any issues raised by staff and our utmost priority is to respect their privacy and confidentiality. This is standard business practice and because of this, we do not normally comment on private matters.

“However given the Prime Minister’s extraordinary public claims made at a press conference broadcast live across the nation, I want to put to rest any suggestion that an employee of our company is being investigated for conduct suggested by Mr Morrison.”

hooman posted:

I was about to say, god they have a loving look don't they.

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Accused war criminal Ben Roberts-Smith has been caught on secretly recorded audio lauding his media mogul boss, Kerry Stokes, for financing his fight to “destroy” those in politics, the media and the SAS who have accused him of war crimes.

In the recordings, which were lawfully made, Mr Roberts-Smith, a senior executive of the Stokes-chaired Seven West Media, reveals his disdain for the business he helps run, his dislike of his fellow Seven executives and his incredulity that he is still running the company’s Queensland operations despite being at the centre of a war crimes scandal.

“It’s bizarre. Other businesses would have just gone, ‘Mate, it’s not tenable’. I offered to resign at the start [of the war crimes scandal] and they said, ‘Nah’,” Mr Roberts-Smith says to an associate in one conversation.

The recordings capture multiple conversations between Mr Roberts-Smith and three other people. The conversations occurred at the time the inquiry of the military Inspector-General, Paul Brereton, was uncovering evidence from SAS whistleblowers that Mr Roberts-Smith was implicated in multiple unlawful executions while serving as an SAS soldier in Afghanistan between 2009 and 2012. That evidence prompted the Australian Federal Police to launch two ongoing taskforces in June 2018 targeting Mr Roberts-Smith.

The tapes cast fresh light on the extraordinary relationship Mr Stokes has maintained with Mr Roberts-Smith, while revealing the embattled war hero’s view that the billionaire is happy to run sections of his media empire at a loss in return for political power. Mr Roberts-Smith says the media is such “a powerful tool” that its owners say, “I’ll take that [financial] loss if it means I have political influence ... Politicians are scared of guys that own media networks.”

Mr Roberts-Smith describes how the influence of Mr Stokes, who is also the chairman of the Australian War Memorial, has forced those who supported scrutiny of the accused war criminal to back down.

“They seemed to have smelled blood in the water and thought, ‘Oh, Roberts-Smith is going down, we’ll f---ing chime in.’ I’m talking politicians and all kinds of people,” he says.

But after it became known Mr Stokes supported him, these same critics “are like, ‘Oh, thanks Kerry, glad you can help Ben out’. What the f--- is that? You wanted me to go down, you piece of poo poo.”

Mr Roberts-Smith also reveals how he talks to Mr Stokes on “encrypted” phone applications and “intelligence agencies cannot recover it”.

“So if I am talking to KMS for example – Kerry – we only talk on Telegram and then delete the messages after ... People use them so it can’t be intercepted,” he says.

There is no suggestion that Mr Stokes uses the applications to avoid interception by Australian authorities, but multiple sources told The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald that Mr Roberts-Smith has used such applications to avoid interception by the ongoing AFP inquiries.

‘I’m indebted to Kerry’
In the recordings, Mr Roberts-Smith makes multiple references to Mr Stokes’ support of his fight to contest war crimes allegations and those airing them.

“There’s no f---ing way I’d be able to keep paying what I’m paying for until Kerry got into it. That’s why now they’re making GBS threads themselves because they realise he’s prepared to run his bank down to do it,” Mr Roberts-Smith is recorded saying.

”I probably won’t leave the fold now ... I think I’m indebted a little bit now to Kerry. Bottom line, I’d be f---ed without him ... we’ve certainly had those conversations already.”

Mr Stokes’ financial support allowed Mr Roberts-Smith to form an expensive legal and public relations team in 2018 to combat the allegations investigated by the military Inspector-General and detailed in media reporting in The Age and Herald. Mr Roberts-Smith is running a defamation case against the mastheads.

He said of Mr Stokes’ camp: “They are privy to everything that’s gone on in the courts, they know what is going on ... Put it this way, mate, Stokes isn’t an idiot. He’s not going to back someone …who’s a loser.”

Mr Roberts-Smith is scathing on the recordings about those he considers his enemies: “Now it is personal. Now I’m going to do everything I can to f---ing destroy them mate. Like everyone – and I’ll keep going – all those journalists. And that’s my sole f---ing mission in life.”

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

In a Facebook video, sprung on traditional media, Scott Morrison again attempted to defend his decision to abandon rollout vaccine targets by saying COVID-19 "writes its own rules" and targets can get "knocked about by every to and fro".

Intoluene posted:

Part of it is that a lot of Americans are consuming it. Like "See, Sky News Australia thinks this too! It's not just Fox!"

Konomex posted:

Is it just me that thinks its supremely creepy to have a hug forced on me and that person to be secretly practicing laying on hands on me and then bragging to people at their church about it? It feels loving weird.

I would blow Dane Cook posted: