Su_G

RE: https://aus.social/@AngelikaHeurich/116803650932534849

National treasure Ronni Salt calls it like it is: “Apparently, our Pauline and her party of Australian-flag-wearing rodomonts are surging in the polls. Nobody at the Press Club bothered to interrogate why that suddenly was or whether these figures were truly organic in nature, or influenced by the tens of thousands of social media ghosts being pumped into Australian forums from overseas. Or even connections like the totally coincidental podcast of Karl Stefanovic who has suddenly emerged after 30 years in the media as Karl the Kooker King. But why bother digging below the surface to analyse, when you can listen to Pauline tell you how much she hates you?”

And that’s not even the best bit!
Read the whole and weep for what ‘journalism’ has turned into.

#AusPol #journalism #PHON #professional victim

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@Su_G Ronnie who I followed on 🐦 is a jem.
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@Su_G “Nobody asks about the sudden and timely coincidental connection between Gina Rinehart’s massive donations, Barnaby Joyce’s bizarre defection and Pauline’s frequent visits to the USA and the surge of One Nation in the polls that the pollsters keep selling to the news sites to keep selling the advertising to keep the journalists in a job. Despite the fawning of some of the C-grade level political journalists over her Press Club performance, it was hardly Pauline wading into the lion’s den. She was asked a mere four questions”

Only 4 questions asked because the time allowed was not policed and 10 minutes more waffle was allowed. Poor form PC adjudicators.

Show threadTonyR6h ago
@Su_G
"Karl the Kooker King"
...Stefanovic 😄
Show threadSu_G5h ago

@tonyr641
Yeah, that was a pretty good one but my personal fave is: “… our Pauline who would chase a laser pointer in the dark if she thought it would get her an extra second in a spotlight.“

A strong visual image that!

Here’s the whole of Ronni Salt’s concluding paragraph for the context: “In One Nation world, none of this has to make sense – it just has to get attention. Like Pauline’s incessant mantras that she is sick and tired and has had a gutful, it’s all about the attention factor, and nobody crawls over hot coals for attention more than our Pauline who would chase a laser pointer in the dark if she thought it would get her an extra second in a spotlight. After listening to her endlessly moan last Wednesday about her four key culture-wars totems – the media, immigration, climate change and transgender rights – we can only conclude that yes, Pauline Hanson certainly is sick. And Pauline Hanson certainly is tired. So very, very tired.”

#AusPol #PHON #RonniSalt #attentionFactor
#chaseALaserPointer