Australian Greens are lying hypocrites

OK, a couple of days of not kicking puppies has left me feeling refreshed. Any guesses on what's happening in Greenland? I don't mean the country located in the Arctic Circle either. Bob Down's hippy hangout has a copy of the latest verbal diahorrea ejected last Friday. I'll post the entire transcript, so you don't have to visit the Greens and falsely build readership numbers.

Herald Sun Found Guilty of Irresponsible Journalism and Seriously Misleading Readers"

Senator Brown, 4th March 2005
The Australian Press Council has labelled a Herald Sun news article attacking the Greens policies in last year’s election campaign ‘irresponsible journalism’ which ‘seriously misled’ readers and damaged the Greens. The high profile article, which was widely distributed by Greens opponents in several states, including Tasmanian loggers, was written by senior Herald Sun journalist Gerard McManus, ‘in discussions with an election coverage editor’.

The article came a day after Prime Minister Howard flagged an expose of ‘kooky’ Greens polices. It continues to be used by the Liberal Party, most recently in WA election pamphlets. The Herald Sun is part of the Murdoch stable.

“The Press Council adjudication speaks for itself,” Greens Senator Bob Brown said. “This manufactured news, which misled readers of Australia’s highest circulation daily, is a disgrace to the profession of journalism. It perverted democracy. When a journalist misinforms readers on their way to the ballot box democracy is sacrificed. This was no accident or mistake. The aim was to attack the Greens, not through the editorial column, but through the news pages. The outcome of the false concoction of the Greens policies was to lose our party tens of thousands of votes and, in my calculation, seats in parliament."

That's right folks. Senator Bob would have you believe that the Herald Sun has far more influence on voter's minds than previously believed, and perverting the cause of democracy is something that only the Greens are allowed to do. If that means conducting online polls which create a false sense of perspective on an issue, then so be it.

The Greens party are eager to mouth the homilies about the preservation of views and freedom of speech, but if someone creates a dissenting opinion, then it's the use of every available legal avenue to prevent or discourage that view being heard. Complaints to the Press Council, diatribes against journalists, personal insults, physical intimidation (see Brown/Nettle behaviour in Parliament on occasion of President Bush visit) to removing polls which endorse a diametrically opposed view on the basis that it was an 'anomalous poll', and people voted too fast.

The Australian Greens will stop at nothing to get their view and their view alone into the public's eye. Perhaps the Greens don't realise it, but the tens of thousands of voters who may or may not have voted them, may have actually made their own minds on a voting decision on the basis of published and reported Greens policy. Crazy idea in a democracy.

Cross-posted at Bastards Inc.

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