baiting politicians during interviews!
Sport can be viewed from many perspectives.
There are sports journalists and journalists who sport. My favourite by far are the latter.
Winding up politicians is one of the most exciting sports that a journalist can participate in. There is no publicly acknowledged competition, no points ladder and no trophy at the end of the season to be put on any mantlepiece. but in my eyes it is a sport of the highest order!
The latest bout to sail across my bow was on that commie loving show, the 7.30 report!.
it involved the use of public opinion polls to force the Prime Minister of our wonderful country into a corner that could only be avoided by slagging off one of his own to the detriment of his party. the interviews was Leigh Sales and Malcolm the brave and true was her target.
here is a point by point summary of what happened!
This sort of shit really gets me going and is why i could only ever stand as an Independent or Greens candidate if i was to ever be silly enough to put my hand up for political incumbency.
I would like to hear your views on whether this meets the criteria as a sport in your eyes.
Cheers from fred and may you have a sporting chance!
There are sports journalists and journalists who sport. My favourite by far are the latter.
Winding up politicians is one of the most exciting sports that a journalist can participate in. There is no publicly acknowledged competition, no points ladder and no trophy at the end of the season to be put on any mantlepiece. but in my eyes it is a sport of the highest order!
The latest bout to sail across my bow was on that commie loving show, the 7.30 report!.
it involved the use of public opinion polls to force the Prime Minister of our wonderful country into a corner that could only be avoided by slagging off one of his own to the detriment of his party. the interviews was Leigh Sales and Malcolm the brave and true was her target.
here is a point by point summary of what happened!
- Interview commences with genial greetings. Prime minister is on song about 'jobs and growth' as is demanded of him by his party line.
- Interviewer smoothly moves to the poll results indicating a very even result might be possible in the upcoming election. Mal baby deflects this as just part of the swings and roundabouts of polling and public opinion.
- Interviewer goes for the throat punch knowing full well that Mal of the cultured smile has an ego the size of ten footy fields. She refers to the gradual fall of his own sleek and well groomed popularity after his deposing of the mad Abbott.
- He is stuck! He can't be truthful at all because that would mean two things. he would have to publicly acknowledge that his predecessor was mad as a rabid dog due to his religious leanings and political controllers. The next problem is that he can't say, perhaps because of his ego, that his public approval rating being so high to begin with was largely to do with a mass Australia wide relief that a madman had been removed from the poop deck and thrown back to the bilges where he belongs!
- A minute or so of stammering occurs with the interviewer (and this viewer) laughing either internally or externally at the joy of watching prescribed points of view denying the truth being said.
This sort of shit really gets me going and is why i could only ever stand as an Independent or Greens candidate if i was to ever be silly enough to put my hand up for political incumbency.
I would like to hear your views on whether this meets the criteria as a sport in your eyes.
Cheers from fred and may you have a sporting chance!
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