Say no more 13/10/2012
A sound analysis by Paul Kelly to end a political week marked by faux outrage and rank hypocrisy:
The answer is that the misogynist card is just another tactic. Gillard’s support for Slipper and condemnation of Abbott proves the point. The joke here is on the social media activists who think the political reporters missed the story. They’re wrong. The reporters got it right because the real story is that Labor exploits misogyny as a tactic for its own self-interest. The real story was Gillard’s hypocrisy. It was on brilliant display.
Is the unintended consequence of this new bout of feminist fanaticism the prohibition of many raunchy jests?
Am I a misogynist for telling my favourite grubby yarn? The one in which the woman walks into a pub and asks the barman for a double entendre. So he gives her one!
One of two awkward questions put by Professor Bunyip in the wake of latest revelations about a certain slush fund:
Does your sympathy for women extend to humble housewives cheated of their marital assets by the legal deceptions of philandering husbands’ and their new girlfriends?”
First this squalid Government played the ‘race card’ against Tony Abbott with the contriving and fomenting of the Australia Day race riot. Then it played the ‘class war card’ with its bash the rich scheme and the labeling of Abbott as some kind of North Shore ‘silver-tail’. Then they tried to smear him as homophobic, by playing the ‘homophobia card’ in relation to the Slipper sexual harassment scandal; and now they’ve resorted to playing the ‘sexism card’ by absurdly labeling Abbott a misogynist. How much lower can Gillard and Labor go? What’s the next tawdry card to be played from Gillard’s grubby deck?
Is it any wonder they all want Turnbull. Anyone but Tony and those polls.