{"id":2193,"date":"2012-08-30T18:10:30","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T08:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wildcard.gnubies.com\/?p=2193"},"modified":"2017-12-09T19:27:02","modified_gmt":"2017-12-09T09:27:02","slug":"dinosaurs-should-not-be-given-oxygen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sams-blog.com\/?p=2193","title":{"rendered":"Dinosaurs should not be given oxygen"},"content":{"rendered":"

AUSTRALIA is a sexist country. This is something I’ve said before<\/strong><\/a>. It bears repeating in view of the behaviour of a Liberal party hanger-on this week.<\/p>\n

Grahame Morris is a former chief of staff to John Howard, who held the office of prime minister from 1996 to 2007. For some strange reason, Morris, who is best described as a slime, is given lots of air by the radio stations and TV channels to comment on political matters. <\/p>\n

He is a card-carrying Liberal apologist but is still championed.
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\nPart of this refusal to let deadwood like Morris go is responsible for what happened. The co-host of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s 7.30 program, Leigh Sales, conducted an interview<\/strong><\/a> with the Opposition and Liberal Party leader, Tony Abbott, last week. It was a good interview and Sales did what a good journalist is supposed to do – she asked tough questions.<\/p>\n

Abbott had not done his homework and came off looking rather foolish.<\/p>\n

A few days later, another ABC presented, Linda Mottram<\/strong><\/a>, had Morris on the line. She asked him about the interview. Morris response was that Sales tended to be a cow in some of her interviews.<\/p>\n

But why was Morris on the line at all? Why are fools like this given oxygen.<\/p>\n

Sales responded by calling Morris a dinosaur on Twitter. His sexism should have been dissected and he should have been given a blasting by the politicians whose arses he licks.<\/p>\n

But nobody wants to point to the extent of sexism in this country – the last time someone did so was back at the time of the elections in 2010 when a survey clearly indicated that many people had not voted for Julia Gillard because she is a woman.<\/p>\n

Fossils like Morris should be put out to pasture.
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