It seems Craig is not guilty of spending two hundred and seventy thousand dollars wrongly on his campaign and another seventeen thousand is in doubt.
This means Laurie Oakes and Abbott and Pyne and perhaps fifty Murdoch journalists and television stars have libelled him and might now each be required to pay him a quarter of a million dollars, or at least apologise cravenly to him on prime time television saying ‘This is the most humble day of my life.’
As usual, I was the only commentator to have thought him innocent as charged, and as usual I was right, or pretty nearly right. I thought him innocent because I had spent a day campaigning with him, thought him straight in every sense, not mad in any way, uxorious, ambitious, level-headed, mild-mannered and politically astute. That he could be such a Jeckyll-and-Hyde as to seem so normal in daylight and yet steal a quarter of a million dollars from his union membership at night while seeking and holding a swinging seat full of pensioners and young married couples seemed unlikely to me; and his adamant assertion of innocence, like Lindy Chamberlain’s, convinced me. People who say they are innocent for long years nearly always are.
I now require the apologies of Simon, Frank, Sir David Black and Spleenblatt, for the libels they put in my columns, lest I grow splenetic, and ban the fuckers for life.
They have twenty-four hours.
I also ask them to produce, name, and get a confessional statement from the hooker, the one that cost twelve hundred dollars a night, a confessional statement naming Craig and describing his genitals.
And so it went.
Name:
No apology will be forthcoming. We have been discussing the payment (alleged) on his credit card of escorts and airfares for his wife. I have said nothing of the use of election funds. You were the one to include those in the amount you so graciously offered to pay back to members.
Get it right.
How much are you then saying he stole and wasted, and on what?
Please answer this.
Let’s start at $5,793 for the procurement of escort services. Please continue to trivialize this. It is most illuminating.
Oh piss off you cretin.
It was 2005 and fucking nothing to do with anything.
And it is $115,000 less than the pay rise Kathy Jackson gave herself.
Well, I was going to make myself scarce here now that it has become clear that Mr Ellis has left the building, so to speak, but seeing as you are enjoying my posts so much I think I may just pop back from time to time. If you’re missing me, just whistle. You know how to whistle, don’t you Marilyn ? You just put your lips together and blow.
Haven’t left the building. So six thousand spent on hookers before one was an MP is worth ending a career for you say.
What if it was given back? What if it was hookers for someone else? What if it was hookers booked by someone else on a card shared by twenty people?
For a start?
Please answer all this.
*Sigh* If you believe him to be a exemplary man based on your day of campaigning with him, and have evidence that he is being set up, then of course – his career should not be destroyed, and the apologies should be effusive, and the lawyers will be kept very busy, and yet … the Labor Party led by Julia Gillard will still be crushed in 2013. You know why this is.
Otherwise, he should put an end to this – admit to any culpability in the matter, pay back any funds used inappropriately, and move on. Let his electorate decide whether he is fit to represent them again. Perhaps they will be mature enough to recognize his humanity in all of this and forgive any indiscretions. Perhaps if Labor held just two more seats this would have already happened. Four more seats and we would not be having this conversation.
Is Craig Thomson saying that card was shared by 20 people ? Did he seek to correct such a self-evidently ludicrous arrangement prone to abuse and misunderstanding ? Has this been corroborated ?
But I do get your general point behind all of this, despite my zeal for provoking an argument. I don’t relish a corporatist world order of mining CEOs, credit rating agencies and bond traders acting as proxy shadow ministers for Finance, Industrial Relations, Education, Industry and Media, entrenched by a hypocritical Coalition government making mischief in a hung Parliament, hell bent on destroying everything the people of this country hold sacred. But I don’t think that is the consequence of all of this. We are already soaking in that kind of world, as it is, in large part thanks to Labor.
Uxorious, you say ? Are you suggesting submissive ? Who pays an escort $1200 ? What special services would such an escort offer, I continue to ask myself ? Produce the name of another Union official working in that branch who would be inclined to purchase such specialist services ?
Oh, and Bob – it’s mostly always the people you least suspect.
Name the hooker, or have done.
You have a week.
Please review our previous correspondence in this matter.
http://www.ellistabletalk.com/2012/05/14/the-usual-murdoch-dirty-tricks-46-the-harlots-tale-unspoken/#comment-8855
No further correspondence will be entered into.
Mr Ellis,
Spleenbat is, of course, right. Nothing has been made of the election funds.
The libel is now perhaps yours?
Discuss.
You could be right, Bob. I’m thinking martyr, quick canonisation, second official Australian Saint. Saint Craig of what? Darlinghurst? Camperdown? What do you reckon?
What the FUCK are you talking about?
It was the media who all said without proof that Thomson stole $270,000 for his election.
If you fucking tittering virgins has got your minds above your navels you would know that was the only claim that could have been indictable and it was made entirely by that fruit loop Kathy Jackson who at least Phil Coorey now calls the so-called whistleblower.
There was no claim that Thomson paid one hooker $1200 but I bet the union helped them pay for mandatory health checks in their regulated brothels.
If Thomson and Jeff Jackson had any imagination between them and wanted a stray fuck they would not use credit cards and their accusers would have made up different brothels.
I say again, there is precisely no reason in the 21st century why a young bloke can’t get laid for the price of fucking dinner.
One only hopes now the media will have a good look at the lies told by FWA fed to them by Kathy Jackson via her FWA member boyfriend.
I applaud Thomson for sticking to his guns, blind freddy couldsee the story was crap when they read the reasoning behind the claims.
there were no rules, he broke them.
What is that?
Bob,
Perhaps the next time you want someone banished from your blog you could offer them a dinner with Marilyn.
What does it have to do with me if Bob doesn’t like lying morons any more than I do.
Oh Spleen
Spleen, Spleen, Spleen
What you don’t seem to understand is that FWA stated that Thomson lied and mislead over the disclosure rules and he didn’t – that makes the entire FWA so called report a piece of friction and the FWA guy is the one who should be sacked and charged.
There is something sad about a formerly respected journalist like Kate McClymont who makes up another bogus yarn when the first bogus yarn is not true.
No-one gives a flying fuck about Thomson and hookers.
It was 7 years ago and nothing to do with his job now.
Let’s see how the little issue of the credit cards provided to Thomson and Williamson by the graphic artist turns out eh?
Oh for fuck’s sake Simon, if a graqphic artist wants to give someone a credit card so what?
You live in lala land.
Fuck Marilyn. You are one crazy fucker
Marilyn, you forgot to add “the defence rests”.
I’m sure Thomson is looking forward to you visiting him in prison.
Dear Bob,
You’re not the first journalist to be charmed in person by a politician to the point of losing your critical faculties. It’s just sad. I used to think you were quite sharp.