Would a prostitute lie for money in an interview?
Well, it’s what prostitutes do. They feign arousal or amusement or enjoyment or intellectual interest as the customer requires. The paying customer. For sixty thousand dollars, they might sign a stat dec saying this or that if a customer, a paying customer, Channel 9 for instance, wanted this or that sincerely said. They might go down on you as well, or allow unprotected penetration. (See Careless Love for details. The offered variety is copiously impressive. And none of it is true.)
Craig is right in objecting to this process and the people driving it. A man as vividly familiar with Asian cat-houses as Christopher Pyne (if that indeed is the case, and I may be terribly wrong, it is just my impression) is feigning moral shock, Mr Speaker, moral shock, Mr Slipper, I mean Madam Deputy Speaker, and relying on a Sydney strumpet to uplift his image in the land.
And so is Tony Abbott, who refused to accompany his pregnant girl friend to the altar and arranged that her baby be sent to Western Australia while he became a priest ‘not as celibate as I should have been’ after being arraigned on a charge of sexual assault and breaking Joe Hockey’s jaw (see how easy it is to make a genial, clever, pious, prayerful, bead-clicking man seem otherwise), and it isn’t working. It isn’t working any more.
He’s done his dash, I fear. He’s shown himself to be the sneering schoolyard bully many women feared he was.
And their vote is gone for good.
And it’s a pity.
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I want to know how they got the creidt card slips from FWA.
Anyone would think Craig had started two illegal wars and murdered 1 million people.
They have to all shut up and the press council and media watch have to finally step up to the plate over this appalling media abuse of an innocent man who has not been charged of one single thing after 8 investigations.
Chris has changed my mind on this. Stop fanning the flames of this thing. Stop commenting, wondering, and sucking the dry marrow. Let it rest. Due process. We should all shut up. Isn’t that right Marilyn?
Quoth Ellis ….
“If she did (exist), she would put her hand up”
“For, say, eighty thousand dollars, one would. Wouldn’t you ?”
“Why Should She not be Found ?”
Make your mind up, Chief.
No,spleenbaltt,it is almost certainly a good turn up for Craig Thomson.
Watch.
See below.
Bob for some weeks you have been begging for at least one hooker to come forward. You have seen them sometimes as hard workers with kids to support. Now that one hooker has supposedly come forward, you accuse her of all manner of failings, drug-fucked, do anything for the money etcetera . Do you see any inconsistency in your thought processes here?.Because you can bet that others will.
Comrade, it was a tactic. It was a come-on. And they fell for it.
What utter fools they are.
Now their case depends on the plausibility of a bribed, forgetful slattern.
Have to agree with Shaxper on the issue of disrespecting whores. The percentage of women who have earned a living that way at some time in their lives would, I suspect, surprise many.
The point is, fellow bloggers, that until $60,000 was waved around, no-one came forward. No-one, for eight long years.
No-one.
Fellow blaggards, ’twas Robert dear here who did first proffer the bribe – not eight short days ago.
Yes, Robert ! Scourge of grubby insinuators, latent homosexuals and poofter bashers alike.
No, I said she doesn’t exist.
And she doesn’t.
Does she.
You’ll see.
And the point that has been lost is that there is no penalty at all attached to the stupid claim.
Not a single penalty at all.
The only thing actually said by FWA is that there no rules to break and the media turned that into a feeding frenzy about nothing at all.
Now I don’t give a flying fuck whether Thomson did or did not pay for sex, or if he misused union funds (which he seems to have been cleared of by FWA). Quite simply, this is not a matter that should have anything to do with brining down an elected government. If he’s done something wrong, he’ll be charged and will have to answer for it in court. Even then, meh…
BUT….
I have detected several themes in this column of late:
That no poll showing the coalition to be winning can possibly be accurate, in fact it is corrupt, wicked and rigged, but what it really shows is an overwhelming level of public support for the ALP.
That no poll showing equal levels of support can be accurate, it’s corrupt and must logically point to overwhelming support for the ALP.
That any poll showing the ALP in the lead must be pure and true and right, even if it’s published by the same corrupt company that did last week’s poll, and any that dare to question this must be cast down.
That Craig Thomson is innocent of any wrongdoing and clearly if he visited hookers one would come forwards, hookers being fine upstanding members of the community.
That when a hooker has come forward, she’s clearly been paid off, is a drug addict, has HIV, and anyway she’s a hooker and we all know they aren’t reliable.
That all this scandal around Craig Thomson clearly indicates to any rational person that the coalition are the ones who visit brothels and blah blah blah
I’m not saying the coalition should be in power, in fact when they win power next year it’s going to cause economic strife, chaos and misery for anyone who isn’t a millionaire and probably a lot of them too.
I’m just saying that some of your posts haven’t been logically consistent lately, and you’re better than that.
Um … your point being?
That I am a dunce? Or a madman? Or a blithering drunk?
Choose carefully.
No. I just think that it detracts from the points you try to make when you SOMETIMES apply different standards of logic depending on whether it’s the ALP or the coalition.
There has been no firmer defender of Tony Abbott and no more virulent scorner of Julia Gillard than I until Wayne’s Budget and this trickery.
I have been true of heart. I do not dissemble.
Simon is banned for life plus eighty-two years.
While this whole Thomson issue is put to bed…..err, I find it a rather fitting point in time to plant one’s feet and take stock. There is certainly little value in any of this for anyone. One would be forgiven upon consumption of a prime time news byte for taking the assumption that all this Thommo nonsense is doing the ALP in, it isn’t doing wonders for the Liberal party by any means. Enter Rob Oakeshott, the calm steward, to flash his dial on the telly and remind me of election night 2010, remember that?
I remember watching Rudd go, couldn’t make head nor tail of anything. Post the hope of 2007, the ALP stood on center stage and begged, pleaded, roared and writhed for an election defeat like a cursed madman. It was stunning.
I remember sitting in a car out the front of a family gathering, listening to the right winged nut jobs on 2GB call it again and again for Abbott.
Even the dithering delusions of Mr. Katter were a relief, Tony Windsor simply shone, and Oakeshott stood firm. Remember that two weeks where three men held the nation’s fate in their hands?
Remember why Tony Abbott was not able to get the numbers? Many would argue that going for Thompson’s jugular will be the straw on the feral camel’s back, but remember, The three right leaning “Independents” all went the other way for one simple reason; Tony Abbott would say and do anything to get his holy hands on power, and was willing to keep anything on his morbidly translucent table of lies and deceit, no promise to preposterous, no bridge too far, no assurance too great. Alarm bells rang, and the realities of a Government lead by a man willing to sacrifice the national interest to achieve power dawned, and the punchy papist blew it.
We were all there. This is what happened. The competence of the ALP government was always going to be a safer bet for the people of Australia than Tony Abbott and his store bought tennis star conservatives. You can’t accuse the ALP government of performing poorly, the legislative record stands for itself .
However the polls are dire. Election defeat seems imminent.
This is why Bill Kelty stands and almost pleads for people to wake up. It’s why Paul Keating points to a narrative. Union membership in steady decline and falling. If the ALP had any clout at all the entire HSU leadership should have been banished, replaced by junior members backed up by mentors from other unions and the entire membership given a free ride on fees for 12 months, but instead well. Here we are.
On a work site, it is virtually impossible for a union to stop work for a meeting. Hence there is little to no relationship with members and leadership. This is the digital age, where emails take microseconds to send, forums take minutes to set up, links to laws, links to articles and speeches and stickers and posters and merchandise…..
What positive steps will the ALP and the Union movement take to winning the next election? By all rights a commanding majority waits for the cunning tactician, but not with this PM.
People need to cool down and steel themselves. There is much Talent in the ALP. There is much work to be done. Certainly there is still hope left while there is still time to act, to mobilise , solidify and conquer.
Tony Abbott, mobilised his troops a long time ago. As horrific as an Abbott Government might seem, one must not overlook the damage that has been done, that this democracy will continue to endure at the hands of these hollow villains. All is not well and now is no time for people of competence and a sense of responsibility to sit back, watch and do nothing.
For who was to blame for the rise of Hitler? Not Hitler alone, his enemies, even those who fell fighting him played a role in his ascension.
None of us are innocent.
All people want is representation. The key words are Access and Independence.
+1 internets to you sir. I would also add engagement, as a key component of democracy. Something sorely lacking at the moment.
Cheers – Just bones above, BYO meat.
Yeah.
Imagine if a worker in a non-union or badly unioned shop would naturally go to the local ALP branch to find kindred spirits and support for building the union.
A plant can survive for a while without its roots, what sort of fool thinks that means plants don’t need roots? I could work up a joke here about the Red Flag and O Christmas Tree having the same tune but haven’t had my coffee yet.
I want to see Craig Thomson vindicated for a variety of good reasons; doesn’t make the layer he represents any less unhealthy. Bob Ellis may be impressed by his degree but I don’t like it. Once the union officials who entered Parliament on an ALP ticket had shorn the sheep or as it may be swept up the shit, even if long ago.
Katter Party’s vote has dropped 40% (11.5% to 7% since QLD election, LNP vote has risen by pretty much exactly what KAP has lost. ALP falling still now primary 23% and 33% 2PP.
Big bats still waiting for Federal ALP.
Says who? Says which Murdoch pollster?
I want people to ask why it is that Kate McClymont started her stupid little witch hunt and why in 9 investigations not one charge has been found.
And why do FWA keep endlessly investigating HSU on the word of Kathy Jackson and not come up with a single charge of any kind going back a full decade?
It’s just a small union inner war for power.
And why the media continue to tut tut over the claim of $5900 when it is only a claim and nothing else.
Jackson is claimed to have used hundreds of thousands in payouts, travel, rorts of all kinds and she is some heroine?
I have been a campaigner for human rights for 46 years out of 59 when a young woman fell foul of the wowsers in my home town because she got pregnant and her parents locked her away like a criminal atole her baby and they she killed herself.
She was only 21 when my small town drove her to that and I was only 13.
Driving people to despair is a massive breach of human rights and all of us being born equal in rights and before the law and that is the only thing that anyone of us have to remember.
Not one person on earth is guilty of anything until they are found to be so by a duly constituted court of law with judicial powers and the right to appeal to the highest court in the land.
The ALP and Gillard have been gutless cowards with their constant caving in to that thug Abbott.
I think Gillard and Äbbott are both past their use by dates, the ALP are reprehensible these days and have the loyalty of snakes with no hearts or brains and why it has taken so long for some of them to state the bloody obvious point that any minor penalty against Thomson is less than what parliament and the media have done to the man.
He is not an axe murderer, some corrupt little man in a corrupt body with no judicial power claims he paid for escorts back in 2005 during the campaign against work choices and for that there is zero penalty.
Yet you can bet Thomson will be badgered in his home tonight, his kids and wife terrorised – yet no-one did that the liberals when they started an illegal war that has killed over 1 million human beings.
And Bob, don’t give the pollsters any more oxygen.
Those snakes should be on Christmas Island locked up with the pollies and media and let the rest of us have a decent country back.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/second-labor-figure-in-brothel-scandal/story-e6frg6n6-1225696993824
And now we see that the court case against Jeff Jackson and Shaun Hudson has started.
How the hell can the media claim to know nothing about dirty tricks in the union.
If is good enough for the Jackson’s to simply claim they are innocent why does Craig Thomson have to be brutalised.