Media Mogul relaunches “I’m Sticking with Tony” Publicity Campaign
Reclusive online media mogul Edwina Forthright
While the Liberal Party is busy tearing itself apart in the public arena with renewed speculation that Prime Minister Tony Abbott is facing a leadership revolt from his own front bench team, a new throng of support for the besieged Liberal leader has emerged from an unlikely source.
Archetypical left leaning blog The Gutter Trash has today relaunched the emblematic “I’m sticking with Tony” campaign in a desperate attempt to garner support for Mr Abbott and to promote the many achievements of his government’s first two years in office.
The unprecedented move departs from the publication’s traditional position on refraining from commenting on political matters – just like the royal family – observing that ‘desperate times call for desperate measures’.
Managing Editor Edwina Forthright defended critics saying that it’s in the country’s best interests for Tony Abbott to lead the country to the next election, lest he be denied the reward he so richly deserves.
theguttertrash.com 
I’m rootin’ for turnbull
Firstly, because yabot is too dangerous for our country.
Secondly, so we can relive the exciting utegate years 😉
mediamogul seems to think free speech means printing anything anyone wants to pay you for.
So, free speech = expensive speech?
I agree with Edwina (gorgeous in that phot BTW!) …
Tones should stay … and get the the reward he so richly deserves … he has worked so long and overcome so many hardships and mistakes … making the hard decisions that ordinary folk, not familiar with the tradition of tory retro-engineering, would or could understand …
… state school drop outs just don’t understand the relationships developed and sacrifices made by parents of people like Tones and the behind the scenes lobbying and negotiating to climb steadily to the top … its not handed to people like Tones on a plate … they have to do things for no immediate reward to and for people they probably dislike …
And I have it on good authority that Tones is really a nice man despite all the silly things he’s been accused of …
I for one want Tones to Stay!
Please, please, please!
And with the broncos set to take the NRL crown … ’bout time I changed my gravatar …
Firstly, because yabot is too dangerous for our country.
Why? He didn’t damage our relationship with Indonesia by banning the live cattle trade and bugging the phone of the Indonesians Presidents wife.
Labor is dangerous for this country because all Labor does is destroy things.
He didn’t damage our relationship with Indonesia by banning the live cattle trade and bugging the phone of the Indonesians Presidents wife.
No, he did it simply by being a dick.
“No, he did it simply by being a dick.”
LOL!
Labor is genuinely dangerous to Kneel’s health, because he’s fixing to have a stroke when they (likely) get re-elected in the next twelve months.
Kneel would prefer a One Party State…but regularly tries to convince us that white is black, with his appropriation of Bolt’s bleating catch cry, “Leftists Are Natural Totalitarians!!!”.
How hard it must be to be a monochrome thinker in a multi-coloured world. I almost pity Kneel.
Even the
laughable, tragicbest efforts of the Bolt’s of the media landscape to paint gold over AbbottCorp defecation, on almost a daily basis, by blaming the ABC/CFMEU/Leftists-in-general, can’t hide the incontrovertible fact that 99% of his political damage is self inflicted.“No, he did it simply by being a dick.”
Pithy and pointed – an incompetent government headed by, well, a dick.
The problem with that is it opens the way for a disreputable union stooge like “Two Knives” Shorten to become PM. Or even worse conservative incompetence may lead the way for a socialist nut-job like a Corbyn or a Sanders to take over.
It seems that Shorten, as widely bland (if not reproached) as he is seen to be by the public at large, will simply walk into the PMship by default.
Much like AbbottCorp did, but with a little less of the vicious negativity which characterised AbbottCorp in Opposition.
AbbottCorp, does however deserve to have its arse handed to it at the next election.
disreputable union stooge
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Labor is genuinely dangerous to Kneel’s health,
Yep. Labor was handed a $20B surplus and turned it into a $27B deficit in their first year. After 5 deficit budgets they ended their time in govt with a sixth – $48B.
Labor has no fiscal restraint. Never has, never will.
As far as i am aware Abbott has yet to trash anything like Labor did.
mediamogul seems to think free speech means printing anything anyone wants to pay you for
Except our money’s no good when ‘teh left’ want to run an ad about a certain media mogul’s political campaigning and influence, then it’s a blanket ban from the ‘free speech’ advocates.
http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2013/09/banned-anti-murdoch-ad-finds-new-voice-on-web/
All we need now is for the labor party to relaunch itself. Who will be capable of a corbyn, will this humanist fervour reach australian labor, or are they quite happy to be the liberal clones?
I felt the cockles of me ‘eart warming this morning when I saw this:
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/video/2015/sep/12/billy-bragg-sings-the-red-flag-after-corbyns-refugee-rally-speech-video
and this:
Corbyn victory energises the alienated and alienates the establishment:
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/13/jeremy-corbyn-victory-energises-the-alienated-labour
Please labor, can we have some too? We’re sooo ready and waiting!
You have impervious mental barriers to becoming ‘aware’ of non-ALP deficiencies in Government, Kneel.
But that won’t stop the bubble from bursting in the world outside your headspace.
or are they quite happy to be the liberal clones?
Apart from “security” matters, how are they clones AO?
Amid further leadership speculations surrounding Prime Minister Tony Abbott, the Coalition Government has promised today that if they do have a leadership spill it will be cheaper and faster than the Labor alternative.
http://www.sbs.com.au/comedy/article/2015/09/14/coalition-promises-cheaper-faster-spill-labors
No surprise that the hard left love Corbyn, the terrorists friend.
I wonder if the Brits want to relive the massive economic decline that followed the last nationalisation spree. After becoming the sick man of Europe the nation was fortunate enough to have a Thatcher on hand to restore prosperity.
Billy Bragg, like many talented artistes, is a hopeless politician.
The end result of Corbyn’s election to the leadership is the end of Labour as a credible alternative government. Nigel Farage and UKIP, and indeed all the other parties will be celebrating! There is something here for everyone except the moderate decent elements of the Labour Party.
You have impervious mental barriers to becoming ‘aware’ of non-ALP deficiencies in Government, Kneel.
If Hockey doubles the projected deficit then i will become aware. So far the Coalition has not trashed anything like Labor did.
Most of Labors 2,000 kids are no longer in detention. The budget is slowly being repaired. The boats have stopped so we can now take refugees in trouble, not those with $10,000.
Never mind this, be aware of the TPP, our soverenty is in danger and the government has been keeping this quiet from us! Piss off Abbott, your selling this country out and trying to enslave us all, both parties are shit!
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Unfortunately, with regard to the TPP, I think that the ALP likely supports the lion’s share of it.
Hopefully the differential points are important (ISDS etc) but I’m fairly sure they’ll bend over to Big US Media etc over intellectual property, among other things.
I believe a lot of the stranglehold placed upon the internet in the last year or so, rushed through by both parties, is more about laying the groundwork for punitive implementations of the TPP than ‘catching terrorists’. National security was just the conveniently unlocked backdoor through which the privacy invasion entered.
The most insidious part of such agreements is that they’re virtually ‘agreed’ to with no democratic oversight.
If wikileaks hadn’t divulged the limited amounts they’ve come by, we’d know almost nothing about it…and platitudes about its benefits from the likes of Robb do nothing to negate my cynicism (in fact, they increase it).
The devil is in the detail, and we, those who will be ultimately subjected to the ‘agreement’ are not privy to it until the horse has bolted.
The implications for our PBS, and other such public goods, are manifest.
Get a good VPN. One that doesn’t keep records & isn’t based I a country subject to’agreements’ with the Big Players.
* in a country
** to ‘agreements’
Apart from “security” matters, how are they clones AO?
Apart from security? Security was really important TomR, they failed to protect our civil liberties and rights.
Labor is just as gung ho as the libs when it comes to neoliberalist ideology and privatisation. labor sticks so close to the libs on policy that they have allowed themselves to be pulled to the extreme right, they don’t want a skerrick of space between them.
They’ve agreed with data retention, internet filtering, surveillance state, erosion of civil liberties, criminalising genuine whistleblowers, they sided with libs to reject a senate scrutiny of ASIO, to prevent a federal ICAC, to prevent oversight of pollies expenses and rortings. The Greens tried to strengthen environment laws but labor voted with the libs to prevent them. Labor also caves in to the big business lobbyists, remember the pokies [wilkie] legislation and the mining tax?
Bill shorten has been caught out a couple of times immediately agreeing with abbott on something and then having to screech to a halt and do a u-turn when he realises that the public are strongly opposed, most recently the border farce fiasco.
Are they for or against bombs away in syria?
Remember greg sheridan’s book about his love for abbott? Where he denies that abbott could ever be violent to a woman, so could not have punched at barbara ramjan.
Labor also caves in to the big business lobbyists, remember the pokies [wilkie] legislation and the mining tax?
So, the mining tax is your example of Labor in bed with …… miners?
So, yea, do a big list of “security”, which Labor have thrown the towel in, but ignore everything else, like health, education, or workplace relations.
Are they for or against bombs away in syria?‘
I think you will find they are for it, with quite a few amendments and reservations. It is the amendments and reservations that need to be taken note of (not that they will)
So, the mining tax is your example of Labor in bed with …… miners?
My example of labor caving in to the miners and knifing a sitting PM to do it.
…health, education, or workplace relations…
I’m not really that happy with labor on health and education, labor has almost been as damaging and complicit as the libs over the years with the ongoing bastardisation and privatisation of medicare and education. Medicare has become a ‘safety net’ rather than universal healthcare and taxpayer funding of education goes to private schools while public schools suffer from inadequate funding.
I prefer the greens policies on health and education
http://greens.org.au/keeping-health-costs-down
…The Greens will invest $664m in extra funding for Medicare over the next four years. This is a sorely needed top-up to the health system that reverses cuts to Medicare made by Labor in the last Budget and supported by the Coalition.
http://greens.org.au/policies/education
A quick look through their employment and workplace relations looks pretty good too. I like their corporate governance and economics policies too.
“My example of labor caving in to the miners and knifing a sitting PM to do it.”
Tinfoil alert! Gillard knifed Rudd to cave into the miners. 🙂
Tinfoil alert! Gillard knifed Rudd to cave into the miners
huh ❓
I do know that, dunno what your point is sb.
This is a sorely needed top-up to the health system that reverses cuts to Medicare made by Labor in the last Budget and supported by the Coalition.
Labor did the last budget?
“dunno what your point is sb”
I am much misunderstood today. Making such allegations is clearly a plot by you and Tom R to make me think I’m losing it. 🙂
My point was that in the hierarchy of Gillard’s reasons for knifing Rudd, the dominant motive, by a mile, was her ambition to become PM. Next was the fact she, only recently, realised that Rudd was a dysfunctional psychopath. The other factor was that Gillard had the numbers. Rudd had no union base and Boss Ludwig wanted someone more controllable.
The mining tax was just part of the background noise.
BUGGER!
BREAKING: Malcolm will challenge!
#Libspill
I am much misunderstood today. Making such allegations is clearly a plot by you and Tom R to make me think I’m losing it.
😆
The mining tax was just part of the background noise.
I don’t believe that at all sb, I think it played a huge part in the coup on rudd.
The miners had just had a $20million advertising campaign and the very first thing gillard did as new PM was the new mining tax policy.
Woo hoo!
SPILL! SPILL! SPILL!
But what will neil do?
Woo hoo!
SPILL! SPILL! SPILL!
That came quick didn’t it reb?
Surely malcolm has the numbers, he’s been so careful not to show his hand until now.
But what about all that Morrison talk? he is the one the RWNJ conservatives want.
“Minister Julie Bishop also met with Mr Abbott to request the ballot”
Is Bishop standing or did she merely back Turnbull’s request for the spill?
Malcolm has to stand because “we’ve lost 30 Newspolls”
Is that a good enough reason to dump a leader?
Can trickster abbott elect to have a DD now to save his skin?
“”Surely malcolm has the numbers, he’s been so careful not to show his hand until now.””
I think he’ll get up this time..
The rest of them know they’re fucked if the stick with Tony.
I’m thinking that ‘good government’ is not going to happen today either.
Is Bishop standing or did she merely back Turnbull’s request for the spill?
“you bet you are, you bet I am!”
I think Bill might be as disappointed as Tony.
Excellent!
If Malcolm wins, Libtish-conservatards desert the Coalition in droves!
If AbbottCorp clings on, the rancour continues!
A tremendous spectacle of political bloodletting!
over at my abc mr-talkbull is peddling `tax-payer`funded self-advertising claiming 30-consecutive noisepolls demonstrate mr-rabbits leadership is in dire straits with the public, and teabag-panic is setting in.
What we all need to remember leigh, is this governments list of achievements,
1.we stopped the boats
2.we stopped the tax
3.death-cult, death-cult, death-cult:-)
Tears well in Herr Andrew’s eyes, irrational protestations are caught in his throat like a lump of unrealised propaganda.
This is tremendous theatre!
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/bishop_and_turnbull_tell_abbott_to_call_a_vote/
“Had Abbott been given loyalty, he would have won the next election against Bill Shorten.”
G U F F A W !
Someone call Kneel a waaaahmbulance.
The odious Turncoat will probably win. Yet he is the Libs’ Kevin Rudd, with most of Rudd’s defects. Even so it is hard to imagine Turnbull’s government will be worse than the present. Shorten isn’t very appealing either. The duopoly isn’t working very well right now. I just wish Lambie and Palmer would patch up their differences so the country can unite behind them.
Can’t wait to gauge the reactions of his arch religious conservative cronies, like Abetz, Andrews, Bernardi et al.
Bound to be some jilted lovers in the wings for a while to come now.
Can’t help thinking back to all of the quotes from Libs in Opposition regarding ALP Government Leadership disunity.
How the worm has turned.
Malcolm may recapture the middle…in the process, alienating the fuck out of a lot of the Coalition’s ‘base’.
Joyce already on the record stating the allegiance with the Nationals will need to be renegotiated under Turnbull.
The wheels are falling off!
“The wheels are falling off!”
That was a while back, Hockey’s first budget at least.
You are absolutely correct.
The trainwreck has been underway for a looooong time!
They should’ve bitten the bullet earlier this year, at the very least.
Malcolm may recapture the middle…in the process, alienating the fuck out of a lot of the Coalition’s ‘base’.
Could also alienate the fuck out of a lot of the vote that Bill Shorten thought would come to him.
I’ve heard quite a few labor supporters say they’d vote for malcolm.
The disarray is probably a net positive for the ALP.
The change to Turnbull…if that is what eventuates…probably a considerable negative.
Annabelle crabb on #the drum talking about turnbull’s presser “most epic piece of frontstabbing” she’s seen
agree armchair, teh-drum/annabelle was quite amusing,
#also if talkbull gets-up, blib`s fcuked, the cake-walk is over:-)
Speaking of the rise of the new socialists like Corbyn, Venezuela has just provided a reminder of how socialism really works:
Richest Person in Venezuela is Chavez’s Daughter.
on my abc blib is now speaking, a very worried-looking blib
I quite enjoyed the discussion between craig emerson and that conservative/?IPA guy ?name. craig says turnbull had to go now to prevent abbott from going to the GG, because he wouldn’t accept sitting around for weeks waiting for the chop. The lib type says that’s crazy, no-one would take the nation to a DD over a leadership issue.
Well, I reckon abbott would have gone for a DD, it’s in his nature, he would’ve gone out in a huge tantrum and thrown a bomb into the place!
…#also if talkbull gets-up, blib`s fcuked, the cake-walk is over …
I agree, Bill must be starting to sweat!
Now Bill’s on the drum, using all of malcolm’s words to sink the boot into the libs.
did you notice plib left with blib after his speech (and didn`t take questions), plib was looking rather serious as well, too bad camera was a long-shot, not a close-up
at 6.15 mr-rabbit is due to `reply` to mr-talkbull`s earlier statements of challenge, it will go something like this,
What we all need to remember leigh, is this governments list of achievements,
1.we stopped the boats
2.we stopped the tax
3.death-cult, death-cult, death-cult:-)
Tony Abbott: ‘we are not the labor party”
“stopped the boats…
PMship has to be something earned…
I will win…
our country, by god, is better than this…” 😮
yep, it sounds like he’ll fight!
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-09-14/malcolm-turnbull-julie-bishop-liberal-leadership-ballot-blog/6774546
…Prime Minister Tony Abbott:
“Since coming to Government, our team has stopped the boats, improved the budget, cut taxes and increased jobs.
“We have laid the foundation for a better deal for families and for small business.
“You can trust me to deliver a stronger economy and a safer community. The prime ministership of this country is not a prize or a plaything to be demanded.
“It should be something which is earned by a vote of the Australian people.
“There will be a party room ballot for both the leadership and deputy leadership positions later this evening. I will be a candidate and I expect to win.
“Obviously, I am dismayed by the destabilisation that’s been taking place now for many, many months and I do say to my fellow Liberals that the destabilisation just has to stop.
“Let me finish on this note – I firmly believe that our party is better than this, that our Government is better than this and, by God, that our country is so much better than this. Thank you.”
Funny!
I enjoyed the umpteenth rendition of his lies…for the last time, hopefully>
so eleventy is sticking with mr-rabbit, (they don`t want to be `team-jooLiar-lite`, ha-ha they will) so now the zombie-swap is on, talkbull will become top-zombie, morrison will replace eleventy, and the zombie that takes-over nbn, will have to be great at back-flips
l Love the smell of burning zombie in the evening .. it smells like .. poetic-justice:-)
I enjoyed the umpteenth rendition of his lies…for the last time, hopefully
He’s as cunning as a rat though toilet, and a gutter brawler, especially with his back to the wall, I won’t hold my breath, those religious RWNJ conservatives would shoot turnbull if they could.
But yes, I won’t miss abbott treating us like we’re gibbering neils, that’s something turnbull hit on, saying:
…” A style of leadership that respects the people’s intelligence, that explains these complex issues and then sets out the course of action we believe we should take and makes a case for it.
We need advocacy, not slogans. We need to respect the intelligence of the Australian people…”
I will enjoy Shorten’s discomfort to come, as far as I’m concerned the wrong person is leading labor, if they ran fair & equal contests, it would be albo who is the OL. If turnbull gets up, he’s in danger of taking a lot of votes off Shorten/Labor
now we see all the ministers [hockey at the minute] coming on telly and pretending to speak to ‘we, the people’ while they are really speaking to their own party.
Big joe was up, attacking turnbull for attacking their crappy economics. “The PM has my absolute loyalty” But we all knew that abbott & hockey live and die together.
Former soldier nikolic then tried to publicly bully the party via TV.
I know, to save all these tears all the time, why don’t they actually hand over the party leadership to the public? Let us choose! I’m sure we’d do a better job.
They keep saying it’s not up to the party, it should be the public who chooses. Abbott says the PM job “is is not a prize or plaything to be demanded, it is the gift of the australian people,” well get out of the way pollies and allow us to bestow our gifts. An election is not a rigged prize or plaything of the politicians!
jeebus, I better change the channel, now truss is speaking, I can’t take anymore of the tears and recriminations!
“Our party is better than this” – tony abbott
Obviously it’s not.
But what about Hastie! 😥
ha-ha, it just keeps giving, dog-club cory will be foaming at the mouth on why he can`t work with talkbull on reportland tonight .. along with a couple of other zombies on who they are backing
so teabags, is it just me.? or is everybody enjoying the `taxpayer-funded`glee radiating from my abc studios tonight.?
ha-ha, joolee won`t be/stand again as mr-rabbits deputy .. the puppet has a peta-problem
it`s ON .. mr-rabbit enters with 28-teabags (my-count)
walk of shame .. mr-talkbull only had 7-walking with him .. joolee was on her own, but she brings most of wa-teabags with her
mr-rabbit-44 .. talkbull-54-wins
deputy joolee-wins
fun fact via tim costello on qandaland,
teabags are bombing the `death-cult` coz they `murder` people,
the syrian regime has killed 7x more people, for years