No i'm not suggesting that Brendan Nelson and Malcolm Turnbull perform an unspeakable act. I would never suggest that a Liberal should stoop to sex with a member of the ALP.
What I am saying is that media have usurped control of politics in this country and one person symbolises this more than any other: Maxine McKew.
The media shafted Howard. They didn't challenge Rudd and backed up his and the union's anti-Howard message unquestioningly. Their failure to even cover Rudd's lateness for his campaign launch whilst bashing Abbott mercilessly for his was the final proof of their duplicity and neglect of their duty to keel the public informed.
The ABC was the most biased of the lot. Of course i'd prefer it if Howard had not lost his seat, but if Howard was to lose his seat I am glad it happened at the hands of someone so obviously tied to and aided and abetted by a flawed institution in need of public scrutiny. (I know she's attached to two such institutions but the ALP will never open itself up to public accountability, whereas there is hope for the ABC.) McKew has raised the media profile of the media's bias. Doh! How fitting it is that McKew is now in the position that Howard was all those years on the other side of the camera. It's time for the double-standard to be removed. I thank Maxine for offering herself up for this sacrifice.
She will now have to take the shit she's been dishing out for 11 years, and it's our job to give it to her. I'm beginning to think that there should be a concerted effort within the Liberal party to subject McKew to the same treatment the ABC extended to Howard. We have to question her motivations at every turn. We have to assume she is evil and ignore any evidence to the contrary. We have to label her with every damaging slur available, too many and too harmful to list here. All personal quirks must be magnified and ridiculed. We have to laugh at all her defeats and credit someone else with all her victories. We have to base entire satirical programs on her the run weekly with fresh material supplied by an army of trendy haters. On the other hand i guess we can't do this. We dont have the power the ABC has. Neither do we share their poor taste.
Then again, maybe we should leave her there. Maxine, the smiling assassin, is a reminder that conservatives are woefully underrepresented in the mainstream media. For as long as she is the member for Bennelong all of Australia will be reminded that the media, in particular the broadcast media, is hugely partisan and that what they say needs to be filtered though and anti-bias prism first, if you bother to listen to it at all. Her presence on the political scene perversely helps our cause.
Nevertheless, something needs to be done about media bias in this country. The Liberals need a bigger presence in the media as a whole, in particualr the TV news. The papers are fairly well balanced in Australia, the Australian is carrying on it's conservative commentary particilarly with thanks to Sid Marris whis is taking the piss out of Rudd and Gillard already. This is a good thing and offers hope and a springboard from which to attack, sorry approach, the rest of the media.
Then of course there is the blogosphere and yours truly. I provide balance by being skewed way out to the die-hard right. With all the jokers on the other end of the see-saw there needs to be a few thousand more like me before the thing gets close to being level.
