Comments on: Slip Sliding Away

By: Tiny Dancer

Tiny Dancer — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 12:03:13 +0000

Stick to the bongs grey. In your case it makes you smarter.

By: Leigh Lowe

Leigh Lowe — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 11:41:32 +0000

Imagine if Ashby had been a young female Labor staffer …….

Give it ten years Gab.
It could still happen.

By: Leigh Lowe

Leigh Lowe — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 11:39:59 +0000

The moment Ashby got a slightly off-color message …..

The moment David Jones PR employee, Kristy Fraser-Kirk got a gentle brush of his hand against her forearm and a playful tweak of her bra-strap she was off to the lawyers with a $38 meg claim ready to go ……

Hmmm … doesn’t scan so well particularly when you are beating the misogyny drum at every step.

By: Gab

Gab — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 11:37:54 +0000

Imagine if Ashby had been a young female Labor staffer, Leigh! Woohoo! Gillard would, of course, still blame Abbott in that scenario.

By: Leigh Lowe

Leigh Lowe — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 11:35:22 +0000

Ah Gab.
Well spotted.
The gender switch illustrates the point.
There was a lot of talk that Ashby is old enough to stand up for himself.
Imagine if the complainant had been a woman and the (alleged) perpetrator had been one of the Coalition front bench.

Well, no difference really.
We would have got McTurdman’s re-heated misogyny speech anyway, but it might just have been relevant in those revised circumstances.

By: Grey

Grey — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 11:31:26 +0000

Hey, if you guys want someone like Brough on your team, in your caucus room and around the cabinet table, be my guest.
I just would have thought LNP could find someone better, but maybe they can’t

By: Leigh Lowe

Leigh Lowe — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 11:29:47 +0000

Yep Grey.
It’s Tony.
If he is not stealing Craig’s phone to order hookers, he is getting a hold of Slippery’s phone to send a grubby text to a staffer, or maybe order a large Aussie pizza with double egg to be sent by taxi from Albury to Canberra just for a lark.

Fuckwit.

By: Gab

Gab — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 11:27:57 +0000

Yes but the sexually harassed in that case was a female.

By: Leigh Lowe

Leigh Lowe — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 11:25:55 +0000

Compare and contrast ….

I just don’t think a person who twice has thought using political patronage to induce staffers to make lurid sexual accusations for his own political advantage is an acceptable politician.

Or ……

A young woman was troubled by unwanted sexual advances from her married boss and sought counsel from a mentor in her network. The mentor confirmed that she had every right to be upset, and encouraged her to seek legal advice. It later transpired that the alleged perpetrator had been sending her and others lurid text messages and making sexually suggestive remarks in the office setting

Kind of depends how you spin it to suit doesn’t it?
David Jones and it’s former CEO coughed up a shitload of cash for stuff which breached the law but paled in comparison to Slippery’s antics.

By: Grey

Grey — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 11:18:37 +0000

I am just waiting to see how he launches his leadership bid!