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Carpe…I will have number 12 tonight…but no chilli sauce thanks
Don’t watch Q&A. It’s bad for you.
Panellists:
Jonathan Biggins, Entertainer and political satirist;
Kim Williams, Author and former media executive;
Concetta Fierravanti-Wells, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Social Services;
Sam Dastyari, Labor Senator;
Kate McClymont, Investigative journalist.
Concetta F-Wells was the one who ensured Jaymes Diaz was preselected for Greenway…just sayin’.
Carpe,17 please.It will want to be better than last weeks effort.
It is. You have to drink and smoke to excess just to tolerate it.
23 please Carpe
… and, loving it.
Fuk yeah a plodlitical satirist, whoo put me down for 96 as he inturrupts with his crazy zany side splitting shite.
I will go with the constitutional peasant, 37 please Carpe.
She also claimed sexism had made it tough for her, completely overlooking her sub room temperature IQ.
So let’s see what else there is …
SBS – Legally Brown
Seven – The Amazing Race
Nine – Big Brother
Ten – NCIS repeats
Hmmm …
Cleaning out the corners of my potting shed/greenhouse – unable to watch.
First XV? 20 on lotto for me please Carpe.
33 For me please Carpe
NCIS wins hands down…
Or watch PM Live on Sky. Or read a book. Or get Netflix.
It’s been a while since there was an interruption filled shitfest on Q&A. Makes a bad thing even worse.
Sorry, shitfight, not shitfest. Shitfest is a given.
Or watch Q&A and bag the shite out of the left luvvies.
31 please
Hey Carpe old son ….are you with us tonight?? we are missing you!!!
What happened to Jimmy Barnes?
Jimmy is in hospital… operated on late last week… all seems OK
18 on the lotto, if it’s going
Got a gig at the ABC’s oldies home hosted by James Dibble.
Looks like we are leaderless tonite
It’s a surprise all that vodka didn’t pickle all his innards for posterity…..
Yeah, he had to have emergency surgery late last week after an early back operation. I am glad he isn’t on – I like Jimmy generally and didn’t want to have that shattered by him making some stupid lefty remarks.
Thirty-eight for me please Carpe-sama.
Wall to wall leftist swill, with a marginally less leftist for wet lettuce leaf bashing. I’ll go for just 17 interruptions, Carpe, to honour the leftist commitment to peddopihilic apologism.
no Q&A on ABC 24 … just some roller-minxes … yawn …
I’ll be an observer tonight. Reading a good book. I Suspect the leftist factor will be very high!
Thereby ensuing I am ‘represented’ by Michelle Rowland
She’s got a lot to answer for
20 Carpe
I wish Kate would do something with those eyebrows
The most vulnerable in our society.
If you hit the rich harder than the poor then welfare would be higher than wages
Oh wait, he just wants to keep handing out borrowed cash
Sam Dastyari is a walking caricature.
SSSam Dastyari – Abbott government 666. 666. 666. 666. 666.
Sam is shocked. Oh dear.
They love that ideologue label
I’m not sure how you determine which politicians are more ideological than others
OK says the good Lib senator, we were elected to fix your mess.
Sorry I’m late. In for 25 please.
Sam D is obviously a professional whinger.
Jon Biggins is obviously ready to moan too.
Kim Williams. Old leftie. I’ve met him. Yes, it’s all ‘profoundly unfair’.
Dastyari’s facial features are so comically exaggerated a cartoonist would have nothing left to do.
BIggins going full retard
Is that Moses in the audience.
How can one be a “professional satirist?”
Does he get paid by someone? Doubtless the ABC
Profound indeed.
So Howard left a structural deficit and Rudd faced a black hole
Who is this retard?
Abbott govt, 666 again. Black T-shirt, black glasses guy. Got his coat on, but.
Everything ‘very imbalanced’.
Howard years the problem, of course.
Full left narrative, Rudd inherited such a problem, etc.
Oh dear me.
Sammy D looks like Chuckie, the ventriloquists dummy?
Who are all these boring people? Lefties full on.
“Go after big business” eh?
Kate wants to know why we cannot get money out of companies and yet she can’t get the facts right in a book.
Mr Bean boo hoo. Hand me a hanky.
Sammy needs to have his head lanced..to match his body size
Oh boyo boyo boy, a Penalty Rates question.
Penalty rates. Here’s a nurse won’t work nights.
Kindly Dastyari says this is everyone’s story.
He wants to keep it all, the penalty rates, and ‘create jobs’.
Good luck with that.
Is Carpe OK where is he?
The Fair work Commission and the states, I would have thought
Sam Dastyari looks suspiciously like Mr Bean.
Have the two ever been seen in the same room together?
5 minutes in and I think I’m about to vomit.
Well, I’m out.
Da Hairy Ape just turned it off with the remote.
Too boring.
Totally agree.
I am not into social service tonite.
How about Snowcones salary!
Penalty rates, I’d like rates!
Someone elses salary takes money out of your pocket, Jonathon?
Socialism. If we can’t all be rich then let’s be equally poor.
Idiot alert
Okay, now the “The government has taken my super” question.
Penalty rates? How about a job?!
Sam is very odd looking. Mr Bean indeed.
Concetta sucks at debating economics…this is hopeless.
Biggins has form. Imagine sitting through one of his plays:
“Biggins, who for the past 12 years has also directed Sydney’s annual Wharf Revue of the year in politics, hasn’t lost his satirical edge. Australia Day is set in the fictitious Coriole shire, where the committee includes an ambitious Liberal mayor, a Country Women’s Association member, a bigoted builder and an Australian-born Vietnamese school teacher.”
Magnets?
A tax windfall for MAGNETS.
Sam…FMD.. what is a mining magnet????
Sam, the mining tax wasn’t taking in ANY money, so arguing about how you spend the non-existent tax is just dumb
Mr. Bean made some crack about “Big Magnets”
I was confused by the magnets word also. I wondered what he was going on about.
Dastiari powerful magnets?
Im confused, was the government going to kick in the super contribution?
Is this satirist related to David Marr?
Mining magnets or magnates?
Haven’t they seen the constant changes in the super laws to take more and more in tax? It IS a con.
Evil magnets are stealing money from the poor and killing the planet.
Now it gets tricky
I’ve seriously spent days arguing with people that super isn’t ‘extra’
Biggins will blame the USA within what 30 seconds….?
Evil magnets are stealing money from the poor and killing the planet.
Aahh love it!
Looking forward to the manchild waxing lyrical about foreign policy.
‘Lets be clear. It’s the push pull complexity factors…’
I’ve had enough. Biggins supporting the Islamic State by standing by when innocents are being slaughtered is the last straw.
Biggins, you are so full of shit it should be running out of your ears. The Spanish Inquisition!!?? FFS!
Does Biggins cwa lady make pumpkin scones?
If cba shareholders want the ceo to get big bickies that is their right
I bet Biggins spends a lot of time putting his hand in the taxpayers pocket.
Yeah, I feel your pain.
The boneheaded stupidity of the Australian population amazes me.
Sam Dastyari could convince grade one or twos maybe. Beyond that he’s lonely.
This Biggins is a fool.
Tweet: “The only way to solve the middle east is humanitarian intervention”
FMD
I’m thinking that Sam Dastyari is Labor’s response to Jayme Diaz.
How come Dastyari’s head is twice as big as the rest of him?
They’re not that elusive, Kate – they stopped them with a couple of air strikes.
The case is not made no reliable partner on the ground
Ifccourse not
Radicalised youth not our fault it sits squarely in the muslim community
Tony goes into full interrupt mode!
I too have had enough. Going to bed. Good luck with the rest of this drivel Cats.
Trotskyist, what do you reckon?
Moonspectacles asks the simplest question in the most boring manner possible. (This is only a 1-hour show sonny, try to keep it simple)
Hi Mr el baghdadi let’s talk as soon as you finish shooting those Alawite truck drivers.
If people could go home we wouldn’t need humanitarian assistance in refugee camps numbnuts.
I thought Tony was supposed to be the moderator.
Can he be left out of Team Australia?
Did I say last week “Most boring episode ever”? How do I hack the Cat archives to remove that reference?
THIS week is a strong contender for that title.
Commie kid!
41% LNP was that the guy with the beret?
The manchild is a smug cretin.
The life experience of a gnat
Oh, Kim – get over yourself. “Kim, coffee or tea this morning?” “Well, it’s a very complex issue..”
Humpty-Dumpty-head is struggling with the concept of how to argue against cracking down on homegrown Islamic terrorists.
Newscorp guy is sinking faster than the Titanic
Sam…FMD.. what is a mining magnet????
“It’s complex territory” He’s like my niece’s talking doll, same phrase over & over.
Disenfranchised how come so many are from wealthy educated families?
Is flag auctions no support for is in the broader muslim community in Australia riiight
Tweet: How about Team Human?
What toss. We would still be united by the fact that we are NOT ANIMALS.
Mr. Bean doesn’t want to give up his medda-darta.
What a card Mr Bean is.
I know the answer Sam it’s islam islam islam
Sam Dastyari goes into “who’s to blame” mode.
It must be us.
Empowering such a cliched wanker word these days.
Mr. Bean wants to “understand” homegrown Islamic terrorists.
Omg… he wants to empower “local communities”…. riiiight… I’ve seen how THAT works.
Mr. Bean was born in Iran, just sayin’
Oh no not bloody moderate Muslim leaders.
Sam… simply put you are a goose… you should have stayed behind the scenes with NSW ALP..
Moderate islam yeah right
The manchild is a motherhooder of the first order
His schtick is to pepper them with personal anecdotes
Lets send Sam over to the ME to explain to all the young energetic muslims
that they shouldn’t be doing what they are doing, we don’t like it !
Empowering such a cliched wanker word these days.
‘Empower’ has always been a wank word, hasn’t it?
That be a scarf around accent-lady’s neck, or an uninflated life-jacket?
It’s a tough one to call – the ABC have done a fantastic job this year in making nearly every episode unwatchable
“Moderate Islam” isn’t heard because it’s silent – and so completely irrelevant.
Bean.
Last week may have been as boring as all heck, but at least there was that chick in the red dress presenting her huge boozies for us to stare at.
Jones gives Bowen the kiss of death
Murdoch probably sacked him after he fell asleep while Williams was talking to him.
Sorry I have missed the betting and the programs till now; but I couldn’t get my opium pipe lit and I cannot survive Q&A and Medium Swatch without it.
Biggins wants the news to be about people going grocery shopping and not bank robbers
Sorry mate but Australian headchoppers killing innocents and taking sex slaves is newsworthy
Yes Steve… agree…and we have not seen or heard from Carpe since that show…Ummm
Fair call
Maybe they could have some cheerleaders each time they put on a lefty special? Then we’d all be happy
Kim Williams talking about transparency- indecipherable.
Barry’s Mediawatch MurdochSatan666 now bleeding into Q&A.
“Murdoch elects our leaders?” Sam, if you want more voices, start your own newspaper. No one is stopping you.
I agree with the dwarf – more people should be forced to read Fairfax
The manchild is a one dimensional loon
Perfect ALP leadership material
Voices. Sam they have this thing called the Internet now,
Someone pick Sam Dastyari up – the ABC have the biggest media coverage in the country.
Kimmy got Mummy to ask a question. I’m off to bed, this is absolute crap,worse than last week.Where is the supposed 41 % Coalition. Now they are going full retard on Rupert.I have to agree, Sam has a large head.
Sam Dastyari musta done the big end of 3 seconds of manual labour in his life, to have such a head-to-body size ratio.
The only place with a limited number of voices is the ABC?
News corp is ‘shrill’
Now the whole panel is chortling over what a moron Murdoch is….
The fellow who thinks News Corp papers are shrill- didn’t he just say that News lacked the balance found in Pravda?
Ban all political donations. Fine by me. Just be sure this includes all donations of time and expertise.
ALP shill
ICAC questioner – who the fuck talks like THAT?
…and all union donations.
That is David Marr’s twin brother, and I thought he was making a joke.
The joke is on me, this pundu seriously believes that Murdoch is more twisted than Pravda. FMD.
If you ban all political donations, including unions, then stop any taxpayer funds going to them
Give them a few minutes on the ABC at election time, they don’t need anything else
Why not just ban all media advisers?
Credlin’s sin was allowing Wells on the show
Whooweeeeeee, did anybody else see Sam Dastyari’s face when Concerto Foreveranti-Wells made oblique reference to clipping corrupt politician’s salaries?
ICAC is chasing Liberals for breaking a devious Labor Party rule that they enshrined in law with the help of The Greens purely to screw their opponents.
The ICAC Act 1988 refers to conduct by public officials and employees of public authorities. Candidates for election (who are not already in Parliament) only fall into that category after the declaration of polls.
So, does the ICAC inquisition have the authority to question or rule on a person’s actions in the period prior to the declaration of polls and has ICAC investigated any losing election candidates for similar offences?
Yes, Sam – you were a secretary, you know about dodgy donations….
Wasn’t it the manchild who funded Craig Thomsons legal costs.
Wells is MIA
Funny how the left are suddenly interested in banning political donations. Nothing to do with the fact the Unions are about to get shafted is it?
Dastardly Sam knows how the Coalition stacks the deck. Watch his hands.
Q&A really has had its day if this is the best they can do.
Mr. Bean says he “moved a motion”.
Did he wash his hands afterward?
Why have a federal ICac? The nsw one doesn’t seem to stop corruption
I think all political donations should be allowed and in secret.
Firgetabout equal time on the Abc, it’s meaningless.
Not when every second of every show is anti conservative right down to local drama and childrens programming
How quick did Bean change the subject when ICAC and Federal politicians came up?
Sam… due care mate on Federal ICAC…you could end up in the CAC big time
Actually Sam didn’t look all that enthusiastic when ditz-journalist started waving her hands around & suggested a “Federal ICAC”.
Next week: Man Bear Pig Awareness
teh Science! OMG
Err.. I will be not available next week for Q and A… need to watch the peas grow!!
Wendy Bacon’s students would not have a job.
Gee whillikers this show is dull when there isn’t a heavy hitter or two on the panel.
Reading his biography on Wikpedia, I don’t think he has even done that.
Hoe about being excluded by Team Human? There must always be a line that cannot be crossed.
Interesting how they talk about ICAC. Not one single word about the RC into union corruption.
Stomach Bug – Back next week troops
Video clips from today’s TURC questioning of Justice Murphy…
Who’s who at S&G:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZekHHR_NwUU
Possible corruption:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5XBGfTaDw0
Typical of the MSM.