Mike Hunt writes:

In Australia’s answer to Fox News, the vomitorium that is the ABC’s right-wing Sunday show, Insiders, the private propaganda arm of the elitist neo-con echo chamber of the braying Ackermann, Bolt, Cassidy and Associates, ‘Gerald’ Henderson (as ABC News Radio called him) and Paul Kelly struggled heroically today to explain what a terrible time the supposedly appalling Rudd was having, or surely was about to have, or that they wished he would have, despite his record polling figures released less than a week ago. They don’t get it at all. People are not judging by the government’s agenda. All they want to know is, is Rudd enough of the real deal to rescue them from another four years of the deceitful, lying, morally bankrupt Howard.

This week the unwaveringly disgraceful Cassidy gave Minister for Tact and Diplomacy, Sir Dissipation Syphilis, a free kick at the Opposition in this weekly parade of the ABC’s now deeply-ingrained right-wing bias, with its occasional token lefties, like David Marr, always pitted against at least two conservative pinheads.

And so the vomitous Downer trotted out yet again his little ploy to associate David Hicks with all that is evil and threatening in our world. According to Sir Chunder Fishnet, it turns out that David Hicks was personally and solely responsible not only for the Bali Bombings but also for 9/11 itself. The man (to exaggerate wildly) is an abomination. In his diatribe in which he was encouraged by Cassidy, he made wild and unsubstantiated remarks about Kevin Rudd and spoke a lot about integrity.

Let’s get this straight. A person who makes much of honesty and integrity, particularly one who questions the integrity of others, had better be as pure as the driven snow.

Let us therefore look at Alexander Downer’s public biography.

Alexander Downer was born on 9 September 1951. He was educated at Crafers Primary School, Geelong Grammar School, Victoria; Radley College, Oxford, United Kingdom; and the University of Newcastle on Tyne, United Kingdom. He has a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Politics and Economics and is a Doctor of Civil Laws (honoris causa).

If you read this, where would you imagine Downer had attended university? Well, Oxford, of course, as well as Newcastle. It says ‘Oxford’, right? Very impressive.

Actually there is no “Radley College” at Oxford University but there is a Radley College which is a boarding school in Abingdon, Oxfordshire where little Alex went while Daddy was busy being a High Commissioner. It is not known by anyone as ‘Radley College, Oxford’.

He has an honorary doctorate which everyone knows is a freebie for being a politician. Except he calls it ‘honoris causa’ and since no-one learns latin any more, how many would realise it just means ‘For Being a Huge Wanker’ and not (what it seems) ‘Oh You Are So Clever’ at all.

So much for his vaunted “integrity”.

This chunk of spew deliberately sets out to deceive, first by implying that he was educated at Oxford University, and secondly by suggesting that he has the smarts to gain a doctorate. Please.

Just who is really the person with a question about their integrity? Who really is the liar and the cheat?

“We never said ‘Stay the course’,”

just like ‘Support the Troops’ is not a mantra.

Here’s Jon Stewart:

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