Sometimes Morrison just can’t seem to free himself from a lie or falsehood. For some reason, it sticks to him and no matter how much he tries, he can’t shake it off.
So it proved when Morrison tried to ensure his close friend and mentor, Hillsong CEO Brian Houston, joined him at a dinner at the White House when Donald Trump was president in September 2019.
The Trump White House hosted an extraordinary array of crooks, spivs, dictators and far-right wingnuts between 2017 and 2021. Brian Houston would latter attend the Trump White House, but in September 2019, for some reason, he was unacceptable to the administration. He was omitted from the guest list.
When word leaked via the American media that Morrison had tried to get Houston — now facing criminal charges relating to concealing his father Frank Houston’s sexual abuse — into the White House, Morrison was asked about it. “I don’t comment on gossip,” he replied. When pressed, he repeated the “gossip” line. When pressed further, he claimed “I’ve answered the question”.
He might have thought that stonewalling would end the issue, but it wouldn’t go away. Just for once, journalists kept asking. David Speers took up the matter weeks later, but couldn’t get an answer. Many media outlets, including Crikey, pursued the issue via Freedom of Information, eliciting the remarkable response that an answer would damage relations with the United States. The issue so dogged Morrison that even friendly media figures raised it with him. In March 2020, Ben Fordham demanded he clear the matter up. “We put forward a number of names, that included Brian, but not everybody whose names were put forward were invited,” Morrison finally admitted. “Gossip” indeed.
And just as some icing on the cake, when Fordham pointed out that at that point Houston was under investigation, Morrison replied, “These are not things I follow closely.”
That might have been the most egregious lie of all.
Would I lie to you?
Would I lie to you honey?
Now would I say something that wasn’t true?
I’m asking you sugar
Would I lie to you?
Eurythmics song sung by SCOMO
I know so!
When he loses his job, he can always reprise Gríma Wormtongue.
“The wise speak only of what they know, Gríma son of Gálmód. A witless worm have you become. Therefore be silent, and keep your forked tongue behind your teeth. I have not passed through fire and death to bandy words with a serving-man till the lightning falls.
I like it!
Stenographer / journalists asks Scomo: “what’s your favourite lie?” Scomo replies “I don’t tell lies”!
Journalist: “yes, that’s my favourite too.”
Pinocchio’$ nose must be 30ft long by now.
In the photograph above there is a slightly crazed look around the eyes of the Reverend Houston. Come to think of it, Mr. Morrison’s eyes often have a similar unbalanced gleam in them.
It’s their swivelling and his foam flecked lips that confirm it.
I thought they both had scabs on their knuckles!
How is never brought to account for blatant lies? Why can’t the Press remind him constantly of his inconsistencies and flat out lies. Can people vote this party back in take action electors #voicesofbennelong #auspol
LNP supporters probably know that he is a liar, but don’t care because he is their liar. He lies for the cause of righteousness, so all will be forgiven.
Their version of total exoneration.
The man who saved their negative gearing and franking credits can do no wrong with some of my ex friends. They reckon he’s good at the game of politics and will keep the middle class welfare flowing free while excoriating the poor. And they love it because it endorses their belief that they are better than others.
Apparently Sunrise had a go at him this morning re EVs
If he’s lost Sunrise, he is in deep doo-doo.
We can only hope, but it is hard to shift the opinions of the mindless.
Anyone who watches breakfast TV merits that description.
I still prefer the tag line: Problem – we have a Houston.