Tony Abbott:
Niall Clugston writes: Re. “Tony Abbott: philosopher-prince of the assertion-based community” (Friday, item 1). Is Bernard Keane reading too much Guy Rundle?
His article on Friday lurches like a loose cannon, attacking Tony Abbott’s lazy budget comment — “they just are” — as a philosophical manifesto, before launching a jagged broadside against Clive Palmer, George W Bush, the Tea Party, News Limited, and … “the far Left”.
His spray on “the far Left” in particular detracts from his argument. Can he name which far-left groups he is talking about in his diatribe against “a comforting narrative in which even reason and logic themselves were simply tools of white patriarchal capitalist tyranny, one busy ‘genociding’ every conceivable minority group”? Or has he too fallen in thrall of the sinister “assertion-based community”?
Tom Richman writes: Mussolini said there was only one political system that most benefited from a lack of class warfare: Fascism. Shouldn’t we be very afraid when we find these same sentiments come out of the mouth of Mr Abbot?
Niall Clugston = Lieberal apologist, black is white confirmer, global warming denier, flat earther, failed reporter, not even at journalist shadow. Your are at total idiot mate, can see why you are so low down on the story list, every paper has to have it rubbish end, your it.
Tom Richmond – don’t forget Abbott’s mentor was Bob Santamaria who first came to public attention speaking in a Melbourne University debate on the Spanish Civil War (backing Franco needless to say), and his protege Cory Bernadi is great mates with Dutch far-right-winger Geert Wilders. I wouldn’t trust Abbott as far as I could throw him.
Khtagh – I don’t appear here as a reporter, and I am not on the story list. I have never apologised for the Liberals or denied global warming. And I don’t see how your comment relates to my comment. But thanks for spelling my name right.