http://au.news.yahoo.com/latest/a/-/latest/16263889/gillard-says-shes-misunderstood-by-media/ Prime Minister Julia Gillard says she feels misunderstood by the media and has given a colourful account of her cabinet colleagues. In a frank and personal interview on ABC radio in Brisbane, Ms Gillard said fairness and a "love of country and a love of family" were at the core of her personal values. However, she said she often felt misunderstood, particularly when it came to the modern-day media cycle. "I think there is a lot in this time of change in the media industry that pushes the cycle towards more schlock, more horror," she said. "That means you need more and more drama or you can't sustain it, so even the simplest things get puffed up in a way that is really pretty absurd." Ms Gillard gave the example of her cabinet reshuffle earlier this year involving the retirement of senior ministers Chris Evans and Nicola Roxon. "I thought the media reaction to that was absurd," she said. "Two wonderfully competent ministers who have decided to go and do something else with their lives seamlessly replaced by two fantastically competent ministers and this is written as crisis. Excuse me? "That was complete silliness." Asked who was the stand-out intellectual in her cabinet, the prime minister gave a glowing assessment of some of her ministers. "It depends what you mean by intellectual," she said. If you wanted to go "the well-read, understanding of the artistic world, understanding of the world in general", you would go for Bob Carr or Simon Crean, she said. If you wanted to go for "a mastery of the law", you would say Mark Dreyfus. If you wanted to go "in touch with working people it would be Wayne Swan, Jenny Macklin, Bill Shorten. "The list goes on," Ms Gillard said. Offering an insight into the closed-door cabinet process, the prime minister said she had a strict rule for meetings. "I specifically say to my cabinet colleagues I don't expect people to come in and just automatically agree with each other. "What I do expect is for them to give the best of themselves and to operate what I call a positive climate." Asked about the booming social media forum Twitter, Ms Gillard said some "vile things" were posted and there were some issues which were "too serious and too weighty" to be dealt with by it. "But it's a fantastic way of engaging people," she said. ================================================================================== It`s not as if we`re short of examples of this delusional, dishonest, megalomaniacal misandrist, feebly attempting to brainwash an audience. This person has constantly insulted the intelligence of the Australian people. To accuse the media of missunderstanding her, while constantly displaying her incapacity to answer a straight question, with a straight answer, is absurdly delusional. To ask Julia Gillard a question on policy, is a complete waste of time. She invariably launches into a rambling diatribe, completely disassociated with the topic, venting her tired, bitter spleen, usually at the expense of the leader of the opposition (whom she has instructed the more gullible to refer to as a "negative attack dog"), and now she wonders why she is missunderstood? Julia Gillard is too well understood. This is why the opinion polls reflect the understanding, of her sly, abusive nature. This country needs representation of ordinary working people. The ALP is too far gone, too corrupt, too infested with an agenda of gutter methadology. In recent years, the liberals have progressively taken over the role nominated by the ALP & the regressive unions. There should be a balance, but as things presently stand, there is no balance.
I guess some people know the feeling, and are able to richly bless us with their take! You've got good insight there free2lie!
Insight? It stands out like dog`s balls on a canary. - - - Updated - - - Insight? It stands out like dog`s balls on a canary.
Wouldn't know, never seen dog's balls on a canary, but then you see a lot of things no one else sees, love to know what your smoking
I'm happy you don't believe the media are wrong Aussie, from the Sydney Morning Herald Abbott's evil policy work
Neat trick. Quote something and then draw from it conclusions that have absolutely nothing to do with the quote.
Thanks for more insight on this clown DV. His lies and deceit only get little snippets and have to dig it out. If a formal liberal PM is obviously quite nervous about this fool, it speaks volumes of where our country will be heading, if the wankeer gets in.
DV, the link you provided can only be described as "mindlessly, fanatically, barking mad", shot full of more holes than a wire netting roof. For instance, to even try to compare Tony Abbott`s actions, with a those of a union lawyer (see, corruption expert), secretly setting up a "fund" which turned out to be no more than a vehicle for theft, earns a top shelf spot in delusion central. The circumstances that Julia Gillard set up the rort fund, her associated actions, and her sly dodging of subsequent questions, leaves only two available options. Either she was was incredibly incompetent ( see http://www.scoopit.co.nz/story.php?title=summers-on-gillard-and-historical-judgement-1), or she knew exactly what was planned, and how to cover her tracks legally (see corruption expert).
Abbott supporters are as lacking in the content of their posts as Abbott is about policy, vague references, deceitful statements and on the whole, NOTHING. But I won't be surprised if he is reelected, worried but not surprised. It's the Aussie way, If in Doubt, vote then out. Aussie politics is not about what you do for your country, it's about gossip, bagging others and generally sucking up to business, the voters and the media. We will never get good governance while this is our attitude.
If Abbott gets in,then we will get a real carbon tax, maybe in disguise, but it will be there. And you can bet your bottom teeth, we will be much worse off, unless of course your rich, he wouldn't dare touch big business and the mining mob,I mean they do need contributions to their party after all.
The post was clear enough, but if you want to dodge around with trivial little word games, that`s your problem. Do you really think Gillard is so dumb, that she didn`t know she was setting up a rort fund? Do you really think that she wouldn`t know how to legally cover her tracks, after setting up a rort fund? Keep in mind, she is a trained lawyer, a union lawyer. DV, it`s not hard to connect these dots.
