Tony Abbott has that rare ability to be incredibly stupid
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Tony Abbott keeps raising the bar of stupidity.
His speech last night at a timber industry dinner lauding timber workers as “the ultimate conservationists” brings home the gold medal.
Corinne Grant provides a wonderful take on this superb performance:
It’s pretty much standard for politicians to suck up to their audiences.
If they’re talking to mining magnates, they tell them they’re the
backbone of Australia. If they’re talking to farmers, they tell them
they’re the backbone of Australia.
If they’re talking to factory workers they tell them they’re the
backbone of Australia (and then they tell them they earn too much).
But when Tony Abbott told a room full of loggers that they were the
‘ultimate conservationists’, even that audience must have been reaching
for its sick bag.
Seriously, people who cut down trees are saving them? As what? IKEA furniture?
Just brilliant, Corinne.
But while this latest example (of what are affectionately called
“Abbott’s brain farts”) has anyone with an IQ over 25 picking their jaws
up off the floor, this medal-winning performance of stupidity has been
matched with an equally brilliant display of hypocrisy.
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