Thursday, May 26, 2005
GUILT OBVIOUS
The ABC’s Peter Lloyd meets some Schapelle Corby supporters in Bali, and sets them straight about Corby’s guilt:
These visitors represent the sharp end of public opinion, which has overwhelming faith in Schapelle Corby’s innocence, regardless of the prima facie evidence of her guilt and the utter failure of her defence team to prove assertions that she was set up.
Let her face the firing squad, then. Lloyd next mocks the those who believe the “attractive doe-eyed woman often described as a former beauty student is the innocent victim of a mysterious drug smuggling network and a corrupt legal system.” So cynical! Yet Lloyd was far more forgiving of Malaysia’s Mahathir Mohamad after the then-prime minister lashed out against world-controlling Jews:
This racist tirade was mildly characterised by ABC radio’s Peter Cave and Peter Lloyd as “calling on the world’s Muslim community to unite and take a lesson on survival from the Jews” and “to in some ways emulate their response to oppression”.
Lloyd also has special gifts that allow him to predict events, such as when he reported from a US media centre in Iraq prior to any press conference:
These media briefings will be selective, self-serving and at times perhaps, even worse … In the last Gulf War the truths, half-truths and what some say were downright fibs were presented from the podium by ‘Storming’ Norman Schwartzkopf. This time around the Americans are going for a different, arguably more devious approach.
Selective, self-serving, devious ... he’s just described the ABC.