Tuesday, September 06, 2005
MM HMMM
Margo Kingston attacks Daily Telegraph editor David Penberthy:
MARGO: Well look, David Penberthy is too young for the job, there is no doubt about that.
Is Margo advocating a minimum-age qualification for editors? The woman is opposed to anti-discrimination law! Why, next she’ll be ranting about Jewish conspiracies and using the n-word. She continues:
Imagine how his staff are feeling – he’s got a number of his staff who, at least one of whom witnessed it, they decided not to run it, the story is run by Glenn, within a day John Brogden resigns as leader and resigns from the front bench, and it’s almost as like a young man said “Oh dear, we’ll make up for it, now that he’s dead meat, we’ll start running unsubstantiated allegations about his previous life”. Now, what more can John do, that is my first point, on what basis can David possibly justify sending his attack dog in – no doubt Luke McIlveen is a machine man for Murdoch when they want things, when Murdoch editors want things done –
FRAN KELLY: Mm hmm
MARGO: - to trawl around when a man is at his most low and has virtually resigned from public life and say that’s in the public interest, and more than that, and this is where I used to blow up Crikey, this is where Glenn and I agree very strongly, if you’re going to run allegations of a sexual, generally private nature, which will – or defamation imputations, whatever - which are almost certain to fatally damage someone whose aim in life is about to be destroyed, what they’ve worked for all those years, to run those allegations without putting a name to them – if a person’s going to make ‘em, and break someone’s career, please, don’t report that without the decency of putting a name to it. I think David Penberthy is not fit to be Editor, for many reasons –
FRAN KELLY: Margo, I’m going to have to wind you up there ...
Thank God for that. Meanwhile, things are running as smoothly as usual over at Margoland, where yesterday this “do not publish” instruction was accidentally, er, published:
DNP - Kerri - don’t want to engage with Tim Blair stuff
A comment was subsequently cut—only to later re-appear. It’s almost as though Margo’s activist army doesn’t know what the hell it is doing. Let’s see them answer Fearless Leader’s challenging questions:
When did the powerful, those whose role in our society it is to make prudent long term investments in our children’s future as Australians, decide to forget their duty to all of us? When? Because when we know when, we’ll be able to freeze frame the perpetrators, those who lost their ethics by selling them for cash. How many people will we be be looking at, I wonder. Most of us? All of us? So what do we do now we KNOW the Emperors have no clothes? What will you do?
You can sell ethics for cash? Excellent—more money for bold tags.
UPDATE. Margo’s throwing her money around:
I hereby commission a piece on questions to you media and a piece on questions to you pollies (thanks yet again, Jack Robertson!). $1.00 a word, 800 words. Due by midnight at the latest. First one of each I like gets published as the conversation starter.
Whoa! 1600 Margodollars! She must have sold her car.
UPDATE II. Skip:
Clearly what has happened at WebDiary with the comments disappearing an re-appearing, is that WD Team Gamma has taken their eye off the ball. Their mistake was missed by WD Teams Theta and Omega forcing the WD Special Emergency Team Epsilon to erase any mention of Tim Blair from the WD site. Unfortunately no one told Team Omikron who re-published the comment. We can expect severe repercussions from the Black Shirts at Team Kappa.