Comments on: Richard Farmer’s chunky bits http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/02/06/richard-farmers-chunky-bits-106/ now with extra source Mon, 20 May 2013 04:19:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: klewso http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/02/06/richard-farmers-chunky-bits-106/comment-page-1/#comment-237101 klewso Mon, 11 Feb 2013 01:05:32 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=346904#comment-237101 Yes, she's been Murdochtrinated. Yes, she’s been Murdochtrinated.

]]> By: CML http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/02/06/richard-farmers-chunky-bits-106/comment-page-1/#comment-236741 CML Wed, 06 Feb 2013 15:57:19 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=346904#comment-236741 Well, it didn't take Jessica Irvine long to drop the Fairfax mantra and adopt that of Murdoch. That's what happens when you start "sleeping with the enemy"! And they wonder why we don't read MSM anymore? Well, it didn’t take Jessica Irvine long to drop the Fairfax mantra and adopt that of Murdoch. That’s what happens when you start “sleeping with the enemy”!
And they wonder why we don’t read MSM anymore?

]]> By: klewso http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/02/06/richard-farmers-chunky-bits-106/comment-page-1/#comment-236675 klewso Wed, 06 Feb 2013 05:57:29 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=346904#comment-236675 Yeh American football = 60 minutes of football and three hours of "salesmanship" - even with the later replays when they could edit it down? A lot like 7's tennis when you think about it? Or the cricket - with their ads for "cooked chook" and hamburgers? Or our sort of football? As for Rudd's suggestion? Never get between an op-ed hack and a chance at a beat-off? [Catch Tony Windsor on 7:30 last night suggesting Thomson might be due some "due process" - to an op-ed like Sales?] Yeh American football = 60 minutes of football and three hours of “salesmanship” - even with the later replays when they could edit it down?
A lot like 7’s tennis when you think about it? Or the cricket - with their ads for “cooked chook” and hamburgers? Or our sort of football?

As for Rudd’s suggestion? Never get between an op-ed hack and a chance at a beat-off?

Catch Tony Windsor on 7:30 last night suggesting Thomson might be due some “due process” - to an op-ed like Sales?

]]> By: Spike http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/02/06/richard-farmers-chunky-bits-106/comment-page-1/#comment-236672 Spike Wed, 06 Feb 2013 05:49:34 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=346904#comment-236672 China's an economic/ industrial / commercial + military powerhouse. Every Aussie returns home from any shopping expedition with 'Made in China'on probably ninety percent of purchases! When I was kid: 90 percent would've been Aussie manufactured. Doesn't look good folks! China is a major player on the international loans [$'s etc] game. THEY LOAN: Yanks + Aussies BORROW! WAKE UP! our factories, commerce, the driving industrial force of Australia: Sold TO CHINESE/ OTHER non Aussie 'players', often employing Chinese labor, closed or gone into receivership. Apprenticeships in important related areas, dwindling. NOT SO IN CHINA! Our land, thanks to Socialist Supremo Hawke + assorted 'pollie' 'sell out' likewise: being SOLD, not leased to Communist Chinese Govt! Got kids/ grankids? Be scared, be very scared!.... China’s an economic/ industrial / commercial + military powerhouse. Every Aussie returns home from any shopping expedition with ‘Made in China’on probably ninety percent of purchases! When I was kid: 90 percent would’ve been Aussie manufactured. Doesn’t look good folks! China is a major player on the international loans [$’s etc] game. THEY LOAN: Yanks + Aussies BORROW! WAKE UP! our factories, commerce, the driving industrial force of Australia: Sold TO CHINESE/ OTHER non Aussie ‘players’, often employing Chinese labor, closed or gone into receivership. Apprenticeships in important related areas, dwindling. NOT SO IN CHINA! Our land, thanks to Socialist Supremo Hawke + assorted ‘pollie’ ‘sell out’ likewise: being SOLD, not leased to Communist Chinese Govt! Got kids/ grankids? Be scared, be very scared!….

]]> By: zut alors http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/02/06/richard-farmers-chunky-bits-106/comment-page-1/#comment-236649 zut alors Wed, 06 Feb 2013 04:49:50 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=346904#comment-236649 Nothing makes a politician look more shallow/phoney than the image of them fawning over a baby or small child. Nothing makes a politician look more shallow/phoney than the image of them fawning over a baby or small child.

]]> By: Keith MacQueen http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/02/06/richard-farmers-chunky-bits-106/comment-page-1/#comment-236607 Keith MacQueen Wed, 06 Feb 2013 03:02:43 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=346904#comment-236607 Re: Predicting the future by examining old news. Amazing! Now we have a computer program that predicts the bleeding obvious. This combination of the interweb thingy and program boffiny-people is truly powerful.... Re: Predicting the future by examining old news.
Amazing! Now we have a computer program that predicts the bleeding obvious. This combination of the interweb thingy and program boffiny-people is truly powerful….

]]> By: klewso http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/02/06/richard-farmers-chunky-bits-106/comment-page-1/#comment-236606 klewso Wed, 06 Feb 2013 02:50:33 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=346904#comment-236606 Abbott - for the next 7 months - never much more than a dummy toss from a "Baby's R' Us"? Abbott - for the next 7 months - never much more than a dummy toss from a “Baby’s R’ Us”?

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