If you keep even a passing interest in the news, you might be surprised to hear that Senator Pauline Hanson is being silenced.
Hanson used an interview spot on national news broadcaster Sky News on Tuesday to argue that political correctness meant she wasn’t allowed to speak her mind.
“We can’t have a say in this country because of political correctness, or, you know, offending someone,” she said.
But it’s a bit of a stretch to argue the good senator is being silenced. Since her burqa stunt in the Senate, Hanson has done at least 13 TV and radio interviews around the country in less than a week. And that is on top of the blanket coverage she got on front pages around the country on Friday, and in news bulletins since.
Immediately after the stunt on Thursday, Hanson walked into an interview with 2GB’s Ben Fordham, and then gave one to Sky News with Paul Murray.
On Friday, Hanson was in demand across the board, conducting TV interviews with Seven’s Sunrise, Nine’s Today, Sky News and ABC News Breakfast and A Current Affair. On radio, she spoke with 2CC, ABC News Melbourne and 97.3FM.
Since then, she was back on Sunrise on Monday, in two separate segments. There was a one-on-one interview, and a segment with Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young that has been widely covered in other media. Then she was back on the telly again telling Sky News on Tuesday to tell us how she isn’t allowed to have a say.
For someone who is being silenced, we’ve sure heard a lot from her.
8 thoughts on “Pauline Hanson ‘can’t have a say’, she tells Sky, and Sunrise, and 2GB, and …”
zut alors
August 24, 2017 at 1:10 pmHanson’s technique is being copied by Senator (?) Malcolm Roberts who never takes the opportunity to put his citizenship case when interviewed on the ABC. Instead of laying out the facts he wastes air-time castigating the ABC for being biased & never giving him a fair hearing.
Even when Michael Rowland (on ABC Breakfast) invited him to present his case Roberts side-stepped the opportunity by reverting to the standard whinge of how he is regularly denied the chance to present his case.
mikeb
August 24, 2017 at 1:50 pmShe is oppressed like “Australia’s most read columnist”. Funny how you can be silenced and most read at the same time.
John Hall
August 24, 2017 at 3:35 pmShe is a comedian, surely? In fairness I do tune her out as her channelling of crackpots is a bit wearing on my sanity. The press actually give her way more attention than she deserves and the coalitions morality is greatly damaged whenever they ‘lock hips’ with her ilk.
Djbekka
August 24, 2017 at 4:54 pmShe doesn’t want to tell us what she thinks, she wants us to tell her she is correct. Then she wants Parliament to enact her ill thought out policies.
AR
August 24, 2017 at 10:30 pmAn idea cannot be responsible for the people who hold it.
PHONie & Dick Smith want a reduction in immigration.
It is common for something to be right for the wrong reasons, just as frequently as it is possible to be wrong for the right reasons.
A truth told with ill intent does far more harm than lies.
klewso
August 25, 2017 at 1:09 amI don’t think she understands the difference between ‘silenced’ and ‘interupted’/’disrespected’ – to explain?
…… Just look at her omnipotence.
As for not being allowed to speak her mind – if only she’d stop speaking Obtuse?
AR
August 25, 2017 at 3:27 amSurely a prerequisite of PHONie being able to speak her mind would be to have one?
Adrian Harris
August 29, 2017 at 7:35 pmWell,
Pauling jandsom
Brain lke my typing