'...a lie travels half way around the world before the truth has a chance to put its pants on' Winston Churchhill
A couple of incidences in the news caught my attention during the past few weeks around the issue of lying. There are many incidences of politicians or personalties being proved wrong however I dont think the punishment fits the crime of lying.
Case No.1 - Andrew Bolt. Blatantly lied about the heritage of some indigenous people in his newspaper column. Was taken to court, lost the case, failed to apologise and I undertsand that his punishment is to write a revised article in the newspaper about the subject. His claim is that the judgement was indictment against free speech. I believe it is indictment of the legal system letting off a bull shit artist.
Case No.2 - Julia Gillard vs Tony Abbot. What ever your opinion about the carbon tax (I am a supporter), the way it has come to being is nothing to be proud of. Full of bullshit. Gillards 'there will never be a Carbon Tax in a parliment I lead' is just as good as Abbots 'if elected, we shall repeal this legislation in the parliment I lead'. To top it off Wayne Swan stating that the Carbon Tax policy is 'labour to the bootstraps' is just contradictory! The greens and the independents made this happen, the major parties lost an opportunity to lead and I believe Rudd lost his chance to be an icon buy listening to the bullshit his advisors were giving at not having the balls to call an election in early 2010 to resolve the issue.
There are a number of other examples, but I have forgotten. I shall update and finish this off later.
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