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 | Posted by Bridgit Gread on Monday 29 October 2007, 11:28 pm Categories: Australia Decides '07, Media Tags: 1982, InterestRates, JohnHoward, PiersAckerman, PoliticalIntegrity |
Piers Ackerman (full-time columnist and part-time Jabba the Hutt impersonator) is absolutely fuming at Labor’s campaign tactics:
IN line with its whatever-it-takes politics, Labor has been running an unrelenting - but highly misleading - campaign emphasising interest-rate rises under the Howard Government.
I’m right behind Piers on this: using interest rate scare-tactics in an election campaign is reprehensible. Especially when you do what the ALP spin doctors have done and DEFAME our wunnerful prime minister by GROSSLY INFLATING interest rate figures from when he was treasurer (back when STD was a phone call and Adam Ant ruled the airwaves):
The constant cry [from Labor] that the 22 per cent overnight cash rate in 1982 - when Howard was treasurer in Malcolm Fraser’s government - is a record, is an absolute furphy. [The RBA website] clearly shows the … monthly average in April, 1982 was 21.39 per cent. This may be splitting hairs … but if you’re going to toss a figure out you should get it right. Labor’s claim is just not true.
Quite right. That 0.61 percent is an appalling piece of political dishonesty that besmirches John Howard’s record as a fiscal genius. Labor should be ASHAMED!
Tuesday 30 October 2007, 12:26 am #The Happy Revolutionary
Glad to see that Piers is onto the big election issues.
It’s hilarious that he talks about Labor indulging in ‘whatever-it-takes’ politics, as opposed to the Liberals ahem, principled policy pre-election promises…
Tuesday 30 October 2007, 12:53 am #Mikey
Ah Piers. 100% guarranteed to ignore any semblance of journalistic balance.
What intrigues me is his thunderous denunciation of Rudd as an ear picker (see next story).
Considering Akerman’s previous Hansard noted habit of snorting muchos illegal substances. Hardly a hygienic practice.
Tuesday 30 October 2007, 6:45 am #The Editor
He only inhaled 0.61 of a line, Mikey.
Tuesday 30 October 2007, 4:01 pm #John Surname
But it’s that 0.61 that makes all the difference.
Tuesday 30 October 2007, 4:04 pm #John Surname
“This may be splitting hairs … but if you’re going to toss a figure out you should get it right.”
Would Piers say that in regards to the Liberals false “70% union officials claim”? You know, to be fair and impartial.
Tuesday 30 October 2007, 10:17 pm #Mikey
I should note I attempted to post a reply at Akerman’s blog but got blocked. Maybe he’s aware of my Tiddlick expose?
Wednesday 31 October 2007, 1:21 am #Krypto
Impartial isn’t he? Perhaps Piers is just grumpy because someone obviously sealed his arse hole up about ten years ago, clearly he has grown so full of shit it now spews out of his mouth poor man. Still he really SHOULD cut down on eating whales, they are getting scarce now.