Tony isn't a Joolia

There are so many important political issues that should be targets of media focus at the moment. But yesterday channel 7 made a decision to put themselves at the centre of the news.

What 7 News have done is played some old footage (at least a month old) that they have now obtained under an FOI (Freedom of Information) Request that wasn't relevant to anything happening in Canberra this week, and it shows Tony Abbott talking privately to troops who have just lost a mate, and despite the cameras the reality is there weren't TV cameras there from the TV network news stations (thus the FOI request).  The soldiers are expressing to him their concerns that if they had more resources maybe, just maybe their mate would be alive, and he responds giving them a response they understood .... he might well have said don't blame yourselves fellas.

Abbott's response to them is something intended for private reassurance, but for those who already don't like Abbott they will no doubt distort this into something else, as the 7 Network have attempted to do.

I'm pretty sure that is what made Tony Abbott bite his tongue in anger when the 7 reporter showed him the footage and asked him to comment.

The big problem here is that Tony Abbott talks with people as a person, that is the context of the discussion with the soldiers that 7 have taken a sound bite grab out of context of the circumstances that were happening to these soldiers at that time. Would we prefer he be more like Joolia? 

... Turn It Up.

...more on important topics tomorrow.

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Links

http://www.news.com.au/national/s-happens-tony-abbott-to-troops-after-lance-corporal-jared-mackinneys-death/story-e6frfkvr-1226002350040

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/libs-back-leader-on-afghan-comment/story-fn59niix-1226002438677

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/two-bad-blunders-ruin-one-very-brave-decision/story-e6frg6zo-1226002485193

Is this the real Julia?

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/are-the-pms-tears-the-real-julia-gillard/story-fn59niix-1226002508656

In other news this week - Abbott suggests cut the fat

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/abbotts-recipe-cut-18bn-from-budget-and-scrap-levy/story-e6frg6nf-1226002436147

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