PETER MANNING LINKS 60 MINUTES TO THE CRUSADES (OF OLD)
Did anyone see the former ABC and Channel 7 operative Peter Manning on 7.30 last night? Mr Manning, whose ideological journey took him from being an avid supporter of B.A. Santamaria in his student days at Sydney University all those years ago to a rampant Green/leftist and one of the leading opponents of Israel in Australia today. What a metamorphosis.
Asked about the botched attempt by the 60 Minutes team to return two children (who had been taken by their father to Lebanon) to Australia – your man Manning had this to say to an apparently naïve 7.30 crew: Peter Manning, Former ABC & Channel 7 News Director: They went overseas, you know, like Crusaders to right the wrongs in the Middle East. Now, that’s – that’s a kind of mythic tale, you know, a bit like out of a fairytale or something or other. But unfortunately, they didn’t take into account all the realities of Lebanon – its law, its politics, its culture.
What a load of absolute tosh. The children were taken by their father to Lebanon – and, contrary to a directive of the Family Court of Australia, not returned. The action to have the children forcibly removed from Lebanon to Australia, which 60 Minutes financed, was unwise.
But only a fool – or an ABC-trained leftist ideologue, or both – would believe that 60 Minutes was attempting a Crusade-like invasion of Muslim lands. Yet Peter Manning’s madness got a prominent run on 7.30 last night. [Perhaps this gem should have got a guernsey on your hugely popular “Can You Bear It?” segment. Just a thought. – MWDEd] PETER MANNING LINKS 60 MINUTES TO THE CRUSADES (OF OLD)
Did anyone see the former ABC and Channel 7 operative Peter Manning on 7.30 last night? Mr Manning, whose ideological journey took him from being an avid supporter of B.A. Santamaria in his student days at Sydney University all those years ago to a rampant Green/leftist and one of the leading opponents of Israel in Australia today. What a metamorphosis.
Asked about the botched attempt by the 60 Minutes team to return two children (who had been taken by their father to Lebanon) to Australia – your man Manning had this to say to an apparently naïve 7.30 crew: Peter Manning, Former ABC & Channel 7 News Director: They went overseas, you know, like Crusaders to right the wrongs in the Middle East. Now, that’s – that’s a kind of mythic tale, you know, a bit like out of a fairytale or something or other. But unfortunately, they didn’t take into account all the realities of Lebanon – its law, its politics, its culture.
What a load of absolute tosh. The children were taken by their father to Lebanon – and, contrary to a directive of the Family Court of Australia, not returned. The action to have the children forcibly removed from Lebanon to Australia, which 60 Minutes financed, was unwise.
But only a fool – or an ABC-trained leftist ideologue, or both – would believe that 60 Minutes was attempting a Crusade-like invasion of Muslim lands. Yet Peter Manning’s madness got a prominent run on 7.30 last night. [Perhaps this gem should have got a guernsey on your hugely popular “Can You Bear It?” segment. Just a thought. – MWDEd]
