The question to be asked is why Abbott chose to make the comment at all when he would know it was the tent embassy's anniversary.
Given he is the master of dog whistle politics and the ambiguous answer, you would have to think that he would have known what he was saying could be construed as contentious, no matter how slight and no matter what the question he was asked.
The rest of the carry on by the Coalition luvvies on here and their spin doctors is a very clever attempt to shift the focus away from Abbott's failings as a leader (God, who would ever want him as the leader of the country when his responses get him into so much hot water).
News media are no longer talking about Abbott but have gleefully made Gillard the issue. For that the ALP have only themselves to blame.
