Before you keep treading the self-righteous path -
Jeanette Howard suffered many indignities, sarcasm and put-downs. From Labor.
Who delighted called her Mrs. "Bouquet" behind her back.
WHO gave her not one jot of compassion, let alone interest, which she was diagnosed with (then) - a very serious illness, - an illness which neither Mr. Or Mrs. Howard never ever leant on to obtain public sympathy.
Labor constantly ridiculing Howard as "Little Johnny" - when he is much taller than Hawke, who allegedly resorted to stacked heels at times.
And Mrs. Whitlam making judgemental and condescending remark, publicly at one time - about Mrs. Howard and how she spent HER time as PM partner - What DOES she do with her time" - said Mrs. Whitlam. Inferring she was a lazy lay-about!
I know nothing about Sattler or his station. But I think he may have been set-up - lulled into a false sense of cheery camaraderie (by PM office staff perhaps - did they suggest he could dare be risque with his questions - the feel of the interview seemed jovial?
Why didn't he at least get the right of reply - in some official off-air opportunity, to explain himself and his motives - and what he WAS told by Pm minders?
Or did Gillard do more yelling down phone lines - demanding his head. Or else - what, she'd sue? Again?
My household divided in this. My "other" thinks his question appalling.
But I, more cynical, ask -
how come Gillard agreed to jump into this interview so fast? when she never, ever, dares go onto the sister Fairfax Station in Melbourne, and face Neil Mitchell. He's given up asking! And she and Tim are domiciled in Melbourne.
If Sattler's so AWFUL - why did his station employ him for so long? And why did she agree to be interviewed by him? Yet dodges the same, whenever in Melbourne.
There is something terribly "odd" about all this. Somethi0ng which doesn't ring true. I don;t trust Ms. Gillard - nor her advisers, after a few previous incidents. Australia Day/Abbott set-uo for one.
IS it the usual MAchiavellian plot. Just yet another notch on the Gillard belt - of "poor little hard done by me?" Surely this bloke not stupid enough just to throw away his job. What then might Sattler know that we, perhaps, do not. WHY did he do such a reckless thing to HIMSELF and his own career?
Pity he hadn't asked her any questions about her past relationships with Bruce Wilson and the AWU related allegations, perhaps, instead? GO down in a blaze of reality! Now THAT would be worth losing one's job over!
a direct question - which every man and his dog, minus a brave handful, dodges around as if it's the Black Plague.
Oh and BTW - does everyone know that the part-time chef who released this much discussed "menu" copy - from last March - (although he didn't work there any more at that stage I believe anyway - has allegedly tweeted vile comment about Abbott, in the past?
I don't trust Gillard and her versions of anything, normally. Not a hanging offence, yet, is it? In this case, I may well be in the minority.
But how many sackings will there be?
This is people's lives on the line. Sattler now finished on radio, I would expect. Assume he has a family to house, and feed. How unfortunate. Moreso if he knew he was right. Which I do not allege, or know, either way.
Julia calls Hockey "that fat man" - in Parliament.
Julia labels Abbott "that misogynist" - in Parliament.
Quick with the vicious repartee - yet she takes offence easily herself. And heads roll as a result.
Let her then come out from cover of Coward's Castle and start such personal abuses publicly, if she thinks it so awful in others!
Windsor and Oakeshott told us they were giving us "more stable Government!"
If this is their version of "stable government" - I;d hate to see what they termed "chaotic!".
This is now sheer cheap and nasty, bottom of barrel soap opera. "The Clash of the Egos". Never mind ordinary Aussies.
