Posted on 05/06/2015 3:27:12 PM PDT by naturalman1975
IF you believe reporter Peter Hartcher, our Prime Minister decides mid-flight he doesn’t want to be met at the airport by a gay.
If you believe Hartcher’s claims in the Sydney Morning Herald and Age on Wednesday, Tony Abbott actually checked who’d be in the greeting party when he landed in Paris on Anzac Day.
You also believe Abbott got a staffer to ring ahead and tell the gay guy on the list — the Australian ambassador’s partner — to “sit in the car” instead.
Seriously? Abbott has copped plenty of abuse from the media, portraying him as a lying, racist, woman-hating thug.
But I doubt any mainstream journalist has matched this nonsense.
According to various versions — in the Fairfax press, Sky News and 2GB — Abbott objected to being met not just by ambassador Stephen Brady but Brady’s partner, Peter Stephens.
Brady refused the instruction, which was blamed on Abbott personally, saying he “did not want the ambassador’s partner to be part of the greeting party”.
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Hartcher is no doubt now aware the Prime Minister hadn’t issued such instructions.
Besides, Abbott had held dinner for Brady and Stephens before they left for Paris and had taken them to dinner the night after his arrival. Does that sound like a homophobe?
Moreover, Hartcher overlooked the obvious explanation — a junior official had reminded Brady of the protocol for receiving the Prime Minister.
It dictated that if Abbott was with his wife, he should be received by the ambassador and his own partner, but if Abbott was alone, only the ambassador should turn up.
So the real story is that Abbott broke protocol to meet the gay partner of the ambassador and then took the two men to dinner.
Why did Hartcher imply the opposite?
And will he apologise?
(Excerpt) Read more at heraldsun.com.au ...
“Brady refused the instruction, which was blamed on Abbott personally”
Then fire his ass immediately. His job essentially is to be a designated government azz kisser. That entails not refusing to do what your national leader says.
He threatened to resign and somebody refused his resignation, apparently as part of damage control when this story started breaking (before they’d checked the facts). Makes it difficult to sack him now. Although I’d consider sacking the person who apparently decided this was credible and panicked.
I would have instructed him to “sit in the car ... in another country.”
We’re supposed to believe Abbott is a homophobe when he appointed a gay guy to the plum assignment of Ambassador to France? It’s a stupid lie to boot.
“Makes it difficult to sack him now.”
Why? And if he didn’t say it, he should have. Fly from down under, all the way to Paris, and that SOB greets you with a man, who holds no government position, and who likes to take it right up the wazzoo? Bizzare behavior.
A bevy of hot French sexy women would be more appropriate.
there a few out there who don’t approve of the gay life style....
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