Australian PM gets the John Oliver treatment

[mr friendly guy]

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Tony Abbott lambasted on US TV show Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
1 HOUR AGO JUNE 02, 2014 5:51PM

IT would appear the secret’s out: America knows about Tony Abbott.
Satirical US news program Last Week Tonight with John Oliver today aired a segment ruthlessly collating our embattled PM’s most embarrassing moments.

In a regular segment devoted to ‘Other countries’ Presidents of the USA’, the HBO show turned its attention to Australia, describing our current leader as “hard line right-wing Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who rose to power promising to be pro-business and religiously anti-immigration — literally, religiously anti-immigration.”

It then cut to Mr Abbott on ABC panel show Q&A, explaining to host Tony Jones that “Jesus knew there was a place for everything and it’s not necessarily everyone’s place to come to Australia”. Cue much laughter from the Last Week Tonight studio audience.
“Exactly. Australia is for real Australians, like Tony Abbott — who was born in London, England,” the Last Week Tonight voiceover intoned.

From there, Last Week Tonight cut to clips of former Prime Minister Paul Keating, protesters and even schoolchildren lambasting the PM. “My mummy calls him Tony Dum-Dum,” said one young boy in an undated interview.
Then followed clips of Mr Abbott’s disparaging remarks about women (“What the housewives of Australia need to understand is they do the ironing”), gay people (telling 60 Minutes’ Liz Hayes he feels “a bit threatened” by homosexuality), the Irish, and his now-infamous wink while speaking to an elderly sex-line worker.
They finished with his silent response to a journalist who asked about his choice of words when speaking about a fallen Aussie soldier:

“Yes, Tony Abbott knows, one panicked pant-sh**ting expression is worth a thousand words,” the voiceover said.
Reaction from American viewers — and Aussies who’d managed to view the segment online — was swift and decisive:

Well now the Americans can also take solace that we too have shitty leaders.

[Thanas]

Wait, Abbott was born in England? That explains so much.
(usually it is the newcomers who are often the most extreme as they think they have to prove themselves)

[Thanas]

BTW, here's the vid:

[Dominus Atheos]

Was that the guy caught on camera eating his own earwax, or was that a different Australian politician?

[Korto]

Nah, that was Rudd. Rudd gave good apology,but otherwise was a completely gutless wonder. So was Gillard, unfortunately. Between them, they managed to create a complete leadership debacle that ended up with voters just wanting to vote in anyone else who wasn't Labor (sic). We would have voted in a shit-covered dog as long as it wasn't Gillard or Rudd, and hey! We did!

[tim31]

Gawd but I wish Ruddy could have just supported Gillard instead of... You know... Or the other way around, whatever.

[tim31]

But hey, Western Sydney is called the 'heartland of the (X) Party', and one of the electorates is represented by this person

Government we deserve.

[mr friendly guy]

Since we are digging up dirt on our politicians and sharing it gloriously with the rest of the board, lets bring up this old chestnut.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=459x66E_vmo#t=13m10s

And who can forget this gem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbkQlVrcreI

Ironically one of the good things Tony Abbott actually did was helped in destroying her political career. Because they were both competing for the racist, er I mean conservative vote.

[Gandalf]

This quote from Abbott always puzzled me.

"I think there does need to be give and take on both sides, and this idea that sex is kind of a woman’s right to absolutely withhold, just as the idea that sex is a man’s right to demand I think they are both they both need to be moderated, so to speak."

Yeah, this is the guy currently in the big chair.

[Korto]

The right to not have sex has got to be a legal absolute.
Within a relationship there needs to be the willingness on both sides to compromise, to find a place both can be happy with, or else they may prefer to find a new relationship that's a better fit.
However, I believe we have more problems with men demanding sex then women withholding it, and so Abbott's input was really unnecessary, and only serves to make the embarrassing "men's rights" fringe louder.

But it's all right. He's Minister for Women!

[tim31]

This clip

'This chamber... should never be a place where motives are impugned or characters assassinated.'

That was the day the hypocrimeter broke.

[Purple]

This clip

'This chamber... should never be a place where motives are impugned or characters assassinated.'

That was the day the hypocrimeter broke.

I don't get it. Can we have some context (not really into australian politics).

[tim31]

Abbott and his gang in opposition spent the three years between elections running off at the mouth with ad hominem attacks on the PM(Gillard, then Rudd) with the help of News Limited. Since the election these people have gone on to commit nearly every bit of bad politics they accused the previous government of.

The speaker of the house, as nominated in that video, has shown a distinct disdain for the phrase 'without fear or favour', culminating in opposition members ejected like spent SMG casings. Meanwhile, the education minister called a member of opposition a cunt without censure, and on one occasion gave direction to the speaker with a hand signal.

Just terrible.

[mr friendly guy]

Comedians also need to showcase Abbott with his exercise bike and speedos projecting a manly aura. I swear he was trying to take a leaf out of Tsar Putin's playbook. Only Putin actually looks like a scary badass. The only thing scary about Abbott is his misogyny and homophobia and the fact he makes racist statement, er I mean "jocular" remark.

[Thanas]

He sounds like the STRAYAN George W Bush.

[Alkaloid]

Honestly he's probably worse. Bush with a hefty helping of spite.

[Gandalf]

Honestly he's probably worse. Bush with a hefty helping of spite.

I'd argue that he's Bush without the God complex.

To be fair, I'm not exactly a suppository of knowledge on the subject.

[Crown]

He's a cunt.

And he's in power because the ALP is run by a bunch of fucking treacherous, power grabbing, navel gazing, pit of viper twats who couldn't organise a root in a whore house. Thanks ALP.