Dear Hasbeen,

You miserable old sod. How on earth do you think you can call me a liar on what I have put in this thread?

You can't. You just vomit that crap up because you don't have anything else. You didn't challenge a single thing I have said have you. There is one thing for sure, people like you don't get to call anyone a bald faced liar since that is the most singular thing you bring to this forum, utter bull, time after time after time. Complete and utter garbage the level of which is breath-taking. In fact your twisted pathetic notion of the truth wouldn't pass the test even in the most Orwellian of worlds. Go kick rocks mate.

Dear mhaze,

Jeez mate you do prattle on don't you. What to make of your last post? Is there a single substantive point you have made in the whole 300 plus words? If there is I'm struggling to find it.

'oh they are biased because I think they are therefore they are'

'oh there are no rightwing commentators because Amanda isn't from the right and Gerard has been put out to pasture'

'oh any jouno who ever crossed an ABC doorstep is irrevocably a mindless leftwing automaton even though they have been a private sector journo for most of their career'

'oh they all vote Green' even though “experts told Fact Check that the ABC sub-sample was too small and the rate of undecided and non-response too high to be able to draw accurate conclusions from the survey on ABC journalist voting intention, let alone voting intention of all ABC employees.”

Just because you and your tawdry companions think the ABC is biased it doesn't mean a jot. You have zero empirical evidence to back it up and there is plenty to say the opposite.

Dear Armchair Critic,

So the statues of Stalin should have remained in Poland and Ukraine?

conservatives constantly accuse the ABC of bias but they never ever provide even a single piece of evidence and when questioned they just spout the same lies over and over again.
Pathetic.

Heres an example/evidence of RIGHTWING bias on the ABC.
I listen to my local ABC radio and they recently interviewed mad mark latham about his nuclear power bills. The interviewer was very sympathetic and supportive and even suggested possible local sites for for future nukes.

Left wing bias my foot.
You lot are living in some sort of dream world.

hey SteeleRedux,

"So the statues of Stalin should have remained in Poland and Ukraine?"

I think I've opened a can of worms here.

Well I suppose that's up to the people of Poland and Ukraine after they were no longer part of USSR.
They have a right to self determination and a right to decide on issues for themselves.

But if you'd said statues of Stalin in Russia, I'd probably say no.

Statues don't have to mean what they originally meant;
(Commemorating the deeds of the personified)

Though I'll admit that to a small segment of people they may inadvertently keep a flame lit for a generally unwanted past ideology.

But it doesn't have to mean you support the ideology of the person.
It can also be a reminder of past mistakes, and to not make the same mistakes.

Robert E. Lee statue

It seems more about the left wanting to attack things that the members of the right value in that part of the US.
But that statue is also a reminder of Civil War.
And maybe we should be reminded of the death and carnage that ensued there.

The bigger lesson is that 2 sides are facing off like they want another Civil War, to the tune of guns and bloodletting over a damn statue.

I don't understand statue smashers, just don't see what the point is.
Should we all go around to museums and smash everything of antiquity as well?

These same people would probably want to erect new statues of those they consider worthy, (I could imagine statues of Margaret Sanger for example) and eventually the process just repeats itself.

- I imagine there's plenty on the left in the West that would gladly take ownership of and reinstall those Stalin statues.

Risible rubbish! And shovelled by the shipload.
Alan B.

Hear, hear and well said, Steele! The time that demented old fart was told where to go and where to put it.

Q: How do you know when the old bar steward is on the level
A: It dribbles equally out of both sides of its mouth.

Onya.
Alan B.