Dear Hasbeen,

Do you really think that the Libs are
any better at picking leaders?

By the way - Andrew Peacock's back in
town - wonder why?

Hasbeen,
Worse than Latham, not a chance. One could really be a disaster and be better than Latham just look at Whitlam he got elected.

The media have been on a down hill spiral for many years, this is just a new low in the fight for ratings over truth. One of the benefits of a market system that demands profits over all else. These are the same people who's credibility is only as low as those they report on, they would complain bitterly if strict laws about content honesty and truth were introduced to stop their behaviour. Freedom is never free, it costs and one of the biggest costs is responsibility over cheap gutter journalism and greedy profit.

Worse than Latham?

Im willing to lay odds a certain mad monk would give him a run for his money if he were true to his deeply held beliefs and not the flip flopping, windvane he pretends to be at the moment.

Forget the real Julia but dont forget the real Tony.

Either he is a lying, dishonest fundy christian or he is a power hungry mongrel with no beliefs except win at all costs.

Hasbeen are you related to Latham?
Foxy it is much deeper than that.
Now Sky is involved,well in truth it has been developing Liberal spin in its print media for a while.
Shameful and deceptive if we change government now because of media spin and ignorance of the outcomes to our unity as a country we will look back in pain.
We, all of us, stand on the edge of a very great change in the way we get our news.
Is it to be honest reporting?
Or will it continue to be manufactured and twisted in the way the worst tabloid press has always done it?
Watch on the dawn of the election, see some media having dealt with truth poorly then put last minute support behind Gillard.
Even the best of our media is more like a comic book than any thing else in the fight for readers .

Mark Latham on his way to what he and even me thought was the top had his own web page.
He had the great man who once lead us as his mentor and he seemed to be the new fresh face Labor had searched for.
I read his page his speeches and thought the change had come.
I followed for only a short time his bus trip after Simon Crean and Joel Fitzgibbons along with one more put him in the seat too early after the party was betrayed by some who should have stood firmly behind Kim. [ too early? no time would have been right]
Soon we all found out a simple truth Latham was, is, and always will be, smoke and mirrors, a fraud.
He may be unwell, he certainly is not the man he once looked to be.
Even his closest mentors suffered his bile.
Media had the bad side of him even smashed cameras, why did they use this man?
Both sides of politics must do better I question my party's recent past but fear.
Yes fear the media not unmasking Tony Abbott.
A media that used this grubby failure but will not talk of Australia as it would be two years into an Abbott government.

Foxy, in a word, NO!