Are some of the anti-Asian resident raciest on the forum crying crocodile tears about Palmer's comments and Penny Wong's response or lack of.

I'm not a Labor Party supporter but I must say they have a fine asset in Penny Wong. Came across very well sitting between Truss and Palmer.

otb,

I suggest you read the link I gave regarding
Senator Penny Wong.

Read it out loud and very
slowly. Then read it again. And again.
And it may help to read it even one more time.

One can only hope that you will eventually get it.

One can only hope.

I think this comment on the remark by Dio Wang was correct:

<<Senator Wang said he recognised the remarks were directed specifically to certain enterprises, as opposed to individual members of the Chinese community>>

But moving away from that. I have a question for the ABC --and anyone else who has the technical knowledge

One second/less than a second after Clive made the comment the camera flashed to a Chinese lady in the audience and we saw her mouth which looked for all the world like "wow!"

The time between his comment and her response was too narrow for the camera jockeys to have panned across and caught it.

How were the ABC camera jockeys to know that that Clive was going to say something that would impact on a Chinese member in the audience.
Even allowing for multiple camera (and I''m not sure how many they use) There seems something very contrived about it all.

Good question...SPQR...I noted that too.

Albeit, I expect the production team was primed for Palmer to go of the deep end (after all, he had a national audience) - so they thought they'd pan to someone Chinese-looking for effect.

The ABC can skew something as readily as the others.

Why just this morning ABCNews24 jumped off the feed of Morrison at the HRInquiry while he still being grilled and went to an outside presser of Abbott unveiling a "project" in Adelaide (one which was organised in 2009 - but which he's now happy to associate himself with)...and we were treated to Abbott waffling on his multitude of policy bloomers.

But why should runner and otb hammer Wong for not taking Palmer to task - and not Wang?

Have you ever been to a studio audience program SPQR?

To go back to my earlier comment, the whole reason I pointed out that Penny Wong has no links to the Chinese Government or even allegiance to China is that it should not be a big surprise that she didn't respond to Palmer. runner in his own inimitable way could only see that Penny Wong looks Chinese and that was good enough for him.

It says a lot more about runner (and some others commenting here) than it does about Penny Wong.

Wong is damned if she does, and damned if she doesn't.

If she sits quiet and doesn't argue with Palmer, people come onto this forum and complain about it. If she speaks out and replies to Palmer, the same people would come onto this forum and complain about it.