Dear Joe,

Johann Sebastian Bach was born on 31st March 1685.

There's nothing wrong with your brain.

You were right all along.

Joseph Haydn was also born on the 31st March but in 1732.

Dearest Foxy,

And all these years, I believed it was the 26th. How the mighty have fallen :)

Love,

Joe

Leoj, as a Hansonite you present a blinkered hysterical fallacious view when it comes to what was the reality of the relationship between The Greens and the Gillard Government. But I expect nothing less from the all knowing, all seeing, you can claim whatever you feel is appropriate. When it suits you, you will claim Gillard was a total incompetent who's government had no redeeming features, done no worthwhile good what so ever, so how is it Bob Brown would be able to claim any credit from such a disaster.

Dear Joe,

You having fallen?

Not with your wings.

Never!

You'll always continue to soar.

Dear Angel Foxy,

But never as high as you :)

Okay, this is getting a bit too sugary: back to the topic.

Maybe there is a problem with the very format of Q & A: panelists are asked (supposedly without notice) to articulate complicated answers to questions on the spot, with very limited time allowed before the next question, or interruptions from Tony.

Some issues are very complicated, and any thoughtful position on them may take the entire hour to unravel or expound. However, the very format demands that simple, quick answers are on-tap to complex and convoluted and many-sided issues. But after all, even at local council meetings, a couple of hours may be spent on deliberating over whether or not to remove a tree, or modify a roadway.

Ideally, the program should run for a couple of hours AND be more balanced, maybe with four contestants equally differentiated into clearly Left and clearly Right players, two of each(with perhaps a couple of Reserves). That would give all combatants more time to explain their positions. As well, fewer Dorothy Dixers should be scheduled, each question perhaps matched with an opposing question. Fewer interruptions would help the flow of discussion.

If this occurred, yes, the whole proceedings may get much more boring, but issues could be played out closer to the point of exhaustion, and it could be arranged that the same questions don't get asked over and over again at succeeding Q & As, so that each week's contest could be more varied and perhaps unpredictable, and any changes to the premiership table more exciting.

Just trying to help.

Joe

What, no amateur funnyman, no Joker, Paul1405?

Please supply examples where Leigh Sales, or the woman with the Hitler hairdo, Alberici, or any of the other any of the ABC's big hitters, have ever seriously questioned Bob Brown (recently acting as a pirate on the high seas), or any other Green senator, for instance the awful Lee Rhiannon, or Rhiannon's boy toady in NSW, Sh**bridge?

These are your good 'mates' or so you claim, so do go ahead with examples of the ABC ever being more than limp and cooperative where the green left is concerned. The ABC TV, radio too, allows the leftists and Greens Trots a challenge-free podium for free hits and long rants. Yet most of the time the ABC could easily have given the right of reply during the interview. But then the ABC gives oxygen to single activists with a phone anda fax, while never informing its audience of that fact, that the 'Spokesperson' or 'Chair' for 'National Organisation X' represents no-one but her/himself, or that s/he may be the tool of an overseas interest interfering in Australian politics. Those are the flakey and faceless interests that the Greens and other leftist activists are into.

Maybe the ABC finds some entertainment in the cynical ambulance chasing Greens, stirrers. But most believe it goes further than that with the pampered ABC bureaucrats who never (like the Greens senators) have ben caused to render a real, practical contribution to society

What about the plump, pampered and smug Tony Jones? Can you give any instances where he has 'shirt fronted' Bob Brown or any Green since? Tony Jones did Brown's job for him by always bringing up the subject of gay this or that, if no plant in the Q&A audience was instantly available.

The ABC and Q&A especially, has been the mouthpiece for gay activism and like the Greens senators, obsessed with gay promotion. Or at least the promotion of the agenda of gay activism, which was not necessarily what the main body of homosexuals had ever wanted, but had shoved down their necks too.