Toni,
Yes I get that you are triggered by this phrase ('final solution') and perhaps the Senator should have issued trigger-warnings for all those snowflakes who are traumatised by innocuous words. But the man has said that he had no intention to reference the Holocaust when he put those two words together. And bear in mind that his ‘final solution’ was a vote. He wasn’t calling for the government to start stockpiling cattle cars.

Sorry, but its confected outrage to try to howl the man into silence. Good to see it didn’t work. There’s hope yet.

“fancy words and clever jibes, witty though they may be”…well half of them anyway.

Foxy,

“ you charming old coot!”
Adjectivally you’re half right. But I’m not old.

“will it stop you from nit-picking”
Yes I see. You offer up utter unresearched rubbish as evidence for your prejudices and that’s ‘objective’. I show that your utter unresearched rubbish is rubbish and that’s nit-picking

mhaze,

You are so far off the mark on this one.

You haven't proven anything. The comments were made by
Fraser Anning regarding the Bourke St incident - and
News Corp attributed the comments to his speech which
I quoted as they appeared in several newspapers. However
it appears that he made those comments on 3AW in his
interview with Neil Mitchell.

BTW - you need to be a bit more selective in who you
choose to defend. Prior to his speech - nobody had even
heard of Fraser Fanning. Now people can't stop talking
about him. Apparently he was instructed (according to
"The Insiders" program - to deliberately be "controversial."
So that he could garner publicity to be re-elected.
To make himself "known." He's certainly achieved the
publicity.

I could not understand how a man who only got 19 votes
(only 19 people voted for him) how this bloke managed to
secure a $200,000 job. There must be something dreadfully
wrong with our electoral system.

Have a read of the following link from News Corp - about where
this bloke's real allegiances lie - as well as
the other perks that
he'll be getting for the next three and a half years.
And then tell us why he deserves to be where he is and voice
an opinion. Perhaps as the link points out - he needs to
getting elected first.

http://www.news.com.au/national/politics/19-people-got-this-bloke-a-200k-job/news-story/f8d8aaa83f0c2bcab53626455a3698d6

If you're not "old" how can you explain your behaviour?
Ah well, perhaps some people are not "old" in age - but
are in behaviour. I understand. My three-year old grandaughter
is an "old" soul.

What a lucky man Senator Anning is. All this over the top ratbag screaming by the left has lifted his profile from "who" to the bloke with the right idea.

No longer one of Keating's unrepresentative swill, but a man with strong opinions & the guts to shout them to all. The rubbish feigned shock of the left rabble, picking only 2 words of a speech to focus on must have lifted this blokes chance of being re-elected by a factor of about 90%. They have turned a speech that less than one in 10,000 would have even known had happened into an item on news broadcasts.

Suddenly he is no longer "WHO" but the bloke who wants to fix our ridiculous immigration levels.

Amazing, the left have actually done something useful for the first time in a decade, & now wish they hadn't.

Dear Hassie,

Not sure what the "Left" have to do with anything.

He's caused the controversy with the help of his speech
writer - all by himself. The trick for him now is going
to be to get re-elected. 19 voters don't a majority make.
Read the link I gave.

Hasbeen,

I agree. The Hansonites have found themselves an alternative (Pauline started jabbering about Goebbels because she didn't 'get it' either), and Katter has become more animated. No use to me in SA, but the speech might finally embolden others to speak their minds now that that have seen that the loony Left can't do a thing about Anning except, as you say, raise his profile.

It looks as though the usual OLO combatants are going to continue thinking they can win arguments or convince someone to change their mind, but Fraser Anning has said all there is to be said, and we can sit back and enjoy.