Tory Maguire reveals something very surprising:
It’s a pretty incredible feat of backspin when a Government would rather say it cocked something up than admit its PR was poorly managed.
That WOULD be extraordinary. A government saying that it had cocked something up? Do tell, Tory:
Spun out? You’re not the only one. In his column this weekend Laurie Oakes said, contrary to all appearances, Rudd and Swan were advised by their spin doctors to “embrace the numbers” but failed to do so because of “old-fashioned unadulterated incompetence”.
I’ve read Oakes’ column, and I can’t see anywhere where the Government is saying that it cocked something up. Laurie Oakes is saying the Government cocked something up, but Laurie Oakes is not the government. He is not a press secretary. He appears to have recently raised the ire of some on the conservative lunatic fringe, but that doesn’t make him a “Government spokesman”.
The Government hasn’t described itself as “incompetent” at all. It certainly hasn’t said it “cocked something up”.
So the primary bold claim of Tory’s piece is bunkum. The rest is just an uninteresting repeat of standard rightwing hackery about the “not saying billon” confected scandal (although, notably, not a word about Turnbull’s refusal to say the word in relation to the Liberals’ proposed deficit either).
I’ve never heard of Tory Maguire before. Is this the kind of thing we should expect from her?
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On this showing, one should hope it’s a while before McGuire appears in print again…..
It is a pretty dreadful piece by Tory on more than one level. Your point that it is a beatup based on another journalists opinion dressed up as established government information is spot on. The funny thing is that The Punch editor claimed the blog would not push a political view but it is clear that it is more of the same Newscorp style ‘half of the story’.
I would expect more of this kind of thing from Tory with a name like that and as Deputy-Editor of The Punch she is probably one of the few on board who is both paid to both Twitter and write Daily Terror type C- drivel at the same time.
with a name like Tory it is no surprise she ends up writing drivel for Punch.
I look forward to articles by her colleagues Right-Wing Hack and Kneejerk Reactionary
Does anyone here actually have anything to say about the article itself?
The post is about the article, in which a News Ltd blogger makes a sensational claim about the government that doesn’t appear to be true.
What Laurie Oakes thinks about the government isn’t the point, and is of limited interest to this site.
You’re right, Jeremy. The post is about the article. But I have been called up this week for not addressing “the topic”, been accused of trolling, and threatened with censorship.
Not one of the commenters on this thread has anything to say about the initial post other than taking “The Punch” to task for apparently not holding true to it’s goal (which you lot take issue with me for pointing out when you deviate). And then they take digs at the author’s name.
Let’s play fair.