Friday, November 16, 2007
Who do you trust to jesuiticaly argue a way out of embarassing situations?
Federal Health Minister Tony Abbott insists an amateur tape of him speaking at an electorate function early this week has been edited, and is demanding an apology from Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd.
Labor has distributed the video, shown last night on ABC TV’s Lateline, in which Mr Abbott appears to say that under WorkChoices, workers protections have been removed.
Earlier, Mr Abbott said he was not embarrassed by the views he expressed in the video, arguing some of the protections that have been removed by WorkChoices were counter-productive.
But now says he has checked the transcript of his speech at that event and he insists the tape has been edited.
“However, Health Minister Tony Abbott said the conversation ["Costellocks and the 3 Journalists"] was off the record and therefore did not exist.
“If (the remarks) were off the record in 2005, they should also be off the record in 2007,” Mr Abbott said.
“And if something is off the record it in effect doesn’t exist and there’s nothing wrong with denying something that didn’t exist.”
Nope, poor old Tony's not as good as Jack W.H., his master. Quit while you're only this far behind Tone, and take your own Workchoices advice and get another job.
JUST IN. A late breaking response to this posting from the Merde Monk.
"That's bullshit. You're being deliberately unpleasant. I suppose you can't help yourself, can you?"
(And just in case you think that this has been unfairly edited, here it is in its full context.)
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