How the ABC treats dissenters...

We all know ABC stands for A Bunch of Commies. Columnist Andrew Bolt reports on how "our ABC" reports the visit from a foreign dignitary whose opinions they disagree with.

Remember it's not enough that ABC journalists hold these opinions but they must also let us know that such views diverge from the "politically-correct groupthink" by engaging in shameless one-sided barracking.

Newsflash: We pay taxes so that you may inform and report. We don't care what your stupid opinions are. In any case, we could probably guess.

Here are some highlights:

...would host Kerry O’Brien, a warmist, really dare interview Monckton on his own, and let him put his arguments? Would he really give Monckton the same opportunity to speak that O’Brien regularly allows warmists such as...Tim Flannery and Al Gore - none of them climate scientists...and with...exaggeration, grotesque alarmism, statistical trickery, vested interests, untruths, misrepresentations and false predictions that O’Brien let’s go through unchallenged?.

Answer: of course not. Check those links on the warmists’ names to see how O’Brien lets climate alarmists put their case directly, in friendly one-on-one discussions with him . But now see how Monckton, a sceptic, was set up

Monckton was denied a similar in-studio interview, unedited, with O’Brien, presumably because O’Brien would have been hopelessly exposed and outgunned. Instead, he appeared only in an edited report, interspliced with comments from three fervent warmists

Summing up: the ABC finds it almost impossible to hold an honest debate on global warming. Warmists are allowed unchallenged air time, while sceptics are made examples of. Yet even then warmist scientists and activists cannot find an argument to save themselves from the few sceptics who finally get half a hard word in edgewise.

Your (ABC) news is being manipulated, but you can now see the fraud backstage though the gaping cracks.

People are waking up to the agenda set by "our ABC". Here are 3 colourful comments on the 7:30 website:

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The section last night on the 7.30 report with Lord Monckton must rate as one of the worst attempts at serious reporting ever done by the ABC. I’m a watcher, I have a brain, I can and want to make up my own mind if the person being interviewed is distorting the facts.
Kerry O’Brien surely would have been capable of handling this as a one on one interview. Instead I was subjected to an avalanche of film footage showing calamities – bush fires etc - which were supposedly the result of global warming. There were constant crosses to others who obviously had views at odds with Monckton, their credentials were never questioned, Monckton was never given the opportunity to debate them.
This is a serious issue treat it as such; we don’t need your bias the be so evident.

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As a taxpayer I would like to register my protest at the gutless bias shown by one of the taxpayer funded television networks, in this case your [not my] ABC.
I specifically refer to the hatchet job done on Christopher Monckton by the 7.30 report.
I and others expected to see Monckton interviewed one on one [preferrably live] by Kerry O'Brien, and where Monckton would be allowed to make his points and respond to his interrogator.
We were not led to believe that Monckton would be questioned by a junior, in a pre-recorded interview with a gang of 'Climate Change True Believers' then being allowed to have the final response to anything raised by Monckton.
The whole episode was advocacy, not journalism. I expect more from 'my' ABC to which, via my taxes, I am forced to fund.
The commercial channels may show similar bias but I am not forced to fund them.

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Dear Sir

Your heavily edited version of the "interview" with Christopher Monckton on the 7.30 report last night was a disgraceful attempt of the censorship of free speech that is becoming more and more prevalent from the ABC.

As a climate change "agnostic" I expect to see both sides of the debate aired without censorship.

However, the ABC has sought to undermine any opposing view to Kevin Rudd's rhetoric on this subject that you can no longer be trusted as the independent broadcaster for this nation.

But this quote probably best describes the ABC:

Your interview and treatment of Lord Monckton on the 7.30 report hit a new low, even for your mob. So sad to see the way the ABC has deteriorated to near "non relevance" over the years.

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