WEBVTT - Sharri | 17 June 0:00:07.080 --> 0:00:10.479 Good evening well first tonight to the outrageous move by 0:00:10.560 --> 0:00:14.840 Chinese officials to bodyblock Australian journalist at chang Lei at 0:00:14.840 --> 0:00:19.840 a press conference on Australian soil. We're still waiting for 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:23.480 the Prime Minister and the Foreign Minister to properly condemn 0:00:23.920 --> 0:00:28.640 this unacceptable act. Here in Australia, we fiercely protect our 0:00:28.760 --> 0:00:32.840 freedom of the press, unlike in China, where journalists are 0:00:32.880 --> 0:00:38.239 locked up or regularly disappear. The visiting Chinese premiere and 0:00:38.360 --> 0:00:43.400 his henchmen apparently don't respect our laws or our values, 0:00:43.920 --> 0:00:49.120 despite them claiming Australia is their new BFF, Panda diplomacy 0:00:49.360 --> 0:00:52.680 and all of that. Well, Journalist Chang Lai was imprisoned 0:00:52.800 --> 0:00:56.959 in Beijing for three years. She missed out on crucial 0:00:57.080 --> 0:01:00.600 time with her children. She'll never get back. It was 0:01:00.800 --> 0:01:02.639 deeply traumatic for her. 0:01:03.640 --> 0:01:08.320 Twelve hours a day of pure sitting and very little 0:01:08.400 --> 0:01:13.520 chance to get up and just walk, just pace around 0:01:13.520 --> 0:01:16.039 a very little room. They say that they gave me 0:01:16.120 --> 0:01:21.360 fifteen minutes of fresh air, but all it meant was 0:01:22.000 --> 0:01:26.120 there's a window up the top that the guard would 0:01:26.400 --> 0:01:29.559 open for fifteen minutes. But the curtains are still drawn, 0:01:30.280 --> 0:01:34.280 and you never saw anything except the blue curtains and 0:01:34.520 --> 0:01:43.240 the mottled carpet and the beij padded walls. Silence. 0:01:44.080 --> 0:01:45.080 And that was Cheen Lei. 0:01:45.160 --> 0:01:49.800 In October twenty twenty three, after her eventual release, she 0:01:49.920 --> 0:01:52.680 was working as a television host in China when she 0:01:52.800 --> 0:01:54.280 was wrongfully imprisoned. 0:01:54.880 --> 0:01:57.080 Now she's a journalist here. 0:01:57.040 --> 0:02:00.400 On Sky News, and today she attended the press briefing 0:02:00.440 --> 0:02:05.320 in Canbra with Anthony Albanesi and the Chinese premiere. She 0:02:05.560 --> 0:02:08.800 was aggressively body blocked by Chinese officials. 0:02:08.800 --> 0:02:42.400 Have a look signed. 0:02:54.639 --> 0:02:57.320 I mean, you can see that man handling there of 0:02:57.400 --> 0:03:00.959 the by the Chinese official of an Australian consteal, a 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:04.520 diplomatic staff member. And you also saw there chang Ley 0:03:04.639 --> 0:03:10.600 taking a photograph of the officials. Now, clearly an Australian 0:03:10.600 --> 0:03:15.120 official asking the Chinese embassy staff to move is important, 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:19.959 and yet they refused. That in itself is shocking. Chang 0:03:20.040 --> 0:03:23.480 Ley also tried to move seats. She swapped with another 0:03:23.560 --> 0:03:28.000 Australian journalist, but the Chinese officials followed and once. 0:03:27.760 --> 0:03:29.560 Again blocked her view. 0:03:30.120 --> 0:03:33.200 She spoke about what happened to her on Sky News 0:03:33.360 --> 0:03:35.360 earlier well it's. 0:03:35.200 --> 0:03:40.040 Typical right with these events, especially if they're attaching importance 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:48.040 to the friendly facade that they're carefully staging, that voices 0:03:48.440 --> 0:03:52.760 of discord or you know, the presence of someone who's 0:03:52.840 --> 0:03:57.440 a bit controversial not harm that. And in fact, at 0:03:57.760 --> 0:04:03.520 the I guess the briefing by Prime Minister of Nazi 0:04:03.720 --> 0:04:09.640 and premierly Lee Chang, that's a freidancelant just now really 0:04:09.760 --> 0:04:14.760 highlighted that because they went to great lengths to block 0:04:14.840 --> 0:04:20.120 me from the cameras and to flank me. And I'm 0:04:20.480 --> 0:04:24.600 only guessing that is to prevent me from saying something 0:04:24.800 --> 0:04:28.320 or doing something that they think would be a. 0:04:28.240 --> 0:04:31.280 Bad look, but that itself was a bad look. 0:04:32.839 --> 0:04:34.279 This can't be glossed over. 0:04:34.520 --> 0:04:38.600 And it's emblematic of how China treats its journalists and 0:04:38.640 --> 0:04:41.760 its critics. I saw a firsthand when I was writing 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:45.520 my book and investigating the origins of COVID, how whistleblowers 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:48.720 who tried to raise the alarm about the new pandemic 0:04:49.120 --> 0:04:54.440 went missing, never to be seen again. Even doctors some 0:04:54.520 --> 0:04:58.320 bravely risked their life to give me information over encrypted 0:04:58.360 --> 0:05:02.240 platforms because the time topic was that important to them. 0:05:03.120 --> 0:05:06.880 But the shamelessness of these Chinese officials trying to flex 0:05:06.960 --> 0:05:10.599 their muscles, and the fact that they felt emboldened to 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:14.120 act like that in front of our Prime minister, in 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:16.479 front of the full press gallery and in front of 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:20.480 the cameras well, that tells you everything about the nature 0:05:20.520 --> 0:05:24.960 of the current Chinese regime. This is a serious diplomatic incident. 0:05:25.520 --> 0:05:29.119 Australian officials were involved. They asked the Chinese officials to move, 0:05:29.680 --> 0:05:34.440 yet hours later the Prime Minister claimed he still knew 0:05:34.600 --> 0:05:35.560 nothing about it. 0:05:36.760 --> 0:05:39.000 There's some of the documentsal being signed in the committee 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:43.080 room today. Some Chinese embassy officials tried to block my 0:05:43.160 --> 0:05:47.520 colleague here in Chanlai from view of cameras. Is it 0:05:47.600 --> 0:05:50.920 acceptable to import that kind of behavior into the heart 0:05:51.000 --> 0:05:53.400 of Australia's democracy here in parliaments. 0:05:53.839 --> 0:05:55.200 Well, I didn't see that. 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:56.239 I saw. 0:05:57.640 --> 0:06:02.599 Chang Lai and we smiled at each other during Jerry 0:06:03.560 --> 0:06:07.279 during the event. Look, I'm not aware of those issues. 0:06:07.320 --> 0:06:12.600 It's important that people be allowed to participate fully and 0:06:13.680 --> 0:06:17.000 that's what should happen in this building or anywhere else 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:17.760 in Australia. 0:06:19.360 --> 0:06:22.840 That is a very weak answer from the Prime Minister. Now, 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:26.839 Shadow Trade Minister Simon Birmingham didn't quite believe that answer 0:06:26.920 --> 0:06:29.120 from the PM either, because. 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:32.280 It is unbelievable that no one would have told him. 0:06:32.160 --> 0:06:36.000 About it, and Shadowhome Affairs Minister James Patterson also said 0:06:36.279 --> 0:06:39.159 that Albaneze's version of events lacked credibility. 0:06:40.640 --> 0:06:43.080 I would have thought, Tom, it would be surprising if 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:46.360 the PM's advisors didn't say, by the way, Prime Minister, 0:06:46.480 --> 0:06:49.360 you might get asked a question about this, and I 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:52.160 suspect he should have been prepared and even if he 0:06:52.240 --> 0:06:55.200 didn't quite see it taking place, should have known fully 0:06:55.240 --> 0:06:55.839 that it was happening. 0:06:55.920 --> 0:06:59.080 But it's not credible, Tom. It's been publicly reported earlier 0:06:59.160 --> 0:07:03.240 this year that the Minister employs eleven media advisors in 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:07.080 his office, and among them are people who might be 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:09.840 surprised to some of your audience, but watch Sky News. 0:07:10.200 --> 0:07:13.880 Standard operating procedure for a media advisor is to brief 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:17.440 your principle on recent breaking events before they go out 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:20.040 into a press conference. It is completely not credible the 0:07:20.120 --> 0:07:22.480 Primeister did not know when he walked into the press 0:07:22.520 --> 0:07:23.920 conference that this incident happened. 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:27.960 And James Patterson's view is that this is now a 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:32.160 pattern of behavior from Albanisi where he is repeatedly and 0:07:32.280 --> 0:07:37.480 comprehensively failed to call out Chinese aggression, including and especially 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:41.960 when it involves our military who're putting their lives on 0:07:42.120 --> 0:07:45.760 the line to protect our country. And James Patterson will 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:49.120 be on my show tonight to speak about this. But 0:07:49.720 --> 0:07:53.240 just for a moment, think about the courage it would 0:07:53.280 --> 0:07:55.440 have taken for Chang Lei to even be in that 0:07:55.680 --> 0:07:59.040 room in the first place, in the presence of Chinese 0:07:59.080 --> 0:08:01.160 officials who locked her up. 0:08:01.360 --> 0:08:02.200 For three years. 0:08:03.040 --> 0:08:05.040 She never knew if she was going to see her 0:08:05.160 --> 0:08:10.040 children again, or sunlight again. You can only imagine the 0:08:10.160 --> 0:08:14.360 emotional trauma of walking into that room, the courage to 0:08:14.560 --> 0:08:19.120 sit there, the memories It would inevitably dredge up, but 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:22.440 she would know or trust that she's now in Australia, 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:27.440 She's safe, no one can touch her. And yet henchmen 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:32.320 for the PRC tried to exercise their own totalitarian values 0:08:32.920 --> 0:08:37.800 right here in Australia in Parliament House. And the question 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:41.079 now is will Albanesi strongly condemn this? 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:44.280 Will Penny Wong? How can Chinese. 0:08:44.000 --> 0:08:47.640 Officials feel so emboldened to act like this while they're 0:08:47.720 --> 0:08:52.560 visiting Australia. Perhaps it's because they believe they've already bought 0:08:53.200 --> 0:08:58.120 our silence. Albanesi will not call out China's foreign interference, 0:08:58.480 --> 0:09:03.920 it's espionage's deensive militious cyber attacks, or its human rights 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:05.240 abuses in public. 0:09:05.960 --> 0:09:07.320 He will not ask how. 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:12.439 The COVID pandemic started, despite many Australians still suffering from 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:17.920 long COVID or vaccine injuries. He won't mention the Muslim 0:09:17.960 --> 0:09:22.800 wigas in labour camps in Shingxiang. You wonder if he 0:09:22.920 --> 0:09:26.120 only cares about the plight of Muslims when it's to 0:09:26.240 --> 0:09:27.760 do with Israel. 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:29.600 We're seeing from. 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:34.920 Labor this dysfunctional moral compass, where Albinezi feels a compulsion 0:09:35.440 --> 0:09:40.400 to condemn in the strongest possible terms our ally Israel, 0:09:41.000 --> 0:09:45.920 while staying silent on the greatest aggressive in our region, China. 0:09:47.160 --> 0:09:50.360 This is despite the fact Israel is a democracy defending 0:09:50.520 --> 0:09:54.280 its people from terrorists in a war that is as 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:58.160 much about the existential threat of the Jewish homeland as 0:09:58.200 --> 0:10:03.400 it is about protecting the value that underpin our Western civilization, 0:10:04.880 --> 0:10:08.160 and China is part of the emerging axis of evil 0:10:08.640 --> 0:10:14.160 along with Russia, Iran and North Korea. But Albinizi appears 0:10:14.200 --> 0:10:17.960 to ignore the reality of these threats. They just don't 0:10:18.040 --> 0:10:25.520 suit him politically or ideologically. Now, also coming up on 0:10:25.559 --> 0:10:28.520 the show tonight, Peter Dutton is catching up to Albinizi 0:10:28.559 --> 0:10:29.480 in the polls. 0:10:29.600 --> 0:10:32.880 But can he win the next election? My political analysts 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:34.480 will join me later in the program. 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:38.959 Plus more downing allegations of sexual harassment at nine as 0:10:39.080 --> 0:10:42.559 one TV legend speaks out to say the behavior is 0:10:42.840 --> 0:10:47.280 entrenched at the network and calls for changes. Authorities ignore 0:10:47.400 --> 0:10:53.520 pro Palestinian protesters proud display of terrorist emblems. But now 0:10:53.640 --> 0:10:56.520 let's bring in tonight's panel. As always on a Monday, 0:10:56.559 --> 0:10:59.480 Sky News, host Listora and contributor Joe Hildebrand. 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:00.640 Welcome to you both. 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:01.520 Welcome, thank you lovely. 0:11:01.760 --> 0:11:03.480 Here Joe, let's start with you. I want to get 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:06.280 your reaction to what we saw today with Cheng Ley. 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:09.319 Look, I think Cheng Lai. I was talking about it 0:11:09.400 --> 0:11:11.959 on this network in this seat just last night. Cheng 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:15.760 Lay is an incredible human being. I admire her resilience 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:21.880 and strength enormously. I played, you know, I remember writing 0:11:22.000 --> 0:11:24.319 a column, you know, calling for her release, like so 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:26.439 many others. I'm not pretending that idea anything particularly special, 0:11:26.480 --> 0:11:28.920 but I just remember that as I was writing and thinking, 0:11:28.960 --> 0:11:30.480 oh my god, we're just never going to see this 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:31.280 poor woman again. 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:33.400 She's not going to see her kids again. And you know, 0:11:33.520 --> 0:11:34.640 I hate bad news. 0:11:34.679 --> 0:11:36.439 I much prefer to deal with a rough and tumble 0:11:36.480 --> 0:11:40.640 of politics and horrible things like that. And yet she's here, 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:43.000 she got back. Part of that, I think we have 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:46.839 to acknowledge was due to the way Anthony Alberanzi was 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:50.160 able to reset the relationship and he was able to 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:52.319 have a word with Jijiping on the sidelines of the 0:11:52.400 --> 0:11:55.520 G twenty. Apparently this is how it came about, and 0:11:56.320 --> 0:11:57.800 so I think we sort of have to acknowledge that. 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:01.760 Having said that, today, the biness of what happened today 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:05.360 was clearly horrendous. I imagine it would have been. And 0:12:05.440 --> 0:12:10.920 you can just see from Chenley herself how incredibly you know, sensible, 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:13.280 and you know she didn't she didn't ge hysterical about it, 0:12:13.320 --> 0:12:15.200 she didn't jump up and down. She was very clear, 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:18.839 she was very analytical about what happened, which just makes 0:12:18.880 --> 0:12:21.719 me admire even more. But but that I think, you know, 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:25.240 underlied the horror of what we were actually seeing, which 0:12:25.360 --> 0:12:29.319 is this kind of brute force totalitarian tactic in what 0:12:29.520 --> 0:12:32.880 is meant to be the heart of Australian democracy. I 0:12:33.160 --> 0:12:34.960 do think it's plausible to PM. I think the PM 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:36.880 said he didn't see it. I'm not sure if he 0:12:36.880 --> 0:12:37.880 said he didn't know about it. 0:12:37.880 --> 0:12:39.520 But he said he said he wasn't aware of it. 0:12:39.679 --> 0:12:40.160 He wasn't aware. 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:42.679 He said he didn't see it. But that might have 0:12:42.720 --> 0:12:44.599 been a bit of plausible deniability. It may well have 0:12:44.640 --> 0:12:49.400 been that. Absolutely as soon as Premier League gets on 0:12:49.440 --> 0:12:50.839 a plane and it's no longer in the country, I 0:12:50.840 --> 0:12:52.280 think it. 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:53.680 But that that is the nature. 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:56.840 There'll be in w A tomorrow, so we can expect 0:12:56.880 --> 0:13:00.400 that the Prime Minister will be I want to ask 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:02.960 you about two things. One that vision that we saw 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:06.439 where the Australian official goes up to the Chinese officials 0:13:06.480 --> 0:13:09.360 clearly says can you stop standing in front of Chang. 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:11.359 Lay and following her wherever she sits. 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:14.960 And the Chinese official man handles her, it touches her, 0:13:15.440 --> 0:13:17.840 you know, and it overrules her. I mean, they are 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:21.120 visiting guests in Australia, but the fact that they feel 0:13:21.240 --> 0:13:25.600 so emboldened to be this aggressive to stand in front 0:13:25.600 --> 0:13:29.160 of Cheng Lai after locking her up wrongly for three 0:13:29.280 --> 0:13:32.439 years tells you so much about how they see the 0:13:32.520 --> 0:13:34.199 current relationship with Australia. 0:13:35.400 --> 0:13:38.880 We are subservient to them and they know it. They 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:41.679 know that we know about the cyber attacks. 0:13:41.320 --> 0:13:44.920 On the daily that are targeting our energy, our water, 0:13:45.120 --> 0:13:48.480 our transport systems. They know that we know about all 0:13:48.559 --> 0:13:51.680 their moves in the South China, see them threatening Taiwan. 0:13:51.920 --> 0:13:55.120 They know that we answer to Washington and they're our 0:13:55.200 --> 0:13:58.280 closest ally. They talk about this at depths. I love 0:13:58.400 --> 0:14:03.880 reading their Global Times because it's straight well, our closest ally, 0:14:04.000 --> 0:14:06.280 and we follow them into every war that they choose 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:06.800 to join. 0:14:06.960 --> 0:14:10.400 They they know where we stand, we know where they stand, 0:14:10.440 --> 0:14:13.920 and we're in this ridiculous pantomime where they know that 0:14:14.080 --> 0:14:16.920 we know that, they know that we know, and yet 0:14:17.240 --> 0:14:18.920 diplomacy has to happen. 0:14:19.280 --> 0:14:22.840 We are very much, still, very much reliant on China. 0:14:23.320 --> 0:14:27.400 They know that too, and so I actually don't find 0:14:27.440 --> 0:14:31.480 this all that shocking or at all. This is the 0:14:31.600 --> 0:14:34.640 Communist Chinese Party acting for all the world like the 0:14:34.800 --> 0:14:37.960 Chinese Communist Party. And what stood out most to me 0:14:38.040 --> 0:14:40.120 about this is we say, oh, how could they how 0:14:40.240 --> 0:14:41.880 dare they there on our soil? 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:42.360 Yeah? 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:42.960 But who won. 0:14:43.440 --> 0:14:44.800 Who won that little altercation? 0:14:45.360 --> 0:14:49.160 Did we have you know, actual security guards escort them 0:14:49.160 --> 0:14:51.240 from the building and say, no, we are standing up 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:52.840 for this woman in our press back. 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:54.240 No we didn't. 0:14:54.560 --> 0:14:57.760 They won that altercation and China saw that, and all 0:14:57.800 --> 0:15:00.240 the eyes in China saw that, and so did every 0:15:00.280 --> 0:15:04.480 single Australian who actually thinks that this government, if they 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:08.400 are misled enough to believe that this government can even 0:15:08.560 --> 0:15:12.520 stand up for Australians to China, even on that tiny, 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:15.280 small scale, it would have sent a message. 0:15:15.600 --> 0:15:17.880 But we didn't send it, did we I. 0:15:17.960 --> 0:15:20.240 But just to clarify, everyone in Australia would have seen it. 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:24.640 No, no, because there's no free press, which is appalling. 0:15:25.720 --> 0:15:28.600 Although it would be something that they would be happy 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:31.320 to show because again they won. This is us pushing 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:32.120 around China. 0:15:33.080 --> 0:15:33.920 You would never show like that. 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:36.200 That would just show this is Australia welcoming with And 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:36.880 you're absolutely right. 0:15:37.240 --> 0:15:37.960 It is a dance. 0:15:38.120 --> 0:15:40.280 It's often a dance in which you get your hands dirty, 0:15:40.640 --> 0:15:43.240 you know, if you're you know, you're always evaluating, you know, 0:15:43.240 --> 0:15:45.360 all right, do we make a big fuss about this? 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:47.040 Do we make a fuss about it publicly? Do we 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:49.960 do it privately. If we do that, what's China's likely response? 0:15:50.160 --> 0:15:51.440 Will we lose this free trade? 0:15:51.440 --> 0:15:52.720 Now that's the whole point, Joe. 0:15:52.880 --> 0:15:56.520 They condemn Israel every single day when Israel is doing 0:15:57.240 --> 0:15:59.320 very little, if anything wrong at all. 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:02.160 China engaging in the most egregious act. 0:16:02.040 --> 0:16:05.800 Against Australia, against our national sovereignty, and our prime minister 0:16:05.960 --> 0:16:07.520 is silent even when it happens. 0:16:09.520 --> 0:16:12.000 If he's right with our biggest trading partner, the response 0:16:12.040 --> 0:16:12.800 would be very different. 0:16:12.840 --> 0:16:15.560 And that's just real politics. It's ugly, but it's sadly true. 0:16:15.600 --> 0:16:16.520 All right, let's move on. 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:19.680 Jerry Seinfield is in Australia at the moment, in Sydney 0:16:19.720 --> 0:16:22.640 in fact, for his stand up show, and he was 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:26.520 heckled by a pro Palestinian protester who tried to throw 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:27.840 him off mid performance. 0:16:28.040 --> 0:16:29.880 If you haven't seen that yet, here it is. 0:16:31.040 --> 0:16:32.800 It's a show war. 0:16:34.320 --> 0:16:34.480 Here. 0:16:42.440 --> 0:16:46.000 And if you didn't love Jerry Seinfield already, we'll have 0:16:46.080 --> 0:16:47.520 a look at his epic response. 0:16:49.120 --> 0:16:50.160 We have a. 0:16:50.480 --> 0:16:54.520 Genius, lady, gentleman, He's sved the Middle East. 0:16:58.600 --> 0:17:01.000 It's the Jewish thing, is that too? 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:05.440 One's doing everything. 0:17:07.200 --> 0:17:09.560 You're really influencing everyone here. 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:11.760 You're all on your. 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:16.080 Sign because you made your points so well and in 0:17:16.160 --> 0:17:18.159 the right venue, You've come into the. 0:17:18.200 --> 0:17:20.240 Right place or polute. 0:17:23.960 --> 0:17:24.160 Joe. 0:17:24.480 --> 0:17:26.960 That is comedy gold from Jerry. What a good way 0:17:27.040 --> 0:17:27.520 to handle that. 0:17:27.720 --> 0:17:29.879 I feel like Jerry Seinfeld has just put, you know, 0:17:30.200 --> 0:17:32.240 the tens of thousands of words of column inches that 0:17:32.320 --> 0:17:35.560 I've been writing for the last twenty five years into 0:17:35.640 --> 0:17:39.639 like one fifty one liner. He's amazing, He's great. And again, 0:17:40.000 --> 0:17:44.800 when the Left does this, they do themselves a terrible disservice. 0:17:44.920 --> 0:17:48.480 They look pathetic themselves. They make it so much easier 0:17:48.520 --> 0:17:49.720 for the right to say, well, you're all just a 0:17:49.760 --> 0:17:52.879 bunch of delusional numpties. They do absolutely nothing for the 0:17:52.920 --> 0:17:55.159 Palestinian people. I don't want to do anything for the 0:17:55.200 --> 0:17:57.800 Palestinian people because it's all about their moment of glory 0:17:57.880 --> 0:18:00.600 and their moment of martyrdom. So far as they would 0:18:00.600 --> 0:18:02.960 have thought about how is this actually going to improve things? 0:18:03.240 --> 0:18:06.200 If they actually got to a second step in thinking 0:18:06.240 --> 0:18:08.920 about it, which it's debatable whether or not they did, 0:18:09.760 --> 0:18:12.439 they still wouldn't have cared because it's about them, it's 0:18:12.480 --> 0:18:14.960 about them being heroic. Then they can tell their friends 0:18:15.000 --> 0:18:15.960 about what they did about it. 0:18:16.200 --> 0:18:19.120 Imagine spending four hundred dollars on a ticket to yell 0:18:19.560 --> 0:18:22.880 your pro Palestinians be kicked out immediately. 0:18:23.119 --> 0:18:26.480 Also, imagine what a low piece of scum you'd feel 0:18:26.560 --> 0:18:29.560 while you're just sitting there waiting, trying not to laugh 0:18:29.680 --> 0:18:30.120 at all. 0:18:30.080 --> 0:18:32.600 Those dirty Jewish jokes that he's telling, you know. 0:18:32.800 --> 0:18:34.760 Trying to sort of hoping that no one knows that 0:18:34.800 --> 0:18:36.600 you're secretly from extinction rebellion. 0:18:36.920 --> 0:18:41.720 You know, I hope he quiz guys, that's right? How 0:18:41.800 --> 0:18:42.760 much you have to hate yourself? 0:18:42.960 --> 0:18:43.680 What I love about this? 0:18:43.800 --> 0:18:45.520 I mean you just said a minute ago, you know 0:18:45.800 --> 0:18:49.520 that Chinese won there were no security escorting the officials 0:18:49.560 --> 0:18:52.000 who were standing in front of cheng Lei around from 0:18:52.040 --> 0:18:52.600 seat to seat. 0:18:52.880 --> 0:18:55.480 But here, well, the security did take out. 0:18:55.400 --> 0:18:58.960 Those pro Palestinians who were disrupting the show, and Jerry 0:18:59.000 --> 0:19:03.600 Seinford won't get out. It has better security and Jerry 0:19:03.760 --> 0:19:05.520 sign show than in Parliament. 0:19:05.880 --> 0:19:09.639 Jerry's got bigger gonads on him than our own prime minister, clearly, 0:19:09.800 --> 0:19:13.000 but Jerry's also used to this now, right, So something 0:19:13.080 --> 0:19:16.200 similar happened at a show in Virginia recently. We saw 0:19:16.280 --> 0:19:19.919 when he got up to give a speech at Duke University, 0:19:20.280 --> 0:19:23.960 which is where he hows from. The pro Palestinian protesters 0:19:24.000 --> 0:19:28.679 did this massive walkout, this big assembly, this was their statement, 0:19:29.200 --> 0:19:32.159 and he did similar then and just graciously thanked everyone 0:19:32.240 --> 0:19:36.439 who hadn't walked out. And this simply in the face 0:19:36.680 --> 0:19:39.560 of a single Jewish man who has. 0:19:39.600 --> 0:19:42.560 Absolutely nothing to do with what's going on with Israel 0:19:42.680 --> 0:19:47.399 right now, and the fact that he's got the guts and. 0:19:47.560 --> 0:19:50.560 To do so in such a satirical way to point 0:19:50.640 --> 0:19:53.240 out the idiocy of these people who now want to 0:19:53.320 --> 0:19:56.600 treat every Jewish person on the planet like they have 0:19:56.800 --> 0:19:59.639 a you know, a real say in what's going on, 0:20:00.119 --> 0:20:03.240 regardless of what people think exactly or how ill educated 0:20:03.320 --> 0:20:06.200 they are about the conflict that's happening over there right now. 0:20:06.720 --> 0:20:09.920 The idiocy of them to treat people like here in 0:20:10.000 --> 0:20:13.520 Australia Jewish people differently, as if they've got anything to 0:20:13.640 --> 0:20:14.919 do with it, as if they're on. 0:20:14.960 --> 0:20:18.800 The direct line to and make them look all for themselves. 0:20:19.760 --> 0:20:21.200 You know, I get this a lot. 0:20:21.320 --> 0:20:23.959 I will get on the phone, particularly with labor politicians, 0:20:24.000 --> 0:20:26.080 and they'll start, you know, having a go about what 0:20:26.160 --> 0:20:29.040 Benjamin Nettinya who's doing, and I'm like, hold on that's 0:20:29.119 --> 0:20:31.159 on the other side of the world. What worries me 0:20:31.640 --> 0:20:34.240 is how Jewish people are being treated here in Australia. 0:20:34.600 --> 0:20:37.639 You can have your views on Netanyaho, that's fine, but 0:20:37.800 --> 0:20:40.280 you can't have a different view on anti Semitism here 0:20:40.320 --> 0:20:40.880 in Australia. 0:20:40.960 --> 0:20:42.480 We all have to be against that. 0:20:42.600 --> 0:20:45.480 And just because someone is Jewish, that doesn't mean they 0:20:45.600 --> 0:20:47.480 deserve to be treated any differently. 0:20:47.800 --> 0:20:50.000 Before we go, Joe, I just want to ask you. 0:20:50.040 --> 0:20:54.680 About Kerry Anne Kenniley, the Nine television legend, has come 0:20:54.760 --> 0:20:58.000 out against her former employer. She told The Australian that 0:20:58.119 --> 0:21:01.720 recent allegations of inappropriate behavior by senior figures that the 0:21:01.800 --> 0:21:03.439 company had not surprised her. 0:21:03.960 --> 0:21:06.320 Here's what she had to say. She said, history has 0:21:06.520 --> 0:21:07.640 just repeated itself. 0:21:08.119 --> 0:21:12.240 I experienced the Nine culture professionally and personally over decades, 0:21:12.520 --> 0:21:15.920 and it has learned behavior it was entrenched by senior 0:21:16.000 --> 0:21:17.240 people before them. 0:21:17.880 --> 0:21:20.600 Joe, this is you know, it's been this has now 0:21:20.680 --> 0:21:21.840 been rolling for a few weeks. 0:21:21.880 --> 0:21:25.760 But this intervention by carry Anne Kennelly shows, if it's correct, 0:21:25.760 --> 0:21:27.400 which I assume it is, that it is a cultural 0:21:27.480 --> 0:21:28.679 problem at the network. 0:21:28.800 --> 0:21:30.639 What I found extraordinary about this and of course I 0:21:30.720 --> 0:21:32.520 know Cac well, I'll probably get a text message from 0:21:32.520 --> 0:21:35.080 her now any minute, but that you know, a lot 0:21:35.080 --> 0:21:37.680 of the behavior we've been hearing about at nine and 0:21:37.800 --> 0:21:42.399 the allegations as well, both known and unknown. You know, 0:21:42.480 --> 0:21:44.879 it has been happening in the third decade of the 0:21:44.960 --> 0:21:48.240 twenty first century. Just imagine what it was like when 0:21:48.359 --> 0:21:51.199 Kac was there. You're almost sort of. 0:21:51.480 --> 0:21:52.280 Shut her to think. 0:21:52.440 --> 0:21:55.000 And it also occurred to me Kak has been very 0:21:55.240 --> 0:21:58.160 unfairly sort of pilloried, like I suppose everyone in public life, 0:21:58.200 --> 0:22:00.840 but I thought it was particularly unkind. She was pillaried 0:22:00.880 --> 0:22:04.560 towards the sort of twilight of her career for some 0:22:04.680 --> 0:22:05.720 remarks she made on studio. 0:22:06.000 --> 0:22:08.120 It seems to be looking at vision and she's got 0:22:08.320 --> 0:22:10.439 pack now with Peter Costell, right, that's right. 0:22:11.119 --> 0:22:14.880 Goal and became and became this sort of public enemy. 0:22:15.040 --> 0:22:17.440 And I just wonder how many of those in the 0:22:17.800 --> 0:22:20.879 woke right on progressive sisterhood who attacked her will now 0:22:20.920 --> 0:22:23.359 actually show her some of the respect and appreciate what 0:22:23.480 --> 0:22:24.160 she has to say. 0:22:24.680 --> 0:22:26.680 All right, Choe Hitter brand listor I thank you both 0:22:26.720 --> 0:22:27.560