Speaker 1: On scorn wilds Oscodia. This is the Wider Panalty Show.
Speaker 2: Good evening and welcome to the Rita Patty Show. Coming
Speaker 2: up tonight. I speak to the father whose world was
Speaker 2: turned upside down when he is then fifteen year old
Speaker 2: son was almost killed after being struck by the Andrews
Speaker 2: family suv. The Prime Minister reafirms his support for truth
Speaker 2: telling and treaty despite the failure of the voice. Josh
Speaker 2: Hammer will join me from the US, where Joe Biden's
Speaker 2: intersectional base is breaking apart with black and Hispanic voters
Speaker 2: flocking to Trump, and of course plenty of left is
Speaker 2: losing it.
Speaker 3: Where is the only country where it's legal to be
Speaker 3: gay in the Middle East? Palty Asia, Do you know
Speaker 3: it's Israel?
Speaker 4: I don't consider it a country.
Speaker 5: I've got a.
Speaker 2: Palestine joining me now is Harold's Sons Senior columnist Patrick Carline. Patrick,
Speaker 2: Let's start in Victoria. The Herald's Sons are revealed that
Speaker 2: nine thousand Victorians have been the victims of aggravated burglaries
Speaker 2: in the past ten years. That's one in every seventy
Speaker 2: five Victorian homes. Incredible figure. Bayside area has been hit
Speaker 2: hard we've seen burglaries up six hundred and seventy three
Speaker 2: percent from ten years ago. Two hundred and one incidents
Speaker 2: reported last year. A lot of this growth is due
Speaker 2: to youth criminals. We've one police source telling The Herald's
Speaker 2: son that the parents for most of these children is
Speaker 2: the state of Victorian. That is a reoccurring problem, isn't it.
Speaker 2: The Herald Son again reported a youth offender who had
Speaker 2: hundreds of offenses.
Speaker 6: Wiped off the books.
Speaker 2: It's just an incredible number for such a young kid,
Speaker 2: and you just wonder what his future is going to be.
Speaker 6: But people are scared.
Speaker 2: People are scared in their own homes, and they're getting
Speaker 2: increasingly upset by some of the advice they're getting about
Speaker 2: how to deal with this crisis. Things like putting a
Speaker 2: tracking device in your car so when it's stolen, we
Speaker 2: can track it down a little bit easier.
Speaker 1: Yes, well that's the problem, isn't it.
Speaker 7: I mean we're being told the official advice is surrender.
Speaker 7: If they come to your castle, they come to your
Speaker 7: home at two am, surrender on the spot. And Rebecca Judd,
Speaker 7: the influencer, was going on we got it right the
Speaker 7: other day. She talked about Melbourne being woke, broke and violence,
Speaker 7: and there is a really palpable fear. If you leave
Speaker 7: your car in the driveway, are you going to wake
Speaker 7: up at two am to kids marauding through your house
Speaker 7: demanding your keys as a revolving door. They get caught.
Speaker 7: It sounds like the police are very good in turning
Speaker 7: up quickly. They arrest some of them, they get bail,
Speaker 7: and then they do it again. And this is getting worse.
Speaker 7: I mean, these numbers vindicate that fear that so many
Speaker 7: men Burnie is a feeling at the most.
Speaker 2: And I remember when Beck Judd first brought this up,
Speaker 2: particularly in the base Side area, backlash from the Victorian government.
Speaker 2: Dad Andrews was Premier at the time, and he kind
Speaker 2: of mocked her and said her figures were completely wrong
Speaker 2: and the official stats don't back that up. The official
Speaker 2: stats did back that, Hud, but he's gone and just
Speaker 2: into Alan seems to be even less interested in this.
Speaker 2: I mean, she would know that it's going to have
Speaker 2: an impact at the polls, but the polls are a
Speaker 2: long way away.
Speaker 7: Absolutely now. I think she should be very mindful of that.
Speaker 7: I mean, people are very sort of cynical. If you
Speaker 7: like about this bail policy, and you keep reading these
Speaker 7: stories where kids are given bail and you haven't judged,
Speaker 7: So I'll give you another chance.
Speaker 1: This is chance number nine or number ten.
Speaker 7: Then they go and t bonakar at an intersection in
Speaker 7: the stolen car, or they're in a police chase or whatever.
Speaker 7: They're danger in the community.
Speaker 1: It really does. These are the sorts of.
Speaker 7: Things you might expect in Johannesburg or the South Side
Speaker 7: or Chicago or something.
Speaker 1: This is Melbourne.
Speaker 2: Well, that was what was interesting when the police gave
Speaker 2: that advice about put a was it the Apple device
Speaker 2: that air tracker in your car so we can find it?
Speaker 2: And I think there was other advice about leaving the
Speaker 2: keys by the front door so if they come in,
Speaker 2: they don't have to find you. They can just grab
Speaker 2: the keys and grab your car. It's the sort of
Speaker 2: advice crime riddled Californian cities were given to their residents.
Speaker 2: So we're not expecting to hear that in Melbourne. Now
Speaker 2: let's talk about Anthony Albanezi's while he's saying is open
Speaker 2: to a macaratea commission, in other words, a treaty and
Speaker 2: the whole truth telling process. We saw him on election
Speaker 2: night promise to implement the Ullarys Statement from the Heart
Speaker 2: in full and that does include treaty and truth telling.
Speaker 2: But given that the Voice failed, and failed pretty comprehensively, Patrick,
Speaker 2: you would think you would listen to the will of
Speaker 2: the Australian people Because sixty one percent of them are
Speaker 2: against the Voice. I would guess more than eighty percent
Speaker 2: would be against an treaty process. So why is it
Speaker 2: even entertaining it contemplating? It is really beyond me? Is
Speaker 2: it determined to be a one term PM?
Speaker 7: It seems like it doesn't. I think I've said to
Speaker 7: you before. I went up to Cape York about a
Speaker 7: month before the Voice. I spoke to people in remote
Speaker 7: communities and they were seeing all about the Voice. They said,
Speaker 7: this is big city nonsense. Basically, there is no appetite
Speaker 7: for treaties at the moment, and I think there's a
Speaker 7: lot of suspicion.
Speaker 1: What's a treaty about. Is it about actually truth telling.
Speaker 7: As it's called, or is it about activism and of
Speaker 7: reparations down the track? What does a treaty actually lead to?
Speaker 7: And people are sick of thinking about it. I think
Speaker 7: people care a lot more about practical outcomes. There've been
Speaker 7: no improvements across the board in indigenous sort of health
Speaker 7: or employment or education for twenty years. People want to
Speaker 7: see that get better. They're not that interested in sort
Speaker 7: of going back.
Speaker 2: We keep seeing successive governments listening almost exclusively to the
Speaker 2: activist class, and I think that's a large part of
Speaker 2: the problem.
Speaker 6: The very people whose advices.
Speaker 2: Let us here are the ones who are still setting
Speaker 2: the agenda. Now, let's talk about South Coast residents in
Speaker 2: New South Wales staging a rally to oppose the government's
Speaker 2: offshort wind farm plans. National leader David littlproud told the
Speaker 2: crowd a coalition government would dump the Illwarra project and
Speaker 2: will look for other energy options. He said the coalition
Speaker 2: isn't against renewables, but renewables should be an environment, should
Speaker 2: be in an environment they can't destroy.
Speaker 6: That is a good point.
Speaker 2: The Daily Telegraph ran a poll on this issue. Eighty
Speaker 2: nine percent of their readers are against this project. Patrick,
Speaker 2: but the government is pressing ahead with so many of
Speaker 2: these large scale renewable projects and they do seem to
Speaker 2: destroy the natural environments, certainly esthetically. These soul of farms,
Speaker 2: wind farms and the concerns of local residents seem to
Speaker 2: be disregarded very easily.
Speaker 7: It sounds like there's been very little consultation in a
Speaker 7: lot of these cases. And I mean, you've got New
Speaker 7: South Wales, you've got Southwest Victoria, and you've got CFA
Speaker 7: units in Victoria today coming out and saying we're not
Speaker 7: going to put out fires on renewable projects unless lies
Speaker 7: are endangered, because we don't want these projects.
Speaker 1: These are bad for our communities.
Speaker 7: And it sounds like there's a real disconnect between the
Speaker 7: ideology of the renewables push and those poor people on
Speaker 7: the ground who actually have to live with the consequences
Speaker 7: of transmission lines and those sorts of things.
Speaker 1: It sounds like it's been badly handled.
Speaker 7: I think we'll see more and more of these kind
Speaker 7: of protests as time goes on.
Speaker 2: I hope that there is some movement because these projects
Speaker 2: are happening and if you travel in the countryside, and
Speaker 2: a lot of Australians really never leave the big cities
Speaker 2: where they live, they would see this and they would
Speaker 2: see the impact it's having on just beautiful parts of
Speaker 2: the country being really visually destroyed. And god knows what
Speaker 2: those solar farms are doing to the actual farmable land. Now,
Speaker 2: Skynese host and former Chinese prisoner Chung Lay was body
Speaker 2: blocked at a China Australia press event by Chinese officials.
Speaker 6: Let's have a look.
Speaker 8: Here.
Speaker 9: You can see an Australian official asking the Chinese media
Speaker 9: staffer to move from blocking the journalist. The woman in
Speaker 9: the brown coat and the man in the blue blazer
Speaker 9: are both standing between Miss Chung and the cameras who
Speaker 9: are about to film the premiere of China and Anthony Albanezi.
Speaker 4: Walking in together.
Speaker 9: You can see Australian officials repeatedly trying to get them
Speaker 9: to move, and when missus Chung switches seats so that
Speaker 9: she's on the other side, the Chinese officials again try
Speaker 9: to block her view from the cameras. You can see
Speaker 9: an Australian staffer in the light coat blocking the two
Speaker 9: Chines news officials from getting near Miss Chung. This was
Speaker 9: all during remarks that were due to be made by
Speaker 9: the Prime Minister and Chinese premiere. You can see here
Speaker 9: Miss Chung is very amused by the whole thing, and
Speaker 9: the ministers are in the background signing documents.
Speaker 2: Now, the Prime Minister said the matter had been formally
Speaker 2: followed up with a Chinese embassy to express Australia's concern
Speaker 2: at las treatment, calling it clumsy. I would have used
Speaker 2: stronger language, Patrick than clum z.
Speaker 7: I don't think clumsy is the right word. Maybe deliberate
Speaker 7: or insistent. We're on astrand soil here. How can this
Speaker 7: not possibly be condemned in the strongest terms From the
Speaker 7: moment it happened, it was all over the news yesterday,
Speaker 7: It hijacked the biggest story of constructive relations and everything.
Speaker 7: The Prime Minister needed to come out and condemn it
Speaker 7: on the spot, it looked very flat footed. I think
Speaker 7: it took him till this morning on radio to actually
Speaker 7: sort of deal with the question properly, and even there
Speaker 7: he used fairly flimsy language to try and make the point.
Speaker 2: They seem to be terrified of offending China, where we
Speaker 2: are scared of any sort of economic coercion, any punishment
Speaker 2: they're going to.
Speaker 6: Meet out, but we can't have that.
Speaker 2: It's not bad enough that they locked up this poor
Speaker 2: woman for three years and just the most horrific of circumstances.
Speaker 2: The conditions she endured were stuff of nightmares. And then
Speaker 2: to do this here the nerve of it is beyond belief. Now,
Speaker 2: the US state of Kansas is suing pharmaceutical giant Pisa
Speaker 2: for misleading the public on their COVID nineteen vaccine. The
Speaker 2: say claims Fiser made false statements about its vaccines effectiveness
Speaker 2: and hid its risks, including safety related to pregnant women
Speaker 2: and heart problems. Here is Kansas Attorney General Chris Kobak.
Speaker 10: However, as Spiser knew, the United States government, the United
Speaker 10: States military, foreign governments, and others had found that Weser's
Speaker 10: COVID nineteen vaccine casmiocarditis and pericarditis number three effectiveness regarding variants.
Speaker 10: Weiser also claimed that it's COVID nineteen vaccine protected against
Speaker 10: COVID nineteen variants, even though data available at the time
Speaker 10: should Weser's vaccine was effective less than half the time
Speaker 10: against variants. Finally, transmission, Piser urged Americans to get vaccinated
Speaker 10: in order to protect their loved ones, clearly indicating a
Speaker 10: claim that p Weiser's COVID nineteen vaccination stopped transmission of
Speaker 10: COVID nineteen. Peiser later admitted that it had never even
Speaker 10: studied transmission.
Speaker 2: Interesting indeed, and I'm sure there are many in Australia
Speaker 2: who have COVID vaccine injuries who will be watching this
Speaker 2: case Patrick carefully, but they don't have too many options
Speaker 2: if they're in Australia because these big pharmaceutical giants have
Speaker 2: effectively got immunity.
Speaker 7: Look, I think Kansas is just the beginning of this story.
Speaker 7: There's going to be other states that are going to
Speaker 7: take very similar action, and it'll be fascinating to see
Speaker 7: how it all plays out. I know you've been very
Speaker 7: strong on that transmission question all the way through because
Speaker 7: it did sound like being vaccinated would protect you from
Speaker 7: spreading it.
Speaker 6: Well, that's what vaccines typically do.
Speaker 2: They stop you getting it and spreading it. And there
Speaker 2: are some who say that even just calling this a
Speaker 2: vaccine has been counterproductive because we're now seeing less trust
Speaker 2: in vaccines than we should be seeing, because people are
Speaker 2: associating with the COVID vaccines when you know most vaccines
Speaker 2: are far more effective and stopping infection and transmission.
Speaker 7: Well, it all happened very quickly, didn't it, And at
Speaker 7: the time the world was applauding that science.
Speaker 1: Could come up with these vaccines.
Speaker 7: So readily, Whereas you know, ordinarily things take years and
Speaker 7: years and years and all sorts of checks and balances
Speaker 7: before they're approved. This all happened very quickly, and I
Speaker 7: think we're seeing the consequences for that man.
Speaker 2: And I think one of the things we've got to
Speaker 2: consider in this country, in this state in particular, is
Speaker 2: the pressure to get young kids healthy, young kids who
Speaker 2: are at the lowest risk from COVID vaccinated, because I
Speaker 2: remember we were running stories about kids having to change
Speaker 2: clothes on the sidewalk because they couldn't enter clothing shops
Speaker 2: to try on clothes because they didn't have been double vax.
Speaker 2: And we're talking about fourteen year old kids. So it's
Speaker 2: almost like we've memory hold that episode for.
Speaker 7: All we close playgrounds. I think we've got haircuts on
Speaker 7: the street. At one point in Melbourne.
Speaker 2: Well, we banned IVF treatments, and I think Victorians and
Speaker 2: I think Australians at large, have forgotten so much of
Speaker 2: that because so many signed up to the insanity wholeheartedly.
Speaker 7: We've banned common sense, and we banned joy and we
Speaker 7: did it for about two years.
Speaker 1: And fish we shouldn't forget it, and fishing and fish
Speaker 1: in Victoria.
Speaker 2: You could fish elsewhere, Patrick Carline, thank you for your time.
Speaker 1: Thanks for now.
Speaker 2: Former Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews is fighting a court order
Speaker 2: to submit phone records from the day his family is
Speaker 2: Ford suv collided with a teenage cyclist who were seriously
Speaker 2: injured on impact. The fifteen year old bike rider, Ryan Mullerman,
Speaker 2: was riding on the morning in Peninsula when he was
Speaker 2: struck on January seven, twenty thirteen. He's sustained serious injuries,
Speaker 2: including a punctured lung, broken ribs, internal bleeding, and lost
Speaker 2: ninety percent of his spleen. Dan Andrews's wife, Catherine was
Speaker 2: behind the will at the time. Dan Andrews has engaged
Speaker 2: high profile loyal Leon Swire and labeled the subpoena requiring
Speaker 2: him to produce phone records from that day a phishing expedition.
Speaker 2: We did reach out to Dan Andrews' media contact for
Speaker 2: response and.
Speaker 6: Have not received a reply.
Speaker 2: We are happy to put their version of events to
Speaker 2: airt any time if they respond to our request. Ryan's father,
Speaker 2: Peter joins me, now, tell me about what you hope.
Speaker 6: To achieve with this legal action.
Speaker 8: We're hoping to get justice for Ryan from this. It's
Speaker 8: just been such a long road for us, so we'd
Speaker 8: really like to get closure on the case and if
Speaker 8: we can get some honesty, some transparency, and some justice
Speaker 8: for him.
Speaker 6: It's been more than a decade.
Speaker 2: We'll talk about how this has impacted your son and
Speaker 2: your family, but first, speaking on behalf of the dissenter,
Speaker 2: Alan government Minister Lily Dia Ambrosio has said that this
Speaker 2: matter has already been thoroughly investigated.
Speaker 11: This matter has been thoroughly investigated and has been concluded,
Speaker 11: and there's nothing more to be added to this. I'm
Speaker 11: not going to get into court matters, but what I
Speaker 11: can say to everybody is that whenever this pops up
Speaker 11: every now and then, the matter has been thoroughly investigated
Speaker 11: by all relevant authorities and there's nothing more to be
Speaker 11: added to it, and I won't be adding any more
Speaker 11: comments to it.
Speaker 6: What's your response to that.
Speaker 8: Well, we don't feel that it's been thoroughly investigated. There's
Speaker 8: been a lot of new evidence come to light just
Speaker 8: recently the Triple O call for one, and we don't
Speaker 8: believe that it was thoroughly investigated. Back at the time,
Speaker 8: there was no breathalyzer done on either of the occupants
Speaker 8: of the car. Daniel Andrews removed the car from the
Speaker 8: crash scene, so removed that evidence from the scene.
Speaker 2: He says that he did that to drive the kids
Speaker 2: home because the kids, his kids in the car were
Speaker 2: alarmed by the accident, so just to give his side.
Speaker 2: But yeah, you're right, because we did have doctor Raymond Shwey,
Speaker 2: who's the state's former Assistant Commissioner for Traffic and Operations.
Speaker 2: He looked into this accident and said that Victoria Police,
Speaker 2: the investigation they did, had twelve critical standards that were failed.
Speaker 2: The standard operating procedures were not followed in at least
Speaker 2: a dozen instances. Have you had an explanation from Victoria
Speaker 2: Police for why they didn't do those sort of things
Speaker 2: you mentioned the breathalysers, there's a number of other things
Speaker 2: they didn't do properly. Is Have they been forthcoming and
Speaker 2: explained their failures there?
Speaker 8: No, we've had no correspondence from vic Pole at all,
Speaker 8: and so that raises further suspicion. I guess if they
Speaker 8: felt that they'd done their job entirely, they would have
Speaker 8: come to us and said, well, we looked at it
Speaker 8: this way and that way and that way, but none
Speaker 8: of that happened. We've been really kept out of the loop,
Speaker 8: and I think that they just wanted to close it
Speaker 8: from their end, probably to protect a political career. But
Speaker 8: our lawyers and our research team have uncovered a lot
Speaker 8: of things. As I said, the breath Eliza, the removal
Speaker 8: of the car. Yes, he took the children home, and
Speaker 8: I'm aware that they would have been alarmed, but those
Speaker 8: children are also witnesses to that accident, which is a
Speaker 8: crucial piece of evidence as well.
Speaker 2: Now, as I mentioned earlier, the premiere is the former premier,
Speaker 2: Dan Andrews is fighting the court order to submit his
Speaker 2: phone records from that night. What is your message, Jim,
Speaker 2: if you could speak to him directly, if he's watching,
Speaker 2: what is your message to Dan Andrews.
Speaker 8: If you've got nothing to hide, you'd be transparent about
Speaker 8: all of those records. But if you've got something to hide,
Speaker 8: then you're going to fight to disclose those records.
Speaker 2: But he says it's a fishing expedition, so we're not
Speaker 2: casting any doubt on his reasons for that. But you've
Speaker 2: made the point that given his standing in the community,
Speaker 2: the fact that he's just been honored with the country's
Speaker 2: highest honor, an ac Do you feel like he should
Speaker 2: be forthcoming and provide those records just to make this
Speaker 2: matter not drag out even longer in the courts.
Speaker 8: Yeah, absolutely, I feel that he should bring those records forwards. Again,
Speaker 8: you know, if we've got nothing to hide and to
Speaker 8: say that it's still a fishing expedition, it's a legal case,
Speaker 8: which is far from.
Speaker 1: A fishing expedition.
Speaker 8: So we just want that clarity and that closure and
Speaker 8: that justice.
Speaker 2: Now, how has Ryan's life been impacted with this crash?
Speaker 2: And we spoke earlier about his terrible injuries, but it's
Speaker 2: been a critical juncture in his young life, isn't it
Speaker 2: at the age of fifteen to undergo something like that.
Speaker 8: Yeah, the injuries that he sustained were terrible, but you
Speaker 8: do recover from those physical injuries. It's probably been the
Speaker 8: mental injuries that he has sustained from that. He was
Speaker 8: incredibly traumatized from that accident. But further to compound that,
Speaker 8: he was warned that if he spoke about that incident
Speaker 8: that he would be in trouble by the police.
Speaker 6: So there's a phis he gave him that warning.
Speaker 1: I think it was.
Speaker 8: Either the lawyers or it might have been Vic Police himself.
Speaker 8: I'm really not too sure, but if you're a fifteen
Speaker 8: year old boy, that would ske you to death. So
Speaker 8: he really feels like he's been shut down and silenced
Speaker 8: since that twenty thirteen accident.
Speaker 2: Now you're asking the public to support your case. It
Speaker 2: is an expensive exercise, we know, any sort of legal action.
Speaker 2: And you've set up a go fund Me page.
Speaker 8: Yeah, we have set up a go fund Me page.
Speaker 8: This is a really expensive legal exercise. We're a humble
Speaker 8: fan from humble means and we want to fight this case.
Speaker 8: You know, we want to get justice for Ryan. I'm
Speaker 8: sure the Andrews camp thinks. I'm sure that they can
Speaker 8: outspend us, and I'm sure that they think that once
Speaker 8: they've outspent us that we just simply go away and
Speaker 8: it all gets washed under the rug yet again, so
Speaker 8: really reaching out to those people that want to support
Speaker 8: our case with that go fund me page.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we've got the page up.
Speaker 2: So if people want to back your son and his
Speaker 2: fight to find out precisely what happened on that night,
Speaker 2: you can do that. Peter Mullman, thank you so much
Speaker 2: for your time. This evening, I really do appreciate you
Speaker 2: speaking with me. Still to come a bumper edition of
Speaker 2: Left He's Losing It, and Josh Hammer joins me with
Speaker 2: the latest from the US. It's time for Left is
Speaker 2: losing it and we love nothing more than hearing intersectional
Speaker 2: race baiting and political grandstanding from sports broadcasters.
Speaker 6: And Stephen A. Smith delivers the goods here.
Speaker 2: Apparently all the accolades that Caitlin Clark is receiving is
Speaker 2: because she's white, and the jealous players who are attacking
Speaker 2: her are really the real victims here.
Speaker 12: She is a white young lady, and she's been a
Speaker 12: magnet in a way that has benefited the league in
Speaker 12: ways that others have not. No matter how far we
Speaker 12: believe that we have advanced as a society, there's still.
Speaker 1: Such a long way to go. Because in the end.
Speaker 12: If you're white, you're bright, you're right, and as a result,
Speaker 12: the shine comes your way in the eyes of a
Speaker 12: lot of people in America.
Speaker 2: Oh, the idiocy did not end there. Apparently make America
Speaker 2: Great again is synonymous with make America white again.
Speaker 12: You have somebody that's a presidential candidate, What is his
Speaker 12: claim to feed make America great again, what have people
Speaker 12: interpreted that to me make America white again?
Speaker 2: Well, that must be newsed to the majority of Hispanic
Speaker 2: voters who now back Trump instead of the Democrats. It
Speaker 2: must be newsed also to the growing number of black
Speaker 2: voters who are abandoning the Democrats to embrace the MAGA message.
Speaker 2: I'll be speaking to Josh Hammer about that very shortly.
Speaker 6: Now, we love a good vox pop on this program.
Speaker 2: Let's see what the young folk at a DC pro
Speaker 2: Palestinian rally are thinking. Surely even this lot will not
Speaker 2: make excuses for rape, torture, and slaughter of innocent Israelis
Speaker 2: on October seven.
Speaker 13: Can you guys tell me a little bit about your
Speaker 13: goal here today?
Speaker 14: As queer people, we have a duty to show up
Speaker 14: here and stand in solidarity with all of the other
Speaker 14: marginalized communities.
Speaker 6: All this kind of started October seventh.
Speaker 13: So what do you have to say about October seventh
Speaker 13: and the actions of Hamas. I think definitely the protests
Speaker 13: started October seventh, but like this issue did not start
Speaker 13: October seventh.
Speaker 4: I guess Ostber seventh, they like did something they came
Speaker 4: out of like trying to like fight back, you know,
Speaker 4: because you know they've been oppressed for so many years.
Speaker 3: Hamas is the reaction is not a problem. Hamas is
Speaker 3: the result of the situation.
Speaker 5: No other young people out there.
Speaker 13: Should they come out and protest and share this work
Speaker 13: for Homas?
Speaker 6: I think they should.
Speaker 13: And your sign says from the river to the sea,
Speaker 13: Palestine will be free.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 13: Can you tell me which river and which sea we're.
Speaker 4: Talking about here?
Speaker 13: This is a a You've caught me on the spot,
Speaker 13: and I'm really horrible when I asked some questions not true,
Speaker 13: but basically the river and the sea that border both
Speaker 13: sides of Palestine where Israel is right now?
Speaker 5: Dear?
Speaker 2: And here are more college kids who are frightfully stupid.
Speaker 4: Did you guys see that?
Speaker 3: Al Kaya just thank you guys. They thanked all the
Speaker 3: college protesters and everything Houthis has BLA.
Speaker 14: I make you happy, Uh.
Speaker 4: Huh, yeah, of course we're supported.
Speaker 3: It makes you feel like there's actually some kind of
Speaker 3: home for one hundred buck who was the terrorist group
Speaker 3: behind nine to eleven No food al Qaida?
Speaker 14: Well you think that nine to eleven.
Speaker 5: Had some justification?
Speaker 4: Good in some ways?
Speaker 3: Can you guys find God's on a map?
Speaker 4: I think we need a better moth.
Speaker 9: You can't find it. Who is the number one sponsor
Speaker 9: of global terrorists in America and the US New York,
Speaker 9: New York's Estate.
Speaker 2: That's Zach Say, who does great work exposing these lefties
Speaker 2: losing it.
Speaker 3: Where is slavery legal in the Middle East?
Speaker 4: Israel, you know, and Yemen the Huthi's brought it back.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, wow, what a houi.
Speaker 3: Where is the only country where it's legal to be
Speaker 3: gay in the Middle East?
Speaker 4: I would say, Asia, Do you know? It's Israel. I
Speaker 4: don't consider it the country. I would go to Palestine
Speaker 4: if you went to Palace and you'd be thrown off
Speaker 4: of a building.
Speaker 14: All of these like the gayest city on Earth.
Speaker 4: I doubt it's the gayest city on it. It's really gay,
Speaker 4: you know what?
Speaker 3: The number one slogan the Iranian government chances death to America.
Speaker 4: Honestly, like, I'm kind of not really.
Speaker 2: Now to California, the bluest of blue states, where the
Speaker 2: La City Council is taking down a no U turn
Speaker 2: sign in the name of equity, tolerance and inclusion.
Speaker 5: What La City Council members?
Speaker 2: You go?
Speaker 15: Sodo Martinez and Nythia Rahman were on hand today to
Speaker 15: help remove the signs. They say the no cruising and
Speaker 15: no U Turn signs were put up in the nineteen
Speaker 15: nineties to prevent people in the gay community from meeting
Speaker 15: up with other gay people.
Speaker 14: I was also surprised that these U turn signs were
Speaker 14: still up. And at first, you know, they seem a
Speaker 14: little oh okay, it's just a no U turn sign.
Speaker 14: But when you learn the history of it and you
Speaker 14: realize that these were used to profile gay people.
Speaker 2: Really, these activists are almost beyond parody. The descent into
Speaker 2: a full blown leftist lunacy is pretty much complete. And
Speaker 2: I think it's time to check in on the Leader
Speaker 2: of the Free World again. Another incoherent rant here he
Speaker 2: has a little mini melt down. Watch him completely mix
Speaker 2: up a well known expression as he casually threatens Israel.
Speaker 1: And I know you're a typical press guy.
Speaker 6: You're grabbing me in front of this on and said
Speaker 6: to trust you.
Speaker 12: As far as I throw your phone, I can add
Speaker 12: a good.
Speaker 6: Arm, haven't you.
Speaker 1: I'm going to throw this away. But my point is this,
Speaker 1: I have made.
Speaker 16: Very clear to the Israelis that they have to do
Speaker 16: in the New Turn.
Speaker 1: If they don't, what's gonna happen was going to come off.
Speaker 2: Across the West, we continue to see anti Israeli, anti
Speaker 2: West protesters run riot. They're even harassing their fellow lefties
Speaker 2: in the lefty heartland of Washington, DC.
Speaker 17: People who eat at Tati, the most basic is rarely
Speaker 17: establishment in DC. Here we have some mediocre white people
Speaker 17: to start the day off.
Speaker 4: More mediocre white people.
Speaker 1: More mediocre white people. Thank you for the smiles.
Speaker 18: They're there, a.
Speaker 17: Chubby, mediocre white man.
Speaker 1: Hike.
Speaker 17: Excuse me, man, Can we ask you your stance on Palestine?
Speaker 17: Any stance, ma'am? No stance, No stances, no, just what
Speaker 17: do you have for brunch? Some chuk shuka? Some Palestinian
Speaker 17: chuk shuka? Hey, by leakyaknva you guys, wire gonna give
Speaker 17: you a pass, but next time, please skip Tata. It's
Speaker 17: owned by devilish white people.
Speaker 2: Joining me now is Newsweek Senior editor at Large and
Speaker 2: Article three Projects Senior Council Josh Hammer.
Speaker 5: Josh.
Speaker 2: We've seen these protesters take over university campuses. They have
Speaker 2: these illegal encampments there. We've seen them cause enormous damage
Speaker 2: to property and open threatened people. We've even seen acts
Speaker 2: of violence. And yet as you have written in the
Speaker 2: New York Post. Where are the consequences? Why are Blue
Speaker 2: cities in particular turning a blind eye to this lawlessness?
Speaker 3: You know, Rita, It is certainly not for lack of
Speaker 3: available options. There are any number of options that federal
Speaker 3: prosecutors have. I mean, there is the ku Klux Klanak
Speaker 3: going back to eighteen seventy one, which is passing the
Speaker 3: aftermath of the American Civil War, which basically bans people
Speaker 3: from a mass conspiracy, especially if you go in disguise,
Speaker 3: if you wear masks, like a lot of these protesters
Speaker 3: have been doing, you are forbidden from doing that and masks,
Speaker 3: so as to deprive your fellow American citizens of their
Speaker 3: constitutional rights. There is a civil analog to that. There was,
Speaker 3: of course material support for terrorism, which is a federal
Speaker 3: criminal offense. But the point is that whether at a
Speaker 3: federal level or at a local level, when it comes
Speaker 3: to lower level local crimes such as harassment, intimidation, a
Speaker 3: lot of this stuff on the street, you know, you
Speaker 3: don't have a free speech right Riata in our country.
Speaker 3: You don't have a first Memen free speech right to
Speaker 3: intimidate and to harass people. You have a free speech
Speaker 3: right to make your opinions known on the issues of
Speaker 3: the day. You don't have a right to get into
Speaker 3: someone's face and to say that you want them to die,
Speaker 3: that you want to call for genocide. This was the
Speaker 3: error that the Harvard president made, of course, in the
Speaker 3: infamous December twenty twenty three congressional testimony that led to
Speaker 3: her resignation. But the points here, and this is what
Speaker 3: I wrote about for the New York Posts. Whether it's
Speaker 3: the federal level, whether it's the local level, or anywhere else,
Speaker 3: there was a very very simple and straightforward reason the
Speaker 3: prosecutors and law enforcement in general are not bringing these charges,
Speaker 3: which is that one, they probably largely at least left
Speaker 3: wing jurisdictions, agree with the underlying conduct. Two, as we
Speaker 3: saw in the twenty twenty Antifa Black Lives Matter riots,
Speaker 3: and as we've seen again since October seven, these are
Speaker 3: very violent people. Read, these are violent people who take
Speaker 3: no prisoners. These prosecutors and cops don't want to be
Speaker 3: on these miscreants bad side any more than anyone else
Speaker 3: wants to be. So they agree with the Wolk orthodoxy,
Speaker 3: and they don't want to get themselves hurt. What that
Speaker 3: creates obviously is a toxic, toxic stew America is currently
Speaker 3: failing its Jews, and by extension, is not merely just
Speaker 3: feeling its Jews, is feeling us off.
Speaker 5: Absolutely.
Speaker 2: And we've got this two tier policing, this two tier
Speaker 2: justice system, where if you were out there protesting from
Speaker 2: some right wing cause, you would have the authorities come
Speaker 2: down on you like a ton of bricks. But if
Speaker 2: they agree with you viewpoint, you can get up to
Speaker 2: the mischief we've seen, and the calling it mischief is
Speaker 2: really underplaying it, because sometimes it is just violent intimidation
Speaker 2: and nothing else. Now, even a broken clock is right
Speaker 2: twice a day. And so I was interested in this
Speaker 2: analysis from CNN on the historic levels of support the
Speaker 2: Republicans are getting from black folk under Trump. They are
Speaker 2: perplex the f I at CNN, but they acknowledge this
Speaker 2: is a seismic shift.
Speaker 18: And more than that, it's not just that Joe Biden
Speaker 18: is losing ground, it's that Donald Trump is gaining ground.
Speaker 18: You go from seven percent single digits at this point
Speaker 18: in twenty twenty to now twenty one percent. And again, John,
Speaker 18: I keep looking for signs that this is going to
Speaker 18: go back to normal, and I don't see it yet
Speaker 18: in the polling of anything. Right now, we're careening towards
Speaker 18: a historic performance for Republican presidential candidate, the likes of
Speaker 18: which we have not seen in six decades. Look at
Speaker 18: black voters under the age of fifty. Holy cow, folks,
Speaker 18: Holy cal Look at this. Joe Biden was up by
Speaker 18: eighty points among this group back at this point in
Speaker 18: twenty twenty. Look at where that margin haskreem down towards
Speaker 18: it's now just get this, thirty seven points. That lead
Speaker 18: has dropped by more than half. Mister Berman Home, I
Speaker 18: just never seen anything like this. I'm like speechless because
Speaker 18: you always look at history and you go, okay, this
Speaker 18: is a historic moment. If this polling is anywhere near correct,
Speaker 18: we are looking at an historic moment right now. We're
Speaker 18: Black voters under the age of fifty, which have historically
Speaker 18: been such a big part of the Democratic coalition, are
Speaker 18: leaving it in droves.
Speaker 2: Josha Donald Trump has launched his Black Voter Coalition group.
Speaker 2: His campaign is saying historic rates of black voters are
Speaker 2: now behind the Republican candidate.
Speaker 6: And if those CNN figures.
Speaker 2: Are accurate, what's that going to mean for the Democrats
Speaker 2: going forward. They have just relied on getting ninety percent
Speaker 2: plus of the black vote for decades.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, Red, I'm trying not to leugh too
Speaker 3: hard over here because Harry Enton is the CNN d
Speaker 3: and analyst that we just saw. I've actually known Harry
Speaker 3: since he and I were both eighteen years old. He
Speaker 3: and I go way back. He's probably the only straight
Speaker 3: shooter at CNN. He is not a far left liberal guy.
Speaker 3: He calls it like he sees it. But Harry knows
Speaker 3: his audience and he knows of the CNN audience is
Speaker 3: a liberal audience. So he's just trying to do what
Speaker 3: any good television broadcasters should do, which is just trying
Speaker 3: to be very honest with your audience. And here honesty
Speaker 3: means that Joe Biden's intersectional coalition is falling apart. Black
Speaker 3: voters are peeling away at record pace for very simple
Speaker 3: bread and butter reasons. Because the economy in the United
Speaker 3: States has never been good. Bidenomics they tease it out
Speaker 3: like a wet BALLOONA went absolutely nowhere last year. They
Speaker 3: haven't talked about Bidenomics since November. They for a little while.
Speaker 3: That's all I talked about. Then they decide that they
Speaker 3: couldn't bamboozol Americans into thinking the bidnominous was anything other
Speaker 3: than a stink bomb, so they let it go. Inflation,
Speaker 3: of course, reached nine point one percent to forty year
Speaker 3: high back on the summer of twenty twenty two. The
Speaker 3: economy formally entered a recession back on that same year,
Speaker 3: twenty twenty two. So Black voters are peeling away from
Speaker 3: Joe Biden for the same reason that many underrepresented minorities,
Speaker 3: Hispanic voters among them, are peeling away, which is that
Speaker 3: they don't like the way that the country is being
Speaker 3: governed right now. And if these numbers are real, and
Speaker 3: as Harry said right there on CNN, we have every
Speaker 3: indication to believe that the shift actually is real, especially
Speaker 3: for young black men. Young black men are now supporting
Speaker 3: Trump twenty five sometimes even thirty percent in polls that
Speaker 3: could easily could easily make or break the election when
Speaker 3: it comes to states like Michigan, Georgia, and North Carolina Pennsylvania,
Speaker 3: all of which have sizeable Black populations there. But the
Speaker 3: broader point to read is that the entire post two
Speaker 3: thousand and eight Barack Obama Joe Biden Ara Democratic Party,
Speaker 3: which is built on the house of cards of intersectionalism
Speaker 3: and identity politics. It's all falling apart right now. They're
Speaker 3: stuff between a rock and a hard place when it
Speaker 3: comes to the Middle East conflict. Obviously, they can't make
Speaker 3: the error voters in Michigan happy, but then they can't
Speaker 3: make the Jewish voters happy either, or the majority of
Speaker 3: Americans who support Israel for the matter. So everywhere you look,
Speaker 3: this whole identity politics thing is falling apart for them,
Speaker 3: and you know, frankly, as a conservative, I kind of
Speaker 3: love to see it.
Speaker 2: And you're absolutely right about this into sectional coalition falling apart,
Speaker 2: because it's not just black voters leaving the Democrats. There
Speaker 2: are increasing numbers of other ethnic groups, including Hispanics, who
Speaker 2: now prefer Trump to the Democrats. A number of polls
Speaker 2: have shown a majority of Hispanic voters backing the Republicans,
Speaker 2: and a new poll shows that a majority of registered
Speaker 2: voters from all backgrounds are now in favor of mass
Speaker 2: deportations of illegal immigrants. According to a new yek Of poll,
Speaker 2: sixty two percent want to see mass deportations, and that
Speaker 2: includes josh A clear majority of Hispanic voters, and I've
Speaker 2: long said that Hispanics will become part of the Republican
Speaker 2: base that are typically socially conservative. They are aspirational, and
Speaker 2: the Democrats have really little to offer them at the
Speaker 2: moment other than victimhood and pronouns.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Look, I live in South Florida. I mean this is
Speaker 3: kind of the epicenter of the Hispanic part of America.
Speaker 3: Moving to the right, I mean Miami Day County, which
Speaker 3: is the most populous county in all of Florida. You know,
Speaker 3: Ron de Santis won that by double digits in his
Speaker 3: group of toyal reelection.
Speaker 1: Twenty twenty two.
Speaker 3: He won Miami Day County, which is a seventy percent
Speaker 3: Hispanic county. He won it by eleven points. Marco Rubio,
Speaker 3: our center here in Florida, won by ten points. And
Speaker 3: a lot of people look on that and they say, oh,
Speaker 3: it's Miami Day County. It's just these Cubans. They're all
Speaker 3: conservative because they're fleeing the castros and communism. It's actually
Speaker 3: not true. So in Osceola County here in Florida, which
Speaker 3: is a suburb of Orlando, heavily Puerto Rican County, Puerto
Speaker 3: Rican's historically a very very liberal demographic here in the
Speaker 3: United States. Osciola County, Florida actually voted for Romda Santis
Speaker 3: and Marco Rubio as well in twenty twenty two. You know,
Speaker 3: going back to twenty twenty, even in heavily Mexicans South Texas,
Speaker 3: down in the Rio Grand Valley, you had ninety to
Speaker 3: ninety five percent Hispanic counties like Star County, Texas, is
Speaker 3: Upota County, Texas, which some of them were actually outright
Speaker 3: breaking for Trump, but then Trump was actually very narrowly
Speaker 3: losing others by single digits. The broader shift is happening,
Speaker 3: And like I was just talking about with black voters,
Speaker 3: it's the same thing for these Hispanic voters. Reader. They
Speaker 3: don't like the way the economy is doing. They want
Speaker 3: their communities to be secure, They want people to be
Speaker 3: able to walk the streets safely without fear of being mugs,
Speaker 3: and they care about general public safety and deterring violence
Speaker 3: just as much as white voters or anyone else. So
Speaker 3: I am not surprised to see these data points, but
Speaker 3: I certainly do hope that they are giving Democrats a
Speaker 3: lot of heartburn.
Speaker 2: Now to Texas and the Department of Justice is indicted.
Speaker 2: A whistleblowing doctor exposed how a Texas hospital was continuing
Speaker 2: to perform sex change procedes and treatments on children as
Speaker 2: young as eleven despite announcing that were shutting down their
Speaker 2: gender clinic after Texas bans surgical procedures and prescription treatments
Speaker 2: for transgender youth. Doctor Ethan Haim, a surgeon at the
Speaker 2: Texas Children's Hospital, is accused of accessing and obtaining information
Speaker 2: belonging to these patients without authorization, and it's convicted. He
Speaker 2: faces up to ten years in federal prison and a
Speaker 2: two hundred and fifty thousand dollars maximum fine.
Speaker 6: Tell me about this case, Josh.
Speaker 2: This seems to be a whistleblower who is being punished
Speaker 2: for doing the right thing. How could he possibly expose
Speaker 2: this if he didn't access that information?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 3: So the DOJ is alleging that he They're saying that
Speaker 3: he violated HIPPA, which is a patient privacy protection statue
Speaker 3: that existed in the United States for a number of
Speaker 3: decades now. But the point here, Rita, is that they're
Speaker 3: picking the target very carefully here. You know, the very
Speaker 3: nature of prosecution is that prosecutoral resources are scarce here.
Speaker 3: I mean you learn this as a first year lawsuitent.
Speaker 3: Going back to criminal law course, no prosecutor literally has
Speaker 3: the manpower, the time, the resource, or anything in order
Speaker 3: to prosecute every possible offense that comes across or her jurisdiction.
Speaker 3: The fact that they are going after after this whistleblower,
Speaker 3: who again audibly and nobly was blowing the whistle because
Speaker 3: the Texas Children's Hospital was lying. That they were lying.
Speaker 3: They said that they were cutting back on these genital
Speaker 3: mutilations so called surgeries on chemical castration. They said in
Speaker 3: response to pressure from Texas Attorney General Ken Pax and
Speaker 3: Governor Greg Gavit. They said, in response to that that
Speaker 3: they were finally shutting it down, and they lied about it.
Speaker 3: That is why this whistleblower came out and said, you
Speaker 3: know what, mister Governor, mister train General, they're telling you
Speaker 3: one thing, they're not doing it. So the fact that
Speaker 3: he's being prosecuted for doing the righteous, noble, just and
Speaker 3: correct thing here on dubious statutory grounds says everything they
Speaker 3: need to know about America's further further unraveling weaponization of
Speaker 3: our law enforcement apparatus.
Speaker 2: And I've saying that trust in the justice system at
Speaker 2: historic laws in America and we know why. It's very
Speaker 2: much a justified point of view. Josh Hammer, always a
Speaker 2: pleasure to hear from you.
Speaker 5: Still to come.
Speaker 2: The Hawthorne racism saga, i'm one of the most shameful
Speaker 2: episodes in Australian media.
Speaker 6: So Vie Ellsworth joins me.
Speaker 2: Next joining me now is media writer for The Australian.
Speaker 6: Sophie Ellsworth.
Speaker 2: Let's start with what is one of the most shameful
Speaker 2: episodes in the Australian media and the sports media. But
Speaker 2: this story went further than just the sports media, and
Speaker 2: it's the way three men were defamed as racist monsters
Speaker 2: after the ABC published Elaked Report, a deeply flawed report
Speaker 2: into the culture at Hawthorne Football Club. Last week, former
Speaker 2: Hawthorne coach Alistair Clarkson, now the coach of North Melbourne,
Speaker 2: spoke about his desire for the saga to end up
Speaker 2: in the Federal Court so he can finally put his
Speaker 2: side of the case forward.
Speaker 16: And that's what's perplexing for focus, myself and Jayson. We've
Speaker 16: got to six over six hundred days later and we
Speaker 16: still haven't had the opportunity either through Hawthorne, through the AFL,
Speaker 16: through the AFL investigation, through the Human Rights Commission, nor
Speaker 16: a court of law to actually tell our story. And
Speaker 16: ironically enough, the three people were actually quite going for
Speaker 16: it to go to the federal court as Fergus, myself
Speaker 16: and Jas because that will provide a platform to be
Speaker 16: able to tell our story.
Speaker 2: This is a fascinating case. I remember writing about this, well,
Speaker 2: that was it September twenty twenty two, whenever this story
Speaker 2: first broke and you looked at some of the allegations,
Speaker 2: some of the claims that were just being accepted uncritically,
Speaker 2: and the way people were condemning these men that were
Speaker 2: guilty as charged was incredible because there were massive holes
Speaker 2: in that entire report. There were huge concerns, and yet
Speaker 2: the media almost uniformly ignored those to just go after
Speaker 2: these three men and destroy them. And for a period
Speaker 2: all three had to step down from their roles and
Speaker 2: things have turned around now, but it looked like and
Speaker 2: I was hearing from season Footy types predicting that Alistair
Speaker 2: Clarkson Chris Fagan, coach of Brisbane, they would never coach
Speaker 2: again because of how they were perceived after this story.
Speaker 5: Broke a terrible situation.
Speaker 19: Reata and you've written about this many times and called
Speaker 19: it out right from the beginning.
Speaker 5: It was flimsy from the beginning.
Speaker 19: And this is the concern with the media is sometimes
Speaker 19: it's trial by media. It's guilty until you've proven innocent,
Speaker 19: not the other way round.
Speaker 5: And I think that was really problematic with this story.
Speaker 19: And you can see when Alistair Clarkson spoke there, he's
Speaker 19: obviously still very distressed by them.
Speaker 2: He went out on stress leave, that's right, last year.
Speaker 5: That's right.
Speaker 19: So the fallout from this has been shocking and it
Speaker 19: hasn't been a good reflection on the ABC, on the
Speaker 19: AFL or Hawthorne Football Club.
Speaker 2: In my view, No, I think there are many answers
Speaker 2: for the Hawthorn Food Club, many questions for the Hawthorn
Speaker 2: Bok Club to answer, and they may be facing a
Speaker 2: multimillion dollar lawsuit as well, so they've got all sorts
Speaker 2: of issues to contend with in the coming years off field. Now,
Speaker 2: let's talk about nine and their ongoing woes. Kerie Anne
Speaker 2: Kennley is the latest start to speak out about the
Speaker 2: entrenched culture of the network. Has there been any response
Speaker 2: from nine to what Kerie Ane Kenley told you in
Speaker 2: the Australian.
Speaker 19: So basically nine, you know, keeping their responses very careful
Speaker 19: with all of these allegations, RITA, because we now have
Speaker 19: the external review that is undergoing in the News and
Speaker 19: Current Affairs Division within nine, so they are not saying
Speaker 19: much other than Mike Sneezeby has come out yesterday in
Speaker 19: an email to all staff and said basic, we need
Speaker 19: to change the culture at nine. He admits there were
Speaker 19: wrongs in the past and they need to change the
Speaker 19: culture in order to move forward.
Speaker 5: But Nine have been very careful what they say.
Speaker 19: Because this external investigation is still afoot and could take
Speaker 19: some months. But apparently from what I have been told
Speaker 19: from numerous sources is that dozens of women and females,
Speaker 19: both former and current staff, are making complaint Dozen.
Speaker 5: That's what I've been told.
Speaker 2: Well, are we going to have any clarity once this
Speaker 2: review is completed about what their findings are. Is this
Speaker 2: school going to be kept in house or will they
Speaker 2: actually come clean because they did try to hide this.
Speaker 6: It was the Australian that broke this story.
Speaker 5: RITA.
Speaker 19: They have to well have said to staff they will
Speaker 19: share the findings when it's handed down by the Advisory
Speaker 19: Group Intersection, and this will have to be made public.
Speaker 2: I mean this is impacted Nine. This has impacted them.
Speaker 2: They've lost their chair Peter Costello.
Speaker 19: You know, they've had managers move, They've had Darren Wick
Speaker 19: leave the business. They've had such widespread problems. Their share
Speaker 19: price has fallen too, So this saga is far from over.
Speaker 2: Meanwhile, seven is also facing some challenges. They've also had
Speaker 2: allegations of cultural issues.
Speaker 6: And they have a new news boss.
Speaker 2: Who has hired a comedian from the ABC, Mark Humphreys,
Speaker 2: to refresh their news coverager.
Speaker 6: I'm not sure how this is going to work. Do
Speaker 6: we have.
Speaker 2: Any information about how Mark Comphreys came to be hired
Speaker 2: and what his role is going to be within the
Speaker 2: news team.
Speaker 19: So Retel, we've obviously got a new news director at
Speaker 19: Channel seven, Anthony de Segli, and he has made this
Speaker 19: bold decision to insert Mark Humphreys into the six pm
Speaker 19: news bulletin in Sydney. Mark Humphrey's is obviously a comedian,
Speaker 19: He's done this sort of work before, and Anthony Decegli
Speaker 19: is trying to shake things up at seven. So Mark
Speaker 19: Comfreys will start at the network in the coming weeks.
Speaker 19: It will be on a weekly basis. This sort of
Speaker 19: comedy inserted into the news. Now, I wonder how this
Speaker 19: is going to work, reader, when you have a serious
Speaker 19: news bulletin and suddenly trying to inject news.
Speaker 5: So let's see if it works.
Speaker 2: Let's look at some silly reporting from the UK.
Speaker 6: You could mock this. This is easy to mock.
Speaker 2: The Mirror warned its readers last week of a heat
Speaker 2: wave set.
Speaker 6: To hit major cities.
Speaker 2: They wrote, UK to be blasted by forty eight hours.
Speaker 6: Of twenty six degree heat wave.
Speaker 2: I don't notice twenty six degrees a heat wave anywhere
Speaker 2: in the world, but it's incredible the hardship the poems
Speaker 2: have to endure for forty eight hours. But we've got
Speaker 2: The Guardian, on the other hand, saying that it's actually
Speaker 2: quite cold in the UK. But they still need to
Speaker 2: get some climate cult commentary in their saying the cool
Speaker 2: start to the summer may feel more miserable than figures
Speaker 2: suggest because people have come to see heat.
Speaker 6: Waves as the norm.
Speaker 2: Global heating means UK summers are more than a degree
Speaker 2: warmer than in the seventies, but I wonder how much
Speaker 2: warmer they are than the I don't know, twelve hundreds,
Speaker 2: thirteen hundreds, you know, the medieval warming period. So there
Speaker 2: is a lot of material there to be mocked. But
Speaker 2: I do wonder if Marc Comfrey's is going to touch
Speaker 2: any of that. I think you'll just be watching Sky
Speaker 2: hoping for moments for Sky, which is wonderful promotion for us.
Speaker 6: So if you see this mark, please publicize.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 19: Absolutely, But Rita, I mean, really, the Brits are complaining
Speaker 19: about twenty three degrees celsius twenty six.
Speaker 5: It's twenty three, so should I say?
Speaker 19: I mean, it's a heat wave and they are all
Speaker 19: panicking and they need to stay indoors because it's so hot.
Speaker 19: I mean, you can mock these It's just too easy
Speaker 19: to mock Rita. It sort of shows the fast that
Speaker 19: you know, when they're making headlines that's twenty six degrees
Speaker 19: and it's a heat wave and this is a climate emergency,
Speaker 19: then you start to really question thisty you.
Speaker 2: See this, So it's so prevalent in the UK when
Speaker 2: they're doing their weather reports on television, the heat and
Speaker 2: the map is all in red in summer, like the
Speaker 2: whole place is on fire, even though the temperatures are
Speaker 2: the same as they were a couple of years ago
Speaker 2: with a normal map, so it is all about those optics.
Speaker 2: Sophie Lsworth, thank you so much for your time this evening.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Rita, and that's it from me. Up next
Speaker 2: is Newsnight.