{"id":458,"date":"2007-11-22T08:25:14","date_gmt":"2007-11-21T22:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=458"},"modified":"2007-11-22T19:01:09","modified_gmt":"2007-11-22T09:01:09","slug":"senior-liberal-staffers-in-joke-leaflet-smear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=458","title":{"rendered":"Senior Liberal staffers in &#8216;joke&#8217; leaflet smear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/cartoons\/index.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/blogimages\/thumb-moir_toon_wheatgate_islam_crisis_smh.jpg\" title=\"Hey, it worked for diverting attention from AWB\" alt=\"Hey, it worked for diverting attention from AWB\" border=\"0\" height=\"260\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/cartoons\/index.html\"><font size=\"1\"><em>image: Alan Moir for the Sydney Morning Herald<\/em><\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Seems Johnny&#8217;s been schooling the Liberal locals in Lindsay.. but Jackie Kelly reckons it&#8217;s all a big &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/federal-election-2007-news\/a-chaserstyle-prank\/2007\/11\/22\/1195321873077.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1\">Chaser-style<\/a>&#8216; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/stories\/2007\/11\/22\/2097550.htm\">joke<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[ABC MP3 Audio: <a href=\"http:\/\/mpegmedia.abc.net.au\/news\/audio\/am\/200711\/20071122am02-kelly-pamphlet.mp3\">What Jackie Kelly sounds like when she&#8217;s been busted and squirming<\/a> like a loose skink&#8217;s tail]<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Robb reckons the leaflet was &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/mpegmedia.abc.net.au\/lateline\/av\/podcast\/20071121-late-robb_video4.wmv\">amateur in the extreme<\/a>.&#8217; I guess he&#8217;d know what a real <em>professional<\/em> smear job looks like then, wouldn&#8217;t he?<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230; five blokes <a href=\"http:\/\/mpegmedia.abc.net.au\/news\/audio\/am\/200711\/20071122am04-howard-pamphlet.mp3\">letterboxing<\/a> a low-income, predominantly Anglo part of W Sydney (where racism is rampant) in the middle of the night with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/images\/Islamic%20Pamphlet.pdf\">leaflet smearing the ALP as pro-Muslim<\/a> and soft on terrorism a few days before an election&#8230; is funny?<\/p>\n<p>Why, yes, I can see the <a href=\"http:\/\/dailyflute.com\/?p=1322\">jailarity<\/a> in it myself.<\/p>\n<p>Karen Chijoff&#8217;s hubby Greg is listed as a member of the Executive Committee of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gpag.info\/info.htm\">Glenmore Park Action Group<\/a>, whose president, Troy Craig, was one of the chaps busted leafleting by the ALP stakeout, along with NSW Liberal Party state executive member Jeff Egan. The ALP has only identified 3 of the five people observed dropping the leaflets.<\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s rather likely the Chijoffs were aware of this leaflet. Karen Chijoff should tell what she knows- and if she knew anything, like the other conspirators, should be expelled from the Liberals. Karen Chijoff should withdraw from the race for Lindsay.<\/p>\n<p>-weez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>image: Alan Moir for the Sydney Morning Herald Seems Johnny&#8217;s been schooling the Liberal locals in Lindsay.. but Jackie Kelly reckons it&#8217;s all a big &#8216;Chaser-style&#8216; joke. [ABC MP3 Audio: What Jackie Kelly sounds like when she&#8217;s been busted and squirming like a loose skink&#8217;s tail] Andrew Robb reckons the leaflet was &#8216;amateur in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}