I’m the first to admit that I shook my head when news of Tony Abbott’s alleged claim about virginity surfaced during the week.
It was claimed that Abbott said that women should remain virgins until marriage; if he believes that, fine (I don’t agree but he can believe what he wants,) but saying it out loud is political stupidity.
But here’s the catch: no matter how much anger, general coverage and editorial space was handed over on the alleged quote, turns out it wasn’t true.
via Andrew Bolt:
Check for yourself. Here is every last word that Abbott, himself the father of three girls, said: “It (sex before marriage) happens … I think I would say to my daughters if they were to ask me this question … it is the greatest gift that you can give someone, the ultimate gift of giving, and don’t give it to someone lightly, that is what I would say.”
Now I don’t have a daughter, but if I did I might well give the same advice, and millions of other Australian’s with daughters either have or would as well.
There’s a mile of difference between a fathers wish that his daughters wait for someone special to sleep with (and note, there’s ZERO mention of marriage there) to the media reports suggesting that Abbott was claiming women should wait until marriage to lose their virginity.
Disgraceful from media who pride themselves on reporting the truth, and the politicians who feed of their lies.
I wonder if Julia Gillard, Gabriella Coslovich, Fiona Scott-Norman, Jon Faine, Catharine Lumby, Eva Cox and the others will apologize?
Nah, just joking there, of course they won’t. Why let the facts get in the way of a good ol’ fashioned crucifixion.
The noun form of crucify is “crucifixion”.
Wait, I've just made a partial idiot out of myself. You used the proper word in the article but not the title.
Oddly enough, although that wasn't the issue since identified (edited now) the spelling as such was something I came up against pre-post.
Specifically crucifixion and crucification. Honestly, what you suggest (be it withdrawn) is something that I myself actually looked up. Don't feel that bad (well, you were wrong first up, but look here.) The problem I had both times was on spelling, but not on your issue, but the US/ rest of the world English side. I hope I got it right in the end (and I spent a good hour or so checking…seriously.)
But Duncan, you know how it works. Someone says something that can be (mis)construed as controversial. Journalists phone around for “reaction”. And they don't give the exact quote in context, they say, “Tony Abbott reckons women should stay virgins until married, what's your reaction to that?” The reaction is, of course, to the paraphrased and mangled version.
OK, that's despicable. But the problem is, the warped version is then what's out there in the media and people are reacting to that. The story takes on a reality of it's own. And, as I say, that's despicable.
Thing is, how can Abbott respond to this situation? He was a goose to give his personal opinion on this controversial issue. But once it's done, will he ever be able to win with “But that's not what I said?” Seriously, what are his options here?
hey would have to push themselves up from the rear against the beam of the cross in order to breath, but this process was painful and could only last so long until the victim died.
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Thing is, how can Abbott respond to this situation? He was a goose to give his personal opinion on this controversial issue. But once it's done, will he ever be able to win with “But that's not what I said?” Seriously, what are his options here?
The problem I had both times was on spelling, but not on your issue, but the US/ rest of the world English side.