Monday, 6 February 2012

Howzat! Tones gets caught out


Which one is Tony?

Tony Abbott displays his lack of spine in 2012.

TRANSCRIPT OF THE HON. TONY ABBOTT MHR DOORSTOP INTERVIEW SYDNEY:
“TONY ABBOTT: This has been a truly shambolic start to the year by the Gillard government. ……We have the Anthony Albanese plagiarism incident.”

Herald Sun 2nd February 2012:
“OPPOSITION Leader Tony Abbott has been swept up in his own embarrassing claim of political plagiarism, appearing to have borrowed from speeches of two US Presidents and a US shock jock in his address to the National Press Club on Tuesday.
A week after Labor Minister Anthony Albanese was lampooned for plagiarising a fictional Hollywood president, played by Michael Douglas, in his speech to the Press Club, Mr Abbott appeared to have gone a step further and taken liberties with the work of real presidents.
Claiming his speech was all his own work, and not the labours of his staff, when asked if he thought it was a good speech, Mr Abbott replied: "Well I wrote it, so I hope so." Not exactly, it appears….”

Read the rest here and compare it with his speech here.

Jellyfish mosaic from Google Images pics

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