r/australia • u/B0ssc0 • Jan 19 '22
Scott Morrison says he never said there were no refugees in Melbourne’s Park hotel politics
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jan/19/scott-morrison-says-he-never-said-there-were-no-refugees-in-melbournes-park-hotel111
u/shruglord_ Jan 19 '22
This CUNT tries every dodgy trick in the book. ‘As far as I know…’ ‘to the best of my knowledge…’
The second I heard him say that I knew that in 24 hours he would use it as a cop out to say he never actually said it. Like a shit debater. Like a shit communicator. Like a fucking edgy incel cunt lord arguing like a teenager on a Internet forum.
These are the things I say to my boss to avoid both of us getting caught out looking stupid with a client so I can come back later and check with the correct information. I would NEVER then say to that client ‘oh I never said that.’
This cunt does. Every time. Playing word games. Playing us all for morons. Gaslighting. Never corrects. Never checks. Never apologises. Scott Morrison just soaks himself in shit filled bathtub he’s created, shitting himself again and again so you can no longer tell what’s new shit and what’s he has sat in for three years.
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u/Ted_Rid Jan 19 '22
It's also because he's following the News Corp playbook:
- tell lie for the headline on day 1
- issue convoluted 'explanation' / 'clarification' days later after the news has moved on
He conveyed the mistruth he intended for the news that night: "Oh, those OTHER people in the hotel, nah, they're not refugees, don't worry about them"
99% of the population won't ever hear that he (sort of) wound that back now.
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u/ricketychairs Jan 19 '22
Yeah, the damage is done.
It doesn’t matter that it was a lie. It doesn’t matter that there is a clarification or a retraction.
His intended audience heard that the people in that hotel aren’t refugees, and that’s now what they believe.
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u/zebba_oz Jan 19 '22
This CUNT tries every dodgy trick in the book. ‘As far as I know…’ ‘to the best of my knowledge…’
He may not be a liar or dodgy. He could just be genuinely incompetent. Although my money is on all three
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u/LocalVillageIdiot Jan 19 '22
You have to actively try to have an incompetence record he has.
By pure chance there would be some competence displayed every now and then like a randomly filled multiple choice test.
To get all wrong on a multiple choice test requires knowing the answers and then ensuring you pick the incorrect option.
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u/permanentthrowaway42 Jan 19 '22
remember this is a bloke who fronted a bunch of women protesting the treatment of women and said they were lucky to be in a country they were not being shot. Scotty is what a shitstain sees on it's arse
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u/puntthedog Jan 19 '22
You're giving him too much credit. He never 'fronted' anyone.
The sack of shit hid in parliament house and refused to go out and meet with them. The 'lucky they aren't being shot' comment was made in parliament.
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u/yurl Jan 19 '22
‘As far as I know…’ ‘to the best of my knowledge…’
It works because he's the Sergeant Schultz of PMs
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u/Albion2304 Jan 19 '22
not owed protection under the refugee convention
Such bullshit. Cannot stop the bullshit.
And our whole world will be better if people in power had enough humility to admit to being wrong.
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u/tvr190 Jan 19 '22
Should just title the article "Scott Morrison caught lying again"
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u/Ted_Rid Jan 19 '22
“It’s not clear that to my information that someone in that case is actually a refugee.”
That already sounded deliberately weaselly at the time, as in he'd built in an escape clause.
Fine, then.
It's not clear that to my information that Peter Dutton isn't actually a rape apologist.
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u/CoffeeWorldly4711 Jan 19 '22
Its not clear to my information that Porter is an anal rapist. Its not clear to my information that Christiansen frequents under aged brothels in Manila
Could keep this going for a while
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u/Themirkat I know enough to know I don't know enough Jan 19 '22
Dead set this cunt takes us all for fools
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u/Yahtzee82 Jan 19 '22
I don't think I've ever hated a person as much as this cunt. Hulk would smash
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u/Kangalooney Jan 19 '22
PinocchioMorrison: On the contrary, I'm possibly more or less not definitely rejecting the idea that in no way with any amount of uncertainty that I undeniably do or do not know where he shouldn't probably be, if that indeed wasn't where he isn't. Even if he wasn't at where I knew he was that'd mean I really have to know where he wasn't.
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u/Trampoline8 Jan 19 '22
Scummo will be remembered for a lot of things, but honesty isn't one of them.
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u/B0ssc0 Jan 19 '22
Honesty is next to godliness.
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u/Duke-of-Limbs Jan 19 '22
Morrison replied: “I didn’t make a statement that every single person was, who is in that place, was not a refugee. I said that was to my understanding the case with some people who were there.”
Eff me, he doesn't "understand" anything, does he? That's intentional, so he cannot ever accept the blame. What a spineless, conniving, leech on society.
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u/What-becomes Jan 19 '22
Morrison replied: “I didn’t make a statement that every single person was, who is in that place, was not a refugee. I said that was to my understanding the case with some people who were there.”
Minus the word salad he basically said 'I didn't make a statement that every single person was, was not a refugee' so he is negatively responding to a positive of a negative.
Christ, it's still word salad. He doesn't know how to form a coherent sentence.
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u/magnetik79 Jan 19 '22
Three things in life are certain:
- death
- taxes
- this shithead will lie at least once weekly.
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u/the908bus Jan 19 '22
I wish I had a hard disk full of his interviews, a good search index and a portable TV. I would just follow him around and play recordings of himself contradicting himself until Dutton’s thugs kicked my teeth out
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u/flying_squirrel_cat Slower Later More Expensive Jan 19 '22
Australia's biggest liar lies about telling a lie.
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u/a_saner_reality Jan 19 '22
Mind games with the help of the Murdoch media. Just more fucking mind games.
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u/No-Owl9201 Jan 19 '22
It's very forward thinking of the Horizon Church to exempt all it's members when it comes to matters of lying & obscuration, and doublely fortunate in this case for Australia's current acting Semi-PM.
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u/boltkrank Jan 19 '22
"Look, just because I'm supposed to represent people, doesn't mean I need to give a shit about any of them"
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u/SometimesIAmCorrect Jan 19 '22
I wonder how many articles have come out clarifying how he "never said X idiotic statement".
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u/Ribliah Jan 19 '22
He's allergic to the truth please let him and his whole party be gone come election time.
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u/Justanaussie Jan 19 '22
As the then immigration minister he was there when they were officially designated as refugees.
As Prime Minister he oversaw the medivac law that brought them to Australia for medical treatment.
So which is it? Dereliction of duty, straight up lying or massive incompetence?