{"id":9234,"date":"2013-08-29T15:18:58","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T05:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nofibs.com.au\/?p=9234"},"modified":"2022-05-02T00:37:51","modified_gmt":"2022-05-01T14:37:51","slug":"fibs-bennelong-reporter-preciouspress-counters-paul-sheehan-race-attack-jasonyatsenli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/fibs-bennelong-reporter-preciouspress-counters-paul-sheehan-race-attack-jasonyatsenli\/","title":{"rendered":"No Fibs Bennelong reporter @preciouspress counters Paul Sheehan race attack on @jasonyatsenli"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sheehan-Screenshot\"<\/p>\n

By Jack Sumner<\/a><\/p>\n

29 August 2013<\/p>\n

In the Sydney Morning Herald<\/em> today Paul Sheehan wrote \u201cLabor pulls out race card in bid to win over Chinese<\/a>“.<\/p>\n

His flimsy justification for this serious allegation is:<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring the 2007 campaign, Labor shamelessly played the race card in Bennelong against Howard, emphasising<\/strong>\u00a0Rudd’s fluency in Mandarin, his links to China and his Chinese son-\u00adin-\u00adlaw.\u201d He goes on to allege, \u201cSix years later, Rudd is playing the race card in Bennelong with bare-\u00ad<\/strong>knuckled determination.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sheehan\u2019s sources for this shameless piece appear to be Chinese members of the Liberal Party and his very own right wing prejudice best illustrated by this translation of sections of Labor\u2019s candidate Jason Yat-\u00ad\u2010sen Li\u2019s campaign material:<\/p>\n

‘I am a Sydney boy who was born and grew up in the suburbs.”<\/p>\n

Translation: I’ve been parachuted into this seat by Labor.<\/em><\/p>\n

”We will buy a home in the electorate and we care about the cost of living.”<\/p>\n

Translation: I have never lived in the electorate.<\/em><\/p>\n

”I am an entrepreneur running three companies that I founded.”<\/p>\n

Translation: I am not running any company right now because I am running for<\/em>
\n Parliament.<\/em><\/p>\n

Shouldn\u2019t an experienced journalist with any sense of ethics, fairness and decency have sought to speak to the person he seeks to disparage in this way? I can confirm\u00a0<\/strong>that Sheehan made no such approach to Li or his office.
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"TWT\"
\nThis week\u2019s local newspaper The Weekly Times<\/em> looks to influence readers\u2019 votes too. Its front page has a photograph titled ‘JA celebrates Australian\u00a0women’. The women honoured were Margie Abbott, Melissa Babbage, Bronwyn Bishop, Christine Forster, Janette Howard, Heather Ruddock, Deborah Thomas\u00a0and Lucy Turnbull \u2013 how\u2019s that for a cross section of the community?<\/p>\n

Below the picture the TWT owner John Booth comments:<\/p>\n

\u201cOur beloved former PM Juliar\u00a0Gillard could hardly ever call Bennelong MP John Alexander a misogynist so-\u00adand-\u00adso if last Friday is anything to go on. JA lined up a veritable galaxy of women-\u00adladies-\u00ad<\/strong>females-\u00ad(girls?) \u2013call them what you will, enough to fill any chauvinist males wish list.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Mr Booth also hints at his preferred candidate with pictures of Alexander on pages three, six and nine. A reference to Labor candidate Jason Li with picture appears on page eight.<\/p>\n

Ironically, in contrast to the above examples of blatant bias our other local\u00a0newspaper Northern Times<\/em> covered the Bennelong election without any whiff of\u00a0favoritism. News Ltd owns the Northern Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

More Bennelong reports here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Jack Sumner 29 August 2013 In the Sydney Morning Herald today Paul Sheehan wrote \u201cLabor pulls out race card in bid to win over Chinese“. His flimsy justification for this serious allegation is: \u201cDuring the 2007 campaign, Labor shamelessly played the race card in Bennelong against Howard, emphasising\u00a0Rudd’s fluency in Mandarin, his links to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3434,785,3546,1201,65,585,783,21,32,399],"tags":[2628,772,2615,2627,787,2598,1318,1321,1319,458,1320],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Capture_2013_08_29_14_50_26_816-e1377753426188.png?fit=600%2C369&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3t0mw-2oW","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56907,"href":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9234\/revisions\/56907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}