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October 1st, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
ANALYSIS
THE recording is crackly but the voice is unmistakeable.
A 21-year-old Tony Abbott is earnestly explaining his theory about the Marxist conspiracy on university campuses.
”[Marxists] understand that if they destroy the academic standards, and possibly the moral standards, of that elite they have undermined liberal democratic society,” Abbott says.
Abbott gave the interview to the ABC in 1979 when he was the president of the University of Sydney’s student representative council. He goes on to agree that university spending should be cut.
”The fundamental good is it would finally force the academics to decide what they want the universities to teach,” he says. ”Should they teach what is socially useful or would they be able to continue as they have done and waste money on such things as the politics of lesbianism.”
Controversial? Not really. Mildly embarrassing for the Opposition Leader? Maybe. But a lot can be justified with the excuse of youthful exuberance and over-earnest student politicking.
The tape will get about as much coverage as a new biography of Abbott by the academic Susan Mitchell who believes the Opposition Leader harbours an ”innate and deeply embedded sexism and misogyny”.
It is a view shared by many senior Labor women who were quick to background journalists on the dangers of an Abbott-led opposition when he took on the job nearly two years ago.
The tape and the biography, Tony Abbott – A Man’s Man, are being talked up by Labor strategists desperate to keep playing on what they see as a big winner – Abbott’s personality.
Liberal strategists couldn’t care less about the book or the tape because any poll shows that voters aren’t particularly interested in Abbott’s character at the moment.
What they are concerned about is the character of the Labor Party and its ability to dump one prime minister and possibly another.
Voters have not warmed to Julia Gillard. Labor leadership rumblings remain rumblings but they are getting louder.
They are not being silenced by a buoyant Kevin Rudd, back from his preferred backdrop of the international stage and now spending the weekend in Papua New Guinea after a week of excellent coverage of him talking about indigenous literacy and the importance of fathers reading to their children.
Heck, even Abby the labrador was back in a photo shoot for the Australian Financial Review‘s annual power list. Rudd doesn’t have to do anything at the moment. The polls consistently show people prefer him to Gillard and he could beat Abbott at an election.
If it does become a case of Rudd versus Abbott then Labor’s arguments about Abbott’s character could gain traction because of the public’s regard for Rudd. But at the moment the only problems with character are Labor’s.
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