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A few weeks ago Greenpeace turned its “greenmail” forces on national franchise chain Bakers Delight, telling customers they soon would be eating bread made from genetically modified wheat.
There was no justification for the claim, and no thorough examination of the merits or otherwise of GM crops.
Said Greenpeace on Facebook: This week we are suggesting that Bakers Delight change its well-publicised motto: “Bakers Delight bakers use real ingredients to bake unreal bread”. To the less snappy motto: “Bakers Delight bakers use risky genetically modified ingredients to bake unreal bread”.
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Given a spare 24 hours this week, I’d have flown to Brisbane and found the woman who berated Julia Gillard about lying.
I would have taken her aside, adopted her own wounded expression and disappointed tone, and said: “My dear, it’s not personal - it’s much, much bigger than you.”
Her knitted-jumper tirade (“Why did you lie to us?’’ she breathed, sadly, “You’re still lying . . . I’m not stupid”) made terrific TV, a wonderful radio sound-bite and filled a few newspaper pages besides.
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Amy says:
“an Opposition Leader who’d rather bitch his way into government than offer any detailed vision of his own”, Lainie I love you! Thank you for being the voicing my opinion Read more »
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Michael M says:
So, I may have missed it as I don’t regularly read “the Punch”, but the question applies to the media more generally. Why haven’t we seen a decent explanation of that now infamous ‘lie’? Surely it would take just a few column inches to examine the way that minority government… Read more »
We start lying to other people at three years of age.
No longer convinced of our mum’s omnipotent powers, our toddler minds grow in sync with our bodies. We realise we can think for ourselves.
From that point on, lies are a natural part of the daily tug-of-war between what we’re told to do and what, in all truthfulness, we want to do. Then we grow up. But as adults, we just lie to ourselves.
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Pink Hearts says:
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The campaign tactics of all major parties in the NSW election proved we live in an atmosphere where truth is negotiable and lying is routinely accepted as a political necessity.
The result is widespread public cynicism that often masquerades as humour - but is, in fact, an excellent form of crowd control.
We do not expect our politicians to amount to much, so we are neither surprised nor particularly upset when they don’t. Rather than demand reform, we tell cynical jokes and are bemused by their brazen immorality.
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Tom says:
Knemon, good comeback. Have a good weekend. Read more »
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persephone says:
Mahrat don’t blame others for your poor expression - what milton says is the exact opposite of what your original post says. Milton says that politicians should be rewarded on the basis of performance. Your original post says they shouldn’t. If it doesn’t say what you think it does, maybe… Read more »
American celebrity culture and Australian politics don’t often make for useful comparisons - but then, it’s not every day that Charlie Sheen comes along.
Sheen is a highly amusing egomaniac but - unlike most Australian politicians - he also tells the truth. “I believe in the truth and that’s what rules me”, Sheen said in an interview with Andrea Canning for the ABC network in America. He certainly does.
When asked to describe the last time he used drugs, Sheen said, “I probably took more than anyone could survive… I was banging seven gram rocks… that’s how I roll. I have one gear—go.” It’s the answer no one else would’ve given even if they had’ve banged seven gram rocks (which I assume means consuming a lot of cocaine).
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Dan says:
Matt says- “Dan, you’re ignorant and you’re arrogant.” Ignorant? God no, that would be you, who seems to think Australia is a Christian country! Arrogant? If arrogance is knowing I am more intelligent than you, then guilty as charged. BTW, considering that you think you have the right to judge… Read more »
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Dan says:
“Dan, you’re ignorant and you’re arrogant.” Ignorant? I’m not the one who thinks that Australia is a Christian country!!! As for arrogance, I’m not the one who think that I’m the arbitor of who contributes positively or not. I will say this; if being more intelligent than you, and knowing… Read more »
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