If journalists don't stand up for each other when we're attacked by politicians, we're going to get picked off one by one.
This is how press freedom dies; bit by bit, insult by insult, undermining how important journalism is until no one cares about it anymore.
Her followers love this. They always have. Her inarticulacy is a plus in their eyes, a sign of her authenticity, and when others mock it, they themselves feel mocked, thus reinforcing their sense of grievance.
And grievance is the life-blood of the far right.
"HULK SORRY."
"It's okay, really."
"HULK HAD TO HURRY."
"I understand."
"HULK HAD BAD ENCHILADA."
"We've all been there, big guy."
Girls & women will always have abortions. They can either have safe medical or surgical ones, or if One Nation gets any power, thousands will die, or be permanently damaged. Girls who give birth face enormous physical & mental health dangers compared to safe abortion.
i guess we now know that a rigorous interrogation by the fourth estate is probably not going to save us.