Alan Parkington <patriot@iheartaustralia.com.au> wrote:

> From
> http://www.crikey.com.au/Business/20...ins-media.html

Pigs arse he ever did.

> When Telstra and Phil Burgess were ripping into Graeme Samuel and the Howard Government last year, News Ltd's Terry
> McCrann was one of many critics who lined up to give him a whack.

McCrap has always been, and always will be, completely and utterly irrelevant.

> But the big talking American

Big wanking, actually...

> really turned things around in a speech last week, generating this gushing praise from the normally hard-to-impress
> McCrann.

Who give a flying red fuck what that fool McCrap creams his jeans about ?

> Burgess is literally Australia's busiest business executive on the Australian talk circuit and he graced the MEAA
> public affairs conference in Sydney yesterday afternoon, turning in another virtuoso performance.

All he ever does is wank in public.

> There were plenty of gags. Brendan Nelson was "what's his face, the
> guy with the funny hair" and his Canberra bashing was rationalised on
> the ground that "the reason you kick pollies around is so you can be
> nice to dogs".

Wota fucking wanker...

> While Burgess is first and foremost a Telstra spruiker who wants to maximise the power of its monopoly, his insights
> into Australian
> political, business and media life are getting better with time.

Nothing else is even possible, fuckwit.

> When the promoters of the new Australian Institute for Public Policy
> fronted Phil for some support, he laughed them out of his office on
> the basis that no think tank can possibly be independent when the
> Victorian and Federal Labor governments are contributing $30 million and will have multiple seats on the board.

> And rather than opportunistically going with the media flow now that relations with the new Rudd Labor Government seem
> ok, Burgess slammed our industry to the spinners yesterday.

And telstra will get shafted by the new govt too, you watch.

> "The Australian media is very subservient to government.

Wota pig ignorant wanker...

> It was subservient to the last government and after five months it is subservient to this government."

> How true it is.

Wota pig ignorant wanker...

> The Rudd Government has an important decision coming up when Graeme Samuel's first term at the ACCC expires and the
> Telstra situation will be a major factor.

Nope.

> After slamming the previous government for giving the flawed Opel consortium a $1 billion hand out, I asked Phil if he
> now agreed this decision was driven entirely by government spite.

> "My own gut instinct is that they did it out of spite," he said. "If they did that, shame on them... it is
> unbelievable."

The new govt is about to do that in spades, you watch.

> Burgess revealed that there were three attempts to fix the government
> relationship before the Opel decision but they were torpedoed each
> time with Peter Costello and his great mate Samuel driving this strategy.

And you're about to see Conroy do that in spades.

> The 7.30 Report's Greg Hoy reported last June that Telstra went too far when Burgess said the following: "When Labor
> talks about broadband, they talk about jobs, growth, economic development, urban-rural parity, export, productivity
> growth, all the things that are important. When the regulator talks about broadband, they talk about regulations."

> Peter Costello responded with the following: "I don't think I've ever seen a company in Australia engage in the kind
> of attacks that Telstra is currently engaging in upon an independent statutory regulator. And this attack, and it's
> quite a personal attack, is absolutely unprecedented."

> Costello promptly gave the Singapore Government $1 billion to build the sub-standard WiMAX network in the bush. The
> Rudd Government has since cancelled the Opel contract

And you aint seen what the Labor party can do shafting wise yet.

> and Graeme Samuel must be feeling pretty nervous about his prospects.

Only in your pathetic little pig ignorant fantasyland.