[AA.TR] A sports presenter has been sacked after refusing to take down a series of tweets about ANZAC Day described as deeply "offensive" by Australia's communications minister.| Oh lord -- not another sportscaster with delusions of profundity. |
Scotty is white as Wonder Bread, confused on facts and ideas, which makes him poorly read. It's his bad luck to be against drinkin', gamblin', and other forms of sin.
"Remembering the summary execution, widespread rape and theft committed by these 'brave' Anzacs in Egypt, Paleostine and Japan," he added.
That's not what pops to mind for me when I think of ANZACs. I think of them more in terms like "competent" and "well-disciplined." I ran into an NZ once who was a nasty bastard, but he stands out precisely because there were so few like him.
"Not forgetting that the largest single-day terrorist attacks in history were committed by this nation & their allies in Hiroshima & Nagasaki."
Why, yes... Now that you mention it, I recall the day the Aussie bombers lifted off on their deadly mission... Oh. Wait. It wasn't them.
On Monday, the director of sport at McIntyre's employer SBS said that he had been sacked for disobeying an order to delete the posts, which had been openly criticized by Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull.
Not for the content, but for his refusal to take down something that reflected poorly on his employer.
Turnbull tweeted it was "Difficult to think of more offensive or inappropriate comments."
That sort of horrible political "thought" is increasingly common in this country. The left makes no secret of the fact that they hate us.
McIntryre's comments to his 30,000 followers were "'despicable' and deserve to be condemned," he added.
On Sunday, SBS managing director Michael Ebeid and director of sport Ken Shipp said in a statement that SBS had taken the decisive action to terminate McIntyre's position "with immediate effect."
It added that the channel supported "our Anzacs" and has devoted unprecedented resources to cover the 100th anniversary of landings at Canakkale in
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
ANZAC stands for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, many of whom fought in the 1915 Battle of Canakkale -- known as Gallipoli in Australia.
The ANZAC legend is central to the Australian identity.