http://au.news.yahoo.com/latest/a/-/latest/17596223/is-tim-gay-shock-jock-asks-pm/ Perth shock jock Howard Sattler has been suspended from the airwaves after a cringe-worthy interview with the prime minister in which he asked if her partner Tim Mathieson was gay. Sattler is well known for his blunt style, but his interview in Perth with Julia Gillard on Thursday afternoon stoked a flurry of tweets from local journalists, who deemed his line of questioning a step too far. The Fairfax stalwart, whose ratings have dipped lately, said he had asked Ms Gillard's office for a "candid" interview. But shortly after the wide-ranging dialogue, Perth journos took to Twitter, describing it as a bizarre exchange. Sattler asked Ms Gillard to test some "myths, rumours, snide jokes and innuendos", following up with "Tim's gay. That's not me saying it, that's a myth". "Well, that's absurd," Ms Gillard responded. "Yeah, but you hear it, he must be gay, he's a hairdresser," Sattler said. Ms Gillard replied: "To all the hairdressers out there, including the men who are listening, I don't think in life one can actually look at a whole profession full of different human beings and say, 'gee we know something about every one of those human beings'. I mean it's absurd, isn't it?" "You can confirm that he's not?" he asked. "Oh, Howard, don't be ridiculous, of course not," the prime minister shot back. Howard: "You're a heterosexual relationship, that's all that I'm asking." Gillard: "Howard, you and I have just talked about that. So now Howard, that is bordering on ... Sattler: "No, I want to get rid of it." Gillard: "Howard, let me just bring you back to earth. You and I have just talked about me and Tim living at the lodge. We live there together as a couple, you know that." Sattler also asked about "menu-gate", claiming the PM was "hung up" on the issue. Ms Gillard said she was "more than happy" to move on and talk about something else. She was also asked whether she should apologise over the matter, given Liberal candidate Mal Brough had claimed he knew nothing of the offending document. The answer was no. Sattler later apologised to those who thought he had gone too far. "The management of this station ... has instructed me to apologise to anyone who was offended by my interview with the prime minister, during which I asked questions about her private life," he said. "I asked those questions based on the fact that the prime minister's office had said to me that it could be a candid interview, we asked for a candid interview, and included personal activities of the prime minister and her personal life. "They agreed to a candid interview. "Now, if you think I went too far, you're entitled to have that view. I apologise. "The management want me to do that and I have just done that." Fairfax management later issued a statement saying: "The prime minister answered Mr Sattler's questions with dignity and patience. "Fairfax Radio Network management has reviewed the interview and considers that the questions posed by Mr Sattler were disrespectful and irrelevant to the political debate. "The management of Fairfax Radio Network also extends its sincere apologies to the prime minister and Mr Mathieson. "Mr Sattler has been suspended from broadcasting on 6PR pending an internal inquiry." ================================================================================== Well, Julia, we`ve always wondered how a well mannered, presentable looking bloke would allow himself to remain in a "relationship" with such a spiteful, bilious, harridan? It`s a sad man who lets himself be abused this way, funny for me, but sad for him.
Well he has been sacked now for that effort. I do consider he went too far but as it simply made me laugh that somebody would have the audacity to ask such questions as (let us face it) the PM's sexual orientation and that of her partner is irrelevant to the issues. One could point to that stating that it is another lie of the Gillard’s but really, everybody already knows she is deceitful, disrespecting and ignorant politician. What more evidence is needed? Only the diehard ALP supporters attempt to justify something that is constantly demonstrated and at times even admitted by Gillard. Nothing, brought forward to these fools will actually make them think for themselves or even have a moment of consideration for the people about them. They will continue to blindly follow whatever any ALP PM say. FFS we have people here telling us how great ALP policy is, that was never introduced. They are trying to find out why the very same policy was a failure, without the knowledge that the policy never even started so it could fail.
<<< MODERATOR EDIT: RULE #13 >>> The simple truth is, Julia Gillard the man basher, for all her shortcommings, is only a symptom of a larger social disease. The dependant sector of Australians have been going through an unprecedented soft period for a good couple of generations now. By "dependant" sector, I mean welfare recipients, employees, people who need not take financial risk, or work too hard to survive. Our tolerant society has fed a vocal underclass of sooks, who concentrate their entire lives on trivia. This won`t last, weak men like Tim Matherson, who is controlled within a suffocating sphere of discipline, that prevents him functioning to any practical degree. We have the example of his speech on prostate cancer. He couldn`t even say something like "get an Asian lady doctor with small hands", without being slapped. This is just one example of beta control, insane megalomania. There is no shortage of this type of mindless trivia handicapping all levels of Australian endeavour ATM. No amount of petty tyrany can hide the fact that we need real men and women in places of decision making authority in this country. There are more important things in life than the egos of petty tyrants such as Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, etc.
In point of fact, Sattler was only asking what most people are thinking. As Julia Gillard has revealed her character over the years, she has exposed a complete inability to even begin to comprehend the love and respect needed for a civilised relationship with a man. It is inconceivable that Julia Gillard could ever love any man. On this basis alone, history will prove that the relationship between these two is nothing more than a "marriage" of convenience.
