What Not To Ask Australia’s PM Julia Gillard (Has to do with gay!)
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| Radio Presenter and PM A radio presenter has been sacked in Australia for asking Prime Minister Julia Gillard in a live interview if her partner is gay. |
Howard Sattler suggested to Ms Gillard that her partner of seven years, Tim Mathieson, had to be homosexual because he was a hairdresser.
Ms Gillard characterised his comments as an absurd generalisation.
The DJ was suspended and then sacked by Fairfax Radio, which apologised for the "disrespectful" questioning.
"Radio 6PR apologizes unreservedly to Miss Gillard and Mr. Mathieson for allowing these matters to be raised on the Drive program," a statement from station manager Martin Boylan said.
The interview was a hot topic of conversation on Australian radio. Other shock jocks came to her defense, who said he "thought the prime minister showed a lot of class, a lot of style. She should have leaned across the desk and slapped his [Sattler's] face.”
Speaking the following day, Gillard said, "I want young girls and women to be able to feel like they can be involved in public life and not have to face questioning like the questioning I faced yesterday."
Others called the radio station, upset by Sattler's firing, the newspaper said. I guess being gay in Australia is so bad one will get fire for asking about it. They have a few things to learn from two English speaking countries like the UK and USA. As we know in the US you have journalists asking the President if he was born in the Country to the point he had to release his birth certificate. I guess that’s an example of going all the way on the opposite direction.
Still if one thinks there is nothing wrong with being gay how can one be offended if one is asked just that? I think we know the answer.
{Adam}
The interview was a hot topic of conversation on Australian radio. Other shock jocks came to her defense, who said he "thought the prime minister showed a lot of class, a lot of style. She should have leaned across the desk and slapped his [Sattler's] face.”
Speaking the following day, Gillard said, "I want young girls and women to be able to feel like they can be involved in public life and not have to face questioning like the questioning I faced yesterday."
Others called the radio station, upset by Sattler's firing, the newspaper said. I guess being gay in Australia is so bad one will get fire for asking about it. They have a few things to learn from two English speaking countries like the UK and USA. As we know in the US you have journalists asking the President if he was born in the Country to the point he had to release his birth certificate. I guess that’s an example of going all the way on the opposite direction.
Still if one thinks there is nothing wrong with being gay how can one be offended if one is asked just that? I think we know the answer.
{Adam}
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