Our ABC myth makers

I would be forced to take my article down immediately and offer a public apology for deliberately misleading the public. I would be told I can no longer engage in such shoddy journalism, and I never again would be seen as in any way being a credible commentator on such matters.

Yet "our" ABC does this on a regular basis, and with impunity, and with our tax dollars as well! If there ever was a case to stop the public funding of the ABC immediately, this would be it. Indeed, will the lefty Media Watch show – also another ABC show – be covering this issue? Will they be exposing the ABC here? Why do I rather doubt that, big time?

And even more incredibly idiotic was the attempt by the ABC to make its case by appealing to Nero of all people! Just how far in scraping the bottom of the barrel did they have to go to try to get some "proof" here? But there was a good rebuttal to this nonsense by Andrew Bolt, so let me offer his helpful response:

The extra grant Labor gave the ABC this year for a "Fact Check" unit was a complete waste of money. It's gone to yet another Leftist cell largely devoted to exposing conservative motes while overlooking Leftist beams. Worse, it seems to have trashed the facts to push propaganda. This week, the unit tries to dispute this statement from Prime Minister Tony Abbott: From time immemorial, in every culture that's been known, marriage or that kind of solemnised relationship has been between a man and a woman. Aha! The ABC fact checkers pounce. False, they cry:

Roman Emperor Nero was married to not one man, but two. His nuptials were recorded and discussed at the time between subjects - friendly and hostile.What a fraudulent gotcha. This is not fact-checking but fooling and faking. What Nero did was actually culturally transgressive. His "marriage" no more reflected Roman mores than did his purported incest with his mother. Tacitus, a boy during Nero's reign, recorded such "marriages" as "unnatural" and a "degradation":

Nero was already corrupted by every lust, natural and unnatural. But he now refuted any surmises that no further degradation was possible for him. For a few days later he went through a formal wedding ceremony- with one of the perverted gang called Pythagoras. The emperor, in the presence of witnesses, put on the bridal veil. Dowry, marriage bed, wedding torches, all were there. Indeed everything was public which even in a natural union is veiled by night....

But step back. What a strange argument the ABC fact-checkers are so deceitfully presenting. Gay marriage is sanctioned by history because Nero did it? This is fiddling while the argument burns. The ABC fact-check unit is out of control.

And of course Nero is also infamous for murdering his own wife, his own mother, and many others near and dear, as well as being amused by using Christians as human candles. But given the perpetual anti-Christian bias of the ABC, they would probably appeal favourably to Nero here as well.

It really is utterly atrocious that the ABC is allowed to get away with this bogus reporting and sham coverage – especially when they claim to be checking facts. Even worse yet, I am forced to pay for these unrepentant myth makers with my tax dollars. It clearly is time to privatise the ABC. And that is a fact which needs no checking.