Prime Minister, it's time to boycott the ABC

The ABC's senior executives must be quaking in their expensive taxpayer funded boots.

So what's the government to do?

As luck would have it, the Republican Party in the United States 'has been there and done that'.

Last year the Republican National Committee had enough with the vile partisanship of the leading leftist voice on cable: MSNBC.

A tweet from the network included this gem, referring to a new television commercial for a cereal that showcased a biracial family:

"Maybe the rightwing will hate it, but everyone else will go awww: the adorable new Cheerios ad w/ biracial family."

The commercial was scheduled for broadcast during the Super Bowl.

Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee had enough. He wanted an apology and demanded a boycott.

He wrote to the cable company's president, Phil Griffin. "Until you personally and publicly apologise for this behaviour, I have banned all RNC staff from appearing on, associating with, or booking any RNC surrogates on MSNBC. I have asked Republican surrogates and officials to follow our lead."

That said, that incident is not likely to diffuse MSNBC's enthusiasm for race baiting, just like any "apology" emailed from the ABC to the government about its promotion Zaky Mallah, a man who admitted he threatened to kill ASIO officials, is likely to dilute the contempt the ABC has for mainstream values.

Soon enough an apology was made. The offending tweet was deleted. RNC Communications Director Sean Spicer sent a memo to RNC members informing that Priebus had accepted the apology. "We appreciate Mr. Griffin's admission that their comment was demeaning and disgusting" and indicated that the RNC "will aggressively monitor the network to see whether their pattern of unacceptable behavior actually changes. We don't expect their liberal bias to change, but we will call them out when political commentary devolves into personal and belittling attacks."

The boycott was lifted. "That was the deal. Apology and corrective action," Spicer wrote.