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Monday March 22, 2010

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Hinch Blog: Just a few opinions...

Posted by: By Derryn Hinch, 3AW Drive | 29 June, 2009 - 4:14 PM
Want to know what Hinch thinks about the stories he 'missed'? Great to be back. Glad it was a quiet news period while I was away. Not. What a fortnight for news. Another gangland murder. Ute-gate. The sensational arrest of that old crone Judy Moran. And the sudden death of Michael Jackson.

Thanks to Tom Elliott for filling in for me. Glad it was him and not his father. What an arrogant, ignorant, insensitive, pig that man is. And you can't just put it down to the stupid ramblings of an old drunk. I can just hear him. 'What's the big deal. A few sheilas complain they've been raped by the boys. Just slip ‘em a few quid to hush it up and get on with the footy'.

And Tuppence Moran. He wasn't a kingpin in the underworld but don't dismiss him as some harmless old poof (the same way George Williams should not be dismissed as a bit player who somehow got roped in with his villainous son Carl - George was up to his neck in it. He's lucky to be out of prison).

In the old days Des 'Tuppence' Moran and his brother Lewis were standover men and debt collectors. They'd break people's bones with baseball bats before they moved into the lucrative drug manufacturing business. Tuppence had Victoria's first mobile amphetamines laboratory.

One comment though on the attacks on the Herald Sun for running a photo of Tuppence Moran's body. Well, a picture of his feet. Didn't hear such protests when papers ran pictures of Bobby Kennedy sprawled on a hotel kitchen floor oozing life. Or the Zapruder film of his brother, President John Kennedy, having parts of his head blown off.

And Judy Moran. Let's leave that for the courts. But if you want a hollow laugh go back to some of the recent newspaper and magazines articles about the moll turned matriarch who said her great wish in life was to retire to Queensland and raise her grandchildren in a world of love and honesty and decency. Guess those plans are on hold.

And then Utegate. Stupid name for a grubby story. Yep, Malcolm Turnbull got egg on his face when an email turned out to be a fake in a reckless attack on Kevin Rudd. But, as somebody once told me 'to get egg on your face you have to at least sit at the table'.

And Turnbull was right, and they are still right, to go after the Treasurer Wayne Swan. He did mislead Parliament. At least lied by omission. And his pathetic and dogged appearance on radio when he refused to say how many car dealers he had personally talked to. Explained his refusal by saying 'You haven't asked the right question'. It reminded me of Watergate when Nixon's press secretary declared all previous answers 'inoperable'.

And all of this overshadowed at weeksend by the shock news that Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, was dead. His body apparently fuller than a medicine cabinet. And it collapsed. The worldwide outpouring of shock and grief was genuine. But for many, the Wacko Jacko legend overpowered the musical genius.

The sick jokes started within minutes. Jackson's personal life drowned out the music. The pedophile allegations were just too strong. His own fault. After all, any normal, innocent person would not pay $20 million to an alleged victim to stop a sexual assault testifying in court. You would spend every cent of it defending your reputation and your claimed innocence.

Jackson fans should weep for what might have been. Not for the twisted, drugged, grotesque apparition their moonwalker became.

Just a few opinions. How was your week?

Aussie faces murder rap in Hong Kong

VIDEO: Extraordinary footage leads to murder charge in Hong Kong An Australian man has appeared in a Hong Kong court charged with the murder of a city taxi driver. Kelsey Lord Michael Mudd appeared at Eastern Magistrates' Court today charged with the murder of the 58-year-old driver. Watch the related video and listen to Hinch cross to Hong Kong for the latest.

Lenience for hideous criminals

Plotkin's attack is one of the most disturbing stories ever "The judge's orders have been ignored. Three of the five men sent to adult prison have been moved to a youth centre. Kiddies jail. This is wrong. And of course poor Richard Plotkin his sentence hasn't been reduced. He lives in a painful, scarred prison that these thugs created." Let Hinch know what you think.

Marysville needs clothes dryers

Dryer "I have been approached by an aid agency in the Marysville Triangle area to see if I can help with 70 clothes driers. I have been assisting where possible the provision of specific material aid since four days after the bushfires - you may remember the 'Mick Gatto incident'!"

Blog comments Your Say

  • On Jackson, yes you would spend the 20m defending your yourself because that worked well for him, didn't it.

    Unless I am mistaken, he did have his day in court and wasn't found guilty (can't recall if he was proven innocients). The fact that he only choose to pay off one child and had only one other (that I know about) come forward to challenge him and that was proven to be horse crap, to me suggests that while he is guilty of being weird and naive, I don't know that he did anything wrong to the kids!

    I don't know if I am right just as you don't know if your right. I guess we both might find out when we leave the earth.

    JMTC
    Molly

    Phillip Molly Malone Monday 29 June, 2009 - 5:50 PM

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