Sky News host Andrew Bolt has criticised Channel Nine's interview with Senator Lidia Thorpe for leaving out the 'lowlights' of the controversial politician's career.
Incidents such as Senator Thorpe’s alleged verbal abuse of Aboriginal elder Geraldine Atkinson, a controversial Tweet expressing joy at activists burning Old Parliament House and an altercation with police officers outside a Melbourne immigration centre were all “left out”, Bolt said.
“Instead, it presented Thorpe as just a misunderstood woman, with a heart of gold,” Bolt said. “A woman just right for a cosy fireside chat with Karl.” “And the question is: what is Channel Nine’s top current affairs program doing promoting a politician like this?The tell-all interview dissected Senator Thorpe’s rise from a childhood in an inner-city public housing block, to her life as a teenage mother and survivor of domestic abuse.
Senator Thorpe defends herself against claims she is racist in the chat with Stefanovic, saying she wasn’t an “angry, crazy black woman out there who hates white people.”"I'm 50 next month... I don't want to become a crusty old politician with old daggy ideas... We need younger people coming in with fresh ideas, it's their future,” she said.
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