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Matt Trezise's avatar

It's only politics obsessives like us who listen to Aly and Stephens' The Minefield.. or did.

I got weary of their tedious belaboured pompous know-it-all pontificating a while ago.

What's more concerning is that their both-sides-ism has become the norm for news and analysis more widely, even on the ABC.

And what is striking about the unseemly haste with which Trumpism is being sanctioned by allegedly objective commentators (under the rubric "he won so he must be right") is their lack of scepticism about the sincerity of his stated goals.

It's bleedingly obvious that Trump and his co-conspirators couldn't give a rats' arse about the future of humankind.

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Greg Perrett's avatar

Aly seems to be the type that is addicted to attention, even at the expense of credibility.

Stan Grant is similar. The Saturday Paper has published some truly idiotic stuff from him; e.g. his supposed affinity with (the obvious charlatan) J.D. Vance based on a shared experience of humble upbringings.

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