{"id":1277,"date":"2020-08-14T22:05:37","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T12:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/?p=1277"},"modified":"2020-08-14T22:05:42","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T12:05:42","slug":"many-left-wing-commentators-are-trying-to-protect-andrews-from-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/many-left-wing-commentators-are-trying-to-protect-andrews-from-criticism\/","title":{"rendered":"Many left-wing commentators are trying to &#8216;protect Andrews from criticism&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/SkyNewsAustralia\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCO0akufu9MOzyz3nvGIXAAw\">Sky News <\/a><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCO0akufu9MOzyz3nvGIXAAw\" target=\"_blank\">Australia <\/a> Aug 14, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"nv-iframe-embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Many left-wing commentators are trying to &#039;protect Andrews from criticism&#039;\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gfpIA4sG2_A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Many left-wing media activists are trying to portray Victoria\u2019s COVID-19 crisis as an example of News Corp media bias rather than the issue of Daniel Andrews\u2019 incompetence, according to Sky News host Chris Kenny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere is no bigger story this week than the pandemic and its impact in Victoria, and there is no greater focus than the manifest failings of the Victorian government on quarantine, on contact tracing, on failing to accept Defence Force help, on telling infected people they could leave home for exercise, the list goes on,\u201d Mr Kenny said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBut many in the leftist media, especially the stuff taxpayers fund, are riding shotgun for the premier.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr Kenny said many commentators, especially from the ABC and Channel 10\u2019s The Project are disingenuously arguing that News Corp did not criticise the NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard over his handling of the Ruby Princess disaster, the cruse ship responsible for hundreds of COVID-19 cases and 22 deaths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThese erroneous claims, complete with the very same graphics of selected headlines, bear an uncanny resemblance to tweets from former prime minister Kevin Rudd,\u201d Mr Kenny said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAn embittered, jaundiced, former prime minister who spends his days trying to blame his failings on News Corp, and The Project just packages it up as independent analysis.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCO0akufu9MOzyz3nvGIXAAw\">Sky News <\/a><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCO0akufu9MOzyz3nvGIXAAw\" target=\"_blank\">Australia <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sky News Australia Aug 14, 2020 Many left-wing media activists are trying to portray Victoria\u2019s COVID-19 crisis as an example of News Corp media bias rather than the issue of Daniel Andrews\u2019 incompetence, according to Sky News host Chris Kenny. \u201cThere is no bigger story this week than the pandemic and its impact in Victoria,&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/many-left-wing-commentators-are-trying-to-protect-andrews-from-criticism\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Many left-wing commentators are trying to &#8216;protect Andrews from criticism&#8217;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,49],"tags":[111,226,659,867,32,868,661,660],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/dan-andrews4.jpg?fit=787%2C440&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1279,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277\/revisions\/1279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}