Who the hell does Linda Reynolds think she’s kidding when she complains of being the victim of a political hit job for her rôle in the Brittany Higgins scandal?
Here’s a reality check for Reynolds: when thinking about a highly orchestrated political campaign, Robodebt is the overwhelmingly pertinent example. Attempts to hold politicians accountable just don’t cut the mustard as conspiracies.
But Reynolds goes all in, risibly angling for the health sympathy card. If you have a heart condition, the thing to do is exactly what my doctor told me to do: lose some weight, get some exercise, and eat healthier food.
Why do politicians (there’s a clue in the rubric, right there) always complain that other politicians are playing politics? Do they think we’re all too dumb to notice that all politicians, by definition, play at politics, at all times.
So, Reynolds is complaining that some people expect her to be held accountable for whatever part she played in the Higgins affair, that this affair was politicized, and that she is in poor health.
This is amateur stuff even for the MurdochAI chatbots at the Australian. But quite despicable for seeking to negate the rape allegations, which seem ever more credible as extraordinary barriers have emerged to a legal resolution.
Those barriers have included a separate legal action involving Linda ‘lying cow’ Reynolds herself, and then some suggestions she meddled in the ensuing legal action against alleged rapist Bruce Lehrmann.
Pot to kettle? Where there’s smoke there’s … oh, never mind.
What seems likely is that a mediocre politician put on the veritable starvation diet of an opposition senator (around $217,000) is looking for a new income stream by trying to keep her profile in the public eye, with a little help from the propaganda arm of the Coalition.
That this should come at the expense of Higgins, due legal process, political accountability, or even a tenuous relationship with reality, appears to be neither here nor there.
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