Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Mia Freedman

Apart from showing her true colors yesterday on the Today show and slagging Cadel off in true bogan headline grabbing fashion, Mia freedman has not enjoyed the Twitter army getting some back. I believe she shed some tears post the abusive twitter remarks
A truely smart piece of writing was done by Bridie O'Donnell to rebuke and education the uneducated Mia. Read it

1 comment:

charlieL said...

Agree with you that Bridie O'Donnell's piece about Mia Freedman was instructive. Cadel is much more of a hero than even I realised, with all that charity work.

Mia Freedman's self defense in the Sun Herald was essentially that her timing was bad. Bad? Insensitive, unintelligent and ill informed more accurately. To make that remark on the morning of Cadel's victory demonstrated a confounding lack of common sense, especially from one who constantly appeals to the common sense of others. To emphasise only that her 'timing was bad' means she has not learnt anything, she still thinks she was right. It was just that she said it at the wrong moment.

Reading Bridie O'Donnell it's clear that Freedman was not right. Not in any sense. She knew absolutely nothing about Cadel Evans or the Tour de France or his other work or anything about the cycling fraternity in Australia. In her SH article she became entirely tangled up in semantics and the definition of 'hero'...which she seemed only to define for herself. Unfortunately she comes across as self centred, opinionated and immovable despite her claiming she had 'learnt' something. She would only have learnt something if she admitted some time that her first comments on Cadel Evans were actually wrong. Like with Rupert Murdoch, saying sorry for getting caught out is not a remedy.