Maintain a deeply ironic Facebook cover photo and you best not be surprised by what comes next – a lesson now learned by Bronwyn Bishop from her aerial-shot cover photo (not unlike one that would be taken from a taxpayer-funded helicopter flight) of the northern beaches, originally posted in 2012, and then reinstated in April, but drawn to light overnight.
Such are the repercussions:
We will always maintain that social media managers sometimes face the most brutal of tasks in the workforce: navigating the minefield of potential rogue tweets, monitoring spelling and phrasing like a hawk; being on top of every interaction at every hour of the day. Not a bad gig. But an unusually tough one.
But you’d think that the social media manager for one of Australia’s most senior and longest-serving politicians would have that shit firmly in the bag – and would add extra man power in the crucial moments of damage control – a generous description of what speaker of the House of Representatives Bronwyn Bishop is currently facing over the increasingly-engulfing transport scandal.
MAAAAAAAAAAATE.
Noble steeds of Facebook have quickly hopped to the photo—1500 commenters and counting—slamming Bishop over the irony imbued within, even if the photo does date back a few years.
“Please resign,” and “you’re out of touch with the Australian people,” and “you are a disgrace”, and “ya parasite” and “talk about flipping the bird to every Australian” and “stay classy” are comments that but skim the surface of a veritable cesspit of criticisms peppered with choice memes on the photo.
After it was revealed that Bronwyn Bishop racked up an impressive $800,000 in taxpayer-funded expenses last year, a petition to have Bishop removed from her position has swelled this week with over 60,000 signatures.
Meanwhile, details on Bronwyn Bishop’s high life continue to leak—most recently on her luxe trip to Morocco—while the Murdoch papers give in to their own side, and have begun their choice photoshop war against the speaker.
Another day, another great Bronwyn Bishop front page…this time the Speaker gifted more than 50 bottles of wine pic.twitter.com/lTZJLJZ107
— Tom Steinfort (@tomsteinfort) July 21, 2015
Just another day in Auspol.
Via SMH.
