This is also a man – an ordained Christian minister, mind – who greeted Penny Wong‘s baby news with the statement “She needn’t have made it public. It just promotes their lesbian lifestyle and trying to make it natural where it’s unnatural,” and once argued that optional ethics classes in NSW State Schools were based on a philosophy linked to Nazism and communism.
Apparently he’s got an issue with the conduct of some of the hostages of the Martin Place siege as well.
After yesterday claiming that the male hostages who managed to flee the siege should not be given bravery awards as they “don’t deserve them,” Nile – in an attempt to clarify his own comments – really only succeeded in shoving his foot further down his own throat.
Appearing on Sunrise this morning, Nile went on a colourful little rant about the traditional role of men in the Martin Place scenario, presumably drawing from his own wealth of experience of being a hostage in a siege situation.
“Well usually men try to protect the women,” Nile stated, “and it seems that the men were saving their own skin.“
This, in reference to two male hostages who escaped the Lindt Cafe in the initial stages of the siege.
Of course, Nile being Nile, he steadfastly ignored all exit signs and ploughed on ahead regardless.
“We saw Katrina Dawson holding up the flag and tears running down her face, she was obviously traumatised.”
At this point, if this were some sort of Hollywood blockbuster, you’d see Nile in an open top convertible barrelling down a desert highway, and a police roadblock appear as he breaches the crest of a hill. Instead of slowing down and giving himself up, he slams his foot down on the accelerator and hangs a hard left, rocketing over desert planes before the car launches off a cliff-face and the shot freezes, fading to credits.
“Where were the men? The only man really there was the man with the gun.“
For what it’s worth, in the literal hour or so after appearing on Sunrise, Nile already hit the backtrack, claiming that he “misspoke” or some other blame-shifting term that his media manager made him use.
Meanwhile, lawyers for Marcia Mikhael have stated that she is selling her story of the horrific scenes inside the Lindt cafe, and that they “don’t want to be insulted” by anything less than “a six-figure sum.”
It’s a great day for Australia, everybody.
