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Aussie Politician Threatens To Contact Employers of Satirical Article "Likers"

Posted by samzenpus on from the what-not-to-do dept.

Chuq writes "Tasmanian Liberal candidate for Bass, Andrew Nikolic, was the subject of a satirical article by NewExaminer on Facebook. Nikolic didn't like it, which is understandable. However he then went to considerable lengths to identify the people who liked the article, find out their employers (via their Facebook profiles) and 'name and shame' them on a follow-up post on his own page. Andrew Nikolic has a history of poorly handling conflicting views on his Facebook page, resulting in creation of another page, 'Andrew Nikolic blocked me.'"

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  1. Not much of a politician by crazyjj · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Doesn't he know that a real politician gets his enemies back in *secret*?

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    What political party do you join when you don't like Bible-thumpers *or* hippies?
  2. Get this guy out of politics by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    As far as I'm concerned, any politician who gets in a hissy fit over political satire simply doesn't have the balls to be a politician, regardless of any actual policies. Move over and make way for someone who can take a bit of criticism.

  3. The handlers are using handcuffs... by samazon · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Having worked on a political campaign.... It's getting more and more difficult to keep the "nastygrams" away from the candidate and his/her family these days. When you're on the trail especially, it's important to make sure that (a) your candidate stays focused and (b) your candidate's family and friends know that lashing out against these attacks makes the candidate look worse. It's hard to do that when everybody's Facebooking away at home with private accounts (and fake accounts... sigh...) - suffice to say, if any politician reacts like that to something so petty on Facebook, what other unreasonable reactions will s/he have?

    $0.02 - Nikolic needs a better campaign manager, if s/he is letting him do this kind of crazy shit.

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    I have the hiccups.
  4. Re:This guy's a liberal? by tgd · · Score: 4, Insightful

    he's a "big L" Liberal.

    Confusingly in Australia, the Liberal Party are the conservatives and the Labor Party are the liberals (with the Greens to the left of them).

    Of course, our Liberal Party would probably be to the left of the US's congressional democrats on most issues..

    --Q

    That's the real issue. The US is so conservative, our labels don't sync up well with the rest of the world, especially in the last 25 years. Case in point: Reagan's positions would make him center or left of center in the *Democrat* party these days. The US right has more in common now with the Taliban than what was traditionally considered "conservative" for most of the US' history.