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Photo: Alan Jones has been told to return his $250,000 Mercedes-Benz. (ABC TV)
Broadcaster Alan Jones has been asked to return his Mercedes-Benz after the car manufacturer cancelled its sponsorship deal with his radio station 2GB.
Mercedes-Benz says Jones’s suggestion that Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s father died of shame was appalling.
A number of other sponsors have turned their back on the broadcaster’s radio show since the comments came to light.
Mercedes-Benz says the $250,000 car will be repossessed if it is not returned by the end of the month.
Jones had been given the 2012 S-Class Mercedes as a part of his sponsorship deal.
During a press conference last Sunday, Jones stated that both 2GB management and its sponsors were aware of his position on political issues and that he did not expect a falling out.
However, online campaigns emerged early in the week, urging people to boycott businesses that continued to support Jones and his program.
Woolworths, Coles, Dilmah, Freedom Furniture, ING, Bing Lee, and Challenger have all withdrawn advertising from Jones’s program.
Mercedes-Benz is understood to have ditched all commercial deals with 2GB after the incident.
Topics:radio-broadcasting, people, sydney-2000
First posted Sun Oct 7, 2012 9:31am AEDT
Window Dresser's Arms, Pig & Whistle 
O Lord won’t you send me a Mercedes Benz 🙂
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What ‘is’ odd, is that a goon such as Jones, has the wit to think up such an excruciatingly witty, filial wisecrack. That is killingly funny. Ooops, pardon the killingly. . . It was Mrs Abbott’s fault.
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You must be an Alan Jones listener, I noticed you been calling Roxon and Greer Rottweilers on the Drum.
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I wonder if he has now taken to muttering by himself. Something like,” the bastards don’t know what I stand for.” ” I was always a good well meaning Australian, always the best, always standing up for my beloved country and giving freely Tobruk values”. “I am the queen of the airways as much as J. Lawsy was the king.” “The fucking merc is nothing but shit”. “How come the phone is so quiet?” “Oh, where is my whisky and my dinner now?” “Oh, my life, I own my own life and have never wavered from my convictions and that fucking bitch Julia, some fucking hormonal bitch will not get me down.” “I am rich and famous and have many friends”. “Why is my phone not ringing”?
“I am rich and am famous, I am rich and am famous”. Oh, my life, I own my life and own everything. I am rich and famous, I am r…fucked!
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I’m sure he still has plenty of good mates in the London public dunnies.
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They’re not bosom buddies, big. I’ve heard that they are just bums. And that’s how it is with circus – the name of the big game is “bums on seats”. Ah say, ah say, ah say !
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Kind of a chum with a bum?
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I wonder how old the grossly indecent victim was.
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We’ll never know. it was a police sting, which somehow was termed ‘entrapment’, as I remember.
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Not surprising given it was opposite a Police sleep house. Gross Indecency in the UK from my understanding relates to minors.
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It get absurd when Liberal brown nose journo (sic) spray vomit Like Paul Sheehan in the SMH, Calling Albo and Swan the Members for Gutter and Sewer, It was a childish read no research, just the poor old “it” being vilified.
I only hope that 2GB sees common sense and gets rid of the it sooner rather than later.
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Yes, Saw that odious piece. Full of ersatz unction. But then what would you expect from the former purveyor of “Miracle Water” and well attested right wing media soldier?
There’s something of the Catholic priest about Sheehan. He reminds me of the muscular brothers at De La Salle; violent, hard drinking priests with a lot of sin on their minds. It’s always bothered me. It has fundamental resonances with Abbott’s Catholicism. Both men reak of Pell and the devil.
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Miracle water. Thanks for the memory. That really was something. People lining up for a water that made sheep and cows twin and people get better. From the Monaro district if I remember.
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This whole affair has become absurdist theatre. Black has become white, day become night, the high are bought low and reason goes out the door; and nowhere more so than among the decision makers at 2GB/MRN.
Does MRN really think that this line that the campaign against Jones and his advertisers amounts to cyber bullying will actually wash with the greater population, including as it does far more people that take extreme exception to Jones and his commercial enablers than perhaps all the precious luvvies amongst 2GB’s listeners that tumesce the moment those mincing lips begin to speak?
Hate Copradiscobulosaurus but not his advertisers. (Gails od laughter off!) They were just trying to make a quick uncriticised buck enabling the feotid filth to slide more easily from that sewer of a mouth, the knives slide more easily between the ribs of his political enemies. It’s an abuse of power and privilege whichever way you look at it.
What’s more; it seems to me that there is very little difference between Copradiscobulosaurus’ campaign of political miscreance, misogyny and hate; indiscriminate as it is with all its attendant collateral damage, and the campaign being waged against him. Both are irrationally hyper-realised pieces of absurdism that lack any real focus and both are fueled by an anger that both transcends and amplifies the positions of both sides.
It just so happens that on this occasion I’m on the side of the Angels, as all of us always are, no matter which side we’re on, and I hope Jones goes down. My preference is that it happen perhaps in the way Keating once promised to do Hewson, “slowly”. Jones may then have the time to reflect, as the thousand cuts to his advertising slowly drain the commercial life from him, on his rather misguided life, full as it has been with fake grandeur and empty posturing, grubby finagling and counterfeit commitment. Perhaps he will in time come to see himself as I do; a self involved filthy old queen whose misogyny is all a part with his homosexuality and his loud mouth screaming at any who will listen serving only to cover the empty loneliness of a man unable to forge genuine friendships, unable to find a partner in life who will stick with him, forced to lean on people who only allow that leaning because they feel they can get more from him that they will have to pay to get it. This is the “The World That Jones Made”.
This self serving and apparently fearful reaction by MRN seems to be the hyenas trying to protect their rotting carcass while a myriad smaller creatures tear it apart and sew confusion amongst the predators.
There’ll soon be no more meat on that carcass but I can’t help wanting to watch until the last morsel has been dragged off the bones and they lie bleaching and forgotten. The dust slowly covering them until they are at last what they appear destined to be, the fossil remains of a creature we can’t remember and yet still want to forget.
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There was a great one liner over at Crikey by cicero who said ” Alan Jones whingeing about bullying is a bit like a rat complaining about the plague”.
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Will that puckered up mouth resembling the ABC Logo, finally shut up ?
Plenty of baby Alans in waiting, we have to stop wanting to listen to this rubbish, whereever it comes from…whoever is paying for it.
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Yet the little shit still doesn’t get it ! Everyone else does. He is the odd one out. I think there is hope that he might have to cease his radio show. The whole station is thinking about it now. Is he really worth hanging on to. He will be reduced to being a speaker at Liberal functions etc and even then the gigs might stop being offered. It is possible.
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I believe the suit he is wearing from Reuben F.Scarf has also been donated. They have given him 24 hrs to return it.
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Don’t tell me Gez that’s where your light blue RS suit went….it looked better on you.
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Highly moral IKEA and NOKIA never went to Alan… 🙂
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Couldn’t happen to a nicer bloke!
😉
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