Sky News Digital Editor Jack Houghton says Waleed Aly and The Project have “got their blinkers on” as they desperately search for negative angles on Prime Minister Scott Morrison.
During the devastating bushfire season, The Project aired a piece which showed a volunteer saying Scott Morrison was “not my Prime Minister” but failed to show the whole clip where she explained she was in fact English not Australian. The show’s host Waleed Ali later apologised for the error, but Mr Houghton said this was a “shocking indictment on Waleed for running it without asking”.
More recently, Mr Ali highlighted Germany as the prime example of a nation successfully transitioning to a renewable future. Mr Houghton told Sky News host Chris Kenny Germany has “not been very green” as its investment into renewable energy - which cost billions of dollars - has “only managed to get up to a 35 per cent renewables split”. “You don’t really want to hold Germany up on a pedestal”.
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