The Lies Abbott Tells - Part Twenty

THE PERENNIAL PHOTOGRAPHIC LIE

THE FACTS

This type of visually posed lying is a particular Abbott favourite – whether it be scrubbing down the walls of a flood-affected house with a dry broom (in an attempt to remove what was by then obviously permanent staining) for the benefit of a television news crew when he was Opposition Leader, or in this case as Prime Minister, placing an obviously rusty saw against the side of a chair in an alleged attempt to join two chairs in this fashion:

So that the end product allegedly looks like this:

If Tony Abbott actually joined these chairs it is highly unlikely that he used that old saw. One has to suspect that he was only in the vicinity long enough for that photograph to be taken.