Prominent Hollingworth-knifer Graham Richardson bleeds for Rene Rivkin

On the Nine Network's 'Today' show today, Graham Richardson, formerly Labor Party heavyweight and head-kicker, tearfully bemoaned the 'injustice' dealt out to his mate, Rene Rivkin. You see, Rivkin, flamboyant, irreverent and cavalier stock market whiz, was convicted for insider trading, sentenced to nine months periodic detention and fined thirty thousand dollars. O woe! We feel for poor Graham and his fabulously wealthy convicted mate who was caught red-handed breaking the law.

The (un-)Australian, whose editors really must try to hide their malicious gloating at a fellow-businessman biting the dust, reported former toe-cutter Richardson's moral dismay. Richardson, among other things, said:

[The sentence was a] massive injustice. I have profound belief in our system of justice, because it almost always gets it right. But on this occasion our system of justice did not get it right.

On the 'Today' show Richardson indicated there had been a malicious smear campaign against poor Rene who will now have to forgo his luxurious lifestyle each weekend for nine months. O woe, again. Graham wants the world to have pity for someone whom a real presiding judge unequivocally condemned for the offence of insider trading adding that any lesser sentence would cause community outrage.

But hard-nosed Richardson displayed a very different attitude in that recent kangaroo court got-up by the anti-democratic demagogues of the media.

Richo the fearless political brute never showed a jot of sympathy for Dr Peter Hollingworth as a thousand swords burning with malice were plunged daily into him. Very dry eyes there. His sneers and ridicule about the former Governor-General and his impatience to have him kicked out of Yarralumla were broadcast at every opportunity.

Sorry, Graham, hypocrite that you are, you were part of a Ku Klux Klan injustice to a man who would have more moral fibre in his little toe than Rene Rivkin has in his whole bloated body and million-dollar pleasure property.

Come to think of it, Dr Hollingworth has more moral fibre in his toenail than in the incorporation of that whole band of evil malicious hypocrites who ganged together for the media lynching.