{"id":831,"date":"2016-01-04T08:16:44","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T00:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/04\/aussie-politician-calls-journalist-a-mad-fcking-witch-in-accidental-text\/"},"modified":"2016-01-04T08:16:44","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T00:16:44","slug":"aussie-politician-calls-journalist-a-mad-fcking-witch-in-accidental-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/04\/aussie-politician-calls-journalist-a-mad-fcking-witch-in-accidental-text\/","title":{"rendered":"Aussie politician calls journalist a &#039;mad f*cking witch&#039; in accidental text"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dutton\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.3.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzAxLzAzL2QwL2R1dHRvbi4xYmNkYy5qcGcKcAl0aHVtYgk1NzV4MzIzIwplCWpwZw\/b6adfe56\/80b\/dutton.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Aussie+politician+calls+journalist+a+%27mad+f%2Acking+witch%27+in+accidental+text&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F01%2F03%2Fpeter-dutton-accidental-text%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F01%2F03%2Fpeter-dutton-accidental-text%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>This could be the year politicians and the media reach a friendly d\u00e9tente. Or not.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Australia&#8217;s Immigration Minister Peter Dutton mistakenly sent <em>Sunday Telegraph<\/em> political editor Samantha Maiden a text message calling her a &#8220;mad f***ing witch,&#8221; after she wrote a highly critical article about a colleague.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/01\/02\/clean-for-the-queen\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">The Internet really, really doesn&#8217;t want to &#8216;clean for the Queen&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The message was intended for fellow politician Jamie Briggs, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailytelegraph.com.au\/subscribe\/news\/1\/index.html?sourceCode=DTWEB_WRE170_a_TWT&amp;mode=premium&amp;dest=http:\/\/www.dailytelegraph.com.au\/news\/nsw\/peter-dutton-apologises-after-sending-offensive-text-to-journalist-samantha-maiden\/story-fni0cx12-1227696429975&amp;memtype=anonymous\">News Corp reported<\/a>, who had <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2015\/12\/29\/australia-takes-out-the-trash\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">recently resigned<\/a> from the ministry for conduct with a female public servant in a bar in Hong Kong that allegedly breached ministerial standards. <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/01\/03\/peter-dutton-accidental-text\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/media\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Media<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/australia\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Australia<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/us-world\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Us World<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/politics\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Politics<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/auspol\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Auspol<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/-bjI5UibzpU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This could be the year politicians and the media reach a friendly d\u00e9tente. Or not. On Sunday, Australia&#8217;s Immigration Minister Peter Dutton mistakenly sent Sunday Telegraph political editor Samantha Maiden a text message calling her a &#8220;mad f***ing witch,&#8221; after &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/04\/aussie-politician-calls-journalist-a-mad-fcking-witch-in-accidental-text\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[296,113,275,1,47,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auspol","category-australia","category-media","category-other","category-politics","category-us-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}