Waleed Aly Throws Shade At Gold Logie Nomination Haters While Savaging NBN

Gold Logie nominee and national treasure Waleed Aly has once again sprayed us with his truth hose, this time meticulously pulling apart the Abbott/Turnbull government’s campaign of misinformation around their NBN program.

Being a true product of his age, though, Waleed was multi-tasking while doing this, managing to slip in a joke about Karl Stefanovic and Lisa Wilkinson‘s vaguely racist reaction to Lee Lin Chin and his own Gold Logie nomination. Seriously, is this man not the hardest working man in TV journalism? Who else could viciously burn their haters while also single-handedly propping up the reputation of mainstream journalism in this country?

But back to the Coalition’s NBN Program. You know, the one Tony Abbott promised would give us faster internet sooner and cheaper, and which unsurprisingly has turned out to be slower more expensive and delivered only a year ahead of Labor’s proposed fiber optic network.

Hardly picking it out of a hat as a topic for his now iconic “Something We Should Talk About” segment,  Aly’s on point assassination of the scheme follows leaked papers that show the Coalition’s NBN plan is running behind schedule.

With this news coming on top of the already mounting costs (from $29.5 billion to $41 and then $56 billion following the election) and woefully slow speeds (projected download times for HD movies going from 30 seconds under Labor’s plan to 10 – 20 minutes under the Coalition’s), it’s clear the government is failing to live up to its promises.

Thank god Waleed is here to call bullshit.