Melbourne radio presenter Neil Mitchell calls out Labor’s Bill Shorten over Twitter video

Leading radio host Neil Mitchell criticized Bill Shorten for a segment from a TV panel discussion the government services minister posted on his Twitter account, which he claims was selectively edited.

The pair had a fierce confrontation during a Today Show segment on Tuesday with Mitchell unleashing Labor over his proposed changes to retirement policy, striking a cap on tax concessions for balances above $3 million as “class warfare.”

Shorten then shared a 46-second clip of the segment on Twitter criticizing Mitchell and suggesting that the Radio 3AW host only cared about the profits of major companies and banks.

That prompted Mitchell to furiously tweet at Mr Shorten, claiming he only shared part of the debate that made the Labor figure look like a ‘genius’, and where the radio host’s arguments were not presented fairly.

You’ve done it again! Selective editing. If I did that to you in the air, no wonder you’d be screaming! Mitchell snapped.

‘Publish the whole debate, not just your genius.’

In the video, Shorten told Today host Karl Stefanovic: “The real problem is that we have a cost of living crisis.” Mortgage rates are going up. The government is making hard and genuine decisions to try to help take the pressure off families.’

He then responded to Mitchell’s comments, saying, “but there was something Neil said before where he said in a way for me to criticize the massive profits of the banks, that in a way it’s class warfare.”

“I’m just not going to genuflect in front of uptown and say, ‘Thank you so much for making massive profits, raising the price of food, taking more money off mortgage rates.'”

During Shorten’s spray, Mitchell groans and rests his head on his hand as Shorten continues to attack.

‘Neil, why is it wrong to criticize companies in a time of inflation, where people get up this morning to go to work, see everything go up, and just tell companies and banks, you know, just go slow? down,’ said Mr Shorten.

Mitchell criticized Shorten for selectively choosing a segment of the debate to upload to his Twitter account that made him look good and reflected badly on the station.

The government services minister criticized banks and giant corporations making ‘massive profits’ while regular Australians were making it hard.

He claimed that Mitchell was only concerned with the profits made by major corporations and banks.

What was not shown in the segment was Mitchell’s spray on the “class struggle” of the Albanian government.

Although I don’t know anything about Bill and the winnings. What are you going to do, Billy? Are you going to nationalize everything? Prevent (companies) from making a profit?’ he said.

‘This is part of the class war you are embracing. High profits are not necessarily bad, it means they employ more people, it means the economy is doing well.’

While some Twitter users supported Mitchell’s criticism of Shorten, others felt the labor minister was correct in his claim that the radio host was only standing up for banks and giant corporations rather than regular Australians. hard.