The trouble with Lisa Millar is not that she’s a DROT. Everyone’s entitled to their opinions, right, no matter how right or how bad they are? And she clearly is proud of being a DROT.

And therein lies Lisa’s basic trouble. Her career-threatening problem. We, the viewing public, also know all too well that she is a DROT because she far too often shows herself to be a DROT. It doesn’t help when Lisa actually leans physically to the right on the News Breakfast set, as shown in the file photo above.

Lisa’s dilemma is that exposing yourself as a DROT is really not a wise practice when you’re a journalist anchoring a weekday morning television news program on the supposedly politcally neutral ABC.

Here’s a fresh example of her DROTness, taken from this morning’s News Breakfast program. One of the corporation’s token lefties for the What the Papers Say segment Dr Scott Burchell was banging on about the dire straits poor old Britain is in at the moment and the battles ahead for new PM Liz Truss on so many economic fronts. Burchell concluded by saying that the UK Labour Party was comfortably ahead in the polls.

Quick as a flash, Lisa responded that Truss had two years to turn things around before the next general election.

Written and spoken Lisa Millar for the Conservative Party of the United Kingdom.

See, once a DROT, always a DROT. Lisa simply can’t help herself.

Before any of you out there in Bugland start thinking this is hardly the most damaging thing a DROT can come up with, answer us this: If Labour were in power in the UK and facing enormous economic and social problems with winter looming and Burchell had offered the point that the Tories were well ahead in the polls, would Lisa have shot back immediately with the view that Labour had two full years left to turn things around?

Look, the MGH appreciates that Lisa Millar probably will never change. She comes from a DROT family and daddy Clarrie was a federal Country/National Party MP for many years. She was born and bred in Gympie and no doubt has a gun rack in her Melbourne home.

As a DROT, Lisa will go to her grave believing, along with Chris Uhlmann and Phillip Coorey, that the LNP is the natural party of government, the one the Good Lord above endorses and the only one that can provide good, strong, stable government with low taxes, that’s for sure, that’s the basis. Thick and fast. That’s the way. Good strong stable and the rest.

Come the next election, the entire Morrison ministry could be in jail after being well and truly NACKered and this shameless DROT will be hoping that Peter Dutton prevails and returns some sanity to Australian politics.

At the same time, Lisa must be aware of the social media campaign to get her axed at the ABC? The Twitterverse chatter about how she was refusing to put “Prime Minister” before Anthony Albanese? The strong evidence that has built up over time that she’s far friendlier interviewing LNP pollies?

Lisa (picured, right, showing she had no trouble with Harry) should be able to see the need to change but once a DROT, always a DROT. It’s rather sad, really.

And if she can’t change to save her career, in the words of her beloved Scott Morrison who Lisa no doubt saw as arguably the best Prime Minister this country has ever had: She. Can. Go!

DROT: Dreadful Rusted on Tory

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Basic facts still matter, right?

On the ABC’s News Breakfast program yesterday, both co-hosts Michael Rowland and Lisa Millar banged on that Richard Osman was the host of the long-running British game show, Pointless.

Wrong. The host of Pointless was, and as far as our MGH researchers can find, is still hosted by Alexander Armstrong, from the former TV comedy duo, Miller and Armstrong.

To say that Osman was host of that rather pointless program is akin to saying that Bert Newton hosted In Melbourne Tonight and The Graham Kennedy Show.

As to Richard Osman’s role on the show he has now left to concentrate on his huge success as a novelist, his job was to talk about all the Pointless answers and to come across as a very likeable and knowledgeable person, which he looks and sounds like he is.

We would have given Rowland and Millar 22 points for answering “co-presenter” to describe Osman’s role, 16 points for “sidekick”, 72 points for “The big know-all bastard over on the desk” and a big red cross and, sadly for them, 100 points, for answering “host”.