Our Media Glass House researchers openly admit that they are in awe of the psychoanalytical capabilities of Dennis Shanahan, one of the senior account managers at the federal Liberal Party’s advertising agency, The Australian.

Let us explain. Our reader would be aware that a significant amount of time was spent in the Federal Parliament this week arguing over Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s call for a blanket ban on Australia issuing visas to Palestinians seeking refugee status to escape the ongoing genocide being inflicted on Gaza residents at the hands of the Israeli Government of Benjamin Netanyahu.

To be clear, the last part of that paragraph doesn’t express the sentiments of Mr Dutton, just the facts.

This time Mr Dutton’s ongoing and blatant dog-whistling and demonising of immigrants of any kind drew accusations of racism, with one independent MP saying so to his face in the parliament.

Member for Warringah, Zali Steggall, was required to withdraw her comment under parliamentary rules – a procedure that doesn’t change the validity of her claim in her mind.

And it is the state of other MPs’ minds during the parliamentary argy-bargy that drew the attention of our MGH teams this week.

The previously mentioned Mr Shanahan penned a front-page comment piece in the Murdoch media’s national broadshit about one of the eruptions in the parliamentary chamber that followed counter-accusations hurled at Prime Minister Anthony Albanese by Mr Dutton, claiming the PM had misled the parliament.

In the article (below) Mr Shanahan wrote that “a rattled and uncertain Albanese, shuffling his papers and turning to nasty personal attacks on the Opposition Leader, left the parliamentary chamber on Thursday afternoon, leaving a junior minister to respond to the accusations that he had ‘deliberately twisted’ the words of the ASIO director-general ….”.

Well! For starters, how dare anyone get personal in attacks on Peter Dutton! He is such a well-behaved, shy and retiring type who always behaves with utmost civility and decorum.

Pardon us while we proceed to the window of The Bug office to gaze at a flock of pigs flying past.

But how, ask our MGH researchers, does Mr Shanahan determine that the PM was “rattled and uncertain”?

He would be well within his rights in a comment piece to declare “appearing rattled and uncertain Albanese, shuffling his etc etc….” or something similar.

But to categorically declare that the PM was “rattled and uncertain” is something he would need to confirm with the PM himself who is the only person who knows how he felt at the time of the event Mr Shanahan was describing.

So, our MGH teams take their collective hats off to Mr Denis Shanahan.

It seems he is able to psychoanalyse our political leaders from a distance.

Obviously he can determine from many metres away the character and mindset of any of the MPs acting out in front of him as he peers down from the parliamentary media gallery.

He can do so, apparently, based on his own interpretation of their behaviour and doesn’t need to reflect upon and weigh up any factual information such as their track record, past inflammatory utterances, their current inflammatory rhetoric, or their transparent inflammatory motivations as would be required if someone were to label another person as, for argument’s sake, a racist.

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