Just 18 things Alan Jones has said that are far worse than Jacinda Ardern calling him a 'git'.

Someone at Sky News had a fun job yesterday, scrolling through the social media of New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern for any hint of scandal.

They scrolled. And they scrolled. And they scrolled.

Finally, once reaching her tweets from 2012 – about 14 Australian PMs ago and the same year a tribunal ruled Alan Jones incited the Cronulla riots – we imagine they fistpumped.

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The unnamed staff member got to typing, between high fives from their colleagues, and not long after, Sky News published an “EXCLUSIVE”.

“Sky News has unearthed a personal attack – launched by Jacinda Ardern – against Alan Jones in a 2012 tweet where she referred to the broadcaster as a ‘git’ and claimed he was ‘intensely disliked’,” it read.

I know an Alan Jones. Unlike the Aussie version, he isn’t a git or intensely disliked by the general population.

— Jacinda Ardern (@jacindaardern) September 30, 2012

Now, ‘git’ is perhaps the mildest insult we can imagine and Alan Jones has a history of saying things that are much, much worse. Like… daily.

In fact, Ardern’s tweet came the day after Jones was condemned for saying that Julia Gillard’s father had “died of shame” because of her political “lies”.

To prove our point all we had to do was Google ‘Alan Jones quotes’, which led us to create this list of actual sentences that came from his mouth:

• “Every person in the caucus of the Labor Party knows that Julia Gillard is a liar, everybody. I will come to that in a moment. The old man recently died a few weeks ago of shame. To think that he has a daughter who told lies every time she stood for Parliament.”
• “Put [then-Sydney Mayor Clover Moore] in the same chaff bag as Julia Gillard and throw them both out to sea.”
• “The woman’s [Gillard] off her tree and quite frankly they should shove her and Bob Brown in a chaff bag and take them as far out to sea as they can and tell them to swim home.”
• “She’s a clown, Jacinda Ardern. A complete clown. I just wonder whether Scott Morrison is going to be fully briefed to shove a sock down her throat.”
• “These people are an absolute joke and Jacinda Ardern is the biggest joke.”
  

• “[Ardern] is a joke, this woman; an absolute and utter lightweight.”
• “This lightweight New Zealand prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, is challenging Scott Morrison over climate change… now I hope Scott Morrison gets tough here with a few backhanders … Hasn’t got a clue, this woman.”
• “She [Gillard] said that we know societies only reach their full potential if women are politically participating. Women are destroying the joint – Christine Nixon in Melbourne, Clover Moore here.”
• “I don’t care what colour he is, looking like a skunk and smelling like a skunk with a sardine can on one foot and a sandshoe on the other and a half-drunk bottle of beer under the arm and he wanted to rent the final property available and it was mine, I would expect the agency to say no.”
• “Let’s not get too carried away, Berta. We don’t have Anglo-Saxon kids out there raping women in western Sydney.”
• “We need stolen generations. There are a whole heap of kids going before the courts now, or their families, mums going before the courts, and dads who are on top of the world with drugs or alcohol, and suddenly they go back into an environment where children are brought up in those circumstances.”
• “The n***** in the woodpile here, if one can use that expression – and I’m not going to yield to people who tell us that certain words in the language are forbidden – the person who’s playing hard to get is Mathias Cormann.”
• “You’re there not to buckle at the knees just because a few little media outlets and sympathisers to Julia Gillard want you to. There’s talk of Malcolm Turnbull, the n***** in the woodpile.”
• “If ever there was a clear example that Lebanese males in their vast numbers not only hate our country and our heritage, this was it. They have no connection to us: they simply rape, pillage and plunder a nation that’s taken them in.”
• “I can’t believe what I’m seeing. What did we do as a nation to have this vermin infest our shores?”
• “[Climate-striking youths are] selfish, badly educated, virtue-signaling little turds.”
• “I’m telling you, I will be speaking with Gladys Berejiklian in about three minutes and if you can’t come to the party, Louise, you should lose your job.”
• “I would recommend some of them who are saying they’re being bullied — they need to take a teaspoon full of cement and toughen up.”

To her credit, Ardern refused to give any attention to the Sky News report.

“Of late, you’ll have seen that I have not been offering up thoughts or opinions on the issue of Alan Jones and I don’t intend to now,” she told media on Tuesday.

The whole thing turned out to be a bit of an own goal for Sky. Maybe next time they’ll have more luck focusing on the real ‘personal attacks’ coming out of the mouth of their commentator.