Tim Blair’s confidence regarding future disputes with Pure Poison is apparently based on his undefeated status in previous matches:
Jeremy and co. have been throwing punches for years, but so far have never landed a hit.
And if anyone was going to fairly and objectively evaluate the success of any particular criticism on The Blair/Bolt Watch Project, it would clearly be one of its targets. Tim says not one of the many retorts we published over the last year touched him – and who are we to argue? I mean, sure, we thought our posts made legitimate points and were fairly happy with them – but if tim himself disagrees, well, that settles it. Damn.
Still, you never know. One day we might get in a lucky punch. Stay tuned!
In other devastating news for this site, tim’s identified a WW2 analogy in my opening post, which means he wins the internets. Damn again. Ever have one of those days?
UPDATE: Just out of interest, which of the following do you think is more likely?
1. Tim Blair genuinely doesn’t understand that the analogy in my first post here is regarding the futility of appeasement, and whilst I’m clearly labelling him a bully (and boy do I have grounds), that’s not the same as calling him a Nazi; and he honestly missed the point of my post excoriating his dismissing thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters on the basis of one idiot with a Nazi sign and has somehow seriously concluded that this equalled some kind of call to appease Nazis (I’m “a selective Nazi opposer”!); or
2. He knows perfectly well what I said in both posts and is shamelessly misrepresenting them as a means of attacking me personally.
What do you think? Is he an incredibly shifty writer who treats every opponent – and his readers – with absolute contempt (option 2), or an earnest soul who just happens to be near-indescribably stupid (option 1)? If it’s the latter, should we lay off the poor lad?
17 Comments
Blair is just punch drunk he has been hit so often he has memory loss
Tim’s very quick to declare victory. Like he did about Iraq…
Is tim the simple cousin of tony blair?
Is he the little kid who stuttered that he wwwwwas ggggoing tttto mmmmmake eeeevery oooone ppppay?
I wonder and hope your great site resolves this and other conundrums regarding the MSM robots that parade as intelligent lifeforms
ps why wont tim let me play on his blog?
damn! all my comments in relation to this are in the previous post.
OMFG. You raised WWII!
Tim reminds me of the Black Knight in Monty Python & The Holy Grail
Blair: you never laid a hand on me
He just did. Mr. I think he’s a nazi, but don’t worry about that nazi flag. LOL.
That was a ko me thinks. On the first day no less.
No wonder he thinks this a web diary remake.
Timmy’s always right and if he thinks he isn’t he runs off to Bolt for comfort. How many times has Iraq been won now?
Not much of a revelation I know, but Bolt is never wrong either. Had to love the response to the 5th comment, by one Rob, on this post:-
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/dodson_was_dishonest/
I wasn’t wrong – a trial judge and two appeal courts were. I didn’t do it, it wasn’t me, you can’t prove a thing…
Timmy once compared Obama with Hitler. if ever there was an example of loony commentary.
Wow guys well done, you have created the most comments on a Blair Blog.. Obviously all of Sydney are talking” about him and not commenting on his site.
Hello Jeremy,
Don’t mention the War !
Perhaps instead of the analogy you used, you could have borrowed one of Winston Churchill’s speeches…”We shall fight them on the beaches……We shall never surrender” ?
Got a better analogy for the futility of appeasement than the experience of Chamberlain, Gavin?
Hmmm…option 1 or option 2 re: the Blair Witch?… Such an abundance of riches, Jeremy – you sure know how to tease a girl!
“Wow guys well done, you have created the most comments on a Blair Blog”
except that at least half of them are unrelated comments that have flung in from other News Ltd blogs.
Hello Jeremy,
“Got a better analogy for the futility of appeasement than the experience of Chamberlain, Gavin?”
No I don’t…Certainly not one with more catastrophic results.
I was trying to say, in an admittedly clumsy way, that as this site is about taking to task extreme and stupid political commentators, that you would be “fighting” them wherever you found them, hence Churchill’s famous speech, in keeping with your WW2 theme…
The analogy you used is one I’ve been to known to make as well, for what its worth, in my opinion your use of it in this context was quite appropriate as well.