- Three video clips – the first debunked, the second showing a head movement at the end of a fluff-piece interview, and the third using a badly-framed metaphor is all the proof we need that the US media is in the tank for Obama.
- Four hokey words from a failed Vice-Presidential candidate refute Barack Obama’s economic policy.
- The media should shun Gordon Ramsay completely, right after I finish this blog post. They shouldn’t worry about whether they “really want to be at war with a chef who has the highest-rating show on Melbourne television”, and he’s not, “My kind of guy completely. More of him and civilisation is safe.” No, we should all stop giving him oxygen – right… now.
- A fortuitously unfortunate picture and an unsubstantiated report (featuring that useful phrase for the smear-merchant, “are said to have”) is all you need to get commenters speculating about what an angry jealous bitch-monster Michelle Obama is.
- Displaying a graph at the top of posts, without any explanation of its relevance or argument about what it demonstrates, when the graph comes from a scientist who has been criticised by his peers for his apparent misuse of graphs, is honest commentary. Anything the ABC does, on the other hand, is biased.
- Even if it is obvious that an analysis of the UK results in the EU elections is completely off target, it’s still worth linking to and quoting from if it suits one’s anti-AGW agenda.
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19 Comments
The only thing I learnt from him today was that he hasn’t learnt anything himself.
The thing I’m learning, and it’s a very gratifying thing to learn, is that the far Right is becoming more shrill, more hysterical, more petty, and most significantly of all, more bewildered as every day passes. Bolt’s views are in no way representative of the general public’s, but they are reasonably representative of the far Right’s, and he and his ilk are floundering. They don’t know what to make of Obama’s or Rudd’s popularity so they resort to petty personal viciousness, and they have no idea how they should be responding to the big issues of the day such as climate change and the GFC, so they just carp from the sidelines.
What I find really interesting – (amusing) – is the commentors that have somehow brought Rudd into the Ramsay vs Grimshaw stoush…Classic idiocy.
“Jon Faine, in taking calls from listeners hoping to slime Fielding, let one caller accuse Professor Bob Carter, another sceptic, of having taking money to defend tobacco companies. So, suggested Faine, he’s just a “gun for hire”?
This libel – that Carter is so corrupt and unscientific that he would say something false for cash – is fiercely disputed by Carter, who adds that he has NEVER taken money from tobacco companies, and hasn’t accepted it from coal or petroleum ones, either. Faine’s caller claimed that this smear had been substantiated by Four Corners. I’ve checked the only two programs it’s made to specifically smear climate sceptics, and neither mentions Carter.
If the case for catastrophic man-made warming is so strong, why such vile smears of the sceptics? Surely a Faine need only point to, say, a chart measuring global temperature, as I’ve done. It’s the abuse and the refusal to argue in good faith that damns the believers most. ”
This is an Update to Bolts attempt to promote Fielding to saint status, as my mother would say “pot, kettle, black”
Interesting to see Andrew try to find the ultimate skeptic, George Pell didn’t pan out so now he is promoting Fielding.
interesting that personal attacks are allowed on rudd and obama’s wives yet anything critical said about janette howard or bush’s wife were attributed as typical leftist hate.
hypocrisy much.
There wouldn’t happen to be any unfortunate pictures of Bolt that could be posted out of context at all somewhere?
Well, now you’ve Bolt’s Missing Link to go with Piers’ Tenuous Link.
See how carefully I put that?
Andrew reminds me of General Sir Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett from Blackadder goes Forth
“Darling: So you see, Blackadder, Field Marshal Haig is most anxious to
eliminate all these German spies.
Melchett: Filthy Hun weasels fighting their dirty underhand war!
Darling: And, fortunately, one of *our* spies–
Melchett: Splendid fellows, brave heroes, risking life and limb for Blighty!”
For Hun read Lefty, for “our spies” read Conservative
Brian Burston @ 6 – if you want an unfortunate picture of Bolt just look at the top RH corner of his own blog at the Hun.
Off topic – I don’t watch ACA or Gordon “the idiot” Ramsay – but Channel Nine really is going down the plughole isn’t it?
Classic stuff, Toby. You could rinse & repeat this post for the rest of the year with minimal changes.
Do we think Andrew will condem this invasion of privicy
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25607613-662,00.html
or will he attempt to turn it to a “Bash the PM” piece?
Hi Bertus,
I reckon all three commercial stations have gone down the plug hole, unless you’re a reality tv, soapie or American law show addict there’s virtually nothing for you — aside from the footy and 2 and a half men, there’s nothing I watch regularly on any of them…SBS and Channel 2 are the only stations I find with even half decent regular programs. Thank God for DVD’s.
“going”?? ,,,,,,,,,,disappeared ages ago – the writing was on the wall at the demise of real “live” Television – Kennedy, Lane, Sommers – chaotic loosely scripted un fettered by national news commitment – all we got now is vanilla TV
Having just moved house and temporarily given up cable TV, I am finding it difficult to readjust. I had forgotten how abysmal the big three are; and if there happens to be nothing on SBS or ABC at the time, you’re stuffed. I am developing Colbert withdrawal symptoms and it’s only been a week…..
@12
Channel 10 already has. Their news this evening blamed Therese for being the wife of a PM and working out in a gym with a wide unobstructed window fronting a main road.
At least Turnbull was magnanimous in this and backed up Rudd’s outrage.
PS. Her strenuous workout for her climb of Kilimanjaro has her looking good.
andrew bolt should be in a home for the bewildered along with old doddering piers
NB: I’m not trying to be fair to Andrew Bolt never, ever.
However, unless he actually reads these pages we are all pissing into the wind. Andrew Bolt has been rather clever in his own devious way. He has done his market research-sorry for stating the obvious-and discovered his ready-made audience of the semi-literate, the oldies, the footy lovers who go to him after reading the comics and the sports pages, and the younger ones who were brain-washed by their parents and their peers.
As we all know it takes brains and a certain amount of questioning to arrive at an honest opinion. If this person, after the questioning period, remains a right-wing conservative this is entirely their own business. But even these people aren’t Bolt’s market are they? He eschews all information which contradicts his own opinions. We all know the sort of person who reads voraciously in order to find information which shores up his/her own existing opinion. Such people are pathetic but along with previously mentioned christian fundamentalists and barmy army types they all form Andrew’s market.
How do we alter the course of things to counter the likes of Bolt, Albrectsen, Ackerman, etc? Is there a specific point where even his cast-iron ego is vulnerable? Wouldn’t it be more effective if we all played on that specific point. Otherwise we are merely falling into the same old categorization as the ‘loony left’. We need to get at him with a concerted and united bit of guerilla warfare. But that would be too radical i suppose.