Andrew Bolt in 2009:
Gordon Ramsay didn’t realise Australians had suddenly developed a few manners. Well, some of us.
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Sam Newman didn’t get it, either, and was startled to find himself sin-binned by Channel 9 for fondling a cut-out likeness of a female sports writer.
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What’s new is this sudden spate of suspensions from the air, thanks not just to the revulsion of a more censorious audience, but also, let us hope, of a more responsible media. (Hey, quit the horselaughs.)
Sam Newman? Banned for weeks.
Andrew Bolt in 2008:
Don’t like Sam Newman? Then argue back. Abuse him if you must. Take away your advertising, or – even better – just turn him off.
Hell, Channel 9 can even sack him from The Footy Show if it figures his act is stale.
But send him to a re-education camp? Which Maoists at the station thought of that particular “cure” for inconvenient opinions?
It was counselling with a psychologist, actually, and a condition of continuing employment. Newman was free to tell Channel Nine — arguably the “more responsible media” to which Bolt refers — to get stuffed.
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The upcoming “best” seller by Gordon Ramsay: “Still not sorry”.
Or should that be “F______n still not f______n sorry. F______n c___ts.”
Given Andrew and his Acolytes don’t think he is part of the “Mainstream Media”, despite being on a News Ltd
site and a News Ltd paper, are you surprised.
I love the way the yellow press beat this crap up, 9 makes money from the ratings it gets from Ramsay and Newman,
in the case of Newman they only acted when the rest of the press started howling. In the case of Ramsay they seem
to be biting the hand that feeds, they love the way he acts on TV but woe betide saying anything like that about our
Tracey, like buying a bulldog, goading it to attack anything, then wanting it put down when it bites one of your family,
did you not notice that you had a viscious dog?
so in other words andy changed his tune on sam newman’s disgusting antics only once it became untenable for him to keep defending him. some strength of conviction.
Two things to remember,
(a.) even though Bolta appears on Nine’s Today Show, he’s been angry at them ever since Ray Martin hosted an election debate between Howard and Latham very much not to his liking. He also dislikes Eddie Maguire. {edited to remove unsubstantiated assertions – Toby} To AB Channel 9 is basically just the ABC, only with commercials—{edited to remove unsubstantiated assertions – Toby}
(b.) some guy called ‘The Editor’ at a defunct site called the Blair/Bolt Watch Project chronicled how Bolt had something of a ‘man-crush’ on Gordon Ramsay, yet was horrified to discover that the object of his affection is a dirty, smelly hippie.
Make of that what you will.
And back in April 2008 Bolt confessed his love for Gordon with his “Baking with Blue Passion” column.
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,,23557629-5000117,00.html
You Scott Bridges are a hypocrite. You are more contemptible that A Bolt. Wont post something that you dont like when others at crikey call bolt the undescended testicle. You are worse than bolt and pure poison should remove you from their list of authors for your hypocrisy.
{Sorry, Twobob. Your comment contained too much material that is of questionable legality. As you can see by my willingness to publish what you’ve written above, there’s a difference between name-calling in bad taste and defamation. I’ve also got no problem with you calling me any name you like. Go for it — Scott}
twobob, a couple of responses to you:
(i) Scott has been busy all day and hasn’t been involved in comment moderation. The decision not to approve your earlier comment was made after discussion by Jeremy and me.
(ii) Your comment wasn’t approved because it contained so much potentially defamatory content that we could not edit it out and leave anything coherent for people to read. If you were to make your point without making derogatory statements about the personal character of others and without making unsubstantiated claims (i.e., provide evidence when you say someone has done something), we’ll be happy to publish your comments.
What Tobias said.
(On my lunch break.)
Apologies Scott, I should have known it was Jeremy and I was stating a fact not name calling. And it is my opinion and my reasons for not liking bolt and not liking the content of your post, how can you be defamed for that? I am not surprised that Jeremy put it in the too hard basket as you cant say something bad about a social commentator can you! Pure ignorance all wrapped up in a blanket of defamatory fear. And I wish I had your lunch break given that the post was sent before 10 am this morning. Pretty weak of you all really.
I was wrong to say that Ray Martin had donated money to Labor—he merely offered to MC an ALP fundraiser. And he was forced to drop that commitment by his employer.
That A. Bolt doesn’t like Martin is obvious.
That Bolt also doesn’t like Eddie Maguire & thinks he too is ‘biased’ is not as obvious.
That Bolt is angry with Nine, and considers the network to be biased, is very obvious.
And Eddie’s social contacts with Labor pollies has been enough to provide us with this:
All in all, I understand why you excised that first bit from my comment. I don’t expect you guys to do a google search for every ‘unsubstantiated assertion’ made by every commenter.
But c’mon, my second ‘unsubstantiated assertion’ you chopped is just plain common sense. It’s what happened—Bolt cynically chose to defend the lesser of two evils (as he saw it) during the Newman sexism brouhaha you cite.
Isn’t it the whole point of this post that AB has ’situational ethics’?
(And what’s the deal with you guys not knowing about Martin and Maguire being linked to party politics? It’s hardly a state secret.)
twobob, you don’t seem to have read (or understood) what we wrote in our comments. Anyway, you’re entitled to be unhappy with our moderation decisions if you want to be, but we have tried to be clear about why we make our decisions. I’ll end our discussion there.