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Bolt does more sleight-of-hand graphing.
It’s easy to smooth out annoying data in a graph if you just take a short section that ever-so-slightly supports your argument, and then stretch the other axis to make it look less obvious what’s really happening.
But I note he’s creeping gingerly toward AGW by now saying 2001 is the year warming stopped. He used to vow that it was 1998. Give him another 12 months and he’ll have got to 2004…..
It looks like the Government’s stimulus packages did the trick.
I await breathlessly numerous articles in The Australian lauding the Government for its strategy.
Do you think The Punch was named in memory of Glenn Milne’s drunken attack on Steve Mayne at the Walkley night?
At last, the farce that is Sarah Palin: Serious Political Leader is about to end. And the tabloid princess predictably takes aim at “the liberal media elites” to explain her demise. the fact is all the juvenile rubbish printed about her family would easily be deflected or turned to advantage by experienced and more skilled politicians. What has undermined any leadership ambitions she may of harboured is the white-anting by her own party who now at least seem to be realising what the rest of us have thought since she came onto the national and international stage: she is not a serious contender for POTUS and probably would’ve had trouble being re-elected as governor.
While she retreats from politics, the luvvies need not fear that she will be lost forever from the spotlight. Expect her to crop up as the intruder on Big Brother, or as some kind of
politicalentertainment-cum-politics reporter for Fox News.Monkeywrench @ 1 – the second and third links don’t work sport. Liked your comment in Bolt about Palin (assuming it was the same Monkeywrench). Don’t you love the quality of the attack that comes back?
confessions @ 4 – be interesting to see if there are any, ahem, reasons she’s abruptly pulled the pin. She’s done it while the media scrum about Jacko and other issues will draw attention away from it. I reckon we’ll read more about this.
Don’t you love the quality of the attack that comes back?
it would seem they genuinely don’t understand the comment – typical really.
frankly I’m glad she’s going, all the faux outrage from her luvvies whenever something happened to her was OTT hysteria, filling space in the news that meant actual, proper news stories were dropped off. She is to be commended however for finally realising her own limitations and going before she got pushed.
Wow! I just watched her departure speech or press conference or whatever it was. That was REALLY weird. One of the strangest little pieces of political theatre I’ve seen. She sounded fairly unhinged to me.
And all these other people standing around seemed not to know what to make of it either. Then she hugs everybody and sort of rushes off. Good Grief.
David Letterman goes 2 and 0 against Republican Presidential contenders.
She reckons she can now “contribute more outside of politics”. From such a low base that conclusion looks pretty possible.
bertus: It looks as if you were right, if this story is correct:
i guess we’ll know more as it evolves, but it seems already the Palin luvvies are turning against her.
Shit, Chris Uhlmann is running Insiders and Bolt is given free reign to waffle on and dominate, and can he waffle on or not?
The usual utter ideological crap is there along with the half truths and plain misrepresentations, but since when have facts ever stopped Bolt from railing against Labor.
OK it really is worth looking at the ABC website for this episode of Insiders and listen to Bolt’s inane rantings against the Rudd government, but the one that got me, said when interrupting Annabel Crabb, was that Rudd has had a dream run in the media as compared to Howard.
Now I know for absolute certainty that Bolt lives in an alternate reality to the rest of world, something George M also showed up. Watch George’s and Andrew’s exchange on government policy accountability.
Yeah, all the usual same old same old. I particularly like this attempt from Bolt today:
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/rudd_to_advise_pope_on_sainthood/
“Rudd to Advise Pope on Sainthood” shrieks the headline. Turns out Rudd has confirmed to some nuns that he will give the Pope a prod about canonising Mary McKillop.
Those poor sad little thingys over at Bolt really are having some trouble finding something decent to tune the outrageometer in on, ain’t they?
“Outgoing Gov. Sarah Palin on Saturday laid the groundwork to take on a larger, national role after leaving state government, citing a “higher calling” with the aim of uniting the country along conservative lines”.
http://www.adn.com/palin/story/853469.html
Now that what I call a big F…You Alaska. “higher calling”…How about finishing your electoral obligations first. You know, that little matter of been elected for 4 years.
Mobius – I didn’t see Rusty dominating (waffling yes but, he would, wouldn’t he..?) Inciters but being comprehensively ignored. Megalo turned his shoulder to him whenever he trried his talking over routine and the divine Ms Crabbe, as usual, didn’t deign to even bother when he was in RightRant mode (err.. almost the whole time).
He’s looking more & more irrelevant having lost his raison d’Rodent and now just swinging in the winds of change.
bolt made another stuff up this morning: using the Productivity commission aboriginal report to bash the Rudd government with. That report covers the period 2006-2007, before this current government. Cassidy would of pulled him up on it, but Ullman is such a RWDB patsy he just allowed that falsehood to slip on by.
once you’ve seen a really good Insiders panel it’s so hard to go back to the usual partisan ideologues they put on in the name of ‘balance’.