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Monthly Archives: May 2010

Open thread May 31-June 4

May 31, 2010 – 3:08 pm

The weekend thread is still kicking along with discussion about iPads and GM crops. Here’s a fresh home for new discussions – or feel free to bring over the old topics. As always, we’ll keep the links to the recent open threads in the sidebar to your right. Since debating government-funded advertising is all the [...]

By Tobias Ziegler | Posted in David Burchell, Glenn Milne, Open threads | Comments (70)

Then and now

May 31, 2010 – 11:51 am

Then (a week ago): Even a month after the great Gulf of Mexico spill, the wildlife toll is pathetically small Now (today): The huge leak isn’t killing just Barack Obama’s popularity as he flounders in handling his own Hurricane Katrina This switch from corporate-defence to blame-our-opponents is by now as predictable as night following day, [...]

By Jeremy Sear | Posted in Andrew Bolt | Comments (11)

Weekend talk thread May 28-30

May 28, 2010 – 9:39 am

Cometh the weekend, cometh the thread. I’m more than eager to see the back of this week, so let’s not wait around for Friday afternoon. We will update with news on the TV line-ups when they come to hand. Get to it. UPDATE: Lateline is on early tonight: The Friday forum on the week in [...]

By Tobias Ziegler | Posted in Open threads | Comments (114)

True conservatives

May 28, 2010 – 8:19 am

… believe that in the free market, people should profit based on the value of their innovations and expertise — unless they are dealing with global warming.

By Tobias Ziegler | Posted in Andrew Bolt | Tagged , , , | Comments (19)

Bolt: PM, RRT all pandering to diabolical foreigners

May 26, 2010 – 11:28 am

Bolt’s two columns today are nasty, trolling pieces that play to the worst bigotries and misunderstandings of his audience, and it’s frankly depressing that they were both published in a supposedly mainstream newspaper in 2010. The first is his shameless muslim/arab-bashing attempt to explain the expulsion of an Israeli diplomat in response to Israel forging [...]

By Jeremy Sear | Posted in Andrew Bolt | Comments (56)

What’s his definition of “Left”, then?

May 26, 2010 – 10:00 am

According to Andrew Bolt, Malcolm Fraser is “of the Left“. No wonder he’s so scared by the actual “left” in this country. If a classical liberal like Fraser is “of the Left”, to Bolt the rest of us must look like Maoist revolutionaries. They want better funding of public health and education? THEY’RE GOING TO [...]

By Jeremy Sear | Posted in Andrew Bolt | Comments (33)

Expert Mountaineer

May 26, 2010 – 9:38 am

It seems that Andrew Bolt has become an expert on climbing mountains over the weekend. Meanwhile over in science land. Man-made climate change blamed for ‘significant’ rise in ocean temperature. The world’s oceans are warming up and the rise is both significant and real, according to one of the most comprehensive studies into marine temperature [...]

By Dave Gaukroger | Posted in Andrew Bolt | Comments (6)

Going after MPs’ private lives hurts the country

May 24, 2010 – 11:29 am

I don’t want to go into too much detail about the homophobes’ media frenzy last week (I’ve written about the Akermanis thing here and the Campbell one here), but I did want to address one particularly self-serving point made by News Ltd’s David Penberthy this morning: David Campbell knew when he entered politics that public [...]

By Jeremy Sear | Posted in David Penberthy | Comments (205)

The Bolt Effect, happening before your eyes

May 24, 2010 – 10:55 am

We’ve kept an eye on Arctic sea ice extent over the past year, and on some of the dodgy commentary that appears every time Arctic weather conditions have seen the ice extent approach the historical average. For instance, here was Andrew Bolt when ice extent had continued to grow through all of March and the [...]

By Tobias Ziegler | Posted in Andrew Bolt | Tagged , , , | Comments (50)

Open thread May 24-28

May 24, 2010 – 9:42 am

It’s time to kick off another week. The most exciting news I’ve encountered this morning is that I’ll soon be able to buy three new books by my favourite writer – after he’s been dead for a century and all. After last week decrying the “grubby, low-rent, low-road” approach of Labor and their alleged accomplice, [...]

By Tobias Ziegler | Posted in Glenn Milne, Open threads | Comments (51)