Cut and Paste Trophy – February 29

Cut and Paste Trophy – February 29

Dave Gaukroger | Feb 29, 2012 10:36AM | EMAIL | PRINT

The arrival of the new Cut & Paste Trophy thread hints at something wonderful: that a new podcast has been recorded and it’s time to start collecting entries for the next one.

PS – for those new to Pure Poison:

What is the Cut & Paste Trophy?

It’s no longer really about News Ltd pretending that reader comments on the sites of other media organisations are “articles” which are equivalent, for whinging purposes, with actual articles written by actual staff.

It’s about asking whether moderators at major media sites should be filtering out more than just the merely defamatory. Are there other types of hateful, destructive comments that actually encourage more of the same? And, secondly, about wondering what the comments that a media site receives and chooses to publish tell us about just what kind of journalism they’re selling. What sort of ignorance do they appear to have fostered? Should they be concerned about their audience’s misunderstandings and what it says about how well they fulfill their role as disseminators of knowledge?

Apparently those messages have not yet been received. Let’s see if we can help these media companies out by pointing them to the most disturbing entries in the comments below.

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revolutionary

Posted March 1, 2012 at 12:17 pm | Permalink

Here are some lowlights from what I believe to be the most offensive and unmoderated blog on the net….2GB’s ‘Have Your Say’. This week the station’s informed listeners were asked “Should Kevin Rudd be returned to the Labor leadership?”

These two should have defamation lawsuits all over them…

Added: Thursday, 16 February 2012 at 1.05pm
On second thought maybe better Kevin comes back as that prick Bill Shorten will hopefully get rolled. His true character was shown when he ditched his wife and had an affair with Chloe Bryce and they were expecting a child while married to other people. That is the type of scumbag he his and is what is destroying the Labor Party. Self serving egomaniacs who would marry themselves if it was legal. Tell him to go F*** himself and he would gladly, if he could.

william , strathfield

Added: Wednesday, 22 February 2012 at 9.16am
Is it true that Tony Abbott was caught cheating on his wife?
Is it true that the opposition leader (our Catholic monk) has been sleeping with a 'staffer'?
Why are you not reporting whether this is true?
Did Tony Abbotts wife 'boot' him out because he cheated on her.

Hmmmm...Can anyone confirm this?
And why has it been covered up?
Or is the one of those (Catholic) open marriage arrangements?

The Sentinel, Sydney

This wingnut amusingly misses the question completely;

Added: Saturday, 18 February 2012 at 4.48pm
Conspiracy theorists in their wierd wisdom think there is a big chance something may occur at the Manchester Games or allies and this lead America to blame Iran and then invade causing a domino effect in the middle east with Russia assisting Iran and Syria.Russia's presence in the area and America's mobilisation looks like the Phoney war is near its end. USA is looking for the excuse (Goating) middle east.
Of course its silly to think this! More WMDs excuses on their way!
Peace out!

The Sentinel, Sydney

This poor paranoid chap must have thought the blog was a direct line to the parrot;

Added: Wednesday, 1 February 2012 at 8.44am
Dear Alan,

(please don't use my last name, call me paranoid, but I actually think this government would track down those against them and do what ever they can against talk about them)

Those anti Rudd in the Labour ilks who keep repeating that Rudd is not a team player, well, with the team that Labour has at the moment, including a leader who never leads, well, Australia does not want that team.

regards,
Greg

greg hansen, Brisbane/Bangkok

But most posts are just depressing in their schoolyard threatening or insulting nature;

Added: Monday, 20 February 2012 at 7.13pm
Let us not forget that if the job of prime minister is handed back to Rudd, he will be under the control of the insipid, leering, knuckleheaded, hopeless, spineless green Bob Brown as the labor party does not have the numbers to form a majority. Added to that he will have to accommodate the equally useless, eccentric, blabbermouth Oakshott, blithering Windsor and the fall guy, Wilkie! What will we have? - the same rotten mess that Rudd started and Madame Jul-liar perpetuated with no effort!

Samuel J James

Added: Tuesday, 21 February 2012 at 5.24pm
Absolutely! That way WE can sink our knives into him instead of that egotistical evil woman.

Peter Wauker

Added: Friday, 3 February 2012 at 8.44am
I dont beleave this woman will alow any body to roll her,she has covered her big arse every way posable.She will find a way to block any move to put Krudd back in the big chiar.Lets not forget she has the support of the G,G and all the others with Ms in front of their names.We have seen her form,you can bet when she is knocked off it will be one hell of a show,should make good T.V viewing.The likes of Gillard should never been alowed to enter politics.No family,no God,no morals,TERRABLE WOMAN !

Tony Ryan, Yeppoon C.Q

There are 38 pages of this material. Unfortunately I vomited all over my monitor while reading these and thus have not been able to look at any more.
http://www.2gb.com/index.php?option=com_yoursay&task=view&id=1195&limitstart=320&Itemid=173#comment
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Angra

Posted March 2, 2012 at 10:53 am | Permalink

On the “Lawful killing of small babies” thread…

“What do you expect Andrew,
When the Bible is denigrated and called old fashioned, people have no standard to look to and will always fall to the lowest common denominator.
If nobody stands in the gap to oppose such evil, we will look back and think this is not so bad compared to the other things that will be happening.
JB (Reply)
Fri 02 Mar 12 (08:46am) ”

Yeah, except that the Bible (well the Old Testmament) is rife with stories of massacres and genocide, bashing babies heads against rocks, cutting up a prostitute and sending her body parts to all the tribes of Isreal, God killing a man for ‘spilling his seed’, not to mention God slaying all the first-born of Egypt and God’s priestess driving a spike through a King’s head to carry out His will.

Fine examples for us to follow.

(refs supplied if required)
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Angra

Posted March 2, 2012 at 11:19 am | Permalink

It gets better –

“Why is human life of any value? If we are simply mutated animals then where do you draw the line? This all comes back to the increasing acceptance of evolution in our culture, that we all just evolved from slime. This is the new State religion. Taught in the national curriculum. Embedded in the Humanist Manifesto. See Darwinism and the Nazi race Holocaust. As Nietzsche said, if there is no God then anything is permissable.
Tasman of Chapel Hill (Reply)
Fri 02 Mar 12 (10:07am) “
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Matthew of Canberra

Posted March 2, 2012 at 1:04 pm | Permalink

“Yeah, except that the Bible (well the Old Testmament) is rife with stories of massacres and genocide, bashing babies heads against rocks”

Yeah, but they were all bad …
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Angra

Posted March 2, 2012 at 2:48 pm | Permalink

Funny – I merely posted a direct quote from Psalm 137 in reply to AB’s posts about killing babies at around 10 this morning, but they have declined to post it.

Seems AB doesn’t like the Bible.

Here it is –

8 Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction,
happy is the one who repays you
according to what you have done to us.
9 Happy is the one who seizes your infants
and dashes them against the rocks.
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Cuppa

Posted March 2, 2012 at 4:55 pm | Permalink

Another from the blog of Universe Piers. (With hat-tip to commenter, poroti, at Poll Bludger).

How disgusting is it watching this screaming red banshee in parliament? This sort of screaming, vile abuse has no place in any public forum, let alone in the chamber of our parliament. I believe she is now mentally unbalanced and needs to be removed and treated accordingly.

I have never seen any sane politician speak in such a ville, spiteful manner. Her rantings remind me of several obnoxious dictators and their mannerisms. This loathsome creature should have never been allowed to represent Australia.

Nana replied to sandra
Thu 01 Mar 12 (11:07am)

http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/piersakerman/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/gillard_further_exposed_by_latest_lie/
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Liz A

Posted March 5, 2012 at 10:37 am | Permalink

I truly don’t know how Bolter’s mods let this one through…

From his thread on the findings of the media enquiry and how it “IMPINGES MY RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH”

I thought l would never see the day when the government does this!
WE ARE GOVERNED BY A TOTALITARIAN REGIME.
There l’ve said it.
Are we going to take this lying down?
This was a forgone conclusion on behalf of Finkelstein and Ricketson. They were paid cronies set to get this through no matter what.

Come on media. FIGHT FOR YOUR LIFE!
Come on people of Australia. FIGHT FOR FREEDOM!

History shows that people have gone into the streets over this.
Are we so complacent that we let this just happen?

This is s a total horror story and UNBELIEVABLE that they, Gillard and Co, have the gall to push it through.

We have to do something!
Guardianangel (Reply)
Sat 03 Mar 12 (11:24am)

And this is just stupid:

Look on the bright side. Workers who are losing their jobs in manufacturing and other polluting industries could be reprogrammed in re-education camps / gulags and given new green jobs tracking down and bringing dissenters to justice.
Enuffisenuff (Reply)
Sat 03 Mar 12 (01:01pm)
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Jeremy Sear

Posted March 5, 2012 at 3:13 pm | Permalink

Of course there’s gold in the comment thread to David Penberthy’s THE GOVERNMENT IS THREATENING YOUR FREEDOM post today:

Peter says:

07:36am | 04/03/12

This disastrous Labor government is more than just a threat to free speech they want to destroy free speech as well as common sense, honour, integrity, the truth, reality, logic, decency, morality it goes on and on. This disgraceful excuse for a Government is Australia’s worst ever disaster, man made or natural. It’s no wonder so many of the people who voted for them have stuck thier heads back in the sand

Or

QE12 says:

08:09am | 04/03/12

Looks like the Gillard government is attempting to censor and shut down public criticism. I know they don’t like achievers, success, prosperity and people who earn above what it deems to be sufficient money, (in other words the people who provide jobs), but stop the press? This surely will make them more unpopular. And which one is the Real Dear Leader, Bob Brown of the extreme Greens who wants this sort of big brother control, or Bob Carr who is already hogging the spotlight.
This lot are dangerous. This chilling super regulation recommendation seems like a philosophical shift towards China, North Korea and similarly heavy-handed regimes too awful to think about.

and

Cat says:

09:25am | 04/03/12

It is the media’s task to report news – not make it. Any government which tries to prevent this must have something to hide.
All members of the Press Gallery in Canberra know that it is those of them prepard to support the Labor Party who will get the press releases, the juicy tit-bits, the opportunity to ask questions. It will not stop them ferreting out stories and making them into something more. They see that as their role. Nevertheless they know that their role is to support Labor and do what they can to ensure any Coalition government remains in power for as short a time as possible.

And so on.

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