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Category Archives: Andrew Bolt

If a journalist isn’t a conservative, then they must be a LEFTIST

May 19, 2012 – 2:56 pm

He’s Got A Little List (h/t AM for the video link) An amusing reveal by a supposed “journalist” at News Ltd of how he understands “journalism”. In essence, you must pick a side. You’re either a conservative or… you’re the opposite. A LEFTIST. No room for professional, politically neutral journalists in this list: Who’s on [...]

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Their definition of “free speech”

May 19, 2012 – 11:19 am

The Editor in Chief of The Australian, Chris Mitchell, launches an extraordinary personal attack on academics daring to participate in the media enquiry, asserting, in respect of specific named people, they once: worked for The Australian and you would give them barely a pass mark as journalists A very serious assertion and if it was [...]

By Jeremy Sear | Also posted in Chris Mitchell, Posted | Comments (43)

I’m not a birther, but…

May 18, 2012 – 10:53 am

No serious journalist believes the ‘birthers’, those belligerent opponents of Barack Obama who claim that his presidency is illegitimate due to the fact that he was born in Kenya, rather than the US. But….. Obama is from wherever suits Was he telling the truth then, or is he telling the truth now? Or do we [...]

By Dave Gaukroger | Comments (11)

Andrew Bolt, supporter of gay people, opponent of marriage equality

May 17, 2012 – 11:48 am

I’ve read it twice now, but still can’t quite wrap my head around Andrew Bolt’s latest column on marriage equality. It seems that Andrew is desperate to vilify “the Left” for reactions to Professor Kuruvilla George’s stance on marriage equality and his subsequent resignation from the Victorian Equal Opportunity Commission, take a stand against marriage [...]

By Dave Gaukroger | Also posted in Posted | Comments (42)

Of course we blame Gillard for the housing bubble created in the Howard years

May 1, 2012 – 9:49 am

The right-wing game on housing: Step 1: Through a mix of policies from slashing capital gains tax through to inflationary grants like the FHOG, cause a runaway housing bubble. The higher prices go, the more current owners with (now inflated) equity in their existing property try to get in on this high-return bonanza, completely pricing [...]

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Why have elections when the Gallery can decide?

April 30, 2012 – 12:18 pm

Gillard must resign, the government must go, election now. No, it’s not just Andrew Bolt saying it today. Grattan: JULIA Gillard should consider falling on her sword for the good of the Labor Party, because she can no longer present an even slightly credible face at the election. Kenny: The current Parliament is not stable [...]

By Dave Gaukroger | Also posted in Chris Kenny, Michelle Grattan, Piers Akerman, Posted | Comments (38)

What turns a “nightclub centre” into a “gay dance-strip area”?

April 24, 2012 – 12:54 pm

Andrew Bolt is interested in Peter Slipper’s travel claims, particularly some centred around travel near King’s Cross in Sydney. Back in February Andrew asked: Why a taxi ride just after midnight to Taylor Square, a nightclub centre, and back there again the next day at 8pm? But today, in relation to the same trip Andrew [...]

By Dave Gaukroger | Also posted in Posted | Comments (26)

“Labor’s” Speaker who won his seat on a Coalition ticket and whose behaviour was covered by the Coalition for years

April 21, 2012 – 9:18 am

Forget that Peter Slipper was elected on a Coalition ticket and that no other MPs in parliament have the power to kick him out until the next election. As you read about the allegations from the completely nonpartisan and generally entirely trustworthy and honest Daily Telegraph about his alleged interaction with a staffer, forget that [...]

By Jeremy Sear | Also posted in Daily Telegraph | Comments (66)

What about their right to say what they like about the PM, unfettered by accuracy or law?

April 20, 2012 – 2:15 pm

Remember the putrid smear story about Gillard last September that, after wiser heads at News Ltd remembered there were such things as defamation laws, was deleted? (And here. And here.) The one that 2UE pulled before sacking Michael Smith? The one that caused Insiders to uninvite Glenn Milne in case he tried making his dubious [...]

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Bolt, The Age and Amazon – or – Do Andrew’s readers care what he writes?

April 17, 2012 – 2:18 pm

It’s been interesting watch a story that we covered at Pure Poison roll over into the traditional media and see how it changes in the process, in this case the issue around negative comments about Anita Heiss appearing after Andrew Bolt linked to her book review page on Amazon.com. A few days later The Age [...]

By Dave Gaukroger | Comments (81)