20 April, 2008...11:01 pm
Columnists are doing it tough
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By Mr Lefty
Interesting remark from Andy today, in between whinges about the 2020 Summit:
Ducked out to the auction of another house I can’t afford.
There you are - the housing affordability crisis, the one created and exacerbated by eleven years of John Howard’s economic policies, is even hitting well-paid News Ltd columnists.
I’m sure it’s all the left’s fault, though.
18 Comments
20 April, 2008 at 11:28 pm
obviously Toorak isn’t as cheap as it used to be
21 April, 2008 at 12:19 am
“Further scenes from the farce”
The farce that I wasn’t invited to!!!
Blithering idiot…
And I bet he’s somehow got a claim for the 1st home-buyers grant weaseled into his next ‘difficult’ purchase. I hope he goes for an extra wing, on the property, so’s Bolt Jnr can get the f**k away from his dad’s preaching…
21 April, 2008 at 2:17 am
I liked how on insiders the only bit about the 2020 summit he thinks was productive was some no-body meeting him, saying it was the “highlight of her day, meeting me”. What a wanker.
21 April, 2008 at 9:16 am
Talking of doing it tough…
Murdoch finally has his WSJ set up, and is now ready to launch a new “war” - with the New York Times. Newsweek has a 5-page story here.
Anything to help push his Zionist Crusade, eh?
21 April, 2008 at 10:36 am
Almost Always Wrong - that was an anecdote about somebody meeting Hugh Jackman, not Andrew Bolt. Andrew Bolt was watching from Melbourne, not at the 2020 summit.
21 April, 2008 at 12:30 pm
Well Nic - he did warn you that he’s almost always wrong . . .
21 April, 2008 at 12:54 pm
Mondo, that is true.
I do like Idlaviv’s suggestion about the FHOG. It probably falls into the “fake but true” mud-pile.
21 April, 2008 at 1:24 pm
Yeah - uh Nic, Idlaviv was making a joke.
As was I.
21 April, 2008 at 3:37 pm
Damn right it’s the Left’s fault, Mr Lefty — the ALP has been in government now for several months and still hasn’t fixed it.
Pathetic.
21 April, 2008 at 4:28 pm
My name isn’t just a throw back to Ian M Banks books but it also works well in conversation. People should remember this. But i guess i should have known that someone meeting bolt would mot say it was the highlight of their day. So silly.
On the morning shows, the talking torsos were all trying to bag the 2020 summit but the delegates they sent all got listened to, and when you have occurences like James Packer offering a lift to a lady who missed her shuttle bus, its hard to bag it at all really.
Cept blanchett, apparently she had a child not long ago. I dont know if any of you know that.
21 April, 2008 at 5:55 pm
He can afford to buy a house!
Did I just hear the word, ‘elite’..?
21 April, 2008 at 8:09 pm
AB seems very chuffed that he got “more responses to his 2 weekend threads on the summit than the number that actually attended”. I’m not sure what that proves, but in boltworld it seemed worthy of boasting about.
I notice within those two threads that many of the comments start along the lines of “I couldn’t face watching any of it” or “you are so brave Andrew, if I sat through even five minutes I would have been ill”.
Interestingly, most of the follow up comment from these people revolves around how terrible the summit was, what a waste of time, no new ideas etc….based entirely on Andrew’s opinion, not on any personal observation.
It is a shining example of the “group-think” they are constantly accusing the Left of.
I am always amused by this incredible hypocracy that is exhibited by those who post on his site.
“The Left loves to hate” is a frequent catch-cry, but here is an example of a response to a post of mine:
JanL replied to JanL
Wed 09 Apr 08 (10:28pm)
bennyg
Chill out mister!
Don’t call a spade a shovel. Spit it out dweeb. Are you calling us liars? If so, then you are wrong,wrong,wrong!!!!!
BTW- there was no mention of Polka Dot Joan being the Premier at the time of these occurences, only that she was indeed in “spots”.
Crawl back into your hole, rodent.
No hate there!!
BTW, my response to that was never posted.
22 April, 2008 at 1:18 am
And it never will be, bennyg. (Benny Goodman, is that you?! OMG! I LOVE YOU!!!1!1!!!)
23 April, 2008 at 3:48 am
I don’t think Lefty truly understands the economic supply and demand forces that are behind the current raising of Australian house prices.
If he does it would be interesting if could name a single, solitary, Howard policy that has increased the cost of a home.
24 April, 2008 at 12:24 am
Well it’s all those rienforced trousers Bolt has to buy for Insiders. You’d think the ABC costume budget would spring for it?! They would if it was Tim Flannery or some other leftist deity.
It’s not Bolt’s fault his legs have to part red sea style for his over large balls.
24 April, 2008 at 12:38 am
Aw, Mikey, did you really have to give that vivid description??!
27 April, 2008 at 3:59 pm
No he diddn’t - thats just the total extent of intelligence to be wrung from this putrid digital rag of a ‘counter’ blog.
27 April, 2008 at 10:47 pm
Michael, don’t be so disingenuous. I mean really, Bolt himself is so juvenile, childish and sneering, much less the contributors.
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