By The Editor
Cross posted at GrodsCorp
Yesterday Andrew Bolt, an influential newspaper columnist in Australia’s best-selling newspaper, crudely suggested that there is a link between using green shopping bags and infanticide.
Today “Strider”, a nobody blogger who resides in the most remote region of the intertubes, crudely suggested that there is a link between cycling and child rape.
You know the eponymous “law” of which Timmeh Blair is so proud?
Blair’s Law: the ongoing process by which the world’s multiple idiocies are becoming one giant, useless force.
Well, here’s the brand new “law” coined just now by GrodsCorp.
Bolt’s Law: the ongoing process by which teh Right’s multiple moral crusades are becoming one giant, intertwined idea despite their complete lack of anything to do with each other.
22 Comments
25 July, 2008 at 1:37 pm
Isn’t Bolt’s Law just a more precise restatement of Blair’s Law, then?
25 July, 2008 at 1:44 pm
What is it with Teh Right and groupthinking?
25 July, 2008 at 2:07 pm
i liked bolts latest effort, attacking Obama for being popular in Germany
“The more that Germans approve of Obama, the more that Americans must ask if Obama is a candidate with their best interests in mind.”
Germans, the country of Hitler. Open your eyes people.
25 July, 2008 at 2:17 pm
All that post needs, cosmicjester, is a link to a TingTong piece on Nazis as Greenies, then we’ll see clearly that Obama is a baby-killer.
25 July, 2008 at 2:21 pm
my god. better not tell strider about olympic swimming coaches then.
25 July, 2008 at 4:01 pm
What about the link between recycling newspapers and labrador bukake videos?
Or the link between rain water tanks and the molestation of innocent marsupials?
Or the link between public transport and the gang raping of blind elderly people?
You EVIL PAGAN LEFTIES are living in denial. Wake up and smell the mocked-up outrage.
– The Professional Idiot and his Apprentice Idiots are obviously not trying hard enough -
25 July, 2008 at 4:15 pm
Hey, go easy, Darryl. You don’t want Bolta to GO YOU HARD!
25 July, 2008 at 4:45 pm
Tim Blair joined in on the “compare obama to hitler” theme of the day
i did a post about it here
http://thabastardson.blogspot.com/2008/07/obama-muslim-terrorist-and-white.html
25 July, 2008 at 5:16 pm
I always thought Blair’s Law was a reflection of his confused state of mind and only made sense if you are confused too – like his commentors.
Who coined Blair’s Law? It seems like a piss take on Blair.
25 July, 2008 at 5:21 pm
Daryl…um, you wouldn’t have a link for the labrador vid would you?
25 July, 2008 at 6:36 pm
slightly OT but blair seems convinced that obama is the new hitler. he even ticks off their likeness for his readers: charisma, CHECK. autobiography, CHECK, able to lift arm in salute (as opposed to mccain who can’t), CHECK.
http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/timblair/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/al_tanking/#commentsmore
please, somebody get timbo a bex.
26 July, 2008 at 1:27 pm
This postulation of Bolt’s Law fits in with other things I have been noticing in Bolt’s arguments of late. Not only is he conflating issues, but the line of argument on each issue is becoming identical. Two examples that I have seen in a lot of his recent writing (and others of teh Right):
1. Explicitly characterise the people on the other side of the argument as religious zealots and their argument as a faith-based rather than evidence-based one. He seems to have picked this up after Chris Uhlmann’s statement on Insiders that the argument for addressing climate change is a theological one picked up some press coverage. Just looking at the first page of Bolt’s blog right now, I can see references to “warming preachers”, “legalise-drugs zealots”, a media that is “punishingly evangelical about global warming”, “global warming seers”, “hairshirted finger waggers”, and fuck it I’m only halfway down the page but can’t do it any more. You get the idea.
2. To go along with the first line of argument, Bolt and others (e.g., Miranda Devine, who Bolt supports in this post today) propose that people are trying to stifle debate by telling the denailists that they are stupid and wrong. This is a parallel argument to one of the typical statements in support of teaching intelligent design – “opposing viewpoints should be heard” – except that, once again, one of those viewpoints is grounded not in evaluation of the scientific evidence but in trying to non-scientifically shape the evidence to fit a pre-ordained explanation.
27 July, 2008 at 6:50 pm
“Bolt’s Law: the ongoing process by which teh Right’s multiple moral crusades are becoming one giant, intertwined idea despite their complete lack of anything to do with each other”
Beware the ‘gay green left climate zealot muslim union thug’ coalition and their attempts to get all decent folk to postnataly abort their children after molesting them in the name of art, while installing filthy disease ridden rainwater tanks. (Obviously, this is all under the supervision of the reverse vampires and the RAND corporation)
The man is not only deranged, he is a simpleton.
28 July, 2008 at 5:08 pm
Bolt’s Law – refer to Tim Blair’s site for details.
28 July, 2008 at 5:57 pm
Bolt’s law of Disproportionate Returns:
Any actual insights you may read on Andrew Bolt’s site will not be worth the amount of unmitigated drivel you will have had to wade through to get them.
Corollary: If Bolt were to start getting things right more often, the amount of drivel from him and his Flying Monkeys will increase to compensate, and then some.
Corollary to the Corollary: If you notice the amount of drivel on Bolt’s site is increasing, it will not be worth looking for any increased number of insights, even if they do exist.
28 July, 2008 at 7:50 pm
Catsidhe, me lolz. It’s funny cos it’s true.
29 July, 2008 at 10:10 am
Bolt has again linked the shocking baby in the bag incident in Shepparton to the drought this time!
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/water_wasted_on_humans/
FUCKING DISGUSTING.
31 July, 2008 at 9:51 pm
Gee, how long has it been since you’ve been trying to find some kind of weak-as-piss comeback to Blair’s Law?
Work on the wording, boys.
The Right being “…one, giant intertwined idea…”? Well, go figure.
“Despite…”? Naturally, in your minds.
Gotta love the tit for tat.
31 July, 2008 at 10:44 pm
BEWARE ,Bolt is quite mad. He will go to any lengths to silence you.On my part the cretin posted my email address on his blog many times, resulting in getting vile comments from his cretins on my computer. Bad mistake on his part, now I’m there more than ever, under many screen names. bingbing thinks the sun shines out of Bolts arse, along with Macca the blogger dobber slut.
1 August, 2008 at 1:53 pm
For what it’s worth, I am going to use yesterday’s Bangladesh post from Bolt as a case study of Boltian motion. I have started my studies here.
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