By Jeremy
Andy starts the year with a sneering put-down of some of the most contemptible people imaginable:
It seems that some people of our writing class…
Eww, our writing class. About time someone stood up to them, Mr Bolt! Filthy elitists, with their fancy words and book-learning and such.
At least you’re not like that.
10 Comments
27 January, 2009 at 6:41 pm
How does he keep a straight face? That’s what I want to know.
27 January, 2009 at 7:05 pm
He’s the rebel at the back of the class, firing spitballs at the smart kids.
27 January, 2009 at 9:14 pm
So one have we have the dirty leftist elitist with their education, knowledge and wisdom.
And on the other the leftist education system leaving our population unable to read and write.
ANDY YOU ARE CONTRADICTING YOURSELF.
Obviously he is one of the uneducated victims of leftist tyranny.
27 January, 2009 at 10:07 pm
For some reason I get the felling that Bolt, rather than Blair is going to be the object of our ‘fascination’.
Blair can disguise his ‘hate’ with some humour (yes, I must admit that I enjoyed his Inaugaration Day updates.), whereas Bolt is pure arrogance (Well, he is Dutch….sorry, thats what my Dutch workmate says about his fellow countrymen!!!)
27 January, 2009 at 10:08 pm
That should read….”For some reason I get the felling that Bolt, rather than Blair is going to be the object of our ‘fascination’ in the months ahead.”
27 January, 2009 at 10:20 pm
Don’t be bothered about Bolt’s rant. By prattling on about the “writing class” he is ipso facto excluding himself from them. So welcome to the “non-writing class”, Andy.
What’s more deceitful is his representation of the 1999 referendum, that 55% chose to retain the Queen. The question of whether we should retain the monarchy was not a direct element of this poll at all. Instead, the people were asked to vote on a shallow and awkward republican model, conceived by a party whose upper echelons didn’t want it to succeed.
28 January, 2009 at 1:31 am
As a paid-up – if minor- member of the Writing Class, I can only say we certainly do feel insecure and inferior to the golden gods of the non-writing class. Like Andrew Bolt.
Lucky he’s got a dictaphone or he’d be on thin ice.
28 January, 2009 at 8:05 am
“What’s more deceitful is his representation of the 1999 referendum”
Quite, Bridgit – I just couldn’t justify three Bolt posts all at once!
“Instead, the people were asked to vote on a shallow and awkward republican model, conceived by a party whose upper echelons didn’t want it to succeed.”
The minimalist model was a perfectly sensible proposal, sabotaged by the “direct election” morons who decided that if they couldn’t have a major change to our entire system of government, then they’d prefer to have the monarchy.
Obviously it’s easy to sell the idea of “direct election” to people who haven’t thought about what precisely that would mean – and the “if you want to elect a President, vote no” campaign had a fairly easy job getting more gullible republicans to kill the referendum. It certainly wasn’t an endorsement of the monarchy – even the constitutional monarchists didn’t run a “vote no if you want the Queen” campaign. They didn’t even try to defend the monarchy – they just attacked the people who’d put the new model up. Remember the “politicians’ republic” line?
28 January, 2009 at 5:27 pm
Those writing classes …. THEY WRITE!!!!
28 January, 2009 at 8:19 pm
Oh the ironies, contradictions and absurd hypocrisy of Bolt and the inhabitants at his blog. If they had a modicum of emotional maturity they would piss themselves at themselves. How many times has some imbecilic supporter of Bolt jeered at someone disagreeing with Bolt positions and claimed that they had shot down their argument because they had detected a spelling mistake in their post. The sort of behaviour that they rightards over there lover too engage in.
How often has some rightard carped on about the influence of “the left” on the education system, and the subsequent poor grammar amongst students?
Now we have Bolt bemoaning the “writing class”.
Well Andy perhaps the “writing class” consists of people who aren’t stupidly blind follower of yours, willing to ignore your incredibly sloppy contributions, who believe that as an editor of a major news column, you should actually bother to make sure that your short inane contributions are at least spell checked, and proof read to remove grammatical errors.
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