By Scott
Cross-posted at GrodsCorp
Andrew Bolt gets all teary when naughty people criticise Malcy and not Kevvie. Bolta doesn’t like it when evil journalists form opinions, based on experience, analysis and other journalistic shit, that make Malcy and the Liberals look silly.
The Canberra press pack had a quick count of heads and declared the public hated Malcolm Turnbull’s plan to block Kevin Rudd’s $42 billion spending spree.
See, it’s the journalists who are wrong here and not Malcy. These journalists wouldn’t know public sentiment if it spat in their faces. Andy, on the other hand, has his finger on the pulse of middle Australia from the comfort of his air conditioned tenth floor office at Southbank. (Sometimes Bolt even goes for coffee in the food hall and he sees heaps of plebs ordinary people while he hurries through with a hanky over his nose.) Bolta provides six examples of journalistic anti-Malcy sentiment, five of which come from the “hard left” Fairfax and ABC, with the remaining example from News Limited’s Courier Mail.
Michelle Grattan, The Age:
(The Opposition) expects its stand to be immediately unpopular — getting between the public and buckets of money could hardly be anything else… Turnbull did not make a very convincing argument …Mark Colvin, AM:
You (the Liberals) are standing between a large section of the Australian middle class and a bucket of money. As you say, it’s not going to be popular.Dennis Atkins, Courier Mail:
The Coalition’s hardline stand was cheered by the parties’ MPs, who saw it as getting the debate back to their “strong suit of economic management”. This may happen eventually but in the short-term they’ve dealt themselves out of the argument.Tony Wright, The Age:
It brought to mind the image of the band playing uplifting tunes on the deck of the Titanic… (O)verwhelming approval and applause would likely be scarce in the streets for anyone attempting to deny the promised largesse.Peter Hartcher, Sydney Morning Herald:
MALCOLM TURNBULL has decided to arrange himself casually on the railway tracks in front of the onrushing Rudd money train… It’s a bid for relevance on a point of irrelevance… At worst, it is an act of suicidal braggadocio.Annabel Crabb described the scenes in Parliament when her colleagues heard the news:
Commentators gasped. Ladies fainted. The weak of heart covered their eyes… Indeed, debate raged around Parliament House yesterday about the political implications of Tarzan’s actions. Was he committing political suicide? Was this an incredibly beady-eyed act of political cynicism…?
After comprehensively proving perncious lefty groupthink with these examples, Bolta moves on to a much more authoritative gauge of public sentiment than journalists: online polls run by newspapers.
But much of the public seems, so far, to have failed to read the script written for it by the Canberra media.
The Herald Sun’s on-line poll has 53 per cent of more than 11,000 votes agreeing with Turnbull. The Australian poll has an already healthy 47 per cent of people saying he’s right to want to wait.
These are the same polls that ask hard-hitting questions (such as today’s Hun pearler: “Has red carpet fashion gone too far?”) and collate reliable statistics from a representative cross-section of the community.
But hang on, isn’t there an Age poll on the same question that should be included in Bolt’s analysis for fairness?
True, The Age poll is wildly against Turnbull, but if you believed all The Age wrote you’d think Rudd a saint and all who doubted him deserved hell.
And this man has the balls to call himself a journalist.
58 Comments
5 February, 2009 at 9:58 am
Bolt is a dickhead.
He appears to be getting more and more desperate in his posts.
5 February, 2009 at 10:15 am
Bolt does have a point though. It is premature for journalists to be claiming that Turnbull has made a huge mistake in blocking Rudd’s spend fest. The only public gauge thus far are online opinion polls. To date the majority of them favour Turnbull’s opposition to Rudd’s stimulus package.
5 February, 2009 at 10:23 am
Online opinion polls are rubbish, they are subject to distortion by anyone.
5 February, 2009 at 10:27 am
Online opinion polls are rubbish, they are subject to distortion by anyone.
So what are these journalist’s using to gauge public opinion on Turbull’s position on Rudd’s stimulus package?
5 February, 2009 at 10:29 am
Barometers of public opinion. You can get them in any good hardware store.
5 February, 2009 at 10:34 am
The journalists are not gauging public reaction, they are guessing that it will not be popular. That’s the difference that Bolt, and apparently you are unable to grasp Pipper.
It’s not rocket science. Rudd wants to hand out money to the public. Turnbull wanted to block it. The vast majority of the public want the handout -after all it’s money, and people will never say no to money. You do the math
5 February, 2009 at 10:55 am
It’s not rocket science. Rudd wants to hand out money to the public. Turnbull wanted to block it. The vast majority of the public want the handout -after all it’s money, and people will never say no to money. You do the math
But you don’t know that with certainty and neither do the journalists. This is Bolt’s point, the journalists are too quick to write Turnbull’s opposition as political suicide. There is just as much chance that the public are more intelligent and will be more concerned with the ramifications of future dept than the short lived pleasure of a government handout.
5 February, 2009 at 11:01 am
Yeahh riiiiigght.
People will want the money. You are naive if you believe otherwise.
Interesting that you seem to think the ramifications of this are bad. I for one do not know, and neither does Bolt, but like a good little soldier you are out spreading the word on Bolt’s behalf.
5 February, 2009 at 11:03 am
Malcolm Turnbull is going to either win big or commit political suicide over his opposition to the package. I think the package will eventually pass with the minor party Senators. If the package fails Turnbull will be well within his rights to say ‘told you so, I am a BETTER economic manager than Rudd.’
If the package is effective and can be proved to be so Turnbull is finished, that’s fine by me, I reckon Costello will have a tilt then the govt can rip him to shreds..
disclaimer – I am not a Rudd fan, I just despise the Liberal Party slightly more than the Labor Party.
5 February, 2009 at 11:09 am
The Package has been delayed until next Thursday by the senate. After all it is a bit rich to expect $42 billion of spending through without ANY scrutiny. I reckon Rudd is just happy he’s wedged the Libs on the issue, in fact I reckon that was his main goal.
5 February, 2009 at 11:11 am
Interesting that you seem to think the ramifications of this are bad
I never said that. I stated the alternative to the public wanting the money which is turnbulls argument not mine. I never said it was my personal belief. Either the public will support Rudd’s stimulus plan or they will support turnbulls argument that it will lead to negative implications due to the debt Burdon.
Malcolm Turnbull is going to either win big or commit political suicide over his opposition to the package. I think the package will eventually pass with the minor party Senators. If the package fails Turnbull will be well within his rights to say ‘told you so, I am a BETTER economic manager than Rudd.’
I agree with you Rob. I believe that the package will still pass the senate, but turnbull is setting himself up to be able to say, when a recession does hit, “I told you so. Most economists agree that a recession here is inevitable. If this is the case then Rudd is setting himself up for a voter backlash. All the libs are doing is positioning themselves so that Rudd is 100% responsible for the outcome of the stimulus package one the inevitable occurs.
5 February, 2009 at 11:15 am
“There is just as much chance that the public are more intelligent and will be more concerned with the ramifications of future dept than the short lived pleasure of a government handout.”
This is what you wrote. You are inferring that the public is not intelligent if they support receiving the handout.
Your own writing betrays your opinion. Don’t try to pretend otherwise.
5 February, 2009 at 11:18 am
This is what you wrote. “You are inferring that the public is not intelligent if they support receiving the handout.”
Your own writing betrays your opinion. Don’t try to pretend otherwise
There is a big difference to that and what you claim I said;
Interesting that you seem to think the ramifications of this are bad
Try again shane.
5 February, 2009 at 11:49 am
Then why did you not present both sides of the argument in your post Pipper.
You took the time to tell us that :
“There is just as much chance that the public are more intelligent and will be more concerned with the ramifications of future dept than the short lived pleasure of a government handout”
Notice you used the word “ramifications” and “debt” (although you wrote “dept” ) and “concerned”. This was your opinion.
Anyway I don’t know why I bother. You will always defend Bolt no matter what, so we know exactly where your political leanings lie.
5 February, 2009 at 11:54 am
Bolt here shows the shallowness of his political nouse. He’s the equivalent of a footy supporter – if his side’s not doing so well it must be because the umpire is biased.
The broken record: Bolt does have a point though. We only wish you did, RadP.
5 February, 2009 at 12:09 pm
Notice you used the word “ramifications” and “debt” (although you wrote “dept” ) and “concerned”. This was your opinion
Shane I was just presenting it the way turnbull is as this is the basis of their argument. Either the public support Turnbull’s argument that the Stimulus package will lead to bad government debt or they support Rudd’s argument that the debt is good because it will avert a recession.
You were the one that implied that the public would not see past the money.
It’s not rocket science. Rudd wants to hand out money to the public. Turnbull wanted to block it. The vast majority of the public want the handout -after all it’s money, and people will never say no to money. You do the math
In effect you are saying that the public will only be interested in the money so it is a no brainer for rudd.
5 February, 2009 at 12:30 pm
In effect you are saying that the public will only be interested in the money so it is a no brainer for rudd.
That is precisely what I am saying. For once you have it right.
5 February, 2009 at 12:36 pm
That is precisely what I am saying. For once you have it right
Which is why I said;
There is just as much chance that the public are more intelligent and will be more concerned with the ramifications of future dept than the short lived pleasure of a government handout
Which would mean that the journalists would be wrong and Turnbull has played a very smart hand. In effect Turnbull is taking the gamble that the public will see beyond the money and support him in his argument that the stimulus package will lead to bad government debt with ramifications.
5 February, 2009 at 12:41 pm
bolt is just a partisan hack. if the positions were reversed and it was PM turnbull proposing the package and opposition rudd blocking it bolt would be screaming blue murder about labor stopping the governments mandate and preventing people from getting their cash.
5 February, 2009 at 12:48 pm
“bolt is just a partisan hack.”
Hear hear.
“if the positions were reversed and it was PM turnbull proposing the package and opposition rudd blocking it bolt would be screaming blue murder about labor stopping the governments mandate and preventing people from getting their cash.”
Without a doubt, his hypocrisy knows no bounds, I guess when you have a shitload of idiot sycophants swallowing your constant streams of bullshit, and are paid handsomely by News Corp, being a hack would be the least of your worries.
5 February, 2009 at 12:55 pm
Isn’t it amazing confessions & Rob. A conservative like Bolt being opposed to Rudd’s plan for big Government and massive spending of $42 billion. Who would have thought?!
Next you will be telling us that the Greens will be opposing logging of rainforests.
5 February, 2009 at 1:07 pm
what’s even more amazing is for a so-called conservative, bolt’s only discovered fiscal conservatism in the last 14 months. I don’t remember him railing against the pork-barrelling Nats or insisting that the howard handouts should instead be invested in infrastructure not a personal re-election funds. amazing, isn’t it?
5 February, 2009 at 1:14 pm
what’s even more amazing is for a so-called conservative, bolt’s only discovered fiscal conservatism in the last 14 months. I don’t remember him railing against the pork-barrelling Nats or insisting that the howard handouts should instead be invested in infrastructure not a personal re-election funds. amazing, isn’t it?
I don’t think that any other government in Australia’s history has ever spashed around $42 Billion like Rudd is now. There is a big difference between tax cuts (which fits with conservative ideology) and racking up $billions of dollars debt from a $42 billion spending spree. Also howard kept the budget in surplus rudd is going into deficit.
5 February, 2009 at 1:15 pm
Howard was the king of the pork barrel, save up a massive surplus to splurge in marginal seats at election time. I’m not naive, I realise our politicians practice this on both sides but I’m at a loss to notice Andrew Bolt EVER criticising Howard for his rampant pork barreling.
Next election Rudd will pork barrel, I bet you any money that partisan hypocritical hack will be all over Rudd..
5 February, 2009 at 1:18 pm
Hey confessions, I enjoyed Wayne Swans crucifixion of Turnbull’s suggestion to bring forward tax cuts, you know, the tax cuts that will give low income people $600 less than the govt hand out and those on $200K thousands more than the govt hand out. I wonder who would be most likely to spend any handouts, the strugglers or the people on $200K
Malcolm Turnbull is out of touch, but hey, he’s an ex-merchant banker, what would one expect.
5 February, 2009 at 1:18 pm
Howard was the king of the pork barrel, save up a massive surplus to splurge in marginal seats at election time
The difference is that Howard was returning the surplus to the taxpayers while still keeping the budget in surplus. Rudd is spending up big to send us deeper into debt. Conservatives are about only spending the money we have, not spending money that we need to go into debt for.
5 February, 2009 at 1:27 pm
Malcolm Turnbull is out of touch, but hey, he’s an ex-merchant banker, what would one expect
Oh really. Well maybe you need to ask that when Australia finally goes into recession and unemployment hit’s 7%. We will see then how Australians feel about massive government debt and Rudd’s $42 billion surplus that was meant to create 90,000 jobs.
Turnbull is setting himself up now for the 2010 election. A year when Australia will be dealing will the real impacts of the financial crisis and rising unemployment. It will be then that rudd will have to explain to the Australian voters that the massive government debt we have from his stimulus package was worth it.
5 February, 2009 at 1:27 pm
So glad none of this is your “opinion” Rad.
The good news is that Rad will be able to say no to any handouts he receives. Won’t you Rad?…. Rad??
5 February, 2009 at 1:28 pm
Rad – why are you wasting keystrokes, I don’t even bother reading your shit partisan, trollish, Bolt can do no wrong posts.
Read one you’ve read them all.
5 February, 2009 at 1:40 pm
me too Rob, listened to a replay of QT on the radio last night. not only did swan whack him with the rich getting more under the liberals tax cuts, but that it would also cost the budget something like $11b more thus sending the budget further into deficit if Turnbull’s plan to bring forward the 2010 tax cuts were implemented.
I also enjoyed his and rudd’s take down of bishop, who’s looking more and more of a dud each day.
5 February, 2009 at 5:34 pm
Rad, you really do need to go away. This is an important debate for sensible people. Your constant posting is just filling space up with garbage.
I’m sure you won’t listen though.
5 February, 2009 at 7:28 pm
Andy going out to get a coffee with a hanky over his nose…That’s funny.
What a good post.
6 February, 2009 at 12:21 am
Yes, I’m sure there legions of Australians doing it tough right now who are are shouting “No! Don’t Give Me Money! Not If It Means A Deficit!”
Here’s an interesting bit of news that I dare Bolt to deny : Costello spends hours in Parliament on his laptop, with The Professional Idiot’s blog often on the screen, and he is a regular commenter there. Not under his own name of course. Bolt knows this, natch, and is happy to have Costello as a (quiet) guest contributor in comments (as well as feeding Bolt plenty of material for other postings).
TPI wasn’t joking when he made that April Fools Day crack about going to work for Costello. He is working for Costello, as a publicist, though presumably he’s not yet getting paid. Check out his work today on Costello, he can barely conceal his delight that he knows Costello is going to try and topple Turnbull (by the end of the year).
6 February, 2009 at 6:45 am
Yes, Darryl, I’m sure Costello and the Bolt have been working arm in arm for some time. I’ve always considered Bolt a propaganda tool for the Liberal party and I’ve seen nothing lately to change my mind on this.
6 February, 2009 at 7:31 am
“MORE than 30 Victorians died in last week’s heat in one of the great scandals of green politics. ”
Rants the idiot bigot Bolt. Sure Mr Bolt, it’s the Greens fault that inefficient FILTHY BROWN coal power stations cannot keep up. It’s the Greens fault that successive narrow minded main party governments have failed to invest appropriately in infrastructure. It’s the greens fault that the blinkered Labor and Liberal parties don’t give a toss about sustainability.
Labor and Liberal have ruled this nation for donkeys, they are not green, either of them, neither are their policies, it just seems that Labor is less ‘un-green’ than the Liberal dinosaurs. They are both right of centre parties who refuse to think past the next election. I understand that Bolt perceives anything left of Dick Cheney as ‘Socialist’, you only have to read his blog for a second or so to realise that he and his band of idiot sycophants don’t even know what the word ’socialist’ means. /endrant
6 February, 2009 at 9:04 am
The bigoted idiot truthman spewed in this killer greens thread:
“Even if they were which they are not they would never catch up to te 30 million that have died from the aids virus which has been spread by the gays of course guess who preaches the radical green lies ?thats right gays ,Brown is gay ,Wong is gay ,and so are many many others in the green front for gays,seems very hypocritical to me. ”
I wonder why Bolt or one of his idiot moderators let this one through?, I’m going to assume that the bigot agrees with it, I mean he’s normal quick to ‘SNIP’ what he describes as abuse.
It beggars belief that so many idiots not only swallow Bolt’s shit but some of them (the biggest idiots of all) feel compelled to defend him at other blogs?
6 February, 2009 at 9:08 am
he’s getting more and more hysterical isn’t he? people die in a heatwave and that’s the fault of green policies…he can’t water his garden because of drought and that the fault of green policies….what the fuck is that man smoking?
I noticed in the run up to signing kyoto he got more and more shrill and I just thought he’d calm down once he and his minions realised we’d all wake up the next day business as usual. but he hasn’t calmed down, he’s now turned into the very thing that he always says about greenies: religious fanatics, zealot like behaviour, irrational, illogical statements. and once we get an ETS – now looking very shrewd in terms of boosting govt revenue and getting back to surplus – what will he be like then?
As i said once before, denialists like him are simply dealing themselves out of the equation, but bolt seems hell bent on doing it through manic hysteria rather than simple irrelevance.
6 February, 2009 at 12:38 pm
There he goes again, slagging of the Lancet Report of deaths in Iraq. Thing is this methodology was used in Rwanda and the Balkans, nobody was disputing those figures, after all it wasn’t the so called ‘coalition of the willing’ responsible.
Suppose the Lancet’s report is wrong, does he have anything better? Iraq Body Count only counts deaths in hospitals and bodies at morgues. The Bush Admin, well they didn’t make ANY attempt to measure the civilian toll, i suppose they just didn’t care, though they have excellent figures on their own casualties.
The knockers of the Lancet report really should STFU until they can produce a better count!
At the end of the day we all know that the invasion of Iraq caused heaps of death, destruction and misery, and to say Saddam was worse is a childish response, ie two wrongs do not make a right (something most of us are taught very early on in our lives)
6 February, 2009 at 12:39 pm
Damn me, that’s two hits for his blog I’ve made today!
6 February, 2009 at 3:30 pm
Hold on everybody. If Rudd had argued for austerity, ‘keeping your powder dry’, avoiding everlasting debt etc, just what Malc is arguing now, you can bet that Malc would be leading the unanimous Liberals to oppose Labor’s do-nothing approach and they’d by clamouring for a big old fashioned pump-prime. It’s called politics, not economics.
The other thing is, with the inevitable recession how will anyone ever know that things wouldn’t have been a lot worse if the Ruddster hadn’t spent big, hmmm?
7 February, 2009 at 11:19 am
Bolt has a beauty today. He hasn’t allowed comments so I’ve got to say something somewhere. He quotes British research that says global warming will save British lives that would, in cooler times have been killed by cold weather. He then accuses Clive Hamilton of being responsible for killing people because of his leftist, green loving ways.
Seriously, there is so much wrong with this I could hardly believe my eyes. Surely he’s libelled Clive Hamilton. And does he now accept that global warming is happening? And he’s quoting British research where the weather is a lot cooler than here. He carefully avoids any reference to the Melbourne Mortuary being full of people who succumbed during the last heatwave.
I keep the thinking the guy has finally jumped the shark and then he comes up with something even more jaw-dropping.
7 February, 2009 at 12:28 pm
Yeah, I read that. Who could have known that global warming is a leftist plot to kill off the elderly?
7 February, 2009 at 6:42 pm
“The other thing is, with the inevitable recession how will anyone ever know that things wouldn’t have been a lot worse if the Ruddster hadn’t spent big, hmmm?”
nobody knows, that’s the unique thing about this downturn: it seems all previous economic theories are out the window as governments fly by the seat of their pants. but put yourself in the governments position. why sit dormant and at best respond with a feather whip or at worse do nothing which is what the liberals seem to want to do? and while we don’t know how voters will respond to the liberals, all i can say is turnbull and bishop are spinning bullshit: tax less and revenue will go up, drop the cash handouts to reduce the amount to go into deficit and bring forward 2010 tax cuts, but all this does is increase the proposed deficit by $11b. do the maths.
“He then accuses Clive Hamilton of being responsible for killing people because of his leftist, green loving ways.”
the heat has obviously addled his brain. either that or he’s been paying too much attention to the liberals tax policies, where one extreme works in inverse proportions to the other. or it’s just more of his hysteria. I prescribe a dark room, a bex, cup of tea (iced of course), and good lie down.
7 February, 2009 at 7:03 pm
Yeah, that sounds nice Confessions.
Personally, my prescription is a padded room, a hefty shot of thorazine and a nice warm jacket with arms that tie together at the back.
The man is literally foaming at the mouth since his return from holidays.
Im looking forward to seeing his next appearance on The Insiders. I will be suprised if he doesnt spontaneously combust from all the impotent rage he’s choking down!
7 February, 2009 at 7:37 pm
“Personally, my prescription is a padded room, a hefty shot of thorazine and a nice warm jacket with arms that tie together at the back.”
ha ha!! actually i’d reckon he’s been foaming since longer than his holidays, like, since the baby in the green bag post. the whole greenies and killing things is getting creepier and creepier and weirder and weirder.
7 February, 2009 at 8:10 pm
“PB
7 February, 2009 at 11:19 am
Bolt has a beauty today. He hasn’t allowed comments so I’ve got to say something somewhere.”
Seems I am reduced to the same. My post to him today was censored. Here it is.
“And no to emissions trading.”
Thats an interesting one Andrew. Does that mean you & your followers in here are conceding that AGW does exist, but we just need to go about the fix in a different way?
Or you want the Coalition to say no to AGW AND ETS? If its the later, I encourage you to pursuade your party that they should abandon the pro agw model they allready have. You did know that didnt you Andrew…..? That your party supports the AGW model?
Go to Malcolm armed with your “facts” about the grand AGW conspiracy & how wrong all the science is. Im sure he will see the light.
But the last one Andrew, thats really got me in stitches.
“No to anything that will cost Australians their jobs”
SNIP…..abuse. If you hate the host that much, what on earth are you doing spending your Saturday morning here? Bolt Moderators.
Bob Evans of Brisbane (Reply)
Sat 07 Feb 09 (10:26am)
Usually I am only censored 75% of the time. Now I am not allowed to reply at all to any posts. Yet if your a Bolt clone, slander away.
The guy is a like a terrier that runs from behind its owners legs & yaps its head off at you, then when you turn around & confront it, runs back behind the owners ( censors) legs.
8 February, 2009 at 8:24 am
“SNIP…..abuse. If you hate the host that much, what on earth are you doing spending your Saturday morning here? Bolt Moderators.”
This is why I don’t post there, what’s the point? The mods and the host are both ridiculously biased and dishonest with regard to their reasons for censoring dissenting posts, they’re a pack of lying bigots who appeal to idiot sycophantic red necks.
Much more fun to criticise the hypocrite here, where he or his attack dog mods have no moderating privileges.
If only his sycophant idiots realised how often they get completely owned, but the mods coddle them with their bullshit biased moderation.
8 February, 2009 at 8:30 am
Thing is Bob, you’re contributing to the idiots wealth by generating posts…that is, the idiots will rally to defend their bigoted hypocritical hero, generating many hits.
If I were disciplined enough I’d never visit. Alas I read stuff here then have to go and have a butchers for myself.
8 February, 2009 at 9:28 am
This is what got me censored Rob at the “snip” bit .
“Bolt is like the kids that light bushfires & disappear. Only to come back later & help fire & police to put out the flames & pretend they are a hero.”
Just that? No swearing or breaking the guidelines. He just didnt want his followers seeing that. Then he continued to allow one of his red neck faithfull to attack with surprise surprise, no follow up defense from myself, as all subsequent posts were censored.
“Bob, you’re contributing to the idiots wealth by generating posts…that is, the idiots will rally to defend their bigoted hypocritical hero, generating many hits.”
I realise this & I usually show constraint, allthough some posts are just so far from reality & the supporters so blindly following that alternative reality, that I feel the need to burst the snow dome they live in.
Bolt also writes like some ADHD cross OCD freak, as he just pumps out so many outlandish blogs per day. I suspect its to do withthe fact that everything he says gets debunked & he needs the evidence pushed back into the archives each time.
Didnt anyone hear that Bolts columns are scanned regularly by the Feds & ASIO for criminal profiling? As the site is so rich with nutjobs, they get a high yield harvest.
8 February, 2009 at 9:36 am
“If I were disciplined enough I’d never visit. Alas I read stuff here then have to go and have a butchers for myself.”
these days the only times i visit is when i get linked there through various articles on other website and this one of course. even then i wonder why i bother because everything – bolt columns, his sheep responses – are so predictable, you don’t need to see.
“Didnt anyone hear that Bolts columns are scanned regularly by the Feds & ASIO for criminal profiling?”
i’ve heard that before but don’t believe it.
8 February, 2009 at 9:41 am
Actually, a good post to make at Bolt’s at the moment would be one directed at the one trick pony who calls himself ‘Alan of Sydney” it would be good to ask him who would provide quality emergency radio coverage in the event that his wet dream of a privatised ABC came to fruition? Mel & Kochie? Carl Stephnovich?
Why would any private company provide free quality advice?
We’d have our vital info peppered with ads, mock outrage and other sensless shit. Then again I guess regular fans of Bolt are into having everything dumbed down.
8 February, 2009 at 10:36 am
he probably has never experienced bushfire and doesn’t understand that electricity goes so TV and internet are out. only battery-power radio is available. the same with cyclones and severe storms, and who is it that provides comprehensive, whole of region advice to affected residents? not nova FM that’s for sure!
8 February, 2009 at 10:37 am
“these days the only times i visit is when i get linked there through various articles on other website and this one of course”
Thats exactly how I ended back on his site. I had a 1 year gap between my last round of posts on there, but some global warming article lead me it again.
I ended up staying for a few weeks to give an alternative view to the masses of “Yeah, totally agree with you Mr Bolt, the Sun spins around the Earth”.
Doesnt matter, as in the end, I have been banned it seems anyway. None of my posts have been accepted since I was censored on Saturday.
He is all for free speech & democracy, just not on his blog.
He is all for capatalism & big business, as long as there is no green tag associated with it.
He is all for liberalisation & less government intevention, but only for the people & businesses he sees fit to be unshackled.
I heard the ASIO reference, but havnt found any substantial claims, so will consider it rumour for the time being. But please ASIO or Fed guys, if you are watching this, slip us a link or some sort of evidence, twould be grand.
8 February, 2009 at 1:12 pm
“He is all for free speech & democracy, just not on his blog.”
Nor when Turnbull or Bishop are being interviewed, he gets his knickers in a twist when journos ask his ‘neo-liberal’ heroes the tough questions.
All ASIO are gonna find on Bolts blog are ignorant bigots, they’re harmless as long as they only air the bigotry on his bigoted blog, I doubt many of them would be brave enough to air their kooky views if they didn’t have their anonymity to hide behind.
9 February, 2009 at 8:02 am
poor andy. according to newspoll (more reliable than hun straw poll) voters back the stimulus plan, and have given labor a boost in the polls. so much for him slagging off at other columnists “quick count of heads.” as usual, the experience of proper journos michelle grattan, peter hartcher and mark colvin has won out over the idealogy of bolt. what a surprise!
9 February, 2009 at 8:41 am
Hypocrite Bolt having a go at Brown’s politicing out of tragedy. Hmmmmm green bags and dead babies spring to mind. On the one hand you have Boltards screaming blue murder over Brown, yet in a nearby thread on the exact same Blog you’ve got Boltards blaming Labor and the Greens for the catastrophe.
Typical hypocrisy from Bolt and his band of idiot fans.
confessions, see the story in the Age about Turnbull taking $50 000 from Peter Brigger, chairman of the ‘vulture company’ Fortress? Turnbull even had shares in this ‘vulture company’ but he offloaded them when presidential hopeful John Edwards started to distance himself from Fortress.
It seems to me that the world economy tanked because of greedy bastards like Turnbull, he has no credibility on the issue of the financial crisis, apparently he made $28o million (US) as a merchant banker, all the while countless Americans lost their homes. the guy is completely out of touch with the reality that most of us live. Scandalous.
(yes yes Boltards, I realise that the Rudd’s are very wealthy, because Therese Rudd appears to have a talent for running an employment agency, she’s not a merchant wanker though)
9 February, 2009 at 11:47 am
Is anyone else bothered by the thought of ASIO and the Feds monitoring Bolt’s blog? I’m old enough to remember when they used to do similar things to anyone who dared to dissent, even mildly, from the conservative anti-communist consensus of the 1950s and ’60s. Isn’t it just slightly disconcerting that they’re now doing the same to a bunch of half-educated groupies?
9 February, 2009 at 2:35 pm
RobJ: read it yesterday. the economy tanked because of unchecked lending institutions doling out credit to anyone who asked for it, and greed. any of the taxpayer-bailed out companies still paying bonuses to their directors is a prime eg of this greed. but also the falling share prices of most companies – if the rationale for huge bonuses is good market results, surely it works the other way and your pay takes a hit in the bad years.
BadBob: not bothered at all because i don’t believe it happens. like robj said, the only bit of info they’d glean would be idiots trying to out-racist and out-sexist each other from the comfort of anonymity. besides, i’m sure our security agencies have far better things to be worrying about than a very small, ignorant minority of Australia.
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