Andrew Bolt's Blog,11/11/15; Bolt calls for the recognition of Unorthodox Science; Bolt declares himself as the man for the news; Monopoly is more than a game it's a learning tool for kids; Bolt declares Bigotry laws necessary; Tony Abbott told us the economy was "fixed"; $80 mill ++ wasted; Rudd and bipartisan politics;
" “Activist” has become a dirty word, thanks particularly to human rights and environmental activists."
I think Reclaim Australia , the UPF, and all those groups hailed by Andrew Bolt top the list of most reviled "activists" in the current political climate. Those groups lead by neo-Nazis actually wear their four letter word as a form of pride. Bolt gives them the publicity they crave as he does ISIS, Boko Harum, etc etc. What was that four letter word you give them Bolt?
It seems the Liberal Party should be up before the Royal Commission. To date the members and donors have been defrauded of $1.565,000. A bit more than reported by Andrew Bolt.
Link Paywall to the Australian.
Oh Bolt, an "unnamed source", a leak 8 weeks after the event. With the polls the way they are the LNP can't give two hoots as to what happened way back then.. As Peter Costello said the party is only interested in winners and Abbott's s loser. You can't make a silk purse out of him. Julie Bishop is a winner as is Turnbull. Wave your flag blow your horn but Tony dead meat.
" Highly-regarded Australian historians such as Henry Reynolds, Stuart
Macintyre and Lyndall Ryan have attracted scorn, derision and ad hominem
attacks in mainstream media outlets, and vicious personal abuse on
blogs run by such luminaries as Andrew Bolt and Tim Blair.
The temptation is to leave academic history and public memory to
operate in distinct and separate spheres. But to do so would be a
grievous mistake and a professional cop-out. Historians need to gird
their loins, toughen up, and enter the public fray when the opportunity
arises.
This lecture argues why, and suggests some ways in which historians can better equip themselves to do so."
Not only highly regarded Historians but Scientists, Economists Educators Lawyers etc some Nobel prize winners amongst them. All have felt the brunt of the scorn delivered by uneducated lowly regarded right wing media print jocks like Andrew Bolt. Bolt has been publicly found guilty and admonished in our courts by highly respected judges for poor use facts gathered loosley, of defamation and racial vilification. The only skill these News Corp hacks have acquired over the years has been little more than thick heads and skins.
" I couldn’t imagine what I’d done that had upset Crotty so disproportionately. But then I searched the archives. Apparently I’ve occupied a large part of his mind ever since. "Bolt
This just goes to show how thick Bolt is to believe it's about him rather than any number of thick heads available to fill his place. A role not exclusive to Andrew Bolt but available to any number of dolts who have internalized the self interested values associated with a minority of Australians who believe in their economic, social and political right to rule.
Orwell tried to warn us about these pricks but instead wound up providing them with a manual of operation.
"Turnbull’s yabber now meets an obstacle. What next?"
Bolt's not a listener is he? Socially he has no time for empathy, very little for sympathy. and it's because he's so egocentric he just can't be bothered listening to anyone but himself. The problem with listening is it just might require compromise and negotiating skills as opposed to others simply being told what to do.
Bolt likes to give orders but dislikes taking them. He claims he's his own man but he's desperately lonely and hangs around alone more often than not because he simply doesn't know what small talk and being social is all about. It's why he's so formulaic just follow his arguments. So Andrew Bolt there is no Turnbull Plan B as yet because plan A hasn't been put on the table. You will need to wait. Nobody can offer a solution to an issue that Tony Abbott said was "fixed" but certainly wasn't. A problem that has become exceedingly worse.
It's what makes Butthead Bolt unorthodox, lost and always flip flopping around looking for a context. He seemed to think he had found one with Tony Abbott but that was short lived. He remains very much alone essentially existentially bothered by most other people. As a result his favoured company is himself. Sharing is just such such a pain.
Tony Thomas Mercenary Climate Change denialist Working for Quadrant
When it comes to Climate Bolt always turns to his usual suspects to wage his war against Climate Science.
" But I erred, Holmes’ victimology includes only orthodox climate scientists as its purported casualties."
If the Australian Academy of Science only represents "orthodox" climate scientists and not legitimate scientists in general who or which body represents the unordthodox science? Is there such a body even Andrew Bolt might gain entry to? Who pray tell is this group of diligent and exceptional scientists rumored to exist by Bolt?
Maybe Andrew Bolt could create a group and declare himself president remember when there was an anti-football league started by a journalist. However this unorthodox group would seem to run counter to Bolt's claim that the game of Monopoly set in Melbourne is unauthentic because it doesn't use legitimate suburbs and streets with authentic values and status. He simply disregards this unorthodox game as legitimate. So would his unorthodox group of scientists have any legitimacy even in Bolt's eyes?
Bolt's hypotheticals stretch far beyond reality. He even writes the news for all the other orthodox mastheads. Firstly why is Bolt reporting something that's well known as if he's delivering breaking news? He did yesterday when he declared Victoria lost $850 mill by scrapping the East Link project when the actual figure is $650 mill in order to save the state from a politically expedient contract signed by an aggrieved outgoing Liberal government to hold the state to ransom and cause damage. Bolt just makes facts and figures up in order to arrive at his imagined puff ball but politically fabricated conclusions.
"True, Turnbull still has one hope - to get the votes of six of the eight crossbench Senators, and doing all he can to charm them as Abbott could not:"
If there is an element of truth in any of Bolt's blogs it's generally put at the very end because without it the man would in fact reveal himself for what he really is in the media industry irrelevant.
" It makes no sense in the context of the game, of course. How can a player buy the Shrine of Remembrance?"
Value status and power are essential qualities in Bolt's world how else could he identify himself and train his children? Even when it comes to a game children, who generally don't give a shit about status need to be trained. Mr Bolt and some bigoted parents even see Monopoly as a training tool for their childrens future perspective. It show us that for Bolt even a game is not just a game and equality is not really equality that reality is is not really a natural state but in fact needs to be learnt.
Here we are yet again listening to Andrew Bolt declaring the need to legislate bigotry and hate as an aspect of free speech in a civilized society. Pedophiles should have the right to publicly express their beliefs to children in Bolt's truly open society. ISIS has a place as well. I'm sorry what a load of crap. When the media no longer practices the principles it advocates and merely becomes the centralized mouth piece for the most powerful interest group in any society it needs to be challenged and not only by words but actions. Printing and media is more than speech and as an action needs to be democratized. A serious conflict of interest lies in organizations like News Corp where information and news run secondary to business profit and those it serves. It's why Section 18C legislates against hate speech remains important.
Turnbull just threw the issue of the economy open for debate. Everybody has an opinion on that debate and it's even shown here in bolt's blog. Richardson and Costello claim there's no framework for the debate. Albrechtsen echoes the various opinions and castigates Turnbull and Morrison for listening to them all. Bolt however adds nothing to the conversation at all. In other words this blog is little more than a whinge by him and of no constructive use at all. Tony Abbott "fixed" the economy remember he told us so and that was the last we heard of it from him. He'd love to have sacked Hockey but couldn't. So he just ignored it.
Bolt is as useful to Science as a witch hunter is in a rational community. He is as useful to Democracy as a supporter of Kim Jong-Un
Cost benefit of $80+ mill spent to reveal 4-5 bad eggs in the Trade Union system could have been dealt with by the police for next to nothing. The revelation some few thousnd dollars being misappropriated might be welcome but ridiculous. It's using a sledge hammer to push in a thumb tack.
Damien Mantach stole $1-5 mill of the Vic Lib Party members' donations it's been buried by the press. Is it even under police investigation we don't know.
The Australian tax payer has been totally ripped off.
“He has to deal with the lunar right of his party and there are some serious nut jobs there, we all know that...”
The "nut jobs" Rudd
refers to are the extreme right and Conservatives within the LNP and
Liberals. For Bolt it's this minority that the party and government should
stand for. For Turnbull and Rudd Australia's progress is dependent on
bipartisan politics so the country can move forward rather than remain
hamstrung and achieving nothing.
As for sceptics and science there is no crime in testing propositions but unfortunately when those tests have been proven wrong and are repeatedly held onto they are no longer of any use to anybody they are dead weight. The skeptics of climate change are in the main no longer sceptics they are simply denialists repeating claims that have been proven false time and time again. Even after they have been peer -reviewed and denied. Repetition of false data and conclusions may be Bolt's tool of trade but that certainly does not make him a sceptic. He's worn that title out long ago. Sceptics progress and move on once proven wrong. Bolt has stood still and even moved backwards in his past 56 years.
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