Friday, 11 March 2016

Andrew Bolt's Blog ,11/3/16; Can you imagine boorish Bolt in your ear at a Richmond game? Bolt looking to see if Abbott's at the table. Bolt uses Trump diplomacy bomb them back to the stoneage; Bolt wonders, where are the Fright Bats ? ; Gerard Henderson's principles prove Bolt's not believable;

  Pell said it wasn't a systemic problem

 

 

 

 

Turnbull’s words are a terrible critique of himself

 

  Andrew Bolt sits in the gallery with a barrell of yesterdays words.  Used words but none his own. He doesn't sit at the table or hold any cards. Having a collection of old comments dating back to  when Jesus played ruck for Bethelehem just makes him  a  fish wife not a commentator who's analyzing the play . He's the name caller at the football match who believes his words are rocks. He's your partner  of 30 years dragging up the carcasses of what you once said way back when. No particular context or order in mind  just to grab your  attention for annoyance sake. But then I guess Bolt sees himself as a master wordsmith.

 The problem is politics is strategy and strategy played in a context to win. Yesterdays context is not today's and every moment in a game is different. Bolt is the boorish barracker who doesn't have a dog in the race he's just drunk and pissed. He doesn't have anybody sitting at this  table so for what it's worth all his heckling is as welcome as a fly at an Aussie picnic. You know they are  going to turn up but you ignore them.  Even stealing Richo's words doesn't help Bolt's cause. Hey Andrew Bolt Abbott’s not at the the table

 

Turnbull repeats the Gillard tragedy

A repeat of the above blog but using Simon Bensons words instead of his own. They are both Team News Corp  each always helps to carry the other's  load when it comes to polishing a turd. Taking the blame off Abbott is their goal. Their dog is no longer in the race or sitting at the table. Yet this crowd of media aholes just never stop. Stuck In The Middle With You – Stealers Wheel

 


 

 

Is Iran conning Julie Bishop?

There's no doubt war monger Bolt is in a spin he knows an realizes Iran doesn't want 9000 Irani asylum seekers back and like the Greens he feels a heart felt pain for their predicament.  Abbott's gormless Cambodia solution has fallen on it's arse and his PNG solution is about to go the same way. He just wanted to outsource the problem and never wanted to own it. It's a bit like privatizing war turn it into a business and it's no longer a government problem.

However that means even more reason to be hawkish and now do Israel's work for them simply bomb Iran  back to the stoneage because they simply what we want and some of them hate us. "The hate-filled, anti-American, anti-Israel and frequently anti-Semitic rhetoric of the Iranian leadership continues unabashed".  After all we can't have these rag heads name calling us can we. Even though we really fucked the region in the past 20 years and our plan really didn't work . There were no WMDs oops!! However by privatizing war we might just create another boom economy.

 

Warming to Trump

Rupert Murdoch tweets that the Republicans need to get behind Trump and Andrew Bolt immediately falls into line warming to the guy that  Fox News has always been giving the most air time to but keeping him away from Megan Kelly.

Who does his Troll turn to but Abbott's up close and personal business adviser  Maurice, I love the smell of coal in the morning and hate wind, Newman and Camille Paglia Anti- Feminist, Hilary hating Academic  who thinks Trump is a breath of fresh air. 

Great qualification for the Presidency of the USA. She obviously believes the President of the USA only needs to be a symbol like a flag he really needs no substance as the US is in fact run by others behind the curtain. All Trump need be is the "man" he obviously is. A conservative love affair ends: Breitbart forced to get tough with Trump after campaign manager assaults female reporter 

One the most cited conservative e-zines by Bolt has turned on Trump for molesting one of their reporters and then calling her a liar. I seems the love affair is over for the moment. Would Bolt cool to Breibart while warming to Trump. Their principles are definitely not aligned. My money says he'd follow his boss.Noam Chomsky: 5 Reasons the ‘Human Species Is in Very Deep Trouble’ If Trump Wins - Truthdig

 

No Liberal sisterhood

 March 11

It would seem there is very much a sisterhood among the Liberals Bolt and they give both credit Savva the ability to criticize, analyze and write a book like any other journalist and Credlin the ability to defend herself when criticized like any other senior exec. You on the other hand seem to be the misogynist who feels Credlin is in need of some sort of protection and can't defend herself and treat Savva less able to write a book because she's a woman and  needs  examining  for having done so. Why haven't you written a book Bolt after 40 years? Oh you did didn't you what was it called ? The Best of me?

How much anti- feminist mysogyny is there in "I am still waiting for a single woman in the Turnbull Ministry to defy their boss and speak in defence of Peta Credlin. Their silence shames them,"Bolt.  Where are the fright bats!! It's exactly the poofter bashing you do when you rant about the political weakness of gays  for not being  outspoken and brave like you. 

The hypocrisy is even deeper when Greg Sheridan told his mate Tony Abbott to rid himself of Peta Credlin and sack her  Andrew Bolt not only posted it but agreed. Bolt always cried that Credlin needed to be split in two that she had too much on her plate too much responsibility and that the job was beyond her.John Howard: ‘I urged Tony Abbott to get rid of Peta Credlin’

 
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"Not one of these women spoke up on International Women’s Day in protest at the smearing of Credlin. " Bolt. You simply don't get it do you Bolt they didn't need to. Abbott, Credlin and the abuse of power

 

Why is Matthew Ricketson a media policeman?

Why is this blog of any relevance? Oh John Roskam who was  over looked for   appointment by the Liberal Party by his IPA junior James Patterson. Yesterday Bolt felt it necessary to defend this free speech zealot by saying he was never really interested in a political position.  

What is interesting is just how many times can Bolt use the word sinister without claiming to be a conspiracy theorist  but putting forward a conspiracy arranged to have him muzzled. Bolt refers us to his reluctant hero Roskam and at the same time disparaging the reputation of Matthew Rickertson simply because he was  not in Bolt's mind a renown journalist but  an academic. This coming from Bolt who within the industry has a reputation of no renown is simply sour grapes. Given that Rickertson wasn't appointed as 'a journalist' but someone who had studied all aspects of media both it's social and political evolution he was an obviously better choice as a reviewer than say Bolt who might consider himself having some faux renown but little or no other knowledge of any expanse.  So in self interested Bolt writes "I did not consider him to be very good in that job. He seemed to break few stories, or offer any penetrating observations. His writing is not sparkling. He was well outshone by The Australian’s Amanda Meade, for one, and I do not think I am being unfair. I recently spoke to a senior Age executive who endorsed my overall opinion."Bolt

Professor Ricketson was appointed to the Press Council one member of 24

"It really is time for publishers to resign from this body, which under its previous boss was a menace to open debate. Yes, the present chairman seems more dedicated to the contest of ideas, but this is a disturbing sign." Bolt

Nobody it seems was or is listening to you Andrew Bolt is it because you have too much renown?



Refugee activists flee their own boss

I think this is a case of people in glass houses. Bolt has a history of  intentional bullying  not just mistakes and errors that are silently removed hidden and forgotten without apology. He happily referred us to the false Paul Sheehan article that was disappeared silently never to be mentioned again. He never mentions the sackings and disappointments that resulted in in the closure of the Bolt Report. What we heard was the celebrity announcement "I've been reviewing my options for some time" His crew dumped without a word from Bolt. So it's the nature of the man who gets pleasure from seeing an organization suffering problems of differing personalities rather than principles. But then he is a commentator of renown not.

 

Me and Alan. UPDATE: What Bronny told Hendo 

Bolt doesn't really have a wide circle of confidants that he talks to not like real reporters out in the field. There's Steve, Alan and Hendo  and even they can make him look foolish.

"Consequently, it is foolish to accept anyone’s account of an event or conversation without checking. "  Henderson. Bolt certainly didn't care about 'checking' referring us all to Paul Sheehan's false article  about Rape in the Islamic Community. Bolt used it in his blog without ever checking it's veracity. He disappeared it when Sheehan was called out for fantasy journalism. He has been suspended. However Bolt withdrew his  sneakily and without any apology.
 Here he is  now throwing rocks and calling others liars when he has been convicted in our courts on more than one occasion for lying.  He is holier than thou claiming his reputation is higher than those he's now calling liars the moral gatekeeper. However he says  his truth is based on never to be revealed sources with whom he is always in constant communication with.
" A source inside Mr Abbott’s office also said Ms Raggatt was not contacted by Savva for comment." Why are these secret sources so so secret when they are just gossip? Savva is the only one speaking she wrote the book and that book has more to offer than the narrow point Bolt is  posturing about.  He easily jumps to "But Savva did not ask Abbott for his side of the story, or ask Raggatt for hers. She just ran with Bishop’s self-serving slop. I guess it fitted her narrative." Savva had no reason to print  the obvious denials  Bolt is trying to defend by proving Savva wrong with smoke and magic  naming  sources he can't make appear. As if they were wikileaks and or Snowden's sources and would lose their freedom if revealed.  Bolt's denial at the moment is drawn from the ether only and according to Gerard Henderson"Consequently, it is foolish to accept anyone’s account of an event or conversation without checking."

 

 

Slogan friendly

 

Abbott became an Australian joke with his 3 word slogans that defied the meaning of 'elegance' but defined the meaning of a lack of 'eloquence'. Three word slogans went from what the public believed might be occasional to a permanent style of delivering messages. Abbott actually became not a tweeter but the tweet. His verbal tweets lasted all the way out the door.

Somehow Bolt believes politics is the art of manners if that be the case how on earth are we to believe Bolt's attempt to convince us that Tony Abbott the Liberal Party's chief head kicker was anything but uncouth.

Bolt's attempts to rehabilitate Abbott after some 35 years of head kicking is as convincing as trying to rehabilitate Richard Nixon . There's too much water passed under the bridge. Now if Bolt is so convinced he can there is the topic for his first book and piece of fiction. If he's got the balls to write more than a cadets essay. Imagine the verification of facts are enough to make him back off.

 

 


 

 

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