Old Dog Thoughts: Andrew Bolt's Blog,28/3/16; Andrew Bolt is the Donald Trump the least sophisticated of News Corps personel ; Conservatives can't crack jokes; Tim Blair trumps himself. He can't even get his stories straight yet Murdoch employs him; However Bolt and Blair are critics of Turnbull's; Bolt and his shyness has always made him a coward;

On 2GB, 3AW and 4BC tonight - Turnbull and Abbott and other dramas

The only drama that Bolt will no doubt be doing is the sliming of Turnbull and the praising of Abbott. He will be announcing reasons for voting Labor. Not because his listeners are ready to tilt but to divide the Liberal Party and in particular the marginal seat holders whose jobs could feel threatened if he can drive Turnbull's stocks down in the polls. Abbott will offer to help them campaign like the hero he obviously makes out to be. Not to the electorate but to the MPs as he wants a spill another chance to get to the top. However to do so he needs News Corp's help. He had it before the last election and during his leadership but even so he lost the confidence of his members. No doubt he's smarter for the experience but not any wiser. Bolt says he's made a turn around after 56 years can Abbott? I don't believe either of them have those abilities nor even believable bragging rights. "Like Turnbull is winning on the back of my policies", Abbott.

Muslims wanting Christians dead

Is it any surprise that Bolt will publicize a bomb going off in Pakistan but not the internal politics and totally ignore what happened during the unity march in Belgium. The right wing anti- Muslimists came from all over Belgium to rumble but not many turned up. When confronted by the unity march members in Brussels and security they ran. Bolt was ready to tell us just how strong this aniti- immigrant movement was. He's stayed silent but has been forced into silence for the time being.

However Pakistan has suffered it's sectarian politics for as long as independence in 1947. However does Bolt know or has he ever tried to offer us any insight into the political situation? None at all other than his moronic reductionist argument which he repeats and repeats and repeats Muslims versus Christians.

In a country of 200 million where 97% are Muslim and the other 3% are small non-Muslim religious groups, including Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, Parsis, Bahá'ís and Zoroastrians (Parsis) Bolt needs to explain why any non Muslims have survived so long. He never even makes an effort as it doesn't fit his agenda of an Islamist war on the Christian the world over. What Bolt doesn't explain is the depth of racial violence against Christians in a population of 200 mill. It was only 84 casualties with a 20% drop in fatalities in 2015. So Bolt is either dumb or exaggerating the problem. Given there were 286 casualties among Shiia's and more amongst other Muslims the problem doesn't seem as large. In fact systemic violence against other Muslims is far greater there than against Christians. So Bolt's blog banner is there to create a seeming political necessity of panic much the same as brought on by Tony Abbott when in power. An atmosphere of panic was created by Murdoch media to bring Abbott to power and now the same is being done to reinstall him. As far as Bolt is concerned he's making Muslims the Jews that need ghettoizing in Australia because they have failed to participate sufficiently in Abbott's Team Australia. To understand Pakistan one needs to really understand the history and the politics of country beyond the primitive and unsophisticated analysis offered by Andrew Bolt. Nobody is safe in Pakistan but the numbers with regard Christians doesn't require the amplification Bolt gives it.

The statistics speak for themselves. In the first quarter for 2015, 384 casualties resulted from violence against minorities, and the communities that suffered the most were Shias (230), Christians (86), and Hindus (15). This was a 38% increase over the same quarter from the prior year, while the overall security situation had improved with a nearly 20% dip in fatalities compared with the first quarter of 2014. - See more at: http://www.thefridaytimes.com/tft/the-plight-of-pakistani-minorities/#sthash.h3s3CUSG.dpuf

A killer argument for poor Joe

As I've always said conservatives can't make jokes. They only do when they make fools of themselves. Tim Blair's funniest was him trying to write a story about Lakemba from the only pub and only public bar in the suburb. He was really trying to pretend to be an anthropologist but hadn't the ticker to meet any Muslims. He only had the heart to be the racist he was and that from a distance at that. Joe Aston would be mortified to find he had Blair's sympathy.

Tree trumps homeless

Can one even begin to guess what Bolt means? Is it 'find' or 'fund' No they don't but neither do the Liberals the 'defund' them and the greens do their best to save them.

" Noticed that greens don’t found ambulance services, creches, schools, hospices and hospitals as Christians do?"

Accuracy is not necessary when it comes to articles by Bevis Blair he has no concern for facts Clifton Hill becomes Fitzroy yes Fitzroy has become gentrified and stories are there to be told about the battle to save live music. However Clifton Hill has always been gentrified. I'm sure the residents would complain if any institutionalized size building was to be put there. Tell me where Blair lives and I'm Mr cool wouldn't be so cool. However I suggest he get his story straight first. He certainly wouldn't get Redfern confused with Mosman would he. Next time he do some work before writing bullshit about a suburb he doesn't know and putting a local issue in it that doesn't apply. Fitzroy mate has housing commission towers, Mental Health institutions, and soup kitchens throughout the place located next to amongst wealthy residential houses and it's a vibrant and aware Media and Turnbull, place. Unlike Tim Blair how on earth does he deserve his place in media. Oh yes Murdoch. Bolt posts this crap.

"Oh, of course it isn’t. As you’d expect, all of these people reject Australia’s border protection policies, which might be because they know they’ll never have to deal with reffos in their own streets. These types can’t cope with a few dozen crazy homeless drunks. Imagine how they’d react to a 1000-bed refugee relocation facility."

Blessed by Turnbull: the gallery’s bias exposed

" No wonder Tony Abbott thinks he still has a chance when his media haters cheer his policies once they think Malcolm Turnbull is the author"Bolt

So there's the admission that Abbott's going to do a Rudd As if "Abbott's policies" weren't a continuation of John Howards. Going to war under any conditions. Lie if it helps the Party's political agenda. The Labour Party had stopped boats dramatically and wanted the Malaysia solution in place to cement the issue. Abbott stopped it and stole it and set up Manus and Nauru instead. The Liberal Party was tarnished by Abbott as much as it was by it's policies. Everything was presented as an emergency which sounded and felt like a lie. You don't throw the baby out with the bath water. In this case Abbott became dirty bath water.

However what's not true and is about as valid a Chris Kenny calling Nauru a holiday resort is that attitudes to Border Protection haven' t changed. They have changed dramatically. Doctors on strike and threatened with jail. Airports inconvenienced and people delayed yet according to Kenny we are happier. These News Corp opinionaters like Bolt write their reports locked in a mental closet. An area not part of Australia. Europe and Australia don't have geographic differences only security issues that could be fixed if the Abbott approach was adopted. Turnbull in his criticism was sympathizing with the differences of course it's easier to protect ours.

What is a joke you can't talk about the past or the future in any way because your stealing Abbott's glow. Yet have a closer look and what do you get when Bolt's says everything belonged to Abbott. You get a period when a mood of Fascism spread over the country. When Abbott and Hockey ran the place the sky was falling in every day. Everyday was a day to panic about the economy, security, the unions, everything became flagged as dangerous. Theatre and comedy in this country was destabilizing. I remember Bolt writing never ending apologies for his dog in the race a man misunderstood so much so he just stopped writing about Abbott altogether it was far to painful. Bolt spent 2 months focusing on Shorten because Abbott was simply a basket case. The majority of his party thought so too not just the media.

Column - Belgian ambassador wrong about Turnbull

Apparently Bolt is denying calling Turnbull a coward but that's coming from Bolt a man that talks the talk but never walks the walk. A man who never stands next to those he supports in public. He's a loud enough voice because of News Corp but it's behind the curtain sliming Turnbull and others at every opportunity. However he's never there in person to support those he champions. He remains integrated and excuses himself due to shyness. It has always seemed a cry for sympathy victimhood. It's the very excuses he refuses others when he points to lack of integration.

Bolt talks of the 300,000 'unintegrated' Muslims in Brussels. He doesn't use the term 'No go Zones' for places like Molenbeek because the term once used for cities like Birmingham have proven to be a lie. These anti- muslim media men and psuedo social science commentators on Fox News that used the term 'no go zones' have all stood up and apologized publicly. Tim Blair of course Bolt's mate in Sydney hasn't. But his notion of lack of integration was conducted from the bar of the only unintegrated pub in Lakemba. The suburb that failed to welcome him didn't only because it didn't know he was even there. Blair suffered shyness too it seems.

Bolt and Blair's accusations tend to be directed at Belgians and Australians who live in the most run down suburbs because of their incomes. Those people who find jobs hardest to get and those who have access to only second rate social welfare. Despite the disadvantages faced they live their lives like any other suburbs of any other city in Europe. Footscray has booming property prices and is regarded as a desirable destination today not the dysfunctional one Bolt speaks of. Drunkeness and drugs in Molenbeek or Footscray are probably less than in Malvern because there they are affordable and hidden. The visibility might be more in Dandenong or Footscray but by only the few that can't use them at home. The social problems of Malvern are dealt with privately. Does Bolt ever explain why the there's a boom in psychiatrists, psychologists and rehab centers in the Eastern and Southern suburbs? These aren't being set up at the same rate in the West. Is intergration worse in Malvern than Coburg?

Did anybody happen to catch the Bolt Boys of Brussels. The fascist thugs that gathered to confront the thousands marching for Belgian unity Muslims included. You won't have seen any Belgian Bolt's in attendance because they are naturally too shy. However those of the right ran for their lives when confronted by Belgian security. They came from all over Belgium to rumble but ran. No doubt Bolt will dissociate from these Aryan Christians but without allowing Muslims to do the same when terrorists carry out violent acts. He says he doesn't approve of extreme right wing but he does approve of their perspectives.

Column - Cured of shyness after 56 years

I refered to Bolt's faux shyness yesterday it's been his excuse not to appear in public for years. However his lack of gumption not to seen standing shoulder to shoulder with those he supports has nothing to do with shyness. He supports the anti -Islam demonstrators in Bendigo does he attend. never. He supports Reclaim Australia does he stand with them never. However the talks of the cowardice of the Socialist left who are there standing up for what they believe.

Now Bolt talks of miracles performed after 56 years he's cured himself of shyness. Maybe his shyness is lack of integration dysfunction of a migrant that's never left him. Dysfunction that's cured over time like any migrant experience but one that Bolt refuses to accept in the case of Muslims. Shyness that some Aborigines can't rid themselves of even after 226 years.

He's experienced what it's like to walk on water because he no longer feels the need to run from a room full of private school parents. Bolt's experienced lack of itegration for 56 years but won't forgive it in others. My god he even likens himself to Tom Hanks. There no shyness in the man cowadice yes but shyness none he's all ego.

The reason I don't believe Bolt is cured he has no sense of humour. " Whether it is a tactic or a belief, the right now writes as though we are all engaged in a battle with the devil. Our souls are on the line, our morality is corrupt, a story about Pell is not a piece of investigation but a “witch hunt”, etc. This mythic, humourless work was once the sole province of the left. Now, it’s Bolt and friends who really need to lighten up."

Monday, 28 March 2016