Andrew Bolt's Blog, 27/5/16 Bolt says Lambie is a bogan say JuLiar out loudly; White privilege is obviously not positive but natural; Bolt holds is a Dutch citizen too so there is no need to say sorry twice;
Yes Bolt is confused Europe hasn't exploded with terrorist activity and statistically the right wing conservatives haven't taken over the EU. The majority of multicultural UK, France and Germany aren't doing what Bolt hoped. Even the media seem to be running the opposite to Bolt. Another conspiracy is at hand but even the Murdoch media is quiet.
" You’d think from the coverage - and the relative lack of it - that
Europe has virtually stopped the flood of illegal immigrants from the
Third World."
Bolt's usual chicken little tone has turned to a bit of a sulk. You can't stop people wanting to climb Mt Everest and risk dying the mountain is strewn with bodies a testament to that. Yet there are companies ready to take people to their death. There are thousands who wish to risk the Mediterranean crossing and people will always be there to help. The invasion of Everest it seems is encouraged.
Delcon delight But sad face too " I still don’t believe Labor leads in the marginal seats it must win,
but the momentum for months has been one way - and there are still five
weeks of this campaign to go:"
Months of evidence given at a Royal Commission one regarded as the model of inquiry into the Trade unions the other the antithesis a kangaroo court into the Sexual Molestation of Children. Both commented on by and Bolt and Henderson and distilled it into a few paragraphs. How is it these two commentators judge these two inquiries as if they they are conducted as model opposites?
It makes one wonder what News Corps real role is here? Since Bolt's so called interview of Pell in Rome News Corp seems more Pell's private damage control PR firm commentators protecting Pell. Given Pell is in charge of the Vatican purse strings and Murdoch media is a global organization payment for service would be nigh on impossible to trace. So are they the paid PR trouble shooters for George Pell given the seem to claim an organized conspiracy exists against him? "But now Henderson has uncovered an even more incredible example of
double standards - of Pell being hounded for what seems excused in
Bongiorno, and, moreover, not even reported."
What is the purpose of condensing and precing all this testimony to make Bongiorno appear to be some sort of suspicious collaborator only to say "Again, Henderson accepts Bongirono’s word, as do I. Maybe BPL mistook
him for another priest. Maybe he misremembered completely. Who knows?"
" But why has one young priest of that time (Pell) been disbelieved,
vilified and cross examined endlessly and denied - while another young
priest of that time (Bongiorno) was not even required to appear as a
witness to the royal commission, and has not had these claims against
him reported?"
"Different rules for conservatives?"
Why don't these concerned commentators let the Royal Commission run it's course and why all the energy thrown in to try to discredit it and all the other media as if they were one unit? What is the probability of a conspiracy between all of the legal team of the Commission, Fairfax, the ABC and the police as if they were some masonic conclave out for Catholic blood. Who here fills the definition of paranoia better than Bolt and Henderson. Or are they more likely to be acting as a paid PR team for Pell?
Friday Bolt's day off Troll Peter BH fills the space. While Bolt spends his 70 hour week doing what he did last Friday. Not much at all.
" On money, the Liberals must always win." Peter BH
The story prior to 2013 and Government Spending to date. Abbott declared his biggest mistake was to raise the debt ceiling to $500 bill and go on a spending spree.
"In a similar vein, in the last 30 years, there have been 10 occasions
when the tax to GDP ratio has been below 22.0 per cent of GDP and all
10 were under a Labor Government. To put simply, the Howard government
was a high taxer, while the current Labor Government is a lower taxer."
"In
terms of government spending, there have been only five years in the
four decades leading up to 2012-13 when real government spending was cut
in real terms. None of those cuts were delivered by a Coalition
government. All five times that there has been a cut in real government
spending have been when a Labor government has framed and delivered the
budget. There were three years during the Hawke government in the late
1980s where government spending was cut in real terms and there have
been two occasions in the current Labor administration where such cuts
have occurred."
A Lazy Susan of the same old dishes
Bolt seems to believe Cory Bernardi has been vilified and is calling foul on the part of the ABC. Remember Abbott in front of the "Ditch the Bitch" banner little was said back then it to could be found on the ABC. Bolt no complaints with Bob Brown's Bitch I recall or Juliar either even when it was chanted. It had connotations that stretched back to WW2. yet Bolt said nothing then. He no doubt joined the chant in the privacy of his lounge after dancing around to Spring Time for Hitler in leather and fishnet stockings.
Bolt's personal interest in legislating the right to publicly vilify and hate using the tools and technology of the media to do so simply calls for the right to have a gladiatorial "me" society as opposed to a civilized "we" society. If we conclude that we have a hamstrung media that one needs further freedoms to be able to racially an vilify each other then it seems we are simply calling for the right to be less civilized. Any rules of diplomacy and manners need to be thrown out the door for the sake of vague notion of diminished press freedom.
Bolt wasn't convicted under Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act for only vilification but what he calls accidental mistakes but judge Bromberg called the intentional use of loose facts not just as an individual but as a commentator and journalist an agent acting for and on behalf of News Corp and not just Andrew Bolt. News Corp paid the fine. It's that inequality of power that justifies the retention of Section 18C and provides a somewhat more level playing field than does our defamation laws alone or a self regulated press can provide.
As for the case in Qld Bolt simply screams reverse discrimination whenever a case of positive discrimination arises. The man claims to be a champion of the AFL football if his club Richmond came last he's happy to accept the draft pick rules for the next season why? Because it makes for a better game and it reduces the level of privilege and power on the playing field.
Bolt argues Sorry is a dirty word. Germans say sorry every day the way we say "lest we forget" on ANZAC day. They say sorry whether yellow,black,christian or Muslim they say it because they are German citizens and never want to forget or allow another occurrence of killing 6million Jews for just being Jewish to occur again . They too after WW2 had their Andrew Bolts saying that there was nothing in the written record to prove 6 mill Jews were gassed. There are Holcaust deniers still alive today. However the world listened and heard the stories of the of survivors of Auschwitz and other camps and history was rewritten. Today children in German primary schools are taught to say sorry how by learning their collective history. They don't want a tin ears
Andrew Bolt argues as the Holocaust deniers do that the stolen generation is a lie. There is nothing in the public record to prove otherwise. But unlike Germans and the world he has a tin ear and is not prepared to listen. He simply says the stories of those children today are ill conceived memories and should not be listened to . Stories from the likes of Stan Grant and his grandmother are simply misguided fabrications of which there is no proof. For Bolt there was no invasion of Australia only discovery, No Stolen Generation only Christian Charity and good intent, No Frontier Wars only defense against rebellion and crime.
Bolt claims and in doing trivializes any notion of our history when he says he is more indigenous to this country than those Aboriginals today who were born after him because he was here before them. The stupidity is the denial of history all together a reduction of the argument to semantics. It says we have no collective responsibility for our past or even need to remember it except of course for ANZAC day. Some Aboriginals came back from those wars to find their children gone taken for their betterment not because they were black or on any basis of racial discrimination. I believe bolt really need a revision of Australian History and it's institutional kindness to our first people. Stolen Generations History - National Sorry Day Committee
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