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ON TONIGHT - WHY GILLIAN TRIGGS MAKES NO SENSE ON ABDEL-MAGIED

On The Bolt Report on Sky at 7pm: Gillian Triggs says critics of Yassmin Abdel-Magied are  racist, Why the Human Rights Commission boss has lost the plot. Plus the Turnbull Government disastrous day in Parliament - and a preview of Bill Shorten's Budget in reply speech at 7.30.    

Watch Bolt smokescreen the conservative disaster presented in this years 2017 year budget. Bolt for the moment needs to deflect the consequences of the bad publicity  directed at Tony Abbott News Corp's client. What better way than media noise and commentary that has no relevance to Tony's current political demise. Bolt can't really say sorry and I promise Tony will change any more. He said it like broken record previously so I doubt if the electorate has forgotten. Andrew Bolt just doesn't sound convincing. Maybe he'll start attacking Mark Colvin and the ABC tomorrow as going Gillian is as about as pitbull as going Julia Gillard again

LIBERALS HAVE LOST. WE'RE ALL LEFTISTS NOW

THE Turnbull Government’s Budget was a white flag. Labor has won and we’re all Leftists now. The Liberals have lost the battle of ideas and must asked themselves why.

 Bolt sounds like exactly what he is the bully who has lost. Still calling  the less than 10% of Australians 'we' and not recognizing the fact that the 90% the real 'we' have been here all along. Back is the the alarmist rhetoric the return of the dream shattered by the hated reality that the ultra conservative Camelot was little more than a pipe dream. Australia doesn't want fantasists on high wages it wants politicians who can and will get the job done. That job is compromise and not dreamers in suits spouting nope nope nope which by the way Bolt is doing now.  Oh remember the Camelot built on lies the promises of no cuts by Abbott which turned into the impossible 1000 cuts the $13 bill that just couldn't get passed. We had a government that was small alright it was doing nothing. Imagine the poverty 90% would be living if Abbott had his way. Education Health, Welfare, Wages, Immigration down down down while we'd all be Oliver Twist  watching Bolt bidding at Menzies Auctions. Bolt says he lost but we 90% didn't for now. Yes Bolt Australia is a commie country isn't it from where you sit in a corner. However the LNP seem pretty pleased with their Backgammon move that only left Abbott, Andrews and Abetz the triple A conservatives mumbling.Abbott is going" to just sit back now and allow his dented and degraded legacy to undergo further tarnishing? Because that's not going to make his comeback happen." Fairfax

What will News Corp do for Tony now that Tony loyal back bencher can't?

"But to undermine the budget would be to make clear he puts his own ambition ahead of the well being of the party.

This is going to be a delicate piece of surgery for a man more skilled in working with blunt instruments, which is why you should expect the Abbott cheerleaders in the conservative media to do most of the work for him. 
And let's be clear: the 2017 budget is refreshingly policy-heavy. At the risk of being overly optimistic, we could be about to see Australian politics deal with the best way to address national problems rather than endlessly throw blame around for the deficit and snipe about which party's patriotic dinkum is the most fair. " The Age

LABOR WINS

My editorial on The Bolt Report: Labor has won the economic argument, and the Liberal Budget proves it. UPDATE: Mathias Cormann disagrees."

"The "zombie saving measures" which the Abbott government spent the rest of their time in office failing to pass? Gone. The debt and deficit emergency rhetoric? Gone. The "age of entitlement is over" stuff? Almost completely gone (except for the aforementioned drug tests, which is hopefully the first thing the senate will laugh out of the chamber).

Even the cigars that Joe Hockey and Finance Minister Mathias Cormann smoked in celebration of the 2014 budget have been taxed this time round, in what seems like a particularly sharp backhander to Hockeynomics. "The Age

Chicken Little is back economic and political rationality out the window and the support for Abbott's zombie measures will be in the forefront of the Bolt Report from now until the next election. As I've always said it won't be just the support of zombies but it will be the belief that News Corp can raise Lazarus from the grave again and tell us yet again he's changed. Furthermore try to convince us there is wide party room support for him.

The stupidity is in the banner. Labor hasn't won their ground is lost but Bolt who can't call anything the way it is is left fantasy bidding. His term not mine. 

HOW HIGH WILL OUR DEBT GO? WHY THE SECRET?

The Turnbull Government on Tuesday raised the debt ceiling to an astonishing $600 billion. But the Government won't say how high that gross debt will actually go. I tried to get an answer from the Government's hard-head, Finance Minister Mathias Cormann.

  Abbott and Hockey raised the debt ceiling 40% from $350 bill to $500 over 40% and Bolt didn't blink Turnbull has raised it less than half of that and look what little Andrew's doing returning back to the the debt and deficit rhetoric of 2014. He's certainly a traditionalist isn't he. Not living in the world of the possible still fantasy bidding in the world of the impossible. The $13billion  legacy of Abbott's pipe dream promises filed where they belong in the waste bin replaced by the possible.




 

BISHOP LOSES PLOT WITH YASSMIN

The scandal now isn’t Yassmin Abdel-Magied. It’s how this Muslim activist is used by poseurs like Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop. UPDATE: My criticism is racist, complains Human Rights Commission boss Gillian Triggs, now hypocritically presenting herself as a defender of free speech. Oh, and as a victim of misogyny. Let me fact-check.

 Like a rat Bolt will scurry into his Bolt hole of Reverse, Racism Sexism, and his usual position of mordlin misery that he was the victim of our free speech laws. Bolt wasn't found guilty of free speech that was tested when he failed Section 18D under the Act which allowed him a defense. He failed because he was found to be a liar and his tone to be such that vilification was proved. He's no a victim he is the producer of vile language bad manners and no analysis He's simply an  abuser and feels he should be allowed to continue to be uncivilized. Andrew Bolt who protests about bad manners and is rarely seen without without a suit is the foul mouthed bully who attacks the person rather than the  issue because if he did he'd have no argument.

What we can look forward to is Bolt steering clear of the economy and concentrating on issues he's comfortable with issues where lack of rational analysis can be disguised simply because they can be argued simply on the basis of values where there is less need for science and any data can easily be distorted. Declaring Islam to be an Ideology and Christianity a religion is one as it allows all those arguments of the 50s and 60s against Communism to be applied to it and not the argument that our Democracy protects the freedom of religion. Reducing 73 different cultures not Caucasian or European to be dominated by a single common ideology is racist but not only that it's ignorant as well. Bolt tells us that by describing indigenous culture he not being racist either but again he is and ignorant at the same time.Hanson and One Nation has adopted that change change in definition of Islam too demanding a senate inquiry into whether Islam is a religion or not.  If Scientology is a religion  then sure as hell Islam is and the argument is absurd. Bolt has tried to redefined the meaning of Indigenous only to make himself appear even a bigger fool than he is by saying he's more indigenous than Noel Pearson and Adam Goodes.

Mark Colvin died today and Colvin was a standard bearer of journalistic professionalism and integrity who felt a responsibility to deliver information and truth as best he can coupled with the questions that didn't allow any reality to just be taken for granted. Colvin was the diametric opposite of Andrew Bolt. 



 

GREEN ZEALOT CLIVE HAMILTON: FREEDOM OUR ENEMY

Clive Hamilton, former Greens candidate and Climate Change Authority member, once suggested the "suspension of democratic processes" to push his warming faith. Now he again claims freedom is our enemy: "Personal freedoms, democracy, material advance, technological power – are in truth paving the way to [the world's] destruction."

  So what did I say above  Bolt would scurry off like a rat to his Bolt hole attacking people instead of issues protecting himslef from being sued along the way. Firstly what is  Bolt's definition of 'freedom' it's never specified where and when if ever has his definition ever existed he never says and never gives any examples. So Bolt supports Israel and says it's a Democracy despite the fact that they want to declare themselves a Jewish State and make Hebrew the official State language. Isn't that " the suspension of the democratic process"? So simply redefining Islam as an 'ideology' allows Bolt  to argue for the " the suspension of Democratic processes " and he does that vigorously. No science no data involved in this style of arguing about Climate just value and interest pursued  by organization in an effort to regain a semblance of power slipping away in a futile and losing battle between those defending the 'me' principle against the 'we'.