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News Corporation employs Right-Wing Broadcasters providing them with a platform ensuring the inequality of speech. Their Social Media Platforms not only advocate conservative, and extreme right-wing wing views. They monitor out most opposing opinions which they are entitled to do. However, they also simply lie when they say they provide an arena for fair and balanced discussion in a no-spin zone. They don't it's all spin.
Nine
Entertainment pressures the government to get the tech giants to pay
for local news content. Meanwhile, for three years, it has been playing
Goliath in a fight with Australian freelance photojournalists, whose
photos Nine sold even though it didn’t own the copyright. Callum Foote
reports.
For the past two days CH9 has made out it has discovered something new going on in the Vic branch of the ALP. The opposite, is in fact, the case. Branch stacking has been going on in all Australian political parties since Christ played ruck for Jerusalem and the ALP more than most has tried to wipe it out. However, it's neither new nor illegal and nothing has been found that we don't know of. What is different Dan Andrews unlike Scott Morrison has dealt with it immediately What is illegal is the secret taping and recordings made by a Gollum on behalf of Ch9 and certainly the dirt brigade of the LNP.
Secret taping is we know a common practice of the Liberal Party which has been caught out a number of times and currently facing secret court proceedings for their bugging of the Timor Leste parliament. The scandal is that they are trying to have those that broke the news of their secret taping jailed and not published.
We already know it is a common illegal practice conducted by the Murdoch Press which saw Rupert Murdoch almost jailed in the UK while doing his best impression of Alan Bond's old man at the time. Since the sale of Fairfax Ch9 has taken on itself to ingratiate and worm its way in to be up closer and more personal with the Liberal Party even hosting a $10k per head fundraiser. It's their new business model not so new rather the same as Murdoch's and they are now going head to head with News Corp and Sky for that job and conservative contract of No1 PR agency. So much so 70 of their journalists have signed a petition complaining about their new editorial policies demanding a less investigative and more biased approach to news. That full package is now on show and been delivered by 60 Minutes the SMH and The Age in the past 2 days just before the Eden-Monaro election. Suggesting to the public what goes on in Victoria goes on in the whole of the ALP but never in the LNP. That a factional war has been always going on in the ALP as we have seen among the Liberals and Nationals these past 7 years
The Dirt Brigade has always been hard at work and an active branch of the LNP tied by an umbilical cord to News Corp. However now there's another very active player in the mix Ch9 wanting to prove that providing a news service isn't their first priority anymore but "servicing" anyone and everyone for anyone wanting power is. In the course of that activity servicing the public and fake and beat up news for sale now their priority. The LNP know it couldn't be done at the ABC but private MSM is chafing at the bit for a dollar and CH9 Murdoch's News Corp and Sky are fighting for that contract. Rest assured the IPA has had a ready hand in the mix because they have upped their media profile and activities 10 fold these past years and are more active than ever before. The LNP has since 2013 increasingly modelled itself on American style politics like we have never seen before.
Media reports claim to have uncovered
branch stacking on an "industrial scale" in the Victorian Labor Party.
But what exactly is branch stacking? Those factions might try to recruit new members into the party, perhaps
by offering to pay their membership fees, in exchange for their vote
towards the favoured candidate.
Is branch stacking illegal?
No, it is not illegal.
Somyurek wasn't removed for stacking he resigned because of the poor look the media portrayed and his misogyny. Will it linger? only as much as Ch9 maintains the PR for the Liberal Party after all who the fuck even knows who Somyurek was?This has been a political exercise in throwing the old dead moggy back on the table.The LNP can't pull the Corrupt Unions out because the Royal Commission put an end to thatso this beat up was chosen instead. Follow the money and you'll see just how eager CH9 is to take on Murdoch for the jobof media hitmen.Stop reading The AGE and watching Ch9
ABC News Breakfast 221,000 metro yesterday morning beating Nine’s Today (198,000). Do @LisaMillar and @mjrowland68 now have Seven’s Sunrise (254,000) in their sights?
Now to go to Andrew Bolt rating star at 50,000 on a good night. Well done ABC
FAKE NEWS
PAUL BARRY'S 'SAVAGE' DECEIT IN PLAYING RACE CARD
In its 31 years, the ABC's Media Watch has had only
Left-wing hosts. All have been biased, but Paul Barry is - in my opinion
- by far the least honest. His slur last night, suggesting I was a
racist who'd called black protesters "savages", is false. The most basic check exposes this deceit. So why did Barry tell viewers this falsehood?
45m ago
Paul Barry's a saint compared to Andrew Bolt who is basically a worm in a suit. He did call BLM protesters "Barbarians" if that's not "savages" I don't know what is. Furthermore, Bolt is a convicted liar more than once and a self-admitted liar having to say sorry publicly in order not to be sued. Now that's a track record for public lying.
AFL PLAYERS KNEEL FOR A LIE
AFL players kneeled for a lie, that our police are killing
Aboroginals. Not one had the courage to stand for the truth as race bullies rule. My editorial from The Bolt Report.
3h ago Check Bolt's spelling
No Stolen Children Bolt says look at the record. No Deaths in Custody look at the Death Certificates. Why would Andrew Bolt direct the public eye to the one and only area where `the social cause and context of death aren't recorded where only the medical cause is found? The Death Certificates simply said aren't the place to send historians to look. If you wanted to prove President Kennedy wasn't assassinated but died of brain damage blood loss and his heart stopped you might. But that's the way Andrew Bolt rolls is it he misdirects and it's why he never got a degree and would fail to get one if he even tried today.
However, he does make one point and one that contradicts himself. He claims he's not an enabler of right-wing violence. However, all other media are enablers of fear so strong it made the AFL players kneel. If that's the case we can argue that the Australian right-wing violence and domestic terror is enabled by the ideas Bolt spreads day in and day out and he did have indirect responsibility for the Christ Church massacre. Andrew Bolt said he wished young Christians had the same commitment to their beliefs as the Barcelona terrorists did. He called young Australian Christians "gutless" as he has these AFL footballers.
Strange isn't it Bolt calling others "gutless" yet he lives his life in seclusion not even holidaying here.
Last
night, an investigation by 60 minutes and The Age exposed that a
Victorian Labor MP has been up to no good; branch stacking, trying to
build some kind of aspirational warlord powerbase, unbelievably abusive
statements about female colleagues.
So first thing today, Daniel Andrews, the Labor Premier of Victoria, *sacked him*. Boom, just like that.
Not only has Andrews stripped the dude of his ministry, but he’s pushing his expulsion from the party. AND his government is referring him to IBAC (the Victorian anti-corruption commission) AND to the Victorian police.
Leadership is not just about how you manage the people you’re entrusted to govern. It’s about managing those who do the governing as well.
Compare Andrews’ decisive action against one of his own... with that of
the weasel words and excuses for no good behaviour made by Scott
Morrison, when it comes to his own Liberal Party and the Coalition.
Again and again, the dodgy business of Angus Taylor, Stuart Robert and
Bridget McKenzie has been exposed before the electorate. Morrison has done *nothing*. They are all still there.
BOOYEAH, DANIEL ANDREWS.
** UPDATE: Somyurek is OUT of the Labor party. He is gone. It is over. **
Three weeks out from the Eden Monaro by-election, a Right Wing
Fairfax run media outlet, The Age had joined forces with the Right
Wing, Peter Costello, ex-Liberal Treasurer, Channel 9, 60 minutes to
investigate a minister in the Daniel Andrews Victorian Labor Government.
Are we surprised no, this is what the Liberals “dirt unit” do
and a lot of the times they dramatize the actual event and blow it right
out of proportion. In this case and rightly so, the Minister
that was investigated has been sacked by Daniel Andrews and being
removed from the Australian Labor Party. Congratulations to
Daniel Andrews for quickly doing his job and removing the disgraceful
Minister. Daniel should be applauded for requesting a Police
Investigation into what was exposed last night.
Could it be there is so much alleged corruption in the Federal LNP
that we wouldn’t have enough innocent LNP ministers to have a
government. Now the list of 9
Stuart Robert, Dan Tehan and Simon Birmingham say they were in Sydney for parliamentary business when they attended the lucrative Channel Nine event and charging taxpayers to attend this bash
theguardian.com Oh surprise surprise CH9 so busy spreading anti- ALP gossip they overlooked what these guys were doing at this CH9 event Three cabinet ministers charged taxpayers more than $4,500 for an
overnight trip to Sydney during which they mingled with mining and
banking donors at a lucrative Liberal party fundraiser hosted by Channel
Nine. Stuart Robert, Dan Tehan and Simon Birmingham flew into Sydney on the day of the $10,000-a-head fundraising dinner last year
before flying out again the following day, charging their flights and
overnight accommodation costs to their parliamentary allowances. The rules for expenses bar MPs from claiming travel where the
the dominant purpose is to raise funds for political parties, but all three
claim they were within the rules because they were in Sydney for other
parliamentary business in the hours either side of the fundraiser.
These extraordinary revelations put on full display claiming to show the very worst of our political system. Note however Ch9 also host $10,000 a head Liberal Party Fundraisers with the usual suspect's attending their snouts in the trough.
For how many years have the right-wing media been paid to chase down Labour MP Adem Somyurek for "branch stacking"? How many times have they made out its something newly discovered and corrupt? The only thing corrupt here is Ch9's advertorial for the Liberal Party and that the Liberal Party was somehow pristine and lily-white. Note the lack of attention-grabbing aside proving what we have here is just an organised BEAT UP to please, "While not as publicly visible, the Liberal Party also at times resorts to the same tactics."
Ch9's now the owners of Fairfax have decided to beat this old drum and make public idiots of themselves to attract the good graces and advertising $$$$ of the Liberal Party its donors by going head to head with News Corp in the chase for the dosh & filthy lucre. It's time to dump these scammers pretending to sell news and dump them both. No News today other than what's above and conveniently overlooked by Ch9 showing off to the Liberals by riding an old bike all hands and fingerprints making idiots of themselves.
Dan does the right thing and shows what he's made of what will the Libs do??
Daniel Andrews sacks Adem Somyurek for 'deplorable' conduct and comments – politics live
Victoria’s premier says minister accused of branch stacking was not
given an opportunity to resign. Follow the latest updates live
Fox isn't alone in hiding the facts from the American public Trump and the GOP are as well. For that alone, as servants of the people, they deserve to be sacked from office and American politics if Democracy is to stand a chance and the state not fail. They have nowhere to hide and nowhere to run.
COLUMN
If you believe your eyes, every AFL player and the umpire is so sure our police are killing Aborigines in jails that they couldn’t play last weekend before bending their knee in silence. Is this remotely possible?
Or did they just knee from fear of the race bullies? Likewise with
Waleed Aly's preaching. How do we know he's not just following orders?
10m ago
Firstly let's face it when Andrew has little to offer in the way of opinion but merely attacks his own profession and as a supposed professional of over 35 years also turns on the grammar of an American black woman he needs to be told can't spell. So AFL footballers are 1) piss-weak afraid Bolt says like he does from behind his protective socially distanced curtain. They at least show there is neither "i" nor colour in teams and they have worked on ridding racism of the Bolt kind as far back as when Nikki Winnmar showed his pride.
2) Death in custody isn't according to Bolt isn't proven or even skewed it doesn't exist because the death certificates don't say so. Heart Attacks, Aphixiation aren't racial terms. "Look it up" Well, he leaves the statistics and the experts when he says there is nothing to see forget the context just look at the medical and not social cause of the death. However, he thankfully stands as minority voice on that measure and a very racist one.434 deaths is a very large number and not one just plucked from the air.
3) The segue to Waleed Aly someone Bolt has been personally obsessed with as much as he has Bruce Pascoe. In fact, Bolt professionally stalks Waleed, his wife the ABC to boost himself. We do know Aly isn't following orders because there is no editorial consistency as there is with Andrew Bolt and the organisation he works for News Corp. Sky After Dark even regard themselves as a "team" and those he calls "friends". Waleed Aly is Waleed Aly and exceptional individual while Andrew Bolt is foremost visibly and obviously a package.The only question being why is he and that package still a useful fit for such a massive money-losing organisationand how long will that continue?
DAVE CHAPPELLE SHOWS ANTI-RACISM IS AN EXCUSE TO BE CRUEL
Racism is just one way people can be cruel. Black Lives
Matter supporters have shown us other ways — but their ways are
apparently OK. Take foul-mouthed former broadcaster Mike Carlton and
viciously misogynistic comedian Dave Chappelle, who has just proved the
hypocrisy of Netflix.
14/06/2020
This self-proclaimed emperor or king con-servative really has no clothes. Andrew Bolt stands naked making a fool of himself in public 4 days night and then runs and hides. The difference between Bolt Carlton and Chapelle is when they open their mouths they have something to say and they are saying it to those that have their knees firmly planted on the knecks of others. They aren't frightened to be out in public. They direct their comments to issues whereas Andrew Bolt scampers after them yelling "style is more important than meaning". "My grammar is better than yours"
A Bolt public event is generally a photoshoot showing off his personal style to somehow ingratiate himself to the world as if he was a Kardashian or a true member of the elite. Carlton and Chapelle certainly don't flaunt their lifestyles like Dorian Grey Andrew Bolt trying to polish the turd.
REAL NEWS NOT BOLT NEWS
Personal trainer Patrick Hutchinson was pictured rescuing an injured man during clashes at a far-right protest in central London on Saturday.
FAKE NEWS BOLT NEWS
POLITICIANS! DEFEND YOUR POLICE FROM BLACK LIVES MATTER LIES
I'm sick of politicians being too gutless to confront the race protesters with the truth - that police are not picking on and killing Aborigines in jail. They do not defend their police from the
lies of Black Lives Matter organisers, and police who must pay the price. As for journalists like Waleed Aly... My editorial from The Bolt
Report.
4m ago
Bolt certainly shows he's a follower and not a leader when it comes public opinion doesn't he? He scampers after Waleed Aly and others and has done for years a true Coyote and the Road Runner cartoon. The only problem is that Bolt thinks he's the Road Runner.
I said earlier Bolt is a package and here he is a carbon copy of Fox News trying to sound like Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and even Trump himself. Trying to mimic their softshoe on The Project as they do CNN and Mayors and Governors in the US. "I'm sick of politicians and..." They at least name those politicians but Bolt only has eyes for Tony Abbott. The data and evidence is in and 90% of Australia is ashamed that there are still deniers out there given voice who wear suits who think we don't see their KKK robes.
What Bolt doesn't tell you is that ex-heads of the police force actually agree with BLM and that the force does have a case to answer and changes do need to be made. Heads of the force and not just bystanders like Bolt are found standing shoulder to shoulder with the BLM worldwide and staring down racists like Andrew Bolt. In the case of Trump, it's the head and top General of his defence force. Oh did Bolt forget to mention the Atlanta police chief resigned when one of her officers put bullets into the back of someone doing a runner? Who according to Bolt died because his heart stopped.
Bolt's made racist attempts in the past to hang outspoken Indigenous Australians from his yardarm for us to see but found it was he who left his head on a pike. Bolt spent years frothing at the mouth attacking the police and their Culture for going after George Pell but as far as Aborigines are concerned their practices are faultless. It certainly makes Andrew Bolt look the yo-yo he in fact is.
Minneapolis hasn't "scrapped " it's own police force they are defunding it and redirecting funds the other welfare areas and meanwhile Andrew Bolt is calling his profession liars. It seems Bolt favours the idea of "force" rather than "service". He prefers a militarised army to control us because of property and wealth held by a minority in suburbs like his need to be defended from looters. Defended by the public purse not his private one so insurance premiums are kept stable.
Bolt showed himself to be the misogynist and in his rant revealed who he really is not just a racist but a mocker trying to punch down and be amusing when he pointed to "radical chic to match radical earrings" Now that's a bubble brain in a cut and paste effort to put boots into the bitch, again an American one. Andrew Bolt is such a try-hard but just not Fox is he?
Let's get this straight: our ever-so-responsible Morrison Govt admits a $60 BILLION ‘reporting error’ in JobKeeper! The same Morrison who crowed only the Libs could be trusted to manage Australia's finances? Of course the Murdoch protection racket lets them get away with it…
As
China becomes more belligerent in its strategic and diplomatic
behaviour – unquestionably, this is happening – it will be in our
interests to reduce our reliance on it and to develop new markets, just
as we should also deepen our regional partnerships. But
that should be done quietly, without harming us in the here and now.
The debate over how we engage with China is one we must have, but it can
easily be derailed if our leaders speak and act impetuously. Because
of the Prime Minister's overt global politicking, which China was bound
to see as a Trump-based initiative, we've got a barley export industry
that's set to fall over and a beef export industry that's also in
trouble, possibly with other sectors set to follow.
The quality of our journalism really does stand out doesn't it here is Carney telling us to cut our tie with China but do it quietly be Chinese about it as if China was dumb deaf and blindand hadn't noticed that we were actin as if tied to America's apron strings. America's Pompeo is making hell of a noise threatening us because Dan Andrews is being diplomatic. Somehow Carney believes they haven't noticed.It shows what The Age has become since being taken over by Ch9 a twisted version of Murdoch media rather than an alternative to chasing after their advertisers.
Australian television shows like The
Voice, Border Security and Neighbours will be broadcast in the Pacific
under a $17.1 million soft-power push against Chinese media influence in
the region, but critics say local voices should be the priority.
Truly sick aren't we Tony Abbott having got rid of Radio Australia and shredding the ABC giving China the opportunity to provide what Australia did for 75years has the LNP deciding we need to come back and come back with an old patronising South African/LNP version of South Pacific.
Australian television shows like The Voice, Border Security, Neighbours
and MasterChef will be broadcast in the Pacific under a $17.1 million
Australian Government project at a time when China's diplomatic and
media presence is on the rise in the region.
Fake News
SACK THEM FOR THIS $60BN MISTAKE
Terry McCrann: "The head of Treasury, Steven Kennedy, and
ATO Commissioner Chris Jordan must both be sacked... The statement put
out by the duo jointly on Friday to 'explain' why the JobKeeper program
was now 'only' going to cost $70 billion instead of the estimated $130
billion was quite simply an attempted butt-covering disgrace."
What a load of crap by McCrann and Bolt trying to stick their heads above the parapet to be noticed. These two know that all forms these days are computer-generated template applications. The issue that a program didn't distinguish 1000 incorrect filled boxes out of 9000 is simply bad programming. Readiness to spend $130 bill was declared great policy.
The cry "sack them" is scapegoating and a walk back on policy and not a technical error. They didn't cry "sack them" when business heads intentionally spent years robbing workers of their wages and Super. Shortchanging them of their benefits and even more.
Their aim is to sensationalise themselves and not even consider why and what the problem now is. Kennedy and Jordan aren't the excuses for Frydenberg's current error walking back on a promise and policy considered necessary. Scapegoating is easy. However, given Frydenberg and the LNP saw $130 bill as a reasonable and necessary amount to spend to save Australian workers at this time why now is $70 bill being regarded as going over the cliff? The "backdown" in policy is the issue that stands out and not a computer error.
Bolt's made costly mistakes at News Corp to the tune of hundred's of thousands of dollars and he's still with us we didn't hear him calling for the sacking of News Corp's legal advisors or that his mistakes were theirs.
JOBS NOW. THINK OUTSIDE THE SQUARE. CHECK OUT PERROTET
Hmm. One man seems to have a more practical plan to get
people working. Morrison's: "An overhaul of vocational education focused
on tradies and skilled workers." NSW Treasurer Dominic Perrotet's:
"Businesses would be given more freedom to spill into... footpaths, into
parks and converting streets into marketplaces." There's good science
to this.
15m ago
Let's rather remember how Tony Abbott supported by Murdoch drove science and research and our brightest and best out of Australia and now the LNP figure they have an opportunity to correct that and attract them back with our brag of no Covid-19 here.
Only 7 years have passed and Liberals are wanting to turn that around and declaring that there's something urgent and in need of being fixed. 5000 super-smart immigrants needed to be coaxed here using to Covid-19. Scammed without need to change the budget or funding policies Abbott put in place that drove them out in the first place. No need to provide support for the work they declared unnecessary because it interfered with the Climate information and the technologies they didn't want us to know about. Abbott tried to bribe universities with $5mill to take on the failed CCC and Bjorn Lomborg.
Bolt has ignored his part in media promoting Abbott's plan and turned his attention to the exciting news that the whole of Syndey could be turned into a street market like Lakemba, saying "there's good science to this". He for one wouldn't attend.
HOW TO SMEAR TRUMP WITH ONE LYING PICTURE
Who knew? Democrat Julian Castro employed a certifiable liar to run his communications during his tilt for president. That liar
is Sawyer Hacket, whose latest hate-Trump tweet is destroyed with a
single photograph.
31m ago
Trump has smeared himself countless times no lesson learned here. He smears himself each time he steps in front of a camera. Bolt's friend the once pro-Trump Anne Coulter has joined the ranks of smearers of which Bolt was once one until Murdoch's editorial policies changed. Go back to 12/10/2016 and check out what Bolt was doing to Trump then. So he's a self-admitted liar then.
DOMINIC CUMMINGS VS THE VIRUS-MADDENED MOB. NO CONTEST
Brendan O'Neill asks who is worse in the Dominic Cummings
furore: "The media and the Twitterati have been raging against two
parents who were ill, or at risk of falling ill, and who did what they
thought was best for their kid in this situation: drove from London to
Durham so that family members could assist with childcare if necessary."
Read on.
39m ago
Looking for sympathy in all the wrong places. MP's and the top of the tree are meant to set the example. Bolt believes in the reverse principle that the rules are just for the sheep.
During the week, the increasingly ridiculous Murdoch rag, The Australian, published yet another article by the Coalition’s tame climate change denier, Ian Plimer.
Alexis Berg, Associate Research Scholar, Princeton University: “Just like previous pieces by the same author, this piece is an unorganised collection of the same old misleading “arguments” from climate change deniers that have been addressed thousands of times before. It is frankly appalling that any newspaper that would like to retain some credibility would continue to publish such pieces.” It’s time The UnAustralian was held to account for their deliberate and destructive campaign to mislead the Australian people about this existential threat. If we want to talk about “ensuring integrity”, then the Murdoch media would be a great place to start.
A Fact you never heard from Peter Dutton that African's from Victoria have invaded Qld. (ODT)
A dramatic rise in young people carrying knives prompts a Logan detective to start a campaign warning of the risks, with new statewide figures showing a 40 per cent increase in knife-related crimes.
This in Peter Dutton's State and not in Victoria, what a surprise? (ODT)
Top Stories ABC and CH9 How they headline and event
One of the two people killed by a knifeman during an attack at London Bridge is named as 25-year-old Jack Merritt, a Cambridge University graduate remembered as a "champion for underdogs everywhere".
"He is not a hero. He is a murderer out on day release, which us as a family didn't know anything about. He murdered a disabled girl. He is not a hero, absolutely not," Amanda's aunt, Angela Cox, told the Daily Mail on Friday. "I don't care what he's done today, he's a murderer," she said.
"Yes, he did something nice, but that doesn't make up for what he has done. He's not a hero, and he never will be," Cox told BBC News on Saturday. We heard this attitude expressed so often by media commentators like Andrew Bolt, yet when he was convicted of Racial vilification himself, he claims the law got it wrong. Is it any wonder these attitudes, in fact, encourage recidivism and serving time for a crime is enabled by beliefs fostered like this in the community. The media, in this case, like Bolt amplify that people who have committed a crime should never be forgiven even if they served the prescribed time. However, not so in Norway and other Scandanavian countries where the recidivism rate is much lower and rehabilitation the focus. One needs to ask why a murderer can't be a hero? Why has the media created this headline rather than what Ford did to prevent a terrorist from doing further harm? Afterall he did something "more than nice".
FAKE AND TWISTED NEWS
THIS 'TELLING' EVIDENCE AGAINST ME DOESN'T HELP PASCOE AT ALL
The Saturday Paper's Rick Morton is ignorant and deceptive in defending Bruce Pascoe: "Tellingly, after mocking an account he questions about animal yards in an Indigenous settlement I went to Bolt with an actual account of one quoted verbatim that IS IN DARK EMU, and he responds: 'Maybe they were animal pens, who knows?'" Here's the truth.
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/media/2019/11/30/bolt-pascoe-and-the-culture-wars/15750324009163 " There is one particular question Andrew Bolt does not wish to answer....he has read Bruce Pascoe’s best-selling history of Aboriginal Australia, Dark Emu. Each time, he evaded the question."
Perhaps it's the reason Bolt tends to attack the man rather than debate the work or what he said. Bolt did that with Adam Goodes as well when he found a groundswell of protest telling him what Goodes actually said, and in the context, it was all said rather than Bolt's cut and paste ignorance put on display.
Bolt's, never to be forgotten, fact that he was found guilty of Racial vilification lurks behind the attack on Pascoe who openly admits."
“The people he(Bolt) attacked for this crime, however, had an unfortunate thing in common: their credentials were impeccable. Any good reporter could pick up the phone and talk to their mothers about their Aboriginality until the chooks go to roost.
“If I had been part of the group who took Bolt to court for impugning their heritage, he would have had a field day.”
Bolt even manages to stuff up this rebuttal! As per my emailed question to him, I don’t claim to have found this information. I quoted it to him and the precise page number on which it appears in Dark Emu. Reading comprehension: nil.
1) reviewing the original documents and explorer accounts in question. They are – at every instance – quoted verbatim and cited accordingly in an extensive bibliography at the end of Pascoe’s book. Bolt alleges: "Dark Emu – included incredible misquotations of its sources." What it shows, however, is Bolt has never read the book Pascoe didn't quote Sturt when referring to a "town of 1000" but Mitchell.
2) In his reference to dates, Bolt's is likened to a drunken sailor. When Judge Mordecai Bromberg pronounced Bolt guilty of Racial Vilification, he also found him guilty of slack and lazy journalism. Someone who had no care for facts but only his own ends as he's doing here. Trying to protect White Colonial History from its more than possible denial.
Amazing having spent so much energy attacking the likes of Bruce Pascoe and Adam Goodes as men dubious character along with others all Bolt has to offer is " “Trust you to attempt to make this about me and not his incredible claims.” doing what Bolt does time and again FLIP the argument to make out he's the victim and Morton is the aggressor.
This telling evidence against Andrew Bolt Chris Kenny and others does indeed help Pascoe as his claims have stood the test and evidence found by others since.
On Wednesday, Marcia Langton replied to Josephine Cashman on Twitter. The two were previously close.
“The critique of Dark Emu is a job for actual historians not Andrew Bolt & others who benefit financially from tearing apart the lives of people looking for family,” she said.
Andrew Bolt is a reductionist saying Pascoe has no Aboriginality because he hasn't the right documentation. When is a "heap of beans" a "heap of beans" Andrew Bolt? Is it 1 bean?,2,3,4, or----25 beans? Who chooses the tipping point when several beans become a "heap"? Andrew Bolt thinks he is judge and jury. He thought he had that right when convicted of racial vilification as well. Like Hitler had the right to define who was and who wasn't a Jew. In much the same way he hasn't any right to judge Pascoe at all. Besides, it's Pascoe's work that is and should be debated not the man.
If that were the case, could it be argued, what Bolt never addresses, is that he is a Nazi because of his heritage and connection to Aalsmeer. It's well documented. Oh, it's not an issue of race, but then neither is Judaism, but Hitler certainly made Judaism one. So why can't it be said Bolt is a Nazi? Simply saying no won't cut it.
PASCOE FOOLED MORTON ABOUT ABORIGINAL 'TOWNS' OF '1000' PEOPLE
The Saturday Paper's Rick Morton made gross errors in defending Dark Emu author Bruce Pascoe from my criticism that he wrote fake history and made dodgy claims that he was Aboriginal. But in my response yesterday I missed one critical blunder from Morton that proved what he denies - that Pascoe misquoted his sources. Peter O'Brien hasn't missed.
2m ago
Mitchell's "estimated" of numbers is fair enough. However, not according to Andrew Bolt, so when is a heap, a heap or an estimated 1000, not 1000? A Census report, not a Census report. Is an estimate simply a leap of faith, a Religion? Bolt's demand for absolute exactness doesn't seem to apply to the white man's history. Bolt looks as if he's trying to wriggle out of his embarrassment. There are an increasing number of Bruce Pascoe's around along with growing attention and new evidence. The demand for absolute exactness rather than probability is rarely found in history just as an absolute connection between smoking and cancer never has. Bolt's insistence that human history needs to be based on "fact" rather than probability is counter to any human experience.
It seems rather a rush of desperation in the defence of white men's accumulation of historical "facts" as an exact interpretation of our past. It's ultimate absurdity to tell us history, as written, shouldn't be changed because it's somehow "exact". What Wanker Bolt is when he says " We are in a wild new world where facts do not count, at least to the Left. It's the side and the story."
Somehow Bolt seems to find it astounding that after 200 years of being told and taught white history that one can find Aborigines that support what they have been taught. Jacinta Price is just an example of the uncertainty of the past that is open to be re-examined when new evidence arises. She's certainly not a reason for denial. If whites or blacks question the past the only reason is new evidence not simply Bolt's name-calling that they are 'Left'. How shallow is that? Basically, one needs to ask why has the man so blinkered and has such a tin ear? Bolt is obviously disturbed as he was when his attacks on Adam Goodes showed him up for what he is a denier that any White Colonial Racist system was in place and it's descriptive of our inglorious past. Globally British Colonial history has been exposed and is being rewritten about India, the West Indies Africa etc and the exploitation that was involved in so many places but not according to Bolt here in Australia. We as far as Bolt is concerned some marvellous benevolent exception of a British Colonisation quite different from anywhere else.
