Just a few days ago this is what Andrew Bolt denied by cherry-picking bits of a report about altimetry done at the Antarctic. He failed to note the weakness of the study expressed at the end of the report or that a more comprehensive one was being conducted. Bolt presented the result's as if they, in fact, were the last word on the matter. Which still failed to explain why the seas are rising. (ODT)
While NOAA's annual report shows the Arctic has lost 95 per cent of its oldest,...
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PAYWALL
Andrew Bolt need do nothing as long as he has the ABC. Isn't it strange that the ABC is full of working journalists interviewers, and researchers producing diverse news and information for Australians while Andrew Bolt simply sits back and runs the same negative commentary on them and calls it a career? He wouldn't have a program if it weren't for the ABC and Murdoch's business model which requires the minimum of journalists but a maximum of CHURNALISTS repeating the same thing over and over.
Did anybody notice Bolt's interview with Peter Dutton last night? Bolt not only did the talking for Peter Dutton telling him what it is he ought to be saying, who disagreed with him, but Bolt posted that interview with a banner on his blog suggesting what he said was what Dutton did "trash Turnbull" and call him "a wrecker". Dutton didn't he clearly said "we think poorly of those that trash and disparage our ex PMs" It seems even top conservatives don't think too highly of Andrew Bolt.
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Why hasn't Bolt or Alan Dershowitz not mentioned the charges already laid in the State of New York connected to the testimonies of Michael Cohen and Trump's political campaign manager Paul Manafort
" Together, the filings laid bare the most direct evidence to date linking Mr Trump to potentially criminal conduct, and added to an already substantial case that Russia was seeking to sway the 2016 election in his favour."
"They emphasized that Mr Cohen had implicated the president in payments to two women during the campaign to conceal affairs that they said they had with Mr Trump. “Cohen himself has now admitted, with respect to both payments, he acted in coordination with and at the direction of Individual-1,” the prosecutors wrote. “Individual-1” is how Mr Trump is referred to in the document."
Even the incoming chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Representative Jerrold Nadler, Democrat of New York, has said that election finance crimes by Mr Trump would be an impeachable offence in theory but alone might not be “serious enough.”
Still, prosecutors could also wait and charge Mr Trump with conspiracy after he leaves the presidency. If he were to lose re-election in 2020, the statute of limitations will not have expired by January 2021 when he would leave office.
Fox News is employing OJ Simpson's defence team it seems to protect Trump that alone makes Bolt's use of him less than suspicious but obvious and understandable. Never print the real facts because they just might get in the way of PR.
THE SONG KILLERS
Some radio stations have now banned Baby It's Cold Outside. What's the problem with a song that's been covered by generations of singers? Well, it sounds like date rape now. Or so, they say. My editorial on The Bolt Report.
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Songs get banned for all sorts of reasons. Sometimes not even banned but ignored for racist reasons which become the cultural norm. You don't play Black music. The fact that Bolt has now kicked up a fuss about this trivial action about a white mans' ditty, one song. "Baby it's cold outside" simply shows he's really not a deep thinker or social analyst just a protector of white male culture. He claimed yesterday the banning by a radio station was funny. Today it seems to have escalated beyond funny his comments intended to be "light and happy" have developed to the moral victimisation of his culture. But even if he's said so many times before he doesn't know what funny or light and happy is and admits he's not good at either, he's right he doesn't. As for intelligent social analysis, he's short on that too, why? Well, because banning a single white man's song isn't wrong it's a matter of outdated taste and a radio station's commercial choice trying to appeal to its audience.
However, banning Black music was once done by the whole music industry and that reflected the racist trend and American culture institutionalised in the US and Australian music industries where Indigenous music was rarely, very rarely heard or played unless a black artist was singing a white man's song.
When Bolt referred to a DMX song he did more he generalised it wasn't just one song he was talking about it was Rap music today's black music and as far as he's concerned it should be banned. But pointing out that he can't say that because he becomes the instant victim of black racism, reverse racism. The fact that he can't stop its production show the music industry has changed and isn't as uniform as it once was and less a racist an institution as Bolt still is an individual.
The man's an idiot these arguments have been going on for a very long time Rock and Roll was once the rap of its day once and adults like Bolt were whinging about it back then too even if it was being sung by white men. Conservatives wanted that banned but then so were so many other forms of music but especially Rock and Roll as it was said to have its roots in black music which wasn't commercial or the taste of America. It had a negative moral influence on youth. Serious efforts were made to ban it and where being driven by the Church and conservative groups Bolt's elect crowd of the day. The Sex Pistols created the Bolt reaction as well simply due to their anger and irreverence for everything.
So in reality racism maybe intertwined and get confused with the diversity of tastes, cultures and opinions about a single song but it's rooted actually resides in broader behavioural trends and patterns that have developed over time that have become institutionally regarded as the norm what Bolt calls cute and humorous like his bagging out and laughing at the South Sudanese beauty contest that deprives and mocks minorities in general simply because of their colour.
Bolt's attitude to Rap is racist his attempt to say the banning of " Baby it's cold outside" is reverse misogyny isn't his complaint is. It's an outdated song, no longer amusing to the radio station's listeners the banning is reflected in a commercial decision to get attention and have listeners tune in. Isn't that what Raps doing and what Rock and Roll did? "Tootie Frutti I want a Rooti" was also banned for a while does Bolt think that was prudishly funny? Yes, the man is a racist, a moralist and a misogynist but unlike the father in the movie Footloose he's not just amusingly old-fashioned and simply not with it and out of date. He is a racist and a misogynist an idiot who does tell his daughter what she can and can't wear who she can and can't mix with and he's right he's not funny, accidentally clumsy or really charming. He's a bigot.
