One truth Andrew Bolt isn't Martin Flanagan and he doesn't practice what he preaches. He criticizes and only accepts the Australian family off a very, very small base. Last week he criticized the AFL and he didn't accept Richmond's inclusive "family" support of the 'yes' vote. Instead he turned to Carlton and their complaint that the AFL didn't represent them.You see Bolt is a user Flanagan isn't. Flanagan is proud of his family and has photos of them and they do of him he's genuine. Bolt isn't.
How can a man, such a reclusive, appear genuine and preach to us about family when his is so hidden. He has a brother and sister of whom you never hear and he never says he's proud of when others do but not Andrew Bolt. The man isn't genuine if Dusty came to date his daughter Bolt would turn his back on him. You see what is Australian is Bolt from a wog family married up the social ladder and was welcomed by none other than Australians simply because their daughter Sally found something in him. He was welcomed. You can be certain that Andrew Bolt wouldn't be as welcoming if Dusty or Houli turned up at his door. He's the most disingenuous ,talking head, bag of wind, and the most un-Australian Aussie to be telling us what family is.
Waleed Aly well he's a Richmond supporter too and he was part of the cheer squad he was an active member of that club. What part of the Richmond family is Andrew Bolt other than just hot air he spins? Is Richmond proud of Andrew Bolt?
Every Government And Opposition Leader In Australia Is Voting Yes On Same-Sex Marriage...Except One
Seventeen out of Australia's 18 federal, state and territory leaders are voting "yes".
FAR-RIGHT GERMAN LEADER QUITS PARTY, ACCUSES IT OF RACISM
Gutsy, and I hope she can now develop a better alternative party: "The resurgent German far-Right looked in danger of imploding within hours of its electoral triumph on Monday, as [the Alternative for Germany co-chair] announced she ... would sit as an independent. Frauke Petry ... lashed out at colleagues, accusing them of condoning racism."
""The sort of anarchic party the AfD has become in recent weeks can be successful in opposition, but cannot offer a credible alternative government," she said..."Petry
They say two negatives make a positive they don't. Two Nazi's remain two Nazi's just as two rounds of Mr. Nope Abbott would remain a negative and a permanent government in opposition that did nothing. We learned that in 2013 when Abbott began lying straight off the bat with his 3 word no tax cut slogans.
The AfD is the party Andrew Bolt gave unqualified praise to and celebrated their rise. " Ms. Petry made it clear she was unhappy with remarks by Mr Gauland and others calling for an end to the culture of guilt over Germany's Nazi past." Petry "calling for border guards to open fire on refugees." The AfD has moved further to the Right just as Tony Abbott did.
SAUDIS LET WOMEN DRIVE, BUT LITTLE ELSE
Big step, if from far behind: "Saudi Arabia announced on Tuesday that it would allow women to drive, ending a longstanding policy that has become a global symbol of the repression of women in the ultraconservative kingdom." But still: "Women cannot travel abroad, work or undergo some medical procedures without the consent of their male 'guardian'."
Andrew Bolt's continued ignorance is extremely dangerous it amplifies the fact he doesn't know the difference between religion and culture and doesn't care. Latin Americans practice their Catholicism differently to us does that make them our enemies? He doesn't care. Here is the man who was celebrating the rise of the Nazi party in Germany yesterday proving that he is ignorant and dangerous.
Does Bolt hate the Saudis"? They don't want to be his neighbors as much as he doesn't want to be theirs but nevertheless, we call them and have done for many years our political allies and happily support them bombing the bejezuz out of the Yemen turning it into the basket case of the world. Bolt would prefer them as our enemies it seems but he can't. Islam does not dictate the way women ought to be treated one only needs to turn to the world's largest Islamic countries to see that. There is nothing in the Koran that says "Women cannot travel abroad, work or undergo some medical procedures without the consent of their male 'guardian'."Bolt
Does anybody find it strange that Tunisia is a Muslim country Bolt never mentions has had equal pay and woman's rights to abortion and education since the 70s while we are still dealing with these issues? That Tunisians know more about Western Culture than Andrew Bolt would ever know about theirs and they speak more languages than most Australians. He doesn't shy away from his bigotry, does he? He hides it in plain sight.
THEY DON'T TALK FREEDOM BECAUSE THEY DON'T RESPECT IT
Paul Kelly is right: "The feature of the campaign so far is the absolute refusal of the Yes camp to concede any legitimacy to warnings of the No camp about the risks to religious freedom and belief... It simply refuses to engage in the issue. Has there ever been a more arrogant campaign?" Not discussing freedom suggests they plan to destroy it.
Freedom of religion is practiced by Australian Muslims who have recognized that "marriage equality has little or nothing to do with their faith nor does the law as it stands. Bolt, however, throws that aside for the need of freedom of abuse and he freely does abuse both Muslims and "yes" voters for persecuting Christians. The very fact that he says he's not a Christian is a form of persecution. Like Gandhi did the British simply by ignoring Christian faith and getting on with changing secular and unjust laws Bolt screams persecution. We don't give a damn what Bolt the agnostic Christian believes in but it's certainly hypocritical simply because we want our laws to reflect what it is our constitution guarantees equality, freedom of religion and the separation of state powers.
The problem we face here is the disingenuous manufacturing of FEAR by ignorance. Since 2001 places that have allowed marriage equality and have been fully researched have shown that the fears being by the likes of Bolt are totally manufactured and no such events have taken place in any sociological, systemic or statistical sense so how can any legitimacy be given to outlandish warnings? Bolt can't even name countries that statistically significant changes have occurred.
Populism over politics is a result of whatever the media can amplify and sell and Bolt works for the largest private media organization in the country whose CEO was also the founding member of the most Conservative think tank in the country the IPA. So what chance is there for information, news, being delivered and packages in any organized way other than by the non-commercial ABC which questions the underlying motives of both the government and opposition parties alike. Unfortunately the financial ability of minority interests to mobilize are aided by the likes of News Corp and are clearly visible in what is deemed to be a free market but in fact is a monopoly that profits by selling and lobbying the interests of only 1% in a very organized way. The only alternative for any real opposition or agreement needs an organizational approach that's not just adversarial but more like the German model. Where the boards of all corporations in the market are required to represent all interested parties including the workers and their Unions and not just the shareholders. If that were the case Governments like Tony Abbott's would have less chance of surfacing to do nothing.
' FIGHTING FOR GAY MARRIAGE GENERALLY INVOLVES LYING ABOUT WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO'
They've warned you. Statist gay marriage activist Masha Gessen at the Sydney Writers Festival in 2012: "Fighting for gay marriage generally involves lying about what we're going to do with marriage when we get there."
Not only is Bolt inferring Frances Abbott is a liar but that her ideal heterosexual family has raised incorrectly why? Because as you see Bolt uses a stereotypical broad brush that says "generally". So he's comfortable in calling Abbott's sister and daughter liars along with 17 of 18 Australia's leading politicians. My question who is the f'wit, the bullyboy under these circumstances. Who sounds the lest reasoned and unintelligent?
Bolt's delusion of the ideal heterosexual marriage is the myth and the lie it's not the fundamental institution of all societies. It has changed significantly over time and with class. For the wealthy it's purpose was an arranged contract and the merging of wealth. For the Industrial Revolution, it was a means of ensuring a mobile and cheap labor force. Over the years and in many societies it developed from extended family arrangements. The raising of children wasn't done by the parents of the wealthy nor was it done by both parents of working-class families. Bolt's talking rubbish and is even idealizing his own family. Things have been far more fluid and variable than he's prepared to admit when today in most cases both parents are working to make ends meet.
The Israeli kibbutzes were never an arrangement of nuclear families either it was more of a socialist commune. Today we see that the most common form that Bolt holds dear up is in fact on the decline so fighting for a singular definition of marriage in any fixed form involves a major amount of lying. The lying however in Bolt's case has no statistical or sociological significance. Colombia University did a study of gay marriages over a period of 30 years and 97% of those studies indicated no difference existed. Bolt however always turns to confirmational bias when indicating research and will look for the 3% or even individual cases to support the conclusion he has already in mind. He's the bad cop constantly out to convict Blacks, Gays, and Muslims,
THE OPPRESSION STARTS: NT CONSIDERING NEW LAWS AGAINST CHURCHES
It starts. Northern Territory moves against churches: "One of exemptions that could be removed is section 30(2) that permits religious schools to exclude prospective students who are not of that religion. Another exemption ... is section 37A that permits religious schools to discriminate against employees on the grounds of religious beliefs."
Bolt confirmation bias reveals itself in the hypotheticals of what if, it could be proposed, all of which exist in the world of fantasy. Tony Abbott proposed an honors list of Knighthoods and Dames be returned to Australia and was it? All this is in Bolt's land of "could be's " The reason Catholic schools today take in non-Catholics isn't due to any generosity on their part but rather a case of Economics. Can Andrew Bolt point to countries and name any countries that we have seen wholesale demonstrations after the marriage laws were introduced."The proposals are among the most extreme ever floated by a state or territory government in Australia, but are broadly in accord with measures introduced in all other countries where same-sex marriage has been introduced." Catholic lie
VOTE FOR JIM MOLAN
Cheer him on: "Liberal Party reformers moved last night to overthrow the 'factional warlords' that control a key division in a warning sign to Malcolm Turnbull and other leaders to help deliver more power to party members. Retired major-general Jim Molan ... put himself forward as a candidate for president of the NSW division on a reform ticket."
So the Liberal Party now wants to look like the Labor Party the once criticized for branch stacking.
