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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.
Ted Cruz knew.
Rand Paul knew.
Nikki Haley knew.
Marco Rubio knew.
Kellyanne Conway knew.
Mike Pompeo knew.
Glenn Beck knew.
Rick Perry knew.
Susan Collins knew.
They all knew.
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Donald Trump's White House is "uniquely dysfunctional" and "inept", according to a cache of scathing leaked memos from the UK's ambassador in Washington.
The documents detail Sir Kim Darroch's assessments of the Trump administration from 2017 to the present - and could prove highly embarrassing for Britain's Foreign Office. A Foreign Office spokesman said: "The British public would expect our ambassadors to provide ministers with an honest, unvarnished assessment of the politics in their country. "Their views are not necessarily the views of ministers or indeed the government. "But we pay them to be candid. Just as the US ambassador here will send back his reading of Westminster politics and personalities.
Will Murdoch media rush to agree or leave it alone? (ODT)
Give Donald Trump the Nobel Peace Prize! Or is this yet another award hijacked by and for the Left? Andrew Bolt has been reduced to a copywriter for News Corp. Putting out headlines searching for subscriptions. Nothing really to see here.
Is Andrew Bolt trying to get Trump's attention and a job at Fox central USA? It's where the money is, and he's lost some recently. Is he showing what he can do or is doing for Trump down under? Is he trying to let the Don know he's the leader of the Donald Trump fan club Hannity Downunder and he too works for Rupert?
I guess his mental state is in step with Trump's. His view of the planet its history does represent an even smaller shrinking group than it did before 2013 and it has even become smaller since 2016 when Trump became the President. A President who believes if it weren't for General Washington's airforce the US would still be in British control. There is a problem. However, Bolt's opinion of Trump is on very public record when he regarded Trump the most ridiculous candidate for the Presidency and quite the reverse of what it is now he's saying. On the 12/10/16 it was more in line with what the UK ambassador thinks of Trump today.... totally INEPT. The Ambassador was referring to the whole Administration which Trump heads and is made up of ex-Fox News and executive staff and not in any single way professionals. Family, his most inexperienced advisers, running the administration as if they were all running the 7 companies Trump brought to bankruptcy. Lawyers the highest paid of Trump's admin guards. "So much for his judgement and his future as Ambassador: "Leaked diplomatic cables reveal that Britain’s ambassador to the United States regards Donald Trump’s administration as inept... 'We don’t really believe this administration is going to become substantially more normal; ... less diplomatically clumsy and inept,” Mr Darroch wrote." This is precisely what ambassadors are meant to do when acting as advisors to their government
Bolt believes if it weren't for Trump Alek Sigley would not have been released. His proof none. Who is Alek Sigley? If he's now to become the most important Australian, no person, on the Planet and it seems he is according to Andrew Bolt trying to save Trump's image Downunder. He MUST get the Nobel prize? Even Trump doesn't seem to have heard of Alek until now. If he didn't exist, they'd have to have invented one. But then the Murdoch Corporation or Fox Corp have, and they are now Trump and America's foremost State Media, and Bolt is just a paid muppet doing his duty. Let's not forget what Roger Ailes said just before he was sacked for being caught and costing Murdoch some $163mill in settlements. It wasn't time for him to go because Fox/Ailes Media had still to chose the next President and they did even without him because the system was in place to do just that.
Andrew Bolt has in fact elevated Kim to the status of the most influential man on the planet who in fact is far far more deserving of the Peace Prize because he invited Trump to Nth Korea after the Don failed to impress at the G20 where we know Ivanka stole his thunder.
Distraction is the tool of PR merchants when it's so apparent their client has had a horrible week and need breathing space. Bolt is the living example of how Roger Ailes changed the nature of News in the English speaking world and handed it to Murdoch on a platter. NZ an Canada are two English speaking Nations where Murdoch doesn't have a presence and nor will you find this form of media stupidity or leadership running their countries.
After creating Fox News and after 20+ years Ailes was asked was he ready to go he said no not yet. "I still have to choose the next President", and he did even though he was gone. They are doing it in the UK and did it in Aus as well. However not in NZ or Canada where Murdoch doesn't exist or have a hold as yet. (ODT)
Alexis Bloom’s documentary explores the arrogance of power and the creation of Fox News Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes, a well-researched and richly observant documentary from Alexis Bloom about the climate of lies and systemic abuse that nurtured Ailes and allowed his behaviour to flourish.
Fox News, where Ailes could make stars of Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity — who could, in turn, further his political agenda — is a daunting subject that gives this documentary size and purpose. Sadly, Bloom stays mostly on the surface when she needs to plumb the depths of a network that helped Ailes define himself and create a new world of propaganda disguised as news. Talking heads, railing about how they’re mad as hell, was only a prophecy in the 1976 film Network. Ailes made it a reality. Divide and Conquer paints a scary portrait of the arrogance of power, of news as a tool for sale, of a family man who morphed at work into a raging bully, demanding sexual favours and unquestioned obedience as his divine right. And getting away with it. For Ailes, it was good to be the king. Until it wasn’t. In Divide and Conquer, a disturbing study of depravity in full toxic bloom, Bloom makes it clear that it did happen here and that we can’t let it happen again.
Problem is it's here, and it hasn't gone away, and Murdoch intends to make it stay and have the ABC gone. (ODT)
A decade after Kevin Rudd was ousted as Prime Minister over his failed emissions trading scheme, Australia is still without a clear policy and it is discouraging investment
NEW BOOK Linguist Mark Durie has written a brilliant book: The Qu'ran and its Biblical Reflexes. No, the Koran was not written when, where and how Muslims believe. Its dialect, its place names and carbon dating of earliest copies suggest it may not even by the creation of Muhammed, and its God isn't the Christian's. Here's my interview with Durie.
PAYWALL The selling of Islamophobia by Christians has been obvious for a very long time and they aren't noted for doing it well. Bolt, however, helps by carrying it further and turning it into a money-making venture for Mark Drurie Anglican Pastor and Theologian. Apparently, experts in Islam who are globally recognized are more often know-nothing incompetents. Andrew Bolt who claims agnosticism not only prefers the wisdom of these Christian critiques but promotes them as the truth. Is Drurie Gods agent or the ACLs? We know the Christian Bible struggles for truth as well and it wasn't penned by the man spoken about either. " Durie's book is meticulously researched and footnoted, and been praised already by scholars in Australia and abroad." Bolt What stands out here is that no reference is supplied by Bolt of any high praisers other than his own for this book. It's not an uncommon a habit of Bolt's to place himself in the position of being the expert and praiser sometimes the only one for the purpose of raising and promote money for these people.
However, the point to be made is that doubts about the Christian Bible by"experts" also abound but they aren't written by Muslims but generally by Christians themselves whose motivations aren't as suspect as the Christians like Drurie who claim to be experts on Islam but turn out to be members or closely associated with political groups like the ACL, Who write for Islamophobic publications like The Spectator and gets praised by media that support these groups and their politics like News Corp and it's well-known Islamophobe Andrew Bolt. The best that can be said of Drurie is if he lies down with dogs he will get fleas not "high praise"
Where is this "high praise" Bolt speaks of but doesn't mention?
LIBERALS CANNOT WIN BY CRINGEING ON CLIMATE
GUTLESS Paul Kelly: "The Morrison government faces a revolt of ... a section of the middle class that is moralistic about climate change... The government, befitting its pragmatic nature, must act. [It] is planning to pump more money into the Emissions Reduction Fund." But this revolt is driven by unreason faith, so how can pragmatic concessions help?
PAYWALL
The very thing tearing the liberals apart CRINGING = When the majority of the Liberal party listen to the electorate and won't do what the minority wants. They then do what most thugs do for attention and start yelling GUTLESS, and threatening that party majority and the electorate with FEAR of loss in the hope of gaining some paltry votes why?
These Neocons seem to believe that even if they lose they will have won over the party in opposition and if they win they can declare they were the winning persuaders the edge in the game of politics that saved everyone from the brink.
Meanwhile, the evidence for a warming planet and extreme weather conditions is growing by the day. But the denials are louder and get more media attention than the science and have greater
financial backing sopolitics outplays any logic, reason, epistemology or pragmatism.
FAINE NOT SORRY FOR SMEARING PHOTOGRAPHER
Jon Faine is one of the most biased of the ABC presenters, and that says something. And he's shameless: "Faine and the broadcaster’s management have refused for a second day to apologise for a false allegation ... that [Herald Sun] photographer Jake Nowakowski had 'set up' a picture involving teenage vigilantes near Wyndham Vale rail station".
PAYWALL Smearer Bolt smears Faine for smearing. Is that reverse smearing? Faine posed a reasonable question it was twisted by the Herald Sun itself crying victim. " False, and Faine - so often so quick to deflect discussion of the shocking rate of African crime in Melbourne - never offered the slightest evidence to back up his claim." Bolt
Bolt almost trips over himself eager to remind us of African crime conveniently ignoring the white reality taking place in his own blog post and the racist nature of the reporting of what was taking place. " While the award-winning photographer was taking shots an incident unfolded in which members of a Caucasian group with baseball bats were involved in a stand-off with an African-Australian group." Herald Sun
A pro-white paper interviewing white victims imagine if the ABC was there interviewing black victims what Bolt's response would be? You never find News Corp interviewing black victims only white. Readily talking about all Africans as black perps or at best doubtful, "deplorables", never really reporting white youth crime as a problem or their involvement in gang violence. Bolt has even got his jollies off laughing at the idea of a black beauty pageant and says he's not a white bogan because that's an example of how he's polite and mannered.
But then that's not Bolt's agenda his is to jump on ABC's error and make out it's purposeful and an intended biased strategy just as his is. The problem Bolt can't live without the ABC the ABC pays him notice and that sticks in his throat. What would he do without the ABC?
IS BANKS JUST A STOOGE FOR TURNBULL'S REVENGE?
CONSPIRACY THEORY Revenge against one of the Ministers who votes against Malcolm Turnbull: "Malcolm Turnbull’s son Alex has admitted he was 'involved' in a bombshell campaign by Julia Banks to unseat Greg Hunt... But he denied his father was also involved." He would say that, wouldn't he? And how telling that Banks, a fervent Turnbull acolyte, is involved.
Bolt shows us he's a bitch basher simply because he doesn't seem to believe Julia Banks was and still is her own master. She was never bullied according to Bolt just couldn't play the art of politics. When she did she called a traitor yet when Kelly threatened the party with doing a Banks he was called smart. Bolt swings like a dunny door in the wind.
However, he can't stop there and goes to the misogynist position she couldn't have done it without a man and that had to be Malcolm Turnbull and his son. Bollocks, the Mornington Peninsula is changing and Greg Hunt declared himself and Abbott/Dutton man when push came to shove changing his image in the Labor State of Victoria. So why shouldn't Banks see her self counter balancing Hunt with being a far less partisan candidate for the seat that's not what it used to be?
In the last post, Faine noted something suspicious going on and was kicked by Bolt and here is Bolt doing the same thing.
Hunt was and did become Dutton's Wingman an accurate description. The fact that others in the Liberal Party believe in Climate Change is nothing new now that their jobs are at stake they are openly coming out they aren't blind idiots playing politics they are polling and listening to their electorates.
Yes, Bolt even admits to being a conspiracy theorist but he demands the leeway but refuses the same if the ABC raise suspicions. Two faced as a Dutchman saying it's his shout next round.
The reality is simply bashing a class (women) simply because exceptions found are proof positive that there is no rule of thumb that can be delivered about men no trend no history showing socially patterned misogynistic behaviours.
In this case a women is a liar too and the man a victim. So Bolt runs this as generalised proof from the exceptional case of Sarah Jane Parkinson to vindicate the innocence of judge Brett Kavanaugh. To make an even broader leap that Sociology and History are somehow fake unable to declare a "sameness" class or difference between men and women or generalizations made to explain individuals. "It is a rule that measures taken to address "injustice" to a class of people tends to mean injustice to an individual."Bolt
It's more than a joke that it took Bolt 5 Months to find a case of a woman found lying to try to generalise the denial of generalisations. The fact is there is no correlation to be made from Bolt's 2 cases simply is fact there is no correlation to be made. A simple difference Parkinsons case was in a court of law. Kavannaughs was in a GOP hearing the court of opinion for a start.
The same reason KAK was outed as a racist is displayed here Bolt deflects the case corporate cruelty associated with a history of animal deaths not with any argument directed at the specific case or the general number of cases already witnessed. He simply changes the subject to a single case on a Aboriginal cattle station unrelated to the original argument about live export.
I'm sure the case of the cattle dying 2000 at one time and 200 7 years ago was investigated and doesn't show a pattern of deaths the sheep do. Bolt's deflection is driven by racism and not any similarities. His ingnorance lack of logic and bias show.
Bolt's never shy when promoting himself and he believes any publicity is good publicity. So yes, he is Shameless: He doesn't advertise this as a PAYWALL for Murdoch he simply sets it like cheese in a trap called news. Arrogant: He's that too and like Pauline Hanson, he expects Climate Change deniers, who constitute 3% of the scientific community, to be given 50% of the ABC's time in the debate that isn't one anymore and he calls that then a balanced argument. Maybe the ABC should also give IS equal time as well? In fact, Bolt believes those proportions should be legislated. Out of control: Bolt certainly shows he is when he presents opinion as news and false fact for cash. It's a faux product, an activity for which Australia's biggest conman Peter Foster is in jail for. Bolt did a perfect example of it yesterday when he posted his PR statement, a damage control, factless editorial trying to make out that Israel has been a victim in the past 7 weeks of Hamas insurgency. He suggested that the MSM media's soft reporting has been a condemnation of Israel when the opposite is true. Gaza is already yesterday's news a clash was reported when people were being shot like fish in a barrel. Bolt makes out that the IDF, one of the world's best equipped military forces were compelled to kill unarmed protestors which included women, children, people in wheelchairs, the aged, the Press and medics out of "fear" when Israeli snipers were caught laughing thrilled for having hit a target over 300 meters away. The movie Killing Gaza shows just how fearful the IDF really are and how they really behave when on the attack and it's not selectively but in the vain of Mai Lai. They claim to be an anti-terrorist force yet they have hospitals set up in Syria to assist IS and Al-Qaeda. It was written that Sharee Markson actually stumbled on their facilities and was almost arrested but as she worked for Murdoch she was allowed home safely and nothing more was said of what she saw or had occurred. It's been quoted that Rupert Murdoch has shares in Genie Oil which is heavily invested in the illegally occupied territories of the Golan Heights in Syria staling oil. A little known public fact is that in 1948 the land known as Palestine was divided into two parts 52% became Israel and 48% was to be Palestinian today Israel has usurped 91.2% of that territory given to the Palestinian people leaving them with 8.8% and they drove 750,000 people out of their home they now call Israel to create the biggest open air concentration camp in the world. Today Israel with the help of Trump has again stolen land in Jerusalem an officially divided city in which a majority of Palestinians live to set up a new US embassy which isn't planned to be in West Jerusalem at all but in what's known as no man's land the neutral zone and Donald Trump Bolt claims deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. How Shameless and Arrogant and Out of Control is that? UPDATE Bolt's playing Nero watching Rome burn when in Tips he posts a video of Jorge Borges an Argentinian poet who was a supporter of the military Junta in Argentina. The Junta that viciously killed and disappeared citizens at will for speaking against it. Says just how Bolt's suit and tie hide his jackboots and uniform.When fascists and racists hide their genocidal instincts behind culture and call for calm debate they deny the try to silence the right of legitimate screams of pain to be heard. That's exactly what Bolt does when he posts his crap and turns up Wagner at the same time or discusses his aesthetic appreciation. Just another Dorian Gray
WHAT AN AUSTRALIAN TOM WOLFE WOULD SAY
Roger Franklin: "What might an Australian Tom Wolfe have made [of our] white/black relations?... There would be pen sketches of the ... excuse-makers whose pieties play no small part in keeping the victims of their cliched compassion forever on the outskirts of a white society we are tirelessly told can never entirely shed its inherited guilt."
You couldn't get more trash than posited by Richard Franklin of Quadrant on Line that delights self-declared author of repetitious diary notes and author of nothing Andrew Bolt. Publishers operate in the free market, unlike Franklin who operates in the very subsidized atmosphere of Quadrant soon to disappear if the subs are cut. Franklin also contributes to another heavily subsidized rag The Spectator which almost went under in a defamation suit
The quality of Franklin's work so loved by Andrew Bolt is reflected here:
In the immediate aftermath of the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing Quadrant's online editor Roger Franklin wrote an article titled "The Manchester Bomber's ABC Pals"[8] Referring to the Manchester bombing and Monday night's Q&A television program, the article said, "Had there been a shred of justice, that blast would have detonated in an Ultimo TV studio" (it was later amended to, "What if that blast had detonated in an Ultimo TV studio?") and then continued, "Unlike those young girls in Manchester, their lives snuffed out before they could begin, none of the panel’s likely casualties would have represented the slightest reduction in humanity’s intelligence, decency, empathy or honesty."[9][10] ABC Managing Director Michelle Guthrie called the article a "vicious and offensive attack" and called for the article to "be removed and apologised for".[13] The federal Minister for Communication, Senator Mitch Fifield, called the article "sick and unhinged", and media reports stated that the Australian Federal Police had been notified.[9][14] Quadrant board member Nick Cater distanced himself from the article on the ABC's The Drum program on 24 May, suggesting that it was self-published and saying, "This was a despicable things [sic] to write."[15] Columnist for The AustralianChris Kenny called the article "disgusting," "sick and reprehensible," and "a tasteless overreaction."[16] News Corp columnist and blogger Andrew Bolt initially praised the article, stating, "Roger Franklin is magnificent in his anger at this Q&A sophistry." Later, Bolt updated his comment: “My goodness. They took it seriously? They seriously believe someone will act on Franklin’s satire?” Later still, Bolt wrote, “I guess, on reflection, that Franklin should not have – satirically – said he wished the blast went off at Ultimo instead of Manchester. It is certainly not what I would have written."[12] Finally, all Bolt’s comments were removed, but an earlier version of his blog post is still available on the Internet Archive. When Quadrant editor-in-chief Keith Windschuttle was contacted by reporter Nick O'Malley from The Sydney Morning Herald to comment about the article, he said "You’re talking bullshit. Don’t call back."[12] Windschuttle later sent Guthrie a letter of apology, stating, "I have instructed that the article and its comment should be withdrawn completely from our website. Even though I do not share all of the interpretations expressed in your letter, I accept your assurance about the offence it caused you and your staff. You have my unreserved apology for any concerns it might have given you."[17] The article was removed from the Quadrant website on 25 May 2017 but it is still available on the Internet Archive.
Maybe the lack of being accepted by the "free market" is what really chokes Franklin up
Remember when Bolt repeated as rote anything and everything IS media broadcast. He was such a believer in everything they said he became the media voice for IS down under. The FBI and all the investigators into the mass shooting in Orlando was according to Andrew Bolt an IS victory and all the agencies denying that was wrong.
Here he is doing the same for Hamas. Hamas wants credit for the 7 weeks of protests Israel wants Hamas to have the credit and Andrew Bolt is their media man down under to spread the news of their list of heroic martyrs.
So 110 dead women children press and medics killed is all a lie as is some 4000 protesters injured by live bullets the real story is the proportion of Hamas among the dead and injured was 80% Hamas and they were armed and Bolt has caught Hamas taking credit for the Nabka.
Hamas is losing support in Gaza as was ISIS in Iraq and Syria they nevertheless were active in promoting themselves if not at home to the world and Bolt and Israel are helping them why? For very obvious reasons to hide the overkill that in fact was witnessed.
UPDATE
MEMRI TV ACCUSED
The institute is stridently pro-Israel and anti-Arab political bias." It further notes, that MEMRI's founders, Wurmser and Carmon, "are both hardline pro-Israel ideologues aligned with Israel's Likud party".[7] Carmon, in a public letter to Juan Cole that included a threat with a lawsuit over his comments on MEMRI, stated that he has never been affiliated with Likud. Cole answered that he hadn't alleged that, but that MEMRI would campaign for Likud goals such as the rejection of the Oslo peace process.[9]
Brian Whitaker, the Middle East editor for The Guardian newspaper at the time, wrote in a public email debate with Carmon in 2003, that his problem with MEMRI was that it "poses as a research institute when it's basically a propaganda operation".[48] Earlier, Whitaker had charged that MEMRI's role was to "further the political agenda of Israel." and that MEMRI's website does not mention Carmon's employment for Israeli intelligence, or Meyrav Wurmser's political stance, which he described as an "extreme brand of Zionism".[44] Carmon responded to this by stating that his employment history is not a secret and was not political, as he served under opposing administrations of the Israeli government and that perhaps the issue was that he was Israeli: "If your complaint is that I am Israeli, then please say so." Carmon also questioned Whitaker's own biases, wondering if Whitaker's is biased in favor of Arabs – as his website on the Middle East is named "Al-Bab" ("The Gateway" in Arabic) – stating: "I wonder how you would judge an editor whose website was called "Ha-Sha-ar" ("The Gateway" in Hebrew)?[48] Norman Finkelstein has described MEMRI as "a main arm of Israeli propaganda". In 2006, Finkelstein accused MEMRI of editing a television interview he gave in Lebanon in order to falsely impute that he was a Holocaust denier. In an interview with the newspaper In Focus in 2007, he said MEMRI uses "the same sort of propaganda techniques as the Nazis" and "take[s] things out of context in order to do personal and political harm to people they don't like".[49]
Now place Andrew Bolt's in this context and ask what it was he really discovered?
1h3 Sneaky Bolt hits you with a PAYWALL to the AFR "I have a sense there is a lot of tension at the moment," he told Bishop, according to a person familiar with the conversation. "I need you as my deputy to be completely supportive." Unsourced So Bolt's post hangs on "a person familiar with the conversation" yes it could have been Peter Pan for all veracity this holds but Bolt believes it and that's supposed to be sufficient for us then to believe it. Sorry Bolt's selling the AFR here nothing else other than the same old same old that Tony Abbott was done like Caesar. Well nobody is crying for his comeback but Bolt and a few other outliers.
5m12 The only amazing thing here is the intensity of Andrew Bolt's research that only focusses on people of African appearance and not of all the violent events that occurred within the same time frame. So using the Andrew Bolt method is it any wonder the police don't find Bolt's reporting as either accurate, normal or without bias. Bolt repeats and repeats events in order to expand the appearance that these are the most violent events the city has faced. Once he was active in associating these reports with Muslims to give added emphasis to a refugee issue when it became clear that the kids were actually Christians. There was a time when Pacific Islanders were the focus along with NZers of Maori descent but that's been sidelined but can only guess why Bolt has turned on Africans. You get some idea when you listen to him mock and laugh with his son James at the concept of a South Sudanese beauty pageant on an IPA podcast which clearly showed just what a Racist Bolt actually is. If Bolt applied his statistical methodology to resident Australian wranglers on the regular basis he does to Africans, Muslims and Aboriginal pederasts he'd have us wanting to lock them away too. However, there'd be no political advantage attached to doing that. His method isn't new but we saw how effective it was in 2005 in Cronulla and the ultra conservatives in the LNP have been applying it ever since with Bolt and News Corps support.
ON RICHARD DAWKINS TELLING ME WHAT NOT TO ASK
Richard Dawkins, the famous atheist, agreed weeks ago to come on my show. I am agnostic and had planned a conversation, not a confrontation, about his published views on Islam and Christianity. But just 90 minutes before showtime Dawkins started to bombard me with listsv of questions I could not ask. Here's how I responded last night.
Bolt is peeved because of, 1) He was unknown to Richard Dawkins before arriving in Australia and 2) He discovered who Andrew Bolt really was and requested some compromises that ensured he wasn't used as a tool by a tool of the right. It appears it resulted in a no-show because Dawkins became aware Bolt wasn't intending to use Dawkins for "just a chat " but a chat to garner ratings attention for political purpose. The fact that Dawkins wisely and I repeat wisely didn't attend and his insight was reflected in Andrew Bolt's mocking disparagement of a man who compared to the mental cyclops Andrew Bolt has something of value to say to everyone. Bolt is such a bad loser. As most bullies, he knows it and so does the public because it shows. Only some 0.001% of Australia watch him and real intellectuals avoid him. Any wonder why?
1h What a klutz Andrew Bolt is saying the Liberals are too divided to dump Turnbull when 75% of Liberals voters want him retained and the Party MPs are their representatives. 75% hardly sounds too divided or that disagreement even means they want to. Surely if you can't agree on who to replace him it's the flip side of you don't want to replace him because he's the best you've got?. Bolt's simply playing his game of flipping adding nothing to the debate. The Conservatives in the Party are too gutless to form their own Party and without the numbers can't control the Party nevertheless they seem to want to sink the ship and come back as a formal opposition again. Bolt claims he's not doing because Abbott's his "mate" it's because he has the best policies. He said the same when Abbott was PM however he's done a 180-degree turn since then.Abbott's reversed policies showing he simply can't be trusted. So why would anyone support him? Who signed the Paris Climate Agreement, Abbott. Who introduced emissions targets, Abbott. etc. Who today claims they are idiotic and cancelling the Paris agreement is the way to go Abbott. According to him coal is king and needs to be Nationalized stuff the free market. Who introduced us to the Frankenstein MXT copper to the node now NBN Abbott, and took us from 30th to over 50th in the world. Abbott. Who gave the Pacific to China Abbott and who says he has logically the best strategic policies Andrew Bolt, why? Because he works for News Corp the PR office for the IPA. This is why they are clowns Peter Dutton Captain Boomgate has literally taken up the words of the Austrian Neo-Nazi Martin Sellner and he and Abbott have adopted them as their own Refugee policy along with Andrew Bolt's support. Abbott's now totally cuckoo quoting false facts and figures as if real. The 59 murders that occurred in 2017 have become 400 in Abbott's hands. White SouthAfrican Farmers have been branded and defined as refugees in need of rescue by this trio. A factless farce that began in Austria with a group called Hope not Hate known as Nazism for Hipsters and came to us via News Corp has been taken up as they once took up the ideas of Britain First. That's the calibre of these Conservatives in the womb of the Liberal Party The Liberals aren't too divided they just happen to have worms among them who want to eat and destroy the host. The one thing is clear what the 18months of headlines in the News Corp Stable did to the polls taken was the same as done to Australian Muslims. 2850 anti - Muslim headlines turned 9% dislike into 30% Islamophobia just what the Right -Wing wanted to gain traction with Abbott's Cronulla cry get with TEAM Australia. In the same vein, their constant Turnbull phobia ensured 30 negative polls. However what is surprising is the polls aren't worse and there is only a 4% trivial gap and Turnbull still remains the most favoured leader of the Party and preferred PM. When Abbott had 30 negative polls he was the most unpopular politician in the country despite News Corp's and Bolt's efforts to save him in and outside of his Party. A big difference never raised by Bolt. So the circumstance now is significantly different and not comparable as Bolt's editorial would have it. 75% Liberal voters want Turnbull to stay Bolt doesn't mention that, does he? He talks about a Party with wings one wing incredibly stunted which he doesn't mention and there is in Bolt's words not any doubt News Corp and he will continue to undermine Australian politics
2m Can you imagine a politician saying to his constituents I'm not interested in the top job I don't have the ambition to be the best for your sake? How long would he last? Yes, Bolt is playing word games twisting what comes naturally into some conspiracy that is afoot against Turnbull. You think Richmond footballers don't want to be the best footballers they can be and with it comes the top job. Barnaby Joyce is Bolt's new key for setting the deadline the Liberal Party would enjoy that wouldn't they the junior partner dictating what should be done. Just how many tails are attempting to wag this dog? However, notice Joyce said it's up to Turnbull to groom the alternative. Bolt simply can't lie in bed straight can he?
Abbott cut Foreign Aid, Cut the ABC Budget and got Rid of Radio Australia the heartbeat of the Pacific. He surely was the Pillock of the Pacific who kicked an own goal ( Old Dog)
China has approached Vanuatu about building a permanent military presence in the South Pacific in a globally significant move that could see the rising superpower sail warships on Australia’s doorstep. Fairfax Media can reveal there have been preliminary discussions between the Chinese and Vanuatu governments about a military build-up in the island nation.
Bolt obviously disapproves of the UN in all it's capacities because he'd rather the survival of the fittest to determine the conduct of Sovereign states. Except of course if the sovereign states were Russia or China.
He gives little consideration to the fact that the last conservative government talked the talk and was going to shirtfront Putin and as the pivot of the Pacific Abbott was going to be a bulwark against China but in cutting Foreign Aid has given the Chineses the opportunity to build a military base 3 hours off the shore of our Eastern Border. So it's all well and good to brag you don't need rules but without the UN and its limitations Bolt has no room for complaint.
Trump sacked 2 heads of the FBI Comey and McCabe and appointed his own Christopher Wray as the head. Yet his own appointee head has given the nod to the raid on Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen. Bolt with little to say mockingly asks if Stormy Daniels is Russian. Here we go again calling the FBI crooked even though its head was appointed by Trump. How is it Bolt makes no mention of the fact that the head of the FBI is Trump's man in play?
WSJ Murdoch's masthead which said, " action is, in part, a referral by the Office of Special Counsel, Robert Mueller.”WSJ No mention is made to what "in part" means and who the other party is. Bolt then turns to Right-wing pundit John Hinderaker of PowerLine to support Trump He also makes no reference to the other party involved in the requested for the warrant. So the suggestion it was in the main Mueller sounds rather conspiratorial calling for Trump's appointees to interfere. The trouble is they did they the FBI executed the warrant.
1h23 One could ask if Bolt is eager to put the mark of death on Dutton for making a "move" and stealing Abbott's policies the ones he was opposed to when PM 1) Green Power Abbott signed The Paris agreement and set up the emissions target reduction scheme with full support from Dutton. They have both now done a U-turn and gone radically Left. Nationalize and invest taxpayer money in a dead duck Coal 2) Having done nothing for years on infrastructure and having blocked funds from states for infrastructure Abbott has created a problem. A problem he now blames on Immigration rather than the fact he lead a do-nothing government that almost broke records for not passing bills. Dutton has jumped on board an opportunist in his Homeland Portfolio to blame Immigration as well. 3) Dutton and Abbott have done a Molan. Molan loved Britain First videos and statements only to find they were the demands of the neo-Nazis in the UK who are now doing time for hate-speech. Dutton and Abbott have done the same taken up the ideas of the Austrian Neo-Nazis run by Martin Sellner's Hope not Hate party fabricating the need for White South African Farmers to be classified as refugees. Dutton realizing his Jim Molan dumb move. Started to call for "like-minded" nations to step up and call for the redefinition of refugees away from terms of their "need" to ours. Yes, the man really does show he's intellectually challenged. It's almost as weird as Andrew Bolt trying to convince us he's indigenous.
Bolt can attempt GBH admit to kicking a prankster in the short and curlies and not get charged. George Colombaris pushes a guy slagging off his mother and does get charged. Astro Labe gets 6 months for not hurting Tony Abbott. How the police protect the Right giving the Left every right to be pissed.
43m2 No Bolt the IPSOS poll showed 75% of those claiming to vote for the Coalition to stay " Coalition voters prefer Abbott over Bishop, 17% to 13% (but nearly half want Turnbull to stay)." Bolt So we can tick this off as Bolt Bull 62% of all Australians want him to stay. Lets check out this poll result put up and taken down by Fox News in the US
Oh, my...Fox accidentally posts the truth for a change, and quickly takes it down. Oopsy.
