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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.
Oscar-winner Geoffrey Rush is awarded A$2.9m over allegations printed in an Australian newspaper.
Murdoch's Daily Telegraph
OLD DOG THOUGHT
How good is Australia? Andrew Bolt thinks it's shit and dreams of retiring to the Socialist, Multicultural, Multi-Ethnic and overcrowded city twice as congested less free to do what you want Amsterdam. Let's ensure his dream comes true.
Reports that the Sky News host is to replace Barrie Cassidy were greeted with enthusiasm from senior journalists.
David Speers will depart Sky News to replace Barrie Cassidy as host of the ABC's political panel show Insiders in a blow to the Rupert Murdoch-owned cable network. Speers, Sky's political editor, is respected across the political spectrum in contrast to several of Sky's 'after dark' hosts who are perceived to lean heavily towards the conservative side of politics.
12m What Bolt learned was zip or at least won't admit the reality of what occurred. 1) the total of votes that meant anything for this win only amounted to some 146,000 across the country hardly the massive victory to be sung about. Why the noise the surprise!! 2) The poorest people in the country that haven't the time, money or education workers swung away from Labor the wealthy and educated the most to be negatively affected by Franking Credits, and negative gearing actually swung to Labour. 3) Reason, rationality, and fact were defeated by nothing other than the media firestorm of a scare campaign and fake advertising that drove those conned workers in fear of their jobs. However not to the LNP but to everyone but Hanson and the UAP in Qld. It's no wonder politicians, along with the media, have become the least trusted people in the Australian Society. Murdoch media were happy as pigs in shit running that scare campaign for a profit. The question did they get paid up front if not will they be paid at all by Clive Palmer who owes Qld workers that $70mill? Bolt learned absolutely nothing from the exercise. It appears, however, David Speers learned a lot and was sick of it.
Labor’s chances were not sunk by self-funded retirees, but by the very voters who stood to benefit most from the ALP’s policies A big, bold reform program requires voters to take some things on faith. Few outside those directly affected have the time or inclination to delve into the complex details of tax treatment of investment properties or to understand franking credit refunds. In this election, voters were asked to take Labor on trust that its policy plans would not take jobs and the economy down with them.
LNP "We believe in Climate Change We believe the Science. We believe in Climate Change action and responsibility to the rest of the world"Josh Frydenberg The fact that this election wasn't won but was lost on a liar's scare campaign shows the lack of concern the LNP, UAP, and One Nation showed for the issues that people really care about. Climate was all but ignored in the LNP's campaign which was aimed to scare the crap out of people whose jobs are vital to them. Tell them 14,000 jobs will be lost when 14,000 jobs were not going to be made. Yes you could tip 146,000 votes your way. That's around $685 a head. It goes to show just how profitable it is for this government to lie to please their backers largely Murdoch, the IPA and their corporate lobbyists. However it doesn't show the urgency the LNP actually shows about Climate Change which got rid of Tony Abbott and scared the shit out of Josh Frydenberg and swung votes away from the LNP. Yes voters of all persuasions want to be assured the government heard Frydenbergs promise. School kids to pensioners will be in attendance citizens not just Andrew Bolt's fantasy of a minority of activists.
Generally, moderate not "conservative" David Speers is the curiosity here why did he jump? Bolt doesn't ask why the central Sky Pivot walked took a pay cut to go to the ABCs Insiders. No, he remains Murdoch pitbull and focuses an attack on the ABC and Ch 9 leaving nobody the wiser for David Speers leap. It's Bolt by the way who insists no ABC journalist can be conservative. Bolt doesn't seem to name any "politically acceptable talent" on Sky here. Yet he certainly points to where all the unacceptable talent lie. Will others be jumping ship given so many journalists both ex and current have voiced their dissatisfaction with the editorial stance across Murdoch Media and not just the Industry as a whole. Strange not a sound of dissatisfaction coming from the LNP
The Liberal party's weak results in Victoria defied its victories around the rest of the country. The party has three years to turn things around, writes former Liberal candidate Asher Judah.
The 70 Hour a week chef who must be admired for putting in his time sheet as added hours when his 3 meals come around again on the Lazy Susan. Bolt's column and blog half of which he doesn't write are repeated On 2GB and Sky News and he acts as if they are all new. Week after week his work is simply a repetition a quantity of which is done by others.
The promotion of ignorance is the anti- promotion of complexity to the most simplistic reductionist formula possible. It's the sensationalist aspects of Hirsi Ali Bolt loves because it ignores and dosen't separate the core tenets of Islam and the Hadith from the Cultures within which Muslims live. Islam must be flexible because unlike Christianity it spread throughout the Middle East, Africa , Asia and the Pacific without the use of the sword. 90% of Muslims first preference is the separation of state and government.
The largest populations of Muslims live in Democracies, Kingdoms and totalitarian and secular states and have had more women leading their countries than Australia has had female politicians.. If one keeps expanding on the complex realities one realizes that the horror Bolt prefers is to concentrate on practices that actually existed before Islam came to be adopted. Bolt's reductionism is the narrowest of views which attempts to blame Islam for all those cultural practices that still exist. These practices also continue to exist in Countries regarded today as Christian and were there before conversion. Simply take a look at how Christianity differs as practiced in Spain Haiti Latin America at Easter. Check out where honour killings are still practiced or where circumcision defines males as being Jewish ouch!! Where there is no humor you will never find any truth and Bolt is certainly dour in his denial of Islam.
Shireen Morris, who claims I am not indigenous.
Yes Bolt played the semantics card on Shireen and the the issue rather than addressing the common meaning of the word. It's a topic he's been a loser on simply because he runs from the reality of it. It just makes him seem so paternalistic and implicitly racist by mocking it's real meaning and common usage. He is such a prig. But then that's his nature. So back at you Bolt
Prig
a self-righteously moralistic person who behaves as if they are superior to others.
" Fairfax
columnist Tim Dick, a bog-standard urban Leftist, picks his fantasy
Cabinet - which accidentally damns Malcolm Turnbull by the company he
keeps in a Leftist’s dream:"Bolt
When your stuck on the edge of a cliff and your a Delcon everything is left but not further room for you. Gosh even Bolt will have to throw past heroes of his overboard for being turncoats in somebody else's dream. Imagine Bolt would even love to control and police our dreams, for National Security's sake of course.
Part of Bolt's 70 hours a week work load consists of daydreaming.
So Bolt has found a job for David Speers. Because he sure as hell said he was a very crappy moderator during the first debate between Turnbull and Shorten . He believes Speers would be better in the makeup room. Keep going Bolt you can't get worse can you bagging out team mates you just started working with.. Bolt says he can't do comedy here is the reason why there is no truth in appearing serious all the time.The Secret of where you might find the truth
Like the Liberal Government is a member of and being run by the IPA The Qld Labour Gov is a member of the unions according to Bolt. Given the substandard conditions workers are suffering I'd say the IPA and the conservatives are winning hands down and the ALP is simply trying to redress past and present injustices. Yes to not be a member of a union or group shows you have no heart and are purely self interested. Some might say that is witless. Which bunch of self interested individuals might that be?
" Of course Bill Shorten would do some kind of deal with the Greens if it
made him Prime Minister. You’d be crazy to think otherwise:"BoltThe major parties can't ignore the Greens
The Delcons believe they are wagging the dog and as a consequence don't need to do any deals."The trouble is, though, that the Turnbull Government is so
Greens-friendly - unlike the Abbott Government - that it might just do
its own deal."
These non dealers aren't after any democratic process to evolve in this election they are bent on destruction and revenge for Tony.
Oh dear just how scoopless is Andrew Bolt trying to drag up and bring to life the walking dead of "we stopped the boats" Is he also going drag in comments made back in 2001 and 2002 or just 2009. No any politician who argues for the humane treatment of innocent people being held in detention stands so much taller than Peter Dutton who blames every one other than himself in being complicit in the deaths of those in detention. Despite 2 court rulings that suggest otherwise.
As for Bolt you couldn't get lower thansaying " But when one disturbed illegal immigrant kills
himself rather than return to Iran, "Bolt it's their own fault is it any wonder Australians become disturbed. This commentator Bolt presents himself as a caring parent, a humane being, while throwing innocent detainees kids young adults who he regards as valueless into an unmarked pit. It's what Pol Pot did in the killing fields. You start with one.
When is a magazine a broad church and when is it a propaganda flier? The first application ever and conservative royalty says jump and expects the Council to say how high. Windscuttle seems rather confused saying "For the first time in Quadrant’s 60-year history we have applied for a federal literary grant" and then goes on to say "while abolishing our grant, the council increased its funding to other literary magazines," How can something be abolished when you never had it in the first place? Further which literary magazines does he think are "undeserving" Literary book reviewers whose content Windscuttle regards a extremely politically biased. Of Course he even supports his argument naming Meanjin for not getting one.
"The Australia Council’s decision to end our funding is plainly an
act of revenge by its bureaucrats and advisers. It is designed to punish
us for being on the same side of the political fence as the Abbott
government’s Minister for the Arts, George Brandis, who himself was
responding to an act of arts-funding bastardy by Julia Gillard…"
Yes the Australia Council is being fair and is judging each applicant on it's political even handedness. Do I hear the voice of Meanjin screaming like some stuck pig? If this is the quality of Quadrant's first ever application for a grant then their born to rule attitude obviously put them at a disadvantage. It sounds a bit like corporate welfare saying "of course we deserve it"
Subsidies for coal are fine, bonuses for CEOs a must but assistance for the jobless and penalty rates are socialist. Bolt sounds so American. With 12% workers belonging to unions and the majority of those C3 public servants and down what is it that Bolt regards as "heavily unionized"? Being in a union is a reason for attention just as the members of the IPA are in forming their attention seeking association. You know what a real transition package looks like Andrew Bolt is MPs in transition to jobs and boards after politics these actions are self serving and don't " provide pathways to new jobs by giving
businesses incentives to create new products and markets in advanced
manufacturing." which seems to have a much wider appeal.
The difference Andrew Bolt is time and with time some people establish credibility something you don't understand. Credibility is lacking with Credlin and you have never acquired it. As for Quadrant well there is a clubbyhouse not a cubby one if ever there was.
Even more a clubby house for 2 is the one between between Peter BH blog Troll and the perpetual 70 hour a week worker Andrew Bolt. As I said above right to comment is all about credibility. It's why the Bolt Report's clubbyhouse has none. Bolt was at a loss trying to bag out his own team Sky, David Speers and Turnbull all at the same time. The ABC has no such reticence it's publicly owned
With interest rates at 1.75% heading downward. The only confidence punters have is in bricks and mortar. Of course there is a property boom but it's not across all punters in the market. The number of investors in the is increasing while the number of home owners is decreasing. To say there is no bubble beggars belief. Again the banks are playing their game of debt management. They believe they can keep creating debt and managing it. I believe the numbers of ghost houses on the market is also on the increase and renting has become less important than pure speculation on capital gains. Problem is who are the real buyers?However the notion of Armageddon Bolt's referring to will only hit the reckless few and the meek will standby watching.
