Guess who?
An over 40 smoker who loves correcting spelling mistakes. A propagandist who can't bring himself to criticise conservative leaders lest they stop sending him Christmas cards. A Court Reporter whose contribution to the journalistic canon can be summarised in one word: negligible. Any ideas yet?
Let me continue.
A man whose mates like comparing critics to Jewish concentration camp guards. (What are his kind saying about inciting hatred in the wake of the London attacks?) A meek individual whose output consists of little more than columns, criticism and bile. A writer afraid to actually report from the real world nor travel to places without an official guide.
Give up?
Yep, got it in one. Welcome to Australia's favourite son. He rather reminds me of Robert Manne's description of Herald Sun "journalist" Andrew Bolt. Reading him is like "being trapped in a small room with an angry, indignant, simple-minded man who believes the best way of convincing you that he is right, yet again, is to ridicule and shout."
For those who believe in a black and white world - so reassuring, isn't it followers? - bigotry, racism and ridiculing mental illness becomes part of the intoxicating mix.
Contribution to the world?
An over 40 smoker who loves correcting spelling mistakes. A propagandist who can't bring himself to criticise conservative leaders lest they stop sending him Christmas cards. A Court Reporter whose contribution to the journalistic canon can be summarised in one word: negligible. Any ideas yet?
Let me continue.
A man whose mates like comparing critics to Jewish concentration camp guards. (What are his kind saying about inciting hatred in the wake of the London attacks?) A meek individual whose output consists of little more than columns, criticism and bile. A writer afraid to actually report from the real world nor travel to places without an official guide.
Give up?
Yep, got it in one. Welcome to Australia's favourite son. He rather reminds me of Robert Manne's description of Herald Sun "journalist" Andrew Bolt. Reading him is like "being trapped in a small room with an angry, indignant, simple-minded man who believes the best way of convincing you that he is right, yet again, is to ridicule and shout."
For those who believe in a black and white world - so reassuring, isn't it followers? - bigotry, racism and ridiculing mental illness becomes part of the intoxicating mix.
Contribution to the world?
9 Comments:
Ha, got it in the first line.. Funnily enough I have just read Manne's Monthly piece at the cafe, too right. It was pretty good but nothing that you don't see weekly in the blogsphere, by folks like moi and Anon Lefty's Boltwatch. It appears that you still need the gentrified writers of the Monthly to make something real.
Bugger! Thought maybe it would remain more of a mystery...
Manne piece is alright - though i blogged about this a few days ago - but simply going after the Murdoch press is too bloody easy. Fairfax is often rarely better...
Tim who?
Oh fer the love of pete...he smokes? That's somehow a bad thing? Jeez, could you be any more ridiculous.
jeez, for the love of pete, you don't get irony, do you Anon! THAT'S THE POINT!
Pete who?
That's Andrea
TEH EVIL !!!
Actually, although Tim gives me free rein to ban, I leave the final banning decision up to Tim. If he asks me to unban people I do so.
A propagandist who can't bring himself to criticise conservative leaders lest they stop sending him Christmas cards.
Do you seriously believe that, or do you just like making stuff up?
First line of first paragraph:
An over 40 smoker who loves correcting spelling mistakes.
First line of second paragraph:
A man whose mates like comparing critics to Jewish concentration camp guards.
You go on to say that it's ok for him to smoke. Can you clarify whether or not it was fair enough for one of his mates to compare you to a Jewish concentration camp guard? Or perhaps he/she should have compared you to a non-Jewish concentration camp guard instead?
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