Andrew Bolt - is he a credible journalist?

[redandblack]

As I said before, it's scary that 10 people voted that he was a credible journalist.

[Psyber]

As I said before, it's scary that 10 people voted that he was a credible journalist.

Ah well, at least I voted "Don't Care."

[fish]

As I said before, it's scary that 10 people voted that he was a credible journalist.

Ah well, at least I voted "Don't Care."

Psyber I was just about to accuse you of casting all ten votes for Mr. Bolt!

[Gozu]

"If you’re in Sydney:

Next Quadrant dinner: Wednesday February 24
Launch of The Fabrication of Aboriginal History, Volume 3,
The Stolen Generations, by Keith Windschuttle
Guest speaker: Andrew Bolt"

http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andr ... our_diary/

[Leaping Lindner]

"If you’re in Sydney:

Next Quadrant dinner: Wednesday February 24
Launch of The Fabrication of Aboriginal History, Volume 3,
The Stolen Generations, by Keith Windschuttle
Guest speaker: Andrew Bolt"

http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andr ... our_diary/

February 24th?? Surely they mean April 1st?

[dedja]

Bolt in fine form ...

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/opin ... 5831240071

IT'S two years since Kevin Rudd said sorry to the "stolen generations", so you'd think someone could have found some of the victims by now.
But no. Last week's anniversary of the Prime Minister's speech was marked instead by three efforts which backfired so badly that they merely confirm the "stolen generations" as the greatest lie told of our past.

For years I have publicly challenged the authors of the "stolen generations" myth to name just 10 of the up to 100,000 children they claim were stolen by racist officials simply for being Aboriginal.

To be precise: To name just 10 of the children stolen, as leading propagandist Professor Robert Manne defined it, "not from harm . . . but from their Aboriginality", and by authorities who "wished . . . to help keep White Australia pure".

Just 10. A doddle, right?

But, strangely, Professor Manne kept failing my challenge. He'd name instead, say, a 12-year-old girl who'd been found with syphilis, or a boy abandoned by his mother, or a boy sent by his mother to a boarding school, or a girl sent to a home by her white father, or a boy rescued from near-slavery, or a boy found by a court to have been neglected by his widowed father, or even children evacuated from war zones in World War II.

And it's the same story again with last week's three Sorry-anniversary attempts at victim-finding.

[Wedgie]

I can give him my old mans name if it helps.

[Gozu]

"Does Andrew Bolt understand original sources?":

http://blogs.crikey.com.au/purepoison/2 ... l-sources/

[dedja]

"Does Andrew Bolt understand original sources?":

http://blogs.crikey.com.au/purepoison/2 ... l-sources/

LOL, you want Bolt to do some research???

No, of course not, where's the fun in that ... much easier to use selective quotes, unverified rumours and hearsay.

[fish]

I can give him my old mans name if it helps.

Sorry Wedgie but according to Mr. Bolt your father does not exist.

And I suppose that also means: neither do you.

[Wedgie]

I can give him my old mans name if it helps.

Sorry Wedgie but according to Mr. Bolt your father does not exist.

And I suppose that also means: neither do you.

Which means this site doesn't exist!

[Jimmy_041]

I can give him my old mans name if it helps.

Sorry Wedgie but according to Mr. Bolt your father does not exist.

And I suppose that also means: neither do you.

Which means this site doesn't exist!

Oh well................back to Farm Town then..............

[Gozu]

"Evil biased leftist free markets":

http://blogs.crikey.com.au/purepoison/2 ... e-markets/

[Psyber]

"Evil biased leftist free markets":
http://blogs.crikey.com.au/purepoison/2 ... e-markets/

My first reaction is that the site appears to give itself away by using the term "climate change denial" rather than recognising that scepticism is not just about whether climate change is occurring.
However, I haven't seen the article this is a response to so I don't know whether the original expressed scepticism about there being climate change at all or simply about whether it is anthropogenic.
I also don't know whether the original "denied" either of these, or whether it just raised questions about the application of scientific method in coming to that conclusion.
The internal link did not take me to the original article that is being attacked...

[Gozu]

"Bolt blames insanity on the mainstream-sometimes":

http://blogs.crikey.com.au/purepoison/2 ... sometimes/

[Gozu]

"Vote for candidates I like, or go to hell; also, if you're hateful, you're a leftist":

http://blogs.crikey.com.au/purepoison/2 ... o-to-hell/

[Brucetiki]

A couple of years ago he came to Adelaide for a speech - apparantly he caused that much of a stir the organisers were forced to apologise and had to refund the entry fee!

[Gozu]

"Andrew Bolt vs female cops":

http://blogs.crikey.com.au/purepoison/2 ... male-cops/

[GWW]

I thought his article that appeared in today's Tiser (re the incident involving the crim hitting a car killing the family of 3, whilst fleeing police) was a good read.

[mick]

I thought his article that appeared in today's Tiser (re the incident involving the crim hitting a car killing the family of 3, whilst fleeing police) was a good read.

So did I, however, the stuff about the tatoos was a bit over the top. I'm of the generation when only criminals and sailors had tats (Bolt probably of this generation as well), this is clearly not the case today, so its a bit unfair to judge people for following what has now become fashionable.