No, we didn't. BoltWatch will remain, right here, a historical monument to three years of resigned and reluctant Boltwatching.But it will remain here only as a mummified corpse, with posts (and, eventually, comments) frozen in time. Nothing further will be added to it. Its task is done, and it retires with a sense of relief.Because it has been replaced. Replaced by its zippier, more exciting, better-designed, thoroughly improved offspring - Read more »
Just like GrodsCorp has been taking the piss out of Brendan Nelson's Magical Listening Tour, Andrew Bolt has been taking the piss out of Kevin Rudd's world tour. Bolta's main argument has been that Rudd is doing nothing more than chasing photo opportunities with world leaders despite the fact that Rudd's out there doing very diligently what national leaders are supposed to do. Read more »
Memo Melbourne University lecturers: better not sneeze in a way that could be construed as "left-wing", or your students may report you to Lord Andrew of Bolt! Read more »
BoltWatch is in the process of being prepared for a relaunch. The new version will be collaborative (given my recent "dear God do I have to read the rantings of that idiot? No? Someone else is prepared to? Thank the Lord" approach to the site), will feature a better visual design (read: "an actual visual design"), and generally make the site's first iteration look embarrassingly amateurish (read: not change the way this site is viewed in the slightest). Read more »
Our mate Andy is famous for shrieking "name just ten" at anyone who'd listen while arguing that the stolen generation was a pernicious lefty lie. Of course, when ten stolen children were named he'd start shrieking "name just one hundred" without missing a beat.Now Bolta has shrieked his famous line in a new context. Read more »
We reported yesterday about Andrew Bolt's dodgy use of blockquotes, editorialising and selective reporting to make a point about the delegates selected to the Australia 2020 summit and smear The Sunday Age in the process. Read more »
Andy's desperately hoping the Liberals will be able to fashion a scandal out of Rudd's having Chinese campaign donors.
Still nothing sinister, but ever more interesting:
"Still" nothing sinister? Not yet, but we're sure there must be! Somehow! Sinister! It will be! Just wait! He has Chinese friends! Read more »
He loves him, he loves him not, he loves him again...
Kathryn Jean Lopez, editor of America’s National Review Online, discovers a big political talent... Maybe we could use him. Read more »
Eugh. I return from holiday, check out the RSS feed reader, and guess how many Andrew Bolt columns it's picked up since I last checked?199.Oh, the huge manatee!I suppose I should have a look. The site is BoltWatch, after all. Although I can guess what Andy's been ranting about this week. Let's see... (going in reverse chronological order because that's how they appear in the feed): Read more »
This blog doesn't usually comment on Bolt the man, largely because the subject is irrelevant. A polemicist could be a lovely fellow with his family and friends, and still write toxic drivel in the newspapers. Alternatively, he could be a total arsehole to everyone around him, and still make sensible arguments in his writing. Bolt's personal character has little to do with this site's critiques of his newspaper column and blog, in other words. Read more »
My god. He's finally cracked. Friday's column:
THIS may be my last column. If you don't see me again, you'll know the Pinata Left has whacked me, too, writes Andrew Bolt.You see, Kevin Rudd's victory has unleashed a horde of haters with sticks who are trying to sack conservative commentators and close down debate.Their demands are simple. They won. So shut up. No more of these "culture wars". No dissent.I knew it would get this ugly, of course. The Left does hate best and is still the chest for the totalitarian heart. Read more »
Shorter Andrew Bolt: the crushing defeat of the conservative party on Saturday does not mean Australians disagree with me. It does not mean anything should change. I am still right! THE ELECTION RESULT MEANS NOTHING! Read more »
Talk about incongruent:
Interesting use of campaign dollars by the ALP, though, since I can't imagine many of Bolt's readers are in the "swinging voter" camp.
There was a tragic school shooting in Finland yesterday.If only, says Bolt, there were some way of drawing an implausibly long bow to blame that on some group I don't like:
We don’t know what is behind the killing. I’m interested in Auvinen’s contempt for humanity, which is not just a feature of the neo-Nazism he spouts, but of the more extreme global warming advocates who demand we reduce the number of dirty, earth-raping humans. Read more »
Andrew Bolt is awesome. Tim Blair is awesome. Sadly though, if you read the two of them you're not getting twice the awesomeness, because a fair bit of it is duplicated. Read more »
...and Andy's back to being a dishonest blowhard. Quoting another dishonest blowhard, this one at The Age. Named Jason Koutsoukis, he's written a laughable piece of anti-Greens polemic that pretty much defines the word "smear". From an imaginative (but farcical) attempt to portray Bob Brown as "a con man" simply because the Greens have never been in a position to implement policy (a delightfully unfair catch-22), to this totally unsupported offensive against Greens members: Read more »
Bolt has a facile go today at Mark Bahnisch for daring to pick up a pen for News Ltd. What is wrong with the HES section of The Australian? Stupidly hiring a lefty?
Bahnisch is right - the HES is indeed off on a frolic on its own, and needs to be made as relevant, provocative, challenging, sceptical, reforming and simply sensible as the rest of the paper. Read more »
The newspaper columnist vs the entry-level employee:
But my last straw broke last week when I got to the register with another four books for my children, bought on impulse on the way to the movies.“Would you like a plastic bag?” I was asked, in the disapproving tones I’ve learned to accept from sales staff of a certain age and taste for studs. Read more »
I do like that Andrew Bolt recognises how much of a joke his run as a candidate for the Liberal Party would be, by using the subject as his April Fools' Day prank: Read more »
Despite appearances I am actually quite understanding of bias. I'm biased, my site is biased, and bloggers in general are biased -- that's what blogging is all about. But there's bias and then there's bias.
The latest bulletin from Kevin Rudd’s Excellent Adventure: Read more »
Andrew Bolt is not always an apologist for authoritarianism. If it's authoritarianism he can lay at the feet of people he thinks are representative of "the left", he's happy to sink in the boot. Which is good, because that's where we can finally agree on something. Read more »
BoltWatch is pleased to welcome The Editor as a regular contributor.(This item is crossposted at GrodsCorp) Read more »
Ignoring Bolt's fatuous attempt to try to attack me through my job today, he does make one very good point: that ancient photograph on my bar profile really needs to be updated. It's appalling. Thanks for reminding me, Andy.
Trinity Grammar is getting rid of energy-chewing air-conditioners in the interests of doing its bit for climate-change. (Of course, I'm assuming the ruling doesn't just apply to students and teaching staff, but also to the admin and school board people making the decision.) Read more »
Andrew's only been back a few days, and he's already made a complete elbow of himself. Take Sunday, when he sauntered back to his blog and smugly declared the Iraq War "Won" (again), and derided critics for not recognising how right he and his fellow supporters had always been. "It's easy to publicly back George Bush now that the war in Iraq is won," he mocked. Read more »
He's certainly got the wackos fired up over David Hicks at his blog today. So fired up, in fact, that the keyboard warriors are sending in death threats, and (despite the "moderation" process) having them published on news.com.au.Some examples.From "Ross of Kew":
So David Hicks, that immature, snivelling apology for a man, wants to die a martyr. Read more »
My god he's shameless. Bolt uses the raped 10 year old story to push his line on the Stolen Generations, in a balanced and well-reasoned piece entitled "Pack-raped girl sacrificed to the “stolen generations” myth".If she'd been "stolen" earlier, he argues, none of this would have happened. Therefore, well, it's good to take aboriginal children from their parents.Unbelievable. (Wonder how much better Andrew would have turned out if he'd been stolen from his folks?) Read more »
Andrew Bolt gets started on the eulogising of our ex-Prime Minister, before the Liberals realise the completely miserable position in which he's left them, before they realise how badly he's gutted the party and poisoned the well - before it's too late. Read more »
Bob Brown has suggested that instead of building a dam or desalination plant, we should be collecting the water that falls on our houses in tanks. Andrew Bolt is horrified, on two grounds:
It won't just cost money, according to Andrew, it'll cost SO MUCH MONEY THAT SOCIETY WILL COLLAPSE. That WE WILL BE DROWNED IN DEBT.Er, how much will it cost, Andrew? Read more »
In which Andrew Bolt joins the modern world.Andrew's views on homosexuality appear to have matured over the last year, such that he today declares that the Liberal candidate in Lalor's gay-hatin' bigotry is so repulsive that he'd prefer to vote for Julia Gillard. (Which, to someone as far right as Andrew Bolt, is a serious sacrifice.) Read more »
Like the rest of us, Andrew Bolt is horrified by this story.
A 32-year-old Queensland mother has been charged with the torture and manslaughter of her two-year-old boy.The toddler died in horrific circumstances on September 24 — with a post mortem discovering over 270 injuries on his body.He had only recently been returned to his parents in Margate, north of Brisbane, after a stint in foster care. Read more »
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