Headlines Friday 10th October

Stripping Palin naked
Andrew Bolt
BRIGITTE Bardot this week was just the latest to lift Sarah Palin’s skirts and sneer.

It wasn’t enough for the French film legend to write to the Republican vice-presidential nominee, saying she was wrong on guns and global warming. She had to add: “You are a disgrace to women.”

Of course, it’s fine to object to Palin’s politics, but Bardot’s insult shows she is now confronting something far uglier: a charge that her politics makes her an un-woman.

Or, as Age columnist Catherine Deveny raged, that it makes her the “closest thing Republican strategists could find to a man with a vagina”.

Uglier still is that even prominent commentators think the way to bring Palin back to her political senses is to strip her. Even to figuratively rape her.
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Smelling an activist rat
Andrew Bolt
HEATHER Mills - celebrity divorcee and green extremist - last year urged us to stop drinking the milk of cows.

Milking ex-husband Paul McCartney may have been fine, but Mills felt milking cows was going too far.

You see, the burps of these gassy beasts were heating the world to hell, she told a press conference.

“There are many other kinds of milk available. Why don’t we try drinking rats’ milk and dogs’ milk?”

And with that, she roared off in a Mercedes four-wheel drive, trailing clouds of hypocrisy.

But it seems PETA, the two million-strong group of animal rights greenshirts, has since informed Mills she’s made an embarrassing mistake. Rats’ milk? Is she mad?

And success! Mills has reportedly now endorsed PETA’s latest campaign, which it kicked off last month with this press release: “This morning, PETA dispatched a letter to Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, co-founders of ice cream icon Ben & Jerrys Homemade Inc., urging them to replace the cows’ milk in their products with human breast milk.”
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Rudd spins again
Andrew Bolt
Michael Costa, the former Treasurer of the NSW Labor Government, says Kevin Rudd is once again more spin than substance in tackling the financial crisis:

LISTENING to Kevin Rudd at Council of Australian Governments meetings as he tried to connect the global economic situation to the more mundane items on the national reform agenda was often excruciating.

Anybody with a rudimentary understanding of economics would have quickly concluded, as I did, that the Prime Minister didn’t have a good understanding of these issues. ...
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A tip for Quentin Bryce. Shush.
Andrew Bolt
QUENTIN Bryce should be reminded she hasn’t been appointed Activist-General.

Her new title is in fact Governor-General, and the former sex discrimination commissioner must now leave politics to the politicians.

I’d hoped someone had quietly taken Bryce aside already to point out the dangers of using her new job to push her old causes, especially after her speech at her swearing-in last month.

“I promise to be open, responsive and faithful to the contemporary thinking and working of Australian society,” the Rudd government appointee said then.

What, her job is to be faithful to “contemporary thinking”?
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McCain finished
Andrew Bolt
It’s all but over:

BARACK Obama has opened up an 11-point lead over John McCain in the latest Gallup Poll - his biggest margin of the campaign. Senator Obama, whose support has shot up in several national polls since the economic meltdown started dominating the news, now tops Senator McCain 52 to 41 per cent.
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Planet loves us to suffer
Andrew Bolt
Atmospheric scientist and warming worrier Paul J Crutzen makes the link between cutting our emissions and growing poor:

A slowdown in the world economy may give the planet a breather from the excessively high carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions responsible for climate change, a Nobel Prize winning scientist said on Tuesday.