Headlines Saturday 18th October

Orta be a law against it
Andrew Bolt
Yet another oped in The Age, gloating over the crisis - and demonstrating all the insight for which which the Left is famous:

N 1949, a number of famous writers, among them Arthur Koestler, Andre Gide, Richard Wright, Stephen Spender and Ignazio Silone, wrote essays explaining why they were no longer communists. The essays were collected in a volume titled The God That Failed.

Today, conservative intellectuals might want to consider writing a tome on the failure of their own beloved deity, unregulated capitalism.
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If Hutchison and I agree…
Andrew Bolt
Even Tracee Hutchison can’t understand why Tourism Australia has handed Baz Lurhmann $40 million to make ads meant to promote Australia the tourism destination, but which in fact promote Australia, the next Baz Luhrmann movie:

It’s a spectacular coup. For Baz.
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In need of something else
Andrew Bolt
Such a bizarre demand raises the one question no one seems to have asked:

A 33-YEAR-OLD man living as a woman has made a court bid for his parents to pay for sexual reassignment surgery as part of a claim for “adult child maintenance”.
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The new Rudd revealed
Andrew Bolt
Paul Kelly says the crisis has been wonderful for Kevin Rudd, now reinventing himself:

Rudd has never felt more in command as Prime Minister. He is torching the image of him as a cautious, review-addicted policy wonk. - no, he is only being sold as such. - ed.
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Never mind the audience
Andrew Bolt
Ray Martin bites the hand of Channel 9, while demonstrating how he forgot his real audience:

Saddest of all, the Sunday program was ingloriously dumped, despite picking up five Walkley Award nominations last year.
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Obama at his best, still lacking grace.

McCain ever the gentleman.
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God mocked
Andrew Bolt

Last week Barack Obama asked Joe, a plumber, for his vote. Joe in turn asked Obama for an explanation. And then all hell broke loose:

With 15 minutes of fame comes 15 hours of “gotcha” scrutiny — especially if you’re a voter who has dared to criticize Barack Obama, the liberal media’s Chosen One for president.

Ohio plumber Joe Wurzelbacher has had his 15 minutes of fame, capping it off with an unplanned appearance as the poster boy of populist tax policy in last night’s presidential debate. So now it’s time for the press to turn its sights on him not as a human-interest story but as an investigative subject.

Jonathan Martin of The Politico was among the first out of the gate, with blog posts noting that Wurzelbacher, affectionately known by most of America as “Joe The Plumber,” has a tax lien against him and doesn’t have a plumber’s license. (Martin conveniently forgot to mention that the law doesn’t require one.) Bloomberg also has a story on the tax lien, and AP and The Washington Post did their part to make a story out of the “unlicensed” non-story.
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Sick smear of the settlers
Andrew Bolt
First Australians, Rachel Perkins’ ”documentary” on SBS, trots out the familar genocidal-whitey canards:

The history is certainly unsettling, with accounts of war, the abduction of charismatic Aborigine Bennelong to serve as Governor Arthur Phillip’s translator, and a small pox epidemic that wipes out most of the population indigenous to the Sydney area and that is only episode one. The stories to be shown over the next six weeks tell of genocide in Tasmania, the forced removal of babies, the attempt to breed the Aborigines out of existence, and massacres.