Andrew Bolt
How out of touch is writer David Marr? So much so that he didn’t realise that it was a big story that photographer Bill Henson, who gets children as young as 12 to pose naked and in sexually charged poses, wandered around the playground of a primary school looking for models:
LEIGH SALES: ... But one more question about this school scouting thing. When you were preparing the book, I noticed that anecdote in your book is on page 108, barely 30 pages from the end, and it’s just one paragraph.
DAVID MARR: Yes.
LEIGH SALES: So when you were putting together the book, obviously, you, unlike say Kevin Rudd and Malcolm Turnbull didn’t really see anything significant or concerning in that sort of a practice.
DAVID MARR: I saw it as significant which is why it’s in the book.
Two things. First, Marr seems to me unusually reluctant to admit to the slightest failing, even the failure to spot a big story. That makes his credibility suspect.
Second, if it never even occured to Marr that trawling primary schools for potentially nude models was controversial, how much does he understand the society he purports to analyse?
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Testing Rudd’s red carpet?
Andrew Bolt
The Rudd Government, to prove it’s nice, weakens the laws on illegal immigrants. I think some people smugglers, put out of business by the Howard Government, may have got the message:
A SECOND group of suspected Middle Eastern refugees has arrived in Australian waters and is being transported to Christmas Island for processing.
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This is going to hurt
Andrew Bolt
When a $US700 billion rescue doesn’t work, we’re in even deeper trouble than we feared:
Wall Street suffered through another traumatic session Monday, with the Dow Jones industrials plunging as much as 800 points and setting a new record for a one-day point drop as investors despaired that the credit crisis would take a heavy toll around the world. The Dow also fell below 10,000 for the first time since 2004, and all the major indexes fell more than 7 percent.
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Cultist denounces cult
Andrew Bolt
Professor Clive Hamilton draws a compelling analogy between an earlier apocalyptic cult and global warming extremism, which made me think this deep green had somehow seen sense at last:
In the early 1950s a woman in Minneapolis began to receive communications from an extraterrestrial being named Sananda. Marian Keech, as she was pseudonymously known, heard that a great flood would cleanse the world of earthlings at midnight on 21 December 1954. Only those who believed in Sananda would be saved; they would be taken to another planet in a spaceship that would arrive just before the flood.
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We’re over the nagging
Andrew Bolt
Astonishing, given the hysteria and the relentless preaching:
AUSTRALIANS are getting bored with climate change, and many still doubt whether it is actually happening, a new survey has revealed.
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Rich hypocrisy on Palin
Andrew Bolt
The New York Times’s Frank Rich finds a fresh fault in Sarah Palin:
But there’s a steady unnerving undertone to Palin’s utterances, a consistent message of hubristic self-confidence and hyper-ambition. She wants to be president, she thinks she can be president, she thinks she will be president.
How shocking. The other three candidates would never be so arrogant and ambitious as to actually think they want to be president. Indeed, there has never before been a candidate for vice-president that actually wanted the top job. Just ask Al Gore.
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Nose cut off
Andrew Bolt
Add this to the Top Ten Articles the Author Will Live to Regret Writing.
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Lynas breaks free of the anti-nuclear lies
Andrew Bolt
Global warming hysteric Mark Lynas finally sees reason - on nuclear power, at least:
Just a month ago I had a Damascene conversion: the Green case against nuclear power is based largely on myth and dogma. My tipping point came when I discovered just how much nuclear power has changed since I first set my mind against it. Prescription for the Planet, a new book by the American writer Tom Blees, opened my eyes to fourth-generation “fast-breeder” reactors, which use fuel much more efficiently than the old-style reactors, produce shorter-lived waste and can also be designed to be “walk-away safe”.
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Rudd refuses to learn from the disaster
Andrew Bolt
Kevin Rudd seems dangerously eager to draw the wrong, anti-capitalist lessons from the Wall St meltdown:
KEVIN Rudd has urged international leaders to end an era of “extreme capitalism” and reject the notion that “greed is good” by embracing a new world order of global financial regulation…
Mr Rudd called for a new “debate that brings to a head how we shape the reward structures of corporate Australia”.
“This culture was never challenged by a political and economic ideology of extreme capitalism,” he said. “And this crisis bears the fingerprints of the extreme free market ideologues who influence much of the neo-liberal economic elite.”
This is just the reaction you’d expect from a bureaucrat, a populist ... and the Left.
Problem. The origins of this disaster lie not primarily in “extreme capitalism” but in its opposite - government intervention in the market.
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BRUTUS THE ECONOMIST
Tim Blair
Shakespeare’s Julius Caeser, Act IV, scene ii:
There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat,
And we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures.
Not bad, Bard. But Brutus’s speech is massively improved when blended by Ross Garnaut into his lyrical Climate Change Review:
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IF ONLY SHE’D BEEN A COMMUNITY ORGANISER
Tim Blair
Palin-hatin’ elitism defined in a Newsweek coverline:
She’s One of the Folks (And that’s the problem).
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DEPTHS MINED
Tim Blair
Comedian Dan Ilic is a funny guy, but his new play is a terrible mistake:
One of the survivors of the Beaconsfield mine disaster says he is disgusted a musical comedy has been written about the tragedy.
Beaconsfield: A Musical in A-Flat Minor will debut in Melbourne tomorrow night.
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BERG BENCHLESS
Tim Blair
The heroic Arctic journey of “over 40 artists, scientists and musicians … including Jarvis Cocker” (an exercise intended to “draw people’s attention to this climatic tipping point") is almost at an end. But not before architect Francesca Galeazzi’s epic bid to put a park bench on an iceberg:
Yesterday for me was a roller-coaster of emotions: determination and failure, hope and fear, anticipation and disappointment.
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SHE’S INSIDE HIS HEAD … AND HIS STOMACH
Tim Blair
Birth truther Andrew Sullivan requires medication to cope with his Palin affliction:
I’ve been manically blogging for months now and dealing with the Palin terror as best I can. She haunts my dreams, sends my stomach sinking at odd moments, terrifies me in the morning, cracks me up in the afternoon, but, if it weren’t for Ambien, wonderful Ambien, would keep me awake at night.
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WHY McCAIN IS TOAST
Tim Blair
William Saletan reviews all the polls and subsequently dismisses any chance of a John McCain victory:
Stick a fork in him. He’s done.No, wait; that was Saletan eight years ago, talking about George W. Bush.
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HIGH GROUND NOT SO MORAL
Tim Blair
The tree people of Berkeley – recently removed from their arboreal abodes – are now accused of racism:
Berkeley’s tree-sitters may have thought their nearly two-year protest was an act of civil disobedience, but to UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau it was actually “racism against our underrepresented minority student athletes.”
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SILVER LINING
Tim Blair
Good news lurks within the global economic debacle. German foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier:
“This crisis changes priorities. One cannot rule out that interest in protecting the climate will change because of such a crisis.”
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SO MUCH FOR BUSH HELPING THE ULTRA-RICH
Tim Blair
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LIVE MODESTLY
Tim Blair
Kevin Rudd is complaining about “greed" and “extreme capitalism”.
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CHANGE YOU CAN BARELY BELIEVE
Tim Blair
Terrorist William Ayers is now just a simple anti-Vietnam war militant.
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Asteroid to hit Earth's atmosphere in hours
AN asteroid discovered today will hit Earth's atmosphere over Sudan in a few hours but will burn up before it can hit the ground or endanger aircraft, astronomers say.
The asteroid would create a large fireball about 10.46pm EDT (1.46pm AEST) as it burns up, a team at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics said.
"We want to stress that this object is not a threat," said Timothy Spahr, director of the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center at Harvard in Massachusetts.
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Friends pay tribute to fallen Idol Lee Kereama
By Joel Christie and Xanthe Kleinig
WHILE the current crop of Australian Idols paid tribute to him on the show last night, those of the past were united in grief over the shock death of former contestant Levi Kereama.
As the family of the 23-year-old R&B singer mourned his death, those who shared the stage with him during the first series of the reality show also expressed their sadness. - while one finds the headline appalling .. the star fell to his death - the picture shown has him wearing a guevarra t-shirt. begging the question, 'what is it about the left and depression and drinking?' - ed.
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PM should defend the people, not the banks
Kevin Rudd has been out justifying the right of the banks to absorb today's rate cut, instead of passing it on. But record profits still rolling in, Alan Jones argues the PM should be going in to bat for us.
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