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ANTONY ATTACKS!
A devastating takedown! Followed by a completely rational argument that doesn’t miss the point at all!
UPDATE. Antony the Unread finally has some hits. His success is now assured:
Man, david, you have that “projection” part right! Reading the comments at AL’s blog reads like a self-parody from the left.
And the East Timor/“root cause”/Osama point AL tries to make….for a guy who claims to connect the dots, he sure misses a lot of them dots in the process, like:
Australian Jews, generally speaking, are incapable of hearing the true reality of their beloved homeland and its barbaric actions.
I’m still trying to figure out how Australia’s support of East Timor, or how the removal of land mines in Afghanistan, is “barbaric”. Not to mention the Iraq reconstruction work Australia protects with their troops. If that is “barbarism”, I wonder what “civilized behavior” really looks like.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2005 07 16 at 06:34 AM • permalinkYes, Tim always sides with the government, bad Tim!
Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit some say, yet it’s still beyond the left it seems.
Posted by Aging Gamer on 2005 07 16 at 07:19 AM • permalinkAnthony’s image of being trapped in a room with Andrew Bolt doesn’t come anyhwere near the ‘Twilight Zone’ terror of Loewenstein and Robert Manne in a room together. You don’t want to be near that room. You don’t want to be in the same space-time continuum as that room.
(BTW, who can remind me of the final line of ‘The Prince of Tides’?)
captain, I congratulate you on boiling down everything about AL into one simple word:
fuckwit
How elegant!
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2005 07 16 at 08:04 AM • permalinkNo, Tim, you’re not getting it - I mean, just what is “the whole truth”? The whole truth, man!? The whhhooooooole truth!? So profound.
Seriously, is this dink with his “thoughtful smoking jacket” picture some kind of esteemed scribe down there? Are nice people forced to read his fulminations over their morning Wheaties? Do otherwise meek men and women find the balance of their days ruined by an excess of bile before they’ve even brushed their teeth? Or is he just some hopped-up ambulance chaser who once wrote a book and appeared on a cable news show?
Lacking the antipodean context, I need to know.
Posted by rick mcginnis on 2005 07 16 at 09:34 AM • permalink#10. blogstrop, you forgot this, which gives compassionate head tilting a tie-jacket-pants match that’s hard to beat. The three-day-growth adds street cred to the world-weary-wordsmith look he’s pitching for, but points deducted for the “come hither” look. Or has he just fallen asleep with his eyes open?
Antony without the “H” is obviously an intellectual poseur. The bohemian beard and Bloomsbury set repro velevet jacket and the highswept hair to reveal a maximum of high forehead, the sign of great intelligence.
No wonder Margo is drooling!
It’s easy to conclude that Antony without the “H” is a cafe latte man whose only first hand experience of barbarism is overcooked pasta at a trendy italian restaurant.Which are you?
The Tim Blair readership seem like a balance of
A: kneejerk abuse merchants,
B: and Tim’s kind of people, which means moderately intelligent people who manage to sound informed and considered in their opinions, but always manage to come to the conclusion that everything Bush or Howard does or says is right, and everything the left does or says is wrong.
~ “Shay” @ Tim’s first link ~I’m hoping I’m a kneejerk abuse merchant.
...Tim’s kind of people, which means moderately intelligent people who manage to sound informed and considered in their opinions...
Perhaps we “manage” to sound informed and considered because we “are” informed and considered?
No, wait, I’m in the wrong universe. Excuse me while I hit the transporter room….
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2005 07 16 at 10:35 AM • permalinkHe obviously shops for his threads at Saint Vinnies.
Yeah, yeah, I know, shallow.
Best you will get from a “kneejerk abuse merchant”
Hold the transporter, Jeff .....Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2005 07 16 at 10:44 AM • permalinkGuinsPen — Lemme get my stick and we’ll go abuse Loewenstein’s knees.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 07 16 at 11:32 AM • permalinkI’d point out that some (probably most) of us, and our host, disagree with Howard and Bush on many important issues. I’m not religious, flag burning is free speech, gay marriage is fine by me, I’m not anti-abortion, I’m anti-death penalty. I’m afraid, though, that he’d just respond, “But, but… you don’t disagree with them on anything important!”
Posted by Matt Moore on 2005 07 16 at 11:53 AM • permalinkI’m pretty much in Matt’s boat. Small government type, okay with gay marriage, pro-choice… but Bush’s proven willingness to “kill the bastards over there before they kill us here” sort of trumps everything.
Posted by John Nowak on 2005 07 16 at 12:17 PM • permalinkSounds like we’re brothers Matt. Only I’m kinda anti-death penalty, get yourself a serial rapist or pedophile, I support sticking their legs in meat grinders.
Posted by Aging Gamer on 2005 07 16 at 12:19 PM • permalinkSee? Even people in the conservative echo chamber that is Tim’s comments section disagree sometimes.
“You always agree with Bush!”
Well, no, but I do think the Iraq war was the right thing.
“Well, you always agree that the Iraq war is right!”
Sure, I’m pretty consistent on that one. So?
“FASCIST! YOU ONLY SEE BLACK AND WHITE, YOU DISRESPECTER OF DISSENT!”
Sigh…
Posted by Matt Moore on 2005 07 16 at 12:23 PM • permalinkSweet Jayzus. Less’n they shot that picture with an 18mm lens, the man is a slug.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 07 16 at 01:02 PM • permalinkYou can just picture Antony go “No! Noooo! Noooooooooooo!!!!!” while reading the comments here, followed by “That’s so not true!!!!!” and a few hours of gentle sobbing, until he’s able to get himself together again and type up what he considers scathing condemnations of the evil right-wingers.
Meanwhile, we laugh. Maybe Antony should consider a switch from journalist to comedian? Considering he couldn’t cut it at the freakin’ SMH, that might be a rational career choice anyway. Well, so might be a switch to street beggar. Gotta finance those jackets and the daily latte somehow, after all.
“Reading him is like ‘being trapped in a small room with an angry, indignant, simple-minded man who believes the best way of convincing you that he is right, yet again, is to ridicule and shout.’”
Let’s try this again:
Reading Antony Loewenstein is like being trapped in a small room with a confused, mewling ignorant man who believes the best way of convincing you that he is right, yet again, is to call those who disagree “pathetic racists”.
Yup, fits like a glove.
At any rate, how do lefties arrive at this frequent complaint that Tim shouts? I’ve seen that one crop up several times, and it’s just completely flabbergasting to me. I take it that the voicing of any criticism is considered too loud by the Left? Or maybe they’re talking about the fact that Tim’s virtual megaphone here is much bigger than theirs? (Cue homoerotic jokes.)
“Bloomsbury set repro velvet jacket…”
He’s dressed for Jack Worthing on the set of The Importance Being Earnest.
Re the 3-day growth I must be behind the times here. I thought this indicated a few issues with personal grooming.
Posted by walterplinge on 2005 07 16 at 07:00 PM • permalinkAntony without the “H” has that intellectual pensive look - obviously the result of watching a marathon episode of Big Brother. Or I am wrong. is has been on something else?
And did he drop that “H” to feel more in touch with the prolateriat?
Those well manicured hands would not ere well with the working classes.Better wear gloves too.walterplinge — It was ever so stylish in the 80’s. Then Reagan saved the economy and we could all afford razors again.
I think folks found out the H stood for Herod.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 07 16 at 10:32 PM • permalinkCount me in with Matt, John, and AG (though I’m pro-death penalty).
Reading that article, I kept thinking—the only thing differentiating this from totally incoherent free verse is a few random tabs and paragraph breaks. It was like really bad haiku.
Shay, now, that name is familiar. Isn’t he the guy lying mauled and bleeding on the floor a couple threads back?
After having read this defensive response from Anton E. Low-esteem, it reminds me of the line “No-one ever tries to convince you that the sun will rise tomorrow.”
Re #36, the link isn’t working, so copied here:
Antony Loewenstein said…
Lack of success?
mmm, let me see, gutless Anon.
Former employee of SMH, major contributor to a 2004 best-seller, not happy, john! currently writing a book on israel/palestine for MUP, freelancing for a number of publications in oz and overseas, and currently talking with other publishers with further works in 2006/7.
You’re right, complete failure.
Tim Blair — It’s like shouting “Blucher!”
You mention him, the hits jump.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 07 17 at 02:28 PM • permalinkPW — And screw the copies shipped, find out how many were returned for credit.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 07 17 at 09:52 PM • permalink
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Wow, Tim, you smoke? I guess I won’t be coming back here…
::rolls eyes::
Projection: The attribution of one’s own attitudes, feelings, or suppositions to others