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Hate speech at the ABC!

Media Watch used to get all worked up about this sort of thing. Not any more ...

UPDATE. Credit where it’s due; just as the program did last year, Media Watch slaps Fairfax over dodgy Earth Hour coverage.

Posted by Tim B. on 04/07/2008 at 10:44 AM

  1. I suspect Media Watch sees nothing wrong with that: it’s just another version of “Death to America!”, a time-honored symbol of “protest” recognized world-wide…

    :^þ

    Posted by Spiny Norman on 2008 04 07 at 11:07 AM • permalink

  2. Ah, that Ant is a piece of work, isn’t he?

    Posted by Olrence on 2008 04 07 at 11:11 AM • permalink

  3. Loewenstein Schmowenstein. Big talker. My grandmother could kick his pansy ass, and she’s been dead since 1981.

    Posted by SoberHT on 2008 04 07 at 11:28 AM • permalink

  4. My reply to Stoney: “Kiss my ass and bring me another Yellowtail Shiraz, you marsupial lapdog.”

    Wonder if the ABC will print it.

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2008 04 07 at 11:30 AM • permalink

  5. I waded into that morass of commenters and quickly got out.  So that’s where my eight cents per day goes.  That stuff is still clinging to my shoes, I will need new ones.

    Posted by Crossie on 2008 04 07 at 11:36 AM • permalink

  6. “Armchair commentators, most of whom had only seen Iraq through the eyes of American soldiers, pontificated about the country’s future and Iran’s allegedly malign influence.”

    As opposed to armchair commentators who have only seen Iraq through the eyes of apologists for Islamofascism, and pontificate endlessly about the American killing machine.

    Ant, incidentally, seems to be going for the “gritty realism” look, judging by the picture. He puts me in mind of one of those Farm Security Administration photos from the Great Depression - perhaps a hobo waiting to jump a freight train. Looks like he’s got a piece of beef jerky stowed in his ear for the trip.

    Posted by paco on 2008 04 07 at 11:43 AM • permalink

  7. I’m just sad only 4000 Yanks have been killed.

    I was hoping for about 300 million of the so and so’s.

    Ummmm….there’s not quite that many of us…yet….

    Posted by Old Tanker on 2008 04 07 at 12:04 PM • permalink

  8. My response to this cretin: How dare you wish for the deaths of 300 people regardless of nationality! You are a spineless hypocrite who is benefiting from the freedoms you enjoy that are given by soldiers, not by a peace activist. Perhaps you would prefer the oppression that was ended by a coalition that proudly included Australian troops. Shame on you and your employer.

    Posted by Deborah Leigh on 2008 04 07 at 12:11 PM • permalink

  9. #4: Oh, I hope so, Richard. That way, I can laugh out loud all over again.

    I’m having a little trouble pulling up Currency Lad at the moment, but commenter Amos at C.L. makes a very astute observation: the idiot who has no trouble wishing death on 300 million people is finicky about using the word “bastards” or something similar to describe them all, settling for the euphemistic “so and so’s”. Genocidal dreams are bad enough, but harnessed to a school-marmish fastidiousness, it’s the sort of thing that makes one one want to apply the extra-large clue bat.

    Posted by paco on 2008 04 07 at 12:15 PM • permalink

  10. Completely relevant to the ABC, but I blame the Frollicking Mole anyway.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2008 04 07 at 12:54 PM • permalink

  11. #7 Old Tanker

    If you count the illegal immigrants undocumented migrant workers, yeah, there are that many.

    Posted by Spiny Norman on 2008 04 07 at 01:08 PM • permalink

  12. #9 paco

    I suspect he phrased it that way because wishing the death of 300 million Americans appears to be acceptable language for the ABC, but not the use of the term “bastard”, which would be highly offensive to members of single-parent households.

    Posted by Spiny Norman on 2008 04 07 at 01:14 PM • permalink

  13. #11 Spiny,

    I didn’t count them because they’re not Americans, therefore deserving of the lefts pity.  I’m sure the commenter didn’t mean innocent Illegal Immigrants…...

    Posted by Old Tanker on 2008 04 07 at 02:04 PM • permalink

  14. I’m not afraid of the word bastard.  Antony Lowenstink is one, ugly, shriveled, bigoted little bastard who should have been drowned at birth.  How’s that for prejudice, Tony?

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2008 04 07 at 02:51 PM • permalink

  15. Wow. Just wow.

    I’d seen comments by this guy called “Mulga Mumblebrain” at The Australian’s blog. I can only imagine the stuff of his they didn’t print, as the ABC let it all run and it stinks.

    This guy is unbelievable:

    Mulga Mumblebrain :

    04 Apr 2008 4:53:26pm

    Funnytom, I’m with ex-Italian President Cossiga who recently told the Italian media that Mossad and the CIA were behind 9/11, and everyone in European intelligence knows it. If you wish to continue believing in faery stories, either through excess credulousness, or out of a desire to join up in the ‘Clash of Civilizations’, that’s your choice.

    Amazingly, he hates being called an antisemite.

    Posted by Dan Lewis on 2008 04 07 at 06:30 PM • permalink

  16. I was hoping for about 300 million of the so and so’s

    Even the black ones? GASP!

    If he’d made a comment like that about anyone else the ABC would have been shrieking with outrage.

    Posted by Brian on 2008 04 07 at 08:24 PM • permalink

  17. #6

    As opposed to armchair commentators who have only seen Iraq through the eyes of apologists for Islamofascism, and pontificate endlessly about the American killing machine.

    Well said, Paco.

    They are deaf and blind to the the obvious.

    Posted by kae on 2008 04 07 at 08:54 PM • permalink

  18. #8,

    Well said Deborah!!

    Posted by Brian on 2008 04 07 at 09:32 PM • permalink

  19. I sent that thread to the ABC mediawatch about 4-5 days ago, no reply at all. Also hit the “report to admin” button on the website about 5-6 days ago.

    Nothing appears to have happened so one can only assume they endorse the comments.

    Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2008 04 07 at 10:05 PM • permalink

  20. Their ABC is funny.

    Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 04 07 at 11:37 PM • permalink

  21. I’ve lodged a formal complaint over the blog comments.  Apparently alerting a moderator simply gives Antony a good laugh.  We’ll see what his website owners think.

    Posted by peter m on 2008 04 09 at 01:21 AM • permalink

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