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Tracee Hutchison slams freed hostage Douglas Wood:
The hostage revealed himself to have none of the grace or dignity dished out to his brothers and looked like a blustering buffoon at his airport news conference ...
It was enough that his words “God bless America” had been played over and over on his release, but the 20 years Douglas Wood has spent as an expat Australian in America were played out in all their cringe-worthy ingloriousness when he decided to meet our media singing a song about a sheep thief who would rather die than be caught for his crimes . . . oh dear!
Oh dear, indeed. Tracee’s graceless, undignified piece was still prominent at The Age’s site when further details of Wood’s treatment became known:
Douglas Wood’s Iraqi captors forced their hostages to watch the executions of fellow prisoners, a released hostage has revealed.
How are you feeling now, Tracee? A little buffoony? Garbage site Crikey.com.au can relate; shortly after Wood’s liberation, it sent an item to subscribers asking if Piers Akerman and Andrew Bolt, both of whom had criticised Sheikh al-Hillali, would apologise to the magical man-saving mufti. Now that the Sheikh’s non-role has been exposed, will Crikey apologise to Bolt and Akerman?
I guess I missed another memo.... Are Australian’s suppose to be embarrassed by ‘Waltzing Matilda’? When did that happen?
I learned the song while in first grade summer school in California. I remember the first time I heard it (the teacher played a record), and I’ve been entranced with it ever since. It was after hearing that song that I decided I had to visit Australia. Fortunately, I’ve been able to do it twice, so far.
All I have to say to Tracee is ‘bite me’.
Polly, I think you’re missing the point. Australians are supposed to be embarrassed in general, since Americans aren’t. Have you been practicing your head tilt and sorrowful expression?
Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2005 06 22 at 12:06 PM • permalinkHave some pity Tim, her parents couldn’t even spell her name, what chance did she have?
Posted by Aging Gamer on 2005 06 22 at 12:23 PM • permalinkou know they’re in trouble when they make a tall poppy out of a hostage.
Posted by chinesearithmetic on 2005 06 22 at 12:36 PM • permalinkI remember learning what we were told was an australian song in first grade:
kukuburra sits by the old gumtree
merry-merry king of the bush is he
laugh kukuburra, laugh kukuburra
play your whole life longI think that’s how it went.
Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2005 06 22 at 12:45 PM • permalinkPoor Douglas Wood. Having been imprisoned and tortured for weeks by Iraqi jihadis, now he’s going to be tortured for months by the leftist Western media…
Call it the Death of a Thousand Paper Cuts.
He might have been better off as a hostage in Iraq. Especially when Maureen Dowd and Katie Couric sink their teeth into his reputation…
Eek.
It appears that the left would have been much happier if Mr. Wood had been decapitated.
Posted by Drunk Fade on 2005 06 22 at 01:19 PM • permalinkThe Left is seething with rage that they’ve been deprived of yet another videotaped beheading to blame on Chimpy McHitler.
The “insurgents” aren’t the only arseholes by a long way.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2005 06 22 at 01:58 PM • permalinkPeople have a right and even an obligation in a democracy to pass judgement on political figures like Bush, Howard, et al. Like them, don’t like them...fine. Whatever.
Douglas Wood however was a victim of terrorism, pure and simple.
There’s absolutely no reason to speculate on whether he deserves to live or die just because he doesn’t suit your taste.
By the same token, I’ll just bet Tracee never spewed such vitriol against bin Laden, Saddam, Zarqawi, or even Johnny Walker or David Hicks either publicly or privately.
Sums up where her head and heart are at right there.
Not yet, Paco; the typical reaction of a leftist upon hitting the bottom of a moral or ethical hole is to whip out a shovel and start digging. So Tracee hasn’t won anything yet.
On the other hand, she yet has ample time to top her previous statements - if “top” is the right word for ethical limbo, that is. Of course, she has tough competition from the likes of the seditious Senator Dick Durbin and the New York Times editorial staff, but I’m confident that Tracee can yet pull it off…
Wes, you may be right. Among other contenders, I was also forgetting the odious Glenn Condell who, as noted in one of Tim’s earlier posts, said that ten Doug Woods are not worth the life of one Iraqi child killed by the allied “invaders”. Incidentally, did Condell ever write one word about the suffering of Iraqi children under Sadam? Even one comment about the children found in mass graves? No, I didn’t think so.
I found Ms Hutchison’s bio amusing.
Tracee is an accomplished journalist who has been broadcasting for over 15 years, working for ABC radio and TV as well as SBS, Channel 9 and the Seven Network.
She would apparently like Douglas Wood much better had he been beheaded.
Why is it that the more left-wing the Australian, the more tolerant he or she is of right-wing Islamic extremism.
Posted by swassociates on 2005 06 22 at 06:06 PM • permalinkGiuliana Sgrena was caught lying (that’s real lying by the way - not the ‘no wmds so its a was a lie’ type lying) over several very important points to try and maximise damage to the coalition, praises the terrorists (they’re the bad guys by the way - for the sake of MSM readers) and she is treated as a courageous heroine by the left. Douglas Woods sings what to many Australians is an almost defacto national anthem and praises the coalition (they’re the good guys by the way - for the sake of MSM readers) and they attack him as an “arsehole” and a “blustering buffoon”
Unbelievable.Bob Brown is also putting the boot in:
Senator Brown said there was “something slightly off about a huge cheque going to somebody who’s been rescued out of that cauldron (and) who went there of their own free will”.
...
"They’ve left families in Iraq and there’s more than 100,000 (civilians) ... who are dead in Iraq as a result of the invasion by the coalition, which was of questionable legality, and Mr Wood was there as a result of that invasion and there on a fairly handsome wage for purposes we don’t yet know."
Salman Rushdie, talking about the fatwa against Isioma Daniel, said that what surprises him is not so much the extremists’ actions, but how others try to blame the victim.
Mr Bingley,
I can overlook your misspelling of kookaburra of course, but what is interesting is your recall of the last line of the song. Most Aussie kids knew the last lines of the song to be:
Laugh, kookaburra laugh, kookaburra
Gay your life must be...And not “play your whole life long”.
I wonder when (and more importantly why) that line differs in the two versions. I guess they don’t write songs like that anymore…
Meanwhile, back on topic, you should all read Miranda Devine’s latest column - Hostage to Public Opinion at Home, in today’s SMH. A welcome relief from the front page article that continues condemning him.
Traceeee is just upset ex-pat Dougy didn’t come back ands shit-can Australia like Robert Hughes, Germaine, and co usually do.
Posted by Tony.T.Teacher on 2005 06 22 at 09:21 PM • permalinkPolly, ‘Waltzing Matilda’ is a beaut song and no Aussie is ashamed of singing it.
Wood reminds me of its anti-hero. Not the genteel sort but brave, big hearted and every bit his own man. No wonder he likes ‘Matilda’.
Fortunately, the Douglas Woods of this country still run the show through the ballot box and they know a bunch of wankers when they see them.
Shouldn’t the Left approve of sheep-stealing? Redistribution of property from the exploiting Capitalist squatters and all that?
Posted by Susan Norton on 2005 06 22 at 10:26 PM • permalinkHave a gander at today’s Geelong Advertiser to see how Doug got through his ordeal. It’s very Australian.
Miranda Devine in the SMH today:
The Reverend Dr Vincent Zankin of Canberra, a prolific writer of baffling letters to newspapers, this week claimed in The Australian that Wood called his captors “arseholes” “because they are Muslims, whose dignity, religion and culture have been subjugated by Western civilisations for centuries”.
I have been following the Rev. Mr Zarkin’s weird quasi-moonbat letters for some time. The weirdest thing of all is that google indicates he is a Chaplain to the royal Australian Air Force - that is, he is a serving, paid Defence Force officer and as such is barred from making public political statements. What about someone investigating what is going on here?
Posted by Susan Norton on 2005 06 22 at 10:38 PM • permalinkYou gotta admit, he was a great decoy, RWF
Posted by Aging Gamer on 2005 06 23 at 12:24 AM • permalinkits interesting - Where did they get the $10million claim from???
please dont tell me they just took their favorite number ( 100,000 ) and added 2 zeros?
Posted by knuckleheadwatch on 2005 06 23 at 12:43 AM • permalinkMy sleepy home town of Melbourne has today been the scene of a number of raids by ASIO on groups suspected of planning terrorist activities. Needless to say, the local media have picked up on the real story here, and are giving wall-to-wall coverage to local Muslim community ‘spokesmen’ expressing their concerns that Muslims are being victimised by such raids. Yes, I suppose ASIO should be conducting equal-opportunity raids on the local boy-scouts and Rotary. One ‘spokesman’ seems to be complaining that ASIO didn’t give him prior warning of the raids. Gee, I wonder why that would be?
Firstly, I would certainly be happy as Larry if I survived a situation where I thought I would surely die, I’d be singing Waltzing Matilda at the top of my lungs and thanking everyone!
I am annoyed that people have picked up the “How come he looks so robust after 47 days on bread and water?”, for heaven’s sake, the man has a heart condition. Look at him in the stills of the videos provided by the kidnappers - he looks as crook as rookwood. Reckon being rescued gave him a new lease on life.
Others bag him for his personality - cripes, I got the impression that he was a good bloke, from his brothers and his wife. From the little I have seen of him and his family I reckon he must be a top bloke.You know, it’s true, many of the anti-Doug Wood fools would have been happy if his head was separated from his shoulders; he’d be a bloody hero.
Drongoes.
Are letter writers actually saying that murderous kidnappers are usually calm, even handed individuals unless you call them “arseholes” in which case they morph into violent lunatics.
You can’t spell “naive” without “Sydney Morning Herald Letters to the Editor”
Posted by Quentin George on 2005 06 23 at 02:47 AM • permalinkMaybe if she dropped her extra E, she’d love Douglas Wood and everyone, really, or drop dead. Either option is acceptable.
Drongoes.
make a tall poppy out of a hostage.
kukuburra sits by the old gumtree
I can’t find the checkbox in my profile settings to translate these Aussisms…
Another missing link in Yank-understanding would be the makeup of your telly stations/papers.
I mean, here in the US, we’ve got CBS, ABC, (aka ABCBS), MSNBC, (aka PMSNBCBS), as the heavyweight legacy media lefties, then of course Fox the recent counterpoint. And you know about CNN.
Paperwise, we’ve got the New York Times and L.A. Times, and Washington Post for the lefty behemoths, and a smattering of itty bitty right wing papers, New York Post, Washington Times…
What’s it like down undah? How much market share does (your) ABC have, and who else is there? Same question, Sydney Morning Herald?
You guys are always talking about Joe Schmuckatelli while assuming I know what paper/station he’s from, but I don’t…
Posted by zeppenwolf on 2005 06 23 at 03:49 AM • permalinkKookaburra Lyrics
Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree
Merry, merry king of the bush is he
Laugh, Kookaburra! Laugh, Kookaburra!
Gay your life must beKookaburra sits in the old gum tree
Eating all the gum drops he can see
Stop, Kookaburra! Stop, Kookaburra!
Leave some there for me(My favourite verse is the one I can only remember the first two lines of - Kookaburra sits on the ‘lectric wire
Screaming ‘cause his balls keep catching fire)As for what is a
kookaburra?It’s a bird with a distinctive call that sounds like it’s laughing. Another name for it is the Laughing Jackass. You’ll recognise the noise they make from countless jungle movies from the 40s and 50s.
Regarding the Aussie media set-up.
I’ll leave that to more learned members of the public. I’m still a newbie in this world of blogs.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2005 06 23 at 09:16 AM • permalinkLooks like the Wood craziness has struck the Margoloids as well.
You are lucky your captors had ethics and did not dispose of you as soon as the deadline set had passed.
Posted by drscroogemcduck on 2005 06 23 at 01:44 PM • permalinkThis is also from that blog, dr. mcduck. Notice the apostrophe. Did these idiots all go to the same school, I wonder?
They all read the same things—over and over and over—so it’s probably traceable to a common source.
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2005 06 23 at 03:28 PM • permalinkYou’ll recognise the noise they make from countless jungle movies from the 40s and 50s.
I always thought those were recordings of monkeys.
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