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PREDICTABLE PETE
The Sun-Herald’s Peter FitzSimons delivers (no link available) the predicted backlash against Todd Russell and Brant Webb:
[I hear] from a well-connected publishing source that if the book deal with Todd’n’Brant wasn’t done late last week, it will likely be done early this week. The figures are still spongy but, when the contract is signed, it will likely be just over $500,000, out of which they will have to find the money to get a writer who can turn the manuscript around in eight weeks, so they can capture the Christmas market. If they can’t find that writer—and rest assured it is not this little black duck—it will more likely come out in about April of next year.
FitzSimons wouldn’t demean himself by writing about these guys. Rest assured.
The bloke handling the pair, Sean Andersen, is a good operator, but if I were him I would advise Todd’n’Brant not to wear rock-star dark glasses as they emerge through customs in Los Angeles. Just a thought ...
If I were FitzSimons, I wouldn’t presume to tell two men who survived a mine collapse what sunglasses they might choose to wear at airports. Just a thought.
FitzSimons spent a lot of time in France playing rugby. That can’t be good for your brain.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 06 06 at 04:11 AM • permalinkwell when u look at the collection of tripe that is in your average chick’s mag (was it No Idea??), i could well understand how an editor of one wouldn’t have very high standards, and so could mistakenly credit their significant other with some ability that just isn’t there… but sheesh, he definitely needs to get a second opinion from a more credible source….
but if some idiot is prepared to pay him money for his guff what can you do…. except continually point out to the public how lousy he is i suppose???
I used to find him quite funny but he is the most insufferable snob. In the league of Mike Carlton who faked a plum accent when he worked in the UK about 10 years ago.
I recall an article he wrote when he engaged Andrew Johns in a discussion about literature, assuming Johns, as a rugby league player without an Arts degree to be an uneducated oik who reads little more than comic books. In a cute sort of way he was looking to humiliate Johns. He was shocked to find Johns surprisingly erudite and well read. I have always thought Johns to be well spoken and intelligent when interviewed, despite probably not having the same educational opportunities as Fitzsimons.
No doubt, he finds Russell and Webb to be in that same ilk – uneducated boofheads who have no right to earn a decent quid.
Posted by Effing & Blinding on 2006 06 06 at 05:02 AM • permalinkReading between the lines, FitzSimons seems a teensy bit jealous that they didn’t ask him to be their ghost writer. But let’s face it, why on earth would they? Even miners presumably want their story told in coherent English.
Posted by arrowhead ripper on 2006 06 06 at 05:09 AM • permalinkAs long as Todd’n’Brant dont have beards, long white robes, and tight tea cozies on their heads as they emerge through customs in Los Angeles they’ll be fine.
Posted by Islam/cancer-Chuck Norris/answer on 2006 06 06 at 05:32 AM • permalinkLast time I heard anything said by that moron was when I accidentally tuned into 2UE.
He was commenting (alongside Mike Carlton) that he wouldn’t acknowledge Queen Elizabeth 11 as the Queen of Australia because he is a republican.
All I could think of at the time was that he is like a spoilt little kid, that because he doesn’t like an umpires decision he would take his bat and ball and go home crying all the way.
Poor Pete. He should go home and listen to the Whitlam’s.
Doesn’t this sound familiar? It is like when the media turned against Douglas Wood, previously a hero, for endorsing Bush and the US effort in Iraq. Now they’re going to do it to the Tassie miners.
Fitzsimons is a good example of that principle about people rising to their level of incompetence. It’s the relentless ambition of his wife that has pushed him out of the(rugby)ruck where he probably belongs. It’s hard to know which of the two is more lightweight, and having heard both of them on Carlton’s 2UE, toadying to Mike and his party line on Howard and Bush, you’d have to feel that in all things other than sport, Pete is way out of his depth, even more so than his airhead wife.
What is it with your idiots and ducks?
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 06 06 at 06:21 AM • permalinkThe media are a funny lot aren’t they?, I mean really, look how they struggle to define a common link between these men, makes you feel like really giving them a whack with a great big clue stick.
Just a few simple steps for these two guys to get back in the good graces of the people that matter.
1. Get a pair of Katie Curic “smart” glasses.
2. pontificate on the Evil US and blood for oil.
3. Try to say something nasty about Jews.And there you go!
Posted by jeff mccabe on 2006 06 06 at 10:45 AM • permalinkIf they can’t find that writer—and rest assured it is not this little black duck—it will more likely come out in about April of next year.
No, I think you all misread this. He probably was pointing to a small dark colored duck that was sitting beside him. He was simply pointing out that the duck would not be writing the book. Although in actuality he was expressing his opinion on the matter, he probably said it in good faith.
So to sum up what Fitzsimmons said, the black duck won’t be writing the book. In his opinion.
Posted by wronwright on 2006 06 06 at 12:08 PM • permalinkDoncha just hate it when working class people come into money instead of just shutting the hell up and working in t’ mines where they belong?
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 06 06 at 06:34 PM • permalinkThe more I hear about these blokes the more I like them.The fact that Fitzsimons was obviously given the flick-pass when it came to selecting a writer should only elevate them further in the estimation of anyone who has ever wasted time reading one of his purile and primitive biographies.As far as him sticking to sports commentating,please give me a break,although he once played Rugby his knowledge of sport generally is as sparse as the growth of hair on his melon-like cranium.Anybody who watches The Back Page on Fox Sports would know that if he happens to be on the panel a quick channel change is indicated.BTW has anyone else noticed the close physical resemblance between the boofheaded root and Uday Hussain? Coincidentally Uday was once named Journalist of the Year by the Iraqui Union of Journalists,his talent in that field was probably about the equal of our local fool.
He butchered Steve Waugh’s biography
Posted by The (WHMECDM) President on 2006 06 07 at 03:32 AM • permalinkFitzy off Friday Night Big Brother sounds smarter than this guy.
Posted by AlburyShifton on 2006 06 07 at 03:59 AM • permalinkJust a thought…. Mike Carlton’s Sat SMH column is getting more and more like Alan Ramsay’s further on in the section, ie Howard’s never done anything right; How did we idiots vote him in again; Ramsay fills up most of his opinion page with quotes from other sources; a really Grumpy Old Man!!Maybe Carlton is being lined up to take over from him and then Fittzy can have the 2UE breakfast show to himself….or bring in his wife?? A Succession plan you might say??
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and I wouldnt presume to remind Peter FitzSimons that he is no better than Todd Russell and Brant Webb and judging by the performance could well take a lesson in humility from them…..memo to PeterF, try to construct a thought or sentence that does not begin or revolve around “I”.