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PREJUDICE EXPRESSED
The ABC’s Media Watch last night tackled major Australian media outlets - the Daily Telegraph, the Sydney Morning Herald, Brisbane’s Courier-Mail, Melbourne’s Herald Sun, the Murdoch-owned PerthNow, and this site - over the issue of online comments:
For those eager to express their prejudices, there are plenty of new forums in the new media.
The major metropolitan papers have embraced the electronic era and they actively encourage their readers to respond to stories online.
Click for the rest. Media Watch also encourages responses; editors from all of the above-named publications were contacted prior to last night’s broadcast and allowed the opportunity to explain their comments policies.
Well, almost all. They didn’t contact me. And it’s not as though Media Watch doesn’t have my contact details, for in 2002 I corresponded with Media Watch executive producer Tim Palmer - then the ABC’s Middle East correspondent - over a matter that might relate to the program’s current issues with freedom of speech.
Palmer first contacted me in June, 2002, about this post, in which I sought the origin of a unsourced Shimon Peres quote that appeared in a Palmer article. He vowed to sue me unless I published an apology and withdrawal. I was a freelancer at the time, without the finances to challenge any serious legal action, so - following lengthy email exchanges - I eventually caved:
I wish to apologise to Tim Palmer for any inference that the quotes attributed to Shimon Peres in the above article were concocted or invented, and to acknowledge that his report as originally submitted to the ABC was accurate and reliable.
I gave in after Palmer told me he was contacting his lawyer that very day to file lawsuits against other journalists who’d criticised him, and that it would be a simple matter to add my name to his list. Apology published, Palmer’s next email congratulated me for being “honourable”.
I didn’t reply.
Two years later, after the Sydney Morning Herald’s Miranda Devine had written something nice about me, she received an email from Palmer gloating about the time he’d forced me to publish a “craven” apology. I sent him a note:
Dear Tim,
At the time of our dispute over your Middle East reporting, you emailed me to say my apology was “right” or “honourable” or some-such form of words.
Now I discover via my friend Miranda Devine that you believe my apology was “craven”.
I’m confused. Was my apology/correction good or bad?
Yours,
Tim Blair
PS: How did all your other lawsuit threats work out?
Palmer’s reply:
which lawsuits would those be tim? accuracy simply ain’t your strong point is it?
Oh, no; he’d forgotten his earlier claims. Palmer had evidently lied to me in order to force an apology, then - two years on, and without recalling the details of our exchange - was contacting journalists to smear me. A final email extract from ethical Tim Palmer, Media Watch executive producer:
I have the right to tell as many people as I like about your shoddy work and about the fact that you, after much posturing, fell in a heap and apologised. I’ve told plenty.
Tell them about your lie, mate.
UPDATE. At Media Watch’s heavily-moderated site, you’ll find this:
The only understanding I can make is that MediaWatch carries the torch for Globalism and maybe even Zionist groups as they are known to push Hate Speech laws so they can’t be questioned themselves in crime. ABC is starting to show a disproportionate number of Jews in the places of power in the ABC.
And this:
AC and TT are both reactionary propaganda mouthpieces of the government and big business. The vilification of Muslims, single mothers and the unemployed is rampant on both of these reproachable programs.
Their function is to confuse workers by blaming minority groups that are easy targets and cannot defend themselves, for the declining standard of living and attacks on workers rights, diverting the focus away from the real cause, which is government policy.
The Muslims especially are used as scapegoats domestically, and internationally to defend the crime of the war in Iraq. They serve the same purpose as the Jews of Hitler’s Third Reich.
Jewish folk might not appreciate the comparison.
(Via sparrow in evil comments)
Tim Palmer - agent of T.W.A.T.*
*Those Who Are Tits
Posted by Tex Lovera on 2007 06 18 at 02:14 PM • permalinkWe of the unwashed, blogospheric commentariat recognize that self-righteous posturing, selective memory, and lying are some of the chief features of media leftists, Tim, as you know. It’s what makes living in their world possible. Mr. Palmer seems to be a living example, and we should pity him for his obvious limits.
That said, that whole article looked like a blatant attempt to stir up some easily stirrable segments of society for a ratings boost. Sort of the old “Let’s you and him fight” ploy. Many can play that game. For instance, El Cid, Kae, and Howzat, among others, you have been vilified as racist homophobes! Congrats, you three, you’ve made the big time in Socioloonyland.
Mr. Palmer should be aware that the ridicule from this crowd is merciless and devastating, and can be accomplished without any racist or homophobic epithets at all. I hope he’s prepared.
It’s telling to note that Tim Blair formally published his apology (regardless of relationships), while Tim Palmer pretty much hides his obvious loathing behind innuendo and deceit.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 06 18 at 02:36 PM • permalinkOh, and I read the MediaWatch blurb. They clearly expect every blogger or editor to
controlmoderate comments to their standards. Following in the socialist pattern of “Do as I say, not as I do”, of course.While MW is Aussie-centric, I guess they’ve never read Daily Kos or the Democratic Underground, both of which abound in far worse comments.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 06 18 at 02:42 PM • permalinkI just seems unfair to go after someone who is obviously unfit for a war of wits. Had he been anything other than a craven coward in the first place, he never would have threatened a lawsuit. Ah well, he’s the one who threw down the gauntlet.
The arrogance of ignorance and incompetence is stunning, isn’t it?
A quick search on MediaWatch finds no denuciation of a SMH employee who once declared that the Zionists control the nation’s media:
The fundamentalist Zionist lobby controls politics and the media in the US and Australia
I guess when you are an employee of a major newspaper and writing such things about Jews as part of your job it isn’t the same things as a commenter on a blog mentioning Islam, right?
Posted by Villeurbanne on 2007 06 18 at 03:14 PM • permalinkDylan: That’s what I’m puzzled about. Denigrate Christians or Jews all you want, but point out the “excesses” of Islam, and you’re EEEEVIL and RRRRRAAACCCIISSTT.
Please.
Elizabeth
Imperial KeeperPosted by Elizabeth Imperial Keeper on 2007 06 18 at 03:20 PM • permalinkSome animals are more equal than others.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 06 18 at 03:27 PM • permalinkWell, I’m back ... literally, figuratively and electronically.
Back in beautiful Montreal (home of secret HQ of PACO Corp) after 3 months in Vietnam, Mongolia and the Untied Kingdom.
I would politely propose that Mr Palmer go fuck himself.
Posted by Jack from Montreal on 2007 06 18 at 04:06 PM • permalinkOne of the great things about coming from a family of lawyers is that bullies threatening lawsuits can be exposed for the cowards they are. A good response is ‘Serve me the writ, mate, I look forward to it. When you case fails because it has no basis in law, I will enjoy watching the bailiff repossess your car to pay my legal costs.’
Another lesson, children, is at least in the United States e-mails are admissible in a court of law. And can be viewed and used either for/against you. NEVER, and I repeat, NEVER, put anything in an e-mail that your mother can’t read.
Don’t know how it is down under, but did you save the exchange, Tim?
Elizabeth
Imperial KeeperPosted by Elizabeth Imperial Keeper on 2007 06 18 at 04:37 PM • permalinkMr Paco, Boss - setting up PACO Corp (Mongolia) NL is proving to be tougher than I expected. I have taken the liberty of changing the name to CHINGGIS KHAN (paco mong) CORP and we seem to be doing a bit better.
Our offices are in the CHINGGIS bldg on CHINGGIS avenue. We will be entertaining all our potential clients next week with lots of CHINGGIS beer and CHINGGIS vodka.
I told them that you might drop in and they’re all looking forward to that. (BTW, I may have implied that you are a descendant of CHINGGIS).
Trust me - you wouldn’t like the fermented mares milk (although there will be a bucketful in the Ger house where you will be staying)
Posted by Jack from Montreal on 2007 06 18 at 04:42 PM • permalinkI tried to watch Their ABC last night but gave up halfway through the 7:30 report to start the much more rewarding process of backing up my hard drive. Mrs Skeeter, more resilient than I, continued to watch and called me in just in time for Grimmy’s comment. LOL.
Margos, surely you joshed on the previous thread when you suggested that anyone could get the hots for Monica?#16. Welcome back, Jack, from Vietnam, Mongolia and the Untied (formerly United) Kingdom.
Which one of those places did you find the most threatening to your well-being?#21 oddly enough, I find the greatest threats to my wellbeing here in Canada where we have various levels of warlords who call themselves “governments”. These so-called “governments” confiscate all of the minimal gains that I and my compatriots make during the course of a year. This is a process that they call “taxes”.
I am seriously considering residence in VN.
Posted by Jack from Montreal on 2007 06 18 at 05:08 PM • permalink#22
Thanks, Boss, sir - you know that Chinggis is the real name of one of our favourite RWDBs - the one and only GHENGIS KHAN!!
Posted by Jack from Montreal on 2007 06 18 at 05:10 PM • permalinkI like how they call this site “electronic media”. The last time I looked it is called timblair dot net, a BLOG site, having no electronic connection to any Daily Telegraph domain.
In the circumstances, to lump it in with a story on MEDIA electronic comments and their responsibilities is poor form. That show keeps trying to sink the boot in, but only succeeds in landing it in it’s own mouth!
ps nice comments. Did they address the discrimination against the blind in their blind rush to protect the racists?
#27 God bless you, Boss - So you’ll be there wearing the Chinggis hat??
Posted by Jack from Montreal on 2007 06 18 at 05:27 PM • permalinkI wonder how long it took MW to find some suitable dreadfully racist, nasty comments. (What made MW decide to use that particular thread’s?)
Perhaps, Tim, Mr Palmer didn’t want to contact you ‘cos you would cut him to bits with your rapier wit?
In a battle of wits Mr P would be unarmed, so needs to resort to a battle of writs?#33, Dminor:
Thanks. I usually pass on clicking the links referencing leftistnazifascistcommiebastard sites or remarks. I resent giving even a single traffic count bump to such.
El Cid landed a few shots. Well done sir. Howzat got in one too.
Now, all I want in life (other than for open war against our domestic enemy) is to be named in a personal fatwa and/or have a jihad launched in my honor :)
And, just to help push that along…
Death to all islamic jihadi! All islamic jihadi supporters! All islamic jihadi apologists! All islamic quislings!
#18. Spot on.
Whenever someone threatens you with a lawsuit.
Call their bluff.
It sounds good “I’ll sue you,unless”, but the legal process has quite a bit more to it.
$500 for a lawyer’s help got me rid of a real
c++t.Went from wanting me to support him for
lost earnings to “Not taking the matter
further”.That’s not FAIR!! Why didn’t Moaning Mouth Monica post my sparkle Paintings on Media WATCH?
‘;’;’;;’’;’;;’;’’;’;;’
Also, Moaning Monica failed to report that Tim Blair’s blogger comments (ie. EL-Cid xx) are Americans, and in America they have free speech, unlike the ABC. Grimmy and Kae you looked good.
Tim B are you on Net and does that mean an American site?
Daily Telegraph editor David P, good for you!!
#30 That’s all they do and after 70 years of communism they are incapable of work and are hoping to survive by ripping off Canadian mining companies
Posted by Jack from Montreal on 2007 06 18 at 06:26 PM • permalinkWhen is someone going to kill that POS, Bush and Cheney. Well, actually, I mean torture to death. And their straight kids.
There, Media Watch, is Tim’s blog “even” now in the hate department? Or is that “free speech”?
Posted by andycanuck on 2007 06 18 at 06:33 PM • permalinkThe sample comments that Media Watch refers to are foolish, no doubt about it.
But that’s what free speech is. If you limit speech to what you agree with, or what is popular, then it is not free.
This point came to mind when reading David Marr’s whinge in the Herald about how the hated Howard dictatorship muzzles the ability of the fearless opinionated underground fighters for truth and justice and ....zzzz....losing ability to stay awake here.
Neither David or his many friends (the Clives, Tracees and Monicas among others) ever have a problem with censorship of ideas that they disagree with.
That’s what “free speech” means to the left - freedom to agree with their point of view.
Posted by The Mongrel on 2007 06 18 at 06:42 PM • permalinkThe great thing about Media Watch is that every question you have about them has the same answer.
Why did Media Watch not give Tim a right of reply?
Why did Media Watch not quote any “anti-Aussie” comments on web-sites?
Why is it difficult to read or post on Media Watch’s message board?
Why didn’t Media Watch think it was their job to find out more about the Lebanese ambulance story, even after the Foreign Minister weighed in?
A: Because they are afraid.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 06 18 at 06:48 PM • permalinkGood to see the media calling for more censorship of the media.
Wait, what?
Posted by Evil Pundit on 2007 06 18 at 06:49 PM • permalinkLet me get this straight: a ‘grown man’ bullies you into making a retraction and apology, and then two years later in response to the unbearable provocation of reading a complimentary comment about you in print, has to send the author an ‘I got Tim, nyah-nyah’ email? I realize you have to have a mental age of 12 to work for the ABC, but I didn’t know about the requirement for an emotional age of 6. And did he ever substantiate the Shimon Peres quote?
Re #48, butbutbutbut Dan!! It’s not LINKED! You have to cut and paste it, or even worse, MANUALLY RETYPE IT!!!!
Oh, the humanity!
<collapses on the floor, sobbing uncontrollably>
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 06 18 at 07:31 PM • permalinkAaah the abc - last bastion of the truth and the privately unemployable - unless of course your after a gig with the actu/alp coalition party.
Posted by surfmaster on 2007 06 18 at 07:39 PM • permalink#49 - Mr Palmer and one of his five sons did manually retype it, many times, but it continually bounced. It was the “-at-” in the address that threw them.
But they are TV and hard-copy newspaper types after all and couldn’t be expected to know too much about this new fangled electronic media business.
Posted by Whale Spinor on 2007 06 18 at 07:46 PM • permalinkThis guy has never read Swift has he? Otherwise he would’ve spotted the Swiftian humour on this site.
But I guess he’s stupid and believes everything he reads - in the ABC editorial policy book.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 06 18 at 08:03 PM • permalinkTim,
its the left, what do you expect? There are two quotes, used by the ABC, that are quite ironic:
For those eager to express their prejudices, there are plenty of new forums in the new media.
What of writers such as Catherine Devenny and her hate filled rants at those who, gasp, drive four wheel drive cars, or worse, dare to send their child to a private school?
It’s not just newspaper and online editors who’re prepared to tolerate cyber-racism in the name of free speech.
In a week where the luvvies have been trumpeting the repression of the Howard created gulag that is Australia, this is particularly hypocritical. Free speech is only for the left to attack its own targets.
He allowed this vicious discussion about Muslim taxi drivers supposedly knocking back passengers with guide dogs.
It was an emotive topic. Funny how the old ‘rock, scissors paper’ play by the left gets a run. Imagine if it were white cabbies in Brisbane or Darwin doing this sort of thing? The ABC would have been all over it.
#16 Hey, Jack, I’m just up the road (Ottawa) (Yes, I know… but I work for private industry and actually have to make money) How about meeting up?
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 06 18 at 08:10 PM • permalink#35 Grimmy, let’s push this thing along a bit ... after all, I’m getting older:
There is no god but man, and Ginger Baker is his zylophonist
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 06 18 at 08:20 PM • permalink#43 1.618 I’m a bit dissapointed here. Shorely, an explosion should look more like this:
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Kablaam!Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 06 18 at 08:27 PM • permalinkAndrew Bolt went on a 5 week holiday a couple of days ago.
I wonder if that had anything to do with the timing of Media Watch’s spray and Phillip Adams’ spray in today’s Australian (which also has a go at Tim and accuses him of tilting!)
Hey, did the ABC ever venture beyond DEF?
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 06 18 at 08:33 PM • permalinkI have a piece on how far out of touch the ABC is with the common folk that pay for them, as demonstrated by last night’s Media Watch hit piece on the Daily Tele and Tim Blair.
Posted by Jack Lacton on 2007 06 18 at 08:35 PM • permalink#57 In the second last par, Adams says that the era of Bush/Howard appears to be coming to an end. This will come as a shock to those expecting W to go on for a third term.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 06 18 at 08:42 PM • permalink#54 Wimpster - why not? Us Blairites/ SDAnimalians have to stick together.
Jack
Posted by Jack from Montreal on 2007 06 18 at 08:44 PM • permalinkYou Would NEVER find a racist comment on the Media Watch blog.....um unless its about jews.
Author Revealer
Date/Time 18 Jun 2007 9:49:20pm
Subject So Called Racist Cyper Post, and in News PrintSome points in reply to your show 2007-06-18.
The ideals of suppressing ‘Racism’ is a political persuasion, not a commandment. Not all laws are noble nor meant to be honoured thereof.
Multiculturalism is the highest form of ‘Racism’ as it is the dilution of race.
A good reporter takes the middle ground, presenting the facts and allowing the viewer/listener to make the opinion. Why then does Media Watch take the angle that protecting-race difference is abhorrent pursuit? Obviously I don’t agree with abuse of other races, but people should express their concerns or opinions of racial insurgencies that bring about dilution.
The only understanding I can make is that MediaWatch carries the torch for Globalism and maybe even Zionist groups as they are known to push Hate Speech laws so they can’t be questioned themselves in crime. ABC is starting to show a disproportionate number of Jews in the places of power in the ABC.
Shame on you.
Timmeh here minus his five strapping sons
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 06 18 at 09:02 PM • permalinkOK, so we need a moderator to keep the children under control. We can’t have you naughty monkeys just running around posting the first thing that comes into your head! Aunty knows best, and she will smack you over the head if you don’t behave.
Actually, I have to retract that last comment. Aunty is not allowed to smack anyone over the head. Aunty will send you to the naughty corner.
You don’t want to go to the naughty corner? You must! You must! Those are the rules! Go to the naughty corner!
Ow! Ow! Ow! Stop whacking me! Go to the naughty corner this instant! I am in charge here! I decide who post comments and the circumstances in which they post!
Posted by mr creosote on 2007 06 18 at 09:04 PM • permalink#65
*whimpers* But, but, but I don’t WANT Aunty to send me to the naughty corner.
I want UNCLE to send me to the naughty corner (Aunty just isn’t my type). I’ve been a bad poster. A very bad, naughty poster. I deserve a spanking.
“A spanking! A spanking!”
Posted by Blue State Sil on 2007 06 18 at 09:19 PM • permalinkPeter M has pointed out that MW uses introductory text to imply that this site and the Telegraph are in cahoots (sp?). The PR picture, too. Isn’t this kind of Blair’s privately operated space? Like Lileks has the Bleat but works for the Star Tribune (buzz.mn). Like the Instapundit sometimes writes for TCS.
These are clearly demarcated to me. But I don’t know how to say it, since sometimes links are made each way. Still clear to me though.
Okay quiz fans. Which former ABC middle east correspondent now famous for his political balance said this:
Fisk wrote the definitive text on the war in Lebanon – that’s what I admire him for
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 06 18 at 09:20 PM • permalinkThey’ll only claim it was posted by one of us. Be certain of it, Dan.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 06 18 at 09:24 PM • permalinkI posted the following at the MW message board General section. I’m more or a lurker than a contributor here but appreciate Blair and this site heaps, such a contrast with mainstream outlets.....
I read via http://www.timblair.net that all the media outlets referenced in your segment “Have Your Spray” were given a chance to comment prior to airing, all except Tim Blair.
We then read of previous hostilities between Media Watch’s Executive Producer Tim Palmer and Blair concerning threatened lawsuits and gloating by Palmer within the journalist community over his victory in seeking an apology from Blair.
Was the above in any way relevant to MW’s non-attempt at comment from Blair? Tim Blair quotes that Palmer has previously made the statement to him,
“I have the right to tell as many people as I like about your shoddy work and about the fact that you, after much posturing, fell in a heap and apologised. I’ve told plenty.”
This would indicate a strong level of animosity is, or at least was, held by Palmer towards Blair, and now we find that Blair is singled out such that he is unable to respond (on MW) to criticism that Palmer is very much behind.
Would Palmer care to comment on Blair’s current claim that Palmer’s recalling of the original incident to other journalists was found to be lacking? He even goes so far as to claim that Palmer has lied (your attorney is onto this Tim P?).
I have all the respect in the world for a man who conducts himself honestly and allows their laundry, dirty or otherwise, be aired in full, and in Tim Blair I see that (he admitted his original error). Tim Palmer on the other hand seems to prefer to smear his opponents dishonestly in private and abuse his tax funded couch for that purpose.
P.S. “sprays” are speech, as are right of replies - something we do like to be free in Australia. Perhaps there’s some agreement at “my” ABC and I’ll see mine at your site?
Websites such as mentioned on meeja witchunt abound, thanks to the Information Age.
There is sufficient alternative meeja nowadays that our ABC is quickly losing relevance: their self-styled ‘progressives’ are becoming dinosaurs; AFAIK Gen-Y’ers cherrypick their information from all around ... not just at Nannie’s feet
Go Aunty! ... moderate the ‘Net (good luck!).
#69 - nice work, Dan. I’ve updated my post. If anyone spots any more of them (preferably from dates prior to last night) then let me know.
Posted by Jack Lacton on 2007 06 18 at 09:38 PM • permalinkLet me get this straight. I loudly denounced some sheila from the left, calling her a “total twat” and Media Watch has chosen to ignore me? Whose arse do you have to go sperlunking in to get recognition on that damn show?
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 06 18 at 09:39 PM • permalinkAnd here’s one about the Adams’ piece in today’s Australian.
Posted by Jack Lacton on 2007 06 18 at 09:40 PM • permalinkThis comment from the Media Watch site is interesting in terms of MW’s own biases:
Tonights Media Watch feature on racist postings on newspaper sites left no doubt about who the producers thought were responsible for the offending words. Given that all of the offending reads were conducted in what can only be described as very laboured ‘strine’ it would appear that what Sydneysiders might refer to as ‘westies’ or perhaps ‘working class’ people are responsible for the reprehensible comments. Media Watch’s presentation of fact is tainted by the poor voice overs that apparantly are designed to assist us in identifying the good the bad and the ugly.
Come on team you can and should do better#71 Well done HC, but still looking for your submission to turn up over at the puzzling MW message board.
Why is it I doubt they will publish your contribution? Refer to #44.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 06 18 at 09:53 PM • permalinkMedia Watch did not bother to show any anti white-revert comments on Muslim Village website blog. Why? It would be politically incorrect!
El-cid - legend! Grimmy-wow Wimpy Canadian_ Yes I needed more %^^%&%^%^&*%^&%^&* kapow
Tim B, Can we work at Murdoch’s headquarters now that we’re famous bloggers?
Next week Media Watch take the The Warcry to task. Accusing it of “being preachy” and having a subliminal Christian bent.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 06 18 at 10:01 PM • permalink#43 1.618
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For Sale $12,900This would look pretty on Media Wank.
Not as pretty as this.
Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 06 18 at 10:01 PM • permalink#78: Great link, Jack. I like this quote from Phil “Sydney Greenstreet’s Fat Brother” Adams: “We - that is, lefties such as Robert Manne, David Marr and me - have been greatly outnumbered by the right-minded for many a year. Not just an endangered species, our population in the press is so small as to constitute extinction.” Adams and his ilk may be endangered species (which I doubt), but until he kicks off, Adams is still the Brachiosaurus in the back yard, messing up the grass and knocking over the trees of honest citizens.
Check out this from moral gatekeeper, Palmer in an email to the Bunyip regarding Bunyip’ website (about half-way down):
It’s more like watching someone die of prostate cancer. It’s tedious, the viewer may die of something else in the meantime and in the long run you just don’t want to know about it anyway.
regards
Tim Palmer
Charmed, I’m sure.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 06 18 at 10:05 PM • permalinkOT. Was it someone here who was waiting for the first mention of the ‘looming humanitarian disaster’ in Gaza?
SPIEGEL VIEW
------------------------------------------------------------------------Stateless in Gaza: Hamas’ Triumph of Violence
Hamas wants to rule the poverty-stricken Gaza Strip alone, a prospect
that alarms neighboring Arab states. Meanwhile, rival party Fatah has
declared a new emergency government in the West Bank as Hamas-control
Gaza faces humanitarian disaster.http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,489185,00.html
#80
Strange how the Left depict right wing posters as blue collar, yet their Party as blue chip investors.Meeja witchhunt’s/Auntie’s continuous derogatory comments about (Sydney’s) working class/West also goes against the progressives’ alleged support for the working class, Gillard’s championed ‘working Australian families’ ... Auntie’s prolly losing wholesale relevance/audience share of aspiring ‘Westies’.
Small wonder youth allegedly vote right wing, prolly see through socialism’s propaganda, with the ‘Net at their disposal: modern anarchists - their kruddy ole teachers all preach Marx, so they vote for the Right?
#76 Infidel Tiger, if you’re referring to your calling Kim from Larval Portaloo a twat, then MW won’t be touching that with a ten foot pole.
That particular occasion was, after all, dealing with the cutting up of girls, and therefore verboten to the leftards programming the show.
Can’t have the proles getting the idea that FGM (as they like to call it in pc-speak) is ideologically supported by some members of our population now, can we?
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 06 18 at 10:35 PM • permalink#111 - I was hoping they could edit it carefully and show me as the sexist, misogynist, red-necked lush I truly am.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 06 18 at 10:40 PM • permalinkGot that rancid little fucker (alpee) trapped again at Critt’s..Sheer Twaddle thread
Trapped alpee, eh? El Cid, remember what you’re dealing with.
Winning an argument isn’t what he’s after…
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 06 18 at 10:51 PM • permalink#116,
Grimmy, if you don’t know how that works, then your obviously not qualified to help out. ;-)El Cid,
I think our session is over for the day.
Time to get back on topic.
The flat of Andrea’s spear hurts more than your punishment plank.
I can see her. She’s got a bag full of mangoes and she’s heading this way!
#91
"For those eager to express their prejudices, there are plenty of new forums in the new media.”Translation:
MSM are losing our relevance/control of the populace;
(One-way) broadcasting is a dinosaur;
Unmoderated comment on that interactive internet thingy;
(The Gladdies are no longer downloading the truthiness to their Pods!)
The sky is falling!Pogria
Hi El Cid,
I want to congratulate you, Grimmy, Howzat and Kae for being singled out for “special mention” by Moronica Retard on Meeja Watch last night.
I am soooooooooooooo jealous.
Can I have your autograph?
NOW, I see what you alluded to, a few up. Hadn’t seen this, until you told Spiny to hit the threads below.
Where was this and is it in print, or was it the tube?
And hell yea, you can have my autograph....LOL
I seem to recall that Media Watch didn’t have the balls to allow Mark Steyn on air to defend his views either.
Posted by andycanuck on 2007 06 18 at 11:19 PM • permalinkThis reminds me of an episode of My Name is Earl where the whole community gets excited about featuring on Cops.
We have to do this more often.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 06 18 at 11:20 PM • permalinkPogria
Just read me yes, me) name. Had I only clicked the first link on this thread...BUT it is so much like cheating to do that...I will read Jacks post and link.
GOSH! I’m a published author..see that you old HAG Mrs. Barns (English teacher of mine), Ha-Ha.
Well lemme see...how I gonna sign my autos..hmmm.:).
Ummm WE shall schedule the next session...equal rights, you know.
I’m not letting my stardom go to my head, well not that one, anyway....LOL.
For crying out loud people!
You’re supposed to be backing the ABC on this one. You can’t let the people actually say what they think. Where will it end? All speech must be moderated and controlled. If we can moderate what people say, we can moderate what they think!
Therefore, if we can shut all the lefties up (duct tape, bullet to the back of the head - take your pick), we can turn them all into RWDB’s.
It worked for Stalin. It worked for Pol Pot. It’s working in North Korea. It should work on Phat Phil as well (given enough time, duct tape and rubber hoses).
Posted by mr creosote on 2007 06 18 at 11:33 PM • permalinkHe allowed this vicious discussion about Muslim taxi drivers supposedly knocking back passengers with guide dogs.
Leftist swine. It has and did happen, in the U.S. YOU ABC and whatever the hell your programme is (to use your dialect of English) are collaborators, in the spread of THIS
How can you “people” sleep at night and how this earth can you people live with yourselves?
Let ME answer...Not very damn well. May you find the same fate, that Nick Berg, did. You foul bastards.
El Cid
Re #138
I guess if Tim gets his photo with every comment made here on Media Watch then this is only fair (from #63)...
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 06 18 at 11:46 PM • permalinkPogria
I am honoured to know you.
Awww shucks...It is an equal honor to know you, Pog.
I am absolutely stoked to be on the same side.
Again, it is my honor to have you and the other commentors here, as well as other Blogs on the same side. OUR side is the correct side.
Now I must barn my steed, good night all. may your tomorrow exceed your today. Mine will, as soon as my eyes open...:).
One thing, isn’t MW publishing all this “hate thought” to show how bad it is falling foul of exactly the the same laws that they accuse Tim Blair and others of breaking by publishing it in the first place?
Fairs fair, if no one is allowed to publish the hate filled thoughts of RWDBs doesn’t that mean that MW can’t publish those same thoughts to demonstrate that an awful crime is being comitted.
Media Watch’s solution to moderating the net appears to be in publishing very little at all.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 06 19 at 12:55 AM • permalink#97 - Margos Maid
Managed to sneak through* a rather don’t-say-too-much-at-all comment over at MW, which included Palmer’s quote to Prof Bunyip about the utter tedium watching someone die of prostate cancer.
Clearly Mr Palmer or any of his five strapping sons are not moderating at the moment. Or they’ve forgotten all about it.(*) Hope the URL isn’t too long
Posted by Whale Spinor on 2007 06 19 at 01:07 AM • permalink#153 Nice work WS!
Here’s an interesting website.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 06 19 at 01:21 AM • permalinkThe message at the link #153 reads:
Unable to display message. The selected message is not valid or no longer exists.
Accuracy ain’t their strong point, is it?
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 06 19 at 01:39 AM • permalinkThe message about the ABC and Jews stayed there for hours.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 06 19 at 01:40 AM • permalinkWS - for the sake of those coming in late, and to demonstrate what constitutes a seditious internet posting, would you do us the favour of posting your MW submission here?
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 06 19 at 01:46 AM • permalink# 164 and those preceding…
And for that matter, youse (note lower class, nose-picking yobbo spelling) blokes and blokettes from the ABC who are visiting, so that you can scurry back to your little burrows and censor any sneaky Blairtype commentators, let me say this - I may be wet, but I didn’t come down in the last shower.
Posted by Whale Spinor on 2007 06 19 at 01:58 AM • permalink#153 Whale spinor
Your comment has been “disappeared” from MW
You have been moderated!
Posted by aussiemagpie on 2007 06 19 at 01:58 AM • permalinkSome wit on the MW board reckons sites like this are chatrooms for rednecks
Curious as to what Wiki says about rednecks, I looked it up and found, among other things:
People who work outdoors, including poor farmers who farm poor red soil.
Indentured servants.
Members of the United Mineworkers Union (USA circa 1910).
Rednecks span from the poor to the working class.
And lots more.It seems to me that when members of the left use the term redneck to rubbish anyone that odes not share their world view, they do so on the backs of the poor and working class, the very people that they pretend to champion.
Not being a student of literature, is this irony, hypocrisy, bad manners or just sneering abuse?
I think there is a certain nobility in working the land, either on it or under it.
But hey, what would I know.
I’m just a redneck
I realise I’m madder than a cut snake with a dose of the clap, but aren’t these censorious Charlie’s the same ones who were railing against JWH’s sedition laws? And weren’t they also claiming “Piss Christ” was artistic freedom? Etcetera etcetera.
A welcome glimpse of what life will be like if they ever get their hands on the key to The Lodge.
P.S - The staff canteen called and have asked Monica to return the soup bowl if she’s finished her hair cut.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 06 19 at 02:05 AM • permalinkRef mine at #166 - try this Viola! instead. The previous had my name on it.
(Maybe I did come down in the last shower after all!)
Posted by Whale Spinor on 2007 06 19 at 02:07 AM • permalink#166 I would love to hear their reason for censoring your post, WS.
Nobody is named and I would have thought it was a fair point.
OT I just can’t get enough of this way cool website.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 06 19 at 02:09 AM • permalinkThe ABC - putting the pride in prejudice.
-- Nora
Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2007 06 19 at 02:10 AM • permalink#171 - I’m afriad it is, Pickles. If God hadn’t wanted RWDB’s to take the piss gently he would have issued us catheters and painkillers, not horns and pitchforks.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 06 19 at 02:16 AM • permalink#172 MM - I would suggest that if I hadn’t posted here at #153, then my MW post would still be there. It’s pretty obvious some ABC luvvies are wading their way through all these posts to see if wordings or themes correlate with anything that lobs on their message board. And good luck to them, they’ll be on overtime in another 45 minutes.
Anyway, that’s why I thought it wise to put the post on image shack once it appeared on MW.
Posted by Whale Spinor on 2007 06 19 at 02:22 AM • permalink#176
Yep, yairs. The whole argument about MW is probably irrelevant as, after all, this is the ABC we’re talking about and by any measure no one watches it, no one listens to it and no one cares about it or the people on it.
As for the Friends of the ABC, I’ve seen more people gathered around a dead snake.
Have your lawyer contact the (less than) honourable Mr Palmer and demand he retract his slander and publicly
grovelapologize. Turnabout is fair play.