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BEST AND BRAVEST
Can someone please buy Antony Loewenstein a vocabulary?
I gather strength from brave Jews ...
A truly brave Israel would end the occupation immediately.
I want to see a brave new magazine that is unafraid to challenge Australia’s underlying assumptions and those of our media elite.
Christopher Hitchens ... once forthright and challenging before power and now hectoring a grieving mother. Brave stuff, indeed.
[Mark Latham] dares to prick the Murdoch worldview. Brave stuff, indeed.
[The Fairfax press are] positioning themselves as the media company best suited to pursue the new lifestyle agenda of the 21st century. Brave stuff, indeed.
As for Hersh, he’s the best journo in the world, I reckon, other than Fisk. The amount of stories they’ve both broken over the last decades. Brave stuff.
[Norman Finkelstein is] a fine and brave man.
Accusations of bias and prejudice may get the juices going of brave cultural warriors ...
Chomsky, for example, is a true libertarian, and defends free speech for all with no exceptions, a brave act in the 21st century.
If our media doesn’t provide ample protection for these brave individuals ...
Finkelstein is a brave soul ...
The Australian media have largely decided that Iraq is in such a dire state that honest and brave reporting is simply too difficult ... The British press are a little braver.
Truly brave indy publishing is something like US-based Counterpunch,
Atrocities are being reported by the few brave journalists entering the city.
A recent letter sent by a brave Israeli, Jacob Katriel ...
If this is truly the end [of Webdiary], it’s the passing of a brave, frustrating, challenging and bold experiment.
Brave, noble Israel is vital in the “War on Terror”, or so we’re told ...
Ilan Pappe, a man I respect hugely, perhaps Israel’s bravest dissenter ...
Pappe is a brave man.
Brave, little, irrelevant Australia.
What individual, other than the bravest, will want to be chastised by Bush and his cronies?
[Robert] Pape is brave enough to state that although September 11 was a horrific event it was not unique.
The ABC needs reform. New energy, ideas and bravery would be a good start.
The introduction of a private member’s bill by a brave Victorian Liberal backbencher, Petro Georgiou, is a welcome sign.
[Daniel Ellsberg’s] bravery can be summarised thus ...
Poor kid might be working through some masculinity issues. Prepare now to enter Loewenstein’s Gallery of Putting-It-Besters:
The SMH’s David Marr puts it best ...
Lynne Withey, director of the University of California Press, puts it best ...
Hitchens puts it best ...
Scott Burchill put it best ...
Phil Gomes put it best ...
Salim Lone, former spokesman for the UN mission in Iraq put it best ...
Britain’s Daily Mail put it best ...
Sher Khan, chair of the public affairs committee of the Muslim Council of Britain, puts it best ...
Josh Marshall @ Talking Point Memo puts it best ...
Buzzflash puts it best ...
Andrew Sullivan, a blogger in the US, puts it best ...
Crikey’s editor Misha Ketchell put it best ...
Norman Solomon, executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, puts it best ...
Daily Flute blog puts it best ...
UPDATE. Loewenstein puts it bravely:
I was recently appointed to the Board of Macquarie University’s Centre for Middle Eastern and North African Studies. This was due to a number of board members, and staff at Macquarie, expressing support for my work.
And what a great body of work it is! Here’s an example, from a Webdiary post in which Loewenstein invents a medical condition known as “hick-ups”:
Australians appear to be taking their history pretty seriously these days, especially if through the prism of fighting imperial wars (WWI, WWII, Vietnam, Afghanistan and now Iraq).
Those imperial wars led to the creation of the Australian empire, which stretches from Saigon to Berlin. Antony continues:
I was told they wanted to attract journalists, rather than just academics, to the board.
Well, why didn’t they invite an actual journalist instead of a failed online trainee?
UPDATE II. Jim Treacher—author of A Million Little Meeces—finds Antony’s poetic side.
With writing like that, I can’t wait to see how his crappy, upcoming book will read.
Not that I’ll ever find out first-hand, mind you.
Posted by HisHineness on 2006 01 15 at 02:52 AM • permalinkHe’s a brave man going on TV without a paper pag and the face of a pig.
Posted by Humblogger (the Younger) on 2006 01 15 at 03:31 AM • permalinkI think brave Loewenstein, a Jew, is very brave in enthusiastically supporting the genocidal ambitions of every ranting anti-Semite and Arab car bomber in their brave quest to finish off what Hitler started. We all flatter ourselves that we have principles, but how many of us can say we are prepared to be personally murdered or driven out of our homes just to enjoy indulging in the public masturbation of leftist moral superiority?
Oh wait, Loewenstein lives in Australia, where his own revolting, zit-scabbed commie hide is perfectly safe. It’s Israeli Jews who will be murdered and driven out or struck by an Iranian atomic bomb.
Oh well, I still think he’s jolly brave.
Once again, Tim Blair puts it best…
#5 Melanie, You are spot on.
He’s on SBS tommorrow night bravely lying about ‘Jew-only’ roads in the West Bank.
The masthead on his blog asks “Just what is the whole truth?”
Evidently he hasn’t worked it out yet…
In terms of his SBS appearance, he claims:
As leading Israeli journalist Gideon Levy told me last year:
“When you drive a road in the West Bank which is a road for only Jews, what is it if not apartheid? When you cross a checkpoint which is only open for Jews, what is it if not apartheid? If you are an Israeli citizen of Palestinian origin who tries to find in this liberal neighbourhood an apartment to rent, and you have terrible difficulties doing so because you are Palestinian, what is it if not apartheid?”
Note the quotation marks signifying what Gideon Levy “told him”. Now read it again and ask does anybody actually speak like that?
Regardless, anti-Zionist posterboy Gideon Levy (who isn’t actually a “leading” journalist as Loewenstein claims) and his colleague Amira Hass are of course entitled to his views as Israeli journalists. Find me a comparable dissident Palestinian who could write against the PLO and be published in an Arab newspaper without fear or murder, and I will personally eat a copy of Ha’aretz.
When criticising Israel’s democracy, this point (like so much else) is of course lost on Brave Mr Loewenstein.
Sorta O/T: My flatmate wrote a letter to Tony Abbott the other day, asking him to condemn the appointment of Loewenstein to Macquarie University’s Centre for ME and N. African studies, seeing as Tony is a Patron of that ‘fine’ board.
I’ll make sure he posts the reply on his blog, should be interesting (if he gets one). I think the link is on my name.
#13 Dan Lewis. I pointed out to Antony that he lied about the roads being jewish only because they are Israeli-only and this is what he had to say:
Pray tell the difference. An Israeli-only road only for…Jews. I’ve seen them and been on them. What exactly is unclear? There comes a time, and that time is now, that Israeli actions simply cannot be justified as “security”. Perhaps you aren’t ready for those truths.
He can’t tell the difference? He was on those roads and he is a Jew so that proves it? What an idiot.
With his logic how can he then agrue there is a difference between an anti-Zionist and anti-Semite.Remember when you were a kid and you lay there in bed saying the same word over and over, (bravely, perhaps), until that word became a meaningless string of phonemes? And you wondered how it could ever have had any semantic meaning for you, given that it was clearly a completely arbitrary string of meat-rendered sounds?
Brave, brave, brave, brave… (rinse, repeat)
Posted by zeppenwolf on 2006 01 15 at 05:20 AM • permalink“Brave” is easier to spell than “courageous.” Also, wouldn’t it be “The number of stories they’ve both broken,” not “The amount of stories they’ve both broken”?
Posted by Jim Treacher on 2006 01 15 at 05:39 AM • permalinkI also enjoyed this:
As an anti-Zionist Australian Jew, the opportunity to air my views to a wide public audience are few.
He’s a poet, but the Jew-run media won’t let him show it!
Posted by Jim Treacher on 2006 01 15 at 05:46 AM • permalinkThanks Melanie. I was going to log into his blogger account and reply (we both use the same account here- I’m guessing the password is the same), but I’ll let him do it himself when he gets back from work.
Dan- spot on. When was the last time SBS gave air-time to a Zionist academic? Now that I mention it- when was the last time academia gave time to a Zionist :S
zeppenwolf:
Actually, this constant use of “brave” has me thinking of the Ballad of Sir Robin.
Posted by Patrick Chester on 2006 01 15 at 07:24 AM • permalinkThe Leunig ‘comment’ in The Age Saturday doubtless distracted right-thinking readers from the other side of Saturday’s op-ed spread, namely a piece by a Professor Allan Patience, titled “The neo-liberal hijack” . The Spooner cartoon that goes with it is a fittingly incoherent and nasty accompaniment.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/the-neoliberal-hijack/2006/01/13/1137118964513.html
Patience purports to re-define ‘conversatism’ as some sort of socialist-leaning wet-ism, thus excluding Howard and shifting all Liberals except Mal Fraser to some sort of hideous extremism.
Patience’s final para goes:
“It’s time for true conservatives to speak out against the prevailing narcissism and negativism, particular among those in the media who are poisoning a once-decent society.”
Golly. And see his first 3 paras: the Liberal Party is being run by a ‘harem’???
His long and pompous piece seems to reflect the left’s angst that they are being defeated in the intellectual debates by the blogs, Andrew Bolts, Mirandas, Hendersons etc and he does a real whine about it, portraying his lot as the virtuous underdogs. This is pretty rich considering the Age’s lineup of myriads of Left columnists (their ranks recently augmented by Sushi Das and Kenneth Nguyen - see Nguyen’s silly piece today p15).
Anyway, Patience spends four columns beating up his opponents, without naming a single one of them.
The Age heirarchy must be really insecure to have run this pathetic stuff.Patience seems to have been around for yonks doing the apocalyptic wet commentariat thing. see for example http://evatt.labor.net.au/news/12.html
Nice work, Tim.
Obviously, only leftists can be brave.
To test that assumption, try this: In some public forum, attribute “bravery” to a non-leftist who’s risked his reputation, wealth, or career to “speak truth to power,” as they say. Oliver North, Ward Connerly, Anita Bryant, Newt Gingrich, Margaret Thatcher, and James Watt come to mind.
Raise a glass to any of those names, and you’ll be scoffed to within an inch of your life.
All deserve political Purple Hearts, were there such a thing. And they’d probably decline them out of modesty. They certainly wouldn’t toss them over a fence to show others how brave they are.
The last man they called “brave” who actually earned it was probably Martin Luther King. He fought mostly Democrats.
Posted by Rittenhouse on 2006 01 15 at 08:18 AM • permalinkKrusty the Clown put it best when he found out he wasn’t actually a Jew. (This is off the top of my head.) “All this time I just thought I was a self-loathing Jew, now it turns out I’m just an anti-Semite.”
Posted by Humblogger (the Younger) on 2006 01 15 at 10:26 AM • permalinkChief Nokahoma puts it best: “Go Braves!”
I put it like this: Go Broncos!
Posted by Some0Seppo on 2006 01 15 at 11:09 AM • permalinkSher Khan, chair of the public affairs committee of the Muslim Council of Britain.
Wasn’t Sher Khan the villainous tiger in Kipling’s The Jungle Book?
For Antony Lowenstein? It’s a Brave New World.
Posted by Mystery Meat on 2006 01 15 at 12:51 PM • permalinkWait a minute here…
Flavius Antonius is an anti-Zionist Jew… living in a country where Jews are not native?
As for his limited vocabulary, I think William Goldman put it best when he wrote, “I don’t think that word means what you think it means.”
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 01 15 at 01:52 PM • permalinkAustralians appear to be taking their history pretty seriously these days, especially if through the prism of fighting imperial wars (WWI, WWII, Vietnam, Afghanistan and now Iraq).
Leftards use imperialist like they use fascist. Which is to say, with no regard to their actual meanings. They’re synonyms for somehow bad in a way that people like me think is bad and related somehow to the actions of people who do not think like me.
#38 Is Lowenstein the new Margo?
Ernst,
Considering the trajectory of the careers of Margo and Bob Ellis since Tim has taken them on, Lowenstein has something to be worried about.
None of this would be of concern to any of us, except that the decline in their incomes can have a trickle down effect on their servants…
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 01 15 at 06:16 PM • permalinkPolishing Margo’s nooks and dusting her crannies was more than a job, it was a way of life…
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 01 15 at 06:55 PM • permalinkAt least he admits he considers replacing Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan with actual, functioning democracies “imperialist.”
Posted by John Nowak on 2006 01 15 at 07:37 PM • permalinkJohn Nowak — Pity we couldn’t do it with France…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 01 15 at 10:35 PM • permalink#47,
Not to mention having to constantly watch her to make sure she didn’t eat her crayonsPosted by Rachel Corrie's Flatmate on 2006 01 16 at 12:03 AM • permalinkPercyPup,
I’m alluding to the fact that Lowenstein (and the Jewish Left) are sleepwalking to genocide, just like the Jews did at Baba Yar and across Europe.
Many Jewish victims of the Nazis took the view that they’d better not fight back for fear of reprisal; they disasterously overestimated the humanity of the Nazis.
This is the same mistake that Lowenstein is making. This pinheaded, semi-literate, know-nothing twit is convinced that the Muslims will “see the light”.
Thank God for the likes of Netanyahu and Sharon.
Someone call Martin Amis. The war on cliche needs to open up a new front.
Just for fun, I might try this game with a few mainstream (credentialled) newspaper writers and see how Loewenstein stacks up. Or maybe some politicians, ones with international audiences and a fleet of speech writers.
Anyway, what is the suggestion here - that repitition means stupidity? “I reject that.” (Can anyone pick that quote?)
Hmmm…. I suppose Crash. But he’d have to ride a camel, not a Horse- Horses are the tools of the imperialists. And he couldn’t carry any swords made by Halliburton.
Junia, I sat through Loewenstein’s appearance on SBS as well. I was disappointed by his debating opposition- in fact, both of them were as useless as an empty six-pack. Loewenstein has no public speaking talent, thankfully that’ll mean he’s confined to his blog.
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putting it best bravely I suspect :-)