Sunday, April 16, 2006
TRACEEEE SMOKED
Andrew Bolt flicks through the Melbourne Age:
Flick. Here already is an article by Guy Rundle, the former ABC producer and magazine editor, calling our flag a “piss poor” and “dismal bit of bunting” flown by a country created by a century of “slaughter”.
Flick. Here’s arts writer Raymond Gill, dismissing Advance Australia Fair as the “national jingle”, sung in a way that “borders on the creepy Tomorrow Belongs to Me anthem from Cabaret.”
Did that reference go over your head? He’s referring to a song sung by a Nazi.
Flick. Here’s columnist Traceeee Hutchison, fresh from being “smoked” in a “sacred” fire of Aboriginal protesters, insisting between coughs that there’s a “national disquiet on sovereignty”, as if many of us really doubt whose country this is.
Here’s the intro to that Traceeee column:
Have you got any blackfella in you? The man asking the question is in the process of smoking me. It seems a strange question to ask a fair-skinned, pale-eyed, blonde woman.
It seems even stranger that Hutchison didn’t recognise one of history’s oldest pick-up gags. Maybe she’s never been hit on by any non-Anglo types.
UPDATE. Mark Steyn:
Lenny Henry used to do this joke to London dolly birds in the audience 20 years ago, but it’s touching to know Aussie feminist leftists will still fall for it. If I ever meet Miss Hutchison I intend to enquire if she’s got a little Canadian in her. Not quite as surefire as Lenny’s line but nothing ventured, nothing gained.