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Last updated on July 24th, 2017 at 09:04 am

Bob Ellis thinks Fats Domino was left to drown in New Orleans.

Posted by Tim B. on 09/27/2005 at 10:20 PM

Oh, sure, Fats Domino was easy. Bush just borrowed comrade Putin’s hurricane maker and whipped up a disaster in New Orleans. But what inquiring minds want to know is, how did Bush get to Rick James?
Posted by paco on 09/27 at 10:36 PM • permalink

No, he left Barry Cowsill to drown. But I guess one of the boys from the singing Cowsill family, the bunch the Partridge Family was modelled on; just doesn’t count.
Posted by Donnah on 09/27 at 10:43 PM • permalink

In related news, His Holiness, the Reverend Al Sharpton, and His Excellency, Major Owens (D-NY), are attempting to cast Bush in the Michael Caine role from “Hurry Sundown”, claiming that the President used the levees in the same way that Bull Connor used fire hoses against blacks in the early ‘60’s. Major Owens, for those haven’t heard, once declared in a speech on the floor of the House of Representatives that a hundred million blacks perished on the journey from Africa to America, and that so many of the dead were thrown overboard that, TO THIS DAY, sharks still follow the routes taken by the slave ships (perhaps on the slight chance that a Jamaican steward will tumble off a cruise ship). Madness on stilts . . .
Posted by paco on 09/27 at 10:54 PM • permalink

Perhaps Bob attended the Southern Cross University advertised on the same page of the esteemed Byron Shire Echo.
Motto, “Southern Cross University, A new way to think”.
“A new way to perceive reality” might be more apt.
Posted by HC44 on 09/27 at 11:13 PM • permalink

Quoth Ellis: “everyone raping and murdering eight year olds”.
Bob, seek some professional help mate.
And to think he has the temerity to give Cornelia Rau advice, let alone the rest of society!
Posted by der FRED on 09/27 at 11:29 PM • permalink

Keerist! Bob Ellis? Australia’s many time winner of the ‘Creep of the Year’ award is still alive? Damn, I could have sworn that we drove the stake through the right spot in the chest wall. Must of been environmentally friendly timber – or maybe the garlic was a bit off. Personally, I blame the medical establishment – this liver cirrhosis thingy is not all that it’s cracked up to be.
Note to diary: send Ellis another three cases of cheap whisky – that should do it!
Posted by Boss Hog on 09/28 at 12:33 AM • permalink

Bob Ellis – down to his last brain cell, and he’s not using it for thought.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 09/28 at 01:14 AM • permalink

#4. Proud Southern Cross Grad here!(averts eyes and slinks away…)
Posted by Deo Vindice on 09/28 at 02:11 AM • permalink

Bob Ellis thinks…..
I’ve yet to see any evidence of that!!!!
Posted by TonyP on 09/28 at 02:42 AM • permalink

Ellis moved north from my part of Sydney to escape the rat race. Perhaps the good burghers of Byron Shire could persuade him to move a little further north? The middle of the Torres Trait is nice this time of the year…. fulls of crocs, too. We might get lucky!!
Posted by kywong73 on 09/28 at 02:59 AM • permalink

Re #10… OOPS!!! That should, of course, say ‘Torers STRAIT’
Silly Old Me
Posted by kywong73 on 09/28 at 03:00 AM • permalink

Re #12
… and before you all flame me… #11 was humour (of sorts)…
Posted by kywong73 on 09/28 at 03:01 AM • permalink

Tourrettes straight (jacket more like it)
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 09/28 at 03:07 AM • permalink

Or Bundaberg. If the rum or the crocs don’t finish you, the local hospital is on standby.
Posted by blogstrop on 09/28 at 06:10 AM • permalink

On the next … Oprah.
“More than a hundred people drowned in Hurricane Katrina. The good news: None of them were celebrities.”
Posted by Rittenhouse on 09/28 at 06:47 AM • permalink

Shit. I didn’t realize all of those looters had crippled mothers to feed. I feel kinda bad now. They were just taking home some “TV dinners” for poor crippled momma.
Posted by Buzz Crutcher on 09/28 at 07:19 AM • permalink

Those poor guys, carrying all those sausages in hollowed-out TVs…
Posted by jic on 09/28 at 08:03 AM • permalink

Is that The Rain,the park and other things Cowsills?
Posted by crash on 09/28 at 08:23 AM • permalink

“Writer Charles Amann said he last spoke to Domino on Sunday, and the singer refused to join the evacuation that was then under way.’’
Sorry but that was a really, really stupid thing to do. He’s lucky he got a second chance.
Posted by Sonetka’s Mom on 09/28 at 08:42 AM • permalink

There’s a reason he’s not called “Brains” Domino.
Posted by Stoop Davy Dave on 09/28 at 05:02 PM • permalink

The bit I like is Ellis’s recipe for moral government: ‘Bob Hawke proved you can be forgiven anything if you admit it, weep, and say you’ll try to be a better person in future. Had Brogden’s minders slept a bit..’
OUR GIFT TO OUR ALLY?
Looks like Bob H.’s method was taken up effectively by Bill Clinton’s minders -several times. Hillary the Healer worked wonders too for years, of course.
Note for US readers: Former Oz PM Hawke divorced his only wife quickly for a much younger journalist, but has never wept over it in public.
Posted by Barrie on 09/28 at 07:50 PM • permalink