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Last updated on July 2nd, 2017 at 08:39 am

Our friend Michael Leunig – mentioned in passing just a few posts ago – submits to questioning from his Iranian overlords. He doesn’t hold back:

I am an Australian newspaper cartoonist and columnist, and am published regularly in the Melbourne Age and the Sydney Morning Herald, I am also a poet and painter and have collaborated with musicians, film makers and theatre companies to create a wide variety of productions in Australia and abroad.

I have published more than twenty books and have been declared a National Living Treasure by the National Trust of Australia and awarded three honorary university degrees.

In spite of this I see myself as a happy ‘outsider’ …

A 62-year-old who actually bothers listing honorary degrees and mentions he’s a National Living Treasure without cringing. He’s outside of something.

Posted by Tim B. on 02/05/2008 at 07:08 AM
    1. More of an ‘insider’ really, well and truly in terms of the head/arsehole relationship.

      Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2008 02 05 at 07:20 AM • permalink

 

    1. he should be treated for the ‘treasure’ he is, buried somewhere on a deserted Island.

      Posted by Nic on 2008 02 05 at 07:24 AM • permalink

 

    1. Michael Leunig has been defined as an Australian cartoonist, whose wistful characters are prone to philosophical musings such as the belief that concepts such as right and wrong, goodness and badness, or truth and falsehood are not absolute but change from culture to culture and situation to situation.

      So is he an outsider or not? Depends on what day and what time it seems.
      We had better keep checking in to see if he is in or out.

      Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 02 05 at 07:27 AM • permalink

 

    1. Speaking of outsiders, Tim gets nominated by a few at Bolta’s as aperson who should be asked to attend Rudd’s wankfest.

      Posted by Nic on 2008 02 05 at 07:27 AM • permalink

 

    1. 1 and 2 say inside. Two votes.
      Like the US primaries? Who will keep scored?

      Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 02 05 at 07:30 AM • permalink

 

    1. Of course he’s an outsider. It lets him sit in the field and wait for God to talk to him in the shape of a duck or something…

      Posted by Ash_ on 2008 02 05 at 07:30 AM • permalink

 

    1. Maybe he doesn’t get enough inside’r …

      Posted by egg_ on 2008 02 05 at 07:30 AM • permalink

 

    1. 4 I second the nomination. All those in favour say yea.

      Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 02 05 at 07:32 AM • permalink

 

    1. What the hell, he understands what happy is?
      Who would have known.

      Posted by Cashew on 2008 02 05 at 07:35 AM • permalink

 

    1. My wife calls me her little treasure, but this is the first time I’ve told anyone.

      Posted by cohenite on 2008 02 05 at 07:38 AM • permalink

 

    1. 6 Why a duck, why-a no chicken?

      Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 02 05 at 07:39 AM • permalink

 

    1. 7 inside’r who?

      Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 02 05 at 07:40 AM • permalink

 

    1. 10 good, congratulations.

      Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 02 05 at 07:43 AM • permalink

 

    1. #11 Not a clue Stack. Just seems like a creepy obsession.

      I don’t even want to consider if it’s sexual or not. I sleep on a feather stuffed pillow, I don’t want to think about my pillow turning him on.

      Posted by Ash_ on 2008 02 05 at 07:43 AM • permalink

 

    1. “Did I mention I also am a winner of the Humble Man of the Century?”

      Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2008 02 05 at 07:47 AM • permalink

 

    1. #1 Swinish,

      Is this what you’re thinking of?

      I had this in mind when I read that piece of self aggrandising vomit.

      I also have this in mind whenever I see his brand of puerile pap.

      Posted by Pogria on 2008 02 05 at 07:47 AM • permalink

 

    1. Michael Leunig stuffed into a pillow?
      Like suggestion by #2?

      Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 02 05 at 07:51 AM • permalink

 

    1. “I am an Australian newspaper cartoonist and columnist, and am published regularly in the Melbourne Age and the Sydney Morning Herald, I am also a poet and painter and have collaborated with musicians, film makers and theatre companies to create a wide variety of productions in Australia and abroad.”

      Be sure and let us know if you ever get a real job, and do something productive.

      When all is said and done you perform the same function as a circus clown.  And, nothing more.

      And I wouldn’t trade a thousand of you for one good carpenter, one good farmer, one good doctor, one good plumber or even one good telecommunications engineer.

      To put it bluntly, what you do is useless.  You don’t feed the hungry, you don’t heal the sick, you don’t clothe the naked.  All you do is amuse (and, you do that, badly).

      And, you’re an idiot in the bargain.

      Basically, a waste of skin.

      Posted by Dave Surls on 2008 02 05 at 07:51 AM • permalink

 

    1. #12
      Y’know … ‘er, um …

      Posted by egg_ on 2008 02 05 at 07:55 AM • permalink

 

    1. 19 Tracey of the bay?

      Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 02 05 at 08:00 AM • permalink

 

    1. #20 Do we really want to know? I mean, really?

      Posted by Ash_ on 2008 02 05 at 08:01 AM • permalink

 

    1. Leunig’s meek little man persona masks an ego that’s bigger than King Kong. There are lot of fuckwits on our list of natural living treasures and I have never heard any, until now, boast about it.

      Posted by Contrail on 2008 02 05 at 08:07 AM • permalink

 

    1. Would not the 7.30 report want to know?

      Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 02 05 at 08:07 AM • permalink

 

    1. 22 His Goughness?

      Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 02 05 at 08:08 AM • permalink

 

    1. #17
      Michael Leunig snuffed by a pillow …Former National Living Treasure

      Posted by egg_ on 2008 02 05 at 08:10 AM • permalink

 

    1. 25 enuff said and me off.

      Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 02 05 at 08:14 AM • permalink

 

    1. Someone needs to start a wikipedia page listing the people with honorary doctorates.

      This would include:

      The Revd ‘Dr’ Ian Paisley who has at least two.

      Bob Mugabe, who has honorary degrees from both the University of Edinburgh and the University of Massachusetts.

      And Kermit the Frog who was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Amphibious Letters by Southampton College, Long Island University.

      Posted by monaro on 2008 02 05 at 08:20 AM • permalink

 

    1. #15
      And I’m fan-fucking-tastic, too. Everyone says so.

      Posted by kae on 2008 02 05 at 08:33 AM • permalink

 

    1. Leunig is a fool, and Australia does seem to have more than its fair share of fools these days.

      Did anyone else watch “Jihad Sheilas” on the ABC tonight? (I do occasionally make an exception and watch Their ABC.)

      Rabiah Hutchison and Raisah bint Alan Douglas both grew up in country NSW, have between them had 7 husbands, including several suspected terrorists, and 14 children. Both subscribe to Wahhabism.

      It was quite an amazing program which at times made me a wee bit angry.

      Both women are rather self-important yet somehow sad. They did give the impression that the ‘war on terror’ is all about them.
      Also, I suspect that both – if radical Islam hadn’t got hold of them first – would have fallen into the hands of one or another fringe group.

      Ms bint Alan Douglas now lives in Kenya with her six children and second husband (whose other wife lives in the USA together with his other children).

      Ms Hutchinson, on the other hand, lives in Australia where she believes she is considered “a filthy, dirty, subhuman terrorist”. She has little sympathy for the Bali bombing victims since Australian tourists go there “to engage engaging in child pornography or paedophilia or drug taking”. She is, she says, “trapped” and would leave “yesterday” if only the [wicked] Australian Government would renew her passport.  At the same time, she receives a disability pension, compliments of said Government and the Australian taxpayer.

      (I must ask here if subscribing to extreme forms of religion is now officially considered a disability, since serial pest Mamdouh Habib, another somewhat radical Muslim, also receives a disability pension.)

      Both women are now claiming to have been “tricked” by the ABC and are planning to sue. No doubt any such court proceedings will also be funded by the Australian taxpayer.

      I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.

      Posted by ann j on 2008 02 05 at 08:34 AM • permalink

 

    1. #27
      I have no objection to Kermit’s Honorary Doctorate.It’s the others that I object to.

      Posted by kae on 2008 02 05 at 08:35 AM • permalink

 

    1. I understand Leunig belong to a cultthat is preparing for the imminent return of the hidden “12th Duck”, who will usher in war followed by paradise on earth.

      Posted by Penguin on 2008 02 05 at 08:44 AM • permalink

 

    1. 16 – Hole in one, so to speak, Pog.

      Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2008 02 05 at 08:47 AM • permalink

 

    1. #29. ann j.
      Yes, I watched with embarrassment. What a pair of dysfunctional individuals. They really are the ideal ‘victim’ candidates. Then again, cults do attract these type of people. Just look at what hooked up with Charles Mansion, Jim Jones et el. Five husbands! Maybe I am being a tad cynical here, but that Rasiah harlot could be hiding behind the ‘tent’ so has not to have her ‘sensitivities’ affected by what some people would really call her. As to ‘Rabid’ Hutchinson, she obviously lives in a fantasy world. Like Mo Dawood, her avoiding a bullet has not improved humanity or civilisation in anyway. Then again, neither of them were the ‘sharpest pins’ in the box. What a pair of dildos.

      Posted by BJM on 2008 02 05 at 09:07 AM • permalink

 

    1. #32 Swinish,
      FOUR!!!!

      Posted by Pogria on 2008 02 05 at 09:08 AM • permalink

 

    1. Whats Leunig doing, making a job application? With a little luck, he will emigrate to Iran and become their National Living Treasure.

      Posted by BJM on 2008 02 05 at 09:13 AM • permalink

 

    1. On behalf of the Monaro Institute of Technology, I’d like to offer, in exchange for a modest donation, honorary doctorates of Divinity, and Canon Law to all Blair readers.

      Feel free to call yourself ‘Doctor’ as M.I.T. is fully recognised by the Australian Capital Territory, Byron Shire, Manly, Marrickville and Sydney City Councils.

      Posted by monaro on 2008 02 05 at 09:52 AM • permalink

 

    1. “Whats Leunig doing…”

      Sucking up to a regime that has executed thousands of people for crimes like homosexuality, apostasy, adultery, and unislamic behavior.

      Like any true lefy maggot would.

      Posted by Dave Surls on 2008 02 05 at 10:03 AM • permalink

 

    1. Leunig admits:

      It doesn’t make sense to the emerging generations or to me.

      Are Leunig’s generations emerging magically from eggs hatched under a lily leaf during an acid trip through his back yard or are they peeling out of a cocoon and drying their wings in a nook under the Freeway?

      Maybe they’re flying all around us and we just can’t see them… or maybe we don’t want to see them.

      Hey, maybe they’re wriggling out of a well somewhere in Iran, like the twelfth Imam.

      Ooh. This is sooo Britney!

      Posted by splice on 2008 02 05 at 10:19 AM • permalink

 

    1. #29 ann j and #33 BJM: I watched it. Wish I hadn’t just had dinner though.

      One mystery, at least, was cleared up. I was wondering why Rabid uses the surname of Hutchison. Turns out it was her maiden name.  Apparently she got rid of one of her early husbands because he just wasn’t sufficiently into glorious jihad. Now that she’s past child-bearing age she’s unmarriageable. I wonder how she supports herself. Oh… right.

      Both of these women are so thoroughly brainwashed it was dead easy to predict just about every victim statement that spewed out of their mouths, word-for-word.

      Posted by SandiM on 2008 02 05 at 10:36 AM • permalink

 

    1. The bad isn’t that Loonie’s an outsider.
      The bad is, you oiks keep forgetting to lock the door…

      Posted by richard mcenroe on 2008 02 05 at 11:09 AM • permalink

 

    1. #2: Good one, Nic!

      Posted by paco on 2008 02 05 at 12:52 PM • permalink

 

    1. What a pathetic poseur Leunig is.  In bragging about all his many talents and awards, and pandering to Iran’s thugs, what he’s really saying is:  “Look, see?  I’m worth something.  I am.  Really, I am.”  And he doesn’t know if he’s trying to convince everyone else or himself.

      Posted by RebeccaH on 2008 02 05 at 01:01 PM • permalink

 

    1. The disgusting thing about Jihad Sheilas was that the ABC didn’t have the guts to confront either of them with questions that would, maybe, challenge them or expose their real beliefs more.  It just subtly suggested opposition with intercuts, while giving them free rein to contradict and defend themselves.
      All those ‘husbands’ got very confusing too- a better program would have concentrated on either of them, not both.
      At least it admitted that ‘pure Islam’ insists on systematic inhumanity, lying and immorality

      Posted by Barrie on 2008 02 05 at 04:42 PM • permalink

 

    1. 24 His Goughness is a “treasure” but he gets Phillip Adams to do the boasting for him. In fact, Adams can’t say Whitlam without the prefix national living treasure. It’s a mental disorder brought on by a reoccuring dream that Gough will come to his bed and ravished him.

      Posted by Contrail on 2008 02 05 at 05:34 PM • permalink

 

    1. #43, Barrie

      I think the ABC for once made a wise move.  If the jihad shielas had beem asked the real questions, they would not have answered them.

      Instead, they condemned themselves in their own words and by their bragging.  I am wondering however how they can now state that they were “tricked”?

      Posted by ann j on 2008 02 05 at 06:54 PM • permalink

 

    1. Ahhhh Leunig…Just another artist thrashing around at the end of their own gene-pool, struggling to justify their exististence.

      Posted by Mr Simmon on 2008 02 05 at 08:51 PM • permalink

 

  1. 46

    He watches the ripples thus generated lapping against the bank, and imagines them to be great rolling breakers blasting away all before them.

    Posted by Toiling Mass on 2008 02 06 at 01:56 AM • permalink