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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.
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 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
4 I second the nomination. All those in favour say yea.
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6 Why a duck, why-a no chicken?
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“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
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.
- Michael Leunig stuffed into a pillow?
Like suggestion by #2?Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 02 05 at 07:51 AM • permalink
“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
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Would not the 7.30 report want to know?
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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.
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.
16 – Hole in one, so to speak, Pog.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2008 02 05 at 08:47 AM • permalink
- #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.
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.
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
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!
#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.
- 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
- 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
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
More of an ‘insider’ really, well and truly in terms of the head/arsehole relationship.