BLOGS: Andrew Bolt rolls out the insanity ...

Things haven't been easy for Andrew Bolt since John Howard left the Lodge. Terrorists haven't cease to exist, but anti-terror raids are no longer occasions for politicians and respectable media to say and write remarks attributing responsibility to entire sections of the Australian community based on their ethnic or ethno-religious heritage.

During his press conference following the recent terror raids in Melbourne, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd refused to even identify a particular ethnic or ethno-religious group. As The Age reported:

He warned against any backlash against any ethnic groups in the wake of the latest arrests.

Mr Rudd said that the terrorist threat came from a small number of individuals "who should in no way be taken as a wider reflection of any group in Australian society".

Instead of demonising minorities and fighting cultural wars, the Rudd government prefers to focus on practical measures such as continued surveillance and increasing security at military installations.

Even The Australian editorialised as follows:

Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Simon Overland acted responsibly yesterday in pointing out that the broader Islamic community should not be seen as terrorists. The majority of Muslims do not support terrorism and have integrated successfully into Australian life where they are valuable members of the community. If anything, such people have an even stronger interest than other Australians in seeing terror stamped out.

With so much sanity now surrounding popular debate about national security, it seems Andrew Bolt may have lost the plot just a tad ...

The alleged terrorists arrested in Melbourne yesterday were all Muslims, from either Somalia or Lebanon. They weren’t Baptists or Greenlanders, Buddhists or Swedes. In fact, if you wanted to confirm a stereotypical profile of a modern terrorist, this pretty much fitted the bill.

So what would be the stereotypical profile of the victims of modern terrorism? Would they be Baptists, Greenlanders, Buddhists or Swedes?

And so, for some reason, Andrew Bolt now founds himself to be in a headspace where to be a terrorist it it's no longer enough for you to be a Muslim. You have to be a Lebanese or a Somali Muslim. I guess that lets Usama bin Ladin off the hook.

Which leads me to ask Andrew Bolt the obvious question ...



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BLOG/HATEWATCH: Andrew Bolt allows his imbeciles freedom to spread hate ...

As we've shown on this blog over and over again, Andrew Bolt's idea of sensible discourseincludes even some of the most xenophobic comment. His analysis of events in Xinjiang in Western China attracts the usual array of fruitloops.

The situation in the Xinjiang (or East Turkestan) autonomous region of Western China is extremely complex. There is conflict between Han Chinese and indigenous Turkic Uighurs. Then there are other smaller Turkish tribes (such as Kazakhs) caught in the middle. This conflict crosses ethnic, religious, tribal and class divides, and the complexity of the conflict has not been lost on readers of Andrew Bolt’s blog on the Herald Sun website. Consider these mature and considered reflections:

I was wondering which way you’d jump on this one. Keep in mind that the uighurs probably started the violence - however justified it might be - and they ARE muslim, remember.
Matthew of Canberra (Reply)
Thu 09 Jul 09 (09:45am)

Devlin Carnate replied to Matthew
Thu 09 Jul 09 (05:34pm)
It looks like the ChiComs are battling another form of totalitarianism to come: Jihadism.
Yet another restive Muslim minority with grievances, seizing upon an incident of alleged mistreatment by authorities to stage a riot. Yet hardly no one notices any kind of pattern, or any hint of the Islamic supremacist notion that it is offensive for Muslims to be under the rule of non-Muslims.
So in what sense are the Uighurs the target here? It looks as if they are fairly efficiently targeting the Han Chinese. …

While I normally respect Greg Sheridan’s opinion, I disagree with his analysis on the Uighurs. Greg is not looking at the big picture i.e. everywhere on Earth that Islamic culture meets another culture, there is conflict …

And that’s just this century. Why would Muslims behave any differently in China? … Now they have then gone on a rampage killing dozens of ethnic Chinese. The ethnic Chinese have now responded in kind. I think it is entirely appropriate that the Chinese are cracking down on the Muslims.
I believe what is now happening in China is exactly what will happen in Europe within the next ten years. Muslims will commit atrocities against the indigenous population and eventually the locals will have had enough and retaliate. It will be a low key civil war. Whether it escalates or not will depend on whether the European governments crack down on the Muslims or the locals.
jupes of west coast (Reply)
Thu 09 Jul 09 (07:22pm)

I wonder if News Limited chief John Hartigan had his employee Andrew Bolt in mind when he said recently the blogesphere was saturated with people and opinions ...

... of such limited intellectual value as to be barely discernible from massive ignorance.

UPDATE I: Speaking of Xinjiang, here is an interesting analysis of the use of buzzwords by media outlets, comparing the treatment of Tibetans and Uighurs.

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BLOG: Daily Telegraph editor's devastating refutation ...

Tim Blair, Opinion Editor of the Daily Telegraph, provided a devastating refutation to the suggestion that his blog allowed racist and xenophobic comments to be moderated and posted onto his blog. He posted this refutation on another far-Right blog. Here is Blair's refutation.

By the way, there's another thing besides manufacturing outrage that gets Irf out of bed in the morning. I've heard it's a Caterpillar 966G Series II loading shovel.

My God, the terrifying logic of that response!

Of course, Blair doesn't need to use this logic at work. No doubt all staff at the Daily Telegraph satisfy his criteria for acceptable physique. Because if they don't, they should keep their distance from him.

The wonderful thing about all this is that questions about the underlying racism and xenophobia Tim allows onto his blog, when made in public, clearly get under his skin. Hence they should be asked again and again and again. And not just to Blair but to all his colleagues. Xenophobia isn't acceptable, even if Blair thinks it is. And the "shut-the-f*ck-up-you-fat-sh*t" response from Blair also becomes a bit tiring after a while.

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BLOG: Racists against racism ...

Well it's great to see Andrew Bolt lashing out against the UN Conference on Racism, accusing it of racism merely for allowing Iran's fruitcake premier to speak. This from a columnist who claims Victorian police are deliberately hiding the extent of crime by African migrants, who moderates comments calling for the destruction of entire nations and who thinks that only black-skinned people can be indigenous Australians.

And what kind of morons congregate around this mediocre tabloid blogger? How about this happy clappy ...

Eric replied to Barrie
Tue 21 Apr 09 (11:26am)
The europeans have soled themselves out to Islamic oil Barrie. This started under DeGaul, post WW2, it is merely gaining momentum now.
Well, the bible does prophesy that the world will turn against Israel, and we appear to be seeing that in our lifetimes. God help those nations who stand against his people, it boggles my mind that Christians can stand against Israel when they claim allegiance, at least in name, if not in spirit, with their messiah.

Indeed many evangelical interpretations of Biblical prophecy also state that Jesus will return to earth to finish off the job Adolf Hitler couldn't quite finish. Then of course you have apologists for South Africa's apartheid regime.

Dr Paul Fidlon replied to Barrie
Tue 21 Apr 09 (03:35pm)
... What does it say of a South African government permitting yet another anti-Semitic conference to be held in South Africa itself AND inviting arch-terrorist Ahmadinejad to address the conference?
Can’t imagine the old white South African government doing anything like this.

I thought "Durban II" was actually being held in Geneva. But still, the old white South African government always knew how to put racists in their place. And what better way to fight racism than with good old-fashioned genocide?

The Muslim world has invented nothing in the last 800 years but are now gathering nuclear weapons to point at the decadent west. Its about time we got a little generous with our nuclear technology and levelled a few of our foes before its too late.
Rossco of Newcastle (Reply)
Tue 21 Apr 09 (08:35am)

And if genocide doesn't work, perhaps nuclear war might be an appropriate step.

Q: What is flat, lifeless and glows in the dark in the Middle East?
A: Iran, after Israel finally loses patience.
WhaleOilBeefHooked (Reply)
Tue 21 Apr 09 (10:58am)

But out of all this bigotry, one lonely voice of reason stood out.

We have survived Pharaoh, the Romans, the Christian pogroms, the Ottomans, the Soviets and the Nazis. Their empires are dust, and we’re still here. We have nothing to fear from a stupid little conference and a jumped-up chickenhawk like Ahmadinejad.

So touching Andrew, your support for Jews when they’re thousands of miles away in their ancestral homeland, more numerous, prosperous and secure than at any time in the last few millennia.

Yet I can predict how you and your readers would have reacted, if you’d been around when my grandparents arrived in Sydney in 1939, by boat, uninvited, stateless, no passport, no English, telling their stories of persecution in German (and this was in the days before the world knew about the existence of death camps).

You’d be calling for the boat to be turned around and my grandparents “sent back where they came from”, wouldn’t you? That’s the reception your readers really have in mind for people like my grandparents.

Given your attitude towards the persecuted elsewhere in the world, and your unwillingness to help those who come to these shores in need, I can assure you that Israel and the Jews do not need your particular brand of “support”.

Mercurius Goldstein of Sydney (Reply)
Tue 21 Apr 09 (07:13pm)

I am with Mercurius!

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HATEWATCH/BLOGS: More enlightened and informed comment on asylum seekers at the Herald Sun ...

Here are some classics from page 2 from Andrew Bolt's blog on the most recent load of asylum seekers ...

Who really cares, they all should have gone up in flames.
And no rescue effort for the survivors, that will stop em doing these things.
Zarth of mulgrave (Reply)
Fri 17 Apr 09 (09:16am)


Try this one people.....were they all refugees seeking asylum or were some of them suicide refugees hell bent on making a statement and possibly inflicting casualities on Australian naval personnel.
The incident is too bizzare to think it was an accident.
Spinfx of Melbourne (Reply)
Fri 17 Apr 09 (09:37am)

I do hope Australia won’t get themselves into the huge problems many European countries now find themselves in. It is a bit of an advantage that we are ‘an island’, and a bit more difficult to cross border.
This very morning I read from Norway about a pair of asylum seekers caught out. Arrived independently in the country, without papers.
Woman claimed she had been held for years as a sex-salve in the jungles of Burundi.
They both joined up again in Norway after being apart for a certain period.
Only an observant policeman discovered their false identity. He discovered a wedding photo with the pair, the bride in a quite fancy wedding dress cutting their wedding cake, with their true names on the impressive wedding cake.
Also police in Oslo yesterday said the 40 odd cases against violence and rape in the city against Norwegian females over last couple of years were all by these new foreigners, high on the list were Somalis and Kurds. Some of them repeat offenders.
Another problem they have, gangs get created among these various groups, like Pakistani against African gangs, and narcotics is very common among them.
The general population is generally getting pretty fed up with it all.
Concerned ex-Scandinavian. of Brisbane. (Reply)
Fri 17 Apr 09 (09:49am)

And now from page 3 ...

bushka replied to Stew
Fri 17 Apr 09 (02:00pm)
they are not all desperate asylum seekers. There is quite a few questions to be answered. With this lot why were they all men? Don,t they value women?? With the lot before why were they all well dressed?
Is someone from Australia perhaps sending money to enable some to pay people smugglers???? Moslem friends???

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HATEWATCH/BLOGS: Enlightened and informed comment on asylum seekers at the Herald Sun ...

Again, no commentary required for some of the fruitloops attracted by this paranoid post:

KRudd now has blood on his hands.
Anyone organising a party for a teenager at home knows that they have to be very careful to restrict invitations to only the type of people welcome, ensure that an open invitation is not broadcast and provide proper security - all with the objective of baring undesirables from crashing the party. Therefore, the question I have is, are Australians happy to have a Prime Minister running the country who demonstrably couldn’t even safely organise a child’s party?
Wake up Australia of Pennant Hills (Reply)
Fri 17 Apr 09 (06:01am)

gonfalone replied to Wake up Australia
Fri 17 Apr 09 (11:36am)
... These boat people are not “asylum seekers”; they are COLONISERS.
Ponder this: Jemaah Islamiah’s Abu Bakar Bashir: “The Islamic faithful in Australia must endevour to bring about an Islamic state in Australia, even if it is 100 years from now,” ...
To allow more of these people in is national suicide.
Islam delenda est!

Wake up Australia replied to Wake up Australia
Fri 17 Apr 09 (12:10pm)
... It is well known that the people smugglers tell the invaders that when they consider that they are assured of being rescued they should destroy their boat (and all identification of course). Therefore seeing that at the time of the explosion there was two Australian navy personnel on board of the vessel I think it is safe to assume that these people were quite happy to murder Australians - are these really the sort of people you want living next door to you???

MMM....Sad times ahead....well if our PM makes it easier for these people to attempt to land on our shores for a free ride,expect more of this to come! Now you have to ask..are these the type of person/s we want as refugees? From their point of view - Hey get a boat ride to Ozzie, free housing, free medical, free dental, free education and some spending money every fortnight....Yeah this is the lucky country....providing your not Australian
that is !!!!!!
Margy of Qld (Reply)
Fri 17 Apr 09 (06:16am)

Harry Buttle replied to Poor Self Funded Retiree
Fri 17 Apr 09 (07:51am)
The policies of the Australian Govt killed those people. John Howard had put in place measures that stopped people smuggling cold.
KRudd removed those policies and put in place policies that rewarded people smuggling.
He put those people in that boat and it led to their deaths.
The question now is “will KRudd be prepared to accept responsibility and reimpose the Pacific solution, or must more people die?”


tony of coburg replied to Bonni
Fri 17 Apr 09 (08:43am)
... Asylum seekers on boats are breaking Australian law - understand. They don’t have rights - and should be towed out into deeper water - or bakc to whereever they just came from.

The newer refugees are from a totally different mind set and refuse or can’t adapt to
Australian ways and it is this lack of assimilation which makes them unpopular.
It is hard to understand why Moslems don’t stay in Indonesia which is an Islamic
country. As well, there are legal facilities for them to apply for refugee status in that country but they queue jump and Australia has to pick up the
pieces.
Scales of Justice of Melbourne (Reply)
Fri 17 Apr 09 (07:31am)

PG replied to Scales of Justice
Fri 17 Apr 09 (08:35am)
And it might be pertinent to think of Lebanon here. The Christians let in the Muslim
refugees and later became refugees themselves because of the very Muslims they let in. This will be Australia’s fate, except for one thing - very soon there will be no Christian countries for us to run to.

And that's just page 1. More to follow.

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BLOG: In Andrew Bolt's world, only a nigger can be a boong ...

Andrew Bolt is obsessed with race and colour. I'm not sure why. Maybe it's something he picked up from Dutch conservatives who settled in South Africa and established a somewhat discredited system of social organisation. In case you're a bit uncertain of what I'm referring to, check this sign out ...



Anyway, Mr Bolt seems to think that in Australia only dark skinned persons can count as indigenous people. He has been playing this line all along, pretending that he has a greater say in how people identify themselves. Mr Bolt would like indigenous people to refer to him for definitive advice on whether they are indigenous enough. And the sole test he will use is one of physical appearance, of colour.

It may only be a matter of time before Mr Bolt starts measuring a Jewish person's Jewishness by their physical appearance (the size of their nose perhaps?).



Maybe he'll determine that I am not really of Indian heritage because I look too Turkish. And perhaps the bloke pictured below should really be deemed a member of an al-Qaida cell. Heck, the beard and the turban (and indeed the sword) are dead giveaways! And check out that huge mosque across the water.



Anyway, enough humour. Time to get depressed as you read the disgraceful comments on Bolt's blog. Bolt clearly doesn't like descendants of the first Australians very much, and he seems to hate racial vilification laws even more. Which explains why he has allowed these insulting remarks to be moderated and published.

I will not reproduce these disgusting remarks. I hope Andrew Bolt and the Herald Sun are prosecuted for racial vilification.

UPDATE I: This educational institution advertises on the Herald-Sun website. Drop them an line and ask whether they want to continuing funding Andrew Bolt's hate-speech.

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BLOG/HATEWATCH: Piers Akerman and friends comment on African retards ...

Piers Akerman, Senior editor at Sydney's Daily Teleraph provides a crucial history lesson on how to deal with pirates. You can pick up the general vibe of Akerman's solution from the subtle headline:

Let the cannonball fly and hang them high

The moderated comments of Akerman's commenters are even more subtle.

Reality check people.

In the pirates we are dealing with illiterate stone-age savages who come from a racial group whose average IQ is in the 60s (retarded). There is a reason why Africans did not invent the wheel, writing, or any system of government above the tribal level.

There is only one way to deal with these pirates that will make an impression on their dull minds: freaking kill them and the horse that they rode in on ...

Anything else will be viewed as weakness and they will continue to laugh at the foolish and weak white man . . . and they will be correct to do so.
CarlT of Gold Coast (Reply)
Mon 13 Apr 09 (07:59pm)

What is the stupid Ruddistic UN doing about Somalia? Will the Union-Labor Party bring the poor starving Somalis into Australia? Very likely.

If they or their wives are fat in Somalia they are crooks and pirates. Hang or chop the hands off all the fat ones. Leave the Skinny’s.
Sink any Somali vessel with a motor. Sails only ...
john allen of Southport Qld (Reply)
Mon 13 Apr 09 (09:13pm)

Witness the enormous respect the Daily Telegraph has for the Commonwealth Racial Discrimination Act and the NSW Anti-Discrimination Act. After reading the blogpost and the comments, I couldn't help but wonder whether it was yet another case of ...



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BLOG: Why Obama is a Muslim abortionist ...

I always thought easter was a time for piece and love, when Christians share the joy of salvation. But when it comes to America's Christian President, all the peace and love disappears from some allegedly Christian quarters.

On Planet Bolt, you can hear all kinds of theories about the President of the United States. Bolt is upset with Obama for appointing Vatican ambassadors who allegedly support a woman's right to terminate her pregnancy.

Fair enough. Bolt perhaps subscribes to a wacky insistence in an absolute prohibition in abortion that would see a 9 year old girl raped by her stepfather forced to give birth to the child. But what does all this say about Obama? Let's take a peak at the conversation on Bolt's blog:

The bizarre thing about this, is that Turkey is not an islamic state - it is in fact a secular democracy (and a successful one at that) - which actually has a HUGE problem with islam and islamic militancy - (armed gards at shopping cenres are not uncommon)
tony of coburg (Reply)
Fri 10 Apr 09 (07:12am)

So having armed guards at shopping centres is a sure sign of the existence of a huge problem with Islam. I've seen a fair few armed guards at shopping centres in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Brazil. Imagine the world's future caliphs who drink beer and/or do the haka and/or enjoy ice hockey and/or samba.

Chris M replied to tony
Fri 10 Apr 09 (07:57am)
He claims to be a Christian but acts rather like a Moslem; well I guess that’s reasonable given that is how he was brought up. A good proportion of Americans believe BO is a Moslem and I tend to agree with them.

Bolt's true believers believe Obama is a Muslim. I wonder what Andrew thinks. Care to share that with us, Mr Bolt?

Now criticising the US President was once a sign of anti-Americanism in some circles. Bolt certainly subscribed to this view once. Not anymore.

nilk replied to txjohn
Fri 10 Apr 09 (08:00am)
The man is a disgrace to his office.

Mick Gold Coast QLD replied to txjohn
Fri 10 Apr 09 (01:21pm)
I would add “transparent” and very, very un-clever ...
This clown will self destruct sooner rather than later.

Indeed, Bolt's cyber-Nazis are now looking for masonic conspiracies in all this. Yep, whoever wins, the masons always win!

barney fife replied to Pete
Fri 10 Apr 09 (02:16pm)
pete
america is a masonic nation, the one dollar bill alone should reveal that to you if your not into studying history.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6534861207969567641

Aah, the love Bolt's buddies feel for the United States of America ...

The gall of the man, to offer people who believe in killing off the unborn. It’s either that or incredible stupidity on his part.
Would be nice if the Pope would refuse to meet with the most pro-death president in America’s history. Such a man deserves neither respect nor time, imho.
MK (Reply)
Fri 10 Apr 09 (08:16am)

mike of cnbra replied to MK
Fri 10 Apr 09 (11:47am)
I don’t think its possible to despise a man as much as obama ...

The moron is still campaigning, sucking up to one and all. Maybe running for king of the world or something.
He is also an incredibly nieve twit with no understanding or respect for reality and thousands of years of tradition.
It’s all about him.
Zog (Reply)
Fri 10 Apr 09 (08:34am)

This clown is a total disaster.
Peter of Chadstone Vic (Reply)
Fri 10 Apr 09 (08:45am)

Obama seems to be stacking the White House with dark-skinned evil people. We all know how scared the far-Right (especially the Dutch Right) are about darkies.

he’s quite happy to employ Muslims though. I read a very disturbing article the other day how Obama has appointed a large number of muslims to work in the White House - sorry can’t find the source.
lethal of WA (Reply)
Fri 10 Apr 09 (10:43am)

Pfft. Poor Andrew. Even at Easter time, he is surrounded with fruitloops.

UPDATE I: Here's Jon Stewart's take on this nonsense ...

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HATEWATCH: Stereotyping is bad but murder and racial vilification is perfectly OK ...

Today is Good Friday. A time when Christians remember God's mercy.

But for Herald Sun columnist Andrew Bolt, Good Friday is as good an opportunity as any to incite racial and religious vilification, to engage in hate-speech and to publish incitement to murder and violence.

Under the heading "Stereotyping is bad", Bolt writes a few words to encourage his regulars to leave messages inciting violence against ... well ... "them". And who are "them"? Well, take your pick. It could be Muslims. It could be Pakistanis. It could be British Pakistanis or British Muslims. It could be people from the Middle East living in Auburn or Bankstown. Plenty of comments about Enoch Powell's infamous rivers of blood speech.

Wake up Australia replied to Alan of Sydney
Fri 10 Apr 09 (10:12am)
... If Hitler had actually succeeded in his invasion it is hard to imagine the UK having any of the race/religion problems it has today - problems that will ultimately destroy its heritage totally. But I suppose are a lot of people who will not mourn the passing - and of course what is left today of the traditional ‘Aussie’ way of life?

Yep, only Nazism can save "our" way of life. These are Andrew Bolt's Nazis, and the Herald Sun has become a place where they can vent their spleen.

... Australia should learn a lesson from this and ban any Pakistani muslim from entering Australia, for any reason whatsoever.The risk is not worth the university fee.Let them get on with their primitivism, where they belong,back home.
nigel of richmond (Reply)
Fri 10 Apr 09 (09:36am)

And who needs trials? After all, such luxuries should only be reserved for "our" criminals, not for "them".

The Special forces should be used to eliminate these miscrants. The cost of trials in these days of GFC would be a complete waste of time and money. They want to die in their warped jihadist way, let them die but in a cost effective way.
Howzat of Sydney (Reply)
Fri 10 Apr 09 (09:37am)

I grew up near Bankstown, Auban, Punchbowl, Lakemba, and they were nice little Aussie towns; now they look like scenes from the middle east. Multiculturism we thought would add something to our Aussie culture, but instead it is destroying our culture. The majority of Muslims cannot become like us and have no desire to do so, it would be “un-Islamic”. No, we must give ground to them; and that’s the truth. It’s like a cancer, invading every cell of our traditional way of lif, until it takes over the whole body. Our experience of Islam will not be any different to Englands.
Kerry of Brisbane (Reply)
Fri 10 Apr 09 (02:36pm)

Andrew would say this himself if he had half a chance. He has said it a fair few times on national television. Who knows how many times he's said it on radio?

Maybe he says stuff like this dude ...



By now, many readers will be rather upset and angry that this kind of stuff is being published. Who can we contact to complain?

Well, you can start with the man himself:

Andrew Bolt
BoltA@heraldsun.com.au

Then there is his Editor:

Matthew Pinkney
Editor
Herald-Sun
PinkneyM@heraldsun.com.au

Also feel free to contact any of the major advertisers for the Herald Sun website.

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