Category: Andrew Bolt

Media outlets sack Chris Smith over drunken Christmas party

Andrew Bolt’s hypocrisy has no parallels. While Smith has his addiction and mental illness as an excuse Andrew Bolt has only himself to blame for his record of female abuse. Abuse, he’s conducted publicly. His ex-fiance threatened to sue if he didn’t take back the bullshit he attempted to tell us about her in order to pump his own ego up. He collapsed like a cheap suit admitting he’d lied in order to save his own arse.

Then there was the case where a female magistrate took him to court for defaming her. That was a substantial loss to News Corp. It kept him on but has sacked Smith.

Bolt tried it on with Miranda Devine, on air no less, and ran red-faced or was let go by 2GB never to be seen again on Steve Price’s show. We have no idea of the number of undisclosed settlements that have been made to women because of the Blot. But here he is the loud-mouthed hypocritical ass playing moralist and Gallahad to the crowd when his history is as tarnished, if not more so, than Chris Smith’s.

Disgraced broadcaster Chris Smith has lost his roles with Sky News Australia and Sydney’s 2GB over drunken acts at a work Christmas party.

However, fellow Sky host Andrew Bolt was having none of it on his program The Bolt Report on Monday night. He called for Smith to go.

“Chris, all the very best to you getting over what you say is your addiction and your bipolar condition, but your recovery must take place somewhere else, not here,” he said.

“With your record you still choose to drink, you did then, and allegedly assaulted and upset young women who must work here.”

Bolt continued to explain that “we’re all good people here at Sky with a culture of looking after each other.

Source: Media outlets sack Chris Smith over drunken Christmas party

Russian Soldiers Suffer Acute Radiation Syndrome At Chernobyl | Crooks and Liars

Russian Soldiers Suffer Acute Radiation Syndrome At Chernobyl

Remember when Andrew Bolt bragged that he’d take his family on holiday to Chernobyl. He told us it was perfectly safe and that there was no danger of any long lasting nuclear radiation fallout.

Yaroslav Yemelianenko, who works for the Public Council at the State Agency of Ukraine for Exclusion Zone Management, called them “irradiated terrorists” on Facebook. He seemed unsympathetic to their plight and likely permanent health problems as a result. “Digging the trenches in Radu Forest, bitches? Now live the rest of your short life with this.”

Source: Russian Soldiers Suffer Acute Radiation Syndrome At Chernobyl | Crooks and Liars

Andrew Bolt says Alan Jones’ poetic departure not cancel culture as Sky finds ‘room for Piers Morgan’ | Amanda Meade | The Guardian

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It’s always about the money and Jones at 80 no longer warranted the cost.

Culture has little or nothing to do with Sky before or after dark, they are paid influencers and are selling a product. Selling a product “subscribers” to Foxtel boosted by overseas financing as they are failing to impress here in Australia alone. Andrew Bolt is certainly not doing the heavy work he’s simply the organ grinders monkey. Murdoch has Americanised Australian politics and modelled Sky on Fox News USA. However the pool in Australia is much smaller than it is in America.

So staff they employ tend to be on the last legs of their careers and have few places to go. Bolt’s been Murdoch’s monkey for some 30+ years with a distaste for journalism he represents the past, certainly not the future. Like Jones Bolt has seen better days not  because he was ever talent but rather there to be trained. He was the over zealous a loyal corporate leech. The tic too frightened to try himself out anywhere else. He’s fed off the Murdochian teat his whole career. Whenever he did try a little independence he failed to shine. Kicked off 2GB we saw him set up his own weekly podcast dragging his poor son Dom into his “I’m the master of my own universe”. The Andrew Bolt self-produced podcast that lasted 5 episodes. His blog sold as as “Australia’s most read political blog” now gets undated posts as often a every 2 months and here he is  telling us his culture isn’t being cancelled. Andrew Bolt sure as hell is and soon he will be to. Because Andrew Bolt isn’t Piers Morgan just as Scott Morrison isn’t Biden, Macron or Johnson or even a sideshow attraction in the Murdoch global tent. He was merely a temporaryin non profit backwater a fillin, a stop gap in a bygone era. Look closely you could always see the cobwebs on Bolt who for 20 years told us the planet was “cooling” “Science was a religion” and “White Australia was the Right Australia”

When News Corp unveiled plans for Piers Morgan to headline an international prime time talk show we flippantly said “Move over Andrew Bolt, Alan Jones and Peta Credlin – there is a new conservative loudmouth in town”. Sadly, for one of these Australian conservative loudmouths at least, our prediction appears to have come true.

Source: Andrew Bolt says Alan Jones’ poetic departure not cancel culture as Sky finds ‘room for Piers Morgan’ | Amanda Meade | The Guardian

Andrew Bolt says he ‘wasn’t going to be humiliated’ during unprovoked attack – ABC News | Bolt did everything Security advises not to do. He attacked

George Colombaris was charged for a less violent reaction than Andrew Bolt’s. Police and all Security advice is  to remove yourself from the situation. Yes Bolt was glittered however he attacked and did everything opposite to what is advised he attacked violently. Moreover he’s now proud of what he did and is celebrating his reaction. Police are investigating the incident. (Olddogthought)

New footage of an attack on Andrew Bolt after a book launch in Melbourne shows a hooded man run at the conservative newspaper and television commentator and throw glitter in his face without provocation.

Source: Andrew Bolt says he ‘wasn’t going to be humiliated’ during unprovoked attack – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Culture bores | The Monthly

If the name Milo Yiannopoulos means nothing to you, congratulations on being a normal, well-adjusted person. The short version of his biography goes something like this: British, gay, alt-right attention-seeker, outspoken supporter of Donald Trump, the subject of protests on US college campuses due to his concerted harassment campaigns against a broad spectrum of minority groups. The Guardian has a longer version.

Source: Culture bores | The Monthly

Miranda Devine’s clash with Andrew Bolt shows how fickle the approval of the boys’ club is

I’ve always been perplexed by the fervour with which some women rush to denounce feminism and the people who practise it.

Source: Miranda Devine’s clash with Andrew Bolt shows how fickle the approval of the boys’ club is

What Barack Obama told his daughters about Donald Trump’s win and the racial attacks that followed

After Donald Trump’s win stunned the White House, Barack Obama was faced with the task of comforting his daughters.

Source: What Barack Obama told his daughters about Donald Trump’s win and the racial attacks that followed

Is Victoria really in the middle of a massive teenage crime wave?| The science doesn’t bear out Andrew Bolt’s bigotry

Young people running riot on the streets, teenagers creating chaos in the justice system, a premier who wants to be seen acting tough – there’s a lot going on, but what’s the truth about youth crime and punishment?

Source: Is Victoria really in the middle of a massive teenage crime wave?

Mayor resigns after reply to Michelle Obama ‘ape in heels’ Facebook comment causes backlash – US election 2016

A West Virginia mayor resigns following a backlash after she posted a response to a Facebook comment about US First Lady Michelle Obama.

Source: Mayor resigns after reply to Michelle Obama ‘ape in heels’ Facebook comment causes backlash – US election 2016 – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Study Proves Prejudice Linked With Low IQ – Counter Current News

Does you intelligence level effect your level of prejudice? A recent study by Mark Brandt and Jarret Crawford looked to answer just that, and the results will not make racists very happy. As Medical Daily via Rawstory reports: According to the study, people of lower intelligence, as measured by cognitive ability, tend to be prejudiced against non-conventional or liberal groups, as well as groups that have little choice in their status, such as people defined by their race, gender, or sexual orientation. On the other hand, individuals of higher intelligence were likely to be prejudiced against groups considered conventional and groups perceived to have “high choice” in their associations, such as conservatives. “People dislike people who are different from them,” study authors Mark Brandt and Jarret Crawford told Broadly. “Derogating people with different worldviews can help people maintain the validity of their own world view.” People of all levels of intelligence seem to have the same level of prejudices, just toward different groups. The reason for these differences in stereotypes, however, is more complicated than simply not liking those who are different from you. For example, the researchers explained that less intelligent people often like to view other groups as being distinctly different from them as a way to help see them as distant and therefore less of a threat. On a positive note, a separate study found that prejudice against transgender individuals, and be resolved in most  with a simple 10-minute conversation with a transgendered individual. Could the answer really be that simple? Prejudice can be destroyed by 10 minutes of interaction with the perceived “other”? The science seems to back this obvious answer! Are you surprised? What does it say then that the supreme court ruled police can refuse to hire applicants with “too high” of an IQ? Could this be the reason police are so often accused of racism? Let us know and help SPREAD THE WORD! (Article by Jaimes Campbell and M.

Source: Study Proves Prejudice Linked With Low IQ – Counter Current News

German woman invented gang-rape story during Cologne NYE assaults – media — RT News

An 18-year-old woman who earlier claimed to have been brutally raped by a gang of refugees in front of a Cologne train station reportedly confessed that her chilling story was fiction the whole time – she hadn’t even been in the city on New Year’s Eve.

Source: German woman invented gang-rape story during Cologne NYE assaults – media — RT News

‘Real family kid’: Footy club pays tribute to slain teen Rahat Khan

A teenager who was fatally shot in Melbourne’s north is being remembered by the football club who embraced the “passionate sportsman” after he arrived from Afghanistan.

Source: ‘Real family kid’: Footy club pays tribute to slain teen Rahat Khan

Andrew Bolt says he has moved children out of family home after death threats | Media | The Guardian

Bolt says threats came from Islamic State supporter and follows his newspaper column for Herald Sun which suggested if ‘we criticise Islam … we risk death’

Source: Andrew Bolt says he has moved children out of family home after death threats | Media | The Guardian

Election 2016 live: PM takes ‘full responsibility’ for campaign as Labor claims he’s plotting a fresh snap election – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Bill Shorten claims the Prime Minister is considering calling a fresh election as he stares down the barrel of a hung Parliament. Follow live.

Source: Election 2016 live: PM takes ‘full responsibility’ for campaign as Labor claims he’s plotting a fresh snap election – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Election 2016: Pauline Hanson’s comments could lead to violence, Tim Soutphommasane warns – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Race Discrimination Commissioner warns Pauline Hanson’s anti-Muslim and Asian comments could unleash hatred and violence.

Source: Election 2016: Pauline Hanson’s comments could lead to violence, Tim Soutphommasane warns – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

The Ego Has Landed – » The Australian Independent Media Network

By Ross Sharp Andy Angry Pants Bolt is Angry. Angry Andy, The Angryman, who can take any sunrise and sprinkle it with spew, is well and truly Angry today, Angry that his political party and government of choice, under the stewardship of Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, went to an election, and sorta-kinda-maybe-maybe not fucked it…

Source: The Ego Has Landed – » The Australian Independent Media Network

In One Stunning Tantrum, Andrew Bolt Has Summed Up Everything Wrong With The Extreme Right -|NewsCorp white-anted Turnbull so much did they cost him not the leadership but the election? If so Bolt was player.

Everybody is good at something, right? And it turns out Andrew Bolt’s forte is summing up better than anyone else what his beloved Liberal Party of Australia actually stands for. Here’s Bolt on Sky News last night, foaming and seething at the fact the Liberals weren’t immediately returned to government. “It’s nine months ago sinceMore

Source: In One Stunning Tantrum, Andrew Bolt Has Summed Up Everything Wrong With The Extreme Right – New Matilda

Amid post-Brexit hatred, remember the Polish soldiers who fought alongside UK soldiers in the Second World War | UK Politics | News | The Independent

The children of Polish soldiers who fought in the Second World War have spoken of their people’s proud history of fighting alongside the British amidst rising xenophobia following

Source: Amid post-Brexit hatred, remember the Polish soldiers who fought alongside UK soldiers in the Second World War | UK Politics | News | The Independent

Andrew Bolt, Nova Peris, And The Politics Of ‘Walkabout’ – New Matilda

In attacking the outgoing Senator in the way he did, Bolt tapped into an old dual standard, writes Dr Liz Conor. Andrew Bolt has Bolter heritage. If his ancestors are European I’m afraid they did a runner from their homeland. Unless they were actually transported as convicts (could Bolt have crim-heritage?) his heritage is oneMore

Source: Andrew Bolt, Nova Peris, And The Politics Of ‘Walkabout’ – New Matilda

Anti-Islam protest ends in farce after only 24 people turn up | Home News | News | The Independent

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An anti-Islam rally ended in embarrassment after police outnumbered protesters four to one at a rally in Staffordshire.  Just 24 people showed up to the demonstration in Burton organised by a group called The Casual Infidels.  The Casual Infidels describes itself as a “freelancing movement” dedicated to “battling Islam”.

Source: Anti-Islam protest ends in farce after only 24 people turn up | Home News | News | The Independent

Bus Driver’s Son Beats Billionaire’s Son in London Mayoral Race | The Nation

London—As Atticus Finch reminds us, “You rarely win, but sometimes you do.” This afternoon, some 17 hours after the polls closed, Labour’s Sadiq Khan was provisionally declared the next mayor of London.

Source: Bus Driver’s Son Beats Billionaire’s Son in London Mayoral Race | The Nation

Waleed Aly wins Gold Logie, delivers inspirational speech

 

Waleed Aly brought the Logies to a standstill with a heartfelt Gold Logie acceptance speech that highlighted discrimination in the entertainment industry. The Project host delightfully declared to the TV audience: “do not adjust your sets, there’s nothing wrong with the picture.” Noni Hazlehurst’s epic Logies Hall of Fame speech Behind the scenes at the Logies […]

Source: Waleed Aly wins Gold Logie, delivers inspirational speech

On the trail of the Channel Nine kidnap, News Corp’s man has a run-in with Hezbollah | Media | The Guardian| You won’t here this from Bolt

Daily Telegraph’s reporter gets a taste of detention in Beirut, while some supporters play a poor hand as they rally to Tara Brown’s defence

Source: On the trail of the Channel Nine kidnap, News Corp’s man has a run-in with Hezbollah | Media | The Guardian

Chernobyl nuclear disaster marks 30-year anniversary with ‘extreme tours’, boom in wild animals – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Thirty years after the world’s most catastrophic nuclear accident, the home of the infamous Chernobyl nuclear reactor number four is transformed into an extreme tourism theme park.

Source: Chernobyl nuclear disaster marks 30-year anniversary with ‘extreme tours’, boom in wild animals – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Melbourne brawl blown out of proportion, says Apex gang member

A member of the Apex gang at the centre of a brawl in Melbourne’s CBD says it has been blown out of proportion.

“There were two groups involved in this incident in the city but they only targeting one group, the Apex group,” he said. The group has merged with another gang, YCW — made up of Pacific Islanders, Maoris and Anglo-Australians…. Why Andrew Bolt is racist

Source: Melbourne brawl blown out of proportion, says Apex gang member – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Andrew Bolt isn’t a racist, but … – The Drum (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

The Coalition’s push to make changes to the Racial Discrimination Act began after newspaper columnist Andrew Bolt was found to have breached it over his comments about Aboriginal Australians.

Source: Andrew Bolt isn’t a racist, but … – The Drum (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Israeli Jew charged for Facebook incitement against Palestinians – Your Middle East

Eliyahu Eliav Moalem, 27, of central Israeli city Modiin, had over June and July 2014 written a number of posts calling for “acts of violence and terror against Pa

Source: Israeli Jew charged for Facebook incitement against Palestinians – Your Middle East

Day to Day Politics: The week that was. Bolt is at it again. – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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Sunday 14 October 2016 1 I haven’t read his full article but it seems Andrew Bolt is writing race again. He has a very limited world view outside of racism, Muslims, free speech and Climate Change. Apparently the headline read something like “Don’t blame whites for the failure of Bridging the Gap” Inferring that it was…

Source: Day to Day Politics: The week that was. Bolt is at it again. – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Hate Speech Is Not Free Speech! Cory Bernardi conveniently the preconditions of Fraternite and Egalite that need to accompany any notion of Free Speech. Free Speech in an unequal society only serves the rich and political class

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After proposing then abandoning a raft of manifestly unpopular changes to section 18c of Australia’s racial vilification laws last year, certain members of the LNP have recently relaunched their attack on 18C, under the rather disingenuous pretext of championing free speech.

In the wake of the Charlie Hedbo attacks Cory Bernardi has been out there again, calling for the LNP’s precious 18c amendments to be put back on the table.

Like pit bulls with lock jaw, a gang radical right wing MP’s including Cory Bernardi, George Brandis, Dean Smith, liberal Democrat David Leyonhjelm, and Family First’s Bob Day have been lobbying hard to ensure we Aussies have the right to engage in hate speech.

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Just for clarity, lets take a closer look at what it is they want to change. Specifically they want to have the words “offend, insult and humiliate” removed from the act.

RACIAL DISCRIMINATION ACT 1975 – SECT 18C

Offensive behaviour because of race, colour or national or ethnic origin

(1)  It is unlawful for a person to do an act, otherwise than in private, if:

(a)  the act is reasonably likely, in all the circumstances, to offend, insult, humiliate or intimidate another person or a group of people; and

(b)  the act is done because of the race, colour or national or ethnic origin of the other person or of some or all of the people in the group.

So in effect what they are proposing is that it would just fine to PUBLICLY “offend, insult and humiliate” someone based on their race, colour or national or ethnic origin, so long as you don’t “intimidate” them.

I think it’s fairly safe to say that most people would find public insult and humiliation somewhat intimidating; so we can assume that the interpretation to be given to the word “intimidate” under the proposed amendments would be “to directly physically threaten”, rather than “to emotionally threaten”.

If these changes were ushered in, then it theoretically it would be OK if I were to call Tony Abbott filthy, unwashed, lazy, whinging, snaggle toothed, imperialist, stuck up, limey British scum? And that would be totally OK, because I am all I am doing is using racial stereotypes to abuse him, but I am not actually threatening to do him any harm. Of course the truth is that most British people work hard, wash regularly, visit dentists, aren’t seeking to expand their empire, and complain in relatively appropriate measure..:-), but hey why let the truth get in the way of good story.

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Unfortunately what these right wing warriors are failing to understand is that the Racial Discrimination Act is not really about protecting the feelings of “white people”. It was drafted in the knowledge that there are ethnic groups in this country that really suffer as a result of constant racial abuse and the negative stereo types that such abuse fosters.

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To our shame there are many Australians, (most notedly our indigenous brothers and sisters, followed closely by those of African or “middle eastern appearance”) that regularly suffer systemic discrimination in housing and employment on the basis of their race. They are the same Australians that regularly suffer physical abuse in public spaces, and higher rates of detention and incarceration on account of their race. So please let’s not minimise this, these are real consequences, for real people!

Free speech is a noble ideal, but in order for something to be truly free it must come without a cost. Just because hate mongers like Andrew Bolt, Alan Jones and the oh so white fleet of right wing MP’s don’t personally pay the price for their racist tirades doesn’t mean someone isn’t picking up the tab. And too frequently those picking up the tab are the among the poorest and most marginalised members of our Australian family.

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If you happen to belong to one of those oft targeted minorities the Racial Discrimination Act may not offer a lot of protection, but it is the thin end of a very important wedge. It is a line in the sand that says NO, we as Australians do NOT want a society where racial vilification and negative racial stereotypes are permitted to fester and stew in the public sphere. We want an Australia that says racists need to be ashamed, knowing that they are on the wrong side of what is morally decent, and on the wrong side of the law. We want an Australia where vile hate speech does land Andrew Bolt in court and up on charges. Mostly we want an Australia that is for the fair go for everyone regardless of race, colour or creed.

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So Mr Bernadi, I say this to you on behalf of all decent, fair minded Australian’s….. GET BACK IN YOUR BOX!!!, we don’t want the hate you are peddling!!!