Australian (ASX) Stock Market Forum

The Bolt Report

Jump to new
sails said:
It is the attempts from the left to control the media and subsequent freedom of speech that is the most worrying issue, imo.
Click to expand...
I agree.

todster said:
Yep 40000 members about 20 odd posters on this thread (usual suspects) cutting edge.
Julia you really need to get over yourself.
Rubbish indeed
Click to expand...

IFocus said:
Quite true most watch the 6.00pm news or the current affairs programs that show dramatic footage of lost dogs, print media has been in decline for some time.

I remember being around a work force of 300 + (Managers, engineers etc) less than 1/2 a doz were interested in discussions that we are currently having.
Click to expand...
OK. I should have said that I don't know anyone at all who doesn't read quite avidly.
All depends on the social and work circle I guess.
 
Marr is on the money here worth a read

Bolt's 'freedom of speech' crusade won't right his wrongs

Andrew Bolt's martyrdom is now complete: twice in the next fortnight his popular column in the Herald Sun will be accompanied by a nearly unreadable ''corrective notice'' outlining his sins against the Racial Discrimination Act. And that's it.

Has he been fined for offending, insulting, humiliating and intimidating nine fair-skinned Aborigines? No. Does he have to pay them damages? No. Has he been warned off the delicate subject of whites identifying as blacks? Not at all.
Click to expand...

How else have Bolt and the Herald Sun suffered? Has the judge directed the paper strip the columns from its website? No. From its archives? No. Has he compelled the paper and its star columnist to apologise to the aggrieved Aborigines? Not even that. All Justice Bromberg has ordered to be done is publication of a 500-word notice in the paper and online setting out the nub of his judgment.
Click to expand...

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/polit...-his-wrongs-20111019-1m80a.html#ixzz1bJTBWeKO
 
derty said:
The way I see it he wrongly accused a group of people of being frauds.
Click to expand...

He was probably right, but they belong to a protected species. It is significant that the judge didn't ask for an apology. He probably knew where to draw the line after going through the motions, of a bad law.
 
No, his name was dragged through the mud, and they arent going to appeal - speaks volumes.
 
Another side to the Andrew Bolt picture is coming out. A former girlfriend and fiancée who lived with Andrew for 6 years has come out to defend herself against a couple of cheap Bolt shots and another "rewriting history" episode. Quite fascinating.

Bolt from the past: a heartfelt history lesson to the man I loved
Suzanne Walshe
October 22, 2011

No secret: Then a cadet journalist at The Age, Andrew Bolt and the author were engaged in the early '80s. Photo: Supplied

It is with great reluctance that I feel I must make a public response following the recent profile of Andrew Bolt in The Monthly magazine. I am the woman who Anne Summers refers to as Andrew Bolt's former girlfriend and fiancee.

I want to set the record straight, following Andrew's public denial of the status of our relationship and the fact that my name has been made public against my wishes
Click to expand...
.

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/so...man-i-loved-20111021-1mcio.html#ixzz1bSExpsh8
 
Basilio, Bolt must really worry you. He is starting to get the same derogatory treatment from the left as Abbott. Both of them must be doing a great job for the majority of Australians to be picked on like this...:D

Unfortunately for you Basilio, Bolt already has a good following and you will only be preaching to your own side with posts to try and make Bolt look bad. Have you ever looked at his blog? In fact, on his blog today, he has a response to the Fairfax article on his private life:

On the other hand, my entirely uncontroversial relationship with a girlfriend more than a quarter of a century ago, before I met my wife, is now considered of such public importance that it is raked over by The Monthly, The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald so obsessively that the ex-girlfriend is even given a column of her own today to explain what a terrible person I have become since we parted, and how I lied when I said I didn’t remember being engaged to her.

What on earth are The Age and the SMH doing? Are they so blinded by hatred for an ideological foe that they will publish such stuff, even printing excerpts from private emails and private love letters I wrote when young?
Click to expand...

Read more: On Fairfax’s obsession with my private life
 
Nah folks I have no problem with Andrew Bolts early girlfriend. In fact the picture she paints of the idealistic journalist she knew is endearing.

And life changes. No probs with people deciding a particular relationship was not for them.

The issue the girlfriend brought up was simply Andrews seeming dismissal/disrespect for her in (apparently) saying he was just a "minder for a belly dancer". And in particular that he again seems to be rewriting history in his description of their situation.

Obviously you don't want to wax too lyrical about an old flame when you are now happily married with 3 children. Not a good look. Just would have been more sensitive and honest to give their earlier relationship more respect.

Perhaps the salient points that come up are are

1) Andrew can be unnecessarily nasty
2) He has no problems with rewriting history where it suits him.

Which just echos what the judge said in his statement after the recent trial.:D
 
basilio said:
Perhaps the salient points that come up are are

1) Andrew can be unnecessarily nasty
2) He has no problems with rewriting history where it suits him.
Click to expand...

Jeez! That sounds like just about everyone I know. :rolleyes:
 
wayneL said:
Jeez! That sounds like just about everyone I know. :rolleyes:
Click to expand...

Certainly could include a lot of people.

I was being generous in my (under) statements. The ridicule and nastiness that Andrew heaps on targets in his articles is extreme. That was one of the comments made by the judge in his findings.

Also Andrews capacity to create whatever version of history he wants to justify his stories was also noted by the judge.

IMO the reality that a very nasty person who doesn't care about the truth is one of the most widely read columnists in the country is a concern.

Bit hey ! Quippy, nasty stories sell lots of copy. So purely from a business model we can see why Andrew is continuing his success.
 
basilio said:
Certainly could include a lot of people.

I was being generous in my (under) statements. The ridicule and nastiness that Andrew heaps on targets in his articles is extreme. That was one of the comments made by the judge in his findings.

Also Andrews capacity to create whatever version of history he wants to justify his stories was also noted by the judge.

IMO the reality that a very nasty person who doesn't care about the truth is one of the most widely read columnists in the country is a concern.

Bit hey ! Quippy, nasty stories sell lots of copy. So purely from a business model we can see why Andrew is continuing his success.
Click to expand...

I might be prepared to accept that... if it wasn't so monumentally hypocritical.

The Grauniad and other left wing rags are full of writers of identical style and tactic; in fact it is the standard modus operandi of left wing commentators and politically/financially motivated "scientists" when faced with an insurmountable logical/scientific challenge.

In fact is this exactly what you are trying to do here? Dish up the Dirt on AB to discredit him?

Tell you what basilio, come back when your ideological masters are prepared to debate sceptics and be open and honest with their data.
 
On the Bolt report, Andrew speaks with Bess Price on extending the intervention and being called a “pet Aborigine”. Interesting...


 
Nice to see Bolt supporting a government program and standing up for the Aborigines.
He isn't a racist person and being right wing does not automatically make you a racist person. He is inclined to twist the facts and he should be made accountable when he does but David Marr of the left has similar behaviour.

Sometimes Bolt can be good but sometimes he is lazy and trots out stories mostly written by overseas rabble rousers, changes a few words and publishes them Sometimes he doesn't check facts properly. He needs support staff if he is going to do everything he does. I think he may be getting help because I have noticed a bit of improvement.
 
Oh great another Liberal advertising spot dumbing down the nation with political vile and venom just like the US.
 
IFocus said:
Oh great another Liberal advertising spot dumbing down the nation with political vile and venom just like the US.
Click to expand...

Its only a very small response to the other Labor advertising spots dumbing down the nation with political ineptness and national bankruptcy that are shown on the ABC and SBS!
 

Similar threads

R
IRAQ: the Big (neo) Con
Replies
1
Views
5K
basilio
basilio
bvbfan
The Truth about CPI
Replies
4
Views
5K
BREND
B
R
The American use of War Pretext Incidents
Replies
6
Views
9K
sptrawler
sptrawler
Top