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Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Bolt tries to cover tracks; fails
Andrew's only been back a few days, and he's already made a complete elbow of himself.

Take Sunday, when he sauntered back to his blog and smugly declared the Iraq War "Won" (again), and derided critics for not recognising how right he and his fellow supporters had always been. "It's easy to publicly back George Bush now that the war in Iraq is won," he mocked.

A few hours later, he pulled the post and deleted all traces of it - but not before it was caught by Google (and RSS readers). Then he pretended that all he was really saying was that the war was "going well".

The Orstrahyan has the details.

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- posted by Jeremy @ 8:19 AM |
Tuesday, January 08, 2008

Bolt 21/12: "Goodbye"
This blog doesn't usually comment on Bolt the man, largely because the subject is irrelevant. A polemicist could be a lovely fellow with his family and friends, and still write toxic drivel in the newspapers. Alternatively, he could be a total arsehole to everyone around him, and still make sensible arguments in his writing.

Bolt's personal character has little to do with this site's critiques of his newspaper column and blog, in other words.

Still, since he brought it up - his last blog entry for the year did include a rather ironic description of his plans for the holiday, given that this is a man who regularly attacks supposed "left wing elites" and likes to pretend he's a man of the people:
For me there will be a few other things to attend to, like playing the Bach cello suites recommended to me by a friend. Finding some more bottles of that Green Point reserve Pinot Noir.

Truly, Andy is the salt-of-the-earth, and a genuine anti-elitist. Wouldn't you love to have a beer Pinot Noir with him?

PS: Oh, and to make you throw up a little, "Skye" follows a paragraph claiming that Bolt has "a sea"* of admirers with this apparent non-sequitur:
It’s great to have an Australian George Orwell.

It certainly would be. Oh, wait - she doesn't mean Andrew Bolt, does she?! My God, I think she does. Oh, the humanity. Mr Blair's corpse is rolling about in its grave so quickly that the headstone is now engulfed in a cloud of smoke.

*Is "a sea" the correct plural? Of "drips", I suppose.

UPDATE: I couldn't let the following eloquent comment by one of Andy's enthusiastic readers just disappear into the aether, and reproduce it here exactly as it was uploaded to news.com.au:
Well its good to see that some people have common sense and can see that thereis something wrong with all these lies and to think that they are giving our money to the un and ureopean union who are again under investigation for fraud as well as cohorting with taliban is discracefull,im so incensed by this rip off im starting up a new movement against the greens so stay tuned ,im going to make sure the truth is heard by banding all the real science together ,i hope andrew has a great xmas and you forgot to mention in the election everyone seems to forget that labor changed the boundaries in the election to include more labor voters in the marginal seats so they could win ,typical and of course there were a lot of chinese in the mix ,no doubt about the far far left labor motives ,1stthe internet like china,and the green rubbish and next of course the unions who will again ruin the country as usual.

Wow! Perhaps Andy should get "jack" to write a few guest posts while he's away.

UPDATE #2: Also this remark from long-time Bolt obsessive (and Blairville regular), "Alan of Sydney":
You’re unique Andrew. Thank God.

I'd thank God if there were only one of him too, Alan - except sadly that's clearly not the case.

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