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Glenn Milne, Insiders, and false suggestions of Gillard's influence

Posted by Derek Sapphire on Sunday, September 4, 2011,
Really, these attacks on Julia Gillard are becoming even more relentless and offensive. Now, because Insiders has dumped Glen Milne as a guest the right-wing reaches of the blogosphere are going ballistic and nuclear! They see a sinister case of censorship by the state. And they would, wouldn't they. In their tiny, literal minds, anything they don't like is either a lie, a betrayal, or some ugly attempt at intimidation. It's just another crazy conspiracy theory to add to an already long list....
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Graham Readfern speaks truth to conservative white male power

Posted by Derek Sapphire on Saturday, August 20, 2011,
Fellow traveller Graham Readfern has bravely written a searingly insightful article about the preponderance of appalling white male peenie wavers in the climate change denialist camp.

But we have long known about this phenomenon haven't we fellow travellers? White male conservatives are past masters when it comes to bigotry. Not only are they climate change denialists, but they are invariably sexist, racist, homophobic and fattist as well. But of their numerous prejudices it's their misogyny ...
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Wingnuts go gaga over ratings for The Bolt Report

Posted by Derek Sapphire on Monday, May 9, 2011,
It's hardly surprising that media blowhard Andrew Bolt's predictably aggressive, sensationalist and simplistic tabloid talk show on Ten would rate highly for that Sunday morning time slot. Of course he and his masters and backers (no doubt including the appalling Gina Rinehart) are just over the moon with the figures. It's typical of their thinking: more and bigger is always better.

Well, all it really means is that a bunch of brain dead, racist, climate change denialist warmongers were happy ...
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Our ABC besmirched: Accusations of bias in Q&A Twitter feed

Posted by Derek Sapphire on Tuesday, March 29, 2011,
Fellow travellers, one of the most appalling trends in mainstream media discourse lately is this increasing perception that the ABC is somehow biased to the left. This is just completely false, and only a revolting right-wing reactionary would say such a thing.

The vile accusers making this offensive claim seem to be particularly fixated on Q&A for some reason. They say the show is guilty of bias in several ways, including the selection of guests. But haven't you noticed, they actually have c...
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Brilliant Gretel Killeen on Q&A brings hope to the ABC

Posted by Derek Sapphire on Tuesday, March 1, 2011,
Fellow travellers, like many of you I tend not to watch the ABC as much as I used to. It seems to have become so much more conservative lately. It all started with the appointment of that revolting Janet Albrechtsen to the board a while ago. I mean, can't we just have a purge of reactionaries and right-wingers so that balance can be restored to our ABC?

One show in which this appalling bias is always depressingly clear is Q&A. The producers are quite brazen about it. They have people like Mira...
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Menzies House and its appalling anti-carbon tax petition

Posted by Derek Sapphire on Sunday, February 27, 2011,
Fellow travellers, as we all know, conservatives want nothing more than to take Australian society back to the fifties. But when we point this out they always deny it. It's very much like their reaction to accusations of racism. You know for sure that someone is guilty of that if they deny they are. Really, it's as clear as black and white (and I don't mean that in a racist way of course).

But sometimes they don't deny it. On the contrary, they occasionally proudly claim allegiance to some opp...
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Why I fully support "Ju-liar" Gillard and her carbon tax "lie"

Posted by Derek Sapphire on Friday, February 25, 2011,
Yesterday, Prime Minister Julia Gillard committed to the introduction of a carbon tax.This brave, visionary pledge to the planet was verballed into a betrayal of the Australian people by the usual conga-line of Gaia-phobic right-wingers.

I mean, really. Why are they so scrupulous all of a sudden? Remember when Tony Abbott admitted that what he said wasn't always the "gospel truth". That was so ironic because clearly that was one of the few times he actually was being straight up. They were all...
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Mentioned in today's Cut and Paste in the Australian

Posted by Derek Sapphire on Thursday, January 13, 2011,
Fellow travellers, I have been informed that one of my blog posts has been mentioned in The Australian's Cut and Paste section. For those of you who don't know, it's a sad little corner of that wretched rag that was accurately dubbed a "daily compendium of schadenfreude and spleen" by Robert Manne.

From my experience in the blogosphere and elsewhere I know what those who read (and write) papers like The Australian think of people who care deeply about humanity, the planet and the future - and ...
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