TIM BLAIR: HE DOESN’T KNOW HIS LEFT FROM HIS RIGHT

A classic ploy of the right-wing propagandist is to try and wedge the left. Tim Blair's propaganda piece today in Sydney's 'Daily Telegraph' newspaper is a classic example of this.

In 1967 a West German policeman, who also happened to be a member of the East German Stasi spy organisation, shot and killed a left-wing demonstrator in then West Berlin. Tim Blair's twisted mind sees this as a ‘leftist committing murder against a leftist’. He actually thinks that the Stasi, the most hated security police organisation in Europe at the time, is ‘left wing’ or ‘socialist’ and that this spy who was with the West German police must therefore have really been a ‘socialist’. He thinks this because he believes that the East German Communist Party was actually ‘Communist’.

Based on Blair's misguided and somewhat ignorant logic he would be telling us next that Stalin was ‘left-wing’ simply because he called himself a ‘communist’. If one follows this logic through, Bolt will no doubt also be believing that Hitler must be ‘left-wing’ because he called his party ‘Socialist’ and a ‘German workers’ party. The connotations couldn’t be more ‘left-wing’.

The fact is the Stasi officer that murdered a left-wing demonstrator whilst posing as a West German police officer was no more ‘left-wing’ or a ‘socialist’ than Hitler or Stalin was. Stalin’s so-called ‘Communist Soviet Union’ was as much a right-wing totalitarian state as Hitler’s National ‘Socialist German Workers’ state was and East Germany after the war was no better.

Just because people attach labels to themselves doesn’t mean to say they actually are what the label says they are.

But the right-wing would never want to let the reality of history get in the way of a propaganda opportunity.

And the Rightoid Tim Blair is no exception. Blair, and, of course, Andrew Bolt at Melbourne’s ‘Herald Sun’ who couldn’t resist getting in on the same propaganda, just don’t know their left from their right.

ANDREW BOLT AND THE ART OF RACIST PROJECTION

Dyed-in-the-wool racists tend to have a penchant for strongly denying they are racist and many even have a tendency to protect themselves against such accusations by projecting their racism on those that expose them by accusing them of somehow being racist.

One mainstream media racist who has perfected the art of projection in this way, though he is by no means alone in this ability, is the well-known racist and Murdoch propagandist blogging at Melbourne’s ‘Herald Sun’ newspaper, Andrew Bolt.

This racist has now, or at least so he thinks, perfected the propagandists art of not only projecting but actually double projecting his racism while at the same time distancing himself by inference from his own racism.

Stay with me; it goes like this: Guy Rundle, a well known left-wing writer and anti-racist, wrote a piece that accentuated the current spate of racism going on in the blogs of the likes of Bolt, Blair, et al, by giving exaggerated examples of the kind of stuff Australian racists come out with these days especially at blogs like Bolt and Blair’s. Bolt and other racist bloggers have seized the opportunity to deny their own racism by actually accusing Rundle of being some kind of latent racist himself for writing this stuff. In doing so, Bolt and others are merely attempting to deflect the slur of being a racist away from themselves but in reality are only ‘projecting’ themselves which they try to do at Rundle’s expense.

Of course, while the ruse has probably worked with the usual mob of dumb and gullible racist self-deniers and bloggies that gather at these sites, most see it for what it really is; a fairly transparent and pathetic attempt to deny their own racism and accuse those that are clearly not racist as being such.

Naturally, I was not able to point this out to Bolt at his racist blog. When I attempted to the response was predictable:

"SNIP - YOU ARE BANNED FROM THIS SITE FOR RACISM. PLEASE STOP TRYING TO SNEAK IN."

Says it all really.

ULTRA-RACIST ANDREW BOLT HAS HIS ‘I SAID THIS WOULD HAPPEN’ MOMENT.

I suppose there’s nothing better for a sick racist like Andrew Bolt, than to seize upon an opportunity to peddle his own racism on the back of non-white inter-ethnic racist violence. It’s a sort of; ‘See, I told you this would happen’ moment for him.

Most of his bloggies at his Melbourne ‘Herald-Sun’ column naturally go along with Bolt’s perverse sense of patronising racial logic as can be seen when one reads some of the outrageously blatant racist comments made by them. Fortunately, while it may seem like a lot of them, a quick look at who’s writing this garbage reveals that there really are only just a few of them making multiple comments by simply feeding off each other.

Most Australians, however, are able to see right through this nonsense.

MURDOCH WAR LOON AT THE ‘WEEKLY STANDARD’ THINKS CHENEY’S ‘WINNING THE DEBATE’.

I’m not sure what Stephen ‘Smokey’ Hayes over at Murdoch’s neocon comic ‘The Weekly Standard’ has been puffing on this time but it seems to be either hallucinatory or, more likely, just a little something that induces delusions.

In his latest piece he seems to think that Cheney, despite being ‘unpopular’ (try ‘despised’) is winning the debate on where US national security policy should be going. Smokey just loves Cheneyspeak and is keen to quote his most disgusting hate and arrogance utterings:

“When we get people who are more concerned about reading the rights to an al Qaeda terrorist than they are with protecting the United States against people who are absolutely committed to do anything they can to kill Americans, then I worry.”

al Qaeda terrorists? What al Qaeda terrorists? The vast majority the US has locked up down Guantanamo way are innocent of any crime; but, hey, why would Cheney, Smokey and all their warmongering mates let a little thing like ‘innocence’ get in the way of all the fun they have waterboarding them?

Then there’s this piece of arrogance that Smokey quotes:

“The United States needs to be not so much loved as it needs to be respected. Sometimes, that requires us to take actions that generate controversy.”

Cheney, Smokey and the rest of the neocon gang at ga-ga land couldn’t care less if their so-called policies ‘generated controversy’ or not; they’d just go right ahead and do it anyway.

Cheney’s not ‘winning the debate’; rather, Obama is losing it to him. The vast majority of Americans detest Cheney and detest the notion of torture, recognising that it flies in the face of all that America is supposed to be and what most Americans believe in.

The neocon loon Smokey Hayes might like to think Cheney’s winning the debate but the reality is the people of America have already heard the debate and made their choice at the last Presidential election. Cheney’s ilk lost the debate and lost the election. The fact that Obama’s going back on the mandate the American people gave him has nothing to do with the criminal Cheney ‘winning the debate’.

But don’t tell Smokey; he’ll wake up to reality just as soon as whatever he’s been puffing on wears off.

THE RACIST TIM BLAIR EXPLOITS THE RIGHT-WING PROPAGANDISTS DREAM FOR ALL IT’S WORTH.

There’s nothing like a really pretty and articulate girl who also happens to be a racist to come along and appear on TV to get a racist propagandists heart pumping.

It certainly got Murdoch racist and propagandist Tim Blair of Sydney’s ‘Daily Telegraph’ energized.

“This is excellent”, he writes excitedly while linking to a video clip of an expressive and pretty 19-year old racist who witnessed a shooting incident in Sydney and without a second thought describes the two men involved as ‘wogs’.

For those that don’t know, the term ‘wogs’ when used to describe someone you don’t know, as in this case and in this context, is a derogatory term that is invariably used by those who have racist tendencies.

The fact that the girl has chosen to expose herself as a racist is one thing; the fact that the racist propagandist Tim Blair has milked the story for all its worth demonstrates the depth to which Australia’s race-hate merchants are prepared to sink in order to peddle their sick poison.

Blair reinforces the racist message by repeating the descriptions of two men involved as being ‘wogs’ deceitfully hoping that no one would notice that, far from imitating the girl, he is actually displaying his own racism.

AUSTRALIAN MURDOCH ISLAMOPHOBE COMPLAINS ABOUT ‘ISLAM DAY’ IN HAWAII BUT WILL HE COMPLAIN ABOUT ‘JEWISH AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH’ IN THE WHOLE OF U.S.?

Last Tuesday I wrote of Australian Murdoch propagandist Andrew Bolt’s complaint about the Hawaiian senate creating an ‘Islam Day’ while only some 0.5% of Hawaiians are Muslims. I wondered if Bolt would be as quick to condemn such a move if had the Hawaiian senate created an ‘Israel Day’.

We’re about to find out. Yesterday, President Obama went one better by declaring that the month of May will be Jewish American Heritage Month for the whole of the US! Not just Hawaii. And the Jewish population in the US is only 1.78%.

I have no problems with Jewish Americans being recognised in this way so one has to wonder why Andrew Bolt has a problem with Islam getting the same recognition.

One doesn’t need to have it spelt out.

The question now is; will we go to Andrew Bolts’ column in Melbourne’s ‘Herald Sun’ newspaper and find a complaint from him about Jewish Americans being recognised.

Don’t hold your breath!

DOES THE RACIST ANDREW BOLT FEAR BEING CHARGED WITH INCITING RACE HATRED?

In his column today Andrew Bolt, the anti-Islam racist propagandist at the Murdoch-owned Melbourne ‘Herald-Sun’ newspaper, writes regarding a Perth man who has been charged over an anti-Semitic YouTube film he made: “I damned the video, and worry about the intellectual culture that’s now licensing Jew-hatred. But I’m not entirely easy about what’s happened to that film-maker since”.

Bolt goes on: “That this man was scorned so comprehensively was the most important and necessary reaction. But calling in the law to silence him? It’s not just an attack on free speech, but may also prove counterproductive, elevating an object of ridicule into a martyr.”

Bolt’s fear here is not so much ‘free speech’ – he has no interest in ‘free speech’; he refuses to publish any comments I make at his blog – but more a fear of a precedent being set whereby he too could be arrested for inciting race hatred aimed at Islam.

Bolt’s hypocrisy knows no bounds.

DESPISED AUSTRALIAN ULTRA RACIST, ANDREW BOLT, CONTINUES HIS HATE-FEST AGAINST ISLAM.

Andrew Bolt, the anti-Islam and anti-black and coloured racist propagandist at the Murdoch-owned Melbourne ‘Herald-Sun’ newspaper, is continuing his Islamophobic hate-fest in his column. Today he uses the Hawaiian state senate’s decision to create an ‘Islam Day’ to launch into today’s attack against Islam. Bolt reinforces his racist stance by asking: “If adherents of this faith hadn’t killed so many Americans, would it have attracted this kind of fawning?” The reality, of course, is that genuine ‘adherents of this faith’ would not have committed such a crime in the first place.

Bolt justifies his attack against Islam in this case based on the fact that only some 0.5% of Hawaiians are Muslims (which happens to be about the same percentage of Jews on the islands). One wonders if Bolt would have been so quick off the mark to criticise the Hawaiian senate if it had created, say, an ‘Israel Day’ to commemorate the founding of Israel. One doubts it.

ANDREW BOLT: TOO CLEVER BY HALF

Andrew Bolt makes a pathetic attempt at what he thinks is a clever piece of anti-Islam propaganda. He actually tries to demonise Islam by quoting a Muslim who is an anti-fundamentalist.

As usual, I tried to leave a comment at his blog but, of course, Bolt wasn’t game to publish it. It went like this:

“Wow, a right-winger banging on about Muslims and multiculturalism who turns out to be a Muslim?!!

Would that be like a Jewish left-winger banging on about Zionism and the Jews-only racist state of Israel?

Self-haters?”

The harder these propagandists try, the more transparent they are.

A QUICK ROUNDUP OF WHAT SOME OF MURDOCH’S PROPAGANDISTS ARE SAYING.

Andrew Bolt thinks millions dead and homeless is a ‘victory’.

Andrew Bolt at Melbourne’s ‘Herald Sun’ newspaper says, referring to Obama’s proposed troop pullout from Iraq: “Let’s pray the new president does not snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.”

One wonders how or why some 4600 allied soldiers and over a million Iraqis dead with another four million Iraqis displaced from their homes, the country with a now utterly ruined utility infrastructure, a nation rife with criminal violence cloaked in faux sectarian politics; one wonders how all this can be seen as a ‘victory’. And, to think, they actually want to do this all over again with Iran.


Tim Blair displays his racist credentials –again.

Tim Blair at Sydney’s ‘Daily Telegraph’ homes in on violence in Australia but the way Blair puts it one would think that only people ‘of Middle Eastern appearance’ were ever responsible. All the more reason, at least so the racist Blair and his bloggies would hope, to get the government to ban all immigration by Muslims and anyone else ‘of Middle Eastern appearance’.


Piers Akerman thinks asylum seekers are ‘illegal immigrants’.

Piers Akerman, also at Sydney’s ‘Daily Telegraph’ spent most of last week trying to convince Australians that boatpeople seeking asylum in Australia are ‘illegal immigrants’. He pathetically tried to argue that people arriving by this means should be stopped because their means of transport is too dangerous. True, it is dangerous, but that’s not why Akerman wants them stopped. The ‘too dangerous argument’ is simply a useful lever for Akerman to legitimise his true intent which is to stop all Asian and Middle Eastern immigration to Australia.

Illegal immigrants are people that arrive in Australia, usually by airliner, on a tourist visa with the express purpose of coming to stay. Asylum seekers arrive in Australia anyway they can with no intentions other than to seek asylum. What you see is what you get with these people – honest but desperate people. Akerman tries to make asylum seekers seem something else. He’d like the asylum seekers punished for allowing people smugglers to take advantage of them. Not only is Akerman a racist but he’s a deceitful one to boot.


Meanwhile, over in neocon Ga-Ga Land…

Michael Rubin, writing in Murdoch’s neocon comic ‘The Weekly Standard’, reckons that “a Taliban spokesman announced that Osama bin Laden would be welcome in Swat”, a small province in Pakistan close to the nations capital, Islamabad. If he were alive I’m sure he would be; after all, it’s not called Islamabad for nothing. His spirit, however, is likely to be more welcome there than American and NATO soldiers which, of course, the neocons and the Zionists in particular are hankering after, fearful that an Islamic fundamentalist government of a nuclear armed nation could cause a problem for Zionist ambitions in Palestine and south Lebanon.