Andrew Bolt: more than just the village idiot

I’ve never seen Andrew Bolt as anything but a village idiot. The label, first applied by Mike Carlton a couple of years ago has stuck with me. It fits Bolt, just nicely.

I wonder at times if Bolt really takes himself seriously. If he does, then what parallel universe does he dwell in?

I’m yet to meet a person who likes him, let alone harbour an ounce of respect. Indeed, he has a history of inciting hate, much of which comes back at him. But as his employer keeps reminding us, Bolt is one of the country’s most influential media identities. It bothers me though, that they keep this idiot on the loose.

The man is also a hypocrite, engaging in the same behaviors he condemns others for. His idiocy must prevent him from recognising his own hypocrisy, and unfortunately in remains unchecked. Both his idiocy and hypocrisy have reached ‘red alert’.

Yesterday Andrew wrote a few nice words about Denise Allen. From what I know of Denise she’s a likeable person who plays with a straight bat, and for once found myself nodding in agreement with Andrew’s poison pen. However, the niceties were dispensed with and his usual bile took over and it became evident that he was actually hanging Denise out to dry. This is from his article:

Here are some recent thoughts of Nice Denise, the social justice campaigner.

On Margie Abbott, wife of the Opposition Leader:

Your husband, along with his bunch of feral shadow ministers and many on his backbench, have turned the political discourse in this country into the obnoxious, wretched, ugliness it is today.

Are you proud of him? I’m sure you are. You must be, because you have now come out and said what a wonderful, loving, decent man he is! To say that — you must agree with everything he says and does! Otherwise you would have the courage to say there are some things you don’t agree with him on….

Quite frankly, it disgusts me..

He may love you and the girls and his mother – and Peta Credlin – but that’s where his affinity with women ends.

So get over yourself, Margie Abbott.

Your husband is one of the most vicious Opposition leaders in this country’s history — and as he would say: “It’s just politics!”

It’s about time the decent women and men of this nation fought back against your husband’s ugly persona.

So … if you can’t take the heat, get out of the kitchen!

If your husband will let you, that is.

On Peta Credlin, Abbott’s chief of staff:

But when you roll out such personal information – information usually kept private between a woman and her partner, and perhaps few sympathetic confidantes – you, Ms Credlin, should be rightly condemned for using your IVF procedures as a blatant political tool. For using this emotive issue to sway the public into sympathetically thinking your boss doesn’t “have a problem with women”…

Which makes you a pretty unpleasant person in yourself. You will go to any length and stoop down into the lowest gutter to get your rotten boss over the line at the next election….

Even using your own personal tragedy as a lever for sympathy. What a disgraceful woman you are.

On political journalists:

Like jackals baying for blood, these neo-hacks ram their personal opinions down the throats of either the unsuspecting (often so aghast they are shell-shocked), or of the insatiable – the scandal hungry – devouring biased information as if it was their last meal…

I cannot remember a time when the mainstream media have been more in the gutter and more hateful than it is now — and they have the hide to disparage politicians for not being ‘honourable”.

Once I thought someone spiteful, personally abusive and shrill had no future in politics. But today I suspect Nice Denise will fit right in with Gillard Labor.

Oh, and if you are surprised a professional conscience could be so nasty, I must remind you again of the words of Bertrand Russell:

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

Not a warranted attack on Denise, one could argue, given that it comes from the self elected champion of free speech. That was an epic hypocrisy moment: inviting condemnation of Denise for exercising her right to free speech. Obviously Bolt doesn’t encourage it for those who dwell beyond the political divide.

Hypocrisy moment number two is monumental. Denise was attacked for speaking her mind, yet the comments he passed for publication are freely allowed to be savage against Denise. Here are some examples:

amf
Tue 26 Feb 13 (02:26pm)

Another unemployable desperate to get her snout back in the public trough.

Sirocco of Canberra
Tue 26 Feb 13 (02:30pm)