ANDREW BOLT: RACIST, FASCIST, ISLAMOPHOBE

Andrew Bolt is Australia's most dangerous racist. He is employed by a major Australian regional newspaper and a TV station that broadcasts nationwide in order for him to directly peddle his racist and Islamophobic propaganda. His blog at Rupert Murdoch's Herald-Sun newspaper enjoys the support of a small but dedicated group of like-minded extreme right-wing bigots, rednecks and racists who regularly comment at his blog, and his TV spot is financially supported by various asssorted climate change deniers who have a vested interest in being anti-renewable resources and pro-pollutionist.

Bolt is dangerous because he has a wide audience that his employers see as being gullible to their brand of media propaganda.

This blog aims to expose Bolt for what he really is - a deceitful propagandist intent on dividing Australians by promoting fear and paranoia of multiculturalism. Without the backing of the likes of Murdoch and Gina Rinehart, et al, Bolt is nothing.

Sunday, April 29, 2012

ANDREW BOLT ATTEMPTS TO SMEAR ISLAM – AGAIN

Last week in his column at Melbourne’s Herald-Sun online blog, Andrew Bolt posted this disgusting article inferring that Muslims are able to practice necrophilia upon their dead wives provided they do so within six hours of death.

The story was based on some unsubstantiated story from Al Arabiya which Bolt knew was probably false and even said so in his piece quoting a Huffington Post piece that supported that idea.  

But that didn’t stop Bolt from taking the opportunity to jump on his anti-Islam bandwagon and posting the disgusting smear piece anyway.

I posted a comment in response that went thus:

Another sick piece of opportunistic journalism from Bolt designed specifically to smear Islam as part of his Islamophobic propaganda.

Needless to say, Bolt didn’t allow it to be published.

Today, Bolt, realising he was way out of line with his original post (or, more likely, told by his editors and legal people to at least tone it down) wrote a follow-up piece titled, ‘The making of the dead wife smear’ that almost – but not quite – comes across as a correction.

Again, I posted a comment in response. It went thus:

A smear indeed it was, Bolt - and one that you were prepared to perpetuate. Back-peddling furiously now will not relieve you of the responsibility of the part you played in this outrageous smear.

Again, of course, Bolt refused to publish it despite me sending it off several times.

The quicker this disgusting racist and Islamophobe is shut down the better for Australia – and it would even be better for Murdoch as well!

Sunday, April 22, 2012

BOLT BRINGS OUT HIS SUPPORTERS TRUE COLOURS


In an unusual post today, Andrew Bolt actually came out in support of the AFL devoting some rooms at the MCG for use as prayer rooms for Muslims – and any other religion that wants to use them. (Presumably coaches of teams that aren’t doing too well are also included in this group!)

Bolt’s stance, however, seems to have upset many of his supporters who have commented against Bolt’s unusual position, and in doing so, they have shown their true Islamophobic colours.

‘homer of act’ writes:

Your [sic] proposing we go down exactly the same ill thought out road the poms did 20 years ago. You prattle on about press freedoms and freedom of speech. But setting people aside as special cases which is what prayer rooms do is the first step the stupid poms took. And now if you pass a comment on a blog over their [sic] that wouldn’t raise eyebrows here you risk a prison sentence because muslims their now have special dispensation and protection under wide ranging laws. And this hasn’t protected them form vilification but made the matter a whole lot worse. Sorry but this is the most stupid column I have ever read of yours.


While ‘k1w1 of Brisbane’ says:

I don’t see too many chapels at Australian sporting venues. This is just one more step toward the islamification [sic] of a western culture.

‘Matthew of Melbourne’ reckons:

What tripe Andrew. And then well have to make all outlets Halal certified. And then special areas for Islamic women so they aren’t at the mercy of prying eyes.

And all the while, canceling of Christmas celebrations, Halal food everywhere. Segregational swimming pools, and I could go on with acts of tolerance.

And tell me Andrew, how many Muslims do you see praying in the Multi-denominational prayer room at The Womens ? .... None, they’ve taken over the room next to it.


Dont be dumb. It’s marketed as multi-denominational, but we know whs [sic] been pushing it and who will use it.


And finally, it’s the footy. Won’t someone just say it .... It’s the footy, for gods sake, if you can’t pay for 3 hrs, you’re in the wrong country.

‘Rilivon’ apparently seems to think that Muslims are demanding non-Muslims pray with them:

No Andrew, they should pray at home or in their Mosque’s.
It’s their religion, not ours.
They are in our country.
If it doesn’t suit them, then they should go to a country where they can pray all day.
I’m sick to death of the Muslim’s demanding we change our ways.
I’m fed up with it.

Bolt clearly has rubbed ‘Gobsmacked of Gippsland’ up the wrong way:

Mate, I find myself furiously agreeing with you in 99.9% of the issues you raise - but I completely disagree with you on this one.


I don’t care if the AFL says the rooms it shall make available are multi-religious, pertaining to the needs of all faiths.


The reality is that only one faith - islam - shall use them, and these rooms will become de facto mosques. And that means they shall very quickly become “no go” areas for anyone but muslims.


Mark my words very carefully - within a year or so of these rooms being established (and I will include the room you say currently exists at the MCG, because nobody knew it was there), these rooms will be islamic-only enclaves in each of our sporting arenas. They will give islam exactly the opportunity it seeks on every occasion - the capacity to establish an exclusive (in the full sense of that word) toe-hold in an area where it currently has but the merest of presences.


Islam has little interest in AFL - but islam has a great interest in spreading its presence into and over every aspect of Australian cultural and social existence.


Andrew, on this issue, you could not possibly be more incorrect.


Many of the ideas expressed by those that are usually Bolt’s supporters are exactly the same as those that are expressed by anti-Islam extremists like Norwegian right-wing monoculturalist and mass murderer Ander Breivik. Is Bolt merely trying to put distance between himself and his kindred spirit Breivik?

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

ANDERS BREIVIK AND ANDREW BOLT: THE SWORD AND THE PEN OF KINDRED SPIRITS

At his blog today Andrew Bolt tried desperately to spin his way out of being put in the same ideological frame as Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik.

Bolt writes:

You will remember how eager were many on the Left to use the horrific crimes of Anders Behring Breivik to smear mainstream conservatives.

He then goes on to quote an ABC article as though it was the ABC that was trying to smear ‘mainstream conservatives’. But what the ABC piece actually said was:

Accused Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik praised four Australian conservative leaders - including former Prime Minister John Howard - in his 1,500-page manifesto.
and:

In a manifesto posted online under the Anglicised pseudonym Andrew Berwick, the killer quoted Mr Howard, former treasurer Peter Costello, Catholic Cardinal George Pell and conservative writer and historian Keith Windschuttle.

It wasn’t the ABC smearing ‘mainstream conservatives’, the ABC was merely quoting Breivik himself. What Bolt has actually attempted to do is smear the ABC.

There should be no misunderstanding here – Bolt has no choice but to condemn Breivik for what he has done, but beneath the surface of that condemnation lurks the real Bolt who has exactly the same nationalistic and Islamophobic aspirations as Breivik. But where Breivik had a gun, Bolt has a weapon far more dangerous - he has access to the mainstream media with which to peddle those aspirations.

Bolt is peddling as hard as he can to put ideological distance between himself and Breivik but the more he tries, the more he places himself in the same pigeon-hole.

Thursday, April 12, 2012

IS ANDREW BOLT SUFFERING FROM ‘BOLT SYNDROME’?

Bolt Syndrome is a condition whereby sufferers delude themselves into believing that all the peoples of Australia should be just like them; same colour; same culture; same language; same political ideology – in other words they want a monoculturalist society where non-Western cultures, religions, heritage and identity are swept aside so that all Australians can be just like Bolt.

Other symptoms of Bolt Syndrome include an obsessive need to insult and vilify against whole groups of people that are different from Bolt. Sufferers also display signs of paranoia such as claiming that their right to insult and vilify are a denial of their right to ‘freedom of speech’. Sufferers also have an abnormal fear of the ‘other’ which usually presents as chronic Islamophobia and xenophobia.

The most recognisable symptom that sufferers present with and which invariably clinches the diagnosis of Bolt Syndrome is their denial that they are themselves in any way racist. Indeed, in many cases, sufferers of Bolt Syndrome not only deny they are racist but actually accuse those that expose their condition as being the ones that are racist.

Bolt Syndrome has been around since the year white Europeans first arrived in Australia. One would have thought, however, that we would have found a cure for it by now. A diverse multicultural Australia should unite to rid this nation of the destructive potential of the Bolt Syndrome.

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

GETTING RID OF AUSTRALIAN RACISTS IN THE MEDIA

It almost seems as though political right-wing extremism comes and goes in cycles As each cycle comes round again so the latest advocates of right-wing ideology need to find different ways of putting distance between themselves and the excesses and abhorrent reputations of their predecessors.

Today’s cycle of Australian right-wing extremists, who through the virtues of modern instantaneous communication technology are closely associated with like-minded right-winger extremists around the world, are a mixed bag. Most in Australia, however, because of their distinct nationalistic tendencies, reflect attitudes that are racist and supportive of the notions of ‘Western Exceptionalism’. For some of them their racism is blatant; Keith Windschuttle and Andrew Bolt for example, are classic haters of non-whites who are obsessed with the idea of Western monoculturalism flavoured with what they consider is the unique culture of ‘Australianism’.

The latest crop of right-wing extremists have found a new way of putting distance between themselves and the genocidal practices and propaganda of past outrageous right-wing racists. They do this by simply denying they are racist and they even deny, as Keith Windschuttle does, that white people in Australia were collectively racist or practiced racism as a matter of policy. They go to extraordinary lengths, for example, to deny that any Aboriginal children were taken away from their parents by white governments for the purpose of depleting and ‘breeding out’ the Aboriginal population. Windschuttle also denies that there was any wholesale slaughter of Aboriginal people in Australia and infers that what killings did occur were merely as result of just a few white settlers protecting themselves and their properties and families. Aboriginals that died at the hands of police were, according to Windschuttle, only killed while the police were going about their lawful duty imposing white colonial law on the Aboriginal peoples. Never mind that police were often summoned to protect settlers from Aborigines that were only trying to reclaim the lands that were stolen from them by the settlers in the first place.

Today’s Australian racists insist that they are monoculturalists and decry multiculturalism. While they recognise that since settlement there has been an influx of many races into Australia, they claim that Australia has maintained a uniform sense of culture because the vast majority of migrants have been British or white northern European. The extent to which any form of multiculturalism has been accepted of late by today's new breed of Australian racist is to recognise the culture that Mediterranean peoples, particularly Italians and Greeks, have brought to Australia; indeed, many of Australia’s new breed of Australian racists are themselves descendents of Italians and Greeks and who today are readily accepted by modern Anglo-Australian racists.

There is today a vast difference between the vision of a united Australia and a monoculturalist Australia; a difference which today's modern Australian racists are unable to accept.

Most Australians are pleased about being able to live in Australia regardless of their origins. Despite the best efforts of past racists, most people that have come to Australia from elsewhere on the planet have found a home and a place in the community while still being able to practice freely their culture and religion. They found or created work and businesses for themselves and built places they can share with others in the community from different origins. They have been able to do this while keeping for themselves aspects of their heritage and history that are important to them. All this has been achieved largely in an atmosphere of acceptance and tolerance. It is multiculturalism at its best.

But the racists of Australia want to stop multiculturalism from evolving any further.

Since British settlement in Australia there have been many waves of immigrants including Northern European, then Mediterranean, Eastern European, and Asian, and all in turn have contributed richly to Australia’s ever-changing culture. Today there is a new wave of immigrants arriving. They are predominately Muslims, many from countries that Australia has been militarily involved in or from countries that have been in civil wars in Asia and Africa. Most come as refugees seeking asylum and a new life just as so many new Australians have done before. It is these people that the modern Australian racists object to. They simply don’t want Islamic peoples to come to Australia. They don’t want African people to come to Australia. They insist that, if they do come, then at the very least, they must become ‘Australian’ as though there was some rigid specification that defines the Australian character that must be enforced upon all that come here turning them from what they are to what the racists want them to be – except, of course, they never can be because they are non-white and/or Muslims.

Today's modern racists fear that the latest wave of newcomers will change the Australian character. It is this fear of change that motivates their racism, as indeed it has motivated all racism down through the ages. As a result, today's modern Australian racist has no respect for the culture and heritage of many of those that are arriving at our shores today – many of them literally as they arrive by boat as asylum seeking refugees.

Today’s Australian racist vehemently draws the line at allowing migration to Australia by Islamic and African peoples. They want it stopped. For them the change is too much, too quickly.

Modern Australian racists have a number of resources at their disposal with which to peddle their message. Racist Australian journalists such as Tim Blair, Piers Akerman, Andrew Bolt, et al, are able to disseminate their racist ideology through their columns at various mainstream Rupert Murdoch-owned newspapers and online blogs. They have built around themselves a network of like-minded Australians who refer to each other via links on their blogs. Most of their work is by inference rather than directly through their own ideas. They have a strong propensity to cut and paste cherry-picked extracts of other peoples work and use them in their columns. They do this for several reasons. Firstly, if what they are using comes across as being too outrageous, they can simply claim they are quoting someone else; secondly, they hope that, if the piece quoted and linked to is from a person of note then it somehow gives weight and credibility to the journalists racist argument; thirdly, it gives the impression that the author of the original work used is supportive of the racist view when, invariably, if one reads the whole original article, they are not, it’s just that the segment used has been used outside of the original context; and finally, where they can find support from like-minded racists that purport to be people of note, they will work closely with each other to provide mutual support for each others views. The relationship between Keith Windschuttle, a historian, author and editor of the extreme right-leaning Quadrant magazine, and Melbourne’s Herald-Sun’s Andrew Bolt is a classic example of two fervent racists who closely support each other through their respective publications.

Recently, Bolt was taken to the Federal court to answer charges of racial vilification. He was found guilty. The verdict effectively silenced Bolt from directly saying or publishing anything that was likely to be construed in any way as vilifying other peoples, especially people that identify as being indigenous. Bolt has argued that this was an infringement on his freedom of speech while the judge merely ruled that Bolt had deliberately contravened Australia’s racial vilifications laws. The judgement was seen by many on the right – and also a few on the left – as an attack on freedom of speech.

Since the judgement has been made, there have been moves by the government to establish a news media regulatory body to limit the political power of the media in accordance with the recommendations of the Finkelstein Report of the Independent Enquiry into the Media and Media Regulation. The release of the report and its recommendations has caused uproar in the media industry. And the irony is, because so much of Australia’s media is owned by Murdoch and staffed by his army of loyal right-wing journalists and commentators, most debate within the print and online media itself has been stifled with only denouncements of the proposal making any headway. Andrew Bolt, unsurprisingly, is up there amongst those leading the assault against the notion of a regulated media.

Using his well-honed propagandist skills, Bolt has been able to use the judgement made against him about further vilifying people as a tool in his fight against media regulation and what he perceives to be a withdrawal of his rights to ‘freedom of speech’. In his column at the Herald-Sun, Bolt is constantly referring to the fact that he is unable to comment about certain subjects, i.e., the physical appearance of a person identifying as an Indigenous Australian, through fear of being prosecuted for contempt of court as well as further charges of racial vilification. By merely stating this at his blog, Bolt effectively (but not literally) invites his followers and fellow travellers that operate other blogs to make comments that directly reflect Bolt’s opinions which, had he said himself, would possibly have seen him back in court. Bolt’s fellow Murdoch propagandists and bloggers, Piers Akerman and Tim Blair at Sydney’s Daily Telegraph are more than happy to oblige by writing posts that support and cross link to Bolt. And, since Bolt is unable to allow even comments at his own blog on these matters, Akerman and Blair are quite happy to allow commenters to use their blogs for Bolt supporters to express themselves. Indeed, many of Bolt’s regular commenters can also be seen at making comments at Akerman and Blair’s blogs.

Bolt has also relied on Windschuttle’s support. In his most recent piece at Quadrant, Windschuttle, while taking care not to even mention Bolt, says he will defy any legislation that prevents him from publishing material that becomes controlled. Bolt, however, readily links to Windschuttle’s article.

The modern Australian racist’s propaganda, both in the mainstream media and within the extreme right-wing peripheral blogs that they link to, has become relentless. There’s barely a day goes by that the likes of Akerman, Blair and Bolt don’t make some kind of either blatant or inferred racist comment.

The only reason that these racists fear their so-called ‘freedom of speech’ being curtailed is because it will prevent them from continuing to peddle their racist ideology.

The reality is that there is no such thing as ‘free speech’; somebody always has to pay. People that identify themselves as Indigenous have to pay. People who are asylum seeking refugees have to pay. People who are Muslims have to pay. People who are Africans have to pay. They have to pay for no other reasons than for being what they are. The quicker the freedom to vilify other people for being different is removed from the network of racists in the media, then the better for Australia and the better for the world.

Our country already has freedom of speech; what the likes of Australia’s modern racists don’t have, and should never have, is the freedom preach hatred and to vilify people just because they are not the same as the racists.

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

ANDREW BOLT'S EMBARASSING FAUX PAS

It was just a little thing but it so classically demonstrated what a deceitful and conceited racist Andrew Bolt really is.

Today Bolt posted a piece about how the use of the English language is being eroded by people who migrate to Australia without having learnt how to write English properly. His motivation for the criticism was the opportunity for him to push his anti-multicultural nonsense as part of his program to peddle the cause of his brand of racism.

In the original post Bolt wrote:

Speaking and writing basic English is, after all, a key to good citizenship, neighborliness and effective integration.

The comment I wrote in response went thus:

For most people, Bolt, the answer to the problem would simply be to learn how to write English as well as speak it.

For you the answer would be not to allow 'foreigners' into Australia unless they're able to write English.

‘Speaking and writing basic English’, Bolt, ‘is not the key to good citizenship, neighborliness and effective integration’; tolerance is.

And, by the way, speaking of writing basic English, Bolt, in Australia we spell ‘neighborliness’ with a ‘u’ in it as in ‘neighbourliness’.

The comment was published.

At least, for a little while it was.

When Bolt discovered his embarrassing faux pas he pulled my comment and corrected his extremely embarrassing post as though nothing had happened.

Orwell’s Ministry of Truth has been at it again.

Fortunately, technology has the upper hand these days in countering such woeful deceit.