Andrew Bolt's Blog, page 38

Hanson again bullied and abused

If you claim to be against racism, you are essentially claiming to be more tolerant and less rude.

In fact, today’s breed of “anti-racists” - the fashionable kind - seem to be vicious and abusive, and often as racist as what they purport to condemn. Their moralising is just an excuse for bullying.

The latest example:

An Indigenous leader has shouted down Pauline Hanson, calling her a “racist redneck” at ... the Cairns Indigenous Art Fair on Saturday…

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Turnbull backs down at last

Why has it taken two weeks for Malcolm Turnbull to say he might heed at least one lesson from his election embarrassment?

Mr Turnbull has previously pledged no changes to the “ironclad” suite of proposals on high-end superannuation savings, which conservatives inside the party have criticised as retrospective and argued were a weakness during the election campaign…

The Prime Minister has now signalled that he is listening “very keenly” to the concerns...

More shocking than mowing down children is to mock Jonathan Green

How curious. Islamists can massacre people at a concert, fly passenger jets into tall buildings, blow up drinkers at a Bali bar and mow down sightseers watching the fireworks by a beach, yet ABC presenter Jonathan Green can still maintain his faith in our “cultured reason. Our tolerance. Our audacious confidence in the fundamental goodness of others.”

Only one thing can make Green flinch in his audacious confidence. Being teased as a pompous blowhard by the...

Playing Malcemon

Of course, Rowan Dean is the country’s finest satirist:

A new augmented reality game called Malcémon Go! is taking the Liberal party by storm. The game, due to be officially launched on Monday morning at a special “party” room meeting in Canberra, requires players to imagine that they are in a fantasy political landscape populated by pocket monsters who only appear when the Prime Minister isn’t looking at them.

In the imaginary landscape, which is based on...

If everyone else is worse, what stops a Kenny from backing Abbott?

Having helped Malcolm Turnbull to bury Tony Abbott, there’s hardly a press gallery member yet courageous enough to admit the coup was a disaster and Abbott would return.

But surely when they canvas the alternatives to Turnbull it must occur to even the most stubborn that only Abbott can now win in the marginal seats the Liberals need to defend or recapture?

Watch Mark Kenny skirt around the obvious after assuming without explanation that Abbott’s return is...

There’s a war on and Turnbull takes cover

Sam Maiden demonstrates how wounded Turnbull is, and how brittle:

Not so clever, the Prime Minister’s surprising decision to not hold a press conference on Friday after the shocking terror attacks in Nice. Instead, the Foreign Minister Julie Bishop was sent out.

Given that five young Australians were wounded in the attacks it would have been wiser to do it himself even if it meant fielding questions over revelations he was forced to provide $1 million of...

If Islamists are uncontrollable even in jail then draw some conclusions

Do you sometimes suspect that our authorities do not do enough to protect us from Islamism?

Ahmed Elomar — the brother of high-profile jihadi Mohamed ­Elomar, who was killed by a US drone strike in Syria last year — is set for release from prison because a parole authority decided he could be radicalised in jail.

Elomar, 33, who has served ­almost three years of a maximum four-year, eight-month sentence for bashing a policeman with a pole during...

Tips for Sunday, July 17

Pass on your news tips here. Apologies for two things - that we don’t have weekend moderators to publish comments, and that posts will be light today, since I am spending time with the family.

UPDATE

Thank you so much to the nearly 400 people who turned up for the Sydney launch of my book on Friday. I am so grateful and humbled by your support:

Thanks again to John Roskam and the Institute of Public Affairs team, as well as Rowan Dean and Janet...

O’Keefe: Islam a great religion

Don’t criticise Islam! It is one of the ”great Abrahamic religions,” smirks Channel 7’s Andrew O’Keefe, trying unsuccessfully to best Pauline Hanson.

Coup in Turkey

This is explosive:

In a statement, the Turkish military says the rule of law must remain the priority.

“The power in the country has been seized in its entirety,” said the military statement read on NTV television, without giving further details. The military’s website was not immediately accessible.

State TV TRT reportedly off the air

President Erdogan’s whereabouts are unknown. The top general is arrested. Gunfire has been heard.

Erdogan has been...