Andrew Bolt

Tuesday, June 28, 2011 at 12:02am
 

Want further proof that Labor’s fury over Lord Monckton’s “fascist” gibe at climate guru Ross Garnaut (for which he’s apologised) is hypocritical and deely cynical? Want further proof that the media is likewise selective in its indignation?

Then ask where Labor and the press pack were when even worse was said by Leftist heroes about John Howard.

Example one:


FORMER prime minister Paul Keating has accused John Howard of being unpatriotic and anti-Muslim and compared his ideology to Adolf Hitler’s.
In a scathing address to the Sydney film school festival last night, Mr Keating described Mr Howard as “a nationalist and not a patriot”. He then attributed the same description to Adolf Hitler.

“A patriot will not exclude a person from another race from the community where they have lived side by side and whom he has known for many years but a nationalist will always remain suspicious of someone who does not seem to belong to his kind of people or more likely his kind of thinking,” Mr Keating said.

“Shades there of John Howard’s discomfort with Australia’s multicultural community and a disgust of the Islamic community.”

Mr Keating said when the prime minister disparaged elites, he was disparaging cosmopolitan attitudes which proved his nationalism.

“In Hitler’s day the term ‘elite’ had not yet arrived. If it had, the nationalist in him would have compelled him to use it, for it’s easy shorthand if nothing else.”



Example two:


FORMER Liberal prime minister Malcolm Fraser has suggested parts of the Howard Government’s anti-terror package resemble measures taken by Adolf Hitler and says Kim Beazley’s handling of opposition to the package should determine his leadership.

Mr Fraser said he hoped a High Court challenge would be mounted to the terror deal, if and when it was enacted, and said both the presumption of innocence and the right to silence were being challenged by what his former treasurer John Howard was proposing.

“Some of this legislation is truly terrible,” he said. “Some of the analogies ... one of the first pieces of legislation Hitler’s government put into place was something for ‘the good order and safety’ of the citizens of Germany: preventive detention ...

Monckton is being made an example of to demonise and delegitimise scepticsm about the Government’s global warming agenda. It is despicable and anti-intellectual.

(Thanks to reader Alan RM Jones.)


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Well the warministas are, on the whole, totalitarian and believe rather stoutly in State control.
While Lord Monckton’s delivery was a bit asinine I thought the message was a fair one.
I would have a lot more respect for His Lordship had His Lordship stuck to his guns.
I apologies fulsomely if any of the noisome trolls on here find my comments offensive.

Grand Wizard of Bellevue Hill (Reply)
Tue 28 Jun 11 (01:08am)
Ed replied to Grand Wizard
Tue 28 Jun 11 (11:29am)

Well the warministas are, on the whole, totalitarian and believe rather stoutly in State control.

In the 1980’s Lord Monckton proposed that every member of the community be blood test every month and anyone found to have AIDS be quarantined for life.

Some rather totalitarian don’t you think?

Hitler did the French a Favour

Because the French hate the Germans, the Green movement never spread from the Fatherland into France.

As a result France has a very low “carbon footprint” and only relies on 11% of its electricity being produced from Carbon based fuels.

The Brown Shirts reinvented themselves after the war by changing colours!

Sceptic of Geelong (Reply)
Tue 28 Jun 11 (01:45am)

Poor old irrelevant Keating, even after all these years he still can’t get over losing. Talk about a woefully sore loser.

In Keating’s eyes, a lot of good honest people must be nationalists instead of patriots. It appears to me that Keating has confused peoples misunderstanding of cosmopolitan attitudes, which he prefers to just simply common sense attitudes, which the majority of Australians prefer.

The use of the word ‘elite’, whilst appearing to be easy shorthand for himself, must grate him dreadfully to also use Hitler as a vehicle to have it reduced in journalism. Always a sign of an elitist though, why use simple language when you can confuse yourself with being an orator & blame the misunderstanding of your words on the baying populace.

Inna (Reply)
Tue 28 Jun 11 (01:48am)

I wonder which evil Leftie said this:

But he’s gone too far in this deeply personal attack and an apology is in order. Without one, it will be unwise for other sceptics to associate themselves with him on his Australian tour.

And this:

Life suddenly too hot for the eco-fascists of 10:10

AS replied to Maggie the global warming guru Thatcher
Tue 28 Jun 11 (12:22pm)

ooh , ooh ...pick me. Can I have a guess?

Observer of Wodonga replied to Maggie the global warming guru Thatcher
Tue 28 Jun 11 (02:03pm)

You know Maggie, I always laugh at your pseudonym as it is nothing more than a huge own goal.  You obviously want to imply this part of Thatcher’s history:

Certainly, Mrs Thatcher was the first world leader to voice alarm over global warming, back in 1988....She backed him ( Dr John Houghton) in the setting up of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 1988, and promised the Met Office lavish funding for its Hadley Centre, which she opened in 1990, as a world authority on “human-induced climate change”.

But like all “believers” you omit the really important piece of information that doesn’t suit your argument:

In 2003, towards the end of her last book, Statecraft, in a passage headed “Hot Air and Global Warming”, she issued what amounts to an almost complete recantation of her earlier views. She voiced precisely the fundamental doubts about the warming scare that have since become familiar to us. Pouring scorn on the “doomsters”, she questioned the main scientific assumptions used to drive the scare, from the conviction that the chief force shaping world climate is CO2, rather than natural factors such as solar activity, to exaggerated claims about rising sea levels. She mocked Al Gore and the futility of “costly and economically damaging” schemes to reduce CO2 emissions. She cited the 2.5C rise in temperatures during the Medieval Warm Period as having had almost entirely beneficial effects. She pointed out that the dangers of a world getting colder are far worse than those of a CO2-enriched world growing warmer. She recognised how distortions of the science had been used to mask an anti-capitalist, Left-wing political agenda which posed a serious threat to the progress and prosperity of mankind.

In other words, long before it became fashionable, Lady Thatcher was converted to the view of those who, on both scientific and political grounds, are profoundly sceptical of the climate change ideology. Alas, what she set in train earlier continues to exercise its baleful influence to this day. But the fact that she became one of the first and most prominent of “climate sceptics” has been almost entirely buried from view.

So massive “Own Goal” there Maggie! LOL

It’s almost as if the media pack don’t take the left too seriously, hence why they never pay mind to what they say.

Kathleen.A of Melbourne (Reply)
Tue 28 Jun 11 (03:37am)

The Eugenics Movement - The Science was “In”

Eugenics was widely popular in the early decades of the 20th century but by mid 20th century it had fallen into disfavor, having become associated with Nazi Germany.

Eugenics is the “applied science” or the bio-social movement which advocates the use of practices aimed at improving the genetic composition of a population.

Just as the Fascists used selective “science” to support the Eugenics Movement, we now have the “Eco-Fascists” using selective “science” to support their movement.

As Shakespeare observe: ”The devil can cite scripture for his own purpose”

Sceptic of Geelong (Reply)
Tue 28 Jun 11 (04:20am)

The hypocrisy of Labor has been shown by Alan RM Jones, you could use his research Andrew on the Bolt Report next Sunday.

sarah (Reply)
Tue 28 Jun 11 (06:14am)

You say people have stopped listening to Julia Gillard.  They have long stopped listening to Paul Keating and Malcolm Fraser.
excaim

john of wollongong (Reply)
Tue 28 Jun 11 (06:40am)

Paul Syvret of the Courier-Mail, nearly blows a gasket in his fury over his perception of the “denier’s”

Climate change vitriol

and then uses his column to spew some vitriol of his own.  I gather he is not a fan of Andrew’s!

elsie of brisbane (Reply)
Tue 28 Jun 11 (07:00am)
Observer of Wodonga replied to elsie
Tue 28 Jun 11 (02:12pm)

I too found him amusing when he opened with:

EXTREMISTS of any persuasion are noisome creatures. They are closed to reason, tend to believe in the end justifying whatever means necessary and prosecute their arguments in aggressive and destructive fashion.

and then invited people to join his discussion by having a button that said:

“Climate Deniers getting heated”.

.  Gee nothing noisome, closed to reason, believing and justifying by whatever means necessary his argument in and agressive and destructive fashion in that statement is there?

It would appear that Paul Syvret in the great tradition of Graeme Readfern is busy proving himself a hypocrite and is too busy kicking own goals to notice what is really going on around him.

And the left dare try to say that the MSM leans right. How can people make such pathetic arguments in the face of such overwhelming evidence that they are wrong?

Monckton has shown himself time and time again to be pure class. There is absolutely no way that the green cult will show the same thing. They are nothing but spoiled little children.

MattR of Melbourne (Reply)
Tue 28 Jun 11 (07:31am)
bennoba replied to MattR
Tue 28 Jun 11 (11:46am)

They are nothing but spoiled little children.

The screaming and stamping of feet has become deafening.


It’s also worth remembering that Fraser himself was the subject of endless Nazi comparisons because he brought down St Gough.

Remember how the protesters always replaced the ‘s’ in his name with a swastika?

Yes, wishy-washy do-nothing Big Mal was a dangerous fascist back then. My, how times change.

Erasmus of Melbourne (Reply)
Tue 28 Jun 11 (07:56am)

This is the real ALP. It will only get worse as time goes by.

Acushla (Reply)
Tue 28 Jun 11 (08:24am)

While we should be livid with the hypocracy of the MSM we should not be surprised. These so called unbiased journalists are not reporters but simple state their opinions all of which are left leaning. Pathetic. But the result has been for more to rely on blogs for news. The MSM are slowly killing themselves.

What happens in the MSM is very like the slow realisation in places like the Netherlands that another favourite of the left, multiculturalism, is not successful. The CO2 scam is failing as well. The pendulum is swinging slowly to the right at long last.

lawrie of Wingham (Reply)
Tue 28 Jun 11 (08:29am)

It is despicable and anti-intellectual.

It generally is.

bennoba of Melbourne (Reply)
Tue 28 Jun 11 (09:17am)

Who listens to what those old farts Keating & Fraser say anymore?

David of Emerald (Reply)
Tue 28 Jun 11 (09:23am)
Angry Loner replied to David of Emerald
Tue 28 Jun 11 (12:14pm)

They hang on every word they themselves utter, preening over it’s historical importance.Two irrelevent sad old men green with envy at Hawke being wheeled out for more Julia-friendly media coverage. Maybe the ABC can come up with a show format for all the pathetic political has-beens desperate for attention to get together, sit around & talk about how great they were. Coming soon, “Silly Old Buggers”. LOL

All commonsense Australians are aware of the smearing of
Lord Monkton by the ALP’s spinmeisters dirt brigade and their
accomplices.
Ordinary Australia are offended by the ALP assumtion
or fevrile hope voters will be put off the coaltion by these
pathetic hysterical insulting high school bully type abuses.
How Australian politics has dumbed down since November 2007
and the whatever it takes, end justified the means ALP took
over the governing of the country.
Lord Monkton speaks with clarity, confidence and conviction
is possessed of a there for all to see and hear lucid intelligence and take on the matter under debate.
I for one would like to hear a lot more from Lord Monkton - I
thoroughly enjoyed his segment on the Bolt Report.
A welcome breath of intelligent fresh air in an Australia whose deadman government is emitting an increasing foul stench as
the nation waits impatiently for the election it wants and indeed demands on the carbon tax of PM Juliar Gallah and the ALP/Greens - the tax Red promises we’d never get under
her government - to get herself over the line and into government.

Davo 7 (Reply)
Tue 28 Jun 11 (09:58am)

I presume it is also despicable and anti-intellectual to continue calling the “Left” (defined to include everyone other than the Liberal Party) the “home of the closet totalitarian”?

Skiman (Reply)
Tue 28 Jun 11 (10:10am)
AJ of Here replied to Skiman
Tue 28 Jun 11 (12:17pm)

As the left would say, Skiman: If the cap fits...!

watty replied to Skiman
Tue 28 Jun 11 (12:18pm)

Cut to the chase skiman

Was Howard ,as Keating and Fraser suggest, like Adolph Hitler?

Just a simple yes or no will suffice

Hewson must be straining at the leash to get his two bobs worth in.

No surprise with Paul as he never vacated the gutter in Pott;s Point.

Malcontent Mark i has grown more bitter daily since Hawke trounced him losing the biggest majority held by the Coalition in both Houses and is now no more than than a fat fading and obviously deranged. megalomaniac.

watty of far left coast (Reply)
Tue 28 Jun 11 (10:11am)

Funny thing is that Hitler was not anti-Muslim, not at all…

DomS of Wamboin NSW (Reply)
Tue 28 Jun 11 (10:11am)

Keating said when the prime minister disparaged elites, he was disparaging cosmopolitan attitudes which proved his nationalism.

Keating confuses nationalism with patriotism and statesmanship simply because he is of Irish extraction and has it in for the poms via “whatever it takes” taught to him by his mate Richardson. Is it any wonder that a self serving Labor headkicker would think that wearing an Italian suit places him as one of the elite?

Anyway I’m so wanting to be over that egotistical excuse for a politician for whom I’m still paying whilst trying to forget the 23% interest rates that cost me my business. Ignore the pr1ck that still thinks he is more equal.

fixer of adelaide (Reply)
Tue 28 Jun 11 (10:17am)

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