July 25, 2003

PAINFUL THINGS

Sitting on a cactus when you’ve got no pants
Losing all your money in a game of chance
Michael Moore performing an erotic dance
CPR inside a moving ambulance
David Marr getting snippy about arts grants

Posted by Tim Blair at July 25, 2003 03:42 PM
Comments

Dodgy websites for a penile enhance

Posted by: Habib Bickford at July 25, 2003 at 03:49 PM

Speaking of snippy, I've been pretty quiet lately . . . . along with craig and Mork.

Posted by: Bon Scott at July 25, 2003 at 04:00 PM

From Andrew Bolt
"As one of our best Internet bloggers, Tim Blair, notes, since Marr took over Media Watch, he has used it to attack more than 69 non-Left commentators, often savagely, but just 17 of the far more numerous Left."

Congrats Tim. :)

Posted by: Patrick at July 25, 2003 at 04:14 PM

Ah, poesy, sweet poesy... Nice work, Tim! That little ditty reminds me of something I wrote once, about academics:

We knowledgeable scholars
Know how to get the dollars
By asking the authorities for grants
(More knowledgeable yet,
Our lady scholars get
Their funding in their fellow scholars pants.)

Posted by: TimT at July 25, 2003 at 04:20 PM

Gloves are off. I've got Bolt at 10/9-on. Smarrmy can write his own ticket. Gawd it'll be satisfying to see that ponce choking on humble pie.

Posted by: slatts at July 25, 2003 at 04:23 PM

. . . but momma just wants to barrelhouse all night long . . .

Posted by: Yehudit at July 25, 2003 at 04:26 PM

Porridge used for breast implants
Gang-banged by horny elephants
Reading Phillip Adams rants
Sharing house with green militants

Posted by: Habib Bickford at July 25, 2003 at 04:33 PM

Habib, I like... I don't understand, but I very much like...

Posted by: TimT at July 25, 2003 at 04:35 PM

Habib! You rappin' superstar!

Posted by: tim at July 25, 2003 at 04:44 PM

i said i'm sorry qusai
i never meant to hurt you
i never meant to make you cry
but tonight i'm cleaning out your closet

one more time

i said i'm sorry qusai
i never meant to hurt you
i never meant to make you cry
but tonight i'm cleaning out your closet

Posted by: ilibcc at July 25, 2003 at 05:48 PM

If you mean Qesay, I don't know about his closet but he certainly had his clock cleaned.
That wasn't a bit of john Lennon plagiarism perchance?

Posted by: Habib Bickford at July 25, 2003 at 06:05 PM

Ha ha, Habib you show your age!

Eminem was the artist ilibcc was appropriating.

Thanks,
Steve

Posted by: Steve at July 25, 2003 at 06:48 PM

Gee, fake Bon Scott. Didya miss me?

I've been busy debating this very topic, of all things, over at Tim Dunlop's site, where there's a whole other lot of idiots to call out. Perhaps you'd like to join me there?

Posted by: Mork at July 25, 2003 at 06:52 PM


it's qusai i said and it's qusai i meant
the spelling's irrelevant cos now he's dead
just like his bro odai who cares?
coward left his son to defend on the stairs

Posted by: ilibcc at July 25, 2003 at 06:54 PM

BTW, I just got called a "neo-conservative" over there. You guys would know: is that bad?

Posted by: Mork at July 25, 2003 at 06:55 PM

Sue him, Andrew! Sue him HARD!

Posted by: Indole Ring at July 25, 2003 at 08:04 PM

I think it's lame for a journalist with his own column to sue another journalist for defamation. But I do hope that Mr. Bolt makes a formal complaint through the ABC and to the ABA, if necessary.

How much more satisfying would it be to see Marr dragged through, and brought undone by some miserable pedantic bureaucratic procedure?

Posted by: Mork at July 25, 2003 at 08:13 PM

I'm sure the ABC would review his complaint just like they did Mr Alston's.

Posted by: Yobbo at July 25, 2003 at 10:00 PM

one of our best Internet bloggers

As opposed to all those dead-tree bloggers, I suppose.

Posted by: Robert at July 25, 2003 at 10:46 PM

Fellow Australians lend me your brains.
Do you think I should order the dropping of FatPhil onto DirtyDave from 10,000 feet or retire from politics and turn the job over to Mark the mongrel Latham?

Posted by: Simon Crean at July 25, 2003 at 11:34 PM

There once was a blogger named Blair,
Whose weapon of choice was hot air,
His lungs were so full,
Of self-righteous bull,
He soon burned off all his chest hair.

Posted by: Ben Glasson at July 26, 2003 at 12:54 AM

As opposed to all those dead-tree bloggers, I suppose.

I know it was one of those taught ... tort ... whatyoucallems, but David Marr basically treats MediaWatch as his own blog.

Posted by: Andjam at July 26, 2003 at 01:16 AM

There once was a fuckwit called Ben,
Who had as few balls as a hen,
He has his own blog,
He barks like a dog,
And he likes having sex with men.

Posted by: Gabor at July 26, 2003 at 01:17 AM

May I have your attention please?
I update,
May I have your attention please?
Will the real Tim Blair please stand up?
We're gonna have a problem here.

Y'all act like you've never seen a blogger before
Jaws all on the floor like Andrew and David just walked in the door
I started commentating years before the culture war,
Now I plan to even the score

I've got so many blogging doubles. It's true. No kidding.
I don't go to the internet. They all do my bidding.
And David Hicks said ... Nothing you idiots David Hicks is in Gitmo
Locked in the basement

Yeah I probably got a couple of screws up in my head loose,
But it's no worse than what's going on in the ABC news room.
Sometimes I wanna go on radio national and let loose, but can't
But it's ok for David Marr to topple my statues.

Phillip's down with this. Phillip's down with that.
And if he's lucky he might get a pass from Marr.
And that's the reason MediaWatch got attacked.
If I react with chemicals, I'll surely get stoned [feature photo of Robert Fisk]!

Of course you're gonna fisk me and my forces
By the time you fly warblogs
I'll be in Paris sippin' on champagne.
And when you miss me, please don't start to complain.
You've got so many politicians privitizing my terrain.

I'm like a cockroach cuz you can't get me.
The guy you're fisking now isn't the real me.
My review board goes on TV
And says only 2 out of 68 hit the ABC

And there's a million of us just like me
Who journalize commentate oppress like me
No moustache like me, not trash like aunty
And just might be a right-wing death beast but not quite me!

I'm Tim Blair. Yes, I'm the real Blair.
All your other Tim Blairs can all suck on air.
So won't the real Tim Blair please stand up?
Please stand up?
Please stand up?

Check me while I blog on.
Pump up the bass, ... nevermind.
I'm bad.
No I mean it. I could use an internal combusion engine.

Posted by: Andjam at July 26, 2003 at 01:54 AM

Too long. No rhythm. Little structure.

Posted by: Gabor at July 26, 2003 at 01:59 AM

from David Marr's letter "No other interpretation of your opening attack on Broinowski is possible." Nice to see such nuancing of interpretation from the Po-Mo promoters at the ABC.

Posted by: Softly at July 26, 2003 at 05:09 AM

An old wanker called Marr

One day went too far

And made like a dolt

'bout a fellow called Bolt,

Who sued Aunty for lots of dinar




Posted by: Superboot at July 26, 2003 at 08:08 AM

Patrick White fans
Are a pain in the glans
So when they get preachy
And yes, oh so screechy,
Bitch-slap 'em as hard as you cans

Posted by: superboot at July 26, 2003 at 09:17 AM

And who said you Aussies had no culture.

Posted by: David Crawford at July 26, 2003 at 06:45 PM

It reads to me like Andrew Bolt is getting good legal advice.

There is no point in Marr trying to embarrass Bolt into backing down by branding him as "thin skinned" (which is whathe seems to be doing, in effect). Nothing less than a complete and abject apology will do. Otherwise Marr and Media Watch are going to get their arses sued off - Bolt's letters are setting them up for just that.

Beautiful to watch! Go Andrew! Pity that it's our fucking money that will fund the payout, but it is the best entertainment the ABC has given me for a while.

TFK

Posted by: Bob Bunnett at July 27, 2003 at 12:50 PM