Tim Blair

For no known reason, he shares his cancellation email here

Well... the poor dear wanted someone to care.

"Budgie smugglers"...? The rest is boilerplate.

Tim, I will say that Australia's tedious leftists are far, far less tedious than anyone else's tedious leftists. "Thorpie in his budgie smugglers"! And I do admire the energy of someone moving to read a newspaper more in tune with his prejudices.

I agree with Chris Murphy. Fairfax has the best sports & lifestyle publications and the bonus toilet paper sections bundled with them are just sooo absorbant.

Someone stupid enough to change cities to read a Fairfax paper is exactly the kind of reader they cater to.

Jennifer must have been educated at the same school as Margo. But at least she said "please".

Man, what is it with Michael Mooron's supporters? They are fanatical in their efforts to email nasty letters to everyone who breathes a negative word about the guy. The quality of their letters usually reveals them to be idiots, so that explains how they're easily controlled, but they're so zealous that I have to wonder if they really are receiving directions from Moonbat Central Command.

Here's a tip, Jennifer: MM is a multi-millionaire with an awful lot of clout, or so he'd like us to believe. When people like you defend him in so hysterical a fashion, all that convinces us of is that (a) only idiots belive in Moore, (b) he's really paranoid and insecure, and thus urges his followers to defend his poor little self, and (c) his followers really know, deep down, that Moore's popularity is precariously resting on lies, and thus try to frantically try to stamp out free and opposing speech wherever they see it.

Ever notice how Moore's followers always emphasize UNUSUAL words in the middle of their SENTENCES by shifting UNEXPECTEDLY into all caps? It's like reading a frickin' Marvel comic.

Whom could they possibly have learned that habit from?

"You haven't seen the last of me, Danger!"

"No, but the first of you turns my stomach..."

"Ever notice how Moore's followers always emphasize UNUSUAL words in the middle of their SENTENCES by shifting UNEXPECTEDLY into all caps? It's like reading a frickin' Marvel comic."

Hey, watch it! We do have SOME standards, you know.

Well, Chris Murphy sounds like the kinda guy who has oodles of time to read (and re-read, and...) each edition of the SMH until the self-indoctrination sticks. Probably also explains why he's able to change cities just for a newspaper.

I must admit, seeing somebody refer to a newspaper with Margo Kingston at the helm as one that "does at least try to be editorially professional" is quite a laugher.

Hey, Mojo;
At Drucker and Fourth she turned left. At Drucker and Fourth she turned .... left.

The fires of hell, huh? Sounds like an okay gig - it'd be convenient for toasting bread, and you'd have plenty of Vegemite to spread on it because, well, it's hell.

You are panicking because your greedy, corrupt,
controlling, manipulating regime is over.

missus j. lynch must've missed the bit about tim hailing from oz... i fail to understand how the bush administration, threatened by impending doom or otherwise, could be termed to be mr. blair's regime. is she implying that instead of a zionist cabal controlling d.c., it's been aussies all along?

this lady also seems to have missed the class where it was brought to students' attention that when referring to events likely (or, in this case, unlikely) to happen in the future, use of future tense (i.e., "will be over") is customary.

coalition forces must immediately deploy all available-air power & strike known leftist quarters w/ grammar book payloads.

Man, what is it with Michael Mooron's supporters?

They're insane.

I'm working on a blog post that enlarges on this, but the first chapter of the introduction is now at 3000 words...

I wonder if I could find a publisher for How the Left Lost its Mind.

Only problem is, by the time it's finished and published, either (a) Bush will have won and the insanity of the left will be self-evident, or (b) Bush will have lost and we'll be in the period of smugness before that precedes the collapse. (cf. Chamberlain, Neville). (The Aussie election, as personally important as it is to us, is really just a sideshow in the Great Carnival of the World.)

Matt - "budgie smugglers" = speedos. Also known as grape smugglers, lolly bags, meat hangers etc..

Any other names people know?

Before that precedes the collapse?

Um, you know what I mean intended was trying to say.

Attila,

Banana hammock.

Mojo,

"Give me back my pickle!"

'regime' is so 90's. i prefer the term 'junta'.

"Dick stickers"
"Major prize showcase"

The SMH ! gee, no tripe there.

Lets have a random look at the juxtaposition of hypocritical headlines for stories, giving them a 'special' SMH slant in a way that only the SMH can.

Firstly 'Allawi awards himself special powers'.Gee, I wonder what the inference is there. However, Michael Moore's interference in Australian political affairs gets a tiny "Cut, cut, cut - filmmaker Moore's call on Howard" no umbrage there, I wonder why.......

Well, I think the reason Leftists are so fond of the word "regime" is that it's of French origin.

Personally, I'd love to see the term "Bush hegemony" used more.

"Allawi awards himself special powers"

Is one of them the ability to cook meat with his eyes? I would like that ability.

So now we go to hell for criticizing Michael Moore? Just as well... I've always thought that being clapped up for eternity with the likes of Pat Robenson and Jerry Falwell would be greater torture than one could earn in three lifetimes of evil!!!

roscoe

"junta" is very,very 80's. You need to conjur up the globasied/enron/haliburton/bu$hitler/neocon feeling of the time.

ok, i just checked the 'ole thesaurus. how's about 'The Bush Gang'? makes me think of horsies and guns and Dubya fightin' off the impending threat from the 'Kerry Cabal'.

roscoe:

You forgot Martha Stewart.

Atilla thanks for the, uh, heads up. I'm proud to live in a country so bereft of Speedos that there are relatively few widely understood slang terms for them. Here the slang often describes the Speedo wearer and not the garment directly.

Attila - you left out:

"budgie smugglers" = dick-togs

roscoe

"junta" is very,very 80's. You need to conjur up the globasied/enron/haliburton/bu$hitler/neocon feeling of the time.

I think the word you guys are looking for is "cabal". It's so Jooish, y'know.

Reap as you shall sow.

So I get to reap before I sow? That's a great trick!