Doom Machine Destroys Latest Victim

Poor Bruce Pascoe. The “Aboriginal” “historian” may have held firm throughout months of sustained Dark Emu criticism, but he was never going to prevail against a much greater force.

Who’s next, Pete?

Way back in January 2020, you see, Pascoe copped a full-blown FitzSimons curse. His fate was sealed from that moment:

Pascoe's Dark Emu is indeed a brilliant book and the evidence he mounts for his theme - that the First Nations people were a lot more established in agriculture than ever given credit for - is simply overwhelming and irrefutable. https://t.co/FHTtKvTikB

— 💉 Peter FitzSimons💉 (@Peter_Fitz) January 2, 2020

Now it’s just a matter of cleaning up the wreckage. Andrew Bolt, one of Pascoe’s earliest and most compelling critics, reports:

Paul Barry, host of the ABC’s Media Watch, said on Monday’s show that I’d had all my “Christmases come at once” now that Left-wing academics had written a book that “backs Bolt’s verdict on Pascoe’s work”.

True, this book by Peter Sutton and Keryn Walshe confirms what I’ve said for years. Pascoe is a fraud.

His bestseller Dark Emu, which won a NSW Premier’s Award for best Indigenous book and is now taught in schools, just made up and distorted evidence to argue a complete falsehood – that Aborigines were actually “farmers” living in “houses” in “towns” with “pens” for animals.

“Yes, none have criticised Pascoe’s work more than Andrew Bolt. And the new book — and Good Weekend’s big launch — was all his Christmases come at once.” #MediaWatch pic.twitter.com/BJltBr5xaA

— Media Watch (@ABCmediawatch) June 21, 2021

The authors don’t add that Pascoe faked even his race. He says he’s a member of three Aboriginal tribes, but genealogical records show all his ancestors are of English descent.

But, no, I’m still way short of the full Christmas.

The real story isn’t that Pascoe is a hoaxer. It’s that so many people in power promoted and defended this faker and his crazy theory: politicians, teachers, the NSW Education Department, the Australia Council, universities and above all, the ABC.

Do read on. Paul Barry isn’t having a great year, is he?

UPDATE. Things aren’t going too well for Barry’s ABC pal Norman Swan, either:

“Raina’s been right about this pandemic from the beginning”. He’s doing comedy now.
This is from December. The relentless scaremongering from the lockdown enthusiasts never stops. https://t.co/uteYQPhF4M pic.twitter.com/dzjcpflSc6

— Rita Panahi (@RitaPanahi) June 24, 2021