Mike Carlton’s gutter tweets reach new low

Where are the feminists who rail against toxic masculinity when it comes to putting toxic leftie and veteran journalist Mike Carlton in his place, asks Miranda Devine. Apparently, nowhere to be seen.

IF you ever doubted that there are elder statesmen of the left-wing media — and they’re always men — who hold thoroughly reprehensible views at odds with the professed values of their tribe, I offer exhibit A: Mike Carlton.

Carlton has been out of mainstream media for several years, and no longer fronts up to black tie events to toss glasses of wine on enemies like Piers Akerman.

He has virtually vanished into obscurity, playing stay at home dad to the young offspring of his second marriage, and writing the occasional forgettable memoir.

But it is on social media that he attempts to maintain his former glory as a grandee of the ABC and the Sydney Morning Herald. He vies with the likes of Van Badham and Clementine Ford for bottom of the barrel attention-seeking.

Mike Carlton’s support for women seems to be quite flimsy. Picture: supplied

In his quest for relevance, the once respected foreign correspondent has resorted to ever more appalling pronouncements.

But Monday night really took the cake when he began tweeting while watching the ABC’s Q&A — a program which spent much time discussing violence against women.

“Never have I admired Jimmy Barnes so much as tonight,” tweeted Carlton.

“How does he not leap from his seat and strangle the Liberal shill on his right ? #QandA”.

The “Liberal shill” was a woman, Boothby MP Nicolle Flint, who is as mildmannered and polite as anyone you could ever meet.

Yet Carlton thinks she should be strangled on live TV.

Never have I admired Jimmy Barnes so much as tonight. How does he not leap from his seat and strangle the Liberal shill on his right ? #QandA

— Mike Carlton (@MikeCarlton01) June 3, 2019

Imagine the outcry if a conservative man had advocated violence against a woman. Carlton thought it took great restraint for Barnes not to strangle the women sitting next to him because she was annoying him.

Carlton clearly has problem with women. He once publicly called a friend of mine at a restaurant “a silly slut”. He calls me and the other women who work at my company “harlots of Holt Street”.

Where are the feminists who rail against toxic masculinity when it comes to putting this one toxic man in his place.