The ABC's Jonathan Green thinks we can't know his politics. Here some hints he forgot he dropped

ABC presenter Jonathan Green on being called a Leftist by the Australian's Greg Sheridan:

How does Greg Sheridan have any clue what my politics are? We've never met. Never had a conversation. Beyond parody.

Let's try some other versions of that. How does Greg Sheridan have any clue to what Lenin's politics were? They never met. Never had a conversation. How does Greg Sheridan have any clue to what Mao's politics were? They never met. Never had a conversation. It is comical to think Green really believes no one could have possibly figured out his Leftism from reading his columns, listening to his ABC show, tuning in to his guest spots on ABC 24 or observing his style of editorship at the The Drum and the far-Left Crikey. What astonishing level of denial does it take for Green to think his politics is a secret? Did he think we wouldn't suspect he was a Leftist when he mocked published an item mocking the conservative Sarah Palin and her Down Syndrome son?:

Which of the below should the Obama’s use to name their new puppy?… A mongrel called Trig

I’d also urge the ABC to be very careful of Green’s quality control over his writers and blog readers. I was forced recently to write the following to his boss, Eric Beecher, the famous campaigner for “quality journalism”...

Last week I drew your attention to comments and blog postings you had published over the space of just a few days calling me a “proven liar”, “nutty”, “unhinged”, “underhand”, “loopy”, “paranoid”, a “hypocrite”, a “racist”, “dishonest”, “hysterical”, “petty”, “evasive”, “deluded”, “irrational”, lacking in morality, someone guilty of “deliberately misrepresenting” people, “full of poisonous shit”, and a “notorious liar” who practices “lies, misrepresentations, and deceit”, “lies, distortions and smears”, “fakery” and “cowardice and dishonesty”, while giving “tacit approval” to “extremist sickos” and “playing the paranoid schizo’’, resembling in my person an “asylum for the criminally insane”. You conceded that these comments included a number of statements that were “untrue and unnecessarily personal in tone”.

Since then one of Green’s writers has urged in a headline that I be ”sodomised”, and his site has said of me that “we are dealing with fascism, plain and simple’’ and, referring to me and my readers, “I sometimes think Stalin had the right idea - line a million or so of ‘em up against a wall”. Yesterday I was named in a Crikey article as someone so corrupt as be evidently driven to scepticsm by “a desire for funds from fossil-fuel companies”, and was smeared besides as “undoubtedly more dangerous” than a “Holocaust denier”, and, in time, ”morally worse”.

Fox News - that's the best example of how this works: an entirely parallel universe that determines its own agenda, facts and logic according to an often bellicose political mission... We see its muted fellow travellers in our own TV and press, most notably in our national broadsheet The Australian, a paper whose political purpose and occasional flights of "truthiness" can routinely obscure its better journalistic angels. And then we have the opinion formers of the tabloid blogosphere. Little s-bends of ill-humour like the Daily Telegraph's Tim Blair, or great vaulted Taj Mahals of polished ego like the Herald Sun's Andrew Bolt.

Sad to say, but so much of the heat and fury of the Gillard years grew from prejudice, tainting our politics with bitter spite coloured by chauvinism and something that oscillated between casual sexism and ingrained misogyny. election. This is the truth about the Gillard prime ministership. The fact that our elected leader was a woman gave Gillard’s detractors the added, and for many instinctive, purchase of gender-based loathing — a deep sense that the simple fact of Gillard’s sex disqualified her from high office.