More lessons in political correctness
YESTERDAY’S lesson: when you can say ‘bitch’. Today: when you can call a journalist a ‘skanky ho’.
Cutandpaste
Bitchgate: more hypocrisy over placards
DID all these people getting angry about slogans get upset about Paul Keating?
It’s okay to be foul-mouthed
THE Left is never offended by its own off-colour language — only when it comes from the Right.
Come a little closer, Barry.
Julia Gillard takes up the cause of co-operative federalism with her new best friend from Sydney.
The Nostradamus Kid was way out
THE only thing certain about a prediction by Bob Ellis is that he’ll find a way to blame Rupert Murdoch
Beware the foul-mouthed angry mob
Margaret Simons, live from the Grassy Knoll in Crikey on Thursday:
Out for the count
THE answer to your question is a small but extremely difficult to ascertain number.
Host blows hot and cold on climate change
ONE ABC host’s rare exhibition of balance just looks very much like the same old groupthink.
A promise or a short-term compromise?
The PM has changed her mind about a lot since her Socialist Forum days but not about doing a deal.
A sung history of AFL
What’s the true blue spirit of Aussie Rules? Progressive, respectful and politically correct
Climate doubt constitutes the dark ages
ABC1’s Lateline on Thursday:
The PM’s silly little collateral debate
IT wasn’t a tax, then it was, but Julia Gillard continues her crusade to save the planet with her scheme.
I’d like to spend more time with my family
SOME things never change, such as the standard excuse for being sidelined in politics.
Jones asks questions, talks about himself
THE PM gets a lecture on how the green left collective at the ABC would conduct diplomacy.
What about those who might die in a meltdown
THERE’s nothing like the prospect of Armageddon to cheer up the Fairfax and ABC catastrophists.
It’s Keneally or the coming Armageddon
KRISTINA Keneally yesterday:
Come on, own up
AS the polls head south, the inquest begins, and Richo blames the press (present company excepted).
Bob Brown’s plan to Green up Labor
MEDIA fans of the Greens are blissfully unaware of how out of touch they are with the mainstream.
Everybody scares somebody sometimes
THE Greens favour apocalyptic fearmongering, but have they cried wolf too often?
SMH has a special edition for carbon tax
This is what passes for progressive thought.
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