The remarkable adventures of Ross Cameron and friends

In the meantime, Vladimir Putin will be pleased to know his local fan club is swelling.

Jacqueline Maley in The Sydney Morning Herald yesterday:

“Let’s be honest, I can’t stand Muslims,” said Larry Pickering, cartoonist and VIP guest at the Q Society fundraising dinner held in Sydney on Thursday night. “If they are in the same street as me, I start shaking.” Then the cartoonist ... softened slightly. “They are not all bad, they do chuck pillow-biters off buildings.”

The Australian’s Paul Maley on Twitter yesterday:

Nobody’s who’s had to watch ISIL’s foul murder porn, as I have, makes these kind of “jokes”.

Back to the SMH piece:

Other VIP speakers included former Liberal MP Ross Cameron and crime fiction author Gabrielle Lord. Mr Cameron, who has a television show on Sky News, constantly mentioned homosexuality in his speech. He spoke about the classical philosophers, who valued reason over orthodoxy, and said Socrates “might have had a bit of same-sex attraction”. He said the Roman emperor Hadrian had a young male lover who “fell off the back of a barge”. “I’m sure he was snorting coke at the time,” Mr Cameron said. “The NSW division of the Liberal Party is basically a gay club,” he told guests. “I don’t mind that they are gay, I just wish, like Hadrian, they would build a wall.”

Business Insider Australia on October 11, 2016:

Former Liberal MP Ross Cameron, now a Sky News political commentator, delivered a bizarre defence of Donald Trump last night, arguing the US Republican presidential candidate’s 2005 behaviour was “a victory for women”. A leaked recording emerged over the weekend in which Trump said he tried to seduce a married woman not long after he’d married his third wife, Melania. “I moved on her like a bitch, but I couldn’t get there,” he said. Trump continued: “You know I’m automatically attracted to beautiful — I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star they let you do it.” He went on to detail his technique, which included “grab them by the pussy”.

Cameron in the SMH on January 11, 2010:

Putin is Russia’s finest leader since Peter the Great … In view of his extraordinary record of achievement in office it’s hard for me to see how anyone of good faith could regret his continued influence in Russia and the world.

If you want to make an omelet. Cameron continues:

It is distressing and disturbing that several Russian journalists have been murdered during Putin’s administration. In the absence of persuasive evidence to the contrary, I can only accept Putin’s own logic that their deaths have caused him more damage than anything they could have written or spoken.

Pauline Hanson defending her Vladimir Putin fandom to Sam Dast­yari on Thursday:

You are picking out something (flight MH17 that was shot down over Ukraine, killing all 298 on board), do you think that everything that our prime ministers have done has been in the best interests? You know everyone has done something.

Malcolm Turnbull on 3AW yesterday:

No, I don’t admire Vladimir Putin. You know, Vladimir Putin has invaded or taken over the Crimea from the Ukraine. His forces backed by him or his government shot down MH17 and Australians were killed in that act of terrorism ... I would not regard Vladimir Putin as a role model, at all.

SMH editorial yesterday:

It’s fair enough for Mr Turnbull to demand a technology agnostic approach, including gas — which we also support. He’s right as well to push for better storage, including pumped hydro. And we share his scepticism about Labor’s plans to raise the renewable energy target to 50 per cent.