Facebook group urges advertisers to boycott The Bolt Report

So lemme get this right. .3% of the possible viewing audience can influence some advertisers? Wow. Bolta must be just crappping himself.

IMHO Bolt is an attention seeker and a bully but let the audience decide if they like him or not… I expect that they won’t because he has no depth.

The creators of the page legitimise him by doing dumb things like this… In fact, I’m surprised he hasn’t started the page himself…

Seems to me that there is a lot of bullying going on by people who cannot face any point of view different to their own, and which expresses open political values that do not align with socialist-left twisted minds. Possibly they do not realize that many Australians have fought for our freedoms and want to keep the custom of having a “go” at each other without the “crap” of reverting to legal harassment.

The idea of TeleChoice going under makes appeal. Keep shooting that foot boys.

@The Boss.

I guess you don’t know much about politics or media because in the US a tiny percentage of the viewing audience decimated Glenn Beck’s advertising list. He was subsequently fired.

The fact is that Bolt’s advertisers which include Garnier, Loreal, Hungry Jacks etc are much more likely to care about 18-35, social-aware consumers than Bolt’s audience which will skew older.

Lefties are so often over zealous extremist. Bolt to many of these guys is more offensive than a terrorist. His great evil simply showing them that they are wrong, over and over again.
Rather than respond with reason, because they cannot, they must respond with hate.

These nitwits believe in “Freedom Of Speech”as long as it is congruent with their own socialist dogma. Move to Cuba or Noth Korea, Lefties – things will be much more to your liking.

This assault on free speech strengthens my resolve to promote the Bolt Report among all my conservative family and friends.

Like it or not Australia is a democracy. Bolt is free to host his show. His opponents are free to try to influence advertisers. Channel 10 is free to air the show or take it off air.
Get use to it or move to North Korea.

HAHAH after only one show the socialist lefties have sour grapes and want to cause greif – what a joke. Although i dont always agree with his views, Andrew bolt is an excellent investigative journalist and promotes debate amongst intelligent people to question topics. Some people just cannot cope with alternative views to their own or the governments propoganda.

I have it on good authority that a cabal of evil rightwingers was going to organise a counterboycott of Age and Sydney Morning Herald advertisers. But when they looked, there were no advertisers left to shun.

BTW, anyone know if there is any truth to the rumour floated yesterday by Caroline Overington in the Oz that local Melbourne businessmen are mounting a bid to buy the Age? Heard some speculation last night that it was Catalano and his real estate backers. Logic is that the Cat is a mate of Hywood’s and could bring back the advertisers he has in his weeklies. Hywood unloads the Age, the Cat cleans house (startng at the top, presumably) and Fairfax pockets the residuals while a content -sharing agreement keeps the Age sorta inside the Fairfax umbrella.

If Telechoice’s marketing manager doesn’t know it yet, he or she will soon learn that leftist ideologues show no loyalty to brands, and the company will gain no commercial benefit from a Bolt boycott. In fact, they will probably incur higher support costs if they succeed in attracting this demographic.

Brilliant marketing, Mr or Ms Marketing Manager.

Can we assume that the group behind the bolt cutter page will target the brands advertising in content generated by other on-air personalities with equally as forceful points of view and ways of expressing them?

Another “Bolts” perhaps springs to mind in the radio medium….

I for one hope not. In order to achieve balance a society must ultimately see both sides of an argument no matter how horrific or distasteful the extremes of one might appear to the other. Society ultimately then makes up it’s own mind, just as TV viewers can cast judgment with their remotes / tuning dials….

Advertisers will ultimately make up their own minds too.

@Ian:

You’ve missed the point. This strategy WORKS. It successfully worked to take Glenn Beck off their air in the US.

The fact is that advertisers don’t want controversy. Especially amongst 18-35 year olds who will voice their concerns on Facebook which are then read by countless others.

And you can’t argue Bolt isn’t controversial.

Chris Fawkes, you are sooooo Right! Lefties sprewk freedom of speech and equal rights…………Unless you disagree with their ideology, then you should have your mouth sowed shut! God forbid anyone having a different opinion to theirs! And NEVER show them they’re wrong!!!!!!!

Firstly, it’s good to see a couple of people here understand the tactics employed work and were learnt from Christian conservative groups.
More advertisers are replying with the same line that they were bonus spots they weren’t made aware of until after the show, the show isn’t in line with their values and they’ve asked for no more bonus spots.
Let’s face it Sunday morning is hardly the coveted spot of the week; they won’t lose anything by dropping advertising at this time of the week.

I hope someone publishes a list of companies who cave in to this appalling blackmail and denial of free speech. I will than have a list of companies who will NOT be getting my custom in future.

I canceled my small Iprimus account today and moved to another provider.

Just why is the Left so afraid of free speech?

I think Glen Beck got the khyber pass because his ratings were through the floor? The fact that he was a right wing nutcase or his advertisers got nervous didn’t have much to do with it

@Michael/Tom

How is anybody stifling free speech ?

People are just exercising their right to free speech by creating Facebook pages, voicing their opinions and contacting advertisers to let them know they don’t approve.

You both have the right to do the same.

I think its pretty poor that advertisers are caving so easily. I mean as is mentioned above lefties bang on about freedom of speech, unless its someone who disagree’s with their view and then its all hands on deck to shut them down.

Whether you like him or not let him speak, to all the people in this group on Facebook, it may shock you to realize that around 20 years ago something called a remote was invited that allows you to change the channel.

How about grow up and start worrying about some bigger issues, absolutely pathetic

I’m not an iPrimus customer, looks like I never will be.

Your pathetic boycott makes me sick.

And why can’t the Right spell???

LOL at all the mini-Voltaires here who paint advertising boycotts as an attack on free speech, often with awesome spelling and punctuation too.

Free speech also means the freedom to disagree with someone, to object to a TV show’s content or tell advertisers that you aren’t going to buy their products.

Apparently North Korea’s nice this time of year.

For those who missed Hungry Beast last week, this short clip will show you exactly who is funding Andrew Bolt’s views and TV show. Thankfully he is no longer on ABC’s Insider program.

http://hungrybeast.abc.net.au/.....a-rinehart

What ever happened to freedom of speech in this country. Dont let these dictators take away our freedom of choice because thats what they want. Go Andrew Bolt

What a load of nonsense. On the other hand, any publicity is good publicity, so keep the critical reviews coming. What a silly world we are living in. Sometimes I’m glad I’m 61 years old.

Ripper…10am Sunday – The Bolt Cutter has just scored another Viewer and I am off to buy a Double Whopper with Cheese and some L’Oreal Shampoo

My prediction – Advertisers or no advertisers, this show will be a one season wonder.
Bolt is not a television presenter, and definitely no interviewer. He is paid to spruke opinion – not fact. The show will die in the proverbial as no one will want to go onto a show where the interviewer likes the sound of his own voice and refused to listen to anyone elses point of view.
It is one thing to be an opinion writer, with the power to debate any opponents with extremist views from the safety of the newscorp cave and be praised for “taking a conservative line”. It is completely another thing to look dead into a camera and state these same opinions, or debate your beliefs in a live studio without turning people off. And he won’t be able to hold back, we all know that.
Any extremist views in television news programming – be it right or left – are not appreciated by our viewing public.
… and meanwhile – it amazes me how this comment stream has turned into a “pinko lefty” bashing session … nothing like sticking to a topic Bolt fans!

Can’t see the point being one of free speech. The Facebook strategy is an exercise in free speech. Some people just don’t like Bolt and they have taken a decision to lobby advertisers who might baulk at being associated with his reactionary twaddle. All this frothing about left-wingers and freedom of speech seems pretty simple-minded. The whole left-right thinggie in this context is pretty silly. The extremes of left and right, historically speaking, never showed much interest in free speech. However, in social democracies its all the go. We all have access to the same communication tools and I can’t see any threat to freedom of speech from a Facebook site. After all, the advertisers will only do what is in their best interests. Speaking of free speech, Bolt’s style is to lambast anyone he doesn’t like and bully those who try to counter his fear & loathing, as he did routinely on ABC Insiders, but apparently he does it all in the name of free speech.

So who funds Hungrybeast – sure hope its not the taxpayers . . . . 🙁

Can someone please explain WHY they are doing this? The article or FB group/event doesn’t explain the reason behind the boycott. Thanks in advance.

Much as I dislike Bolt, and reckon he is not exactly a great champion of free speech, that’s all beside the point. Channel Ten can do what they like and if people watch it, well so be it. Equally, this Facebook group is as legit. As somebody pointed out, christian groups have been doing this for years – and effectively.

@Michael O. Totally agree. I look forward to that list of companies who will NOT be receiving any business from me either.

Bolt – what a phoney…he’s been watching Sean Hannity too much. Next Sunday’s line up?

Pauline Hanson, Ray Hadley, Bruce Ruxton.

The left despises centrist-conservative middle Australia. What enfuriates them even more is that 100,000+ people bothered to watch Bolt’s show. They aren’t afraid of Bolt’s comments or view points they HATE his viewers. If Bolt doesn’t get any viewers his show will be axed in a simple commercial decision. But the loony left can’t take that chance. The viewers are the despised ones!
BTW there is nothing more boring than Bolt having 2 guess that agree with him. He better fix that asap.

Kraken good point, can’t believe so many people don’t seem to get it. No-one’s access to free speech is being eroded and as far as I can tell no company has boycotted the show; they’ve simply decided for whatever reason to put their ads in a more suitable location whether they be bonus spots or not. Lefties don’t like free speech if an opinion differs from the one they hold?! For those that that believe such unsubstantiated rubbish, try listening to John Michael Howson who quite happily denies access to alternative viewpoints. Or ask Obama about Fox News some time…

Listen to you boisterous right ringers. Typical. What you don’t realise that that the socially aware, tree hugging, world loving “lefties” are also the most informed consumers and IMO the most likely to base their purchasing decisions on what they perceive a brand to represent. And if the brand is seen to be supporting the ill-informed, biased opinion of one individual, who I assure you does not reflect the opinion of the wider population, then these consumers will remember it when their eye is scanning the supermarket shelf.

bahaha – ringers, obviously should be wingers

There are other fb groups pointing out why they disagree or hate Bolt, that is free speech.
This group on the other hand is attempting to silence A.B and yet some conclude this is not an attack on free speech. I blame the education system.

It appears as though the reactionary right are taking over Mumbrella as well as Australian and global politics.

Can’t wait for your next Bolt Report Andrew. Lefties are afraid of truth – GIVE IT TO THEM.

Lefties are afraid of truth Andrew. GIVE IT TO THEM

Lefties do not like truth Andrew. GIVE IT TO THEM.
Some will wake up eventually.

Tremendous – just heard that Iprimus has withdrawn their advertising from the slot.

Yay for the free market!

Bolt and Truth? Now that IS an oxymoron.

Gees … your don’t hear the words “truth” (or “facts”) in the same sentence as “Andrew Bolt” very often.

How many pro Bolters here actually watched the show? Looking at the number that want the list of advertisers from the show I’d say not many. Try it this week fellas and see what you’re fighting for. If you’re lucky you may get to watch some more Mark Latham.

Loved the program & who are the advertisers that are going to drop you ? Not only will I boycot them but I’ll make sure that my friends & relations do as well. Unfortunately the 18 to 35 year olds have been completely brainwashed by their so called educators but no doubt when they get out into the real world they will come to their senses. When lecturers at RMIT tell their students that they are Marxists one knows why the young have been led astray.

Anyone who isn’t left when they are 20 has no heart. Anyone who is still left at 30 has no brain.

I blame GW BushHitler and JW HoWARd for allowing Mr Bolt to poison our electro-magnetic spectrum. I also blame them for other things.

In fact, everything.

If you don’t like the free market, you can ship off to China.

Just because some dont like the show they start bullying advertises to stop.
what a sick country australia is, at least bold says what is right,
better then labors total propoganda machine
and people believe juliar, what a joke they must feel like

Well I can assure you, I certainly won’t be darkening the doorsteps of Barnacle Bills if they’re going to support this kind of nonsense. Sure, quality, family friendly buffet style seafood for those on a budget is one thing, but if they’re going to use the profits from my bi-annual visitations into supporting this program, well, I’m just going to have to up the budget and take the extended family to Sizzler instead.

I feel ill reading this bile from you self-satisfied ring-wing marketing scum. You think you’re media experts , yet can’t see that we ALL live amidst a deluge of totally deceitful right wing media coverage. ( Ever heard of “The Australian” ?) Bolt just being given his own show is simply the last straw for any Australian seeking an intelligent, informed media landscape.
And as for the comments re what a wonderful investigative journalist he is….you really are kidding now. His ‘performances’ on Insiders, sheer pantomine (oh but that’s on the ABC, you wouldnt have heard of it….) Bolt’s only saving grace ? He’s a fraud….

The time has come the walrus said to speak of many things.

First: The truth is the first casualty of the Big Brother world.

Second: Those who oppose Andrew Bolt, live in 1984

Third: Thought crime is next on the GetUp Agenda.

Fourth: Where do I find Room 101 ? GetUp Board Room.

Fifth: The Bolt Report was a success. Many Support you Andrew , Dont Cop it mate!

This is a perfect example of capitalism at work. If economic forces cause this show off there would be some small measure of irony.

Well well, the Left are frantic about Australia’s first openly right-wing television opinion show.

As they should be.

When the first openly right-wing editorialising experiments began in the US, a ratings breakout occurred. The TV world noticed the great ratings. Always on the lookout for what is popular, the TV execs progressively gave the public more of what they agreed with.

What began as experiments involving singular TV shows turned out to be not enough to satisfy public demand. Eventually entire right-wing opinion channels were created.

Having more TV channels in the first place helped to make this possible, first in the US, and now here in Australia. When TV was just a handful of channels, viewers had to largely take what they were given. More channels means greater viewer choice, and networks are willing to take a risk with new formats.

15 years from now, the Left will be contending with several Andrew Bolts, and possibly an entire openly right-wing TV channel.

Why is it that so many Bolt supporters can’t spell?

For anyone to say that all the media is Right wing just goes to show how well your Uni’ lecturers and school teachers drummed their ideals into you, EVERY talk show/ current affairs program with very little exeption is hosted by young well schooled lefties and that includes some “supposed” stand up comedians, anyone with even the slightest criticism of leftist thoughts are howled down as lunatics!

And to carry on about someones spelling is just more proof that you have nothing more intelligent to add.

talkingboonie, I blame the marxist education system.

So called educators have brainwashed right wing folks with bad spelling so as to make them look stupid on comments threads.

The Bolt supporters doth protest too much, methinks.

Tim, any pattern in the IP addresses? (P.S. send them each a dictionary to improve their appalling spelling … oops .. guess I went to Uni so I am ‘tainted’.)

When did this thread move from a Free Speech issue to a bipartisan beauty contest?

All seems to be providing unwarranted oxygen to a moronic topic.

Fox News in the USA is bing trashed by viewers – and speaking of trash, they have even got Sarah Palin as a “commentator”. She’s one of Bolt”s favourites..next thing Gina will be flying her out here for guest appearaces. Sarah will need an Atlas to find us…Oh, and she’ll at last need a passport! What a clown that woman is.

Is that the problem .. Bolt can’t spell, so has attracted the hatred of some little tribe who have such sad lives that this is important?

Bolt, like anyone in Australia, has a right to speak on whatever he likes, and the people who try to stop this and howl obscenities at anyone who disagrees with them, only draw attention to their own poisonous self obsessed characters.

So what if says what he does, who said you had any more right than he does?

Mind, you do reinforce the conservative view of the left and their intolerance to anything they disagree with, while insisting everyone, the right included, tolerate their precious little tantrums and dull lives.

Anyway, have fun, maturity is still some way off for most of you.

Gary … that would be “someone’s”.

Pay attention dear boy!

Hamlet your comment “The Bolt Supporters doth protest too much, methinks” is probably the most hypocritical statement I’ve heard all week. It is not the “Bolt Supporters” who doth protest so much that they want the show taken down, Methinks!

I also cannot comprehend how someone might call the main stream media, specifically the ABC a right wing entity. The ABC is a puppet of the current administration. Spend five minutes watching the 7pm Project or what ever it is called these days. I have stopped watching it as it makes me want to fill an emesis bag.

The majority of the Canberra Press Gallery are so far inserted up Gillard & Getup’s posteriors that they couldn’t see truth with their eyes open. The majority of main stream reporting these days is nothing but a government propaganda machine.

You have entered the Big Brother house. Enjoy your Orwellian playground.

I’d also suggest some of you write the word “Left” on your “Left” hand and “Right” on your “Right” hand, or Port & Starboard respectively, as you obviously don’t know the difference.

Clearly my comments were relating to Mumbrella. And I think your vitriol proves the point.

And by the way, my personal POV is that I do NOT agree with the Facebook page as I respect the right to free-speech. Keep up the orchestrated content for the emesis bag, it’s quite amusing.

I’d also suggest some of you write the word “Left” on your “Left” hand and “Right” on your “Right” hand, or Port & Starboard respectively, as you obviously don’t know the difference!

99, 100 … change hands.

Excellent Hamlet, for “something is rotten in the State of Denmark” if this show were to be canned. I am glad you have the point of view you have, at least it shows integrity. For the rest of the Communists on here I’d suggest that they “Wax desperate with imagination”

So we can add paranoid conspiracy theorists, whose ignorance seems to rival the odiousness of Bolt, to this righteous mob of free-speech champions. For all I care watch the show, record it and watch it again, post it on FB and tweet your enraptured thoughts to those who’ll listen. Buy the stuff advertised on his show, don’t buy it. Start a petition, have a rally. Set up a page defending free speech, write nasty things on the anti-Bolt pages. Be ignorant, trivialise opposition. Move freely, speak freely, associate freely, worship freely and assemble freely. Enshrined in the Australian Constitution is the following “We are free to join any organisation or group if it is legal.” (You can even lobby to restrict that right).

That is the point TalkingBoonie. If you don’t like it change channels, don’t watch it. But don’t demand it be taken of the air, simply because politically you disagree with it.

The show is not offensive, albeit perhaps to the modality of your sensitivities. It is not breaking any law, nor is it deserving of censorship. The bottom line is, if you Don’t Like It, Don’t Cop It and Don’t Watch it.

Write to the ACMA or fill in a complaint on their website if you are so scared the view point expressed in the show breaches the law in some manner.

Lobbying Advertisers is ludicrous and shows the immaturity of the GetUp Goon Squad that represents the antithesis of everything our veterans and ADF have ever fought for, and continue to place their lives in harms way for.

OMG!! Seriously who cares!!! The idea of the show is obviously to cause people to think, not just about your own ideals/ beliefs but other peoples as well. If it was a close family member with outrageous opinions, would you be so nasty yourselves? You know the world today is seriously messed up, when STUPID people want a show cancelled because they disagree with the hosts opinions. IF YOU DON’T LIKE THE SHOW CHANGE THE FRIGGIN CHANNEL! After you’ve done that, you should have a nice big cup of cement, get over it and move on….. After the silly, immature comments I’ve read here today, I can’t wait for the next show.

I believe the phrase is quod erat demonstrandum. I’m not demanding it be taken off air, nor demanding it be censored. Live and let live, whether I agree with you or not. Didn’t our ADF fight for our constitutional beliefs (one of which is freedom of association), in which case people can do what they want, regardless of whether you think the idea of lobbying advertisers is ludicrous? Who is placing their life in harm’s way?

@DontCopIt Australia

Shame on you.

You do NOT speak for the ADF or the veterans. People have a right to express their opinions to advertisers just as much as Bolt has a right to express his views on TV.

If you don’t like it you should consider leaving Australia.

Tammy_G, totally agree with you but for some reason the obsessively political, leftist class regards censorship as acceptable, nay essential,of anything they don’t like.

For some reason they see fit to clump together and start sites to share hatred even, the twitter account ABisaC**t is a case in point.

It is interesting that when they do start such a site, other like minded obsessives find them and begin to share what can only be described as a sub-culture of the over entitled, or, the spoiled brat syndrome.

So much for a nation of intelligent creative thinkers, these all think the same, so it’s predictable what they do or think, hence their own radio stations and news outlets (e.g. Fairfax) curdle and die from lack of sponsorship.

I like Bolt as you never know what he might do and even though he is accused of many thing, I have never seen evidence of the very things the ever entitled ones accuse him of, he is certainly not racist and you have to twist what he says quite a bit to make that link.

I too look forward to his next show, if nothing else, it brings a differing POV to the predictable slurry of the ABC, the last resting place of the left.

I wonder what the advertisers will do when the viewers decide to boycott their products?????????

Mike,

You suggest I do NOT speak for the ADF or Veterans. I never said I did. You have no idea who I am or what I’ve done or where I’ve been or where I am going.

“I should leave Australia ?” . On what do you base that argument ? You do not like what I say ?

Perhaps I don’t like what you say ?

The difference between you and I is that I am happy to fight along side you for your right to say it, regardless what it is that you want to say,

You just want me to pack up and leave.

I feel no shame whatsoever.

“I think Glen Beck got the khyber pass because his ratings were through the floor? The fact that he was a right wing nutcase or his advertisers got nervous didn’t have much to do with it”

No you don’t think, Beck is number one in his time slot, people are standing in line to advertise on his show. His contract is up and he has other plans, Becks 4 hour radio show aired on hundreds of stations and has been for years, his business which employee many. It takes hours to prepare for a one hour tv show, you can keep this pace for just so long and as he has announced he has some big plans for the future.

286,000 viewers on mothers day predicting 400,000 next weekend, Where do I sign up? This is the best ad space around. Channel 10 is on a winner.

If the attempted bullying of sponsors doesn’t work and if people actually line up to advertise during Bolt’s show, will you all leave?

If I was a sponsor and people started threatening me, I’d take a good look at the show, the people complaining, the politics of it and make a business decision.

Not everyone succumbs to leftist bullying or threats.

What is it with the left and threats with bullying?

Wow i think its crystal clear in here that most of those whinging about “lefties” have hardly any idea what they are talking about. Getup bastion of censorship? LOL WOW ..

no wonder you bolt supporters are so despised, you really have no clue.

What is it with Bolt apostles and an inability to spell? Serious question. I guess it’s what happens when you leave school at 15 and think the Daily Telegraph is a credible newspaper. There is a reason why News Ltd papers write to a Year 9 equivalent reading level. The idiots need something to read and stir up their insecurities whilst eating McMuffins and drinking dirty dishwater from a Gloria Jeans or Starbucks.

Do an IQ test of the average Bolt reader. Odds on they are legally retarded.

What a compliment to Bolt! Those inner city lefty-luvvies must be in a state of paranoia about his influence. Stand by for Getup (the LaborGreens in sheep’s clothing) to get on this bandwagon.

Marto – you do the mentally challenged a disservice – clearly they are much smarter.

Is anyone else surprised by the vitriol of the right-wing nutcases … s’pose not when you look at history.

For the record, I think the Facebook ‘group’ you refer to is in fact an ‘event’

This is getting more and more pathetic!!! Evil righties and Dumbass lefties…… Seriously, you are all a bunch of crack pots!
If companies wanna pull ads simply because a few tossers disagree with someone’s opinion, they are as stupid as I thought. I do not judge the companies selling their products during tv shows and I do not know anyone else who would….. If companies want to stoop so low as to harrass one person over different beleifs, then that is when I will take my business elsewhere!
As for the above comments about people changing companies because of their ads being shown in the show timeslots…. GROW UP! If you have been completely satisfied by a product, whether it be internet, make-up, etc. as if you are gonna change brands! Are you that dumb?
I really hope the rest of Australia has a bit more sense and sees this show as purely a different point of view and accepts it as just that.

I have posted this thread on FB at https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=159590064101904#!/event.php?eid=159590064101904

Sorry Marco but I am a typical Conservative with degrees, IQ of 135+, extremely well read – even the Age. My Conservative friends are of the same ilk & we got our education when it actually meant something. I fine Bolt very intelligent, researches & presents extremely well & is a pleasure to listen to. Thank God I don’t have to watch Insiders any more. A more biased viewpoint would be difficult to find but then, of course, it is on the ABC.

But Jenna, why does everyone say that the ABC is biased? There have been numerous studies done into this topic many times. Each of these independent reports comes back with a conclusion that the ABC is not biased in any meaningful, measurable way. The conclusions by and large seem to be that it is centrist.

Frankly it’s incredibly insulting to the working ABC journalists. ABC journalists are some of the very best in the business. End of story.

Step up you cowards and provide example of this clear left wing bias?

Jenna, you hated insiders because they rubbished Bolt’s theories and opinions (which is what they are). As Annabel Crabb memorably once said to Bolt. “Stop quoting your stupid research figures from the University of East Bumcrack”.

So to all you right wing nut jobs. Find a funny, entertaining, articulate right wing nutcase to expouse your views. Then you have an interesting TV show.

Just stop insulting hard working ABC journalists because they don’t conform to your narrow minded views.

Jenna, if you think Bolts’ cut and paste jobs “presents well” and are considered as “research”, then I’m afraid you need your head read (again).

God bless the Left. They hate free speech. For them, only opinions approved by the Commissariat are permitted. They hate Bolt as he is a voice of logic and reason in a

regrettably, the Left is more astute at activism and PR than the Right.

“Step up you cowards and provide example of this clear left wing bias?”
When they report every leftist lie as news and never question the content of even the most outrages lies makes them biased.

Intelligent in one pond could be considered stupid in another. I knew an extremely well read pastor who actually believed that God (a being) created earth in 7 days!!! Unbelievable I know?!

Likewise I have a very smart friend who thinks that stopping boats will solve Australias immigration issues?!

Intelligence has nothing to do with this argument.

Sadly there are man sheep on earth who are manipulated by people who are knowledgable in purely one field. This field could be scaremongering, it could be apathism; either way we are all doomed. Just make the most of it before you go 🙂

@genomega “When they report every leftist lie as news and never question the content of even the most outrages lies makes them biased”

Example please?

I am not a tofu eating sandal wearing leftie or a gun totin’ redneck right wing nut job. I am smart enough to make my own decisions.

I am just asking for some specific examples of this “left wing bias” that you feel the ABC is full of. I am reliably informed by you guys that every episode of insiders is repugnant to you because of it’s bias. You have the right to make that claim and slander every hardworking journalist who sits on that couch. And that’s OK. I just haven’t noticed this terrible bias that is apparently obvious to anyone watching the ABC.

I would just ask for some examples of this bias. And if you can’t show any, to please stop denigrating some of Australia’s hardest working and most professional journalists.

Carrob

It’s is it is. The possesive of it is its without the apostrophe.

Jenna, surely the use of the apostrophe denotes omission, which is perfectly acceptable usage.

The extreme left has had it’s control of the media for the last decade. Why are they so scared of centrist commentary? Thanks to the net they no longer have control of all avenues of information. Living through a ‘real’ Aniamal Farm’ has changed the game. The left is losing it’s grasp on the media conduit, and now they squeal like stuck pigs.

This sort of attempt at censorship is simply abhorrent and typical of left wingers only respecting free speech when its their own message being spoken.

Yes. Those bloody lefties. Carrying on about nonsense like climate change when most of the worlds scientists are receiving all this disturbing data. Bloody hell if I want the opinion of the scientific community I will ask Andrew Bolt or Alan Jones. It’s exactly the same with those new fangled doctors. If I am sick I will ask my taxi driver for his opinion. Not those leftie latte sipping so called “medical” types.

And don’t get me started on that mining tax. If the government introduces a tax on mining we are ruined for sure. We have some of the worlds largest deposits of precious and scarce natural resources. Taxing those mining companies and spending the money on crapp we don’t need like hospitals for those so called “medical” types or schools for those long haired university hippies is the biggest waste of money I have ever heard of.

We should be like Saudi Arabia. Where the profits of the resource boom are given directly to the elite and repatriated overseas as soon as possible.

That’s the right and proper way. Anything else is redistribution of wealth. Which is just communism you know.

John Grono
Possesive adjectives are my, thy ,his, her, our, your, their, its. Note the lack of an apostrophe. It’s is always it is. Reference “Nesfield’s Manual of English Grammar & Composition”, page 33.

The funny thing is, there are those on here who say theres no attempt to stop freedom of speech, there are those that that claim there is no leftist bias in the media and claim all “righties” are redneck morons who cant spell and through all this the topic is getting lost. People who dont agree with Bolts views are trying to get him taken off the air and muzzled! Its as simple as that, those people who dont agree with whats being spewed forth in the left dominated media may complain but dont go to such measures as to try and get sponsors to drop advertising so as to get the plug pulled! This IS Leftist bullying as always and it PROVES they dont like any opinions being out there other than their own and it IS an attack on free speech, you either want democracy or you dont you cant have it both ways! And yes i left out a few punctuation marks for you to find!

Now if you’d excuse me I need to go & find where I parked my Prius…one too many chardonnay’s at lunch.

Jenna, Carrob wrote “Frankly it’s incredibly insulting to the working ABC journalists. ABC journalists are some of the very best in the busines”s.”

“It’s” can mean only two things as the apostrophe is used to denote omission – “it is” or “it has”.

“Its” as you correctly point out can mean only one thing – the neutral possessive, indicating belonging to.

As Carrob has written “Frankly it’s incredibly insulting…” in what sense would your recommended “its” be possessive? Is the frankness possessive? If Carrob had written something like “Frankly this line of argument and its incredibly insulting denigration of ABC journalists…” then that would be a valid use of “its”, and if he had used “it’s” in that context then it clearly would have been incorrect.

So, I was always taught to say the sentence in full and replace “it’s” with either “it is” or “it has”, and if it made sense then it was a valid use of the apostrophe to denote omission.

So, if you read Carrob’s sentence as “Frankly it is incredibly insulting…” that makes perfect sense.

Therefore, why is that not perfectly acceptable usage?

The mistake of using it’s was in the words “because of it’s bias” not “it’s incredibly insulting” which of course is absolutely correct.

Can I propose a variant of Godwin’s Law for Mumbrella?

When a partisan debate hits basic grammatical nit-picking, the thread should be closed.

Amen AdGrunt!

Agreed Jenna. Only spotted the first “it’s” but not the second.

And AdGrunt … agreed.

Amen.

Freedom of speech works both ways. He’s free to make his views known, I’m free to judge them and make up my own mind. I’m also free to boycot the show, start a facebook page, or to try to get my own opinion across. In my opinion, the man has little if anything to offer in terms of intelligent research-based argument, and I fear for those who can’t think for themselves while he remains on air. I’m not ‘left’ or ‘right’, I am a free thinking human being who bases her opinions on facts and research.

I think that the major issue with this type of person is that they start out with an agenda. They have a view or opinion, and they find evidence to support this opinion. For those of us who know how the think critically, research comes before the opinion, and opinions can always be changed by new research.

When Obama lies and the msm swears to it, what do you call that?
In a speech yesterday where he ridiculed Republicans saying that the border fence was all but completed when the facts are it is only 5% completed because he stopped construction of the fence.

Pardon me, wrong thread wrong country.

So let me get this straight… a Facebook page calling for an advertiser boycott of a nationally broadcast show in which a bloke who appears regularly on a high rating Melbourne talkback radio program and writes a blog and an opinion column for a paper owned by the world’s biggest media company is able to express his views is somehow revoking said bloke’s “right” to free speech? (A right that we don’t actually have in Australia, it should be noted…)

Damn… looks like war is peace, freedom is slavery and ignorance is strength after all. How’s all that cognitive dissonance working our for you, rabid conservatives?

I am off to support TeleChoice for standing up to censorship by the Left. So free speech as long it agrees with your view? It is called tyranny, seems your campaign is failing, they advised again yesterday. Not surprising as Australians do not like bullies and censorshiP.

Are these the same Fascists (sorry, people of the left) who beat up old people trying to attend a Pauline Hanson rally?

Time to boycott Mumrella for giving the totalitarian left some attention.

It would appear that university students still think they have more power than they actually do.

Leftist zealots don’t like the show so they start bullying advertises. Anyone with an opinion that is outside their own is a nut job well get ready for a shock.. That is 60% of Australia.. these tactics dont surprise me, this is typical work from socialist bullies. I think the face book page should be pulled down.. That is not free speech the is a hate page. Next they will start following people home and using stand-over tactics.

To those who say Andrew Bolt is putting forth one, ie his own, opinion and that it is controversial, I direct you to the latest Newspoll results, and ask that you take off the blinkers when you watch “discussions” on the ABC which we all fund, like or not,and note their leftist leanings

Yet were they NOT publicly funded by taxpayers, but by advertisers, I would not be so childish and churlish as to try to warn off those advertisers, when as Kerry O Brien as the best example showed often the Labor partisanship was disgusting– I would simply still just change channels,and only sometimes return to watch Chris Uhlmann!

Bolta also has the most read blog in the country-one that is read overseas and has rated in the world top 100, as well as a weekday radio gig and has been a commentator for years with the HeraldSun–how do you manage to deduce he is
somehow unrepresentative of at least half the country’s thinking adults?

Play your childish games- but do not try to pretend it is because of anything other than spite and unwillingness to allow a diversity of political choice or perhaps fear that he is reaching many people with a slant on events they have secretly known but never been allowed to see before,at a time when the country’s most incompetent government ever is rapidly destroying our way of life?.

BYW, you have it wrong, the Tele mob are NOT pulling their ads

“The Bolt supporters doth protest too much, methinks.”

Pay attention yourself, Hamlet.
Don’t correct others when you are not perfect yourself.

“Doth” [the modern equivalent is “does”] is a singular verb, and “supporters” is a plural noun.

Congratulations on a great show Andrew.

I have always wondered why left leaning people get so nasty when a conservative person has an opinion different to theirs. I am a conservative voter, and I find my left leaning siblings get nasty with me, if I dare open my mouth and voice an opinion different to theirs.

I’ll support all the advertisers on your show.

How refreshing, for a change, to watch a political affairs show on a Sunday morning and not be confronted by the same nodding heads, furiously slapping each other on the back and extolling the virtues of Labor.

Thank you Gina and thank you Andrew. I hope he keeps Costello as a regular – the guy just exudes authority and wit and even 4 years out of the game still makes Wayne look like a goose!

Ummm … Redmond.

Don’t blame me, blame William Shakespeare – Hamlet, Act III, Scene II. (And it’s called para-phrasing).

So clearly I paid attention in school and you didn’t you dolt.

Tim, any pattern in the flurry of Bolt support over the weekend. Any similarity in timing, IP address … maybe even country of origin?

GG guys, trying to stifle debate. Glad to see it’s blown up in your faces. Now off to support Telechoice for not bowing to the censorship of the left (deliberate small L).

Thanks for all those examples of ABC bias guys.

It’s biased because, well, because it just is.

What a great example of the pathological left.

Trying to make a virtue of threatening advertisers whose *crime* it is to place advertising on a show that dares break the Canberra media circle-jerk.
Oh, and such threats do not offend free speech, they *support* it. What unmitigated garbage.

Bolt’s views are those of the mainstream – supported by an increasing percentage – 48%, 50%, 52% of the populace. Might be 60% the way Joolia is going before too long.
Oh, but it can’t be heard!

You mini-totalitarians – and the ALP that are asking *what is wrong with the people* – are the greatest assets for conservative politics. Keep up the great work!

I enjoy the show as it does offer a little balance to the ABC bias.

Just a little balance mind you, however, it is a lovely change.

I did enjoy watching the first episode and the fallen god of the left Latham pass comment.

I do miss Kerry O’Brians very left wing point of view on the ABC though.

After the next election and these ALP idiots voted out it will be interesting to see how the show rates.

I cannot wait to see both things happen.

The current crop of ALP drones deserve to be roused from their fantasy world and Bolt is doing it by carefully researching the subject matter before he utters a word.
We may not like his opinion on all issues but it is nice to have a dissenting voice.
The issues he raises on idiotic waste and poorly thought out policies can hardly be used to drive advertisers away.
I would think the show will draw a much wider audience than most of these types of shows and that is exactly what advertisers require.
It is one thing to be biased and embracing the ALP dogma it is another to be completely blind to the stupid waste of our hard earned working family money.
No, I think Bolt has shaken the ALP tree nicely with his show and the blind will once again be allowed to see.
We may not have wanted to see the shocking waste however, the opportunity will now be there should we wish to open our eyes.

@Ruprecht
Damn right! Boycott away, just as the American Christian activists American Family Association went after Ford for advertising in Gay and Lesbian magazines.
Free speech.

According to all the populist pundits (but not majority of economists) having a deficit is a bad, bad thing – even in hard times.

So what is a deficit? At its simplest it is when the government’s receipts are less than its expenses. Yes that means that the average person has MORE money in their pocket than less – despite the histrionics we’re hearing.

Clearly if that is ongoing that IS a bad thing – but in hard times it is exactly what a responsible government does.

It was what was done under Fraser did in the 70s, Hawke in the 80s and Keating in the 90s.

But what happened in the abundant 00s. We ran six consecutive surpluses of $86 billion dollars. Money that SHOULD have been spent in the ‘good times’ on hospitals, infrastructure, education, police etc. Because of the myopia of the 00s we’re now forced to play catch-up – the Stimulus Package was spending just half of what the accrued surpluses had been – much needed to keep people employed and businesses open. Yet, the populist view is that we should have kept the money in the bank and let the businesses close and the people onto the dole. Building schools – a shocking waste. Building hospitals – a shocking waste.

Remember it is the objective of a business to run a surplus so that it (i) can emply more people (ii) buy out other businesses (iii) be so attractive to other businesses that they can be bought out and the stakeholders win.

It is NOT the objective of a government to run a surplus to be taken over or bought out … or to buy out other economies. Governments are NOT businesses and neither should they.

Ignore the populists. Stop and have a think for yourself. Are you better off when the government takes less or takes more. I am on the less side and that means a deficit rather than raising taxes. Despite Abbott’s blatherings of less taxes, but providing more services for families – and running a surplus – that can’t be done with simple words from a charlatan. Tell us how and we may believe you. Say nothing and we know that your words are hollow.

I reckon this should be extended to News Ltd’s advertisers. It might be okay in the US, but here in Aus, a media organisation should not NOT be permitted to print any old garbage, just as Bolt should not be permitted to say any old garbage, without ANY reference to truth at all. Left or right wing is of no consequence — it is the distortion of truth that shouldn’t be facilitated by these people, and tacitly be reinforced by advertisers.

Carrob, of course, the ABC is biased towards the left. Its like arguing the proposition that Fox in the USA is not biased towards the right. And of the two, the ABC has the more obvious bias. You claim to want some examples, well tune in. But assuming that you are genuine, here’s some off the top of my head.

Tony Jones and Philip Adams.
The huge imbalance of left to right contributors and content on The Drum.
The career path of ABC journalist to ALP politician, and back – Martin, Carr, Carpenter. Two premiers and a chief minister right there. Throw in Maxine as a one termer and Bob Hogg’s wife.
The token conservative on every heavily stacked Q+A panel and every Insiders panel for 10 years.
The tight adherence by ABC news and current affairs of repeating the day’s spin and talking points fresh from Hawker-Britton.
An increasingly grumpier Barrie Cassidy, ex-Whitlam staffer.
And who could I forget Red Kerry for his fireside chats with ALP folk and vile interrogations of Coalition reps. And his telling Freudian slip of “the ABC” winning the 2007 election.

The ABC is “centrist” only if you place them somewhere between Marx and Lenin.

Join the real world, Carrob. The Uni refec was a loooong time ago.

Jenauthor, if any content is not true – go to the courts or various tribunals.
But it isn’t about truth, it’s about someone having a different view from you.

JMK. Where to start. ALP has racked up 50 Billion decifit and 200 Billion debt which needs be repaid. Repayments of interest alone on the debt will sit about 10 Billion a year, without paying any capital off. That 10 Billion could have been spent on services. A surplus puts downward pressure on interest rate settings. And it is saving for a rainy day, which the ALP sprayed up against the wall. Working, taxpaying Australian are sick of house fires caused by pink batts and grossly overpriced school halls.

JMK you are a fool.

If your theory is even marginally correct then all sensible governments around the world as well as the IMF have it wrong.

Continued deficts are what normal people see as bad, what responsible governments attempt to avoid and they attempt to explain it even to slow people like yourself.

Your theory puts Greece, Ireland etc (and most of the countries in Africa) world leaders in budget economics not because of what people thought were stupid and wasteful policies but because they are so clever.

The reason for a surplus you moron is so they can build a national infrastructure at a sensible rate, contain inflation and make the country stable for doing business.

Spending like drunken sailors on poorly conceived projects is what people see as stupid.

Even the one national project the NBN is now a failed project and it has hardly started. Waste, waste, waste and just for the hell of it more waste is not sensible government.

Hospitals and schools are State issues you donkey.

Still thinking like yours might put you into a secure ALP position (Union) or even place you as a leader of the Greens.

Why do you think Swann and Gillard want to be in surplus?

Idiot!

Hi Peter,

I can’t comment about about Tony Jones. He seems to give everyone stick? and Phllip Adams seems more like an insipid intellectual rather than any sort of ALP stooge. I could be wrong there. I do try to keep an open mind.

Barry Cassidy appears to be grumpy all the time, but maybe I am missing something there.

The Q&A Panel last night seemed to have two conservatives, a labour politician, a Judge and a young lady who was supposed to represent the yoof market. I thought it was fairly balanced with opinions from both sides being bandied around (actually three people expressing their opinions and two politicians sticking to their respective scripts). But once again, maybe I am missing something.

As for Journalists leaving to become politicians, you are absolutely right. Far too many of them seem to gravitate to the labour party. But they are professional journalists who did their job properly. It is their right to change careers, but I don’t think that means that they were not able to conduct their jobs in a professional manner.

And Kerry O’Brien seem to interrogate both sides of politics quite aggressively. I didn’t notice any “cosy fireside chats”.

Seriously. I must be missing this bias? Phillip Adams I can agree with though. But to me he is more of a feel good academic type than running any sort of leftist propoganda.

I am not swayed by your arguments overall though. And as a genuine centrist I think it is important that people keep a close eye on the ABC and thank you for doing that.

I can’t agree that the ABC is somewhere between Marx and Lenin.

WTLT … well it worked during the Great Depression, and works during downturns – but never let historical success deter you.

Your response clearly indicates that ALL deficits are bad at ANY time. What I wrote was that during ‘bad times’ deficits are a necessity. During ‘good times’ surpluses are a necessity (to fund the bad times). Clearly these are bad economic times globally. At no stage did I suggested that continued deficits are bad – have a read.

To compare the Australian economy with its low single figure deficit as a percentage of GDP to ecomomies like the US (70s) and the European countries you mentioned (40s-60s) is a faciley stupid comparison. By the way – which OECD countries are running a surplus at the moment? Which of the OECD countries is running the lowest deficit? Have a look – be surprised – learn something.

Also clearly the Australian economy must return to modest surpluses within the next two to three budgets because that would then be getting too close to excessive borrowings.

And yes “normal people” see continued deficits as bad. These are the self same people who themselves run continued deficits (called a mortgage). They see any deficit as bad because morons in the media tell them it is. If they considered that THEY run deficits as well they may think again. If they consider that a continued surplus is a government consistently returning less money to their pockets they also may think again.

And of course I realise that hospitals and schools are State adminstered responsibilities since the 1940s. But they are in the main federally funded you clown. And the stimulus package – or what you call spending like a drunken sailor – was federal spending on state administered assets. I suppose you call buying a house spending like a drunken sailor – I call it the best investment I have ever made.

See … the difference is whether you take a balanced long-term view (as I am, realising that it is about as popular as a fart in a confessional box), or a narrow short-termed view with no vision for the future. What you call drunken spending I see as an investment in education and health infrastructure. But I also say this with the caveat that long term deficits ARE unsustainable. And before you rant again, remember that Fraser ran five consecutive deficits in the 70s during the oil crisis and that didn’t hurt us in the long term.

Nice one JMK. WTLT is a muppet, probably from Bolt’s crew of full-time forum sockpuppets

Jenauthor

How dare anyone have a different view to yours! Let’s go the whole way & ban all newspapers except Fairfax versions. Close down all of the TV & radio stations that don’t belong to the government. Only allow the so called inner suburban elites to be teachers/ lecturers & send anyone who still manages to express an opinion of which you disapprove to another country or better still to jail. Of course you & your ilk could save us that trouble & move to North Korea, China, Cuba etc where you will be happy beyond your wildest expectations.

Yup. There sure seems to be a bit of crazy going on here.

JMK – I am not sure that some of these people care about facts. Tim has run this article to get some provocation and some page views, and in that respect he has been quite successful.

But I do fear that he has lowered the tone of the site somewhat. That’s all I will say on that.

Why is it that almost no issues can be discussed at present in this country without it degenerating into a “loony left vs right wing fascist” slanging match? Be it in the media or on blogs such as this, discussions are being hijacked by the worst 10% on both sides of the argument.

While this does make for an entertaining read (and probably sells papers and generates hits), it does end up alienating those who are interested in truly understanding the issues.

And for what it’s worth, it is quite possible to vote Liberal or support a free market economy while also believing that Andrew Bolt is a racist, ill-informed bigot who appeals to the lowest common denominator.

This is so good to see Andrew Bolt getting up the noses of the socialists. Keep up the good work Andrew. Whilst the socialists keep telling lies about you.. you keep telling the truth about them.

The Facebook page seems to have disappeared.

I wonder if there was a legal letter or gag order involved.

@carrob
Heres a nice piece by John Izzard.
when considering media bias. Take television and radio. Without doubt the standard bearer is the ABC. ABC1 news and current affairs is generally skewed to the left with slavish attention to the perspective of the Greens and the ALP. Most ABC television programs like ABC1 News, Q&A, Lateline, ABC News 24, ABC Breakfast News and The Insiders are biased, with the political slant of the presenters and reporters self-evident. When the political bent of the ABC staff isn’t obvious, the choice of the people they interview, is.

Squeezing out opposing views is violating freedom of expression and opinion. When have you seen anyone interviewed about climate-change who wasn’t a believer. When more that half of the Australian population is sceptical — when is their side heard? When is the audience mob on Q&A ever balanced? Why is the panel always majority-left?

ABC Radio is the other compound of left-leaning thought. Then there is the ABC’s The Drum — a sort of after-hours watering-hole for lefty hand-wringers. It is here that they gather to exchange their left-wing views, unrestricted by the ABC Charter (which they ignore anyway). As Gavin Atkins recently pointed out in an article, published by The Australian, about the bias on The Drum:

The real measure of bias at the Drum is not the range of opinion, it’s the frequency.

Up until the end of April 2011, 98 writers had been published eight or more times at The Drum, producing a total of 1880 articles. Only eight of these contributors (one in twelve) would pass muster as being on the right of the political spectrum: Glenn Milne, David Barnett, Chris Berg, Kevin Donnelly, Tom Switzer, John Hewson, Niki Savva, and Sinclair Davidson.

This means, for example, that out of all writers who are given a regular platform on the ABC website, I can find only four articles that were in some way supportive of Israel, and non in favour of the war in Afghanistan.

By comparison, there are dozens of anti-Israel and anti-Afghan war pieces on our taxpayer funded website, most of them accusatory and damning. For example, there are at least nine anti-Israel articles by Anthony Loewenstein alone; 12 anti-Afghanistan war rants by Kellie Tranter, and many more from Labor Party speechwriter, bob Ellis scattered among his 110 contributions.

When weighing up the ABC’s impact on political thought and opinion in Australia it must be done by considering all of it’s media activities—three adult TV channels, all the radio stations in every state, its on-line activity such as The Drum, and other websites, as well as the flow-on effect to other media outlets from the ABC’s left-wing thrust.

The extraordinary thing about the venomous attack on Chris Uhlmann and the ABC’s 7.30 program, was that the critics were absolutely right. The old Kerry O’Brien 7.30 Report is well and truly buried. There is a fresh look at 7.30 and the left doesn’t like it.

Gazwardo, is that the same John Izzard from Quadrant? Be serious, could you not find an impartial ‘authority’?

Left or right, regardless of Bolt’s veiws, he is a nasty peice of work. A condescending, arrogant bastard… you can be a likeable and watchable pundit regardless of your veiws, but he just doesnt seem to manage that.

@ JG Nobody is impartial, the human nature is to take sides, people will air their views and people with a different view will say the others are biased then those being accused of bias will counter that view with the same argument, IMO the article is spot on, the ABC is so biased to the left that i cant watch it anymore, if it were centered at least there could be a rational debate but shows like the Drum are just a Leftist Feel Good forum who go out of there way to bash anyone with the slightest opposition to the left mentality, much the same as the people trying to sabotage Bolts Show, Freedom of speech is fine as long as you dont disagree! Of course you wont agree with that for the above reasons!

You are correct Gazwado – everyone has their own opinion and everyone thinks they are right.

Have a read of this academic study … http://people.anu.edu.au/andre.....aSlant.pdf

But of course you won’t agree with it for the reasons you stated.

JG Very Good! =)

Why are Radio Rentals and TeleChoice advertising in Bolt’s program anyway? Their clients are down market bogans and teenagers who have no interest in politics economics or current affairs. I suspect they wanted their ads in the music video show which used to appear in the same time slot.

I’m going to start a facebook page boycotting companies who boycott Bolt’s show.

UPDATE: The Bolt Report at 10am now has the unfortunate distinction of the repeat in the afternoon being more popular than the original broadcast in the morning. The 178,000 for the repeat actually equalled the opening morning’s audience for the program. It has now lost 77,000 of that first up morning audience, or a fall of 43%.

Just goes to show that the great Aussie sport of apathy is alive and well, people cant be bothered getting out of bed early on a sunday morning, prefering to watch later after the hangover has worn off! With all the crap being spouted these days i’m prefering to stay drunk while i can, All that CO2 in the beer cant be good for the climate and must be stopped!!!

Cardinal Pell is guilty as hell.How dare Andrew Bolt presume to know better than a jury of his peers who sat through the complete trial.
I will personally never again buy any product advertised in his segment on Foxtel or buy a Herald Sun newspaper while they print his articles
Shame on Andrew Bolt
Fred