NOW THAT WAS AN EDIFYING READ MR BOLT

Would you believe it? Lucy was out of copies of the Age so I decided the Herald-Sun would do. And god help me, there was an article by a bloke called Bolt. 'Jesus, that's the same bloke who made a couple of visits to Monday's Experts before the show was dumped', I thought.

Monday's Experts was a breezy little program hosted by Peter Clarke before Ian Mannix (he works in there at Southbank) shifted Peter to other duties. All this means that the most political program on the ABC is probably the football on Saturday. Yes, Tim Lane gets to ask the big questions about the things that matter.

Anyway, this Bolt bloke was writing an in-depth account of the troubles of Moreland Secondary College. Too many Lebos, incompetent teachers (probably lefties) and a ghetto culture. So said Mr Bolt. If only Moreland had the facilities of one of those rich pampered estates south of the Yarra, I thought. If only the kids at Moreland joined the Scouts and went home to peace loving families like Her Majesty's and declared their oppostion to that dastardly bloody Islamic religion.

If only!

While I have you. Do those rich kids ever get up to no good? Do they ever belt a rival mob or rob anyone? Of course not!

I haven't time here to explain how grateful we all are to Mr Murdoch for allowing Mr Bolt to expose these horrors out north of the city.

Keep up the good work, Mr Bolt.

If you have any thoughts, send them in. George sent the one below a few months back.

phil

anyway (I'm a bit sozzled at the minute) I wanted to comment on your little exchange with that - Andrew Bolt on radio the other night (Monday I think).

About 18 months ago the 'Australian' ran a bio on him in which he likened himself to a latter-day George Orwell. Can you believe it? You know the line...speaking the truth no matter what crap. He's been running that line ever since. It's an interesting likeness actually, because Orwell also served the empire (not only by shooting elephants in Burma, but also by passing lefty names on to MI5 when on his death-bed).

But what's really infuriating about Bolt is that - unlike Orwell - he never stands up to power. I'd liken him to the establishment's parking officer...looking for minor infringements...a pedant, trying to trip up the weakest and most vulnerable. You know the stuff...highlighting lefty hyperbole or sloppiness and using it to discredit the whole.

anyway, the point is, next time you have to deal with the - ask him what his position is on (and has been) on Enron, HIH, US trained death squads in central America, patents on AIDS drugs, Third World debt, etc etc. Ask the - why he doesn't stand up to Australia's media moguls, or the dynastic, incestuous nature of ....

......awwwww I'm gone (to bed)

all the best

George Myconous

contact me at p.cleary@latrobe.edu.au