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So?
Look at what I replied to "nary an eyebrow is raised" If he says boo, you guys are screaming about it.
Mike Carlton cops wrath of Jewish/Israeli lobby. JIDF win this round.
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So?
Look at what I replied to "nary an eyebrow is raised" If he says boo, you guys are screaming about it.
Criticised but never actually faces any consequences.Yes, Bolt is never criticised anywhere
telsor
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So the 18c 'bolt case' was nothing?
Tell me, where has he personally and publicly abused his newspapers readers in the manner Carlton did.
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"Black" is not a race.
But drop the word "black" into an abusive tirade of an aboriginal... then its blatent racism. As is Mikes use of the word "Jew".
What professional consequence did he suffer from this? He got the Bolt Report after this finding if i recall the timing.
telsor
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If 18c does nothing, why do we bother having it as a law?
IIRC, He was fined, censored (banned from publishing anything one the topic again) and as copped a great deal of abuse from people who use it to bash him at every opportunity. Do you think those things have no effect on him personally and professionally?
You would think that would be a fireable offence, but no, still holds place of prominence, first point of call for Conservative pollies along with Alan Jones, plus gets tv show. I hope he hasn't been to hurt personally and professionally...
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Couldn't happen to a nicer fellow. His intemperate, self-indulgent and fictional methods of journalism, all in the name of being 'colorful', were always going to get him in the s**t. I make no comment about the current controversy, other than to say that he has form. He is as big a liar and urger as Bolt has been proved to be. They are equally bad writers.
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No it isn't. Even athiest Israeli's identify themselves as Jews, in stark contrast you'd never hear an Iraqi christian identify as muslim. So in the context of Mike's commenting on the Israeli crisis, prefacing abuse of his critics with the word "Jew" is a deliberate racial connotation. Semantics anyway, I dont care how you refer to the racist/bigot/jerk .
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If it's a fireable offence to publish a opinion piece that was a close call legally, then there would be no more opinion pieces. Just as well the right doesn't sue to shut people up (as much), or fairfax and the ABC would be toast.
Oh yeah, these days he also has to get what he writes checked by lawyers first. Bet that doesn't count as a 'professional consequence' either.
Carlton will just swap over to the ABC, the guardian and/or quietly rehired by fairfax before long. Tell me, where else would Bolt get a job? Not like the 'unbiased' ABC would hire anyone not of the left after all.
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In fact, Bolt used to have a weekly segment on the John Faine program, on ABC Local Radio, for about four years.
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Exactly. He's revelling in the attention
The same lot who made Abbott back down (spineless muppet) over 18c. This lobby is determined to claim special privileges and then can't comprehend why so many Australians hold them in such contempt.
Yes it does. Jewish lobby says it does. Its anti Semitism and a breach of the law, they are OFFENDED.
We cant have them being OFFENDED.
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You don't even know that they were SMH readers.
The article was linked to by a number of Jewish/Israeli outlets, and all of the ones I have seen denounced the article as 'antisemitic' i.e. go and complain about it, get this guy fired.
I don't think you understand just how powerful organisations likes the JIDF are.
Google Jewish Internet Defence Force. And don't just read the wikipedia article - they more or less control wikipedia at least insofar as zionism/judaism articles are concerned.
The Israel lobby is extraordinarily well funded and connected. It ill behoves any public broadcaster to criticise them. Sadly for free speech.
In "My Israel Question" Antony Loewenstein wrote in relation to broadcaster Terry Lane:
In those circumstances one can understand Carlton's decision to run.
In "My Israel Question" Antony Loewenstein wrote in relation to broadcaster Terry Lane:
In those circumstances one can understand Carlton's decision to run.
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I mean really are we still drawing Jews with hook noses. FFS.
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There's no anti-semitism in the article but calling someone a Jewish biggot is - which is a shame because it undermines any valid points made in the article. I mean it's completely recycled as one comes to expect from from fairfax - but still something in it.
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He wasn't fired.He was suspended,so decided to quit instead.
s**t commentator, s**t football team
he is no shlomo sand thats fur shur
he got into a brouhaha with austen tatious who must be the most unfunny funny man on these shores. he is worthy of a partnership with billy birmingham.
put austen and mike in a salad tosser and be done with them. is salad kosher?
he is no shlomo sand thats fur shur
he got into a brouhaha with austen tatious who must be the most unfunny funny man on these shores. he is worthy of a partnership with billy birmingham.
put austen and mike in a salad tosser and be done with them. is salad kosher?
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Austen Tayshus is the name. and yes, i really do look like a dodgy advertising executive creative in an advertising firm. there were two pleonasms and tautologies there, not just one.
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I dunno... can you exsanguinate a lettuce?
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