Lefty Latte Lover

Welcome To Nothing Much. Yet.

But if Tim and Andrea (greetings travellers) insist on playing their little game and accussing me of being someone I'm not, and therefore banning me, then I guess I'll just have to start filling space here with my ignorant, misinformed rants instead.

And people wonder why Liberal voters won't admit to being Liberal voters?

They're ashamed of the association with all the twits and toolends who can't stand the slightest hint of dissent away from some fantasy party line, whatever the fuck it is, that seems to change and shift and bend and break faster than is possible to keep up.

Here's a hint : If you want to attract more young people to the party, or to the philosophy, stop treating them like they're duff little shits that need to have their brains rearranged in order to be classed as worthy human beings.

Nobody likes being treated like a fuckwit, even if you sometimes deserve to be treated so.

This is what I believe :

To believe in GW Bush and John Howard doesn't mean you have to put up with the torrents of lies and falsities that fall from the mouths of neocons who are now ashamed of what has happened to their misbegotten plans but don't have the balls to admit they may have been wrong and just need to get on with making it right.

You can believe that Howard is doing great things for Australia without believing that launching wars on unarmed people is a fantastic, worthy and vital mission. This is why governments have intelligence bureaus. If they all tell you, "No, bad idea. Don't do this," then you don't do it. Simple. That's what they're there for. Not to tell you what you want to hear under the threat of expulsion.

You can believe that Israelis deserve a homeland, and have a right to one, and also disagree with the idea of cutting off food and water supplies to Palestinian children and making people line up in the sun for three days just to take some olives to market.

You can think Rachel Corrie was a bit of a nong, without seeing the need to celebrate her death and stick it to her parents.

You can believe that Cindy Sheehan has the right to tell her truth about the world and war as she sees it without believing she should be buried next to her son for doing so. So what if she's wrong, or misinformed, or anti-Israel? Boo fucking hoo. Get over it. It's like advertising, when you stop paying attention, you stop noticing it's there. Cindy Sheehan didn't get famous just because she laid down in a ditch. She got famous because supporters and Sheehan-haters made her famous, and never stopped talking about her.

You can believe that America should lead the world without believing in the need to blow hundreds of billions of dollars and waste thousands of young lives, destroying thousands of families in the process and blowing sand and sandstone back to....sand.

You can believe that a balanced world future is possible, with resources shared fairly, and not believe in the use of bombs and guns to get that world future.

You can believe that most people in the world, of any or all religions, are essentially good people, and there is only the minutest number out of the entire global population who are utter fuckheads. Unfortunately, most of them have access to heavy weaponry, and I'm not talking about the soldiers.

You can believe in conservative ideals and also believe that there is more money in peace than in war, that there is more to gain in preservation of the environment than ruthless exploitation of it, and that given the good chances in life that virtually everyone will do something worthwhile and make the world a better place.

At least, that's what I believe, and that's what hundreds of millions of young people in the world believe, too.

The change is already well underway. And if you can't see it, your either not looking hard enough behind the modern myths or you're locked in a last century headspace. And if that's the case, don't worry, we'll be gentle with you when it's time for you to step aside.

Ferris.

FEARING THE ABC IS LIKE FEARING THE FULL MOON

THE 'BATS WILL COME OUT, BUT YOU DON'T HAVE TO LET THEM INSIDE

Why are Australian Righties so scared of the ABC?

I think it’s funny watching the Lefties try and try and try to get one over on Howard or Downer or any of the Righters who present themselves for interviews. The Leftoids rarely crack their shells and make themselves look all the more foolish for these failures.

Lateline may have the gormless Middle East journo Robert Fisk on now and then, but they give just as much time to avowed NeoCons like Daniel Pipes and English lush writer Christopher Hitchens, plus the occaisonal Zionist for the inside perspective on Israel.

The Righties may not always like the ABC, but do you really think Channel Nine or Today Tonight would get into these kind of political discussions, or extensively cover foreign elections, if Lateline and the 7.30 Report weren't around to do it?

Like fuck they would.

The Righters might not be happy with Red Kerry’s interview style, but why should we be denied all the rest of the benefits of those shows? The more shows like these that the Right can get onto and speak their bit, the more their powerful messages will get into the heads of the electorate.

The Right have continued to increase in popularity, meaning numbers at the ballot box, for the last decade. All the attacks in the world from the ABC have done nothing to quell the spread of the Right Word.

We've won FOUR Federal elections in a row, we dominate the Senate, we got our revolutionary IR reform bills through, the Iraq War went ahead and continues to make strong changes to the political landscape of the Middle East....the list is long and impressive.

Anything else the Right wants, there's a good chance we'll get it.

That's what it means to be in control of the country.

So why panic if Lateline's Tony Jones doesn’t let Foreign Minister Alexander Downer rave on for ten minutes straight? It’s great to see all politicians put through the wringer occasionally, we pay their wages, why shouldn’t they have to dance for us and explain themselves?

And don’t lay out the ABC Lefty Bias joke either, The ABC hammers the Lefties plenty. You reckon Beazley gets a fair run anywhere on the ABC? The Chaser and the Glass House mock him regularly.

Plus the ABC shows eviscerated Labor golden child Mark Latham and his bitchtastic book last year like no other channel did, and the ABC did it for weeks on end.

And Steve Cannane on Hack, on JJJ, has Greenies on his show and he shreds them, at least once a week, while also giving youth access platforms to everyone from Downer to Tony Abbott to Browyn Bloody Bishop. How often do you think Abbott or Bishop get onto MMM-FM? Or 2WS-FM?

I don’t want to live in a country where the only media message is the stuff I want to hear, I mean, you do know what kind of society that talk leads to, don’t you?

The Australian Right have no reason to be going and getting all offended and put out by the tossers who seem to have the majority pull within the ABC, particularly if they have no respect for these people anyway.

The endless whining from Righters about 'What's Wrong With The ABC' makes us all sound like a bunch of wussies who can’t take some heat or criticism.

The Australian Right are winning victories every week in the Parliment, and the ABC has to report on virtually all of them, no matter how much some of them might not want to.

Getting up to $1 billion a year to do what the ABC Does might be a lot of money, but if you can’t stand people screaming at you from television ads every ten minutes about what new piece of crap you should buy, then 4 cents a day (or whatever few cents it works out to) doesn’t seem that much of a price to pay for a bit of non-consumer down time.

Finally, the ABC in its present form keeps old people off the streets at night, and that's vital.

Imagine what they’d be doing if they didn’t have all those British dramas and comedies to keep them hypnotised? They’d be hanging around like the local 7-11 to all hours, picking fights, spraying ‘Old People Rock’ on walls and they'd be on the phone asking why we don’t visit them more often, or God forbid, they’d be doing the Pop In.

Now that is far more scary than Red Kerry trying to get one up on Howard and failing miserably, again, as always, as usual.