There is some weird shit going down at The Midnight Sun.

When it comes to Israel, people like THR are blinded by the Master of lies himself and hence find it very difficult to think rationally about the subject. The future of Israel is a part of a larger spiritual battle between good and evil. Many times those to be found railing against the alledged ’sins’ of Israel are simply pawns in the game.

Real weird shit.

MK has this to say:

I generally try to steer clear of hateful leftists, but as usual, that’s not enough for these hateful creatures, they must let you know what they think of you. What a charming fellow this D—– B—– is eh. I believe all this started because I banned his hateful self from AWH, so he slithered over here, now you know why I banned him. Folks, I have lost count of the number of angry leftists who insist that my blog and blogs I write on and are useless and are read by no one, yet they just can’t stay away and still they yearn to have their say on these blogs that no one apparently reads. On the plus side, unlike the others who tend to drone on a bit, this one was just straight to the point, there wasn’t any dancing around, just 100% hate and anger.

A few points:

MK cannot claim the high moral ground. We know he reads this site. A lot. He doesn’t comment here, of course, because he’s not surrounded by his buddies, and he can’t delete any dissenting comments.

Judgement: Pissweak.

How hard I laughed when read MK’s hissy fit because someone called him a name. Of course, MK would NEVER think of calling someone a juvenile name!

Here are some recent comments MK has posted:

“Eff off john gasbag, you sniveling sack of pig filth. Your parents are looking for you, feeding time, here jonny, jonny, come get yer sausage boyo. It’s lamb tonite, whose a good doggy now, must work on your incessant yapping though.”

“Don’t tell me to get my facts right you irritating sack of excrement, i quote from media sources. You got a problem with them bird-brain, then take it up with them, stupid cow…”

“No worries jono, just try to keep your solicitations off this blog alright.

Oh and that last attempt of yours to pretend to be me, sorry you sniveling old testicle-sniffer, i saw you from a mile away, you stood out like, well a sniveling old testicle-sniffer. Run along now and start whining and crying into your mothers-skirts like the tosser you really are. You have a face and an intellect only a mother could tolerate.

I must say you really are a predictable, immature, sniveling old testicle-sniffer.”

“Angry that we’re allowed to speak ar, very angry. Get lost club wank.”

“Hopefully it’ll be 14 months of being somebody’s bitch at a fixed address. After that it’ll be onto centrelink to suckle on the taxpayers teat.”

“Yeah, lots of comments when yearning to free the scumbag, but suddenly nothing to say to the rest of the community for something that affects them.

Oh yeah and the United Nations, always siding with the scum of the earth eh.”

“The warning is not up there for fun asshole.”

These were from the front page of AWH alone.

Judgement: Hypocrite.

Now poor MK wants be left alone! It must be annoying when you post retarded views, and can’t defend them.

The fake Bridgit blog is no more. I’ve been informed that it was suspended for breaching Blogger’s terms of service on several counts: specifically, those relating to copyright, impersonation and hateful content. Tsk tsk.

UPDATE
The fake blog has re-emerged at Wordpress in much the same form. And within a couple of hours there’s a link to it posted you-know-where. Such is the speed you can work at when you don’t have a job…

The Editor is trout fishing(!) somewhere in regional Victoria at the moment, so it’s up to me to follow up this post about PRODOS.

Recap:

Prodos awards Catch The Fire Ministries pastor Danny Nalliah  the Annual International Capitalism Award for Melbourne.

Later it’s revealed Danny Nalliah addressed an anti-Israel group in 2005.
Prodos is pro-Israel.

Prodos freaks out.

Got it?

Fast forward to now. Yesterday Prodos posted an interview with Danny Nalliah, obviously just to confirm where this guy stands. It must be said that Prodos speaks for 3:25 before this guy even gets a word in. What is interesting about this interview is the tone of incredulity that Prodos maintains throughout - like you’d be crazy not to believe what he says!

Note: This interview is for “innerlecules” only.

Prodos: Now just let me apologise for not being more well-versed on Christianity…

Apology accepted! Prodos always asks the hard questions:

Prodos: Aren’t you making bad people look good by being there?

Ugh, listen to it yourself, it’s pretty unbearable. Just wait for when Danny Nalliah likens being homosexual to being a druggie.

Hello to all the righties who read this blog. I don’t know how many of you there are, and frankly, I don’t want to know.

But maybe I’m a bit harsh sometimes. I feel that after my “truths of the left” revelation, I should do another post to help you out. You need all the help you can get. Look at you. Are you licking the oil out of a sardine tin as you read this? Yes? Well, then listen up.

Many of you probably read right-wing blogs (like Bolt, Blair, AWH, RWDB, and Landeryou) and ask yourselves “How can I write a blog like that? And just why does this tin keep cutting my tounge?”. Well, I am here to answer one of those questions. The blog one. The tin one you’ll have to answer on your own.

Using examples from some of Australia’s most popular right-wing blogs, I intend to demonstrate how to write a self-serving, dishonest post with lots of blaming, leftie bashing, context changing and quote misuse.

1. Blame the left

For God’s sake, blame everything on the left. Right-wing bloggers blame everything on the left. From the War going badly, to David Hick’s lengthy incarceration, nothing is their fault. The idea that the left might have always been right on these issues is a scary one, so they merely turn to blaming when the heat is on.

2. Dishonesty

When quoting make sure you take it out of context entirely. Very rarely do the readers of Tim Blair actually click on the link and read the entire articles for themselves.
For example:

Fairfax blogger (and pal) Jack Marx:

“I think I’m losing my patience with the stupid … I’ve worked at some of the most allegedly foolish periodicals in the nation - The Truth, Ralph, The Picture - but it’s only at Fairfax that I’ve received such stupid correspondence from readers.”

There Blair ended the post, without even commenting on it, allowing for the false insinuation that Jack Marx thought Fairfax readers were of low intelligence. Had they clicked on the link themselves, they would have found Marx’s follow-on:

“I don’t think one can assume from this that the Fairfax readership is dim, but simply that it has a longer reach than the others.”

Bolt and Blair are especially notorious for this kind of dishonesty. When you are a true right-wing blogger, you will think nothing of twisting comments, quotes and contexts to create your own truths. Both of them are so convinced they are right, that they think nothing of this kind of behaviour as long as their original intention gets through - in Blair’s case, that Fairfax readers are stupid. Right-wing blog readers don’t question this kind of blogging as they want to believe it.

Another good example is a recent post on global warming by Bolt:

More than two dozen demonstrators braved cold, wet weather Saturday in Reno to attend a rally designed to draw attention to global warming.

You’d have to be puffin’ muffins, cuddling cactus and an absolute dingleberry to believe that any downward change in the weather cancels out global warming. Bolt knows this, but still writes dishonest posts like this in the (very likely) chance that people will read this and believe it. Again, he is so convinced he is right that he is more than willing to trick people into his point of view through dishonest methods.

3. Hate The Age

Australia’s best daily, The Age, attracts much scorn from most right wing blogs. Why? Because it’s left-wing, and there is no comparable right-wing paper. The Herald Sun is a joke. The Age has superior news coverage, a fact reflected in the right-wing blogs linkage to their website. In the case of Andrew Landeryou, however, the agenda is slightly murkier.

You see, Landeryou’s company IQ (which eventually went broke) was contracted to deliver sports statistics to The Age. They didn’t deliver, and The Age went elsewhere. Subsequently, Landeryou spends his life trying to pick fights with Age writers, claiming it’s a “vile, leftist rag” when in reality, his beef lies with the fact they fired him and his company.

Does he disclose any of this? No.

Gerard Henderson claims that The Age should move to the centre. He’d love that, as it would leave no major left-wing daily in Australia. Like many on the right (AWH, I’m looking at you) he spends his time extolling the virtues of free-speech, meanwhile speaking out against anyone who doesn’t share his view, demanding they should change (MediaWatch, for example).

4. Make false accusations about “The Left”.

Make sure you make those with left wing views sound like a monster that is about to tear down the city, and ruin your life and the lives of everyone you care about. Don’t refer to them as people, refer to them as “The Left”. Example, claim the left are “hateful”.

According to good ol’ Jonny Ray:

Leftists are great haters and to cover up their own hatreds — of America, the rich, WASPS, the bourgeoisie and anyone who is happily doing well for themselves.

Not true, of course, as many lefties live in America, drive BMW’s, are white and hell, some of us even work (unlike a popular right-wing blogger).

Of course, the right only hate people like minorities, atheists, anyone of colour, and lefties which is okay, as evidenced in this regrettable post by one Tiberius on AWH:

“The filth of the treasonous left has been allowed to fester for too long, and it has now become so bad that the wound can no longer simply be drained of pus. The whole limb must be excised.”

Not hateful at all. Now, please notice that all comments on that post have been removed.

Free speech, anyone?

5. Groupthink

Think only the left groupthink? Wrong. Spend your time linking to other right-wing blogs that share your point of view (but don’t actually explain why they have that point of view, like Blair), and all your little anonymous righty friends will post vauge attacks on the left on your blog.

So anyway, I hope this has been a help to any wannabe right-wing bloggers out there. If you have anymore to add, don’t forget to in the comments.

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The Editor Updates (17 April): Andrew Landeryou has emailed Lachlan Connor who has, in turn, forwarded the message to me. It reads in part:

Whoever is telling you that Fairfax didn’t want my little company providing footy stats when we pulled the plug on them is pulling your chain.

The simple truth is that we walked away from the contract, forcing them to negotiate with the wolves of News Limited who were their only other source at the time. And from memory, they were rather ruthlessly screwed by them on it. Apparently the Fairfaxistas came back to us several times but by then we’d moved on from the whole very labour intensive and not particularly prospective activity to focus on other ultimately not particularly profitable activities.

In the few years IQ dealt with them, the provision of footy stats being a pretty small part of the business and my contempt for The Age being much the same then as it now is, I never actually met with anyone from Fairfax. So your “explanation” of my dislike of them is in fact utterly bullshit. As is your claim that I hadn’t “disclosed” the fact that IQ had done business with them. It’s no secret, mentioned on my blog and in at least one Age story I can recall.

The email threatened that if a correction wasn’t published then Lachlan “must surely know what happens next.” I don’t know for sure but I suspect it has something to do with photoshopping a photo of Lachlan Connor into a compromising image of a man and a sheep. You know, the standard kind of thing that goes on over at Landeryou’s website. Lachlan tells me he’s suffering in his jocks.

GrodsCorp has always given right of reply to those who are featured in blog posts and Landeryou has now been afforded the same opportunity as everybody else. As Landeryou himself is so fond of saying: “we report, you decide.”