grodscorp@grods.comBolta re-writing history
 | Posted by Scott on Wednesday 30 January 2008, 7:00 am Categories: Blogosphere, Media, Politics Tags: AndrewBolt, IraqWar, TheOrstrahyun |
Darryl Mason at The Orstrahyun seems to have caught Andrew Bolt re-writing history after prematurely declaring history writ.
In early November last year, Murdoch media columnist Andrew Bolt proudly declared that “The War In Iraq Has Been Won”.
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After a six week long holiday, Bolt has returned to declare again that the War In Iraq Is Now Won.
It’s easy, wrote Bolt last Sunday, “to publicly back George Bush now that the war in Iraq is won.”
But a few hours later, Bolt had a sudden and dramatic change of heart about whether the Iraq War has actually been won or not.
Bolt pulled the last Sunday blog post with the big fat “Iraq War Is Now Won” headline and deleted all traces of it from his blog and newspaper archive. However, it’s still listed on the Google News archive. When you click the link, you get nothing.
The next time Bolt referred to Iraq, on Monday, he claimed that Iraq has been secured, and its democracy and thousands of Iraqis lives saved, all thanks to the Bush troop surge. But he didn’t say the war has been won. Instead he says it is, simply, “going well”.
Read Darryl’s full investigation of the mystery disappearance of the ‘W’ word.
Wednesday 30 January 2008, 7:04 am #Damian
Yeah, yeah, big deal. The real question is, can he name the twelfth man in the Australian side for the second test during the 1974-75 series?
Wednesday 30 January 2008, 8:38 am #Jeremy
God he’s a goose. Boltwatched.
Wednesday 30 January 2008, 9:14 am #Wah
Only Andrew Bolt can say a war that continues to wreak bloodshed is “going well”.
On another post at this site I said it’s too late to say Sorry to the Aborigines. But hell, if it works Bolt up into a lather and possibly results in his pulminary system going into cardiac arrest, then apoligise away Mr Rudd, with a big fuck-off cherry on top.
Wednesday 30 January 2008, 9:17 am #Goobermetrics
Mission Accomplished?
Wednesday 30 January 2008, 10:16 am #kat
bolt was wrong? no!
not that he’d ever freakin admit it.
Wednesday 30 January 2008, 10:47 am #Agent Starling
He heard it from Miranda “war correspondent” Divine. Also please remember he went to the green zone for like a whole day too!
Wednesday 30 January 2008, 6:33 pm #krypto
oh to see Bolta “attritted” by “friendly fire”.
Thursday 31 January 2008, 9:01 pm #Mikey
Well Bolta and History have a kind of love hate thing going. So it makes sense he’d re-write if he can. He’s the sort of righty that heard that alleged remark by an administration official along the lines of ‘fuck reality, we’re the new reality now’ and agrees with it.
I wonder if Bolta thinks it was worth the 150k+ people dead and 4 million displaced by this conflict?
Probably. Because he’s a fuckstick.