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Bolta’s big boo-boo

Tuesday 6 May 2008, 6:33 pm

Bridgit Gread

Categories: Media, Politics

Tags: AlanCarpenter, AndrewBolt, JayeRadisich, sexism, TroyBuswell, WestAustralian

The West Australian has responded to the Buswell chair affair with a little get-even dirt-digging. The West Oz’s journos had to delve back to 2004 to find anything of note: a boozy ALP function where Labor premier Alan Carpenter allegedly lifted the top of MP Jaye Radisich and exposed her bra.

‘Commenting‘ on the story, Andrew Bolt just can’t help himself and engages in the kind of base sexism and personal denigration we’ve come to expect from certain low-brow bloggers. He inserts the above pic as ‘ftgg.bmp‘ (as all sub-editors would know filenames for pictures are rarely random; draw your own conclusions what it might mean) and captions it with:

I suspect that [WA Labor MP Jaye] Radisich would certainly have noticed had [WA premier Alan] Carpenter attempted the job of lifting her top.

The Boltmeister then goes on to suggest that Carpenter’s alleged bra-lifting is actually worse than Buswell’s chair-sniffing because it is more “direct”, whereas Buswell was just “alarmingly inventive”. How cute. And all this moralising is predicated on an event that Carpenter denies, Radisich has never mentioned let alone complained about, and staff at the aforementioned function apparently did not witness. Not that either Bolta or the West Oz are likely to let the facts get in the way of a good smear job.

29 Comments

brokenleftleg (Tuesday 6 May 2008, 6:40 pm) #

AC has quickly learned that when you raid the offices of a newspaper because they did their job in exposing govt incompetence, that paper will act in a thoroughly shameless manner to retaliate.
Meanwhile the ideals of democracy (a free and responsible press) get flushed down the crapper.
Bron (Tuesday 6 May 2008, 6:44 pm) #

Trust Bolta to jump and down about this “story”. He is really quite disgusting.

ftgg = “fat” is the only thing I can come up with. I’d think about it, but I don’t want to get inside Bolta’s head.
Zombie Mao (Tuesday 6 May 2008, 6:46 pm) #

I would imagine trying to lift that top would involve all sorts of occupational health and safety issues. The scaffolding alone would be dangerous.

She has only said ‘I was not offended’ but failed to elucidate further. She was brutally dumped from her seat by Carpenter et al so she is simply having a bit of fun making Carps squirm. Caucus will come down on her like a ton of bricks eventually.

The West (also known as the Osbourne Park Branch of the Liberal party) hates that there is no opposition. So loose hearsay gossip it is. weeeeee
Zombie Mao (Tuesday 6 May 2008, 6:46 pm) #

The raid was on the Sunday Times.

Still, very ugly, very facist.
Damian (Tuesday 6 May 2008, 6:55 pm) #

Excellent Bolt-watching. Ta.
THR (Tuesday 6 May 2008, 8:07 pm) #

I also don’t know what fttg means.

For the greater good?
TW (Tuesday 6 May 2008, 8:07 pm) #

The West Oz’s journos had to delve back to 2004 to find anything of note…

1) The West Australian is not owned by News Ltd.

2) That rumour has been floating around since late last year anyway

3) Obviously this woman is proud of her shape, otherwise she would not have worn such form-fitting clothes to work. If you think there is something wrong with it, then that is your issue to deal with.

Oops.
Damian (Tuesday 6 May 2008, 8:20 pm) #

TW, I don’t get it. Who said the West was owned by News?
Bridgit Gread (Tuesday 6 May 2008, 8:22 pm) #

1. Ah yes, I got confused because that snivelling toad Ackerman started out there, plus the West Australian has a long history of stinkiness. My error, which is now fixed. News Ltd should pick it up though; it’d fit right in to their stable.

2. As far as this rumour goes, therein lies the problem: rumours are not news unless they can be substantiated and corroborated. There’s not a single piece of corroboration in that article. The staff at the function said that some people were disrobing; they also said they wouldn’t know who were MPs and who weren’t. A pretty piss weak attempt to verify a back-office whisper.

3. Lastly, you might want to take some comprehension lessons. The post was not about her shape, it was about Bolt’s reference to it. He had no right to comment on her upper body, any more than I would have a right to comment on a lack of bulge in your trousers. His remark belongs in a Carry On film, not on a serious, supposedly sensible news website.
Mikey (Tuesday 6 May 2008, 8:26 pm) #

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/new-stink-over-chair-sniffer/2008/05/06/1209839619603.html

Yeah, I’d say what Buzzy did was worse…

Bolt’s just jealous because unlike himself Carpenter was a journalist at some point.
brokenleftleg (Tuesday 6 May 2008, 8:37 pm) #

A waitress at an exclusive Melbourne golf club has told Grods Corp that the Herald Sun “journalist” Andrew Bolt sniffed a seat which Sophie Mirrabella had recently been sitting on, and then snapped Bronwyn Bishop’s bra.
The incident happened in 2001 soon after the Liberal Party stole the Federal election by telling huge lies to the Australian public.
A senior waitress, who asked not to be named, told Grods Corp that Andrew Bolt had been drinking heavily and kissing Piers Ackerman before the bra snapping incident.
She has since left the golf club.
Ms Bishop, Ms Mirrabella, and Mr Ackerman were uncontactable at time of publication, and have not denied the story.
Now that’s modern journalism.
Bridgit Gread (Tuesday 6 May 2008, 8:51 pm) #

BLL, that rumour has been floating around since last year.
Zombie Mao (Tuesday 6 May 2008, 9:00 pm) #

it was all over the television news.

really silly of Jaye really

The caucus are pissed and about to roast Jaye.

One member recollects that the most distressing moment was when Allanah McTiernan grabbed the microphone and started to sing.

*shiver*
Jack Dorf (Tuesday 6 May 2008, 9:05 pm) #

Bolt had been drinking heavily and kissing Piers Ackerman

You could have posted a warning sign b4 posting that!
Jack Dorf (Tuesday 6 May 2008, 9:12 pm) #

Zomb - she sang Nick Cave’s Shivers that is scary.

I’ve been contemplating suicide,
but it really doesn’t suit my style,
so I think I’ll just act bored instead
who can take the blood I would’ve shed?

She makes me feel so weary
my heart is really on it’s knees
but I keep a poker face so well
that even mother couldn’t tell

But my baby’s so vain
she is almost a mirror
and the sound of her name
sends a permanent shiver down my
SPINE
brokenleftleg (Tuesday 6 May 2008, 9:40 pm) #

“BLL, that rumour has been floating around since last year.”
Yes, but I found the un-named waitress that confirmed it, and Grods had the balls to publish this hard hitting report worthy of a Walkley.
Bridgit Gread (Tuesday 6 May 2008, 9:46 pm) #

And I had the Zapruder footage of it. Only I lost it at the pub. Oh well, I published the story anyway.
Wah (Tuesday 6 May 2008, 11:19 pm) #

You may be clutching at straws with that file name - I know people who know people who may be able to find out the filing convention at Newscorp.

Once I worked at a magazine and we received a pic with a press release of Naomi Campbell with a horse. The file name was blackwomanandhorse.jpg
krypto (Tuesday 6 May 2008, 11:44 pm) #

does Jaye Radisich have a “Kate Richie” tape?
Chuck A. Spear (Tuesday 6 May 2008, 11:56 pm) #

I like the red stitching on the lapels of Jaye’s suit, offset by the red pinstripes. Jaye has taste.
Bron (Wednesday 7 May 2008, 12:04 am) #

So it’s a tap, then, Chuck?
Ray Dixon (Wednesday 7 May 2008, 12:09 am) #

in 2001… Andrew Bolt sniffed a seat which Sophie Mirabella had recently been sitting on

An obvious lie. He’s still alive isn’t he?
THR (Wednesday 7 May 2008, 12:16 am) #

An obvious lie. He’s still alive isn’t he?

Also, Landeryou has all chairs currently known to have been sat upon by Sophie.
Chuck A. Spear (Wednesday 7 May 2008, 12:22 am) #

So it’s a tap, then, Chuck?

Why does everything always have to come down to the ‘tap,’ Bron?
Ray Dixon (Wednesday 7 May 2008, 12:25 am) #

Landeryou has all chairs currently known to have been sat upon by Sophie.

He hasn’t got this one from last Saturday in Bright yet (I’ve got it!):

http://alpineopinion.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/galaday2008-4.jpg
Chuck A. Spear (Wednesday 7 May 2008, 12:27 am) #

I can smell that seat from here, Ray.
Bron (Wednesday 7 May 2008, 12:27 am) #

Why does everything always have to come down to the ‘tap,’ Bron?

I don’t know. Ask John Surname.
Mikey (Wednesday 7 May 2008, 12:30 am) #

Hey maybe we could chip in and send Bolty a Snedger 3000. I’m sure he’d appreciate it. He could wear it on Insiders along with that same fucking red shirt he always fucking wears.
John Surname (Wednesday 7 May 2008, 10:14 am) #

“I don’t know. Ask John Surname.”

I don’t know. Ask Jeeves.