grodscorp@grods.comBolt sees pedo reference, breaks 9.71
 | Posted by Bridgit Gread on Sunday 1 June 2008, 10:22 pm Categories: Environment, Media, Science Tags: analogies, AndrewBolt, GlobalWarming |
Yesterday Jamaica’s Usain Bolt sprints across the line in 9.71 seconds to break the world 100-metre record … and Melbourne’s Andrew Bolt was even quicker with a wild and wilful misinterpetation of an analogy:
The Bishop [of Stafford] is … arguing that men who imprison and rape their daughters are really no worse than leading scientists who dispute the causes and dangers of global warming, which is further proof that this cleric is as stupid as he is hysterical.
Actually, that wasn’t what his Bishopness was arguing at all. His exact words were that the actions of Austrian incest freak Josef Fritzl “represents merely the most extreme form of a very common philosophy of life: I will do what makes me happy, and if that causes others to suffer, hard luck.” He didn’t liken them at all; he didn’t standardize their actions or use one to absolve the other. Nor did he refer to scientists, as Bolt claims, but rather to the general public. The bishop was simply suggesting that self-serving attitudes result in harm to others, whether on a local or a global scale.
Not so you’d notice from Bolt’s post, seeing how he snipped this quote:
“In fact you could argue that, by our refusal to face the truth about climate change, we are as guilty as he is – we are in effect locking our children and grandchildren into a world with no future and throwing away the key. We are right to be disgusted at these crimes. But mere disgust is too convenient. There are lessons for all of us to learn.”
…down to this…
“In fact you could argue that, by our refusal to face the truth about climate change, we are as guilty as he [Fritzl] is…’’
He also overlooked the fact that the Bishop’s remarks were clearly understood and appreciated by a director of the Lucy Faithfull Foundation, a charity that works with victims of child sex abuse. At least someone there is able to read and comprehend an analogy, not jump off the deep end, arms flailing, because if references both kiddy-fiddlers and carbon-squanderers.
Git.
GrodsThink Ep.31 (16/9/08)
Sunday 1 June 2008, 11:07 pm #alister
No more than two days before one or the other of Piers Akerman or Tim Blair
groupthinksawesomely-collegiately makes the same point.Sunday 1 June 2008, 11:33 pm #Lenora
Global warming ‘deniers’ are ‘as guilty as he [the sex offender] is’. That’s quite a clear link, isn’t it?
As someone sceptical of global warming but not a paedophile, I find the link very offensive.
Sunday 1 June 2008, 11:46 pm #Zombie Mao
Bloody pedophile global warming advocates. Next are those transvestite obesity epidemic alarmists. The bastards
Monday 2 June 2008, 7:40 am #The Editor
Bolt will find a way to link any two things that he finds morally reprehensible. It’s like me saying that I don’t like light beer and I don’t like paedophiles, therefore all light beer drinkers are paedophiles.
Someone get me a job at the Herald Sun.
Monday 2 June 2008, 10:15 am #albi
There’s been footage of Hitler warning that smoking causes lung cancer - Therefore all non smokers are hitler.
Monday 2 June 2008, 12:55 pm #Bridgit Gread
And my father once grew a moustache so he must be Stalin.
Monday 2 June 2008, 2:44 pm #brokenleftleg
And I read your post Bridgit so that makes me Lennon.
Monday 2 June 2008, 2:55 pm #Bridgit Gread
And I read your comment, BLL, so I must be McCartney.
Monday 2 June 2008, 4:23 pm #brokenleftleg
Do you want me to amputate a leg Bridgit?
Monday 2 June 2008, 4:28 pm #Private Tom
And I like your gravatar, Bridgit, so I must be in favour of allowing homicidal cannibals on the streets.
Monday 2 June 2008, 7:30 pm #Ant Rogenous
And I read your comment, BLL, so I must be McCartney.
I damn near ruptured a sphincter laughing at that, Bridgit. Well done.
Monday 2 June 2008, 7:42 pm #brokenleftleg
“I damn near ruptured a sphincter laughing at that, Bridgit. Well done.”
Ant, that gag was all in the set up, dammit.