grodscorp@grods.comNo experience, no opinion
 | Posted by Scott on Sunday 23 November 2008, 12:31 pm Categories: Media, Politics Tags: AndrewBolt, experience, opinion |
I’ve written about this issue at NewMatilda.com, but it still astounds me that respectable (sic) columnists like Andrew Bolt continue to peddle the line that to understand one must experience.
Maxine McKew, who has never had a child herself, spooks me a bit:
As Professor Frank Oberklaid and Professor Fiona Stanley keep saying, babies come out of the womb ready to learn.
Our job as policymakers is to ensure young children have access to a calm, stimulating environment run by professionals…
Get it? Maxine hasn’t herself sprogged so she musn’t dare form an educated opinion about sprogs. Watertight logic, Bolta, and not at all hypocritical. Here are some things that Andrew has recently written about in which he has both qualifications and experience:
I could go on, but you get the idea.
Sunday 23 November 2008, 12:46 pm #Tobias Ziegler
It’s interesting how the media most commonly considers a politician’s lack of personal experience noteworthy when a female politician is speaking about kids. I noted a similar theme in an education piece from The Australian a few months ago.
BTW, shouldn’t it be “peddle the line”?
Sunday 23 November 2008, 12:53 pm #Wah
Bolt doesn’t have a cunt, but he’s very good at being one.
Sunday 23 November 2008, 2:19 pm #Bridgit Gread
None of the past few American presidents ever ordered a nuclear strike - yet they were all given the launch codes.
Sunday 23 November 2008, 2:24 pm #Alister
Tobias is correct - it’s “peddle”, not “pedal”. Screen shot number two, stored for evidence.
Sunday 23 November 2008, 4:16 pm #Zombie Mao
(link via the pollbludger himself)
Seems Bolt is actually girly:
http://genderanalyzer.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.news.com.au%2Fheraldsun%2Fandrewbolt%2F
While grods is extremely manly, almost testosterone excessive:
http://genderanalyzer.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.grods.com
Sunday 23 November 2008, 5:16 pm #John Surname
At Random Brainwave, A.J has no experience at writing coherent sentences, or using correct tenses. It doesn’t stop him trying.
Sunday 23 November 2008, 5:17 pm #John Surname
“While grods is extremely manly, almost testosterone excessive”
That’s my influence.
Monday 24 November 2008, 7:32 am #Scott
Re pedal/peddle: youse done saw nothink.
Monday 24 November 2008, 12:08 pm #Alister
nothink = nuffink, I fink. Although I’ve always been concerned about the ‘e’ in ‘youse’. If it’s a plural of ‘you’, should it not be ‘yous’?
Monday 24 November 2008, 12:28 pm #Keri
Apparently there’s a 55% chance my blog is written by a man, but it’s “quite gender neutral”
How, I have no idea. Maybe men use too many commas and that’s throwing the results off?
Monday 24 November 2008, 12:43 pm #Ant Rogenous
Maybe it’s because your blog keeps posting pictures of a good-looking woman, Keri.
Monday 24 November 2008, 1:05 pm #John Surname
Sleeeeaze.
Monday 24 November 2008, 1:22 pm #Keri
Surname, just because you never compliment anyone without agenda doesn’t mean the same applies to everyone.
Monday 24 November 2008, 1:24 pm #John Surname
That’s nonsense. I once told a girl she had strong thighs when she demanded to know why I never compliment her. I’ll bet she never hears that again.
Monday 24 November 2008, 1:25 pm #"Dribbling Conservative"
Actually, John Surname — if indeed that is your real name — I think you’ll find the word “sleaze”, which WordNet defines as “cheapness: tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar” only has one E. The three superfluous Es you typed make you look like a typically ignorant Leftist.
Also, it’s telling that you deleted the typo from this website and placed it here, just to make it more difficult for me to track you down. This is another typically dishonest Leftist tactic — i.e. trying to dictate the terms, and the venue, of the debate.
Monday 24 November 2008, 1:36 pm #Keri
I once told a girl she had strong thighs when she demanded to know why I never compliment her. I’ll bet she never hears that again.
No wonder you told me her mother (wrongly) thought she could do better.
Monday 24 November 2008, 1:47 pm #John Surname
If it’s not in the Bible, Dribbling Conservative (yes, that’s my real name, look it up in the phone book), I don’t want to hear about it.
Keri! I tell you things in confidence!
Monday 24 November 2008, 1:54 pm #Keri
“Keri! I tell you things in confidence!”
Exactly. So be extra nice to me.
Monday 24 November 2008, 1:55 pm #John Surname
What? Do you want me to compliment your thighs now?
Monday 24 November 2008, 1:57 pm #Bron
Get a room, you two.
Monday 24 November 2008, 2:03 pm #Keri
Get my thighs out of your head, Surname. Perve.
Monday 24 November 2008, 2:37 pm #Dave from Albury
Must. Not. Engage.