Andrew Bolt gets all teary when naughty people criticise Malcy and not Kevvie. Bolta doesn’t like it when evil journalists form opinions, based on experience, analysis and other journalistic shit, that make Malcy and the Liberals look silly.

The Canberra press pack had a quick count of heads and declared the public hated Malcolm Turnbull’s plan to block Kevin Rudd’s $42 billion spending spree.

See, it’s the journalists who are wrong here and not Malcy. These journalists wouldn’t know public sentiment if it spat in their faces. Andy, on the other hand, has his finger on the pulse of middle Australia from the comfort of his air conditioned tenth floor office at Southbank. (Sometimes Bolt even goes for coffee in the food hall and he sees heaps of plebs ordinary people while he hurries through with a hanky over his nose.) Bolta provides six examples of journalistic anti-Malcy sentiment, five of which come from the “hard left” Fairfax and ABC, with the remaining example from News Limited’s Courier Mail.

Michelle Grattan, The Age:
(The Opposition) expects its stand to be immediately unpopular — getting between the public and buckets of money could hardly be anything else… Turnbull did not make a very convincing argument …

Mark Colvin, AM:
You (the Liberals) are standing between a large section of the Australian middle class and a bucket of money. As you say, it’s not going to be popular.

Dennis Atkins, Courier Mail:
The Coalition’s hardline stand was cheered by the parties’ MPs, who saw it as getting the debate back to their “strong suit of economic management”. This may happen eventually but in the short-term they’ve dealt themselves out of the argument.

Tony Wright, The Age:
It brought to mind the image of the band playing uplifting tunes on the deck of the Titanic… (O)verwhelming approval and applause would likely be scarce in the streets for anyone attempting to deny the promised largesse.

Peter Hartcher, Sydney Morning Herald:
MALCOLM TURNBULL has decided to arrange himself casually on the railway tracks in front of the onrushing Rudd money train… It’s a bid for relevance on a point of irrelevance… At worst, it is an act of suicidal braggadocio.

Annabel Crabb described the scenes in Parliament when her colleagues heard the news:
Commentators gasped. Ladies fainted. The weak of heart covered their eyes… Indeed, debate raged around Parliament House yesterday about the political implications of Tarzan’s actions. Was he committing political suicide? Was this an incredibly beady-eyed act of political cynicism…?

After comprehensively proving perncious lefty groupthink with these examples, Bolta moves on to a much more authoritative gauge of public sentiment than journalists: online polls run by newspapers.

But much of the public seems, so far, to have failed to read the script written for it by the Canberra media.

The Herald Sun’s on-line poll has 53 per cent of more than 11,000 votes agreeing with Turnbull. The Australian poll has an already healthy 47 per cent of people saying he’s right to want to wait.

These are the same polls that ask hard-hitting questions (such as today’s Hun pearler: “Has red carpet fashion gone too far?”) and collate reliable statistics from a representative cross-section of the community.

But hang on, isn’t there an Age poll on the same question that should be included in Bolt’s analysis for fairness?

True, The Age poll is wildly against Turnbull, but if you believed all The Age wrote you’d think Rudd a saint and all who doubted him deserved hell.

And this man has the balls to call himself a journalist.