The fake Bridgit blog is no more. I’ve been informed that it was suspended for breaching Blogger’s terms of service on several counts: specifically, those relating to copyright, impersonation and hateful content. Tsk tsk.
UPDATE
The fake blog has re-emerged at Wordpress in much the same form. And within a couple of hours there’s a link to it posted you-know-where. Such is the speed you can work at when you don’t have a job…
On this first day in Rudd’s Australia, it’s amusing watching right-wing bloggers trot out all the hackneyed excuses and you’ll-be-sorry conniptions they can conjure up. A quick whip-around the Interpipes shows:
Timmeh Blair is noticeably subdued: the best he can come up with is picking on Rudd’s turn of phrase and choice of campaign music. Not so Timmeh’s swarm of commenters. American and true believer in democracy ‘El Cid’ informs all Aussies “of the right mind” (I think he means the 46.5% who didn’t vote for or preference the ALP - how insulting!) that “…stupidity falls under its own weight“. Terminal dingbat Richard McEnroe says that “if America hadn’t had Carter, we’d never have gotten Ronald Reagan” … which I hope doesn’t mean our next PM will be Paul Hogan. MikeW asks all the big questions (”So, did Gillard lap dance Rudd when the Bow-chicka-bow porn music was playing?”) while ‘Pedro the Ignorant’ lives up to his monicker, losing a couple of grand betting on the election then proclaiming “Graceful in defeat? Fuck that. The war just started.”
The Rudd-love is a bit more guarded at A Wrestling Heart, where resident buffoon ‘MK’ seems to think John Howard is dead (”You must be so relieved to be free, free at last from all the hate and hostility from the left and the media, you’ve earned your peace…”). He goes on to forecast a litany of things that will go wrong under a Rudd government, such as the decline of public education, the Internets and “storms, heat, cold and drought” (I didn’t realise Kruddy was so omnipotent). ‘Tiberius’ earlier decried the election-day shenanigans of “typical leftist filth”, pointedly ignoring reports that former immigration minister Kevin Andrews tore down the posters of another candidate, while Oz journo cum electoral-interferer Caroline Overington bitch-slapped Labor candidate for Wentworth, perhaps because earlier this year he rejected her clumsy e-mail advances.
Lastly, after spending the last week telling all who dare read his blog not to vote for Rudd, orthographic abstract artist Iain Hall declares that the Ruddster is, in fact, a conservative. But he still pledges to hold him to account anyway (”Tomorrow is indeed another day and this blogger will keep fighting the good fight for the things that he believes in.”) Phew, what a relief! Hally cheers the probable demise of Kerry Nettle in the Senate, however it’s worth noting that Greens preferences helped oust Liberal member Peter Dutton from Hall’s own seat of Dickson. And the new ALP member for Dickson is - wait for the delicious irony - a teacher, a unionist, a woman and blonde. We all get the politicians we deserve, and so has Iain.
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GrodsThink Ep.31 (16/9/08)
