It is with regret that I announce my decision to stop updating the Righty Groupthink Tracker. This is due to the drastic increase in clicking required to complete the task since Blair’s blog move to the Terrorgraph’s website. You see, prior to his move all I needed to do to monitor the groupthinking blogs of Blair and Bolt was to subject my eyes to them in my RSS reader, but the RSS feed of Blair’s new blog contains post summaries only. So to read Blair’s posts I now have to click through to the actual site and then click on the “read more” link at the end of each individual post. TOO MUCH CLICKY!

I apologise for my lack of dedication to the important task of pernicious groupthink monitoring but I take comfort from the fact that since October 2006 GrodsCorp has successfully exposed the extent of intellectual (sic) duplication between the two RWDBs.

AB luvs TB 4 eva

For two years Jeremy Sear has worked hard at BoltWatch to focus a magnifying glass over Andrew Bolt’s writing, but given that Andrew Bolt and Tim Blair so furiously groupthink it seemed only logical that their writing was watched in unison. So today Jeremy, along with GrodsCorp’s The Editor and Ant Rogenous, are pleasured to launch The Blair/Bolt Watch Project which has as its mission: “tackling the multiple idiocies of the Australian blogosphere’s most giant, useless forces.”

Go visit. Comment. Have a cup of tea.

Tim Blair’s winged monkeys commenters not group-thinking:

If nothing else, the storm of RWDB indignation over Jeremy Sear’s parking ticket post has exposed the pecking order within the blog chain of righty groupthink.

	At the top of the chain is Timmeh Blair who sparked the groupthinking.
	Next in the chain is Andrew Bolt who, as Blair’s number one groupthinking partner, thunk along as usual with Blair.
	And at the bottom of the chain are various bottom feeding and illiterate bloggers around regional Australia who desperately seek Blair and Bolt’s attention by furiously groupthinking with them.

Sear was just feeding the chooks.

ps/- Despite the order of the groupthink food chain, the results were interesting when Bolt and Blair fought to the death in a naked cage fight.

How cute is this: Andrew Bolt has adopted two of Tim Blair’s hilarious misspellings — global warmening and Traceeeee Hutchison.

Heavens, I can’t even type those words without chuckling. Oh you, Timmeh!

GrodsCorp understands Bolt’s collaboration is part of a wider Blair experiment in the controversial discipline of Comedic Rovenomics, whereby feeble catchphrases are believed to be rendered increasingly humorous by years (and years) of repetition.

In the course of doing my very important job of updating the GrodsCorp Righty Groupthink Tracker I have been utterly stumped by Andrew Bolt’s post that links to Tim Blair without linking to him.

I couldn’t possibly comment on some of the stuff on Tim Blair’s blog yesterday, not even with a “hear hear”, and I won’t be running any comments on it, either. I’d better not even link to it for safety’s sake.

I’ve obviously missed something here. Can anyone enlighten me?

Timmeh Blair and Andrew Bolt’s groupthinking love-in has recovered from the interruption caused by Bolta’s summer holiday and Blair’s medical operation. So far today Andy has linked to Timmeh twice, and Timmeh has linked to Andy a whopping five times in the one post! This isn’t even a record — on 31 October 2007 Timmeh linked to Andy six times in the one post.

The new target is seven links in a post. Who will achieve it first?

A new tactic from Andrew Bolt in his ongoing campaign to disprove human-induced climate change: call Al Gore fat.

Reader Babs wants Al Gore to offer the offsets that will really benefit humanity:

I’m waiting for someone… ANYONE… to come up with a Calorie Offset programme. If it works the same as “Carbon Offsetting”, just think. I can eat whatever I like but as long as I hand over cash, I’ll never put on weight!

Two points:

1) This is the kind of informed, intellectual commentary that makes Andrew Bolt such a respected member of the journalism profession; and

2) How long before Timmeh Blair adopts the same tactic as part of Andy and Timmeh’s ongoing groupthink campaign?

On the last day of October Timmeh Blair has blown the monthly Righty Awesome Collegiality Tracker right off the dial with a record six links to Andrew Bolt in the one post. Holy shit, that Sao must be soggy.

GrodsCorp would like to welcome back to work Herald Sun blogger Andrew Bolt who has been on holiday for the best part of a month. Great to see that it took him only two posts to resume right-wing groupthinking with fellow RWDB Timmeh Blair.

I’m sure a good dozen or so Herald Sun readers around the state are breathing a sigh of relief this morning.

Despite GrodsCorp’s righty groupthink tracker being publicly launched on 14 February and posted on BoltWatch soon after, February was a busy month for Australia’s most prominent internet conservatives. Timmeh and Andy linked to each other a total of 28 times in order to construct circular and self-proving arguments that, unlike those groupthinkers on the left, are evidence of courageous and independent thinkers.

“Look! More lefty, vegetarian, socialist groupthink!” shrieks Andrew Bolt, pointing towards The Age’s daily poll which, shock horror, shows that Age readers tend to hold anti-John Howard opinions.

Now, I’m no fan of The Age’s daily poll. I think it’s just another symptom of that paper’s ongoing descent into a dark and smelly pit of lifestyle fluff, celebrity “news”, triumph of advertising bait over genuine content, and sensationalism. You doubt me? Check out some of these hard-hitting questions from recent editions:

“Roman holiday? : Does Amanda Vanstone deserve a plum diplomatic post?”

“Goodbye wave? : Should the Mexican wave be banned at the MCG?”

“Offshore Blunnies : Will you still buy Blundstones once the company moves its manufacturing offshore?”

“Caffeinated cola : Should the caffeine be removed from Coca-Cola?”

“Etiquette : Do Melburnians display a lack of manners on public transport?”

“Eve fatigue : Is New Year’s Eve overrated?”

“THE GREATEST? : Is Shane Warne the greatest bowler of all time?”

Kill me now. These pathetic attempts to involve the reader are so hot right now. I mean, even SBS has them in its tarted-up 6:30pm supernews (with super ad breaks).

(And speaking of SBS’s supernews, does Stan Grant’s hypercolour fake tan make anybody else’s eyes hurt?)

But back to Bolta and his global lefty groupthink conspiracy theory. You see, according to Bolta The Age and the ABC are the only news organisations on earth that attract a majority of their readers/ viewers from the same sphere of political belief. You’d never see a pathetic reader poll on the pages of the Hun with results leaning heavily towards conservative opinion. And do you know why? They never make sense: