Andrew Bolt, you’ve claimed that Kevin Rudd’s apology to the indigenous people of Australia was divisive, yet “the people” seem to think otherwise.

[Newspoll] also found that nearly 70 per cent of voters supported last week’s apology to the Stolen Generations.

Will you now delete those posts like you deleted the “Iraq war is won” post?

ps/- Sorry about Kevin Rudd’s 70% preferred Prime Minister results too, Andrew. I know that eats you up inside.

It’s worth reminding ourselves of the kind of attitude that today’s apology will do nothing to change.

Since it’s “in vogue” at the moment - here it is..the APOLOGY
KRudd should be giving to the aboriginals!!

We apologise for giving you free doctors and free medical care
and medications, which allows you to survive and multiply so
that you can demand apologies.

We apologise for helping you to read and teaching you the
English language and thus we opened up to you the entire
European civilisation, thought and enterprise.

We feel that we must apologise for building hundreds of homes
for you, which you have vandalised and destroyed.

We apologise for giving you law and order which has helped
prevent you from slaughtering one another and using the
unfortunate for food purposes.

We apologise for developing large farms and properties, which
today feed you people, where before, you had the benefits of
living off the land and starving during droughts.

We apologise for providing you with warm clothing made of
fabric to replace that animal skins you used before.

We apologise for building roads and railway tracks between
cities and building cars so that you no longer have to walk
over harsh terrain.

We apologise for paying off your vehicle when you fail to pay
the installments.

We apologise for giving you free vehicles, petrol, boats,
firearms, fishing gear and other non traditional methods that
you now use to carry out your traditional ways of hunting.

We apologise for giving you free travel anywhere, whenever. We
apologise for giving each and every member of your family
$100.00 and free travel to attend an aboriginal funeral.

We apologise for not charging you rent on any lands when white
people have to pay.

We apologise for giving you interest free loans.

We apologise for developing oil wells and minerals, including
gold and diamonds which you never used and had no idea of their
value.

We apologise for developing Ayers rock and Kakadu, and then
handing them over to you so that you get all the money.

We apologise for allowing taxpayers money paid towards
daughters wedding ($8,000.00 each daughter)

We apologise for giving you $1.7 billion per year for your
people, which is $48,000.00 per aboriginal man, woman and
child.

We apologise for working hard to pay taxes that finance your
welfare, medical care, education, etc to the tune of $1.2
billion each year.

We apologise for having to approach your taxpayer funded
aboriginal affairs department to verify the above figures.

For the trouble you will have identifying the uncle toms in
your own community who are getting richer and leaving some of
you living in squalor and poverty. We do apologise. We really
do. We humbly beg your forgiveness for all the above sins.

We are only too happy to take back all the above and return you
to the paradise of the outback, whenever you are ready

Brendan “The Forehead” Nelson on 2 December last year.

“I do not support a formal apology by our generation on behalf of what was done with the best of intentions in most but not all cases by earlier generations.”

Nelson last week.

Whatever the attitude of Australians towards this generation apologising for things done by earlier generations, you really have got to ask yourself is this the highest priority for the Australian Parliament?

Of course, those “higher priorities” are petrol prices and grocery bills. Nation-changing stuff indeed.

Oh, but here’s Nelson today.

Dr Nelson, who previously said he opposed an apology, today said the coalition believed it was “morally and practically important” it be delivered.

* Whoosh! *

Hear that? It’s the sound of Brendan Nelson’s last shred of credibility bolting out the back door. Here’s Nelson trying to convince it to stay.

But Opposition Leader Brendan Nelson… indicated the coalition reserved the right to vote against [the apology] if the precise wording proved unacceptable.

Don’t get me wrong — I love watching the Liberal Party self-destruct, but this shit is serious and the sight of The Forehead getting all Howard on the wording in order to make himself look like a “leader” makes me a bit grumpy. But just like I do whenever I feel a bit down I read something that Tony Abbott has said and laugh my troubles away.

Precisely what we are apologising for and the terms and the scope of the apology, that is still far from clear.

Wanker.

In this episode The Editor, John Surname, Prophet, Ant Rogenous and Craig discuss the following:

* “Sorry”
* Kevin Rudd
* Brendan Nelson
* Tony Abbott
* F1 Grand Prix
* Alexander Downer
* Calamari
* USA primaries
* John Roskam
* Celebrity trash
* Tim Blair
* Andrew Bolt
* Dick Smith
* David Hicks

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