A Western Heart idiot-in-chief MK doesn’t make much sense at the best of times, so there’s every chance that in this instance he’s talking straight out of his pimply arse — or, as Mr Creighton points out, is just plain confused.

But after having been alerted to the fact AWH had been deblogrolled by Tim Blair, MK tonight alleged — get this — that AWH had actually paid Tim for the privelege of being included in such illustrious company as J.F. Dreck, Andrea Harris and Andrew Bolt!

My own feeling is that, even though Tim once famously rattled a tin at his readers so he could buy himself a shiny new laptop, it’s got bullshit written all over it.

But it’s an explosive allegation nonetheless, and it raises several questions … the most important of which is this: how much would GrodsCorp have to shell out to get a guernsey?

One of our favourite bloggers, Timmeh Blair, likes to make fun of typos and spelling mistakes on various websites and blogs. Anyone who is either left-wing (whether real or imagined) or not his employer come in for some serious scrutiny.

Well, tonight, Timmeh’s employer The Daily Telegraph came in for some serious scrutiny when, against my better judgement, I decided to have a peek at their website. What I saw, I knew I had to share.

The Editor, John Surname, Ant Rogenous, Wah and Craig discuss:

* The budget — baby bonus, luxury car tax, Medicare etc.
* Victorian Liberal party shafting itself
* Tim Blair’s commercial blog move
* Justice Kirby vs. Alan Jones in the GrodsThink naked cagefight

** Because Jeremy Sear is using all of Australia’s bandwidth to play XBox online in regional Victoria use only the “Play in popup” link or the “Download” link. **

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The Editor, John Surname, Ant Rogenous, Jeremy Sear and Craig discuss:

* Brendan Nelson’s “vision” thing
* Mercy Ministries and Gloria Jeans
* Peter Garrett flip, flop and flapping
* Basil Brush is a racist bastard
* Andrew Bolt vs. Tim Blair in a naked GrodsThink cage fight to the death

** Because there’s still a blockage in the (inter)tubes use only the “Play in popup” link or the “Download” link. **

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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

 GrodsCast RSS feed ** Please note that this feed has changed since the last episode. Apologies for inconvenience — I promise it won’t happen again. **

Timmeh Blair has long been a favourite target of GrodsCorp’s in the sub-real world of blogging, but the news that he has been diagnosed with cancer is cause to come up to the real world for air and take a deep breath. This kind of thing helps you put immature blog wars into perspective and think about the stuff that really matters.

I wish Tim all the very best with his treatment and hope that he makes a full and speedy recovery so that we can resume calling each other silly names like school kids sometime in the near future. Good luck, Tim.

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?

Six months ago Andrew Landeryou’s readers were effusive in their praise for Lachlan Connor, Independent. Now Tim Blair’s readers have expressed their admiration for the brave independent Senate candidate:

“Mr. Connor would do well to look in a mirror.”
– rbj1

“Mr. Connor would do well to look in a mirror.
He does and is mystified that he sees nothing.”
– El Cid

“That Cocklane Loner chap looks constipated in all of his photos”
– egg_

“hasn’t he got a good psycho visage? ever so slightly pointy head too”
– KK

“Checked out his campaign manager?”
– egg_

It’s becoming increasingly clear that when it comes to terrorism, weasel language is the way of the future. Last week The Man Of Steel and The Ghoul (ie. Philip Ruddock — thanks to joe2 in comments for the cool name) proved that torture is okay when you’re torturing potential terrorists because then it’s only “coercion”. Now it seems that being locked alone in a small concrete cell for 23 hours per day is not solitary confinement, but simply being blessed with a “single-occupancy cell”.

The campaign to paint Guantanamo Bay as a holiday resort is intensifying with right-wing commentators such as Tim Blair and Andrew Bolt so awestruck by inmates’ calorie intake and medical care I reckon they should check themselves in for an extended stay.