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cosmicjester’s half-arsed Mediawatch

May 5

Posted by cosmicjester in Site news | 16 Comments

What do you do if you are a god loving, Allah hating ultra-conservative who couldn’t be happier that Osama is dead but just can’t bring themselves to giving any credit to the socialist/Kenyan/Indonesian/homosexualist/Atheist-Radical-Muslim currently in the White House?

Note that it was all because of the torture enhanced interrogation methods. This ignores that waterboarding didn’t stop key prisoners from giving false information about the courier or downplaying his importance of traditional methods of covert intelligence that was used in finding bin Laden. To give all credit to waterboarding is misleading to the extreme.

Over at Andrew Bolt’s blog he has resorted to quoting a blog that no-one has heard of that claims that the military had to overrule Obama to kill bin Laden. Sound fishy? Military overruling the President, and the news is only available on some obscure blog? Well other stories from this blog that Andrew Bolt thinks is credible include one of a job advertisement in Romania for new Al-Qaeda leader, 14 year old girl has x-ray vision. Curious.

More articles from this site that Southbank superjournalist Andrew Bolt thinks is credible.

Alien UFO’s are really here.

Aliens gatecrash Royal wedding.

How Nostradamus predicted 9/11.

And yes, my personal favorite “Reptilian conspiracy theory”

Just all part of the rigorous fact-checking by our Andrew Bolt. It’s not that he would believe any old rubbish if it happened to be anti-Obama. Not at all.

Bolt’s commenter’s are also not convinced.

There is NO DOUBT!

I think Obama, worked in conjunction with the RAND corporation in conjunction with the reverse-vampires staged the Osama raid to please our reptilian overlords. WHY DON’T YOU OPEN YOUR EYES PEOPLE!!!!

Seriously though, these people are insane.

Update: On twitter someone pointed out that they suspected the website is one of those that anyone can submit anything to so it is unfair of me to categorise the whole thing as crazy. To me that just sounds more damning, that Andrew Bolt would willingly quote something that is as credible as a forum post of Free Republic or 4chan. But in the interest of fairness I have looked at the author of the Obama was overruled article. Ultersman’s articles appear to be a collection of wacky rants and conspiracies mainly about the Obama administration. And what a surprise, he is also a birther.

Once again thats some kick ass fact checking and verifying you are doing Andrew Bolt.

Update 2: Bolt has finally realised the link was bogus. Very interesting what he will believe if it happens to be about someone he doesn’t like.

Some more info on Ultersman from Media Matters.

I know what I saw and I know what I heard.  I know who I saw.  Maybe it was some kind of phase he was going through at the time.  Maybe he was experimenting with a different lifestyle.  Maybe the death of that man was just a coincidence.  I don’t know the answers to that.  I just know what I know.  I just know what I heard and saw.  On that night I heard Barack Obama in that conference room with another man.  I saw Barack Obamastep out of that room with another man.  I smelled what I think was some kind of drug they were using.  And I know that the other man who was in that room with Barack Obama was murdered about ten years later shortly after Barack Obama declared he was running for President of the United States.

That is my story.  I hope that you share it.  If something happens to me now, you will know why.

Yes, Ultserman published an article claiming that someone walked in on Barack Obama involved in drug fueled sex with another man and then later the other man wound up mysteriously dead. This is wacky, fringe lunatic stuff and Andrew Bolt believed this guy to be credible. Amazing.

This also got a run in yesterdays Crikey here and here.

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Trumped

May 1

Posted by cosmicjester in Politics | 2 Comments

Following on from the Donald Trump inspired birther silliness, Obama gets his revenge. Sorta.

Just watch this brilliant clip of Obama getting the better of Trump at the White House Correspondents Dinner.

Well played Obama, well played.

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What just happened?

Nov 4

Posted by Ross Sharp in A funny thing happened on the way to ..., Foreign matter, Politics, Unexplainable | 10 Comments

We cannot explain the events of yesterday using those typical tools at our disposal of logic, reason or common sense, therefore it would be rather pointless to dwell at any length on them or attempt a rational analysis of those matters at this time as rationality appears to have popped off to buggery somewhere of late and expectations of its return anytime soon are most certainly not high.

Consider the pickle.

The pickle is to the cucumber what the butterfly is to the caterpillar, although unlike the butterfly, the pickle lacks any aeronautic facilities whatsoever, and unlike the caterpillar, the pickle is incapable of movement. The pickle, it could be said, is the vegetable equivalent of a blind mole-rat, although unlike the blind mole-rat, the pickle does not live in a burrow, nor could it be considered “blind”, as sight itself is a sense which the pickle, at no stage in its evolution has ever possessed, nor could it, as a sighted pickle would be of no benefit to anyone or any thing and the evolutionary powers that be which determine such developments were appropriately across these issues at the time to sensibly decide that the pickle would not be requiring of any optical sensibilities.

Additionally, the pickle’s inherent physical inflexibility means that, unlike (for example) a domesticated feline, the pickle is incapable of reclining on a cushion, a lap, or a blanket, and nor will a pickle purr.

And so, while the suitability of the pickle as a domestic pet may be an arguably desirable proposition in the eyes of some, we may reasonably assume that, at this stage, and in consideration of those factors we have parsed above and to date, the probability of a surge in popularity of the pickle as a live-in companion for the over-55’s is not looking terribly good.

Sometimes we just need admit to the unpleasant truths of a thing, don’t you think?

Ta.

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Apocalypse Bolt!

Apr 30

Posted by Ross Sharp in Media, Politics | 12 Comments

Alert and alarmed …

“This year, the stakes are higher than ever,” (Obama) said, according to a transcript of his remarks provided by Democratic officials. “It will be up to each of you to make sure that young people, African Americans, Latinos and women who powered our victory in 2008 stand together once again…”

Race War

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Got banjo? … Retards are go!!

Feb 18

Posted by Ross Sharp in Politics, Society, Unexplainable | 5 Comments

… Ah wuz whittlin’ myself a figurine of Lyndon LaRouche this mornin’ out of a nahce, firm, solid stool I’d passed earlier when a mahty fine chicken mosied on past the porch an’ mah pants went tight all of a sudden …

That’s enough of that nonsense, thank you.

Let’s talk about retards.

Seems a whole bunch of people have been getting a mite tetchy lately about who’s calling who a retard and whether or not calling a person or a bunch of people retards can be considered acceptable in this day and age, this being a day and an age when taking offence at a mere word is guaranteed to generate more in the way of outrage than would an illustrated guide to buggering a chicken sideways with a vibrating fence post.

So, before we denude the English language altogether of those words that make some folks squirt in horror because someone might feel poorly if they’re used, we need to provide some clarity here on precisely how, why and when the word retard makes perfect sense in its application and when it does not.

To describe someone with a genuine intellectual disability, a diagnosed condition or affliction as a retard is not a clever thing to do. And those who are inclined to do so reveal more about their own intellectual corruption and emotional infantilism and inflict more damage to their own reputation (if they’ve got one) and social standing (if they’ve got that) than they would do to the subject or subjects of their slur.

And I feel that you would be perfectly within your rights, if you were the parent or guardian of someone so afflicted, to go forth and seek out the offending party and present them with a thumping good slap upside the head with a meat mallet by way of redress, though far be it for me to encourage random acts of brutal, senseless and satisfying violence, no matter how well justified you might feel they may be.

Yet let us now turn our attention to the appropriate usage of the word retard, and to those individuals to whom it may be most aptly and satisfactorily applied.

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The smelliest tongues

Nov 13

Posted by Ross Sharp in Foreign matter, Media, Politics, Society | 24 Comments

Steve Clemons, who writes “The Washington Note” has closed comments on his blog and remarks –

The comments on my blog have grown increasingly vile — and are not in any way constructive, civil, fair-minded, or policy-oriented. I am turning them off …

… I’m off to Havana Cuba for a research trip for a few days and have no interest or time in playing hall monitor for folks who need to grow up …

… I have emphasized over and over again that I am too busy to blog, do my New America Foundation work, and be a nanny for those who are not mature enough to be able to manage a civil discussion here …

… Eventually, I will review the last few weeks of comments and remove every one of them that went over the line with extremely crass and demeaning language …

… If you folks grow up, we can turn this on — but it takes shared commitment and responsibility. I won’t tolerate those who can’t be civil — on all sides of these debates …

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I am not a deadshit. Buy my new book to find out why.

Oct 30

Posted by Ross Sharp in Crime, Media | 7 Comments

We here at Groupthink Books Ltd (a wholly owned subsidiary of Groupthink Industries & Holdings Incorporated) have noticed the recent trend in the publication of biographies and autobiographies by and about a whole bunch of “who-the-fuck?” deadshits and we thought we’d hop on the bandwagon before the market in “who-the-fuck?” deadshits dried up and fucked off out of it.

For example, there’s this one guy who made a living pushing a ball around a paddock with his foot and had some substance abuse issues and allegedly roughed up his girlfriend who has “written” a book just to let people know he is not a deadshit.

His name is Wayne. He’s misunderstood, that’s all, and it hurts. It hurts real bad. Poor Wayne.

There’s this woman who married a fat bloke and fucked him till he got caught for killing people. She’s “written” a book about it just in case people had the wrong impression and thought less of her because of her lifestyle choices. She too would like everyone to know that she is not a deadshit.

Her name is Roberta. She’s misunderstood, that’s all, just another true-blue little Aussie battler trying to make a go of things and it hurts. Poor Roberta.

Then there’s this other guy. His name is Mick Gatto. Just because he used to hang around with crooks and do God-only-knows-what for a living, doesn’t mean Mick is a deadshit.

So Mick has “written” a book too. To let everyone know he’s just very misunderstood. Poor Mick.

Nowadays, Mick is thought of as Australia’s answer to Sam Giancana.

Australia’s answer to “The Grapes of Wrath” is “The Castle”, just in case you need a little perspective on that. Australia’s answer to David Attenborough is Steve Irwin if you need a little more. Australia’s answer to Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow would probably be a couple of teenage shoplifters in fucking Minto.

Groupthink Books Ltd (a wholly owned subsidiary of Groupthink Industries & Holdings Incorporated) has always prided itself on publishing works of literature. Which is to say, books that are actually written by the person whose name is on the cover.

Fuck that for a joke.

Because it’s pretty obvious to anyone who’s had the misfortune to hear any of these three “so-not-deadshits” speak publicly that none of them could probably write the word “penis” on a toilet wall without a spellcheck and an editor present.

So, bugger the literature, we’re pulping the lot, tearing up all our contracts, and putting the freaks up front.

We’ve decided to hire three ghostwriters on a permanent, rotating-shift basis and set them about the writing of books about deadshits who’ve never actually done much or achieved anything of lasting worth for anyone’s benefit other than their own and who never shut up about it.

We’re calling this series “Deadshit Dialogues” and currently have 24 “books” slated for publication during 2010, all of which will be entitled “My Life” just to keep things nice and simple for the common folk.

We here at Groupthink Books Ltd (a wholly owned subsidiary of Groupthink Industries & Holdings Incorporated) are confident that our brave new publishing initiative will bring about a much needed revolution in the book industry in these troubled times. Which is to say, the continuing publication of stacks and stacks and stacks and stacks of books by and about a whole bunch of “who the fuck?” deadshits who deserve to be known and understood by squillions. That’s what they say, anyway.

So you can take “Dreams From My Father” and shove it up your arse.

Why on earth would anyone want to read about some random fucker who became the first African-American President of the United States when you can read all about the life and times of an aging and overweight ex-boxer who used to hang around with crooks in pubs and cafes pretending to be characters from a Mario Puzo novel?

That’s real life, that is. You think you know what real life is all about? You don’t know jack shit.

But now, courtesy of Groupthink Books Ltd (a wholly owned subsidiary of Groupthink Industries & Holdings Incorporated) new “Deadshit Dialogues” series, you can read all about real life and get yourself some right and proper learnings fixed to your learnin’ organ (that spongy thing inside your head, up on top).

Because books about people who actually achieve things in life aren’t worth a pinch of shit, quite frankly.

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