haha.... fucking andrew bolt - what a loon!
....but at least he's entertaining. his recent piece in the hun on australian artists was bonafide bolta gold...
poor bolta thinks all artists wear black skivvies and live in ghettos...
he probably thinks all french people wear stripey shirts & beret's and carry bread sticks too....
GHETTOS OF HATE
By Andrew Bolt
These people, so many shrouded in black and living in enclaves like Brunswick, must now become assimilated.
What a disaster it's been to instead pay them special grants allowing them to keep aloof from the rest of us.
Yes, how stupid we've been to encourage the us-against-them tribalism of Australia's artists.
I thought last year the paranoid sense of victimhood of the typical writer, actor or black-skivvied aesthete couldn't get any worse.
We already had Hannie Rayson, so sure she lived under a regime of new Nazis that she used taxpayers' money to write a play that had Peter Costello stabbing an Iraqi refugee and ordering the navy to let a boatload of asylum-seekers drown.
We also had Phillip Noyce, so positive we were racists he made a film -- with another $10 million of taxpayers' money -- showing Australians stealing Aboriginal children just because they were black.
And we had the Premier's Literary Prize -- yet more taxpayers' money -- go to playwright Stephen Sewell for comparing the United States to Nazi Germany.
Think that was bad? This year it's got worse. Don't these people want to make a home in Western society, rather see an enemy in it?
Maybe not, because we've since had novelist Peter Carey claiming the US was led by a "coward" and "creep" in charge of a "criminal government", while our own Prime Minister was just one of those "toadies".
But that was just a whiff of what we have right now -- the full tin of cat's meat.
Just check the latest novels published to the cheers of the literati -- people who should be disowning hate-preaching, not defending it.
Let's start with Underground, by Andrew McGahan -- because McGahan is not just any writer. He was chosen last year as winner of the Miles Franklin award -- our top literary prize -- which makes him kind of our highest-ranking literary figure. A priest of prose.
But see what preaching he gets away with. His previous book, The White Earth, was a rant about white landowners driven crazy by past crimes against noble Aborigines, murdered by police "dressed up in the Australian equivalent of an SS uniform".
That's a masterpiece of restraint compared with Underground, inspired, he says, by his disgust with Australia today.
McGahan told the ABC's The Book Show he asked himself to "imagine everything going as bad as it could, how would it end up, what would Australia be like in six years' time".
A N admiring review in The Age describes what he then saw: "Underground is set in a horrific near-future Australia where the War Against Terror holds the population ransom. Draconian laws are enforced by a much-enlarged Federal Police: to be Muslim is illegal . . .
"We follow breathlessly as (the hero) is kidnapped . . . and smuggled across the country by members of the Oz Underground, a resistance movement that has sprung from the protests and detainee-breakouts at the Woomera Detention Centre . . .
"They trigger a mass execution of Muslim refugees in the NSW outback, they are selflessly ferried across the Murray River at night by a female Aboriginal elder, they wind up in a walled compound for Muslims on Sydney Road called the Brunswick Ghetto -- which is bombed by government aircraft . . ."
Gasps the reviewer, fellow author Gregory Day: "It is a sickening indictment of the 'coalition of the willing' era that this fluorescently far-fetched plot is almost plausible."
Almost plausible? See what I mean about the paranoia, the tribal us-and-them?
Don't think I've picked the one weed in a field of flowers.
Richard Flanagan, another prize-winning and taxpayer-funded author, also has a new novel that Australian Bookseller and Publisher hails as "an important book in dark times" inspired by
a "disgust with Howard's Australia".
As Flanagan told the ABC's 7.30 Report: "There is something else that's going on in Australia, a sort of spiritual malaise that I find sickening, in a word."
And to counter this "spiritual malaise" he's written The Unknown Terrorist, a tale of a brutal government and lying media, which his publisher promotes with a video that lingers long on the spiritually uplifting breasts of a topless dancer.
This book doesn't simply demonise Australia. It also gives one of the sweetest excuses for suicide bombers in its preface, written in the author's own voice. Writes Flanagan: "In his understanding that love was not enough, in his acceptance of the necessity of the sacrifice of his own life to enable the future of those around him, Jesus is history's first, but not last, example of a suicide bomber."
Er, he is? And he killed exactly how many innocent people for his fascist cause?
Only blind hatred and ghetto-thinking could produce a vision so warped. Shouldn't we try harder to make a Flanagan join the mainstream before someone gets hurt?
You'll say, I'm sure, that I'm singling out just two extremists from a community that's overwhelmingly moderate. But I just wish the moderate artists would speak up. Instead we seem only to hear from extremists, preaching their paranoia.
Just on the weekend, grant-propped poet Alison Croggon claimed the Howard Government was "killing dissent" merely by asking the La Mama theatre company to explain why it still needed so much taxpayers' support after two decades.
Croggon suggested this Government was worse than even the most oppressive fascist one in post-war Europe, saying even "Ceaucescu's totalitarian regime in Romania, for example, did not dare to ban the internationally respected Bulandra Company".
And before that Phillip Adams, the ABC host and former Australian Film Commission chairman, was defending the black clothing that divided the artistic them from the infidel us.
Speaking to three Muslim activists, he said the full face-covering niqab at least meant you "don't need to wear make-up, you don't even have to think of matching skirts and tops" and added: "It's like me. I've worn black for the last 30 years. It's an enormous help in the mornings."
You might laugh at Adams and his kind, but don't kid yourself that their contempt for mainstream Australia and its chosen politicians is unusual in their community. I'm afraid we're up against the group-think of the tribe.
McGahan, for instance, declares: "It would be no surprise to anyone that someone from the arts community isn't happy with the Howard Government. I mean, that in itself is typical."
H E'S merely saying what many artists have said before. Here is Canberra writer Marion Halligan, recipient of more than $40,000 in grants: "There is a sense now that artists are beleaguered because they're not valued by the Government . . . I can't imagine you'd find an artist anywhere saying, 'I love working under the Howard Government."'
And here is Liz Jones, La Mama's artistic director: "The predominant emotion of artists in the present climate is one of national shame . . . Our artistic community is not at one at all with popular attitudes."
She's right, of course. And the urgent challenge is to help this alienated minority feel welcome in this country, and to reward them for joining in, not staying apart.
Assimilation is the key. Their ghettos of hate must go. How we'd love to call them ours.
too wrong, didn't read it
Funny, funny stuff.
showing Australians stealing Aboriginal children just because they were black.
Aboriginal children aren't Australians?
I like the way he slips that in amongst all the obviously fictional pieces, too.
As if that would EVER happen! Australian stealing non australian aboriginal children is just a crazy story by bloody artsie fags burdening the good, solid whiteosity of our great nation.. The Bolt of Truth strikes with accurate fury.
he should come to our place, I'll show him hate
I have a black skivvie. Use it for fishing... Its got fish gut stains on the sleeves and fucken smells.
I keep it in the shed.
How do you get to be Bolt's age and still so completely and utterly clueless?
Jesus Christ...I could not read the whole thing...its flabbergasting that he can, in a manner that ascends to his severely self-righteous throne of sadism like never before, trod on the quite plaintatively downtrodden so bloody vindictively...I ask you Andrew Bolt, do you appreciate those clever commercials or snazzy designs or slick cars or modern architecture or oh, classical music or Russel Crowe movies? Cause THEY'RE artists too mate!!
Go to hell.
i live in brunswick and i hate
hahahaha
i love andrew bolt.
saying like it is.
fucking hippies
How do you get to be Bolt's age and still so completely and utterly clueless?
AND be paid for it..
Jesus Christ...I could not read the whole thing...its flabbergasting that he can, in a manner that ascends to his severely self-righteous throne of sadism like never before, trod on the quite plaintatively downtrodden so bloody vindictively...I ask you Andrew Bolt, do you appreciate those clever commercials or snazzy designs or slick cars or modern architecture or oh, classical music or Russel Crowe movies? Cause THEY'RE artists too mate!! Go to hell.
Most of the things you mention didnt need big government grants though.
If the art our current crop of artists was producing was actually any good people would actually pay for it. Bolt is right in some ways. Its just a shame he writes so poorly.
actually, i think that actually my above post contained too many actuallys. Sorry for actually writing so poorly, actually.
Your funny Dingomother...Ah, I just get on my soapbox from time to time, but Bolt is a tossbag, there's no two ways about it! Andrew McGahan is one of my favourite writers. Its also like he's dissing me, personally, as an aspiring writer...I still say he can go to hell.
andrew bolt is a dickhead. anyone that doesn't get furious reading his shite is either stupid, an arsehole, or very very good at keeping calm.
Most of the things you mention didnt need big government grants though.
If the art our current crop of artists was producing was actually any good people would actually pay for it. Bolt is right in some ways. Its just a shame he writes so poorly.
you trying to say art is only worthwhile if people will pay money for it dingo.
jesus, what a c*. those last two lines in particular made the temperature of my blood rise.
i went and visited my parents on cup day and was HORRIFIED to see a copy of Still Not Sorry sitting on the kitchen table (yes, my parents and I have some differences). I made my thoughts extremely clear on the matter.
Still, with amount of people in this country who seem to feel validated by what Andrew Bolt has to say, it's sad to strongly suspect that anyone who feels angry about what he says is most likely pissing in the wind
how infuriating to read such a hypocritical piece of hatred about 'hatred'
french people wear stripey shirts & beret's and carry bread sticks too.
well they do, don't they?
Hey so arts only good if you get paid for it? I didn't understand dingo then. Well I guess I'm a no-good artist bum. by the way writers are artists as well. so are actors, so are directors, so are photographers. bloody hell this page is artistic!!
i'd love to chop his head off and use it to ram a G20 bus full of delegates
funny.
i hope my quote gets used in a piece he writes about music fans living in an enclave called "messandnoise.com" and their hate of Andrew Bolt.
apparently any differences of opinion now have to be assimilated. Tolerance is no longer about letting people think what they want, but making sure everyone thinks the same thing as the mainstream.
bolta did once write a piece about aussie muso's and he said they were "singing hymns of hate"...
for real!
hilarious.
i'd like to think it hilarious except a whole bunch of mongs out there swallow it whole and line up for more
well maybe that is a little funny actually...
this isn't the "Hymns of Hate" article but it's a tiny news piece from themusic.com.au .....
BOLT BASHES BUTLER
In other John Butler news, the dreadlocked one has copped a spray from the Melbourne Herald Sun's resident right wing thunderer, Andrew Bolt. Writing in the Hun last Friday, Bolt accused Butler of being a hypocrite for singing about the evils of capitalism while making money off his music and singing "an ugly song - of hatred, ugliness, dependence and selfishness". Bolt even accused Butler of singing a "hymn of hate". Hang on, does that sound familiar? Sure does - Bolt used the same phrase in late July, in an attack on punkers Frenzal Rhomb and an anti-Howard compilation the band put together. Later Friday afternoon, JJJ's current affairs program Hack brought Bolt and Butler together for a head-to-head showdown: Butler says he was taken out of context, but Bolta is sticking to his guns
They don't know what they're missing shy girl...and they seemingly don't care
Bolta and Butler! Now there's an interview I want on tape dammit!
Sounds like somebody desperately wanted to be in the clique...
Me? I'm just bored and don't usually have access to internet at home but I'm in the country and there's sweet FA to do except listen to the Cure, drink a beer and well, write.
brunswick SCUM
not you semblance! I'm talking Bolty!!
Oh, sorry. I didn't sleep last nite..Umm broken?
you trying to say art is only worthwhile if people will pay money for it dingo
I just cant see the point of subsidising art. Not when the people who enjoy it are usually more than capable of paying for it themselves.
Hell, mayhbe im just bitter cause i cant draw.
But art is not just drawing. What I think is that Artists and Workers should not be polarised. You need one for the other and vice versa. They are not mutually exclusive. Read Plato's Republic if you have a spare two litres of red and maybe an open fire. He talks a lot about the art in EVERY profession. Whether it be an architect or a bloody janitor!
two litres of red and an open fire would promptly send me to sleep
i couldn't possibly read plato like that
I'm in Brunswick West, but those fuckers in Brunswick HATE 24/7!!! All the muthrfacking time.
Well, except for the lesbians, greeks, muslims, and Uncle Mick, which just leaves Trevor (the gay stripey shirt Bolivian), but that fucker can HATE!!! oh and dudewolf, who I think is in Brunswick West too, but really should just fuck off over Pearson Street with the other haters where he belongs!
Yeah yer probably right Tupelo, Plato is pretty heavy going..Maybe Coffee on a rainy day...by the way are you gettin any rain down there in good ole' Melbourne town???
Yeah bloody Brunswick haters. Go to the retreat where you belong!
hahaha. that's exactly how i read the trial of socretes - open fire, red wine.
oh sorry, i've got to assimilate....
oh yeah, fuckin slurries n shit, i love holdens, money is the only thing that matters, oh, and go away we're full.
That ok for you Mr. Bolt? Assimilated enough for you? fucking tool.
We love The suits!! Do the suits love the suits!!
I love short shorts. does that count?
"Instead we seem only to hear from extremists, preaching their paranoia."
He may not know art, but he knows white he likes
haha. i like it modi. ;o)
"everything that keeps it together is falling apart
I got this thing which I consider my only art of fucking people over."
oh god. i can't beleive i missed this.
you're one of the lucky ones hanoi....
i think any writing from bolt is infuriating.
He's such a classic...it's like the left is actually winning in his world...I wish it were true..I wish sad little writer's like hannie rayson actually made any kind of difference. It's like winning the grand final by 100 points and being angry you didn't win by 200.
i should email him a pic of my graffiti.
"we are all peace love and mungbeans in funswick buddy."
its a suburb of furry bunnies and cheerful chickens.
there wont be many chickens soon..... mark my words
now i'm worried since we're having chicken for dinner
yeah, and what are you going to do to my chickens hanoi???? huh????
check the chicken thread for any advice.
there's a chicken thread and i didn't get a personal invitation? sheesh.
I live in Brunswick and I hate
That's a t-shirt!
Perfect for lovers of that band h8 which was around for a while.. Mr kidney even joined in for a performance.. good times
Hilarious!