Tony Abbott Is Right

I guess that laughing at this juvenile stuff makes me a lefty but some of the stuff on Tony Abbott Is Right is pretty funny.

On A Current Affair Tomorrow Night

… some moronic woman protesting about refugees being given housing and wondering why the government isn’t giving housing to Aussies.

I WONDER WHY THIS IS GOING TO AIR THE NIGHT BEFORE THE ELECTION.

Also they will interview Tony Abbott (Julia Gillard was interviewed tonight) Again…

I WONDER WHY THIS IS GOING TO AIR THE NIGHT BEFORE THE ELECTION.

Surely it would be fairer if both Prime Ministerial candidates received 15 minutes on the same night to tell Australia why we should vote for them?

Worse still is the Herald Sun website where this morning I was greeted by a pop-up advertisement for the Liberal Party. I am really sick of the bias that the media is showing, whether it is Murdoch for the Liberals or Fairfax for Labor. I would rather a fair and balanced media (yes I know that Murdoch’s FOXnews uses that line and it is a joke) where instead of trying to sway my vote with THEIR opinion, they instead just present the facts about each candidate and let me make up my own mind. Believe it or not I am clever enough to do so.

Not sure if this is satire or serious

I was trawling though the comments to Andrew Bolt’s blog as I find that it contains some comedy gold, when I came to this comment on the National Broadband Network that Gillard and Labor have proposed.

There is no need to a National Broadband network.
Technology progress is unnecessary when you have a 55k modem.
If people have too much access to information, imagine the terrible consequences.
The NBN is simply a communist plot to empower the unions.
Tracey Conlan (Reply)
Wed 18 Aug 10 (11:07am)

I am not sure if this is a serious but stupid comment or satire although I have seen that Tracey has made some other comments that suggests that she isn’t clever enough to deliberatly be that funny.

Then there is Doc Molloy’s comments

My simple point is, I mean, look today, it’s happening today,’’ she said. Joolya morphs into Joh in the Deep North with Pineapple Pin Head Swan, the dumb c@#t ( as KRudd staffers referred to him). Oh don’t you worry about that, sez Joolya, you just look here and don’t look back I try not to and so does Wayne here because we don’t like what we see.. Don’t you worry about that. There are billions more where those came from we just keep digging them out the ground and then we tax it.. all an illusion.. just keep moving forward nothing to see here, is there Wayne..
No, that’s correct, nothing, Joolya, all smoke and mirrors.. look over there..

Andrew and his moderators should really edit any obviously drunken comments made. especially ones that are so rambling and disrespectful.

And the Libs expect to pick up votes with these ads?!

These are horrible and very amateurish. Don’t the Libs realise that South Park was so 1998?

Tony Abbott’s Latest Tool For Combatting Illegal Immigrants

This…will obviously lead to this…

and then this…

Mad Max’s Falcon At ACMI

Hogan and Flair in Australia

I have to give Hulk Hogan and Ric Flair some kudos for working the Australian press in the way they did yesterday. For those who have not heard the news, here is how the Herald Sun, Australia’s #1 newspaper reported it…

“The Hulk, Hulk Hogan injured in bloody Sydney brawl with Ric Flair and media

WRESTLER Hulk Hogan has been badly injured after a violent bloody brawl broke out at The Hulkamania promotional press conference at Star City today.

The press conference veered violently out of control today as Hulk Hogan and ring rival Ric Flair let their animosity break into a full scale bloody brawl.

Newspaper Sydney Central’s photographer Phil Rogers had his flash broken when Ric Flair threw a table off the stage and into the press gathering before diving on photographers.

Media were stunned as the Hulk’s head began bleeding profusely and confusion broke out when the veteran wrestling star was unable to get to his feet.

This reporter narrowly missed being struck with the table and photographers ducked and weaved as Ric Flair took off his trouser belt and began to whip anyone within range.

The press conference began well with the stars of the tour speaking professionally about their careers and the business.

Hulk Hogan was excited to be touring Australia for the first time.

He said promoters in the past had billed him to tour Australia without his knowledge only to tell the fans that he could not make it.

The Hulkamania tour hits Melbourne on Saturday night.”

The ABC were not to be sucked in by all this though…

“Hulk Hogan ‘attacked’ at press event

Posted Wed Nov 18, 2009 3:55pm AEDT
Updated Wed Nov 18, 2009 4:01pm AEDT

Hulk Hogan was bleeding profusely from the head. (Getty Images: Brendon Thorne)

Hulk Hogan was apparently left battered and bruised after a bloody brawl with rival Ric Flair at a media conference in Sydney today.

The event, to promote a wrestling tour later this month, veered violently out of control when Hogan and Flair let their animosity break into what appeared to be a full-scale brawl.

Media were shocked when Hogan began bleeding profusely from the head and was unable to get to his feet.

Flair used his belt to whip anyone within range.

The Daily Telegraph reports one photographer had their equipment broken when Flair threw a table off the stage and into the press.

It was a dramatic twist, as the event had started well with the professional wrestlers discussing their careers.

Pro-wrestling has a long history of orchestrating rivalries between crowd favourites and villains.

Bouts are often staged with the outcome preordained.

This track record has led to speculation that today’s events are nothing more than a promotional event.

- ABC/AAP”

Bouts are often staged with a predetermined outcome. Next the ABC will tell me that there is no Santa Claus or Easter Bunny.

Despite the main stream press that this story has picked up, there is no way that I am going to shell out any money to see the Hulkamania tour this weekend. I am saying this as both a wrestling fan and a Ric Flair fan.

Firstly the main even consists of Hulk Hogan who is 55, and Ric Flair who I believe is 63. We all know that Hogan has creative control of this tour and that Flair will have to do the JOB all week long. In fact I could pretty much say I know exactly how the match will go, as I suspect it will just be each wrestler’s signature spots strung together. We know at one point Flair will put the figure four on Hogan and he will no sell it, before hulking up. We also know that Hogan will end up giving Flair the big boot, run off the ropes and drop the leg drop of doom, 1, 2, 3, Hogan wins.

While I could perhaps tolerate that as a main event the undercard is really uninspired. Lots of Hogan’s flunkys like Ed Leslie (Brutus Beefcake) and the Nasty Boys and Jimmy Hart are on the tour. Nothing that I would really like to see.

Sam the Koala

This is an adorable picture of a koala that has survived the Victorian bushfires. She is being given a drink of water by firefighter David Tree. Fortunately Sam is OK, unlike a lot of our other native wildlife from the area, having only some burnt paws. Sam is recovering at the Mountain Ash Wildlife Shelter where she has been on an IV drip, antibiotics and pain relief treatment.

The Herald Sun’s cartoonist Mark Knight has given his unique view of the above event.

Brian Naylor

I’m still in shock over the news that Brian Naylor lost his life in the Kinglake bushfires on the weekend. Like most Melbournians I can remember how Brian would tell us the days’ news every night on channel 9. He did this for twenty years and apparently before that he appeared on channel 7 on the news and on Brian and the Juniors, although this was before I was born. He will also be remembered as a long time host of Carols By Candlelight, that has raised so much money for Vision Australia over the years.

Brian broke some of the biggest news stories in Victoria’s history, including the Walsh Street police killings and the 1983 Ash Wednesday bushfires. Even though I never met Brian I felt as though I knew him since he was the only newsreader that I had ever watched for the first twenty years of my life. Only a week or so ago I was wondering what he was doing now.

Australia

I finally relented the other day and saw Baz Lurhman’s film Australia. My first thought is that whilst the film was not as horrible as I thought that it was going to be, it was still pretty horrible. Baz Lurhman obviously told the actors to camp things up as much as possible, especially Nicole Kidman with her laughable English accent and the evil David Wenham, while Hugh Jackman plays a typical Aussie stereotype. The less said about Jack Thompson’s performance the better.

I must make mention of David Gulpilil’s performance as the aboriginal magic man with his mystical super powers of just turning up everywhere, standing around a bit, using his magical mystical powers somehow, and then mysteriously disappearing. I’m not sure what he was meant to be doing other than representing that aborigines have powers or something. I’d prefer that we had real characters not caricatures and stereotypes, although I must say that the kid who played Nullah, Brandon Walters, is pretty good and gave a terrific, enthusiastic performance.