The return of the Monster from the Black Lagoon of the Far Right.
10.00 on Channel 10 on Sunday morning.
As Ray Hadley says, on the Power Station (where Bolta moonlights in the evening), if you don’t tune in to the show You need a note!.
The Power Station is Radio 2GB, 873 on your dial. Learned last week that the GB stands for Giordano Bruno was was burned at the stake because he refused to recant his dissident views. Rather appropriate that this station hosts BoltA.
On a tangent, I was amused by a comment on the Is it Mad thread, are they casting for Macbeth?
This is pretty close to the mark, the play Macbeth is about the way that the obsession with power leads to disaster. Lady Macbeth, the villain of the play, drives Macbeth to murder the king and then everything goes rancid. Think of Swan as Macbeth?
Macbeth is Shakespeare’s shortest tragedy, and tells the story of a brave Scottish general named Macbeth who receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders King Duncan and takes the throne for himself. His reign is racked with guilt and paranoia, and he soon becomes a tyrannical ruler as he is forced to commit more and more murders to protect himself from enmity and suspicion. The bloodbath swiftly takes Macbeth and Lady Macbeth into realms of arrogance, madness, and death.
This is better, more witches.
Lady Macbeth. Pan down to Ambition.
Further off topic. Is it Art (h/t Tim Blair) – enormous cows made from used car parts. Worth a look! Well its better than Mona in Hobart.
Leave those Eels alone! h/t Tim Blair (speaking as a true blue and gold Parramatta supporter).
Nooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!
Rabz
2 Mar 13 at 11:13 pm
Pansies. They should have called it 2MAB after one of the greatest heroes of the western world, Marco Antonio Bragadin.
If not for his truly epic defence of Famagusta, Lepanto might not have been won. Even his unspeakable death at the hands of that dishonourable animal Lala Kara Mustafa Pasha backfired, for so enraged were the Venetians that at Lepanto they fought like demons from the pit. No quarter was given to the Turks, they did not deserve it.
Mk50 of Brisbane
2 Mar 13 at 11:30 pm
In terms of rank stupidity and shortsightedness, Gillard is more akin to feminist Queen Lear than Swan is to Mabeth. Except we can pity Lear for the loss of wisdom which comes with infirmity and admire the nobler traits of Macbeth even as his ambition drove him towards his fate. Neither Gillard nor Swan merit any such sympathies.
Lloyd
2 Mar 13 at 11:34 pm
Another similarly neglected hero, and epic defender, of the Western world: Jean Parisot de Valette, Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller, who successfully repulsed the Turks at the Great Siege of Malta in 1565.
Deadman
2 Mar 13 at 11:37 pm
And against the same dishonourable Turkish general, too.
Mk50 of Brisbane
3 Mar 13 at 12:02 am
Good to see Bolta back on the telly
I’ve reached my personal tipping point regarding lefties pontificating in my ear- bugger off I say – no more smiles and niceness just leave me the hell alone!
This point was reached on Saturday at a supposedly apolitical conference which was spoiled for me by a speaker who obviously had left his apolitical instructions at home (Obama is great etc)
Stuff the lot of them – no more Mrs Nice Wesrie Woman
BTW we helped elect a Muslim LIBERAL as Mayor here in Liverpool – ended 21 years of Labor rule
Howzabout that eh???
westie woman
3 Mar 13 at 2:36 am
Meanwhile over at the Insiders any pretense of balance has been abandoned.This morning anyone silly to watch their crap will be treated to a fine clutch of group-thinkers,Cassidy,Coorey,Farr and Megalogenis.
Lew
3 Mar 13 at 9:33 am
Malcolm Farrt is a Brown-house gas.
There should either be a tax on him or a law against him (or preferably both!).
That’s just one of many reasons not to watch the A.L.P.B.C.’s “One-siders”, or “Hateline”, or the “7.00pm National A.L.P. Views” or any other program those A.L.P. brown-tongued toadies put to air.
If I wish to acquaint myself with the latest lies and propaganda churned out by John McTernan, I’ll get it from the organ grinder himself, rather than from one of his troop of performing monkeys at the A.L.P.B.C.!
I prefer news to be reported, rather than fabricated.
Up The Workers!
3 Mar 13 at 9:45 am
All the return of the atrocious Bolt programme will do is to hasten the final demise of the Rinehart disaster called Channel 10. Good riddance. We can do without this type of infection of the airwaves.
hammygar
3 Mar 13 at 9:47 am
Watched Barry Cassidy running rings around the inept Scott Morrison this morning. Nearly every question by Barry put him in “check”, and I watched while Morrison desperately tried to misrepresent each question and avoid check-mate at the last moment only to be put straight back into check. I reckon an extra couple of minutes was all that was needed for Barry to have check-mated him. An atrocious performance by a future immigration minister. Heaven help the international reputation of this country if the Libs achieve power. I can only hope the polls are wrong, as they have been so often in the past.
hammygar
3 Mar 13 at 10:01 am
Well done hammy – Champagne Comedy.
Carpe Jugulum
3 Mar 13 at 10:02 am
lol you’re very good at making things up, Hammy.
Gab
3 Mar 13 at 10:02 am
Haha, Hammy, the irony troll.
MattR
3 Mar 13 at 10:16 am
Hammygar is polite and likeable. So loyal to his team.
candy
3 Mar 13 at 10:25 am
Damn it Hammy, lift your game.
I can’t have my “alleged” sock puppet trolling with such dreadful rubbish.
Token
3 Mar 13 at 10:26 am
Token now doing the reverse psychology thing. It won’t wash, Token.
Gab
3 Mar 13 at 10:28 am
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3 Mar 13 at 10:48 am
Morrison did very well, hammy. You must have been watching another program.
Judith Sloan
3 Mar 13 at 10:48 am
I do hope that through his dialogue Gareth Hamilton figures out he is not alive and realises he is merely a tragic ignorant fool in a pantomime I have created
Token
3 Mar 13 at 10:51 am
While it has been pointed out no-one has ever seen Token and Hamster in the same room together, how convenient that the two identities are able to cut down the workload by commenting in successive posts.
Tom
3 Mar 13 at 10:59 am
Hammy, aka Gareth, is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike a human.
Samuel J
3 Mar 13 at 10:59 am
Maybe so, Samuel, but he does generate lots of comments. Two of his comments have so far generated nine responses.
Gab
3 Mar 13 at 11:02 am
Ah, hammygar is merely a character, and Token is a Red King, dreaming:
Deadman
3 Mar 13 at 11:06 am
Why would anyone think Mr Morrison was nasty. He refuses to support the sinking of the boats for the entertainment value. Mr Morrison is not who hammygar should be at odds with. They neither of them laughed when hearing of the drownings, yet so many others did. Mr Morrison is almost an ally.
WhaleHunt Fun
3 Mar 13 at 11:24 am
The programmer jokes link is the best bit of this post!
I don’t think there are many programmers among the commenters tho …
Robert Blair
3 Mar 13 at 11:36 am
Hey Hammy- twice (once to Morrison and once afterwards to his admiring co-panel) Barrie said “they’re not allowed to work so why would they want to disappear into the community”.
Think about it for a second- they’re not allowed to work- why else would they want to disppear into the community?
I rather thought Morrison (whom I loathe, mainly on the grounds of his responsibility for the idiotic “where the bloody hell are you” campaign) rather had Barrie’s measure.
A shame- I would like to see the smarmy creep permanently disqualified from public office on account of the damage he did to the tourism industry.
Oh and George (Mega…)- perhaps if you saved a little on hair dye you could afford a pair of reading glasses. There’s no particular shame in growing old.
Oh and MK50- Lepanto may well have been the high point of your career but it was well before Federation- no one else cares. (IDIOT)
gnome
3 Mar 13 at 11:42 am
Hammy’s posts, like most trolls, don’t add value. Nor does feeding the trolls.
I like the programmer jokes but the parallel between Macbeth and the current ALP leadership is more important.
After all that I had to attend an urgent body corporate meeting and missed the Bolt report. But I do have a note.
Poor Old Rafe
3 Mar 13 at 11:51 am
Poor Old Rafe you’ve given away Swan and Gillard’s whole plan. Don’t you know that one does never mention the name of the Scottish play? Why do you think they got in a SCOTTISH advisor like McTernan? Birnam wood is moving in.
Turtle
3 Mar 13 at 11:51 am
Nice one Turtle, I guess I saw the trees but missed the forest. Of course sighting Birnam wood on the move was the last straw for poor old Macbeth.
Lady Macbeth “Will these hands never be clean?”
Poor Old Rafe
3 Mar 13 at 11:56 am
Lady Macbeth “Will these hands never be clean?”
Nope.
Re the Bolt Report, see my comments on the Open Thread.
johanna
3 Mar 13 at 12:06 pm
It’s not quite a joke but they should have had…
There are 10 kinds of people in this world, those who understand binary and those who do not.
Harold
3 Mar 13 at 12:20 pm
McTurdling is NOT Scottish. He is a greasy unwashed Englishman with a jock surname, and a poofter to boot.
Popular Front
3 Mar 13 at 12:25 pm
Hammy has taken his tongue and his cheek and moved to a parallel universe.
face ache
3 Mar 13 at 12:45 pm
Deadman, have you read Ernie Bradford’s ‘The Great Seige: Malta 1565′?
Not a bad little book.
To my knowledge, there is no book available in English re Famagusta. In fact, there’s not a good coverage of that entire extended struggle for the eastern Med in the 16th century. Oman covers a little, Guilmartin covers the amphibious side (it was not a naval war in the modern sense) and there’s Braudel of course. he’s probably the closest to a full coverage, but he’s quite dated now.
Gnome, I have no idea why discussing how Christendom stopped the Ottoman maritime onslaught in the Med 500 years ago lights the fuse to your tampon. Luckily for me, I don’t care, either.
Mk50 of Brisbane
3 Mar 13 at 12:47 pm
Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No; this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas incarnadine,
Making the green one red.
Macbeth, Act II scene iii
Turtle
3 Mar 13 at 1:11 pm
Yes, I have read Ernle Bradford’s The Great Siege, and have a copy. In a less PC world, it would make a great movie.
A particularly good scene is one, in Chapter 24, wherein Valetta personally led an attack against Turks who’d breached the wall:
Deadman
3 Mar 13 at 1:11 pm
Cool stuff! I shall chase up a copy of The Great Siege.
Bruce
3 Mar 13 at 1:37 pm
Got it. Kindles are also cool. A naval officer who was in Malta in 1942! Double cool. One of my faves is “Unbroken” by Alistair Mars.
Bruce
3 Mar 13 at 1:45 pm
I recommend other very readable books by Ernle Bradford, such as his Thermopylae: the Battle for the West.
Deadman
3 Mar 13 at 1:47 pm
I get shivers up my spine every time I read it. Like the Gettysburg Address. I haven’t read Bradford’s, only Herodotus’. Sounds good too.
Bruce
3 Mar 13 at 2:26 pm
From Herodotus, sure, but he’s quoting epigraphs of Simonides.
Deadman
3 Mar 13 at 2:44 pm
Does hammy post on leftie sites? It’ll be hilarious to see the collective drooling over his every word.
harrys on the boat
3 Mar 13 at 2:52 pm
I didn’t realize it was Cassidy’s job to put anyone “in check”. If it is, does that also apply when he interviews politicos from the left side? If he’s supposed to,I’d suggest Cassidy has been conspicuously remiss but thanks for confirming what we’ve always known which is that Insiders and the ABC are biased against the Coalition
Lloyd
3 Mar 13 at 3:08 pm
Rafe and Harold:
The best one:
“I know a UDP joke, but I’m not sure if you would get it.”
Robert Blair
3 Mar 13 at 3:11 pm
Watched Barry Cassidy running rings around the inept Scott Morrison this morning.
In Hammy’s other news Freemantle just thrashed Carleton last night, and Julia Gillard’s popularity is just starting to take off in western Sydney.
John Mc
3 Mar 13 at 3:18 pm
Gareth is a romantic. Hammy, you should use your alternative icon occasionally, for fun. I particularly like this bit from the wiki of Scullin’s unfortunate time in office:
Why is it that ALP PM’s repeat history and ALP luvvies celebrate their ineptness?
Bruce
3 Mar 13 at 4:15 pm
What’s the bet Hammy is a completely contrived identity for trolling here, even by someone who maybe leans conservative!!??
I don’t think anyone over 21 could be quite that naive, but if he is a real person that’s one strange dude.
John Mc
3 Mar 13 at 4:30 pm
Do you think it is bolt in drag?
alena risen from the dead?
Bunyip?
But why? The assertions are so stupid and meaningless.
one very very strange dude without a life.
Will
3 Mar 13 at 7:37 pm
Nope. Not that clever.
But an Alena nontheless.
jupes
3 Mar 13 at 7:58 pm
Robert Blair at 3.11
Yep I also thought that joke was very funny. Took me a while to work some out, not being a programmer. They were having a good ol’ time flicking jokes back n forth.
Spent some time and interest re-reading Giordano Bruno. But couldn’t find a picture of the statue ‘stretched and upside down’ in Potsdamer Plazt (2008).
Jessie
4 Mar 13 at 12:10 am
Certainly Macbeth is pretty apt:-
Bill Ludwig in the title role.
Julia Gillard as Lady Mecbeth.
Kevin Rudd as King Duncan.
Tony Abbott as Malcolm.
Special effects:-
Bruce Wilson as Banquo’s Ghost.
Carbon Tax, Resources Tax and Super Tax as the Witches.
Trish McCrossin and Rob McClelland as Birnam Wood.
Bill
4 Mar 13 at 9:13 am
I always thought the GB was for Grace Bros, who I presumed were the foundation owners of the station.
Farmer Ted
4 Mar 13 at 12:04 pm
Jeff, you’re so correct. I must confess I’ve often thought so myself. They’re so far from the mainstream Australian thinking, it’s quite terrifying when you think about it.
I suppose it’s OK while they’re confined to Catallaxy, Bolt, Blair and 2GB. But they need to be carefully watched. That’s why we need to strenghen our laws to keep an eye on them.
hammygar
4 Mar 13 at 4:20 pm