Dooced: to lose one’s job because of one’s website.
Liberal Party candidate gets dooced.
THE federal Liberal Party has dumped its candidate for the Melbourne seat of Maribyrnong in a bid to head off a political furore over his description of a female Victorian cabinet minister as a “bitch”.
Hamish Jones made the offensive outburst against Victorian minister and senior female politician Lynne Kosky on his internet blog site.
So what did Hamish Jones post on his blog?
I really want to represent the people. Really!
by Hamish @ 11:06 am. Filed under Politics & CampaignsPUBLIC Transport Minister Lynne Kosky has told Labor colleagues not to bother her with complaints from commuters about trains and trams.
In an unprecedented order, Ms Kosky told colleagues to take their problems about fines or heavy-handed ticket inspectors to the private operators instead.
Labor Politicians really care about the people don’t they!
The bitch gets over $200K a year and a full-time driver!
F*ckwit!
Aaaah, the young Libs, just like old Labor.
BTW, there is a image of poor old Hamish attached to Michelle Grattans piece on this, and it ain’t very flattering. There but for the grace of god go many a blogger.
One shouldn’t get too high and mighty about this.
All parties have candidates that turn out to be embarassments, especially in seats where they have no hope of winning, and so don’t pay too much attention to the person they are pre-selecting. I’m guessing Mr Jones’s pre selection conrtest had a field of one.
I like what The Hangover wrote:
New word for me, ‘dooced’.
Amusing (and apt) that its etymology is simply the name of a blog ‘dooce.com’ whose author was fired for blogging about work colleagues.
Guess it stuck because ‘dooce’ sounds like the right mix of ‘deuced’ ‘reduced’ and ‘d’uh’
That photo is very scary…
No what is really scary is the preciousness. If he thinks this Kosky is a f***wit, good luck to him.
As well as young Hamish vanishing from the political landscape, so has his blog.
No doubt the sombrero will show up at a Labor fund-raiser auction.
What’s wrong with the Liberal Party these days?
Did either Kennett or Peacock get sacked for this?
(Warning: the above link containes much unparliamentary (or is it parliamentary) language. It may be NSFW.)
this is australia,right.most of us swear from time to time,right,even the rodent and kev have been known to.what a pathetic bunch of hypercrits we’ve become
Was it “Kennett”?
Well, who were the idiots who privatised it all, in the first place?
And the Labor don’t care. Well, that’s as it should be if one goes by neolib theory. If he was capable of reading, Kenneth Davidson could have explained all to him years ago.
All rats for themselves and why should Kosky be any less of a creature of the system than this other foul-mouthed nazi twit.
Incidentally, you can still see the Google Cache of Hamish’s blog:
Click here for a little bit of Hamish.
With thanks to Jess and her friends at Defamer (a blog that gets 100,000 hits a day apparently – or is that the American Defamer as well being counted?).
Young Hamish is very young, but if he wanted to be a canditate he should’ve acted like one (that is, only used naughty language in private, but still dissed his enemies in public).
The surprising thing is that young Hamish’s plight has taken a long time to reach the media. I think he mentioned that he wasn’t going to be a candidate quite some time ago.
Ah yes, poor old Hamish. He should never have been preselected in the first place. The boy is and has long been an A grade disgrace and hardly a match for Shorten. Interesting that Costello and Sheezel knifed him though given their factional allegiance to him and the rest of the Melbourne Uni Liberal Club crew.
This is a big problem for the Liberal party. While the ALP is preselecting McKew against Howard, the Libs still haven’t found anyone to go up against Rudd and are preselecting useless hacks against the ALP talent.
“…cool, a political campaign. Might get some free piss and a root out of itâ€?.
Ha, that’s quite funny Guido. Is there such a thing as political groupies?
Yikes?
Unless the pollie is as good looking as this chap:
http://www.aph.gov.au/house/members/member.asp?id=5V5
Does he look like a twit too?
You know like Dutton, or Pyne, or Vasta or some other refugee from a politics 101 tute. Egaaarr!!
It does lead me to wonder if the Minister in question had been a man and this hapless young Liberal wannabe had written
whether he would be in the same sort of trouble. I rather suspect not.
Cheers…
Oh yah, because women are a protected species in political debate are they not.
Not. ;-/
I don’t think it was the swear that did it per se. It was his extreme f***wittedness, even given the fact he was a young Liberal.
I googled “Hamish Jones” and “Policy” and “Policies” and came up with nix, nada. He’s a PR flack, all surface and no substance and 24 years old.
If I sound a tad annoyed, it’s because I come from the City of ‘Nong and this was the guy they thought was good enough for the likes of, you know, us. If he got in by some miracle.
Of course he would, Mick Strummer.
Are you trying to read some “feminazis” emasculate young nice man into this thing?
Bollocks. The language was inappropriate whether it was “bitch” or “bastard”.
i asserted on an ealier post that even the rodent had been known to swear. i have been corrected,apparently he had someone else do it for him.
Separated at birth
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nobby: I don’t have a problem with swearing, per se. It’s just that the man can’t flame for shit. I admit I’ve got high standards, but then I’ve seen a lot of Internet Wars over the years. A good put-down isn’t just using the same slurs that everyone else has heard a million times before – such as “fuckwit”, or “bitch”. That’s just lazy and a bloody copout.
down and out
you are right, he is not very creative,but if you want to hear the real nasty stuff,just listen to parliament for a while.
I don’t see what he was upset about anyway.
“Ms Kosky told colleagues to take their problems about fines or heavy-handed ticket inspectors to the private operators instead.”
Sounds pretty reasonable to me – if you have a complaint about transport, take it to those most able to deal with it instead of misdirecting your energies to someone who’s more involved in superstructure.
Not having anything to do with Melbourne transport, I honestly don’t know what the big issues are, but surely the minister – regardless of political affiliation – would better spend her time doing other things than listen to people complain about how unfairly they’ve been treated; she’d get the information that she needs about stuff like this from the operators anyway.
Apparently not listening to people whine about this sort of stuff constitutes ‘not caring about the people’.
From Yahoo:
Gawd bless yer Spiros, for your generosity of spirit.
It got me thinking though. Whenever there’s a change of government there is always at least one minister who botches it in the first few weeks. After the election there are the puff pieces on the new guys, the devestation of the losers (including a few early shots in factional wars) and the mopping-up of the last few seats in the count. This ends abruptly when some newly sworn minister has some long-buried scandal exposed, or says something stupid without realising what it’s like to be in the centre of a media storm.
The new government’s honeymoon comes to a crashing halt and eventually they realise the offender has to be punted. Who will be Federal Labor’s fall guy/girl?
Begs the question whether the callow potty-mouth has ever pursued a career in politics in any real sense.
The crodile tears just keep coming from Hamish. Seems like the problem lies with everyone else except him.
Hamish is a good mate of Bernie Finn’s that should tell you what type of character he is.
What an extraordinary article! It’s possible some of the quotes there were deliberately taken out of context by a shrewd tabloid reporter, but still – it demonstrates pretty clearly why Hamish J shouldn’t be a politician.
“Women should not be politicians.”
The shortest political suicide note in 2007, anyone?
Lynn Kosky’s office was tight-lipped on the affair today, with one staffer stating “I wouldn’t justify the c***’s actions with a response”.
Of course I’m wrong. The shortest political suicide note in 2007 would have to be:
“Bitch”.
“I think in the circumstances the party took the view that we could find a candidate who’s better and more appealing, and in the circumstances that’s what the party will do,” Mr Costello said to Southern Cross Broadcasting today.
How bitter and twisted is Costello. Guess he wasn’t invited to Mr Jones’ , cool, poolside party and is now joining in on the beatup. The guy had obviously lots of natural talent for policy development. Progressive views on the womens’ place….“Women should not be politicians.â€?
Mmmm, more ‘reforms’. That is what the Liberal Party is famous for.
I reckon the ALP or a Pro Woman’s lobby should mount an Ad Campaign with that quote and pictures of all the Female Liberal Politicians with the Message..
“To all femal Liberal Voters, do you want this to to be the voice of the Liberal Party” or words to that effect.
That photo of him is a corker.
He looks like one of the extras out of Revenge of the Nerds, or maybe The Castle. Or perhaps he’s the fourth Amigo, you know, the one they only let out on Sundays and after he’s taken his medications.
It certainly looks like he missed the meds today, with that comment about female politicians.
It looks like somebody spoofed an AAP wire reporter. He didn’t say “Women should not be politicians”.
Of course I suspect it will still hang around him forever. Retractions don’t tend to go too far.
Well, so says Landeryou. YMMV.
Hamish broke the First Rule of Politics – “Never Be Photographed Wearing A Silly Hat.”
And what’s more he broke it bigtime. I’ve been around a while and I’m struggling to think of a more egregious example, let alone find a pic on the net. Suggestions welcome.
When I saw the photo I thought he looked just like your typical Liberal/right-wing ALP student politics hack. The species is noted for its misogyny, cynicism and stupidity and for a sort of negative charisma. Now I hear (via this thread) that he hails from the Melbourne Uni Liberals.
I hereby, then – in the spirit of those mischevious souls who stacked an AGM of the Monash Uni Tories in the ’70s and renamed the club the “Monash University Liberal Club (Marxist-Leninist)” – offer myself up as a Liberal (Trotskysist) candidate for Maribyrnong. I am a local. I have never worn a sombrero. And my views, though extreme, are surely less so than the candidate originally preselected for Cook.
Hamish is welcome here* any time,you can go on about attacking a Labor woman by language unsuitable for parliamentarians,but the question that should be asked did he represent the problem of commuters well.Yes! Using the short answer as question,and Kosky was not interested in the problem,when the best way to get a commonly occuring problem fixed is to a Ministers office.They are supposed to represent no matter how much money they receive.And from that language it doesnt seem to be a complete hostility to women,after all they are commuters..wether he is handsome or Kosky getting old cranky,and not willing to work a beauty no doubt internally in the eyes of the beholder.Besides he was taliking in code.B-i-t-c-h like barbie Q galores in West Australia,werent you Hamish!?Come on tell the truth!Whats it really mean..Iam sure if you dont answer quick the posters here will overwork the site,and all the bloody papers will have screaming headlines…………………*Tyringham N.S.W.
Hamish should have at least tied his ‘withdrawl’ from the Federal seat to a future senate spot. The guy’s a winner but he should nail his campaign manager quick smart.
Oh, I doubt he had much bargaining power.
Sorry, but Kosky is a state minister and Jones was a federal candidate. It may well be the Libs’ current tactic to deflect attention from their own failings by attacking the states, but really this issue has nothing to do with him as a candidate for a House of Reps seat.
Hamish is indeed a Melbourne Uni Liberal.
And given that Hamish was involved in Mr. Landeryou’s thwarted attempts to defraud the Melbourne Uni student union out of millions of dollars, methinks Andy’s defence of Hamish should be taken with a grain of salt.
Well if anyone here has access to an AAP wire service account they could check themselves whether the story has been retracted or not.
Uh, actually as I gather from my Gen X siblings I’m pretty sure there’s a ‘u’ and ‘h’ in there and its not a particularly PC term.
But I digress, if Hamish is indeed a university Liberal, i’d like to share the short story of postering the Menzies building at Monash university and eventually noticing a toad like creature following me almost to the top floor, at which point I turned around and stared menacingly, and he appeared to both void his pants and tumble backwards down the escalators at he same time…ah, …
…smells like victory!
I saw that story about Hamish about noon yesterday in my yahoo email. When I looked on Yahoo’s News site later and tried to find it, it had disappeared – Landeryou seems to be on the ball here.
A while ago Landeryou did a post about allegations Hamish was involved in a Coburg branch stack, which you’d imagine he’d want to hush up if they were friends.
If the quoted lines were all Hamish had said I doubt they would have dumped him for that. However, I think it would have taken them 5 seconds to realise that this was the tip of the iceberg. The Age had some more choice quotes today, and I will guarantee there was enough out there for the papers to have fun for weeks.
Basically in these cases what is needed is enough to get journalists interested enough to spend their time digging. These quotes did the trick, and while I’m sure the Libs would have felt they could ride these out, they would not have wanted the ongoing stream of dirt it would have led to.
TimT, its worth noting that Landeryou’s loyalty is pretty selective. The Libs who assisted him and his mates plundering the union will get defended to an extent, but if there is good dirt he’s happy to run it.
Øne rule he obviously doesn’t understand. If you use your own name on a blog, you always have to stand by what you say or it can be used against you in all sorts of surprising places.
He, for instance, will have an interesting experience if he ever applies for a job where the boss is a woman.
If he tries to work for a woman in politics, he is likely to get an interview just so she can tread on his head.