Having said that, there is no way in the world that I myself would believe that the criminal backgrounds of the actors were not known to those behind the ads, directly or indirectly, formally or informally …. and that there was not a hope that sufficient people in the general community would recognize and remember the former lives of these actors and then confuse that background with the role the actors were playing in the advertisements.

Get ready for an extremely dirty election campaign: Barefaced defamation, monsterous lies, forged documents, frame-by-frame video montages of events that never happened …. enough to make even Josef Goebbels weep.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/proworkchoices-ad-pulled-from-air/2007/09/22/1189881836973.html

This is material the Chaser won’t be able to leave alone.

You know what work you have done yourself …. and so to do the “intellectual pick-pockets” who use it …. because they haven’t got anything worthwhile of their own

[A bit off-topic, again - I was lucky/unlucky enough to be directly involved in a few events that have since become well-known/notorious/whatever during which I took several photos with my own PRIVATE camera and still have the negatives. Every so often, MY photos turn up unattributed in publications. Most likely, one of my companions at the time borrowed my negatives without telling me so as to run off a swag of happy-snaps for himself and his pals]

While we do the punditry thing with much fervour and fun, being informed by often nothing more than wit no matter the suffix (maybe sheer, brilliant, dim, and fuck?), to have this analysis provided with generosity of spirit is fabulous and appreciated.

When it’s all said and done this time around, another level will have been reached regardless of the result, and that’s seriously worthwhile.

I do hope the next Parliament has enough of The Rest to give it at least the potential to appear capable of becoming democratic. The 41st Parliament has already made its mark on Australian history; let’s hope the 42nd one will start the climb out of the sewer ….

Oh for the days of Hillary Bray!

Some of the journos are funny, even if they’re intellectual pickpockets.

Considering the real circulation figures of some of the daily’s, I reckon their disdain of the bloggers is just a bout of traffic envy

http://www.crikey.com.au/Election-2007.html

And don’t worry too much, most of the journos never seem to take notice except when they denounce us as “cosseted academics”, “biased leftists”, etc, etc. Officially take notice that is.