Piers Akerman Saturday, November 29, 2008 at 08:18pm:
The involvement of Britons among the terrorists responsible for the murders of more than 150 people in Mumbai last week signals another milestone in the march of multiculturalism and the failure of Western and democratised nations to deal with Islamists.
News.com.au November 30, 2008 05:40pm:
A BRITISH actor who played one of the London suicide bombers in a television documentary was saved from the Mumbai attacks after police arrested him as a suspect. Actor Joey Jeetun, 31, who played suicide bomber Shehzad Tanweer in a British television documentary 7/7: Attack on London, was in Cafe Leopold, the popular expat and tourist haunt near Mumbai’s landmark Taj Mahal Hotel when attackers stormed both venues and other key targets on Wednesday.
Priceless! So, this is how rumours get started.
Ethnic asian Britons collaborated in the Mumbai attacks because they grew up exposed to the cultural attitudes of a nation of tea drinkers, amongst other cultures.
Yes.
Does anyone take Piers Akerman seriously?
Yet more evidence – if any was still required – that Akerman is a complete goose.
Akerman is no goose.Much of his logic is true if the real world had fair rules in the game which we call economics.The reality is both the left and right of world politics are wanting to control the masses without any notion of Democracy.The left want to do it through climate change,and the Bush Nazis use the Central Banks.Bush and Putin are a mould cast in a similar light.
The “New World Order” must be one of democracy,not one controlled by the UN,Multi- Nationals,or the Central Banks.
Gosh, does anyone check PA’s facts before they let him publish? IS anyone running a tally on how many errors he makes per column inch?
Though I do agree with him on one point; it would be great to have David Hicks as a commentator on these sorts of things, but I suspect my attitute to Hicks is just a tad different from PA’s!
No, I think you’ll find he’s a goose, Arjay.
I always enjoy a good trolling, Arjay, but you’ve nothing on Akerman!
Well, he may have a point that the west doesn’t deal well with multiculturalism well. I don’t consider latent racism between recent immigrants and existing Australian citizens a great win for multiculturalism, obviously a problem we need to sort out.
But your still right, the man’s a complete goose, doesn’t anyone fact-check anymore?
PinkyOz
Of course Piers Akerman isn’t the only rubbish columnist the News Limited stable inflicts on Sunday paper readers who get past the health section, the TV guide and the travel liftout. Feel free to check out Glenn Milne’s rewrite of a Media Release by opposition environmnt spokesman Greg Hunt here if you wish:
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But the best bit of this is at the end when Milne opines:
“I feel for the whales”! WTF!!! Is the Emo Man disease catching in Canberra? Is Glenn Milne channeling his inner self for $3000 a week at News?
I feel for the whales too. I also feel for the readers of the Sunday Mail, who may one day get a national politics columnist who does something other than rewrite Opposition media releases.
I am politically conservative. Piers is a pinhead. On Insiders, he regurgitates the Libs’ press releases — even if when they’re inconsistent or unprincipled — as though he’s making some insightful, counter-intuitive observation. He’s an unpleasant slug whom even Barrie, one of the most patient mediators around, gets visibly sick of.
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Yes. Yes indeed.
You must go straight to Akerman’s blog and write the exact same argument you’ve expressed here.
Piers will be very interested to hear from you about these ‘Bush Nazis’, and you won’t be disappointed by his response. He’ll give you a little something to cherish.
Reports are that the State government chief minister has made the claim of British-born terrorists, not the Indian feds (who are presumably the ones who’d know–it’s the army that captured the surviving gunman). Brown and Miliband are doing the responsible thing and saying they’re looking into it, even if it’s BS http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/28/british-terrorists-mumbai.
The rotund chappie from the Tele will no doubt print a correction if it turns out he’s repeated an urban myth–but not before he’s sprouted wings and flies.
I would like to roll Piers down a hill. I have this image of his rotundity gathering bits of rock and dust and whatever as he spouts whatever the little crappy, beta version, Tory spin computer inside him produces in response to the downward spiral of his globular self.
I imagine that it would be mostly a denial of the fact that he was rolling down a hill – that he would be arguing loudly that he was in fact soaring into the heavens, that Rupert was stuffing him full of cash and fine food and bottles of Grange and that everything was going to be just fine.
But mostly I would like to roll him down a hill, because it would be fun to roll him down a hill, and we could always put something nasty and sharp down the bottom.
Ah, Mr Bollard, I’m reminded of that most excellent Jethro Tull song, “Fat Man” which has the line “roll down the mountain, I know the fat man would win”. Or something. (I’d have to displace the young people from my living room to confirm the lyrics, and it’s not worth it.)
Actually I like how they just ignore Piers on Insiders. He comes out with his great important statements and everyone just ignore him and continue on as if nothing happened.
Last year I was reading a book by the great journalist Robert Fisk who uncovered the lies about the shooting down of the Iranian airline by the US, and it was only after he read the article a few weeks later that he found that the content of his article had been dramatically changed. And who was the sub-editor at the Times in London at the time? yep – Mr Akerman.
I raised this in a comment to Piers last year and he conveniently ignored it.
Maybe he is a new brand of goose paste – anyone for Pate Akerman?
Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.
Attaboy, Piers.
Maybe LP ought to think about starting an annual award for misinformed spin-doctoring, masqueradng as journalism. You could call it the “Piers” and the prize could be a whoopee-cushion.
On second thoughts, it would never work: Piers would win The Piers every time, and all he ever does is fart anyway.
Can’t Akerman at least wait for the corpses to get cold before he uses them as point-scorers for his spiteful little rants?
PA ends with this discussion: “Now, of course, [David Hicks] is the darling of a subset of the suburban Left, those who either have no memory, or no love of democracy nor grasp of morality.”
Is anyone from the ’suburban Left’ (I thought it was inner-city left?) talking about Hicks in any shape or form at all? Is it only conservative columnists who discuss Hicks as a foil to attack the Left?
Piers also managed to slime anyone calling for David Hicks to be treated with due process as supporters of the Mumbai terrorists. He, unlike anyone else at this stage, linked the terrorist to the Kashmir and as David Hicks supported the Kashmir cause ergo anyone who thought Hicks should get his day in court was a supporter of the Mumbai atrociities.
Such is the way the feeble brain of Akerman operates. He also managed to foist the failings of Baz Lurhman’s Australia onto inner city trendies I am told the ABC Insiders has had he and Bolt imposed on them and they think both are a waste of space.
Well, can’t Bolt and Akermann be unimposed on Insiders? After all, there has been a cahange of government. Not enough change in the country for my liking.
I don’t mind Right wing commentatots as long as they’re intelligent. But that’s probably an oxymoron.
Ackermann was particularly disgusting on yesterday’s Insiders. If the ABC had any courage or integrity left (which I doubt after The Howard years) they’d blacklist the monster.
Goebbels would have loved him. Hang on, Ratty did love him. Didn’t mean to be tautological there.
Piers Akerman has been at a loss for an enemy since the Cold War ended but now at home he can attack multiculturalism and overseas the new demon, Islam. Piers, the enemy is extremism – whether it is rabid right wing Christianity, the nastier variants of Hinduism in India, some of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish forces in Israel,like the settlers in Hebron, or the misrepresentations of Islam that appeal to alienated youth but which run contrary to the Qur’an and the teachings of the faith itself. Tolerance is the enemy of extremism, Piers, so is there any chance that you will stop preaching your message of hate and use the power of your pen to demonstrate one of the key teachings of Muhammad in the Qur’an, that God was wise enough to make us all different and then to appreciate those differences ?
What was it Fatty Vautin called him at a press conference … ah yes a “fat shit” wasn’t it?
“Bush and Putin are a mould cast in a similar light”
Mixed metaphor of the week, and it’s only Monday.
NKWS at 12 I dont know about the wings but PS certainly already has the flies and you can see where they have been. Guffaw.
The meme semms to be spreading
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/just-ten-trained-terrorists-caused-carnage-1041639.html
http://www.mirror.co.uk/most-popular/2008/11/28/seven-mumbai-gunmen-are-from-leeds-and-hartlepool-115875-20932675/
http://www.alternet.org/audits/109061/did_a_criminal_mastermind_stage_the_mumbai_nightmare/?page=entire