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• Calling all lawyers! Sam Ward requires legal advice following an un-Australian episode in WA.
• Andrew Landeryou is steamed: “In a despicable display of blatant lefty bias, the ABC website’s Victorian Election ‘Poll Vault’ has shown is true colours by including latte left weblog Larvatus Prodeo in its blogroll beside Newspapers and other sources of information. Note the lack of a balancing conservative blog.”
• More LP news at Crikey, where Margaret Simons writes:
A couple of bloggers have contacted us after our brief last Thursday reporting Mark Bahnisch’s claim that Larvatus Prodeo was Australia’s best read political blog. Tim Blair has provided statistics for his visitors, and Bahnisch acknowledges that they show Blair convincingly in the lead with 400,000 visitors in October.
Note to ace researcher Margaret: my stats are public. Simply scroll down. She continues:
One other well known political blogger has credibly claimed to have figures roughly 50% better than LP’s, but since this blogger is shy of giving the details, we can’t verify this.
I’m guessing the shy blogger is Tim Dunlop, now posting at Murdoch-owned news.com.au. Many lefty Tim fans were upset by this alignment with Murdochian evil—some vowed not to read his new site—but they should calm down; Tim was appointed by lefty news.com.au editor Hugh Martin, formerly a lefty Age pundit. Purity is maintained.
How could the cops leave a drunk who “was continuing to do nothing wrong, except really annoy one insecure little bouncer.” When they asked him to move on, Yobbo could have offered to wait for his friends across the street, instead he chose to be a smart arse.
Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2006 11 06 at 02:37 AM • permalinkYobbo, if you can spare the dosh I suggest engaging the fiery little Welshman, Stephen Owen-Conway QC or his lovely bride Natasha Owen-Conway QC. They might consider probono. I wouldn’t advertise that you are to the right of Ghengis Khan as they are red raggers as are most of the legal profession for some unknown reason.
Otherwise, put on the bag of fruit and represent yourself - you should scrub up pretty well and can put together an argument.
See if you can get the Pub’s survelliance tapes ASAP.
Good luck, but I think you’ve got Buckleys.
Andy Landeryou is steamed about something?
No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Good luck to Tim Dunlop. I think every self-respecting and non-self respecting blogger aspires to the same. There are, however, interesting theoretical dimensions to bloggers joining the mainstream media after they have spent so much time dissing it (not Dunlop as such, but just generally). May his fans not be Webdiarian in the way they comment.
My stats indicate I’m a cult figure, rather than popular and well-read but I’m a girl so I don’t feel the need to brag about it either way.
Good luck to Yobbo. May he triump over bullies in uniforms. Radical.
Hugh Martin must be the only Hugh in the country who didn’t have his name on the Glass House petition. Or didn’t have it taken off the petition, at any rate.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 11 06 at 03:02 AM • permalinkYobbo, #3 aside, good luck. As other people have said, and you surely know anyway, good behaviour in court can only help. Heard a story once, about a man being sentenced:
Judge: “I sentence you to four”
Crim: “You bastard!”
Judge: “and a half years.”Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2006 11 06 at 03:03 AM • permalinkAs a non-self-respecting blogger, it warms the cockles of my cold, black shrivelled heart to read that the Lavatory Rodeo clowns aren’t the cool kids on the back of the bus after all.
As for aspiring to the mainstream media, if I found out that tomorrow the entire media industry was instantly vaporised by RWDB aliens, I’d merely go back to my beer and move on with my life.
Yobbo, having taken the time to read your story - all the best.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 11 06 at 03:16 AM • permalinkThis blog has far more international appeal than any Australian lefty blog, too - thus its readership potential is enormously higher than LP or Dunlop.
I bet the non-Australian readership of the two lefty blogs cited is negligible, however a substantial number of non-Aussies comment and (presumably) lurk here, too.
Posted by James Waterton on 2006 11 06 at 06:09 AM • permalinkI think this episode is outrageous. But unfortunately the courts, at least those in the US, give considerable deference and support to the police’s ability to maintain order. I suspect the judge will levy a small fine plus court costs. An attorney probably could bargain that down to something small but it probably wouldn’t be worth the savings.
Posted by wronwright on 2006 11 06 at 12:09 PM • permalinkIs that 400 thousand unique visitors, or 400 thousand page views, or 400 thousand hits from the 50 usual suspects returning every five minutes to air more dirty linen on this lax laundry for lovers of lunch?
Posted by Miranda Divide on 2006 11 06 at 09:47 PM • permalinkThanks, Miranda, for contributing to the hit count!
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 11 06 at 11:18 PM • permalink
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Good luck, Sam, but blogging under the name “Yobbo” may not help public perceptions! Give The West’s Inside Cover a call, it sounds like something they might run with—it won’t get you off, but at least you can tell a few hundred thousand people what you think of those arseholes.