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Plastic turkey believer (and editor of the Niagara Falls Reporter) Mike Hudson fires in a combative response:
Tim…I don’t know how they do things in the land down under, but I’m an American, and if I want to make fun of an American president I’ll do so without any interference from some wallaby eating sheepherder. Now go back and play with your didgeridoo before I have to come over there and smack you upside the head.
I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
Unlikely, seeing as how he was banned from that post. A pity, now that he has a thread actually devoted to him. He should have saved his bile for a more worthy cause.
Posted by AlburyShifton on 2006 12 13 at 06:30 PM • permalinkHeh, you nailed it, PW! Even with the extra “s”! ;-P
I replied to our Feakless Editor, Mikey, on the thread, although I did refer to him as a “journalist” there.
I suppose that’s a reasonable error, given that these days, there’s little difference between an editor and a journalist in most places around the MSM.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 12 13 at 06:34 PM • permalinkI bet he doesn’t even know whereabouts in europe we are.
Posted by surfmaster on 2006 12 13 at 06:38 PM • permalinkOnya Mikey,
I think this strategy will work out well - and once the loyal readers of the Niagara Falls Reporter start logging in here, poor old Timbo won’t know what hit him.
About time someone stood up to Member No 2 and let him know once and for all that ccountability is for pussies.
Over to you, loyal Niagara Falls Reporter readers…
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 12 13 at 06:39 PM • permalinkSo ... this guy is editing a newspaper. And he doesn’t care whether what he’s writing is true or not.
And journalists wonder why we ordinary folk hold them in contempt.
Posted by Urbs in Horto on 2006 12 13 at 06:39 PM • permalinkSlowly I turned… step by step… inch by inch…
Posted by Jim Treacher on 2006 12 13 at 06:46 PM • permalink>Why would a sheepherder eat wallaby,
>when there’s good Aussie lamb to be had?Obviously Iron Mike is not up on Australian culture - jolly jumbucks and the like.
Posted by LeftyApostate on 2006 12 13 at 06:50 PM • permalinkI went to college not too far from Niagra Falls. I did observe (Im a smart-alek, not a fighter) one sercious bar fight. It was a bunch if Iroquois indians, they formed a circle to cover their backs and took on all comers.
I also spent a few months in OZ. I saw more fights there. amd over stupid stuff too. At ;east tje Indians had a serisous gripe. In OZ? Look at some farm hand’s girlfriend dance, seem to give the wrong change for a fifty, etc. All kinds of flimsy excuses to start fisticuffs. I got the serious impression that the fight was more the point than the reason.
So good luck to Mike.
“...I’m an American, and if I want to make fun of an American president I’ll do so without any interference from some wallaby eating sheepherder.”
He meant to say “I’m an American, and an editor, and if I want publish lies, I’ll do so without any interference from actual facts. And Dag is my middle name!”
Posted by Harry Bergeron on 2006 12 13 at 07:28 PM • permalinkWell, Margos, I’m a proud Niagra Falls Reporter reader. I once
readbought it while living in the USA and visiting the NF area; I couln’t find a copy of the NY Times anywhere.Interesting place. Lots of cheap hotels. Lots of souvenir shops. Not much else.
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 12 13 at 07:30 PM • permalinkStrewth Cobber! For a moment I thought Mike was going to launch into this.
How will Tim survive such a withering barrage of precision guided cliches from such an outstanding journalist/editor?
Seems to me that Mike’s credibility is going over Niagara’s edge in a barrel…..will it survive?
Stay tuned folks….....
Andrea, the people have spoken!
We want “Take the” Micky Huddo back!
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 12 13 at 07:35 PM • permalinkIn the grand tradition of
accuracyprojectile vomit that the Niagra Falls Bugle is best known for, here’s a picture of Huddo.Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 12 13 at 07:41 PM • permalinkCan I say how unfair it is to bash Niagra falls just because some dumbo Journalist works there?
I’m sure it’s pretty cool once you step outside the souvenir shops and they have a giant waterslide or something, though maybe I’m thinking of Disney.
I think what Mike meant to say was: ‘I’m a an Journalist, and if I want to lie I’ll do so’. There was no need to drag nationality into it, he just happens to be proud American scumbag.
It takes pretty small Niagra Falls to challenge a drunken Aussie blogger to a fight, when 12,000 miles separates you.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 12 13 at 07:51 PM • permalinkCan the ‘Muricans on this thread sign a “Not in My Name!” petition regarding this ignorant lying assclown?
Posted by Steve Skubinna on 2006 12 13 at 08:00 PM • permalinkNiagara Falls Reporter here.
Micky “Plastic Chook” Huddo really should concentrate on things within his area of expertise. Like
The Great Downtown Parking Meter CatastropheWho’s going to pay to smash up and repave the downtown streets—again—in order to install the electronic sensors? The parking meter company? Don’t bet on it. And if the city decides for whatever reason that it’s not happy with the deal, are the streets to be broken up again so that the sensors can be removed?
Some more stuff about Niagara Falls, New York. Just in case you were ever tempted to go there.
Niagara Falls is a city in Niagara County, New York, United States. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 55,593. It is across the Niagara River from Niagara Falls, Ontario, both named after the famed Niagara Falls which they share. It has been considered part of the Buffalo, New York metro area.
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The city’s importance declined in the later half of the 20th century for several reasons, perhaps the most devastating being corrupt government, high wages for blue collar workers in comparison to other areas of the country, strength of unions, and high taxes. Goods which had previously been cheap to produce in Niagara Falls could now be produced far cheaper elsewhere. Another major toll was suburban migration, a national trend at the time. The city, which once boasted well over 100,000 people at its peak, has seen its population decline by some 50%, as industries shut down and people left for the employment opportunities of the South and West.
Art and Culture in Niagara Falls.
Art and culture
When Niagara Falls High School closed in the late 1990s, a new school was built. The new school merged LaSalle and Niagara Falls High Schools. The existing building at Pine Avenue and Portage Road, a large stone structure with a huge set of stone steps like those in Albany, became an Art and Cultural Center.Niagara University is nearby.
The city has two newspapers, the Niagara Falls Reporter, which is published weekly, and the Niagara Gazette, which is published daily.
And some more on that venerable universally acknowledged journal of record the Niagara Falls Reporter.
The Falls’ Only Locally Owned Newspaper
There are only two. And the other one’s the daily.
And from the masthead:
To comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable
Makes you go all sort of gooey inside doesn’t it?
So? Where to pick up a copy?
All over the joint!
Bob and John’s Hacienda
Broadway Market
Brodo Soup and Wine
Caffe Aroma
Casa Di Pizza JJ’s
Checker’s
City Hall
Coffee Bean Cafe
Coles
Comic City
...Goodfella’s Pizza
House of Fantasy Comics
Joe Cale’s Barber Shop
Laundromat
Macri’s
Mario’s ...And like these are just a few!
“It takes pretty small Niagra Falls to challenge a drunken Aussie blogger to a fight, when 12,000 miles separates you.”
Tread lightly, Tim, he’s a writer, and he just might have a lavender belt in Hai-Ku.
Posted by Harry Bergeron on 2006 12 13 at 08:32 PM • permalinkCan we send some plastic emus to kick down the dunny door of this Niagara Falls Reporter? I am sure he will claim the right to write it up as a surreal mystical experience.
Posted by LaVallette on 2006 12 13 at 08:34 PM • permalinkHeres a nice recipe for Wallaby Lasagne from the ABC
And heres some other cooking tips for properly preparing the flesh of any Kangas or Wallabies you happen to run over on the way home from work.
Hey, HJubjub,
They all sounded like Dick van Dyk’s mangled “cockney” chimney sweep.
Well, he was correct on that at least.
Ducks behind video monitor to avoid unreturnable boomers.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 12 13 at 08:43 PM • permalinkNiagara Falls is in Canada. Godammit!
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 12 13 at 08:46 PM • permalinkSo our boy Mikey has gone from a Cleveland punk band that no one ever heard of (and being from Cleveland and the same age as this twit I can say that with some authority) to a Niagra Falls weekly newspaper that no one has ever heard of. And he uses 30 year old album cover photos of himself to decorate his bio on a website that no one ever heard of. Sad really.
“before I have to come over there and smack you upside the head”
Whyn’t ya accept this goofball challenge? We’d all like to razz this wimp “editor” when he backs down - and he will back down, because backing down is his creed.
Posted by John Fembup on 2006 12 13 at 08:52 PM • permalinkI once attended a dinner at a farmhouse to welcome a Japanese exchange student with a slap up meal starting with damper and freshly-shot kangaroo tail stew.
With her best English, she managed the phrase “Is joke, right?” - before receiving the negative response and turning a greyer shade of white.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 12 13 at 08:53 PM • permalinkI think it was H. L. Mencken who called Niagara Falls “the average American bride’s second biggest disappointment”. But what do you expect of a place whose biggest attraction is The Cave of the Winds?
Posted by Urbs in Horto on 2006 12 13 at 08:54 PM • permalinkSorry JubJub
“Simpsons Oz episode? Worst. Aussie. Accents. Ever.”
That dubious honour was taken by MASH with their ‘Aussie anaesthesiologist’ he made my ears cry and my brain bleed.
Posted by Harry Buttle on 2006 12 13 at 08:54 PM • permalinkOops. Sorry guys, I didn’t think that this “mike hudson” was the actual person referred to in the post—I thought he was just some stupid lameass troll. Well, he is, but he’s also the Mike Hudson! So you want I should unban him, Tim?
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 12 13 at 08:59 PM • permalinkThink again people - Mike and his niagara acolytes would tear us to shreds.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 12 13 at 09:04 PM • permalinkWimpy Canadian
Niagara Falls is in Canada. Godammit!
Half right my friend. There is also a Niagara Falls, NY.
Oh a Mikey, as you no doubt know, the little boat ride running near the Falls, on the Niagara River, is called the Maid of the Mist.
Just have heard from friends (OK I have no friends) relatives that a new way to run the Niagara is soon to be up and running, so to speak.
Its called the Maid of the Mist Submarine. It is a one man boat…but have no fear, should you pilot it..you will be safe.
You see they say, shit floats…enjoy the ride..:).
Mike Hudson - 2nd best reporter ever to go to Niagara Falls.
The best reporter ever at Niagara Falls was of course Clark Kent. Remember he rescued Lois Lane from the falls after using his x-ray vision to cut off a tree limb?
Now that was a reporter we could all look up to, Mike Hudson.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 12 13 at 09:11 PM • permalinkSo you want I should unban him, Tim?
Unban da man!
Unban da man!
Unban da man!
Unban da man!
Unban da man!
Unban da man!......
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 12 13 at 09:13 PM • permalinke-mail just sent to the wretched colonial Hudson:
e-mail sent to the wretched colonial Hudson…
Per your reply to Australian editor Tim Blair on the fake ‘plastic turkey’ story, to wit…“Tim…I don’t know how they do things in the land down under, but I’m an American, and if I want to make fun of an American president I’ll do so without any interference from some wallaby eating sheepherder.”
Well, I’m an American, too, and if I want to read actual facts, I find it amazingly easy to do so without reading what passes for an American newspaper these days.
Keep up the good work. Hey, did you know there are flying saucers in Rockwell?
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 12 13 at 09:19 PM • permalinkAny paper which realizes that both Lou Dobbs and the trans-fat ban are full of crap can be forgiven the occasional plastic turkey.
Posted by Paul Zrimsek on 2006 12 13 at 09:30 PM • permalink#55
Uh, wouldn’t that make Mike the third best reporter to go to Niagra ?
I mean, Lois was pretty good….Posted by Rachel Corrie's Flatmate on 2006 12 13 at 09:35 PM • permalinkoops, I meant to say Niagara
I blame all these companies who send me e-mail guaranteeing that Niagra will improve my sex lifePosted by Rachel Corrie's Flatmate on 2006 12 13 at 09:36 PM • permalink#62 - A female reporter? Pure Hollywood.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 12 13 at 09:37 PM • permalink“So you want I should unban him, Tim?”
Yeah, you should.
There are few things more fun then baiting leftist maggots.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2006 12 13 at 09:46 PM • permalink#54 El Cid,
I think Wimpy Canadian’s tongue-in-cheek point is well taken. Anyone would choose Niagara Falls, Ontario, over NF, NY, for a vacation. Thus, “no Falls”.
The US side of the Falls is inferior to the Canadian side and I concede that as a proud patriotic Yank.
NF, ON, is vastly superior not just in the scenic beauty of the Horseshoe Falls but it has all the clean, modern hotels, shopping, and nightlife you would expect in a resort area.
The NY Falls suffer aesthetically in comparison and the city itself is gross, dull, and dangerous. Think Utica, NY, or Flint, MI, or a myriad of ‘rust belt’ cities where drug sales and pizza delivery are good jobs…
This Hudson sounds like a moron who couldn’t get an alt.weekly job in Rochester.
JDB
Quite agree, the Canadian Falls are the prettier falls by far. It was a weekly MUST, to take Mother to play BINGO, in Canada, every Friday. Illegal in NY, at that time.
When in school in Buffalo, (way back when) Erie County had a booklet saying that if the American Falls were not buttressed in some way, the “falls” would be somewhere near downtown Buffalo, in the mid to latter part of the 21st Century.
How true that was, who knows…but yes, Canada has the winner.
# 50 “Simpsons Oz episode? Worst. Aussie. Accents. Ever.” That dubious honour was taken by MASH with their ‘Aussie anaesthesiologist’ he made my ears cry and my brain bleed.
There are worse ones. A 20 year old episode of The Bill with an instantly-recognisable British actor playing an Australian. ‘Mangled Cockney’ just doesn’t do it justice. And in case viewers didn’t get it he was sucking on a can of Fosters as well. Risible.
Then there was British-to-the-bootstraps April Walker in ‘The Wedding Party’ episode of Fawlty Towers playing ‘Jean’, an Australian on holiday. Truly pathetic.
Folk who haven’t been here are under the impression all Australians sound like Bazza McKenzie or Paul Hogan. Bob Hawke with his carefully cultivated faux-bogan affectation didn’t help.
Posted by walterplinge on 2006 12 13 at 10:02 PM • permalinkThe most shocking thing we learned is that Niagara has a newspaper.
Is it a weekly?
Is it a monthly?
It isn’t one of those free weekly papers that tells you what band is playing where and has breast implant ads, is it?I used to live 1 hr from the falls and the only thing I remember about the US side of Niagara is that there is a bridge to the other and important side of the Falls.
Really Niagara has a newspaper? Come on Tim this is a put on right?
Does anyone else detect a pattern here? That’s two has-been American entertainers (using the word loosely here, work with me) threatening our esteemed Mr. Blair, the first being Rich Hall.
Tim—Who else are you going to pick on, Richard Simmons? You brute.
Posted by Tommy Shanks on 2006 12 13 at 10:08 PM • permalinkOh, and after reading the pro-Canada side of the falls comments, I want to say that aside from a lower drinking age in Canada, a US dollar buys a lot of entertainment over there too.
And the waitresses at the (ah, hem) “bar” aren’t used to Canadians tipping. So, when you do you are well liked.The only way we got my friend Scott out of the (ah, hem) “bar” and away from the pool table was to inform him that if he left now he would be undefeated in Canada.
DanG & Lew…Note in #29 I portrayed that link to a pic of Mike Hudson in “the grand tradition of
accuracyprojectile vomit that the Niagra Falls Bugle is best known for”If you think the NF Bugle is accurate, then its a pic of Hudson, the editor.
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 12 13 at 10:26 PM • permalinkEvilDave:
And the waitresses at the (ah, hem) “bar” aren’t used to Canadians tipping
Are you kidding? When I first lived in Canada and bought a round of beers at a pub (OK, not the “bar” you are talking about), I carefully counted out the exact change - always appreciated back home in Oz. My friend behind me burst out laughing. Later, I asked him what was so funny. He told me that the look the bar waitress was giving me when it was obvious I wasn’t going to tip (out of ignorance) should have killed me stone dead.
I soon learned never not to tip in Canada (or the US) and also that as soon as anyone in the service industry heard my accent they wouldn’t expect one!
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 12 13 at 10:39 PM • permalinkHaving seen the motto of the Niagara Reporter I would just like to say, there there Mike, can I get you a pillow?
BTW So-called “Tim Blair” website used to have a motto. Whatsamatter Timbo, cat’s got your motto typin’ fingers?
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 12 13 at 10:41 PM • permalinkTim Blair is a credit to the blogosphere, but it’s a shame he doesn’t attract a better class of commenter. As Tim himself is gracious enough to realise, Mike Hudson’s riposte hit exactly the right note. He da man.
Posted by Captain Wacky on 2006 12 13 at 10:44 PM • permalinkThe thought of tipping bar staff makes me sicker than the thought of light beer. It’s just, so, so… un-Australian.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 12 13 at 10:44 PM • permalinkEMPTY THREATS
“...before I have to come over there and smack you upside the head.”
The prospect of getting smacked by an enraged, lefty, anti-warrior’s purse doesn’t exactly fill me with trepidation.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2006 12 13 at 10:48 PM • permalinkWatch it, Tim. It’s one thing to take on the New York Times, The Age, the BBC, AP, etc. It’s quite another to take on the Niagara Falls Reporter and Mighty Mike Hudson: Editor of the Year, Western Niagra County Editors Association, 2004; The Ladies’ Garden Club Award for Excellence in Petunia Coverage, 2003; a Niagara County Ornithological Society’s citation for most documented sightings of the hudson godwit, 2002; Best Sports Reporting, Niagara County Middle Schools, Field Hockey category, 2001; and of course, the Pulletzer Prize for Plastic Turkey Commentary for Newspapers in Towns with A Population of 200,000 and Less, in 2006. You are up against a titan, Tim.
Ps.“Niagara Falls Reporter” ?
Really hit the big time didn’t ya.
BREAKING NEWS FROM NIAGARA FALLS!
IT’S STILL WET!
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 12 13 at 10:59 PM • permalink#78: Tim Blair is a credit to the blogosphere, but it’s a shame he doesn’t attract a better class of commenter.
Yes, we all lament that fact. And as you can see, we’re all so embarrassed that we use pseudonyms so our families won’t have to wear fake beards when they go out in public. Unlike you, of course. I think you’re brave to use your given name, and your rank in the Krazy Korps.
From the masthead:
“To comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable”
That memorable phrase is from Finley Peter Dunne, who wrote satire as “Mr. Dooley”, an Irish bartender who was a 19th century equivalent of Archie Bunker. The full quote:
“Th newspaper does ivrything f’r us. It runs th’ polis foorce an’ th’ banks, commands th’ milishy, controls th’ ligislachure, baptizes th’ young, marries th’ foolish, comforts th’ afflicted, afflicts th’ comfortable, buries th’ dead an’ roasts thim aftherward.”
He was satirizing and attacking the newspapers of his day. To put his line on the masthead is an act of obtusuosity.Unlike you, of course. I think you’re brave to use your given name, and your rank in the Krazy Korps.
If I’m not mistaken, he serves under PirateKing.
Posted by Quentin George on 2006 12 13 at 11:15 PM • permalink#78
You obviously haven’t been to one of our blog meets
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 12 13 at 11:15 PM • permalinkNow go back and play with your didgeridoo before I have to come over there and smack you upside the head
you’d think being so close to canada the pacifism would rub off on him but maybe he saw the walkleys and thinks we’re all like stephen mayne.
dont they have those vilification laws in the us?- we could have some fun taking him to court for racial abuse
i for one am devastated by the wallaby eating sheepherder comment and will require expensive counselling
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2006 12 13 at 11:25 PM • permalinkWell I think he writes with righteous style. Quite normal to have parochial feelings about his ‘right’ to assault his own village’s idiot. (Was that a Supreme Court decision? )
We should invite him over and feed him the best wallaby - the one over there next to the sheep in the french maid costume .
Cap’n Wacky:
Tim Blair is a credit to the blogosphere, but it’s a shame he doesn’t attract a better class of commenter.
Hmmmmmmmm…....he doesn’t like us, does he? ;-P
As Tim himself is gracious enough to realise, Mike Hudson’s riposte hit exactly the right note. He da man.
Do you mean this, Cap’n Wacky? ->
Now go back and play with your didgeridoo before I have to come over there and smack you upside the head.
Yep. That’s a serious riposte alright. Hit exactly the right note.
Oh, I’m sorry! Did you mean this:
Tim…I don’t know how they do things in the land down under, but I’m an American, and if I want to make fun of an American president I’ll do so without any interference from some wallaby eating sheepherder.
Is that the note you mean?
Or was it the sustained screech Iron Mike made when Tim pointed the errors in his column?
Gee, so many choices to make, here, so little time! Dear, oh dear, oh dear, oh dear!
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 12 13 at 11:58 PM • permalinkI’ll do so without any interference from some wallaby eating sheepherder. Now go back and play with your didgeridoo before I have to come over there and smack you upside the head.
Nice. Way to make us look good, you ignorant, president-bashing jackass.
#8 I bet he doesn’t even know whereabouts in europe we are.
Surfmaster, sure he does. It’s that country right next to Italy, right?
Does anyone have the links to Hudson’s prizewinning series on monkeyfishing? I understand it was quite a triumph.
Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2006 12 14 at 12:40 AM • permalinkRebeccaH: No, it’s no-where near Tasmania!
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 12 14 at 01:14 AM • permalinkAs I reread the bit quoted I’m more inclined to think that Mike Hudson was more amused than angry. It might be that we’re all taking it far too seriously and that he actually has a sense of humor… it’s a plastic turkey, after all.
Remember, it’s the other guys who supposedly don’t have a sense of humor. I know that means we don’t expect humor from them but there must be a few. Has to be.
In any case, it might be good to try not to lose ours. ;-)
Thanks, Dave S. # 90. That’s what I was thinking but didn’t know how to say it. Especially since the Administrator banned the guy, the “seriously” part might have been inadvertently missed. “Smack [slap] you upside the head” is kind of a tame razzy phrase here in the US that I’d not take as an actual threat along the lines of other threats I’ve heard/read.
But most people have seen that sometimes text emails, posts, etc. playing in the writer’s mind as joking or sarcastic don’t come off that way in the reader’s mind.
I suspect that’s what happened here.
There have been so many trolls on this web site, that we are sensitive to abuse, given some of the truly sick people that have come through.
Maybe Iron Mike was being funny, and we missed it…...but he does a poor job of it. I’m with Dave S, in #90, though, as there wasn’t any follow up to the theoretical jocularity.
So I’ll simply be quiet about this.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 12 14 at 02:42 AM • permalinkFWIW as a sometime journo and editor I’d give Mike:
7/10 for the witty riposte, which I’m sure wasn’t meant to be offensive and am equally sure wasn’t found to be so by Tim, hence this post; and
1/10 for accuracy(Oh gawd I’ve morphed into Todd McKenney. Kill me).
Hmmm… a writer with no grasp of even basic facts and yet capable of mildly amusing witticisms which potentially mask his inadequacy as a journalist. Round these parts we call those fellas “columnists”.
(Present company, and a handful of others, excepted)
Joking? No, although that’s certainly going to be his defense going forward. No, Mike’s just a garden variety liar. He had the ‘plastic turkey’ angle, almost certainly knew it was wrong*, and went ahead with it anyways, because lying is A-OK if you’re trying to smear a Republican.
*I’m actually being charitable here in assuming that he’s lying. The alternative is that he’s so poorly informed that he doesn’t deserve employment in a news organization. Dishonesty is somehow less harmful these days to a journalist’s career than ignorance is; to give the man the benefit of doubt, I’ll just call him liar instead of fool.
Would it be possible for any of the American readers to go to the Niagara Falls Reporter office and ask to speak to Mike Hudson and say ‘tell him its Tim Blair from Australia and he wants a word with him outside.” You’ll need to be able to do a passable aussie accent.
Posted by the nailgun on 2006 12 14 at 04:09 AM • permalinkWould it be possible for any of the American readers to go to the Niagara Falls Reporter office and ask to speak to Mike Hudson and say ‘tell him its Tim Blair from Australia and he wants a word with him outside.” You’ll need to be able to do a passable aussie accent.
Hell, just have Habib call him on the phone. His rap could take out a rhino at 100 yards.
I emailed Iron Mike to give him my thoughts on the matter. The guy responded with:
hold on there a second, crocodile dundee, or the next time the japs start cutting your heads off we’ll just let them have at it.
mikeIt’s difficult to work out whether or not he thinks he’s been funny (in which case he’s a total dick) or he truly harbours these lamo prejudices about Australians and Japanese.
#69 walterplinge
Then there was British-to-the-bootstraps April Walker in ‘The Wedding Party’ episode of Fawlty Towers playing ‘Jean’, an Australian on holiday. Truly pathetic.
I believe it was Luan Peters playing ‘Raylene Miles’ in the ‘The Psychiatrist’ episode.
Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2006 12 14 at 04:38 AM • permalink#104
hold on there a second, crocodile dundee, or the next time the japs start cutting your heads off we’ll just let them have at it.
mikeSO he admits going in to help other nations militarily is a good thing? What’s his beef with Bush?
Posted by AlburyShifton on 2006 12 14 at 06:43 AM • permalinkOK, folks, your wish is my command—La Hudson has been unbanned! Join us, Mikey!
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 12 14 at 07:28 AM • permalinkPraise be to La Adminstratrix! Fairest of the blogosphere!
All hail Iron Mikey! For he shall have the right of reply! (When he’s done with the parking meter issue…)
Be prepared for plastic wallabys and a firestorm of cliches from ‘upstate.
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 12 14 at 07:42 AM • permalinkI asked Tim, by the way, and he gave the OK.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 12 14 at 07:49 AM • permalinkFolk who haven’t been here are under the impression all Australians sound like Bazza McKenzie or Paul Hogan.
What?! They don’t?!
Christ. Next you’re going to tell me the women don’t look like Gigi Edgley and Claudia Black.
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2006 12 14 at 09:03 AM • permalinkI agree that Mike is mildly amusing. His assertion of a right to criticize the president is certainly unassailable as well. As is his right to print false statements about public figures, at least in the US.
I just don’t get one thing. How is truthfully pointing out that Mikey is purveying false information “interference”?
And what is a “villification law”? I am pretty sure they don’t have those here.
Is this guy for real with all this “crocodile dundee” and “wallaby” crap, or is he just really bad at making jokes? Is he seriously trying to pull the “big balls dude” routine on an Australian?
I’d actually apologize as an American on behalf of this ignorant jackass, but you guys are obviously having far too much fun with him.
Posted by EmilyJones on 2006 12 14 at 10:35 AM • permalink#115, we’re dead sorry for not being tooled up in time for one of your Euro-squabbles. As we enjoyed the last one so, it was too much to expect you’d knock up another for us so quickly.
/humorless douche
Posted by spongeworthy on 2006 12 14 at 11:42 AM • permalinkwallaby eating sheepherder
Wallabies eat shepherds? No wonder you guys hunt them. (The wallabies, that is, not the shepherds.) Oh, I see, Mike meant “wallaby-eating sheepherder.” Well, he’s an editor and not a proofreader, after all.
Posted by andycanuck on 2006 12 14 at 11:55 AM • permalink“Next time, Audie Murphy, don’t take two years to join the war.”
Just to keep the record straight…the United States and Australia started (formally) fighting the Japanese on the same day.
The Chinese had been fighting the Japanese since 1937 (which is when WWII really started…except in the minds of Eurocentric types, who think it started when Germany invaved Poland in 1939)...while everyone else stood there and wrung their hands watching.
The Chinese were the guys who fought the Axis from day one, while everyone else was late to the party.
So, if you’re a European or a member of the Commonwealth who didn’t get involved in the war until 1939, and didn’t get involved in fighting the Japanese until December 1941, then you’re in a mighty poor position to be making comments about being late to join the war.
Nothing personal, but it happens to be the truth.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2006 12 14 at 12:40 PM • permalinkWhat is really rich is when I hear Brits who utterly oppose the war in Iraq use the same “Why were you lot late for the last war” line against the US.
A little research will show that the pacifist who kept the US out of the war in Europe for so long would be remarkably at home with those same Euroweenies today.
The only difference I can see is skin color. Europeans claim that the middle east is a cesspool of blood feuds that goes back millenia.
Fine, true enough. What hope was there for Europe in 1939 on those grounds? European soil is so blood soaked over the previous centuries as to make Muslims look like amateurs.
The Niagara Falls Reporter is one of those weekly “alternative” rags that’s worth precisely what it costs—nothing. And it’s in Niagara Falls. So leave the turkey, er, Mike alone. I’m sure this is the best he can do.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 12 14 at 01:08 PM • permalinkWell it’s nice spin, Dave. But Australia signed up to defend civilisation in 1939, not 1941. We all love America here at Blair’s but you’ll find Australians of all political stripes don’t like being told they were hapless loiterers before being saved by America. We’d been saving others for quite a while before Uncle Sam signed on. Ditto for the war of 1914-18.
As you say, nothing personal.
It’s an important point in relation to today’s debate about Iraq. Recently, many American critics of the Bush Administration claimed the conflict in that country had now lasted longer than it took “us” to defeat all three Axis powers. Except, of course, America didn’t defeat all three Axis powers. The United States needs allies today more than ever, alas. That sort of hubristic historical bullshit doesn’t help.
Well….Let me begin by saying what an honor it is to have this blog dedicated to me. My well-documented battles with American right wingers such as Rush Limbaugh, Joe Scarborough and Steve Malzberg were fun, but I never got my own blog.
Neither Tim Blair nor any of his rather comical fans (vilification law? what a hoot!) has any more idea of whether that turkey was real than I do. At this point, it is impossible to know, with 100 percent certitude.
I can state with far more authority that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, that Saddam had no viable nuclear weapons program or high level connection to al Qaeda, and that our troops have not been greeted as “liberators” by the Iraqi populace. Further, I can point out, with 100 percent confidence in the source of my information—the U.S. Department of Defense—that, as of this week, 25,000 of my brave American countrymen and women have been killed or wounded fighting this war.
To worry about whether a turkey used by Bush as a video prop three years ago is way beyond stupid.
There’s one more thing I know for sure. A full 70 percent of the American people now agree with me on Iraq, and regard the Bush Iraq policy as an unmitigated disaster.
Look it up.
Posted by mike hudson on 2006 12 14 at 09:20 PM • permalinkBreaking News from Niagara Falls—Iron Mike thinks I’m Australian!
So Mike, if the American people agree with you, how many of those Democrats who crossed party lines and voted to stay in Iraq in BOTH referenda were turfed out of office in the last election? Any hard numbers there?
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 12 14 at 09:23 PM • permalinkmurph—He used the Crocodile Dundee line on me, too. Guess they never heard of Chips Rafferty or Les Paterson or Dame Edna in Niagara Falls…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 12 14 at 09:24 PM • permalink“Well it’s nice spin, Dave.”
It’s not spin, it’s the truth. WWII started in 1937 when the Japanese invaded China, and the Europeans and the Commonwealth decided they didn’t want to get involved at that time…so spare me the “you were late to the war” crap.
Again, nothing personal.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2006 12 14 at 09:42 PM • permalink“I can state with far more authority that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq…”
Since that isn’t true, this statement and the rest of what you say can be safely dismissed.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2006 12 14 at 09:46 PM • permalink“A full 70 percent of the American people now agree with me on Iraq, and regard the Bush Iraq policy as an unmitigated disaster.”
It’s been a disaster for the Baathists and for terrorists like Abu Abbas and Zarqawi, no doubt about that.
Hopefully, that 70% is well pleased.
It’s always better when your enemies suffer a disaster, and you don’t.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2006 12 14 at 09:53 PM • permalink“that, as of this week, 25,000 of my brave American countrymen and women have been killed or wounded fighting this war.”
Sure, if you count guys/gals evacced out to Germany for dental work and abortions.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2006 12 14 at 09:55 PM • permalink“...our troops have not been greeted as “liberators” by the Iraqi populace.”
Well, whoop-di-fucking-do.
Do you think the Germans and Japanese were holding big parades welcoming us in 1945?
Who gives a crap whether your enemies welcome you with open arms or not?
Only nitwit leftys would worry about that.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2006 12 14 at 10:01 PM • permalink‘What is really rich is when I hear Brits who utterly oppose the war in Iraq use the same “Why were you lot late for the last war” line against the US.’
Which last war?
Vietnam?
;)
Posted by Dave Surls on 2006 12 14 at 10:35 PM • permalinkHudson does a credible job of moving the goalposts, but I’m not really impressed.
Perhaps he would like to discuss the part of the 70% that’s unhappy with the war in Iraq who want it fought harder? I’m absolutely morally certain (i.e. more certain that Hudson is) that some large minority of that 70% does not agree with him because they want the war fought like a war.
Also, it is with at least 99% certitude that I can say that, while the turkey might have been a display turkey, it was a real turkey and not a ‘plastic’ turkey.
That then seems to add up to well over a 100% certitude that Hudson is a blowhard moron of a Lefty journalist, if that’s not too much redundancy.
Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2006 12 14 at 10:40 PM • permalinkWhen in school in Buffalo, (way back when) Erie County had a booklet saying that if the American Falls were not buttressed in some way, the “falls” would be somewhere near downtown Buffalo, in the mid to latter part of the 21st Century.
How true that was, who knows…but yes, Canada has the winner.
Perhaps it was the “global warming” of its time. I have come to realize some people are inherently catastrophists, and need a catastrophe to obsess about at every moment of their lives. When one catastrophe scenario is proven false or irrelevant, they immediately move on to something new - population bomb, pollution, nuclear annihilation, famine, desertification, ice age, ozone hole, global warming, polar bears, mutant frogs, globalization, et cetera, et cetera, et f’ing-cetera. (Of course, they usually ignore the actual problems staring them directly in the face, in order to concentrate on hazy doomsday scenarios that will “surely” occur at some point in the future because they are “inevitable”.) There seems to be a deep psychological need in some people to feel like their lives and the society around them are always in grave danger of utter annihilation. Perhaps it’s akin to the skydiver’s “danger-thrill” (to coin a word, perhaps) but at least the skydivers look like they are having fun. The doomsday catastrophists look like they have a stick shoved somewhere it doesn’t fit real well. Yet they can’t seem to live without it. Because if one stick disappears, they promptly find a new one.* I just wish they’d leave me out of it. Enough already with the yapping.
* In that way they are the soul brothers of the conspiracy theorists (and there is probably great overlap among them), another group that drives me nuts . It seems to me many of them have never met a conspiracy theory they didn’t like (to paraphrase Will Rogers).
Dave, I can’t take credit for the greeting us as liberators thing, that was one of the many lies told to the American people by Bush, Ceney, Rice Rumsfeld etc. in the runup to the war. It’s tough arguing with someone so dim as to still believe that WMD were actually found in Iraq, but the Congressional hearings set to begin next month on the matter should clear everything up, even for you.
Posted by mike hudson on 2006 12 14 at 11:08 PM • permalinkNeither Tim Blair nor any of his rather comical fans (vilification law? what a hoot!) has any more idea of whether that turkey was real than I do. At this point, it is impossible to know, with 100 percent certitude.
I find this a huge hoot! I’m a bloody Yank, never been to Australia, and even I know about Australian vilification laws. Long before I hit Google.
That one comment pretty much shot the rest of your post down, hudson. No wonder you’re the editor of a weekly rag that you have to give away…you couldn’t find your butt with both hands and a GPS.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 12 14 at 11:11 PM • permalink#139 - Can’t really talk right now, Mike. Got a couple of kangaroos loose in the top paddock and the neighbours are having us over for dingbat stew. Wouldn’t usually be a problem except the wombat’s got a flat tyre and the wife’s gunna have to carry all the beer.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 12 14 at 11:17 PM • permalinkCooooooooeeeeeee, Mikey? You about? Strewth mate, just received a horrible sting from a brush tail numbat. You got any of that Niagara mist you could loan a fella? Crikey it feels like an emu’s trying to peck me gizzards out!
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 12 14 at 11:50 PM • permalinkMr. Hudson #139,
Don’t be tocuhy about minor typos and misspellings. Serious commenters here won’t care. Those who do are just kidding around. Egregious (sp?) demonstrations of borderline illiteracy in the guise of serious points will probably be nixed by the “Administratrix.” Of course, it’s not my site, just my opinion on how things go here (been reading a while).
Meanwhile, some of your sureness and authority need examination. You are incorrect, and if not shown so here, then YOU should look it up.
And also review text of various pertinent speeches in the “rush” to war. Start ca. 1998 with US President Clinton, the UN resolutions, etc. and finish March 2003. Go ahead and concentrate on the lefty side at first, but don’t miss the March 2003 speeches from President Bush.
Then notice how things went after that: After being all hawkish, the left (press included) went all negative and hurtful to the effort. Like US Senator Kerry said, he didn’t really mean he supported the war, he just wanted to look like he did, to look scary.
Had the US left stayed ‘on board’ I think things would have gone much better. Folks like you have been excercising “treasiness” in your efforts to hurt Bush above all else.
And internalize #136 JorgX’ point that the 70% of Americans you (for sure) claim agree with you actually don’t.
A full 70 percent of the American people now agree with me on Iraq
its pretty good going that after 4 or so years of one way propaganda in the msm that 30% of americans still have a grip- who says yanks are dumb
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2006 12 15 at 12:24 AM • permalink“Dave, I can’t take credit for the greeting us as liberators thing…”
Get a clue. They’re the enemy. We haven’t been bombing them and invading them since 1990 (when the war actiually started, btw) to make them love us.
“It’s tough arguing with someone so dim as to still believe that WMD were actually found in Iraq…”
“We have now commenced the process of destroying approximately 50 liters of mustard gas declared by Iraq that was being kept under UNMOVIC seal at the Muthanna site; one-third of the quantity has already been destroyed. The laboratory quantity of thiodiglycol, a mustard gas precursor, which we found at another site, has also been destroyed.”—Hans Blix, 2/20/03
Mustard gas, eh?
Bad Baathists. That’s a no-no. Uncle Sam spank.
And…bad Mikey. Mikey lie.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2006 12 15 at 12:57 AM • permalink“the runup to the war.”
I think he’s referring to that period of peace in Iraq, before George Bush took office, when Bill Clinton was presiding over 50 to 100 air strikes per annum against the Iraqis (not counting the 1998 Desert Fox Peace Festival).
Unfortunately the wicked George Bush interrupted these diplomatic overtures by starting a war.
Damned Republicans!
Posted by Dave Surls on 2006 12 15 at 01:03 AM • permalinkDave…You’re right. of course. I forgot to count that 100 pounds of degraded mustard gas that was locked up and sealed years ago by the U.N. inspectors as being part of Saddam’s arsenal.
Lest there be any misunderstanding, I’m no pacifist and, editorially, neither is the Niagara Falls Reporter. We supported the invasion of Afghanistan and one of our main objections to the Iraq adventure has been that it’s diverted attention and resources away from what should have been our objective—hunting down and killing those who attacked us on 9/11.
As a veteran, (U.S. Army 1974-76 and currently a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars) there’s nothing I hate worse than seeing the Armed Forces of this country used so badly by the chicken hawks currently in charge of foreign policy here.
Posted by mike hudson on 2006 12 15 at 01:32 AM • permalinkone of our main objections to the Iraq adventure has been that it’s diverted attention and resources away from what should have been our objective—hunting down and killing those who attacked us on 9/11.
so what about those al quaida types who hightailed it to bagdad. do you think if gwb asked saddam nicely he would have handed them over?
and the rush for war- please- the un, us and allies signed a ceasefire with iraq in ‘91, every provision of which he repeatedly broke over twelve years as well as taking unprovoked pot shots at brit and us planes protecting the kurds.
it was a very slow crawl to war
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2006 12 15 at 01:51 AM • permalink“...hold on there a second, crocodile dundee, or the next time the japs start cutting your heads off we’ll just let them have at it.”
Anyway…I can see why C.L. would be pissed off. Anyone that would say that to a decent citizen of the best ally the United States ever had is a class A jagoff.
“Dave…You’re right. of course.”
Damned straight I’m right. So, seeing as how you’re so keen on folks telling the truth, why don’t you practice what you preach?
Say it along with me: The Iraqis DID, DID, DID have WMD.
“...there’s nothing I hate worse than seeing the Armed Forces of this country used so badly by the chicken hawks…”
In that case you must be beside yourself with rage when you think about the over 500,000 Americans killed in wars directed by liberal Democrat aces Woody Wilson and King Franklin I.
You’ve probably heard of them, two presidents who never saw fit to serve one day in the armed forces of the United States (unlike our current president), but who had no problem drafting millions of Americans into the armies those two particular chickenhawks commanded. You might have noticed, btw, that unlike these great liberal heroes, that wicked old George Bush hasn’t seen fit to force anyone into the military against their will.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2006 12 15 at 02:16 AM • permalinkhttp://newsbusters.org/node/9599
http://powerlineblog.com/archives/016190.php
Do you mean either of the above polls, Mike? And the above links provide some more information about the two polls.
BTW, I didn’t mind your first response to Tim’s post, but I thought the second was a bit much. (Even though Cliff on Cheers and The Simpsons have used similar lines!)
Posted by andycanuck on 2006 12 15 at 02:19 AM • permalink“what should have been our objective—hunting down and killing those who attacked us on 9/11.”
“Whereas the current Iraqi regime has demonstrated its continuing hostility toward, and willingness to attack, the United States, including by attempting in 1993 to assassinate former President Bush and by firing on many thousands of occasions on United States and Coalition Armed Forces engaged in enforcing the resolutions of the United Nations Security Council;”—Joint Resolution to Authorize the Use of United States Armed Forces Against Iraq, 2002
Anyone who supports making war on those who have attacked the United States, its citizens, or its armed forces should have no trouble supporting our war against the Iraqis.
If they’re sincere in what they say, that is.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2006 12 15 at 02:36 AM • permalinkDave…Much as the Brits, Aussies & French appreciated it, Wilson’s entry into World War I was ill advised, to say the least. Or criminal, to say the most. You’ll get no argument here.
World War II was a different kettle of fish, for reasons of vital American interest as well as humanity. The FDR crack was asinine, however, as Roosevelt’s polio would have kept him out of the service in any case.
Finally, on this “rush to war” business, hasn’t it been us lefties who’ve said all along that BushCo planned to invade Iraq even before 9/11? I do believe so. It was Bush himself who said the decision wasn’t made until a day or two before the bombing began.
Posted by mike hudson on 2006 12 15 at 02:53 AM • permalinkJeez, I’m glad we let Huddo off the leash, so we can enjoy him making spectacle of himself.
I can state with far more authority that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, that Saddam had no viable nuclear weapons program or high level connection to al Qaeda, and that our troops have not been greeted as “liberators” by the Iraqi populace.
Wow! 20-20 hindsight (he thinks)! What a hero! But did you ever hear of that little incident of gassing of the Kurdish people. Thought you might have heard of that. I guess Niagra Falls is a little off the beaten track for news, eh?
To worry about whether a turkey used by Bush as a video prop three years ago is way beyond stupid.
You did. I draw m own conclusion.
And by the way - this thread does not mean you have “got your own blog” nor that “this blog is dedicated to [you]”. What it means is that you are being held up for international ridicule and we are pissing ourself at your expense. And you are stupid enough to walk back within range with a big “I am a cocksucker” sign on your forehead.
Welcome back, mate.
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 12 15 at 02:53 AM • permalinkHuddo, have you ever met Margo Kingston? I think you would have a lot in common.
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 12 15 at 02:55 AM • permalinkIt’s good to be back. It brings to mind the fact that, as the Kurds were being gassed, Donald Rumsfeld was in Baghdad shaking hands with Saddam and smiling. And a quick perusal of the Reporter’s online archive will show you that our foresight was as accurate as our hindsight in regard to WMD, a 9/11 connection, nuclear program etc.
Look it up.
Posted by mike hudson on 2006 12 15 at 03:00 AM • permalinkSO, Huddo, when you told us here that “there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq” - you KNEW you were telling us a lie? Naughty, naughty! The readers of the Niagra Falls Bugle will be impressed!
“Look it up” Funny line for a newspaperman. Is that what appears on the front page of the Niagra Falls Bugle every day?
“Something happened! Look it up.”
I gather you are a Democrat (in the US sense)? How many Democrat Prsidents shook hands with USSR heads of State? Was that a problem Huddo? Or was engagement good? If the latter, do you have much of a problem with consistancy?
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 12 15 at 03:13 AM • permalinkNo Continental, you miss my point. Engagement’s great. I think the world would be a safer place today if Saddam was still in power and we had regime change here in the U.S.
Posted by mike hudson on 2006 12 15 at 03:17 AM • permalinkAnd the little bit about your lies?
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 12 15 at 03:27 AM • permalinkContinental…BushCo told the American people in early 2003 that Saddam was then in possession of “vast quantities” of WMD which he was prepared to use “on a moment’s notice.” At the United Nations, Colin Powell explained exactly what they had and where it was deployed. This was the main reason given at that time for going to war. It was never about whether he’d gassed the Kurds and Iranians back in the 1980s, hell, the U.S. sold him the euipment to make that stuff.
Posted by mike hudson on 2006 12 15 at 03:40 AM • permalinkNo, no, Huddo YOUR lie. The one you told us above. Where you said “there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq”.
Remember? Right here.
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 12 15 at 03:54 AM • permalinkI think the world would be a safer place today if Saddam was still in power and we had regime change here in the U.S.
It’s too late for that, Mike. The genocidal monster has been sentenced to death. I realize there will always be new ones popping up to take his place - it’s the nature of our world - but at least there’ll soon be one less murdering dictator around.
It isn’t always easy to know how to deal with vicious tyrants, and which ones to deal with. You’ll remember Britain and the rest of Europe left it a little late with Mr. Hitler, and as has been pointed out, the USA was even later. There are no perfect decisions made in going to war and waging war, not even by Churchill or Roosevelt, and they were many grades above you in intelligence. Actually, even compared with George Bush you come off as something of an idiot.
You do realize his “regime” is ending soon, don’t you? Or do you expect this two term president to seize power permanently?
Continental….If you want to change the definition of weapons of mass destruction, as coined by the American administration to justify our entrance into an illegal war of aggression, and expand it so that it includes, say, 100 pounds of degraded, 20-year-old World War I technology mustard gas that was under the full control of the U.N. weapons inspectors, I suppose you can do that, but it’s idiotic.
That doesn’t make anything I’ve said a “lie.” While you are free to define things any way you’d like, everyone else is free to tell you to go piss up a rope.
Posted by mike hudson on 2006 12 15 at 04:08 AM • permalinkThe U.S. sold him the e(q)uipment to make that stuff
Most of the material and equipment used to produce Saddam’s weapons came from European companies, so Europe’s behaviour is even more shameful than the Americans’. Any words of criticism for the foreigners, Mike, or is it just your own leaders you hate?
I don’t hate our leaders, just don’t consider Bush to be one of them. Tom Ridge, Republican congressman, governor of Pennsylvania and first secretary of the Department of Homeland Security is a friend. We’ve exchanged Christmas cards over the years and he’s a reference on my resume. A Vietnam hero, he was the first enlisted Vietnam vet to serve in Congress.
I’ll agree that Berlusconi of Italy was an ass, as is Tony Blair. The French have always been a bad lot in my book.
Posted by mike hudson on 2006 12 15 at 04:47 AM • permalinkI think the world would be a safer place today if Saddam was still in power
says it all really
the man’s nothing more than a limp dicked immoral apologist, an armchair appeaser.
illegal war of aggression - another of the lefts wankfests- we had a ceasefire in 91, every condition of which saddam broke
there was never a peace to break- it just took a president with the moral fibre and courage to stand up and do something
or perhaps you think the world would be a safer place if the west looks weak and incapable of enforcing its own treaties?
why did you stop at the border mike? surely quebec would suit you more- better yet go to kurdistan and spout that world would be better with saddam crap and see how far you get
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2006 12 15 at 04:58 AM • permalinkNo desire to go to Canada—where the laws against firearms ownership would rob me of my hobbies—or Kurdistan, simply because it’s a shithole. I appease no one, certainly not a cretin such as yourself, so sorely lacking in the balls department that your sitting at a computer attacking me rather than taking your rightful place on the line in defense of Baghdad.
Posted by mike hudson on 2006 12 15 at 05:23 AM • permalinkjust checked- ball department well stocked thanks- given the heat here in qld even more so than usual.
shouldnt you be getting on with the lost and found column and community notices there at the niagara nagger
put an ad in to see if anyone’s found your brain
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2006 12 15 at 06:02 AM • permalinkYou know, Huddo, you’d like Australia. There are lots of people here just like you.
* They loath their country and sympathise to varying degrees with their country’s enemies.
* Very happy to shit all over their country in any forum that’s offered.
* Pathalogical hatred of their country’s elected leaders (elected 4 times straight in our case; twice in your case).
* Contempt for their countries greatest allies (UK and arguably Australia in your case; UK and USA in our case), that have stood by your/my country through thick and thin.
* Casual disregard for any fact or logic if it suits the argument against their country.
Yeah, we recognise your type very easily here in Oz where politically, your type are nearly universally the Greens (far left socialist / marxist) or the Labor Party (leftist/socialist).
In your seething hatred and opposition to George Bush, rest easy tonight that you have many fellow travellers in Australia, but many more supporters in Korth Korea, Iran, Syria, various ‘Stans and so on.
You must be so proud.
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 12 15 at 06:26 AM • permalinkI blame BubbaCo:
“But for all our promise, all our opportunity, people in this room know very well that this is not a time free from peril, especially as a result of reckless acts of outlaw nations and an unholy axis of terrorists, drug traffickers and organized international criminals.
“We have to defend our future from these predators of the 21st century. They feed on the free flow of information and technology. They actually take advantage of the freer movement of people, information and ideas.
“And they will be all the more lethal if we allow them to build arsenals of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons and the missiles to deliver them. We simply cannot allow that to happen.
“There is no more clear example of this threat than Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.”
Bill Clinton, 1998.
“Continental…BushCo told the American people in early 2003 that Saddam was then in possession of “vast quantities” of WMD which he was prepared to use “on a moment’s notice.” At the United Nations, Colin Powell explained exactly what they had and where it was deployed. This was the main reason given at that time for going to war.”
No, it wasn’t the main reason given for going to war, neither in the Congressional Authorization, nor in President Bush’s presentation to the United Nations. Like many things left wing loons claim, that is simply WRONG.
In any case you can’t “go to war” with a nation that has already fired many thousands of times on your armed forces, and which you in return have bombed hundreds of times (events which took place long before President Bush became President)...because, by definition, if those events have taken place, you’re already at war (which we were).
Anyone claiming that Bush took us to war with Iraq is as big a liar as someone who claims that Iraq had no WMD.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2006 12 15 at 08:21 AM • permalink“I think the world would be a safer place today if Saddam was still in power…”
I’m not interested in making the world a safer place, I’m interested in supporting and helping my government kill people who have attacked my country, and it’s citizens, as the Baathists did, both with their own armed forces (like by repeatedly shooting at American aircraft) and with their terrorist proxies (to name three Baathist proxies: the PLF, MEK and the FRC…all are terrorist groups who have murdered American citizens).
You can take that safer world crap and stick it.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2006 12 15 at 08:32 AM • permalink“The FDR crack was asinine, however, as Roosevelt’s polio would have kept him out of the service in any case.”
More leftist disinformation.
The sainted Chickenhawk-in-Chief contracted polio at the age of 39.
He never served in our armed forces because he didn’t feel the urge to join up. Period.
Of course, when Chickenhawks like him are running the show, lesser mortals don’t have that option, because guys like Roosevelt are firm believers in military conscription (aka as slavery)...for lesser mortals than themselves.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2006 12 15 at 08:50 AM • permalink“I gather you are a Democrat”
I’d say the continual flow of untrue facts, coupled with the unbridled hypocrisy confirms that suspicion beyond a shadow of a doubt.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2006 12 15 at 09:01 AM • permalink“illegal war of aggression”
Whoops…yet another lie. Nothing illegal about us making war on Iraq.
Now, if you wanted to talk about Bill Clinton’s unprovoked attack on the FRY…then you would have a point.
That was hell of illegal.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2006 12 15 at 09:04 AM • permalink“Dave Surls, don’t go confusing the man…”
Hey, it’s my hobby.
;)
Posted by Dave Surls on 2006 12 15 at 12:05 PM • permalinkThanks girls. Got the funniest column ever out of your idiotic anger. I suppose that if I had to live in a shithole like Australia I’d be angry too. Bush needs all the support he can get, I’m sure he appreciates yours. Column will be online Monday the 18th.
Posted by mike hudson on 2006 12 15 at 01:05 PM • permalinkColumn will be online Monday the 18th.
Will it contain a retraction/correction of your “plastic turkey” lie?
Posted by HisHineness on 2006 12 15 at 01:59 PM • permalinkA guy living in Niagara Falls calls Australia a shithole? I’m not sure he’s in any shape to call Iraqi Kurdistan a shithole.
Dude, I’m a NY’er. I am not proud to say it, but if you look up “shithole”, the photo’s of NF. And you know it.
BTW, we sold Saddam exactly zero ingredients for his WMD program. That is simply untrue. We did exchange anthrax samples through university channels at one point, and that may have been a mistake. But your characterization is so far off the mark it can only be called a lie.
Posted by spongeworthy on 2006 12 15 at 02:26 PM • permalinkmike hudson projected with:
Thanks girls. Got the funniest column ever out of your idiotic anger.
You stopped growing at age six or so, I’d estimate. Perhaps not physically, but definitely in other areas.
Posted by Patrick Chester on 2006 12 15 at 03:32 PM • permalink“Column will be online Monday the 18th.”
Senseless. Won’t even be able to wrap fish with it.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2006 12 15 at 03:48 PM • permalinkHuddo confuses anger with contempt. Like he confuses Americans with Australians (ROFL). Like he confuses the truth with anything published in his freebie rag. Like he confuses his claimed military service with loyalty to his country.
Have a look at the visitor counter at the left, Huddo; I know you are not sure about these blog thingies, but it means that your anti-Americanism has been broadcast much, much further (and captured by soooooo many more search engine searches) than the Niagra Falls Bugle can ever hope to.
Enjoy your notoriety; but again, people like you revel in your hatred against America, don’t you?
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 12 15 at 05:35 PM • permalinkHopefully ‘Huddo’ has the cojones to link to or even mention the name of this blog
go on mike- link to this- let your fans see the ugly truth behind those exquisitely pursed lips and that tilt of compassion.
let them see the ignorant,lying, racist america hating wanker you truly are
angry at living in a shithole like australia?- you really don’t have a clue do you?
our living standards are at least equal to the us and we have better weather-not much to be angry about when we live in ‘godsown’ country.
suck on that while the cold shrinks your already miniscule balls even further into your spineless frame
in a world full of countries that despise your nation and its people its funny you should reserve your contempt for americas truest friends
in spite of you and your ilk, australia will continue to stand by the united states as a force for good in this world
funniest column ever- what you put your picture above the byline?- it’s the only way a guy as witless and unoriginal as you could get a laugh
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2006 12 15 at 08:14 PM • permalink“A full 70 percent of the American people now agree with me on Iraq”
Actually, I think it would be more accurate to say that at least 70% of Americans have no fucking idea who this Mike Hudson character is.
Frankly, I’m disappointed in this troll. He merely serves up the batch of (by now very moldy, nearly completely rotted away in fact) clichés:
—There were no WMD in Iraq
—Chickenhawk!
—“I served” (yeah, during the Ford administration of song and story, woohoo!)
—“Look it up” (and then ignoring people when they did)
—Chickenhawk!
—“Bush is not my leader”
—Chickenhawk!
—“You morons”
—macho chest-thrusting like a drunk teenager in a 7-Eleven parking lot
—Chickenhawk!
—“you can’t prove the turkey wasn’t plastic” (In fact we can, from clear photographic proof, eyewitnesses, the experience of anyone who knows anything about Thanksgiving steam-table affairs, and the just plain common sense that tells us it is ridiculous to think of Bush carrying a plastic turkey onto Air Force One and whipping it out in Iraq and brandishing it about.)
And so on. Boring.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 12 15 at 08:16 PM • permalinkHudson, if you are really a member of the VFW, you just turned me off of joining up with your vitrolic anger. I’ll stick with the American Legion, thank you very much.
Try to learn what contempt looks like, because that’s what you are seeing here, idiot.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 12 15 at 09:00 PM • permalinkDoes the guy realise that he wouldn’t rate this much attention if he didn’t take a swipe at another nation (“ugly American” behaviour).
Didn’t he realise that many blogs are international and so he had insulted many of his countrymen on this blog.
Resorts to juvenile insults when backed into a corner (Leftist Behaviour 101): “piss up a rope ... smack upside the head” et al.Mighty big “shithole” ... an entire continent: how much treated/untreated shit flows over his falls ... Canadians sending their shit to the US?
Oz eagerly awaits another ‘Matt Groening’ treatment on 12/18!
“(U.S. Army 1974-76 and currently a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars) “
Omigod, the Carter Pot Platoon is back! And what foreign wars did we fight between 74-76?
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 12 15 at 09:26 PM • permalink“Hudson, if you are really a member of the VFW”
What he is is a small time wannabe rock star, and cokehead, who couldn’t cut it as a musician, and apparently (maybe) joined the army in 1975, and then got booted out after a few months (all of which you can find out doing a few minutes of judicious websurfing).
As far as I can tell, the guy has never had a real job in his life, is incapable of telling the truth, and is essentially a chronic fuckup with a drug problem.
IOW, he has a bright future as a lefty propagandist.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2006 12 15 at 09:48 PM • permalink“And what foreign wars did we fight between 74-76?”
Him and some of his doper “musician” pals started arguing over who was gonna get the next bong hit, while “on tour” in Moose Jaw.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2006 12 15 at 09:52 PM • permalinkWhat a silly little man. However we will have to let his advertisers know what he thinks of potential foreign tourists. Such as Australians. null
Perhaps they don’t know.
They all have email addresses.Hudson reports of shithole blockage:
human feces and other raw sewage covered yards and common areas ... organic fertiliser?
Yeah, just what war was he involved in? I was wondering myself. I know my dad was eligible to join the VFW because of a little thing in Korea, but AFAIK, the US pulled everyone out of Viet Nam in 73. Unless things have changed, just being a military vet isnt enough to join the VFW. You actually have to be a veteran of a foreign war. So what war is he a veteran of? Maybe he was, I was pretty young back then. So serious question: What foreign war did he participate in as a member of the US military?
Posted by jeff mccabe on 2006 12 16 at 03:25 PM • permalink“I’d like to cut Mike Hudson a bit of slack.”
Hey, screw that. The guy’s a lying sack of shit.
On Tim’s weblog he claimed the following…
“As a veteran, (U.S. Army 1974-76 and currently a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars)...”
But, elsewhere on the internet he claims…
“But, in what would become a pattern for years to come, internal strife began taking its toll. We’d argue about what songs to do, about who was least competent and anything else we could think of. We played a dance at Wickliffe High School, where Brian, Chas and the bass player were students, and things went badly. I can’t remember what the final blowout was about, but we decided to break up the band in May, 1975.”
“I joined the Army then, and spent that summer shooting automatic weapons and marching around the friendly confines of Ft. Knox, Kentucky. Jesus it was hot. And they were always yelling at me. After about six months I was granted a reprieve and sent home.”
What an ass.
He apparently wasn’t in the army from 1974-76, and he sure as hell doesn’t qualify for membership in the VFW. He’s a bullshit artist, lying about his military record (if he was in the army at all, it sounds like they tossed his ass out after a few months…big surprise), and also about what has transpired in Iraq.
No slack for assholes like that.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2006 12 16 at 08:10 PM • permalink
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