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MARGO CULT ABANDONED
Former Margo cultist Harry Heidelberg’s de-programming is complete:
My old “friends” at Webdiary were only ever interested in silencing me.
As for Margo, she will embrace anyone who has things to say against Howard. Margo’s entire life has now become a fight against Howard. It is an utterly indecent obsesssion. Margo is so blinded by it she is totally incapable of reason.
He life and her mission will continue to be a “me against the world” ethos and more importantly “me against Howard”.
Margo has allowed John Howard to now define a significant part of her life and rather than retreating from this, she has become more manic about it than ever.
Margo uses motherhood statements constantly but her main reason for being is her hatred of John Howard and the United States of America. These are the driving forces of her life.
I expect these twin hatreds will drive Margo and her bizarre following for some time to come.
In my view they are wrong at a poltical, social and econmic level.
I strongly regret having been involved in this politcal movement which I once thought was something else.
I was incredibly naive. These people, led by Margo Kingston, are relentless and single minded.
They try to replace the opposition. They hate much of Australia of today, they hate the United States and many other things I hold dear.
They are an alienating and dangerous force I regret ever engaging with.
We await The Heidelberg Diaries.
I think what these spoilt Australia/UK/US haters need is a good 10 years spent living like a local without real freedoms. I suggest Margo should spend a bit of time living, say, in Iran. Or Zimbabwe. Or Cuba. Or Myanmar.
Congratulations, Harry, and welcome back to planet Earth.
Posted by Flying Giraffe on 2005 09 20 at 05:54 AM • permalinkThe decaying husk of the radical left sheds yet another member…
Posted by Quentin George on 2005 09 20 at 06:08 AM • permalinkAs for Margo, she will embrace anyone who has things to say against Howard. Margo’s entire life has now become a fight against Howard. It is an utterly indecent obsesssion. Margo is so blinded by it she is totally incapable of reason.
Instead of Margo, insert:
a) The left
b) Keating
C) Latham
d) The ABC/Fairfax media.Also am I the only one who nearly lost their lunch after having read Margo and Motherhood in the same sentence? Ay Carumba.
Dangerous? Hilarious, Harry. Given to dramatics, honey.
Naive, hmmm, that’s a convenient way to absolve oneself.
I am happy to concede I joined Webdiary because of its association with SMH. I don’t think I shifted my style or my values while I was with the site. Of course, I didn’t always agree with the sort of politics that dominated the site. So what.
Personally, if I don’t like something I don’t spend my time thinking about it (unless it’s something worth obsessing about like lost love).
Get over it, love. I am listening to Janis on my ipod, by the way. “I’m going to show you that a woman can be tough”. Try it, Harry.
Poor old silenced Harry, still yapping on his blog. Have had a say about Diary on my blog, but if I sound like a big girl’s blouse give me an uppercut.
Posted by Major Anya on 2005 09 20 at 06:52 AM • permalinkNope, from what I remember Harry had plenty to say on Webdiary in his articles and in comments. Perhaps Harry is as fanatical and emotional as the people he criticises.
It’s not a community, it’s a blog.
I remember quite a few people finding my views quite, ummm, unsupportable. Bluntly, I have a job, a life, friends, interests, so I don’t obsess about what Webdiarists think (except Marilyn S. who drained the energy from me once to the point where I said a swear word).
Posted by Major Anya on 2005 09 20 at 07:12 AM • permalinkSorry, now I feel like I have been rude and mean.
PW, forgive me. I am not a threatening person at all, but then that’s not something I aspire to be.
Life’s too short. However, I do have strong views about certain things. I aspire to be, blah, an okay sort of gal with a big yap.
As for my comment about community, I see blogging as a form of interaction, and I have encountered lots of interesting and great people because of it (hello to the boozers in Brisbane).
However, community is a big word. There are many different sorts. The time when I feel most connected to others is when I am talking to them over an ale or two or a coffee or just being together (come to grogblogging on Friday night).
A few obsessives with a blog aren’t dangerous unless you allow them to be. I would have thought the results of left blogs on the political climate is quite obvious.
Posted by Major Anya on 2005 09 20 at 07:25 AM • permalinkHere’s an example of the kind of high-level headlining skills that I guess the $50,000 Webdiary trainee will be expected to display:
“Howard’s ‘World Statesman Award’: on what criteria, please, New York’s ‘Appeal of Conscience Foundation’?”
Masterly journalism!
It seems to me, with scant knowledge, that Harry was the token rabid right-winger for WD, for the whole of the last five years.
Apart from that, he also built their new web site, let them have their fifth anniversary party in his own home, and obviously was rather deeply embedded in the whole WD world, in a range of contributory capacities – for FIVE long years. Having built their temporary new independent web site, he was unceremoniously tossed by Marg0, for the crime of setting up his own blog, which to her mind, put him “in completion” with WD.
Harry is a tad miffed about all of these things, and about the way he was treated by the person who screeches about “ethics” and who insists that all the kiddies play nice, etc. Not to mention the sanctimonious holier than thou thing, at which Marg0 reigns supreme. Harry is allowed to be angry; try to imagine how duped he must feel. Whatever, Harry’s a big boy and can speak for himself, which he does, on his own blog.
Darlene – most of the people who write articles for WD are NOT “journalists”. I think I’m getting a bit miffed with common garden variety bloggers - particularly the WD variety - appropriating the “journalist” job description. I cut my own sandwich in half tonight, but that doesn’t make me a surgeon.
To go very slightly off topic – Latest utterance from Marg0 Kingston on her blog, called WD – and this is a quote, without italics -
“G’day. I just rang someone who’s got the book and she advised I wasn’t in the index. Phew.”
(She must be waiting for Markie to send her a free copy.)
A few obsessives with a blog aren’t dangerous unless you allow them to be. I would have thought the results of left blogs on the political climate is quite obvious.
Darlene, hence the fun for us RWDB’s. I think we’ve known this all along. The fact that Margo has formed ‘work teams’ printed T shirts and despite all the talking of a ‘people’s movement’ remains more insignificant than ever, makes me chuckle.
You’d think they’d realise wouldn’t you?
Re #6 - to be fair, it is not all the left who are simple minded, anti-bush obsessives. Christopher Hitchens, Mick Hume, Nick Cohen, David Aaronovitch, are all pretty sensible lefties who don’t subscribe to the hysterical Margo type stupidity. And there are, unfortunately, a large number of people on the right who can’t bring themselves to hold back theri anti-Bush prejudices. Max Hastings is the best example of this.
I don’t think I said anything about bloggers being journalists, CK Hart. I am a public servant who likes to write in my spare time. Can’t speak for anyone else.
If Harry devoted so much of his time and talents to WD that was his choice, and if he doesn’t like the way it panned out he should get a life. I repeat that he had lots to say and certainly seems like he’s as obsessive as the rest of them to me.
It is an intense little world, and it can get to you, but nobody forces you to be a part of it.
I got accused of some hilarious things while I was at the site both on the site and privately, but those things say more about the people who said them then they do about me.
Nic, you think they would, but…..the anti-Howard revolution is just a t-shirt away.
Posted by Major Anya on 2005 09 20 at 04:26 PM • permalinkI am not a threatening person at all ...
I don’t know, I kinda like threatening lady rightwing types. It’s the guys I have a problem with (read McEnroe).
... but if I sound like a big girl’s blouse give me an uppercut.
Well, I might do just that. If I knew what you meant. Does a blouse make a sound? Damn it, where’s my Aussie/American dictionary?
Posted by wronwright on 2005 09 20 at 05:09 PM • permalinkFor a long time I have felt the likes of Margo, “Last Territorial Demand” Phil and the rest of the Left-overs (in which I include the Greens) is due to the decline of organised Religion. Western society used to be able to channel such anal obsessives into generally socially useful activities within say the Catholic or Protestant hierarchy.
I could see Phil as a harmless and somewhat hapless would-be Ian Paisley type figure decrying idolatry of wealth, most of the Greens members either flagulent Nuns or pederast Priests and of course Margo as a Torquemada relying on her looks (terrifying).
The way they rationalise dishonesty is mind blowing, such as the creeps at “Media Lynch”. What joins them is the need not for objective reality, does it work “Yes/No”; but some great Other, inherently indefinable (and malleable), by which all is to be judged.
Posted by missinglink on 2005 09 20 at 07:01 PM • permalinkPerhaps this blog should have a simultaneous translation service, like they do at the UN, with really hot interpreters like Nicole Kidman.
Well, we wouldn’t need them if the Aussies and Kiwis would just speak English. I mean what good is being an empire with control over all nations if we can’t understand a stinking word anyone’s saying? That is, anyone we care about. The French can continue talking their lingua—we don’t give a shit what they’re saying.
Posted by wronwright on 2005 09 20 at 07:38 PM • permalinkwronwright—If you can’t speak passable strine, remind us not to send you to the bar with the orders at the Sydney NeoCon…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 09 20 at 07:49 PM • permalinkStrine? Oh shit, I thought that was short for strychnine.
See, this could have all been avoided if we had just omitted the slang. Besides I get so tired of having Aussies repeat themselves. For the Kiwis I just guess what they want, usually a kiwi daiquiri. Not what you wanted? Tough titty. And for the British I bring them a martini, shaken, not stirred. They all get pissed of course but they’re usually pissed anyway so what the heck.
Of course, my tips have been a bit less than optimal lately.
Posted by wronwright on 2005 09 20 at 08:02 PM • permalink#30, wron, may I call you wron?
Strine = Australian language (this might helpBugger me Roger, I am really going to have using slang Aussie terms because it alienates our American friends.
Grogblogging is a time for bloggers to get together and discuss life over an ale or two.
Cripes, Marilyn tracking one down. I feel sorry for Marilyn in some ways: I think she’s a very unhappy lady, but I don’t want her turning up on my doorstep.
Posted by Major Anya on 2005 09 21 at 03:37 AM • permalinkI am going to have to stop using Aussie slang, I meant to say.
Posted by Major Anya on 2005 09 21 at 03:38 AM • permalink#23 – Darlene – yes, no-one forced anyone to give, in a big or small way, to the life and times of WD, and as you say, people being screwed over by hypocrites, such as happened to Harry, well, that’s just too bad, and they should take it, well, they should shut up and just take it like a man. What a healthy approach to life. You’ll never be disappointed in anything.
Hey, Darlene, ignore wronwright, and use all the Strine speak you want! Us Yanks need a taste of the world, we do. God knows larnin’ Strine is more fun than parley vooing French.
wronwright—don’t praggle me, I’ll quang you proper.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2005 09 21 at 06:23 AM • permalinkI’ve always found it great fun teaching furriners how to speak proper aussie. My mum used to chat to a lad in Finland (well, he was around 20 and doing his nasho - that’s national service in the armed forces, guys) and we had him asking his mother for bumnuts (eggs, aka googies)for breakfast, and moo juice (milk) in his coffee.
I also had a mate from the US over here backpacking and a few of us took several hours, but we finally got him to say “OI!” properly. We also taught him “Owyagoin?” and “avagoyermug!”
Then we let him loose on the ladies in the pub. ROFLMAO! That was a fun night.
Elephant stamp to whomever can translate those last two.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2005 09 21 at 08:46 AM • permalink
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At least the bloke admits he stuffed up. And has information on the margoyle if anyone wants it.