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SLAVISH DEVOTION
The SMH’s Mike Carlton:
[John] Howard’s slavish devotion to Bush and his Republican Party leaves Australian policy and attitudes precariously out of synch with the new mood in America.
From now, he can stroll with his Texan buddy in the White House Rose Garden and wolf down barbecued ribs at the Crawford ranch until he is blue in the face, but it will not play well with a Congress controlled by the Democrats ...
Carlton appears to be arguing for a reflexive change in Australian policies purely due to altered circumstances in the US; a curious view from someone who ordinarily rails against following US opinion. Who’s the “slave” now, Mike?
Carlton is the ultimate group-thinker.
He checks with his buddies - Adams, Ramsay, Grattan, O’Brien, Jones (oops, Tony not Alan) etc etc then scrawls his venom.Carlton is a one trick pony. Same old same old every time. Regular as a Swiss watch. He is so predictable and his positions so entrenched, I reckon I could write his column for him.
Funny thing about Carlton, he never gets to the meat and potatoes - he always blusters around his subject with stuff like his Texan buddy, the Rose Garden, Crawford Ranch etc - all the floss and dross minus substance, no deep analysis or research on his subject. All we come away with from Carlton’s scribble is his(tick boxes)
□ deep hatred for Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld
□ deep hatred of Howard/Downer/Abbott etc
□ deep hatred of conservatives
□ deep hatred of Alan Jones
□ deep hypocrisy
□ deep double standards
□ deep stupidity for holding such loony views all his lifeWho’s the “slave” now, Mike?
Yeah, I thought American elections shouldn’t influence the world! Wasn’t that the driving force behind the Graduian’s “Ohio” campaign in the 2004 elections?
Oh, wait, the lefties liked the results of this election. Silly me.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 11 11 at 02:05 AM • permalinkMatbe we could negotiate with our Euroweenie betters, just like this story outlines…
http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2006/s1786256.htm“Everyone else is trying to compromise and trying to get an agreement, and the EC is just saying, “No.”
Lucky its only the cruel US that rides roughshod over smaller nations eh?
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2006 11 11 at 02:15 AM • permalinkThe Australian left has been getting its radicalism from Amerikkka for decades - it’s one of the biggest and most amusing ironies of political discourse in this country. The Freedom Rides, anti Vietnam War moratoriums, Berkeley postmodernism, Michael Moore BusHitler hatred, obsession with real and imagined “neocons” - all fully imported from the United States. Carlton and his ilk constitute the longest and strangest conga-line of Lathamite suckholes in Australian history.
On the page with imported protests & anti-US moonbattery: anti-G20 websites are exhorting people to deface public buildings with graffitti as part of protests against the G20 meeting. The Collins Street Baptist Church has therefore had to organise security to prevent damage to the building, which will be right in the middle of a rally. This will cost over $5000, diverting funds from programs like lunch for the homeless. It is disgraceful that money will be taken from feeding the needy to prevent a bunch of bong-smoking swampy scruffs defacing a historic Melbourne landmark. The Collins Street Baptists may be a bunch of lefty wets, with a distressing penchant for voting Labor, but they are genuinely charitable to the poor and downtrodden. The gross hypocrisy of the anti-G20 activists who want to save the world by trashing their home deserves wide publicity.
Here’s Al Qeda’s take on the election.
Capt’ns Quarters - CBS gives AQ’s views on elections
Here’s a reminder of what’s at stake:
I think it is best shown in the way Howard tried to turn Australia into a republic. Carlton never seems to notice the details does he?
Posted by curious george on 2006 11 11 at 04:26 AM • permalink“From now, he can stroll with his Texan buddy in the White House Rose Garden and wolf down barbecued ribs at the Crawford ranch until he is blue in the face, but it will not play well with a Congress controlled by the Democrats ...”
Considering some of the parterships Democrat presidents have had, like that between FDR and Stalin, I think this possible scenario should be of little concern…to rational people I mean.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2006 11 11 at 05:34 AM • permalinkI am stunned that those who called Australia a poodle for allying itself to America, are now calling for Australia to pay close attention, and follow, the American electorate. What gives? Surely it isn’t that these people have no actual principles which determine their policies.
Collectivism allows for every contingency. All you have to do is follow the mob—as long as the mob appears to agrees with you.
mmmmmmm barbecued ribs….
Along with ribs, I have a slavish devotion to macanudos and rifles.
I find it interesting how this feverish Bush-hatred can blind lefties like this so much that they probably won’t realize their error until their own throats are slit by a jihadi.
Pretending muslim extremism doesn’t exsist, or that it is some fabrication of Bush, won’t make it go away. Hell, frickin al qaeda is telling the world point-blank that the democrats are idiot pawns worthy of exploitation. Its gotta SUCK to be so stupid.
OT, terrible global warming news: massive storm on Saturn. Howard must no longer reject climate change.
Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2006 11 11 at 06:13 AM • permalinkGood God, Muzzie, that follows the melting of the ice caps on Mars and the evaporation of all the surface water on that planet!
Bush and Howard must sign Kyoto NOW!
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 11 11 at 06:22 AM • permalinkClimate change on Saturn?
Send Al Gore!Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 11 11 at 06:23 AM • permalinkREALLY BAD ASTRONOMICAL PUNS
AL GORE: I’m off to Saturn.
DAVE SURLS: Not until you pull your head out of Uranus.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2006 11 11 at 07:25 AM • permalinkAl Gore : But I just wanted to check Saturns rings.
Posted by curious george on 2006 11 11 at 07:35 AM • permalinkSheik Hilali : Yes, those rings are too tempting. They deserve whatever Al gives them as they are so exposed for all to see.
Posted by curious george on 2006 11 11 at 07:38 AM • permalinkSLAVISH DEVOTION
It’s true that in warmaking activities the United States has demonstrated a slavish devotion to our Australian allies. Since 1917 (long before Howard or Bush even existed) the one constant in American foreign policy has been: We simply will not fight a war in Europe or Asia unless the Australians are on our side.
It’s a tad bit embarrasing being the obedient poodles of the Australians…but, all things considered, it’s a hell of a lot better than being the poodles of the Germans.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2006 11 11 at 08:03 AM • permalinkGoodness me, such intellectual confusion form Rightards because their beloved American public have turned against the GOP warmongers…
[This troll has been banned. Don’t bother responding. The Managment.]
Posted by ElohimCity on 2006 11 11 at 09:13 AM • permalinkSo Carlton, most of the media, Al Qaeda, the ALP, the American people, the UN and EC all agree on one thing: Democrats are preferred to Republicans. Looks like the Americans backed a loser on Melbourne Cup Day.
Posted by platey mates on 2006 11 11 at 09:31 AM • permalinkOur assholes in the MSM have been pushing the same crap here including the spin that this shows some huge move to the left by everyone in North America, so our Conservatives are out of synch and doomed, especially with Harper’s best buddy, Bush, out in the cold.
Not one of Canada’s liberal MSM outlets, at least not that I read or watched, discussed the “blue dog” Dems who were elected or any of the conservative referenda initiatives (anti-SSM; anti-eminent-domain etc.) that won handily. And they also were happy to discuss Republican corruption as a root cause while conveniently ignoring federal liberal Liberal corruption here and what that portends for any failure of our Conservative minority government and a new election.
Posted by andycanuck on 2006 11 11 at 09:43 AM • permalinkListening to the BBC through News Radio, they couldn’t make their minds up. One minute the election was a sweeping victory for the Democrats; the next, since so many of the conservative Republicans voted out were replaced by almost-as-if-not-even-more-so conservative Democrats, nothing much has really changed.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 11 11 at 10:00 AM • permalinkMike Carlton shops for bread and milk, and shaved cheese, at the Barefoot Boulevard, corner of Old Barrenjoey Road and Avalon Parade. He sips latte on the seaplane jetty at Governor Phillip Park and buys the finest chardonnay at the Palm Beach Cellars. He can sense the heady fragrance of gardenias drifting on the summer nor’easters, and he can always find a parking spot outside Jonah’s.
Hey Mike!
Without trucks, Australia stops.
What, surely you all don’t expect someone like Mike Carlton to be consistent, now, do you?
Posted by James Waterton on 2006 11 11 at 12:33 PM • permalinkOk, America says: Hop up and down on your left foot.
Ok, America says: Tap the top of your head with your right hand.
Ok, America says: Rub your belly in a counter clockwise motion with your left hand.Ok, Switch!
HA HA! Fooled ya, you lose! America didn’t say!
Now all us’n get to punch all y’all in the shoulder.
These contradictions aren’t apparent to people who can reverse direction faster than a manic depressive.
It’s all so much projection and wishful thining passed off as insight.
As Tigerhawk noted—with a link back here to Tim’s coverage of the Australian elections—if Republicans would have held both houses, we’d have been treated to the usual spin about the election turning on ‘local’ issues. Just as the press didn’t think the 2004 U.S. elections delivered a ‘verdict on Iraq.’
a curious view from someone who ordinarily rails against following US opinion. Who’s the “slave” now, Mike?
Well, golly, when you never developed any views of your own (you know, all that really hard stuff, like critical thinking), you gotta get ‘em from somewhere! That seems to be true for most lefties.
Speaking of Alan Jones, Bonmot, everybody who loves cricket should catch his Bradman Oration of Nov 4th, available on Cricket Australia free.
I hold no brief for Jones the capitalist, but finding he was a close friend of Bradman cancels anything Masters’ nasty book could say. Bradman knew people, and that’s good enough for me.
It was a very inspiring way to answer all his grubby critics.
Jones must be the only homosexual who coached Australian Rugby successfully, and held the respect of the Great Icon of Australian Sport as well.
Not a bad quinella for ANYONE to claim.Now the Democrats have to show that they are not the America-hating so-and-sos they seemed to be under the blessed leadership of Michael Moore, Dean, Kerry, Moveout Murtha and their ilk.
Ditching Bolton will be a sign that they ARE that bad, and don’t care for their country’s reputation or future..I just hope they are not the same as the New Left in the 70s - if we can’t WIN a War, let’s be the first to make sure we LOSE it…
In my view, [old enough to remember Sputnik and JFK’s death] Iraq is 10X as critical for world stability as Vietnam ever was.
That’s the main reason Blair is in there this time, but Wilson stayed out of Vietnam in the 1960s.#41, Andjam:
Actually, Anti-Americanism predates the US as a country. It was determined by early 18th century “scientists” or philosophers as I believe they were called in the way back when, that nothing but the grotesque could come from the new world, due to the high humidity.
Then, when the “founding fathers” chose rationalism over romanticism as the philosophical base for the US, it was all over but the dehumanizing, as far as european (mostly french) “thinkers” were concerned.
Even before the US had a military that could project outside our own borders, we were the “filthy noisy greedy souless” people.
If Howard is our Deputy, Carlton is Festus, cleaning out the spittoons…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 11 13 at 09:37 PM • permalink
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Carlton is a schizophrenic contrarian broadcaster with a fossilised sense of humour.