You may think you’ve seen the ultimate absurd dead end of touchy-feely politically correct inverted thinking, but in Australia’s Herald Sun, Andrew Bolt describes a left-wing Aussie editor-in-chief’s reaction to freed hostage Douglas Wood that you are not going to believe How The Left Gets Loonier

Andrew Jaspan is editor-in-chief of The Age, Australia’s most Left-wing daily newspaper, and on ABC radio on Wednesday said how “boorish” and “coarse” Wood was at his press conference this week when he called his captors “a—-holes”.

You might wonder whether Jaspan, the Englishman whose paper on that same day published a big picture on page one of naked girls from Big Brother, has the right to call anyone else “coarse”.

But far more shocking was his apparent demand that Wood be more grateful to the men who’d snatched him, kicked him in the head, kept him blindfolded and bound for 47 days, shaved him bald, killed two of his colleagues, made him beg for his life, and — says a fellow hostage from Sweden — shot several other prisoners in front of him.

Let’s run the tape.

Said Jaspan: “I was, I have to say, shocked by Douglas Wood’s use of the a—-hole word, if I can put it like that, which I just thought was coarse and very ill-thought through and I think demeans the man and is one of the reasons why people are slightly sceptical of his motives and everything else.

”The issue really is largely, speaking as I understand it, he was treated well there. He says he was fed every day, and as such to turn around and use that kind of language I think is just insensitive."

Sounds pretty whimpy to me!

Girly men!

Wonder what he would say if the a$$holes had him for that period of time and kicked him. Just stupid and people should boycott his rag.

Andrew Jaspan needs a "extreme makeover" in my book.

I remember when Douglas Wood was paraded on TV with a rifle an inch away from his head. If he only used the word a**holes in his desciption of his captors, he sounds like a gentleman to me.

See what Bush has done

See what Bush has done 

Politenessman Jaspan believes hostages should be sensitive to murderers. He thinks someone held captive and beaten by extortionists and killers ought show some respect. And how, precisely, does Wood’s use of the term call into question “his motives”, whatever Jaspan imagines those to be?

Andrew Jaspan is a moral vacuum who should be fired. Or, alternatively, kidnapped and kicked in the head; if the little bastard complained about it afterwards, well, that would merely make us sceptical. Send letters-to-the-editor here. Cancel subscriptions here (if you haven’t already). Find Jaspan a new job back in England here. Meanwhile, yet more awful insensitivity is on display:

A hostage held alongside Australian Douglas Wood in Iraq has hired bounty hunters to track down his former captors, promising to eliminate them one by one.

Swede Ulf Hjertstrom, who was held for several weeks with Mr Wood in Baghdad, was released by his kidnappers on May 30 ...

Now, he wants to find those responsible.

"I have now put some people to work to find these bastards,” he told the Ten Network today.

"I invested about $50,000 so far and we will get them one by one."

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You may think you’ve seen the ultimate absurd dead end of touchy-feely politically correct inverted thinking, but in Australia’s Herald Sun, Andrew Bolt describes a left-wing Aussie editor-in-chief’s reaction to freed hostage Douglas Wood that you are not going to believe How The Left Gets Loonier

Andrew Jaspan is editor-in-chief of The Age, Australia’s most Left-wing daily newspaper, and on ABC radio on Wednesday said how “boorish” and “coarse” Wood was at his press conference this week when he called his captors “a—-holes”.

You might wonder whether Jaspan, the Englishman whose paper on that same day published a big picture on page one of naked girls from Big Brother, has the right to call anyone else “coarse”.

But far more shocking was his apparent demand that Wood be more grateful to the men who’d snatched him, kicked him in the head, kept him blindfolded and bound for 47 days, shaved him bald, killed two of his colleagues, made him beg for his life, and — says a fellow hostage from Sweden — shot several other prisoners in front of him.

Let’s run the tape.

Said Jaspan: “I was, I have to say, shocked by Douglas Wood’s use of the a—-hole word, if I can put it like that, which I just thought was coarse and very ill-thought through and I think demeans the man and is one of the reasons why people are slightly sceptical of his motives and everything else.

”The issue really is largely, speaking as I understand it, he was treated well there. He says he was fed every day, and as such to turn around and use that kind of language I think is just insensitive."

Sounds pretty whimpy to me!

Girly men!

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Yeah, all those people who spend alot of their time pondering and commenting on politics turn out to be a##holes in the end. Don't you agree?

I'd reckon Jaspan could point the way for him

You may think you’ve seen the ultimate absurd dead end of touchy-feely politically correct inverted thinking, but in Australia’s Herald Sun, Andrew Bolt describes a left-wing Aussie editor-in-chief’s reaction to freed hostage Douglas Wood that you are not going to believe How The Left Gets Loonier

Andrew Jaspan is editor-in-chief of The Age, Australia’s most Left-wing daily newspaper, and on ABC radio on Wednesday said how “boorish” and “coarse” Wood was at his press conference this week when he called his captors “a—-holes”.

You might wonder whether Jaspan, the Englishman whose paper on that same day published a big picture on page one of naked girls from Big Brother, has the right to call anyone else “coarse”.

But far more shocking was his apparent demand that Wood be more grateful to the men who’d snatched him, kicked him in the head, kept him blindfolded and bound for 47 days, shaved him bald, killed two of his colleagues, made him beg for his life, and — says a fellow hostage from Sweden — shot several other prisoners in front of him.

Let’s run the tape.

Said Jaspan: “I was, I have to say, shocked by Douglas Wood’s use of the a—-hole word, if I can put it like that, which I just thought was coarse and very ill-thought through and I think demeans the man and is one of the reasons why people are slightly sceptical of his motives and everything else.

”The issue really is largely, speaking as I understand it, he was treated well there. He says he was fed every day, and as such to turn around and use that kind of language I think is just insensitive."

Sounds pretty whimpy to me!

Girly men!

Yeah, all those people who spend alot of their time pondering and commenting on politics turn out to be a##holes in the end. Don't you agree?

Not in the least!

Especially from folks who seldom or never post in Bedlam

You may think you’ve seen the ultimate absurd dead end of touchy-feely politically correct inverted thinking, but in Australia’s Herald Sun, Andrew Bolt describes a left-wing Aussie editor-in-chief’s reaction to freed hostage Douglas Wood that you are not going to believe How The Left Gets Loonier

Andrew Jaspan is editor-in-chief of The Age, Australia’s most Left-wing daily newspaper, and on ABC radio on Wednesday said how “boorish” and “coarse” Wood was at his press conference this week when he called his captors “a—-holes”.

You might wonder whether Jaspan, the Englishman whose paper on that same day published a big picture on page one of naked girls from Big Brother, has the right to call anyone else “coarse”.

But far more shocking was his apparent demand that Wood be more grateful to the men who’d snatched him, kicked him in the head, kept him blindfolded and bound for 47 days, shaved him bald, killed two of his colleagues, made him beg for his life, and — says a fellow hostage from Sweden — shot several other prisoners in front of him.

Let’s run the tape.

Said Jaspan: “I was, I have to say, shocked by Douglas Wood’s use of the a—-hole word, if I can put it like that, which I just thought was coarse and very ill-thought through and I think demeans the man and is one of the reasons why people are slightly sceptical of his motives and everything else.

”The issue really is largely, speaking as I understand it, he was treated well there. He says he was fed every day, and as such to turn around and use that kind of language I think is just insensitive."

Sounds pretty whimpy to me!

Girly men!

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Yeah, all those people who spend alot of their time pondering and commenting on politics turn out to be a##holes in the end. Don't you agree?

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Not in the least!

Especially from folks who seldom or never post in Bedlam

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What does my frequency of posting in bedlam have to do with anything? Does posting in bedlam confer some sort of wisdom?

wisdom is neither expressed nor implied by your posts therein

wisdom is neither expressed nor implied by your posts therein 

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IMHO, it is rather a guarantee of the opposite.

Thomas, is it your contention that the majority of Bedlam posters are ipso facto, erudite ?

Thomas, is it your contention that the majority of Bedlam posters are ipso facto, erudite ?

Not this little black duck!

It must be quiet in the bearpit... Bedlams latest postings swerve away from drunken ramblings and soft porn towards politics...

Thomas, is it your contention that the majority of Bedlam posters are ipso facto, erudite ?

Thomas is certainly a welcome addition to TV.

With his poignant and erudite observations, he hoists 'em on their own petards!

wisdom is neither expressed nor implied by your posts therein 

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Well then what relevance do you think there is to Boon Mee's comment that implies that there is something important about how frequently I post on Bedlam? Or maybe is this just a show of how really irrelevant most of his/her(girly man) postings really are?

Thomas, is it your contention that the majority of Bedlam posters are ipso facto, erudite ?

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I was, rather clumsily, looking at the opposites of word number one, three and five in your contention:

"wisdom is neither expressed nor implied by your posts therein"

Anyway, I prove my point by that and this posting.

Politenessman Jaspan believes hostages should be sensitive to murderers. He thinks someone held captive and beaten by extortionists and killers ought show some respect. And how, precisely, does Wood’s use of the term call into question “his motives”, whatever Jaspan imagines those to be?

Andrew Jaspan is a moral vacuum who should be fired. Or, alternatively, kidnapped and kicked in the head; if the little bastard complained about it afterwards, well, that would merely make us sceptical. Send letters-to-the-editor here. Cancel subscriptions here (if you haven’t already). Find Jaspan a new job back in England here. Meanwhile, yet more awful insensitivity is on display:

A hostage held alongside Australian Douglas Wood in Iraq has hired bounty hunters to track down his former captors, promising to eliminate them one by one.

Swede Ulf Hjertstrom, who was held for several weeks with Mr Wood in Baghdad, was released by his kidnappers on May 30 ...

Now, he wants to find those responsible.

"I have now put some people to work to find these bastards,” he told the Ten Network today.

"I invested about $50,000 so far and we will get them one by one."

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Is that US dollars?

get me his number Boon

I was listening to the ABC that morning and must say that Jaspen and Tracey Curro made some valid points in regards to bad language (in general).

The Herald Sun and The Age will find any excuse to discredit each other – at least you can trust the ABC, it is after all funded by the tax payers.

Freed Hostage Witnessed Murders

Douglas Wood, the Australian hostage freed after 47 days of captivity by Islamic “holy warriors,” told Australian TV that he witnessed killings.

Douglas Wood, 63, also told Channel Ten of his efforts to retain his sanity during his captivity by replaying his life, the BBC reported Sunday.

Wood, who was bound and gagged by his captors, heard two Iraqi captives being shot on successive nights in the same room where he was being held and thought: “When is my turn?”

The low point of his ordeal, however, came when he saw his two Iraqi assistants being led away to their deaths. “I feel absolutely rotten. I was the ultimate cause of it,” Wood said. He said he planned to send money to the families of the dead men.

He also said he felt like a traitor when he was forced at gunpoint to make a video plea for the United States and Australia to withdraw their troops from Iraq.

What else could he do?

Nat, I must protest...displaying an avatar featuring sex with vegetation is inappropriate on a family forum

This is a family forum Tutsi ?

This is a family forum Tutsi ?   

He's always saying that, Doc.

Good to see him posting again...

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Not to bore y'all with this story but it's seldom good news comes out so here's a quote from todays editorial in the largest national daily "The Australian":

If Douglas Wood had emerged from captivity and blamed John Howard, Tony Blair and George W. Bush for his troubles, he would have become an instant hero in some circles. By now he would be have been offered a Chair in Middle Eastern Studies at one of our major universities, and ABC Radio National would have been renamed Radio Doug in his honour. Instead, Mr Wood had the temerity to disparage his captors, praise his liberators and declare our Iraq mission worthwhile. His name has been mud ever since.

According to Fairfax columnist and former Media Watch host Richard Ackland, Mr Wood has sunk to being "the new pin-up boy of the US-Australian alliance". His description of his abductors as "&lt;deleted&gt;" was inexcusable and contrasted with his brothers, who "resisted every temptation to be critical of their brother's captors". Odd indeed, to be "critical" of those who have kidnapped you and, as we learned last night, executed your companions. For Ackland's colleague Peter Fitzsimons, the end of the Wood honeymoon began when he declared "God bless America" upon his rescue. Clearly, it would have been better if a freed Mr Wood had kept to the script written for him by his kidnappers. Flogging his story exhausted "what remains of our goodwill towards him" and showed Mr Wood is "an on-the-maker".

But the Douglas Wood we saw on the Ten Network last night was anything but: he was an ordinary, decent Australian with remarkable resilience in dreadful circumstances. Since Mr Wood was deprived of his livelihood by his abductors, and has done nothing wrong, it is hard to see why his decision to sell his story arouses such ire. After all, if there were no interest in that story, he would not receive $400,000 for it. That, coincidentally, is about how much taxpayers were forced to kick in to a fawning and unwatched SBS documentary about Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks. Instructively, Mr Wood's support for the US alliance disqualified him from the sympathy of some commentators, while Mr Hicks's avowed anti-Semitism, along with the fact he trained with al-Qa'ida, flowed off them like water off a duck. Ackland hints darkly that a man like Mr Wood must have had nefarious reasons for being in Iraq. His earlier judgement on Mr Hicks was that he is a "woebegone idealist". Sorry?

Placed in context, the vilification of Mr Wood is the latest in a series of bad calls made on the Left since September 11, 2001. While the leaders of the social-democratic parties in Australia, Britain and the US made the principled decision following 9/11 - to support democracy and civilised values against religious fascism - for many on the Left the idea the US could be the victim rather than the perpetrator of evil was a head-spin. At every step along the road since then, their strategy has been to appease the fascists and castigate the US and its allies. In this upside-down world picture, nobody is too discredited to be fashioned into a hero and nobody too blameless to be set up as a villain.

Don't usually see positive stuff like that too often from MSM these days.

Under the heading: 'And you knew the BEEB was biased'

BBC: "Misguided Criminals"

BBC world affairs editor John Simpson appeals to Britons to refrain from getting angry, and uncorks a fragrant new euphemism for Islamic terrorists: “misguided criminals.”

Now that the bombs have exploded, and thousands of newspaper pages and entire days of air time have been devoted to the horror of it all, and to the poor, decent people who are dead and missing, and to the misguided criminals responsible, perhaps we can stand back from it all and catch our breath.

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This is a family forum Tutsi ?    

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He's always saying that, Doc.

Good to see him posting again...

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Was the Sin Club last night a Family Party Tuts?

UK Police Told to Be Polite While Raiding Terror Suspects

"British police have been ordered to refrain from using dogs and to remove their shoes when raiding Muslim homes.

And no raids during prayer times.

Ian Johnston, the Chief Constable of the British Transport Police, is taken to task by the human rights lobby when he says his officers won’t be wasting time searching ‘little old white ladies’ on the Tube.

Leaked guidelines from the Bedfordshire force say that when officers raid Muslim homes they should remove their shoes, not use dogs and not mount pre-dawn raids because at that hour people might by ‘spiritually busy’."

Spiritually busy...unbelievable

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What is the probability that there will be another terrorist incident in London tomorrow.

4 weeks ago thursday = 1

2 weeks ago thursday = 2

Twenty to one on