Tim Blair

Has anyone ever heard Mike Carlton being anything but a pessimist? Perhaps we should name him Carlton Bitter. He is good at 'funny voices' I guess.

Time and time again we risk making the fundamental mistake of LISTENING to ranters, idiots and lefties (often in the same column).

It is not a crime that people like Mike Carlton have nothing of importance to say or that they are embittered fools. Let them humiliate themselves daily on radio and weekly in print.

Just make sure that when important decisions are being made in your own life - you go out of your way to take no notice whatsoever of anything they have to say.

That is the wonderful thing about John Howard - 100% of trendy columnists and SMH Web diarists hate him. Former PM's and party leaders from his own party denounce him on the ABC. Former Quadrant editors can scarcely find words to express their outrage ..

But the sensible people of Australia keep on voting for him - three times and counting!

This is the encouraging thing about the Mike Carltons, Lynda Mottrams, John Shovelins of this world - they only have one vote and apparently none of the other voters out are listening to them.

So, rant on Mike you embittered fool - no-one's taking any notice of your self-indulgent wanking !

Ewwwww! I hate Mike Carlton, I was so happy when 60 minutes didn't revew his contract.

Good on you, GOP Elephant,a terrific response!

Mike Carlton is just a pompous ass, egotistical,pretentious and an intellectual light-weight. He'll get his come-uppance from Alan Jones in the next few months. Then after 2UE gives him the boot, no doubt we'll see him scurrying back to the ABC, that refuge for overpaid, underworked, failed mediocrities - like George Negus, Andrew Denton, etc. Maybe they'll find him a spot on the Glasshouse.

At last a decent "fisking" of that bastard Carlton, I thought I was the only bloke in Oz who hated him.

Rob,

Andrew Denton is really cool. He dumped a truckload of horse manuir on the driveway of the French Embassy in Canberra on national television, when they were testing nukes in the South Pacific.

Well, Jonny, that was fine then, but what has he done since to justify the enormous salary we the taxpayers are forking out through the ABC?

The issue is : why does the ABC continue to employ these clapped-out celebrities in the name of "light entertainment"? Compare SBS which provides stimulating, thought-provoking, well-crafted information and news programs without the need for overpaid, vacuous, talking heads to front them.