Tim Blair

Fine, Philip didn't wear the damned hat. What I'll take to bed with me is, that a column entirely devoted to taking down a three-sentence reader letter is something that op-ed editors will pay actual cash money for. At least the ususal summarization of the NYRB would possible be value-added work.

Photoshop time!

STOP PRESS: ADAMS TELLS THE TRUTH !

This story will be recycled on hate pages and will be repeated as gospel in the columns of Andrew Bolt, Tim Blair and Terry McCrann.

Umm, I refer to, will be repeated, only....doh!

Where would you be without Philip Adams and Margo Kingston to kick around? Speaking of kicking around, remember Tricky Dicky used to complain about that? Of course none of you would have ever kicked him around (even though he dserved it). I see no budding Bob Woodward's or Carl Bernstein's on these pages. Why don't you kick around the people in government for a change?

Matts,
Who in their right mind would want to be a Woodward or a Bernstein instead of being themselves? o_O

Imitation is for the second rate. Find your own voice.

Well, too late. I'm already considering this as true Gospel. Praise the Adams.

The plot:
Get a gastropodian admirer to send a fabricated letter into a major newspaper.

The sting:
Reveal in devastating detail - along with appropriate evidence - alibi, pictures (yech!), the absolute falseness of the allegations.

The outcome:
Revel in the feeling of being the oppressed left wing columnist in a world of right wing death beasts. Also enjoy the fact that you have revealed them for the lying, vicious idiots that you always knew they were.

The real outcome:

Strawman article shows the desperation of poor old Phil. Better luck next time fatboy.

Hey if the leftist moonbats can have their conspiracy theories then why not me?

Hey mats, you have been reading this blog for more than two seconds, I assume?

Why did you miss all the posts about Latham, Garrett, Kerry, Carmen Lawrence et al?

Notice the true Phat Phil tactic -

"Like all right-minded readers..."

Implying that if you had a good chuckle at Phil getting a taste of his own medicine, you must be a loony.

I'm not so sure Galak is wrong. Remember, this is Adams, and not a word he says can be believed, not even "the" "and" or "but". He has told at least two versions of leaving/being expelled from the Comunist Party, including wildly different dates.

And I sort of, kinda remember him getting around in a plebian cap, though not necessarily a Mao one.

The footage Galak speaks of must exist somewhere. It would be interesting to dig it up.

Incidentally, his big-noting about meeting dissident Chinese artists in hotel rooms replicates almost word-for-word some Sydney art wanker who was on LNL a couple of weeks ago and told exactly the same story.

..it is utterly, totally, entirely and slanderously untrue...

Of course it is. Dressing up as Mao, the very idea! Everyone knows Phatty spends Saturday nights in his Pol Pot outfit, laughing his way through The Killing Fields, with a bucket of KFC in his lap.

..I see no budding Bob Woodward's or Carl Bernstein's on these pages...

The ol' 'apostrophe esses', eh Mats? Someone's spending too much time at Webdiary, methinks.

Tim Blair mentions Phil Adams . Phil Adams mentions Tim Blair . Ah , what would life be without these pseudo celebrities . Pair of absolute prats : get a life and move on.

It's a shame Adams didn't wait for you to get sucked in with one of your silly cut and paste exercises. Then you would have looked the fool just like with the Kerry and Intern attack that was wrong.

As to the Turkey. The actual truth is that it was a real fake turkey. As in ... it was a real turkey dressed up to look like a trophy that no one then ate.

Though it might have been consumed by the kitchen staff afterwards, unless it was deemed unfit for human consumption after that dummy with the world's most destructive "football" breathed on it.

We never did get to find out whether all trophy turkeys got eaten afterwards. Or only some of them do depending on how long the meat gets to turn bad and give everyone food poisoning.

Come on Tim let's see some real investigative reporting. Get on the phone make some calls to Canberra - or even DC to DefenseLink - they have thousands on staff to get you the facts. So let's see the facts for once and not just what you cut and paste out of context.

Who else gets a right of reply like that? I'm not sure the Devine's did after Phil's 'lies' projected at them.

Reading the post, Phil comes accross even more as a self -inflated ,arrogant, spoilt individual , who contributes nothing of real substance to Australia.

I had to wonder about this though:
I've always appeared bare headed, never worn a cap or, for that matter, any other form of headgear.

Come on Phil, for a guy who gets around in leather pants, no biker cap? Surely not?

Turkeyshoot,

You're smug and you're wrong, a combination more virulent than the ptomaine or botulism you suggest Bush would give the poor kitchen help. How could you not know that most, if not all, U.S. Army Officer Mess Thanksgiving dinners include a PRESENTATION turkey? It is a t-r-a-d-i-t-i-o-n. The PRESENTATION turkeys are considered to be a festive sight whilst the to-be-eaten turkeys get carved down to the bones. The chefs take pride in preparing the PRESENTATION turkeys just so. I've seen PRESENTATION turkeys for years and never thought to obsess over the fact of them or over how commanding officers hoist them for viewing.

Is this some new leftist cause, because I have been unhappy for a long time about the contamination and waste of food in salad bars. Especially sprouts are precious and vulnerable to bacteria. Where do I sign up to combat the abuse of salad ingredients by insensitive PC types in all of those chic hippy eateries?

So then the turkey wasn't plastic, Turkeyshoot? Cause Adams said it was. He was wrong, and if he's ever even said he was wrong, please post a link.

Give it up guys, Turkeyshoot is the same windbag that's been popping in under a new name every time to rattle off some dismissive whine about how Tim's wrong, or if he's not wrong he's irrelevant, or how he's both wrong and irrelevant and anyway the most important thing is that BUSHITLERBAD!!! He's like a windier Nemesis, only with even less logic.

Turkeyshoot said:

"........The actual truth is that it was a real fake turkey. ......"

If my understanding of English is correct, a "real fake turkey" would be a plastic turkey, not a real cooked turkey.

Meddling with the meaning of words, whether intentionally or unintentionally, seems to be a common trait of those on the left or advocates of the left's position.

Is it just me or did that photo of Adams in the hat look distinctly like Carlos the Jackal!

"I'm disinclined to accept that economic rationalism is a much better ism than, for example, Marxism"

-- Phillip Adams, The Weekend Australian, 20 October 2001.

is a "real fake turkey" something like a "real fake stiffy"?

"Turkeyshoot," Miranda under any other name is just as boring.

That's not a real picture of an Aussie journalist wearing a hat. Where are the bobbing corks?

"Real fake"?! Is that anything like an original copy?

Damn, accused of being a hat-wearer. Truly the life of a Leftist Bringer of the Light of Truth to the World is one fraught with much danger and suffering! Next thing you know he'll be accused of wearing thong sandals--!

UPDATE. Adams writes: "I've always appeared bare headed, never worn a cap or, for that matter, any other form of headgear." Really? Here’s Phillip in an old byline shot. The hat-wearing freak.

That's only half the sentence, Tim. The full quote is:

In decades of appearing on talk shows hosted by the likes of Michael Parkinson, Clive James, Ray Martin, Andrew Denton, David Frost – and even William F. Buckley Jr – I've always appeared bare headed, never worn a cap or, for that matter, any other form of headgear.

That by-line photo doesn't look like an appearance on a talk show.

I know, Jethro. I was taking Adams out of context -- deliberately. He prefers things that way.

Tim you are nothing but a sub-standard hack...you quoted Adams out of context - what a scummy thing to do. I thought you were supposed to be some sort of journalist. You're always criticising other people for bad journalism ... you should be ashamed...

Check out the whole article here.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,9913810%255E12272,00.html