Tim Blair

Maybe someone could pin a sheriff's badge on a plastic turkey, with a forged memo to support their claim?

The truth is just a construct, my friends. It can be elastic, plastic, or utterly fantastic--as in a hat trick in Cambodia.

Plastic Sheriff!

As CBS would say, the item may be false but the story is still accurate

Oh why let the truth stand in the way of a good story?? Like Latham didn't run Liverpool Council into the ground....

Even if it were true, it would be better than Latham's vow to be deputy "coward of the county" to Zapatero.

Greg Barnes - an object of ridicule in Australia gets a gig writing for the Seattle Post Intelligencer about our election? How does that happen?

As CBS would say, the item may be false but the story is still accurate

Is that the same as Australian historian Lyndall Ryans comment"Two 'truths' are told is only one truth correct?"

If I were Australia, I would be offended. Not at the use of the term:

http://www.njsheriff.org/history%20sheriff.htm

but at the snide dismissal of the people whose very safety depends on those who take up the mantle, regardless of the title.

For shame.

Sorry. I should say the snide dismissal by the people, etc.

Would that make Latham our Festus? ("Ma'shul Dillon! Ma'shul Dillon!")

Timbo you are correct that Fred made the statement however Howard did not demure from it.

Indeed he said nothing to disassociate from the statement until Asain leaders starting frothing at the mouth.

"Howard did not demure from" Howard = Hitler statements does that mean he indorsed them,Homer?

1)demur
2)dissociate
3)You only need to dissociate yourself from statements made with your actual or apparent authority.

My god Homer - you are actually trying to run a 'fake but true' argument, with a straight face.

Let me break it down for you:

"Howard's boast in 2002 that Australia is the United States' "deputy sheriff""

Wrong

who in 1999 appointed himself America's regional "deputy sheriff"

wrong

He once described Australia's role in the Asia-Pacific region as Washington's "deputy sheriff."

wrong

(in his own words, a 'deputy sheriff').

completely and utterly wrong.

refers to himself as the deputy sheriff of Asia.

wrong wrong wrong.

How can you defend this? He didn't demure from the sheriff tag, as it was inserted by a sub-editor.

Following your 'logic' a politician must explicitly refute any suggestion or characterisation made by a reporter, otherwise it is fair game for future journalists to quote the suggestion as the politician's own words? Furthermore, they must also correct, in advance, any headlines that a subbie might put on a story.

Jesus H. Christ, was it always this bad, or has the internet just meant that bullshit like this gets a better airing out?

John howard's mouth was silent until Asia started making angry remarks. He didn't immediately refute Fred at all ideed he said nothing.

That is your problem fellahs, It is yet another example of howard floundering around in foreign Affairs.

Dear Homer,

May I suggest it is actually 'yet another example of Howard' getting on with what's important, and ignoring the hysterical bullshit spewed forth by the Left.

Oh - sorry - I guess that'd be you. . .

Homer, setting yourself on repeat doesn't make you credible, what part of "he didn't say it" don't you understand.

Sheriff

Homers been set on repeat for the last two years.

Homer, read the second last para of attila's post. Try really, REALLY hard to recognize the flawed 'logic'. Just take your time, one word at a time.

no... NO - put that keyboard down... no, you're not typing again are you?! NOOOOooooooooooooooo

Thanks bundy, but I will make it even easier:

He. Did. Not. Say. It.

To suggest otherwise is Wrong - amiss, askew, astray, at fault, awry, bad, bum, counterfactual, defective, erratic, erring, erroneous, fallacious, false, faulty, fluffed, goofed, in error, inaccurate, inexact, miscalculated, misconstrued, misfigured, misguided, mishandled, mistaken, not precise, not right, not working, off-target, out, perverse, rotten, sophistical, specious, spurious, ungrounded, unsatisfactory, unsound, unsubstantial, untrue, wide

I just emailed the Seattle Post-Intelligencer to give them the goods on Greg Barns - a very short-lived politcla staffer who went on to a couple of concurrent part-time lobbying/spokesman roles for the Australian Republican Movement and Australian Gold Mining Institute, and now a senate candidate in Australia's smallest state for Australia's most-endangered political party.

See how they like them apples . . . .

Barnes - "Australia committed 8,000 military personnel to the conflict, and around 800 remain in Iraq."

Try about 2,000.