Hyuk hyuk

I noticed this comment in Mike Carlton’s latest:

But the Murdoch papers have gone feral, led by The Australian – or The American, as I call it these days – which has shown remarkable ingenuity in daily spinning an anti-Latham line from the thinnest strands of fact and fevered editorial imagination.

Has Carlton been reading Back Pages? Chris Sheil has been using that (in my opinion, lame) gag for quite some time — since 16 April, in fact.

Time for some new material, I reckon.

12:16 am · 3 July 2004 · comments off
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    Comedy Genius. Right up there with Niall’s “Prime MONSTER Howard”.

    yobbo · 5 July 2004 · 4:31 am
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    I’m not much of a flag waver Rob, but I’m curious that your nationalistic pulse apparently beats so slowly that you don’t find Orwellian offensiveness in the fact that Australia’s only national daily is owned by an American company, with most of the shares owned by an American citizen and which runs an unabashed pro-American line, can possibly and absurdly be called The Australian. I object, most strenuously, and think you should stop yawning and join the campaign to reclaim the name – or to at least continue to highlight the offence.

    cs · 5 July 2004 · 9:48 am
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    Jamming, etc
    If you’re reading this, you’re not alone. Yes, the stats are in for June, and a pretty picture they make too (see below). After a busy month of alarums, sorties, and beatings of swords into ploughshares, for the first time,…

    Back Pages · 3 July 2004 · 3:49 pm
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    And I Thought I was Being Original
    Anyone (all two of you) reading my blog may have noticed that I refer to the Australian as The Amer…errr…Australian. Alas that meme is not mine as Robert Corr points

    Immanuel Rant · 3 August 2004 · 8:04 pm