The legendary George Negus has left us; alas, I had no idea he’d been suffering from Alzheimer’s and was basically non-verbal for his last few years. Never a good way to go, but even worse when communicating with people was your job. Apparently someone miscommunicated with Channel 10, though:
George NEBUS? Who’s he? Well done, you professional television network, you…
I don’t think I’d heard of Olivia Nuzzi until now, she’s a journalist who’s become the unfortunate star of her own story, having admitted to having an affair with “a former subject relevant to the 2024 campaign“, as New York magazine put it when they announced they were putting her on leave for that reason… and though I don’t know if she specifically named said former subject, everyone else is saying…
Yeah. Junior. GREAT CATCH, Olivia. Per Axios, she’s claiming the relationship wasn’t physical, and Bob the younger is denying it even happened… and though I obviously have no evidence either way, I’m oddly disinclined to believe him, given that he has form when it comes to cheating on his wife. Did it dozens of times to his previous one, why wouldn’t he do the same to the current one?
Anyway, this news comes hot on the heels of this other news:
A federal law enforcement agency confirmed it’s opened an investigation into Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after he allegedly cut off the head of a dead whale and took it home two decades ago.
The former independent presidential candidate disclosed the investigation on Saturday while campaigning outside Phoenix for Donald Trump.
Kennedy’s daughter recalled the whale incident in a 2012 interview with Town and Country magazine, which recently resurfaced and was shared extensively on social media. Kathleen Kennedy said when she was 6 years old, her dad got word that a dead whale had washed ashore. He got a chainsaw, cut off the whale’s head and strapped it to the roof of their minivan for a five-hour drive home.
“Every time we accelerated on the highway, whale juice would pour into the windows of the car, and it was the rankest thing on the planet,” Kathleen Kennedy recalls. “We all had plastic bags over our heads with mouth holes cut out, and people on the highway were giving us the finger, but that was just normal day-to-day stuff for us.”
I actually did see this story when it started circulating again, but for some reason I can’t think of I evidently chose not to record it here. But… yeah. That’s something else he allegedly did with a dead animal (as reported by his own daughter 12 years ago; how was that not more of a story back in 2012?). And, coming after his own admission of the business with the bear, I find it as entirely believable that he would desecrate a whale’s corpse as I do that he would cheat on his wife. Cos, you know, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Bolt’s ultimatum: I’ll quit if James Murdoch wins succession battle
Sky News Australia after dark star Andrew Bolt will quit the company should Rupert Murdoch and his eldest son Lachlan lose control of the family media empire to the more politically moderate James Murdoch.
The brothers have clashed over the company’s editorial slant in the past, particularly over the conservative Fox News channel in America, as well as James Murdoch’s criticism of the climate coverage in News Corp’s Australian newspapers.
“James could sack me if he did take over, but he wouldn’t need to. I wouldn’t be the only one who wouldn’t work for him,” Bolt said during his Sky News show on Thursday evening, responding to a report published by The New York Times this week, detailing a legal battle for control of the Murdoch family’s assets.
“It’s a values’ thing. A freedom thing. I don’t know if he gets that.”
I don’t know if Convicted Racist Andrew Bolt, a man in no position to snipe at other people about “values”, gets how few people will actually care if he does this. As for James Murdoch, I don’t really know anything about him, though his Wiki page suggests… not great things (I mean, he’s one of THOSE Murdochs; is there anyone in that family who’s free of that taint?). But the current Murdoch family dispute apparently relates to the old bugger trying to change the details of the family trust that controls the Murdoch family’s media holdings by shutting the other kids out of it and leaving everything to Lachlan. The likelhood of this succeeding is apparently minimal, however, which I presume is why C.R.A.B. is making this big “look at me daddy” display of loyalty to the old cunt, he wants to make sure Rupert knows he’s always have one of his chief propagandists backing him up… so I’m sure James is at least a bit trash but I still kind of hope he does prevail in this battle, if only cos I want to see Bolt stick to his promise. And James will do fine without him, too, cos there are unfortunately a lot more where he came from…
Never heard of this guy before, but apparently his monstrous bodily waste hangs out with famous people. (Yes, the hideous grammar of that headline really was the thing that grabbed me about this ludicrous story.) It’s a crappy way to become notable—apparently this guy has spent a long time just rocking up to industry events where no one knows who he is but they just accept him as this sort of constant background presence—and I fear his famous friends will now dump him. Still, that’s what you get for taking a drug diabetics actually need more than you; karma will sometimes feed you that sort of shit sandwich…
Bravo, I suppose, to Svalbardposten for not outing this innocent reindeer unecessarily. But I wish I knew how old this story is, cos now I want to know more about this “vandal” reindeer and the antics it must be (or have been) up to…
Well, YESTERDAY was a fucking day, wasn’t it? I felt too nauseous at the whole thing to write about it yesterday, today I’m just angry. Because so many people just had to do this sort of thing:
This was just one clump of responses I found trailing one post on Twatter, and there would be worse, because OBVIOUSLY this was a Muslim man who specifically targeted Westfields at Bondi cos Bondi is the Jewish capital of city, apparently, and Westfields is Jewish-owned, apparently, so OBVIOUSLY this was some sort of revenge against Israel for the Gaza bullshit because obviously everyone at Bondi Westfield was Jewish…? And if they weren’t all Jewish, he could magically pick out all the ones that were…?
There were, of course, a handful of people who insisted with equal strength that he wasn’t Muslim, but they were outweighed by the ones insisting he must be. So Muslim, in fact, that I had someone in my Twitter replies telling me he was specifically Palestinian, not just any old Muslim. WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT that suggesting, as I did on Twitter, that maybe people should wait for actual information to be released before engaging in pre-emptive racism might be considered unacceptable advice? Yeah… amazing how many people did, in fact, take offence to me saying this… Weird, though, how all the people who KNEW he was Muslim, and indeed KNEW where in the Middle East he specifically originated, refused to tell me exactly who he was when I asked them. I mean, they KNEW so much about him, you’d think they’d have known that too and would’ve been willing to share the information…
And then there was this:
Then…
Oh. Then…
OH. Slight problem with all of this, though.
It wasn’t Benjamin Cohen.
The police had already announced the attacker was thought to be 40 years old (at this point they hadn’t identified him publicly but were sure that he was someone known to them). The Benjamin Cohen in question is apparently only in his 20s. And looks nothing like the man in the CCTV footage. Why might these two Twitterers be so determined to pin the blame on a Jewish guy? Well, Syrian Girl is evidently an antisemitic conspiracy theorist peddling all manner of bullshit, with her only positive point being that her hatred of Jews necessarily encompasses that cunt Avi Yemini (who she also tweeted about saying how he looked like the guy in the video), while Cossack is slightly more complicated…
Semyon or Simeon Boikov is a pro-Putin disinformation spreader who’s been hiding in the Russian consulate at Woollahra for a couple of years now (that’s where he’s waving from in the above picture which I got via the SMH) for attacking an old guy at a pro-Ukrainian rally; he’s also an antivaxxer and sovereign citizen type, and if he’s not an actual Nazi he is at the very least a sympathiser who would have a vested interest in naming a JOOOOOOOOOO as the attacker in this case. (Avi Yemini and him aren’t friends either, funnily enough.)
As for why the Channel 7 news report decided to base itself around “information” from demonstrable right-wing shitheads like these two… well, I suppose we’ll have to ask Kerry Stokes one day when he’s not busy having to pick up after Bruce Lehrmann. I’ll give them some credit for deleting the news story, unlike their sources, but I don’t think that’ll save them from the defamation lawsuit Ben Cohen would surely be entitled to aim at them.
Anyway, the ACTUAL killer appears to be someone called Joel Cauchi, a guy from Queensland who was SO Islamic evidently that his first victim appears to have been a security guard from Pakistan. OH THE FUCKING IRONY. (One of his other victims was the daughter of John Singleton, who I think is a bit of a cunt—he recently came back to prominence with that incomprehensible ad “apologising” to Ben Roberts-Smith—but ye gods this is not what anyone would wish for him, surely.) This news will, I’m sure, make no difference to the cookers on Twitter, including the psychotics I’ve already seen claiming the whole thing is a false flag to bring about the NWO, and the ones saying it doesn’t matter if he wasn’t a Muslim cos it was still “Muslim-style”, to say nothing of the fucking American ammosexuals going off about how this proves we need guns (as if that wouldn’t have made the whole thing an even more wholesale massacre). Cunts, all of them.
And the champion cunt was someone on Bluesky who decided to have a go at me when I posted there something about wondering what disgusted me more, the event itself or Twatter’s reaction to it, accusing me of wanting to tone police people’s responses. As if HE weren’t trying to police my reaction to the fucking thing, I mean CLEARLY how DARE I be offended by racists exploiting an unspeakable tragedy to promote their own hideous ideology. Fuck you.
I don’t know, I’m just filled with so much loathing for so many people right now, and I think I’d better just leave off with the statement released by Cauchi’s family. I wish I had the equanimity they must have, especially to have written that last part…
That is probably the worst pun I’ve ever produced, but fortunately the occasion for it is better:
Ben Shapiro’s conservative media empire has cut ties with Candace Owens, amid a lengthy public feud between the far-right pundit and her bosses over the Israel-Hamas war.
“Daily Wire and Candace Owens have ended their relationship,” Shapiro’s co-founder Jeremy Boreing tweeted on Friday morning. “The rumors are true—I am finally free,” Owens posted to her own X account. Representatives for The Daily Wire and Owens did not immediately respond to requests for additional comment. […]
Shapiro had often come to the defense of Owens’ rhetoric, but following the Oct. 7 Hamas-led attack on Israel, the pair began a very public battle that at one point featured the Daily Wire co-founder daring his star podcaster to quit.
The feud began last November when Owens tweeted that “no government anywhere has a right to commit a genocide.” While she did not specifically mention the State of Israel, her remarks were widely condemned by her fellow conservative media figures. Soon after, Shapiro publicly called Owens’ behavior “disgraceful” and chided her “faux-sophistication” on the Israel-Hamas conflict. […]
But the Daily Wire in-fighting appeared to reach its final stage this week when Owens liked a social-media post asking conservative rabbi Shmuley Boteach whether he is “drunk on Christian blood again”—an overt reference to the antisemitic “blood libel” canard that has regained popularity on the far-right via QAnon. (Days earlier, Owens dabbled in other antisemitic tropes by suggesting there’s a Jewish “gang” in Hollywood.)
So it appears she’s been engaging in some proper antisemitism other than just not being pro-Israel. Well, as I’ve said before, Shapiro insisted on hiring her and keeping her in full knowledge of what she said about Hitler being OK; I’m wondering who finally made the call, though, cos Jeremy Dullard made the announcement and Shapiro doesn’t appear to have said anything about it. Shame it ended like this, eh? They were cunts of a feather who thoroughly deserved each other…
I normally hate Youtube prank channels, but I’ll make an exception for once.
Tucker Carlson has been pranked over Kate Middleton‘s infamous edited photo.
The former Fox News anchor was duped by British YouTubers Josh & Archie into interviewing a fake Kensington Palace whistleblower, who was prepared to dish the dirt on the doctored image.
Archie Manners posed as the Prince and Princess of Wales’ former digital content creator, who claimed he had been fired for altering the Mother’s Day image so poorly it was rumbled by the public.
The former Fox News anchor was duped by British YouTubers Josh & Archie into interviewing a fake Kensington Palace whistleblower, who was prepared to dish the dirt on the doctored image.
The whole Kate Middleton business has been a bizarre story unto itself, and I’ll let Slate summarise it:
In case you need a refresher on the biggest tabloid story of the year, Middleton, the wife of heir apparent Prince William, has been out of the public eye since Christmas. The supposed reason for this absence was a scheduled abdominal surgery, which the Crown said would sideline her until Easter. The royal gossip apparatus tends to grow ravenous in silence, and the internet surged with all sorts of wild conspiracy theories speculating on the real reason Middleton had vanished. Some floated that she was going under the knife to receive a BBL; others asserted that the surgery was cover for alleged infidelity; and so on. But the story went truly nuclear this week when Middleton submitted, then quickly retracted, a cheery photo of herself and her three kids, which the Associated Press determined to be counterfeit due to some irregularities in the composition. In response, Middleton rushed out a baffling damage-control campaign, claiming that she had simply been experimenting with photo editing.
Apparently in the video Fucker begins by saying they’ve worked hard to prove the guys’ identity to make sure they weren’t pulling a prank, which was clearly a lie:
Archie Manners posed as the Prince and Princess of Wales’ former digital content creator, who claimed he had been fired for altering the Mother’s Day image so poorly it was rumbled by the public.
The Tucker Carlson Network, which streams on Twitter (now X), accepted his story after Manners and co-conspirator Josh Pieters forged Kensington Palace employment documents.
The YouTubers’ faked letter of engagement for the whistleblower included a clause stating that the palace had a right to amputate one of his limbs should he fail his probation period.
Carlson’s people did not spot the preposterous faked document and Manners was sent to a London studio with a hotline to Carlson for the interview.
Like I said, I have no time for prank channels but given who these guys were going after here I’ll overlook it. Alas, they appear to have had a change of heart when they realised just how many Twitter followers Fucker has and didn’t want to be responsible for spreading misinformation in case his viewers took them at face value. So it’s probably not actually going to air now. Can’t wait to see if Carlson owns up to being had or not, though…
I thought James Somerton’s arse had been so comprehensively handed to him after that Hbomberguy video last year that he would never have the temerity to show his face in public again (which, admittedly, he did briefly with that apology video he made, but he withdrew it so quickly it barely counts). However, it seems no one told Somerton that… cos he’s back with another apology and explanation video, full of excuses that I don’t think anyone is buying (though I am a little surprised that no one seems to be cracking jokes about who he plagiarised this from; maybe we got that out of our systems with the first apology). I offer here Mack Attack’s response to him, which is pointed and brutal and so it damn well should be; this dickhead is either delusional or else hoping the rest of us are…
The New York Post has outdone itself:
The thing is, of course, that not only do we not know what JTR actually looked like, WE DON’T EVEN KNOW WHO HE WAS! Who writes this bullshit? Well, per the article:
The dangerously dreamy drawings come courtesy of Jeff Leahy, a long-time Ripper enthusiast from Carmarthen, Wales, who produced a mini-series on the murderer and has spent decades studying the lore surrounding one of history’s most infamous villains.
Using Midjourney software, along with information and available photographs of the relatives of prime suspect Aaron Kosminski, Leahy was able to produce a rather astonishing portrait of the man.
“It’s astonishing to finally have an image of him. I was surprised by how striking the picture is,” Leahy told SWNS.
Kosminski was a Polish-born barber working in Whitechapel, the area of London’s East End where the murders took place in the late 1800s.
Kosminski has been named by numerous experts as the Ripper, however nobody has ever been able to prove his guilt.
“There’s never been a picture of him and this is the best we’re ever going to get,” Leahy said.
JESUS FUCK. There’s never been a picture of him and THIS ISN’T ONE EITHER, you ignorant cunt. The evidence for Kosminski is thin, in any case; you might as well have taken the drawings of William Gull in From Hell and fed those into AI and called that a picture of Jack the Ripper, cos he’s about as likely to have been Jack as Kosminski was, or indeed any of the many and varied other putative “Jacks“. This is transcendent bullshit even by the NY Post’s minimal standards, and I find the stupidity of the entire thing kind of offensive…
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