Comments on: If people want to know what mealy-mouthed cowardice looks like… http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/23/first-dog-on-the-moon-303/ now with extra source Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:34:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Ev http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/23/first-dog-on-the-moon-303/#comment-20422 Ev Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-20422 Go FirstDog! <br /><br />IThe whole Miranda/Bolt thing is a pain. They get paid for the outrage that they cause, the more outrage the better. We rightly get outraged, and they get more money. <br /><br />It's like the Simpsons when the Advertising monsters start destroying the town. The only way to stop them is for everyone to ignore them. If some people still watch, they might start believing the nonsense, and then everyone else has to tell them to stop. Go FirstDog!

IThe whole Miranda/Bolt thing is a pain. They get paid for the outrage that they cause, the more outrage the better. We rightly get outraged, and they get more money.

It’s like the Simpsons when the Advertising monsters start destroying the town. The only way to stop them is for everyone to ignore them. If some people still watch, they might start believing the nonsense, and then everyone else has to tell them to stop.

]]> By: Ev http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/23/first-dog-on-the-moon-303/#comment-20423 Ev Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-20423 Go FirstDog! <br /><br />IThe whole Miranda/Bolt thing is a pain. They get paid for the outrage that they cause, the more outrage the better. We rightly get outraged, and they get more money. <br /><br />It's like the Simpsons when the Advertising monsters start destroying the town. The only way to stop them is for everyone to ignore them. If some people still watch, they might start believing the nonsense, and then everyone else has to tell them to stop. Go FirstDog!

IThe whole Miranda/Bolt thing is a pain. They get paid for the outrage that they cause, the more outrage the better. We rightly get outraged, and they get more money.

It’s like the Simpsons when the Advertising monsters start destroying the town. The only way to stop them is for everyone to ignore them. If some people still watch, they might start believing the nonsense, and then everyone else has to tell them to stop.

]]> By: barb http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/23/first-dog-on-the-moon-303/#comment-20424 barb Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-20424 Disclosure: this is not the first time I have made this observation, but,dear First Dog, it seemed appropriate to give it the second airing when I read your Vicious Polemicist offering., because there is a grain of comfort if you consider that for every Miranda Devine there just might be,(if we are luckier than we perhaps deserve,to be) a Professor Fiona Wood.<br /> Go well. Disclosure: this is not the first time I have made this observation, but,dear First Dog, it seemed appropriate to give it the second airing when I read your Vicious Polemicist offering., because there is a grain of comfort if you consider that for every Miranda Devine there just might be,(if we are luckier than we perhaps deserve,to be) a Professor Fiona Wood.
Go well.

]]> By: Daniel http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/23/first-dog-on-the-moon-303/#comment-20425 Daniel Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-20425 Erm, no. I think you miss the point.<br /><br /> Erm, no. I think you miss the point.

]]> By: AGAP http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/23/first-dog-on-the-moon-303/#comment-20426 AGAP Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-20426 LOVE IT<br /><br /><br /> LOVE IT

]]> By: Louise Crossley http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/23/first-dog-on-the-moon-303/#comment-20427 Louise Crossley Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-20427 This is incredibly insensitive! Though I agree Miranda Devine is beyond the pale, to specify what it would take to actually lynch a living, identifiable person is in just as bad taste as the outrage you purport to be satirizing This is incredibly insensitive! Though I agree Miranda Devine is beyond the pale, to specify what it would take to actually lynch a living, identifiable person is in just as bad taste as the outrage you purport to be satirizing

]]> By: Dan C. http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/23/first-dog-on-the-moon-303/#comment-20428 Dan C. Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-20428 BAM! BAM!

]]> By: lauzy http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/23/first-dog-on-the-moon-303/#comment-20429 lauzy Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-20429 wow! what a potent rejoinder to Ms Devine<br /><br />two thumbs up... wow! what a potent rejoinder to Ms Devine

two thumbs up…

]]> By: k8 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/23/first-dog-on-the-moon-303/#comment-20430 k8 Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-20430 More power to your pencil, FD. You skewered her glib self-righteousness. More power to your pencil, FD. You skewered her glib self-righteousness.

]]> By: Cathy http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/23/first-dog-on-the-moon-303/#comment-20431 Cathy Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-20431 Both barrels FD <b>(No Cathy we've taken this bit out)</b> who went into bat again for Peter Perfidious Costello at the weekend. Fancy telling Hewson to move on so Peter P can continue treason in the Liberal locker rooms. The Peter P fan club at News Limited has become so extremist they're killing off the Party they think he loves. Both barrels FD (No Cathy we’ve taken this bit out) who went into bat again for Peter Perfidious Costello at the weekend. Fancy telling Hewson to move on so Peter P can continue treason in the Liberal locker rooms. The Peter P fan club at News Limited has become so extremist they’re killing off the Party they think he loves.

]]> By: barb http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/23/first-dog-on-the-moon-303/#comment-20432 barb Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-20432 Disclosure: this is not the first time I have made this observation, but,dear First Dog, it seemed appropriate to give it the second airing when I read your Vicious Polemicist offering., because there is a grain of comfort if you consider that for every Miranda Devine there just might be,(if we are luckier than we perhaps deserve,to be) a Professor Fiona Wood.<br /> Go well. Disclosure: this is not the first time I have made this observation, but,dear First Dog, it seemed appropriate to give it the second airing when I read your Vicious Polemicist offering., because there is a grain of comfort if you consider that for every Miranda Devine there just might be,(if we are luckier than we perhaps deserve,to be) a Professor Fiona Wood.
Go well.

]]> By: paddy http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/23/first-dog-on-the-moon-303/#comment-20433 paddy Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-20433 Dear FD, I love it when you're really really angry.<br />It's even better when you're dead right!!! Dear FD, I love it when you’re really really angry.
It’s even better when you’re dead right!!!

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