Comments on: Latham’s Henderson Watch: 54 mistakes and counting

By: burninglog

burninglog — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 15:35:39 +0000

HAHAHAHA !!

Encore ! Encore !

By: Brisbane Bloke

Brisbane Bloke — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:48:35 +0000

Thanks Kev. You keep absorbing Latham’s drivel - it will make you a better person. I choose not to read it. It’s the fact that Crikey chooses him above so many intelligent and interesting columnists that concerns me. Any comment from Crikey on this? How much is he paying you for the exposure?

By: JimDocker

JimDocker — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:37:25 +0000

How old are you Kevin Herbert ? 12 ?

Latham has no respect as a political journalist. He has no respect anywhere as a person capable of balanced thought.

I can see by the level of your response the why Latham would impress you. I have higher standards, and I expect Crikey to uphold those, as they have in the past.

By: Kevin Herbert

Kevin Herbert — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 08:23:08 +0000

same to you Brisbane Bloke…..

By: Kevin Herbert

Kevin Herbert — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 08:22:34 +0000

Jim Docker;

see ya Jim…..don’t renew your subscription….you won’t be missed old son…

By: Mike Flanagan

Mike Flanagan — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 06:07:23 +0000

Brissie Bloke;
While I have never been a screaming fan of Mark Latham and recognise some of his failings, he is entittle to work and earn a crust and the above is a well presented case to be very wary of the sanctimonious Henderson neocon sprays.

By: Brisbane Bloke

Brisbane Bloke — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 05:03:28 +0000

If Crikey is going to give Mark Latham free air, then let’s hear from Andrew Bolt, Greg Sheridan and Chopper Reid. I pay for Crikey, so I can read balanced, intelligent and interesting content. Latham has, will and could never produce one word of either.

By: JimDocker

JimDocker — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 04:50:24 +0000

Gerard Henderson is a crazy right wing fool. He speaks slowly and with purpose which lends a certain authority to his words until you listen to what he is saying and then he can be dismissed.

Mark Latham is a nutcase that has no idea how to behave in a civilised society. His attempt at journalism during the last election was disgraceful, with his bovver boy antics and his plea for people not to vote.

He is the last person that I want to read articles by.

Crikey is the only news source that I pay for, but I expect better than Mark Latham.

By: Brisbane Bloke

Brisbane Bloke — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 03:17:40 +0000

OK - so you vetoed my last message. Here’s another go: who wants to hear what Mark Latham has to say - on anything? Surely there’s some flood clean-up work he can get somewhere? Someone - please?

By: Mike Flanagan

Mike Flanagan — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 22:24:59 +0000

One can only accept that Henderson is a remnant piece of the arcane Bobby Santamaria and Danny Mannix clique who were the providors of the political philosophy and moral compass of the DLP in bygone years.
That is the same DLP that held this nation to ransom and caused the unnecesary expenditure of billion of todays dollars in defense spending to hold off at our beach heads and sandy shores the fictitious march of the ‘yellow hordes’ of the Chinese.
At the same time they influenced the denial to our farmers the Chinese market for our excess wheat.
If one had daughters, one would be loath to invite him into our homes, for Henderson would be forever moving from bedroom to bedroom looking under their beds for commos and would have to be ejected as a political eccentric and pervert.
But thanks to Mark’s above informative missive we can all remember to put the latch on the front door, just in case he should arrive univited.

By: rubiginosa

rubiginosa — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 08:56:29 +0000

“Justice Steven Rares did not make any findings against…the aspiring Liberal Mal Brough”
http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/minority-rule-makes-fools…

Derryn’s fact-checking?

By: Kevin Herbert

Kevin Herbert — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 08:04:54 +0000

sean:

couldn’t agree more re Hendo’s article in yesterday’s Herald. You have to wonder what parallel universe he occupies when he claims that Abbot will ride into victory on Howard’s popularity…huh???
Howard was only the second PM to be booted out of his seat..even his cras purchase of ‘working family’ votes with middle class welfae could not save him.
Howard will go down in histroy as the PM who invoked a racist election campaign in 2001, and who willingly offered up Aussie passport holders for torture….wehat legacy the Rodent left.

If ever I see him in public, it will give me great pleasure to remind him of his sell out of Aussie citizens, for a pat on the back from the war mongering Yanks.

Even Menzies would have rejected such odious forelock tugging.
Finally, great to see Mark Latham has eschewed his role with that pathetic Zionist/US rag aka as the Aussie Spectator mag.

By: Dogs breakfast

Dogs breakfast — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 05:18:32 +0000

What can I say. Schadenfreude is not an emotion that I experience without a tinge of guilt, but what the hey!

By: sean

sean — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 04:13:59 +0000

Great stuff. 5 Howlers in one paragraph - you gotta laugh. Henderson really is a joke. In yesterday’s Herald he based a whole article on a gross misinterpretation of a galaxy poll on the most popular Australian PM of the last 25 years. You guessed it, John Howard (35% of the vote). Poor old Hendo failed to realise that respondents in such polls vote according to their party affiliation. Thus conservative voters had one option (Howard) and labor voters had 4 options - thus splitting the potential votes of all four Labor PMs. The guy is not the sharpest pencil in the pack.

The 5 errors in one paragraph should be enough for the Herald to finally pension him off.

Hinch also used to use to say “shame, shame, shame’ as a catchphrase on his current affairs program in the 80s.

By: Madonna

Madonna — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 03:30:31 +0000

Welcome aboard the Crikey train Mark.
Your article has the theme of ABC TV’s media watch, of which I’m a fan.
Can Crikey readers expect more of your observations and corrections in their mailbox in 2013?
As I don’t subscribe to pay TV, I never saw the interview you’re referring to. However, I’m surprised to hear Derryn forgot his famous lines Shame, Shame Shame…I haven’t.

By: klewso

klewso — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 02:53:05 +0000

“Hendo Watch”? “Ground-hog Day” - or as we might say “Minced Porkies Day”?