"It might be more helpful, instead devoting your time criticising Alan, that you address his case."

Alan's 'case' has been addressed:

http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=15130

cohenite,

I was addressing Chris Lewis, whose main preoccupation concerning Alan's articles appears to be carrying on a narrative about Alan himself.

Who can blame Chris's preoccupation; Alan is such a fascinating person.

Poirot, I could write a piece responding to AA, but why would I bother. He is a propagandist, who, I repeat, does not understand why Labor is on the nose, choosing to blow his own trumpet above most other efforts as if he knows that much more. Just the way he dismisses almost every reasonable comment is just so annoying.

I will leave him alone, because my efforts to encourage a bit more humility and thinking prowess from AA is indeed wasted. He just knows it all.

At least when I get accused of being a conservative, which I am not, I can point to severe criticism of the Coalition, like in Quadrant when he suggested that the invasion of Iraq without a UN mandate was one of the worst ever policy decisions by liberal democracies, and that the Coalition should have done much more for public housing. But that is me, I actually favour no political party, because both major ones are just as good and just as useless as each other, but both essential to the political cycle so that both welfare needs and welfare waste are addressed at different times.

Now is the time to give Labor the vote for wasting its time in the sun.

Sorry, last sentence should be to give Labor the boot, not vote.

Alan
You have presented the case about how wonderfully adept our government really is. Sadly you don't mention how atrocious EVERYBODY, except labor barnacles, is actually experiencing the reality of this Labor Ship of Fools.

The polls reflect this. That you think the media is actually causing people to think the way they do says more about you than you realise.

Alan everyone in Australia dismisses the medis because they are full of fools who think Australians cannot think for themselves and are likely to be swayed by spin.

Those are the assumptions you also apply everytime you scribble and spout the blatant Labor spin you try to peddle as truth.