Shadow, as you can not quote Miriam Margolyes correctly, did you actually watch the program? You quote MM as saying "no one like Jews" when in fact she actually said "people don't like Jews" there is a difference. Maybe you base your comments on second hand info from someone like Piers Arkerman from your favorite publication Murdoch's 'Daily Telecrap' or did you get it from Shock Joke Jones, another favorite of yours.

Ms Poirot, Paul1405 is name calling again.

Dear ConservativeHippie,

No. if Paul was really name calling -
it would be a hell of a lot more
unprintable than what he's doing right now.
And under the circumstances he's being polite.

Besides, it's not what they call you,
it's what you answer to. ;-)

Dear Shadow Minister,

A “diatribe”? Hardly. It was a methodical deliberation of you and your party's preoccupation with height. Your fellow far right-winger who dipped his oar in earlier went after her for her sexuality while you had gone after her for her stature.

One of your odious ilk famously called the Prime Minister of this country 'deliberately barren'. As despicable as his comments were as this was at least there is some notion of her having made a choice.

Miriam chose neither her stature nor her sexuality. To attack people for things of a physiological nature, things they can not change, is desperately low even for your side of politics. But you and ConservativeHippie decided to do exactly that which speaks volumes about both your characters. At one level this was just reprehensible bullying on another it flagged irrational hatreds and deeply poisonous personalities.

Unlike you though the one thing ConservativeHippie has going for him is that he isn't set on digging his hole any deeper, indeed he was prepared to withdraw at least one of his remarks. You however have chosen to double down. This labels you as irredeemably nasty, an infliction that will probably last the rest of your life.

You have my sympathy.

This sir is a diatribe.

SR,

The left whingers are really a vacuous lot. You worship MM not because she is a towering intellect, but because she is a celebrity that mindlessly echos every left whinge meme, and therefore every turd that drips from her lips must be held up and extolled as a jewel of exquisite wisdom.

When I called her a poison dwarf, not only did the meaning and implication of the term whiz over your heads, but in reflexively leaping to her defense you seem more aggrieved by the reference to her height than her viperous nature.

SR you are the most laughable when you hop up on your moral soap box, not just because of the flimsy nature of your position, but also because of your rank hypocrisy. The left whingers here have thrown insults around like confetti against all aspects of physical and other characteristics and not once have I heard a peep from you.

If and when you direct your childish finger wagging in more than one direction I might see you as more than a puffed up bullfrog and take you seriously.

Come on Shadow, admit it! You didn't actually watch the program did you. You remind me of that errant school boy, who on failing to read the assigned novel, is now attempting to answer the complex exam question using cryptic notes borrowed at the last minute from the class dummy.

That's right Foxy, I have been somewhat circumspect following my enforced stay on the sidelines earlier this year, complements of the 'One Who Must Be Obeyed', for calling a fellow poster a wombat or some such name. Conserve Hippy I am yet to assign an appropriate marsupial to you, would you like to take your pick?

I believe if you run for political office, you are fair game for all and sundry to poke fun and worse, and need a thick hide. In fact, I'm all in favor of returning to the good old days, where would be polys are forced to make their pitch, on soapboxes, on the street corners. The voters not hearing what they like, should be free to pelt the would be poly with an appropriate assortment of rotten fruit and vegies. Tar and feathering is another option.