Foxy,

I repeat. I asked you to expose the extreme Rightists and extreme Right posts seen on OLO. I have no interest whatsoever in name calling. If you can't do this for me, just let it go.

PS, Foxy,

I called doog an 'imbecile', if that's what you are talking about. That's what I think of anyone who thinks Bolt, or anyone else, does not have the right to defend themselves against physical attack is.

That is not political, left right, or anything else. It is just a reaction to a very, very peculiar individual, someone who keeps harping on about Tony Abbott - even when Tony Abbott has NOT been mentioned in any conversation.

I tried to have a discussion with doog, but he rejected the chance, and he continues to carp on about Abbott and makes ridiculous comments that nobody else, left or right, would dream of making. I think that he is programmed, and somebody winds him up every morning.

And really, Foxy, if you take exception to Jovial Joe's occasional lapse into playing around with people's monikers, you are getting a bit thin-skinned.

Joe, you claim to be an evidence based person, and will demand evidence when ever the argument is against you. In fact you run a website which supposedly to be all evidence based. Yet on this question, Bolts claimed attack by Left Wing Fascists. You readily accepted as the "gospel truth" what Bolt has to say, Could it be you are simply a one eyed Bolt supporter with similar views, and without proof you take at face value whatever Bolt claims.

Then you make this silly claim yourself <<Or if their (someone on the Left) attackers were Muslim, then they would lay down and take a good kicking (or stay standing and take a good knifing for the Cause of Peace>>

Maybe you run a con job on the forum, claiming to once have been a misguided member of the evil left, who one day miraculously seen the light, and is now encamped firmly with the good folk of the right. People like Bolt. Where did your conversion take place, on the road to Damascus?

Dear ttbn,

You can make all the justifications that you want.
The fact remains that there is a double standard
here. When "jovial Joe" insults people for their
opinions that's allright and my pointing it out
makes me thin-skinned. And when doog expresses
an opinion he's an "imbecile." And the list goes on.
Then there are the accusations of being "left-wing"
hurled around because anyone who dares to criticise
Andrew Bolt must be a "Left-winger," whereas those
that defend him and insult posters for their opinions
cannot possibly be right-wingers.

Okay then. Sounds fair.

We get it.

Foxy,

That's life. Whatever one 'side' says against the other applies to them as well. We just have different opinions of the same thing. It has always been thus, and it will continue that way. What a boring place it would be if we all thought the same way.

Hi Paul,

Whatev. Wait and see if and when the matter goes to court. Are you suggesting that

(a) Bolt was attacked by rival right-wing thugs ? or

(b) that Bolt was assaulted randomly by people of no particular persuasion ?

(a) is possible since, after all, there is no limit to the variations on both Left and Right themes. And come to think of it, I suppose the same applies to the 'Left'. I remember a friend (in NZ actually, the late Bruce Jesson) who was associated with the Trots, to their Whatever Revolutionary People's Movement or Whatever (Uninterrupted Revolution), to a splinter from it which took the tag (Spasmodic). No doubt later, a sub-splinter broke away from that, called something like (the Punctuated Evolution Revolutionary Caucus).

Life is almost never either-or. Politics is almost never cut and dried, The One And Only Left versus The One And Only Right (and Nothing In Between). For all I know, the old Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist)split into a pro-Albania wing and a pro-Pol-Pot wing, both denouncing the original bird as Rightist.

Perhaps (eventually) things fall apart, but in the meantime, while waiting for that inevitability, they certainly fragment. Just look at ISIS and al Qa'ida and the Muslim Brotherhood, all Islamo-fascist movements but at each others' throats - viz. the Saudis, Iran and Qatar.

It's an inconveniently complicated world, Paul :)

Cheers,

Joe