Bob Ellis on ABC "Unleashed"

wow! A Bob Ellis tirade against Confidently Asserted Untruth.

http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/stories/s2725644.htm

a taste:

"More and more as the boat people come we see how wrong our judgments are. People who keep their children in the camps, we are told, are good people. People who try to give their children a better life in Australia are bad people. It's right for them to wait until their children are criminalised or dead in the filthy, hopeless conditions of the camps. It's wrong for them to get them to a good high school in Australia, because they have 'jumped a queue'. It's better for them to stay in Sri Lanka till their enemies kill them. That's the right thing to do.

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We believe any family whose house burns down should get the insurance money for it, but not if the Israeli Defence Force burns it down. We believe the three hundred children killed by hostile fire in Gaza were justly killed because bad men were near them. We believe Israelis can kill bad people without bringing them to trial, though Israel is a 'democracy'. We believe Israel has a license to kill, but Arabs who try to kill Israelis are 'terrorists'. We believe Hamas should 'renounce violence' but not Israel. We believe Israel can have secret atomic bombs but not Iran."

and then of course there is the opportunity to join Bob in a rant as the comments show.. But it is good to see this being said!