Ladies who lynch

van bad and devaneyIn his Quadrant Online essay on Western civilization’s wan defenders, Kevin Donnelly notes the eagerness of “the cultural-left dominated media, educational institutions, entertainment industry and progressive political parties” to shout down those who dare to “question prevailing orthodoxies.” Nothing better makes that point than the reader “reviews” his book, Educating Your Child: It’s Not Rocket Science, has attracted on the Amazon.com website. Amongst those who piled on from the left, a certain Vanessa Badham:

There is one undeniable truth purported by this book: if you use this man’s narrow ideological paradigm as a means of restraining the development of critical thought in your child, they are highly unlikely to ever become a rocket scientist.

Other “reviewers” include Pauline Pantsdown, a drag queen, plus a slather of what are, presumably, pseudononymous commentators dishing the sort of schoolyard sarcasm which passes for wit on the left. Credit Ms Badham for actually putting her name to her thoughts — and, in doing so, confirming Donnelly’s point about “the cultural-left dominated media”.

You see, Ms Badham is rather more than just another harpy with a keyboard. She is also a Victorian Vice-President of the MEAA, what used to be called the Australian Journalists’ Association before the union found its natural companions in a fusion with the clowns and luvvies of Actors Equity. That’s her on the right above, enjoying the bed and companionship of friend and alleged comedienne Catherine Deveny, perhaps the only person ever sacked by The Age for standards of couth and decency even lower than its own.

And Ms Badham’s Victorian MEAA president? Why, it’s The Australian‘s recently hired business columnist Ben Butler, formerly of Fairfax and even more notoriously associated with defunct rock band Jihad Against America, for which he played guitar and contributed vocals on numbers like Jihad Is the New Black and the even more memorable I Want to Sniff Your Undies.

Her savage breast unsoothed by Butler’s, er, music, Gerard Henderson’s media watchdog, Nancy, conducted what the Sydney Institute swears is an interview with Butler in 2014. The tone of Nancy’s questions suggests she shares Donnelly’s view that the media is irredeemably of the left; indeed, mindlessly so. That exchange can be read via the link below.

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