Red card!

One of the great blessings of life on the left, apart from lucrative employment opportunities at all the usual and mostly taxpayer-supported suspect organisations, is the vocal support of friends in times of trouble. Just ask fired SBS soccer reporter Scott McIntyre, whose adolescent mania to attract attention inspired him to exercise his right to free speech and lambast Anzacs, Australia, plus those who take a drink or place a bet. Remember, a neo-wowserist contempt for the petty vices of the masses is as integral to the left’s conception of virtue as is its ardent advocacy of gay marriage.

Well this was too much even for SBS, which showed McIntyre the door.

“Censorship!” has been the cry from the New Establishment, with professors and alleged journalists fulminating about how unfair it is that such opinions, which they seem mostly to endorse but have sufficient wit not to utter quite so bluntly, can cost a young pup his livelihood. Being on the left means it is always someone else who has to say sorry.

Someone like Andrew Bolt, for example, who was dragged through the courts, denounced as a racist and whose employer found the legal ordeal so excruciatingly expensive no appeal was ever filed.

And through it all, did we hear a single peep from those now professing to be champions of free speech?

Don’t be silly.

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