Reasons you will hate me

The happiest place on earth.

It has recently come to my attention that I'm doing things politically arse-about. Here I was thinking that the Left was the side to be on; all pirate-like swashbuckling and heckling of world leaders and calling people suckholes and better-red-than-dead and O CALAMITY and whatnot. Little did I know that if it's nail biting action and scandalous viciousness you're after you're best off simply joining the Victorian Liberals.


'VICIOUS infighting among Victorian Liberals has claimed a third scalp...
The party's state campaign manager, Susan Chandler, was forced to quit yesterday after the release of an email she sent to a staffer, John Osborn, describing a party candidate, Adam Held, as a "greedy f---ing Jew".



Is anyone else slightly taken aback by this term emerging from the mouth of an otherwise conservative lady? I'm all for colourful language equality between men and women, but a line needs to be drawn somewhere AND PERHAPS THAT LINE IS WRITTEN IN RELIGIOUSLY VILIFIED MAGIC MARKER.



'Mr Osborn released the email after news broke that he and a colleague, Simon Morgan, had been sacked for contributing to an internet site undermining the party leader, Ted Baillieu, and other parliamentarians.

Ms Chandler was among the senior Liberals investigating their anti-Baillieu internet blog, titled "hewhostandsfornothing".


I love it when blogs get mentioned in the mainstream press, not least because it means I'm less likely to end up at a family function overexplaining my dorkus internet hobby and how no-one outside of a handful of friendly fellow cybernerds gives two thirds of a flying fuck about it. John Osborn and Simon Morgan, you have taken one for the team, sirs.




'The site did not limit its anonymous spite to Mr Baillieu, whom it nicknamed Cottee's — "because he's thick and rich" — and who was described as a "vile communist" and a "vacuous moron". Just about anyone seen to be associated with the moderate grouping in the party was fair game, as well as anyone suspected of being supportive of Mr Baillieu.



Oh, come on. Wasn't that thick and rich thing done to death with Mark Philippoussis and Ardmona tomatoes?


Also: If Ted Baillieu is a flag-waving Communist, I'm Rita the Eta Eater.




'Other internal Liberal emails leaked to The Age show Mr Morgan referring to the former Howard government minister, Fran Bailey, as a "stupid fat bitch" and using the c-word in reference to the federal candidate for Corio, Angelo Kakouros, in correspondence with Mr Osborn.'



Sexually loaded insults! The 'c-word'! Poisonous internets! HOLD ON TED, I'M COMING TO PLAY IN YOUR OUTRAGEOUSLY ENTERTAINING GANGSHOW, etc.










p.s. Someone at the Age is surely taking the mickey with this particular caption, though.



AMUSING BUT UNNECESSARY, PICTURE EDITORS OF FAIRFAX.

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