The ABC - haven for Australia's PC bigots and hypocrites

It says a lot about a major Australian institution that for decades it can openly finance Australia's premier left-wing bigot and hypocrite. Long on the ABC's payroll, Philip Adams is truly an Australian phenomenon. While the PC class has succeeded in making 'prejudice' and 'discrimination' Australian society's cardinal sin, causing great folk to shudder through the public destruction of some and ostracising of others, Philip Adams has trumpeted courtesy of the ABC's multi-million resources the most appalling anti-religious bigotry - with impunity. Indeed, Adams is a sort of flagship, a rallying point, for all the unrelenting nastiness the PC mind is capable of. For that he earns (besides the big bucks) the fawning adulation of the legion of deluded bigots that splutter their paranoid fantasies through the airwaves. Philip's mindless followers are even wearying patient John Faine (Melbourne 774) with their constant babble about Australia being a police state.

With such a champion left-wing bigot setting the standards on the PC class's major mouthpiece, there is a high bar for all Adams's colleague to aim at. No doubt with Adams nodding approvingly the purveyors of adolescent undergraduate humour on ABC-TV's 'The Glasshouse' are doing their best. Their target recently was the slow-moving Catholic Church.

Visitors to this website will know that I am less than a fan of Murdoch's disgusting empire. But that is not to say that there is never anything written by Murdoch footsloggers that coincides with truth and fairness, and that all News Ltd journalists are cynical and venal. Indeed, it is the editorial people who are most deserving of this tag. Paul Gray in last Friday's edition of The Australian (16 September) wrote an opinion piece under the heading ABC's Culture of Contempt.

Gray names a number of ABC executives that have recently left the ABC. He says the issue is ideology. Leaving aside the particular case of these people and what they represent, he goes on to make a claim that is abundantly clear to anyone not infected with PC dogma, or has no interest maintaining that class's ascendancy. He says ABC 'stalwarts' like Kerry O'Brien claim there is 'no systemic ideological bias at the ABC'. It is an indication of the confidence and power position of people like O'Brien at the ABC that they would dare to make such a nonsensical claim, even if it's just fodder for their unthinking PC constituency. Gray rightly points out that ABC people sidestep the obvious truth by making it an issue of whether the ABC is pro-Labour or pro-Liberal. This move is swallowed by that same unthinking constituency who can't distinguish between matters of party politics and matters of ideology. It is the issues of ideology that is of concern to most Australians, says Gray.

One [issue] is whether the ABC promotes product that is offensive to the core values of significant groups within the community. The clear answer here is yes. Take last week's episode of the nationally telecast comedy-lifestyle show 'The Glasshouse'...[It] contained a four-minute panel discussion about the Catholic Church that contained the following comments:

'Any religion that says you're not allowed to masturbate, you're not allowed to use condoms [and] that touches kids, shouldn't be something that you really want to follow.

'Why do they always elect [a] pope who is so old? Why don't they start with a 20-year-old pope? [Here the presenter makes a quaffing gesture] "Aw, more blood of Christ, come on!" [And] wearing his hat backwards calling himself Snoop Popey Pope.

'When the Pope comes [to Australia], take him to see what is sacred to us. Take him to see a footy game. I'm assuming he'd be a Saints supporter. Take him to see a Saints v the Demons. And if the Demons win in the presence of the Pope, we can set the Pope on fire!

'Look at the way we celebrate Christmas [in Australia]. It's like, "Jesus is born, f... it, let's get pissed and eat ham.

'When Jesus held the chalice up and said, "This is my blood you drink, do this in remembrance of me", as soon as he started drinking, you know the disciples [in Australia] are going to go "Skull! Skull! Skull!"'

For Orthodox Catholics, this needless to say is deeply offensive. To explain why to these professional bigots would only increase their joy and satisfaction at striking their mark. The relevant point made by Gray, though, is that The Glasshouse illustrates the real nature of the ABC's bias.

...ABC bias is not the bias of Labor against Liberal. Rather it's the bias of North Fitzroy against Dandenong. Of Leichhardt against Punchbowl. It is the bias of a self-regarding, inner-urban middle-class elite against that part of Australian society that it regards as unenlightened. Arguably, the majority of that society.

Gray is fundamentally correct here. I would only add the one important omission. A vital causal factor in the PC-class's social snobbery is the tertiary education most of them have enjoyed at taxpayer's expense. It is an irony that PC snobs accuse Christians, particularly Catholics, of being indoctrinated. If one remains a Christian in today's demented anti-religious social environment, then one has done that consciously - consciously reviewing the reasons for adhering to religious belief and consciously standing up to the ridicule, slander, mockery and discrimination exercised by those who had their bigotry formed in the country's seminaries of politically correct dogma: Australian universities.

Paul Gray should be congratulated for having the courage to write and publish a piece that indicts many of his peers and journalistic colleagues.