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2 January 2003
Someone else has noticed the appalling Philip Adams – it’s about time
In the Australian’s Media supplement of today (2 January), there is a comment (p. 8) by Tim Blair with the headline: Balancing the blooper count with what’s on the left. He gives a monthly selection of some of the year's crassest, most laughable comments from foremost members of the Politically Correct class. (He talks of the Left, but I think, as readers would realise by now, that the title, ‘the politically correct’, is more ideologically expressive and accurate, and conveys the right emotional flavour of the liberal/left’s mentality.) There are truly some gems amongst the selection and I refer the reader to the full report. In fact, Tim Blair is worth reading in the Australian on a weekly basis. However, and this is my business here, there are three really dopey blunders from the pen of the inimitable Philip Adams that give an indication of what an utter fraud he is.
Philip Adams is a veritable phenomenon in Australian social history. It is not only remarkable but something of a mystery that a person with such an imposing and profound depth of hypocrisy and bigotry could enlarge himself year in year out as a putrid cancerous sore on the social body of Australia – and be paid handsomely for it. It must be said here that like all PC hypocrites, Adams has a nose for government money. He seems to have a special spot reserved for him by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation that has been feeding his bloating reputation for years.
Via the ABC and venal bribers like the Murdoch empire, he has succeeded in building an army behind him of the most lazy, ignorant, and mindlessly bigoted people Australia has to offer. There is another side to Adams, though, that is not so noticeable. Adams in fact is an intellectual fraud. He has a knack of gleaning the specialist vocabulary and jargon of any given field and then making comments as if he is the most perceptive of men in that particular field.
Anybody who has any specialist knowledge in any area he presumes to comment on will usually find him out. I’m not talking about his obsessive comments on Christianity. Any orthodox Catholic knows that his comments on the Church, for example, are drawn from the bigoted fantasy he has constructed for himself and those just as intellectually lazy and prejudiced. No, I mean just about any field he cares to comment on. The following quotes that Tim Blair provides are just a tiny selection. (Bye the bye, there is a book out there for a budding author who wants to make a name for himself by tearing down one of the greatest frauds in Australia’s social history). The following are the laughable efforts by the incomparable Philip Adams who is too sloppy and lazy even to check his mental arithmetic. Have a quiet laugh about them.
July
The Australian’s Philip Adams says that Australia may find it
difficult to become the 51st state of the US because the [American] flag
features ‘five neat rows of ten and 51 isn’t easily divisible.'
The US flag has nine horizontal rows, not five. Those rows include alternately, five and six stars, and not ten, and 51 is easily divided by 17 and 3. Adams continues: ‘Australia will simply join the list of other states, like Texas, Kansas and California. With alphabetical order in our favour, we will enter the list at No. 3, just after Alabama and Arkansas.' Adams forgot Alaska and Arizona. We’d enter the list fifth.
October
‘Let me introduce you to the wonderfully christened Charles Krauthammer,’
writes Philip Adams. ‘Krauthammer simultaneously evokes notions of a master
race and massive blows to the anvil.’ Possibly, but he wasn’t christened
‘Krauthammer’, which is his surname. In fact, being Jewish, it’s likely
Krauthammer wasn’t christened at all. Adams runs quotes in the article that
he implies are from his interview with the American commentator; they turn
out to be from Krauthammer columns written months earlier.
November
Philip Adams frets about ‘the White House, the Christian Coalition and
what’s left of the Moral Majority’ ganging up to eliminate sex education.
Moral Majority ceased operations in 1989.
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