[csaa-forum] But wait, there's more

Jane Armstrong J.N.Armstrong at exchange.curtin.edu.au
Mon Feb 28 13:23:29 CST 2005


Sam Newman - nuff said


On 28/2/05 11:43 AM, "Glen Fuller" <g.fuller at uws.edu.au> wrote:

>> In the meantime, I'd like to start a little competition. If Andrew
> Bolt 
>> was an elite athlete who would he be? In my household, following a
>> column he wrote attacking 'postmodern feminists', there was a
> suggestion 
>> that he might be the  Lleyton Hewitt of column writing. Any other
> ideas?
> 
> Don't you reckon he is closer to Richie Benaud than any elite
> sportsperson? Apologies to Benaud of course. Actually, Benaud seems to
> be an unlikely candidate, he is far too accurate and lovable uncle-I-
> never-had-type character... Witness the Tropfest finalist: "A Family
> Legacy" Everyone loves Benaud, 'AFL' certainly got the most laughs in
> the proximity to my Tropblanket. Bolt is more like the annoying-big-
> brother-I-sometimes-had. Oh, but this is too familial.
> 
> Maybe the unfettered enthusiasm for all things sporting by the King of
> Talking Heads, Bruce Mcavaney, in combination with his one-sided
> commentary for the Australian ubersporting pundit can serve as a close
> parallel to Bolt's unfettered enthusiasm for the princes of the
> contemporary state of affairs? I am sure they must have the same
> stylist, or at least go to the same hairdresser. Bolt becoming-
> Mcavaney. Politics becomes sport. I feel so Australian.

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