Andrew Bolt as the A J Jacobs of denier authors

A. J. Jacobs used to be well known for a series of  very funny and informative books about his year-long experiments in extreme activities - but that fame is soooooo over.

Now he know globally as the King of the Blurbs  - though that title might well be challenged by his fellow mass-blurbers Malcolm Gladwell and Gary Shteyngart.

His "coming-out" article on his blurbing other life is inside The New York Times' paywall and is very funny indeed.

For me, Jacobs' radio interviews on the article are mostly notable for his uncanny ability to hit all - all - of the highlights of the article in 220 seconds or less : a real pro.

He sets a very high mark for the denier crew (people like Andrew Bolt) to set themselves against,  but they do seem to be up for the challenge.

Air-kissingly gushy blurbs "de rigueur" for denier authors

 Just as fictional authors have long created their own echo-chamber where authors agree to gush over each other's latest novel ; so too deniers blurb each other's book and blog with novelist-like abandon.

After all, don't both groups deal strictly in fictional works ?

Darling, who would have ever thought that all those boring old farts in the denier trenches are actually faux-phony air-kissing "actresses"  of the first water .....

is Galileo Movement or is Climate Change a "JEWISH" Cabal ? writes "Confused in Eastbourne"

Dear "Confused in Eastbourne" :

You are not alone in your confusion. But neither are you a mainstream journalist either , ignoring this story completely.

The Galileo Movement is Australia's best known and most active climate changing denying group. Its list of scientific advisors is a virtual "Who's Who" of the global climate denying elite.

Its managing director, Malcolm Roberts, quoting two of those scientific advisors, Jo Nova and Dave Evans, says the whole climate change fuss was cooked up by big banking families, a close-knit cabal, "banksters" as Jo calls them, to secure total world domination.

Google to the rescue, "Confused in Eastbourne", those are code words - dog whistle words - for Jewish banking families seeking total world domination.

As Dave says, the Rothschilds, in case someone forgot the secret translating box.

But now this , in the comments section below Andrew Bolt's column in the Melbourne Australia  Herald Sun

I can’t speak for Malcolm Roberts but can say with intimate first hand knowledge that one of the co-founders of the Galileo Movement - John Smeed (my father-in-law),has been happily married to his lovely Jewish wife for over 20 years. 

The fact that The Age seeks to slur non-conformists by association with National Socialism says more about them ( and the strength of their argument) than it does the Galileo Movement.

Jim from Brisbane of Sherwood Qld (Reply)

Sun 05 Aug 12 (04:57pm)

Now "Confused from Eastbourne" you are astute because you noticed in the website of  The Galileo Movement that Mr Smeed's wife is given prominent credit for being willing to risk all the family assets of this retired couple, to fund a tour of Australia by a foreign denier.

So clearly, she gave The Galileo Movement and its anti-semites her 110%,  as they say in SportsJockLand.

Wait ! There's more !!!!

Fred Singer and Richard Lindzen , both of whose relatives suffered and died under Hitler's extermination of Europe's Jews, also are listed as scientific advisors to The Galileo Movement.

Perhaps you are right, "Confused from Eastbourne", those Rothschilds must have done something spectacular to get these three Jews so dead set against them and acting like there is some truth to Henry Ford's old "Protocols of the Zionist Elders" world conspiracy talk after all.

It is all a highly interesting story, "Confused from Eastbourne", but don't expect to see it in any mainstream newspaper.

All of them have given those Galileo scientific advisors wide credibility by quoting them as "scientific experts" on the other side of the 97% scientific consensus on global warming, in a misguided excuse at "objectivity".

Exposing their so called experts as supporting anti-semitic conspiracy theories would only make these newspapers appear to be fools.

And what would be the point of that ?

Their readers, better than anyone else, already knew that --- years ago.

Sorry I can't be anymore hopeful,

yours sincerely,

M. R. Marshall

Dutch-born Andrew Bolt : silent assent to anti-JEWISH slur or denounce fellow Aussie climate deniers ?

No occupied country in Western Europe has a more shameful record on the Holocaust than the Netherlands - a fact that must weigh heavy on Dutch-born Aussie denier Andrew Bolt.

This very well known media personality is facing the biggest moral dilemma  in his career : denounce anti-Jewish slurs from his fellow climate change deniers or silently assent to their veiled anti-semitic claims.

Andrew Bolt is a scientific advisor to the the Australian-based Galileo Movement, one of the world's best known climate denier groups.

Will he resign and denounce his fellow deniers for this veiled revival of the notorious and fake "Zion Protocol" claim that Jewish banking families were a secret cabal plotting to take over the world ?

The story of the Dutch silent assent during WWII is well known enough to heighten Dutch-born Bolt's moral dilemma

Or will he silently assent to their anti-Jewish claims, hoping to hold the internally deeply-divided denier movement together just a little longer .....

Australia's DUTCH DISEASE is worse than Canada's Tar Sands: ANDREW BOLT

      None of Andrew Bolt's former lovers and colleagues who have gone on the record, seem to believe he really is the "foaming at the mouth" rightie-denier that he chooses to portray himself  as --- in public ----  for fame & money.
    They think he saw a way to move up from being a relatively unknown Labour-Party-supporting hackette to become Australia's FOX NEWS' Bill 'Oh Really?' --- if he moved quickly, before some genuine Aussie right-winger did so.

    So it was a pure free enterprise move - the traditional nimble jump-in to fill a hole in the market, before something bigger and richer does it for you.
   I am in Canada miles away and what can I make of these claims?
   Only this in support of their views: in my experience, most righties have at least one unpredictable leftie flag to wave --- say opposition to the death penalty in an otherwise down the line old cold warrior.
    Andrew Bolt's (public) positions ( I mean who knows what he really thinks in the privacy of his bank vault?) are always so predictably popular with his intended audience one would think his minders test-market them before he emits them like so much leaking radiation.
   Like most of Australia's Dutch, and thus rather different than many Dutch in Canada (perhaps because of the spillover effect of the Canadian liberation of the Netherlands) his family upon arriving in the Australia of the 1950s dropped their Dutchness and their Dutch names,to 'fit in'.
        Instantly, they re-birthed themselves as typical Aussie/Brits, with typical Aussie/Brit names.
    So re-invention is in the very bath and drinking water of the average Dutch Australian---- so perhaps what Bolt has done seems like nothing particularly new for his Dutch kinfolk.
    Though it may be noteworthy to point out his bro is a leading climate change advocate.
    Perhaps even among the Dutch of Australia, petty sibling rivalry can never be ruled out for a motivating force among supposedly grown up adults.
   Psychologists , more than political scientists or theologians, might have more to say about this particular Saul's conversion on the road to TV stardom.
   Canada's DUTCH DISEASE, caused by the Oily Tar Sands, is thus not unique: excessive oiliness can cause problems anywhere.
   At least in Australia the solution is probably quite simple: offer Bolt the GG's job, in exchange for spouting views in public, while GG, that are well within the bounds of traditional Aussie right wing cant.
   ' Tone it down , a little, Andrew and we will throw in this nice uniform with a lot of gold trim and a good bit of kit to retire on '.
   I know he's up for it ----- he's an employee-controversalist for Christ's sake ! Only as controversial as his employers think profitable.
   If Bolt, by contrast, was a self employed/self funded controversalist, like myself, I would definitely believe that his public stances matched his private beliefs.
   But right now, 'employee Bolt the free-thinking, free-speaking controversalist'    (??!!)
    Give me a break - he's nothing more than a trained seal : throw him a fish and watch him snap.
    But at least the real trained seal is in a Twelve Step Program and now admits he's for sale, to the highest bidder, with the biggest and fattest fish ----in all cases, admitting you have a problem is a good first step ....