It's been a long time between drinks, but over at ABC Online they've just posted the latest Club Bloggery article by Jason, Barry, and me - and we've also reposted it at Gatewatching, as usual. This time, we're reflecting on recent revelations that Liberal Party staffers in Victoria ran a blog to discredit their own leader - from party premises...
Baillieu and the Blogs of War
By Jason Wilson, Axel Bruns and Barry Saunders
On Saturday night the story broke about two Victorian Liberal Party staffers who had been sacked for blogging.
Needless to say, they weren't using the blog to share recipes or post pictures of their cats. Rather, it was a venue for some pointed, ad hominem criticism of the party's parliamentary leader in the State, Ted Baillieu. Although the original blog has been locked down, a range of people have taken the trouble to archive its contents elsewhere. Care for a sample?
"With ambition not seen since the early life of Mao Tse Tung; with paranoia not seen since the time of Emperor Tiberius; and a proclivity for nepotism not seen since the papel court of Pope Innocent the tenth - Red Ted is the ultimate hypocrite. If you think about it for a moment Ted Baillieu has many of the attributes of a Roman Emperor, except greatness."
