Comments on: “Stilgherrian Live” returns, looks at Internet censorship

By: Stilgherrian

Stilgherrian — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 09:31:38 +0000

Thank you, everyone. Nominations have now closed. Stilgherrian Live begins in under an hour.

By: Yeebok Shu'in

Yeebok Shu'in — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 09:24:44 +0000

I’ll weigh in with :
1. Danny Nalliah
2. Gary Hughes (http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/02/11/2488272.htm)
– Sad as it is, Centrelink STILL has to obey the laws it has to work under.
3. Xenophon (been said above)
4. Fielding (he deserves auto-nomination)

By: mab397

mab397 — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 08:51:14 +0000

Conroy ran a great campaign but Danny Nalliah and the Catch the Fire Ministries should romp it home effortlessly.

Personally I’d like to see the taxi driver who raped his drunk passengers get up for the win. But then if he goes to jail he’ll get what he deserves. Preferably nightly by a guy named Blocko.

By: Here's Johnny

Here's Johnny — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 06:17:59 +0000

I nominate Nick Xenophon, for simultaneously torpedoing the $42 billion dollar stimulus package and deflecting blame away from Turnbull.

By: Rod

Rod — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 06:04:02 +0000

Eddie McGuire.

It’s horrible to watch a TV host who doesn’t have a TV show… subject us to a ‘Special TV Event’.

By: yv

yv — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 05:46:46 +0000

Oh, what the heck, here’s a few more

1) Wilson Tuckey for his apolitical wisdom on how to deal with bushfires
2) Turnbull and the Coalition who line up behind him – for their services to the environment, and their support for combating climate change, and for their willingness to put ideology aside and work with the Government to address the financial tsunami that is approaching Australia.

By: Glebe2037

Glebe2037 — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 05:39:59 +0000

After this afternoon I should say Nick Xenophon & Stephen Fielding could be up for a group award …

By: yv

yv — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 05:36:23 +0000

Can I nominate:

Danny Nalliah for his wonderful display of sensitivity to the families who have lost people in fires, along with his work to help bridge the divide between the islamic and christian peoples of australia.

By: oliyoung

oliyoung — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 05:35:15 +0000

Senator Xenophon’s single-handedly holding back a $40b+ stimulus package, if that doesn’t smell like holding back the tide i don’t know what is

By: Alex Schlotzer

Alex Schlotzer — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 05:32:32 +0000

Well I’d like to nominate a few people because it’s so hard to tell them apart.

These are in no particular order:
1. Danny Nalliah
2. Steve Fielding
3. Nick Xenophon
4. The entire Coalition caucus in the Senate
5. Stephen Conroy

By: Stilgherrian

Stilgherrian — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 05:27:52 +0000

Thank you everyone for the nominations so far. I can see that Pastor Danny Nalliah is going to be a popular choice today, and I certainly won’t disagree with the arguments in favour of his nomination.

Keep ‘em coming… as usual I’ll close off nominations at 8.30pm Sydney time.

By: k3mepoh

k3mepoh — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 05:27:48 +0000

1. Danny Nalliah -easy
2. Wilson Tuckey
3. Daylight

By: Dave The Happy Singer

Dave The Happy Singer — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 05:13:22 +0000

I also nominate Danny Nalliah.

But if you’ll allow me to stretch your net even further, an empty headed London radio host called Jeni Barnett has been thoroughly Cnutish in the last week or two.

She hosted a phone-in radio show on LBC spouting runny poo about non-existent risks in vaccination.

The marvellous Bad Science columnist and blogger Ben Goldacre posted her show as a podcast.

LBC have come on heavy with the lawyers and the Streisand effect has kicked in, spreading the audio and transcripts far and wide in a footbullet the likes of which I haven’t seen since a certain diminutive actor claimed he was the only one who could help at a road accident.

I encourage you to check the story out.

Ben needs our support, anti-vaxxers need some critical thinking skills and Jeni Barnett deserves to be runner-up Cnut of the Week.

By: theparissite

theparissite — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 04:25:14 +0000

The day is young, they’re still sitting in the big house, and Steve Fielding may come roaring back into contention.

But he’d have to work harder at it than usual to depose Danny Nalliah.

By: Lafinboy

Lafinboy — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 03:57:43 +0000

A big angry +1 for Danny Nalliah and the Catch the Fire Ministries, just for his downright stupidity and insensitive timing.

More Cnutish though would be the Freeview consortium, trying desperately to hold onto their dwindling viewer number by offering a supposed 15 extra free to air digital channels. So far no sign of any new programming to fill these channels, and the likelihood is there will be none.