After releasing a cartoon on Instagram attacking the Australian Government’s push for mandatory vaccination, cartoonist Michael Leunig (pictured above) was later informed by the Age daily newspaper that he would no longer be working for them in his capacity as a Political Cartoonist. The cartoon was rejected for publication before Leunig released the material on social media, causing a backlash from pro-mandate accounts, while prompting the newspaper’s editor to inform Leunig that he was disconnected from the audience. RT has the story.
Speaking to The Australian on Monday, Leunig said that while the editorial team has censored about a dozen of his works this year, the last straw appeared to be an anti-mandate cartoon which was a play on the iconic ‘tank man’ photo. Leunig’s cartoon shows a man staring down a tank, with its main gun being replaced by a syringe.
The original photo depicts a lone Chinese protester standing before a line of tanks during the 1989 pro-democracy protests at Tiananmen Square.
While his cartoon was rejected by The Age, Leunig published the drawing on Instagram, triggering backlash from the proponents of vaccine mandates.
Shortly after the controversy erupted, Leunig, who worked at the newspaper for over 20 years, was told that his services as a Political Cartoonist were no longer needed. Gay Alcorn, Editor of The Daily Age, reportedly told the artist that he was “out of touch” with readers before notifying him of his dismissal. While Alcorn praised Leunig as “brilliant” in a comment to The Australian, he confirmed that his works would no longer appear on the editorial page. The newspaper still plans to commission lifestyle cartoons from Leunig, however.
Leunig accused the newspaper of “wokeism and humorlessness“, defending the cartoon as an accurate reflection of the times.
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Why aren’t the Anti Fascist League protesting about all this fascism? Silly me it’s the correct type of fascism that’s being practised.
Because it’s communism and they approve.
Similarly where are PETA, the RSPCA and all the animal rights groups about the Fauci funded animal torture in Tunisia?
Yet again – crickets!
Bit like no comment when their own chase walruses off cliffs, its different when we do it, nothing to see here, move along.
This cartoon?
About sums it up. Another cartoonist ‘let go’. Perhaps Leunig and Bob Moran should team up: The Hard Truth in Pictures.
STAND FIRM.
This year’s best-seller?
The cartoon misses the point of the photograph; the brave Tiananmen Square protester was not going to be killed by the tanks main battle armament, just crushed as an insignificant nobody as the vast superstructure (for which read health bureaucracy/police state) rumbles on without even noticing.
Would have been better if the syringe was pointing aimlessly upwards like a Dalek.
History being made before our eyes here.
We all need to be that guy.
“Gay Alcorn, Editor of The Daily Age, reportedly told the artist that he was “out of touch” with readers.”
Errr no. The readers are out of touch with Michael Leunig. Australians have lost their minds, en masse. Leunig is one of Australia’s great intellectuals of the past decades, a master of the insightful simple touching cartoon.
Make no mistake, this is a marker and a turning point. When Leunig and the consciousness of the Australian public have parted ways, the country is toast.
Gay Alcorn. Made up name
The biggest laugh I’ve had in ages.
I bet 50 percent of readers would have loved this cartoon. Almost everyone here likes it. Of course, 100 percent of editors (and owners of news companies) can’t stand it.
We don’t know what stories or cartoons or op-eds might resonate positively with readers, because these works don’t get published.
An anecdote from my efforts to get contrarian stories or op-eds published is, I think, germane to this point.
Since COVID appeared, I’ve been sending letters to the editor and guest opinion pieces to the largest news organization in my state. I also emailed writers and editors at this site and asked why they didn’t ever publish dissenting pieces. I mentioned that I used to be an editor and I routinely approved and published opinion pieces I didn’t personally agree with. If the piece made valid points and was well-written, I ran it.
Well, I think my points must have embarrassed at least one editor because the site did belatedly run one of my op-ed pieces (see link below). However, this didn’t really cause me to change my main thought because when the on-line site did run it they didn’t put a headline or link on their main page. In fact, I never saw it on their home page where all the other stories and opinion pieces are showcased (sometimes for days). I actually don’t know how people found this piece. Maybe it was published at their Facebook site? Maybe readers could find it by going to the Opinion box.
Still, some people found it because it ended up getting 723 “shares,” which was far more than most “Guest Op Eds.” Lots of people emailed me, thanking me for it. My main point is that this opinion piece would have gotten 10 or 100 times more “shares” and reads if it had actually been profiled for a couple hours on the site’s main page … So even when these sites do run a letter to the editor-type contrarian piece, the editors (intentionally, I believe) bury it.
But my little example did show that there are/were lots of people who think just like I do.
I’d also note that I have sent probably 10 similar letters to the editor/guest op Eds and this is still the only one that got published, even if it was largely hidden from view. I’ve sent similar letters and commentaries to many other sites as well and nobody runs them.
Bottom line: It’s almost impossible to get through or around the ‘gatekeepers of the news.” These people who make decisions on what to publish – or what not to publish – are not going to play fair. “Balance” is allowed once every blue moon.
https://www.al.com/opinion/2021/04/science-isnt-necessary-to-decide-on-getting-the-covid-19-vaccine.html
It’s a calm, reasoned, balanced and thoughtful essay, Bill, harking back to those halcyon days when people could make decisions on medical interventions without being pilloried or having their livelihoods threatened. Thank you.
Wokism and cancel culture go hand in hand with what we have witnessed with the pandemic this past 18-months. If the liberal elite don’t like something, rather than debate with it – you know, like we do in healthy liberal democracies – they simply cancel it. In the same manner, they have attempted to cancel all mainstream debate about vaccines, alternative treatments and so on. This is actually fascism in all but name.
Call it fascism then. I do. It’s nothing to do with either liberalism or the encouragement of diversity.
Just for the record, and because this may be of interest to you: I disagree with some of what you wrote (basically with the amalgamation) but I’m not going to click on the Neronian “thumbs down” symbol because I think downvoting comments on the internet is stupid.
It’s Maoism.
For me the whole concept of ‘woke’ seemed to emerge into the public consciousness about the same time as Covid, like a creeping, unseen malaise. I personally hadn’t really noticed ‘woke’ until then. Is this a coincidence? Given that it reflects the cultural revolution of China in the 1960s in its intolerance to thinking beyond the prescribed narrative. It’s got nothing to do with liberalism and is a process of thought control and the so-called intellectuals who promote it are just the fascists’ useful idiots. Some say it’s just an extension of political correctness. Perhaps, but only in the same way as fascism is a logical extension as the sheep that constantly bleat about law and order. .
More generally on “woke” and “cancel culture”. I think it is a trendy buzzword for something that has existed since I was at university in 1970 and probably way before. There have always been political positions that were not able to present their opinions in universities, the mainstream media, and other establishment spaces and things it was insensitive, or frowned upon, to say. I remember, as a student, debating whether to shout down Enoch Powell when he was invited to speak . Often the excluded are right wing but sometimes they are left wing – try getting to make a case for communism or even socialism in 1950s America.
The big differences are that now anyone can get some kind of platform through social media and the right wing have managed to label is as “cancel culture”/”woke” and associated it with the left wing exclusively. Thus enabling them to make it a political issue.
More generally on “woke” and “cancel culture”. I think it is a trendy buzzword for something that has existed since I was at university in 1970 […] I remember, as a student, debating whether to shout down Enoch Powell when he was invited to speak.
Bluntly put, ‘we’ know that this 1970s stuff nowadays pushed by the people who controlled nothing but university debating circle back then. But that’s not true anymore and they’re able to do much more damage today. Eg, the whole Corona pandemic scam is essentially their invention because they’re afraid it might be their time to die this time. And – unselfish as they always were – everything else can go to hell in a handcart if something threatens them (or they believe this to be the case — their actual risk is only marginally higher than that of the younger population).
It’s got much, much worse very rapidly over the past few years.
“If the liberal elite don’t like something, rather than debate with it – you know, like we do in healthy liberal democracies – they simply cancel it.”
I have lost count of the number of times I have been told that this site is not for me, or that readers should ignore what I write, or simply to fuck off, because my views that differ from views of most people here.
Fair point.
I should add that there are several exceptions including yourself.
You are an apologist for mass murder, child abuse, and genocide
The equivalent of post war Nazis demanding that they be allowed to be heard
This is total war, no prisoners
Obviously I don’t think that I am arguing for mass murder, child abuse, and genocide. However, I am interested, do you think that post-war Nazis should have been allowed to be heard? Or is cancel culture allowed in this instance?
In my view, even a monster deserves a fair trial.
We shouldn’t lower ourselves to their level.
That’s debate – albeit not very civilised debate. Q: “Fuck off” A: “No”.
Cancellation is being banned by admin for an opinion.
You can call it debate if you like. I normally associate debate with at least stating a position on something and usually arguing for that position.
Anyhow, my main point is that there are some people here who clearly would prefer not to be exposed to contrary opinions.
I’ve noticed that too. Free speech works both ways.
I’d have hoped that users of this site would agree on recovering our civil liberties, freedom of speech and expression plus measures to stop a government going rogue ever again.
(The US Constitution has a rather drastic Second Amendment to cater for that possibility.)
Journalists and editors should be the most vocal defenders of free expression. Instead, they are the ones now blocking free expression. They also protect the narrative by NOT writing stories that would challenge the narrative. It’s not only the stories they do publish that show their agenda, it’s all the ones the could run but won’t.
This story shows that those in the newsrooms will not tolerate anyone who challenges the narrative. The government or Big Brother doesn’t even have to do the censoring. The journalists do it for them.
Tempers are naturally running hot
I can’t speak for everyone but I think most here are fine with contrary opinions, but they like to vent
You’re still here, posting freely, sometimes people debate you, sometimes they attack you
You’ve not been banned, which is what tends to happen now if you express opinions regarded as beyond the pale
I don’t think any of the commentators here have the power to ban me, do they? I suspect some of them would like to.
I am glad most of you are fine with contrary opinions. You are rather quiet about it. I don’t remember anyone objecting when I have been told that this site is not for me.
Read my essay about the Comments Section at a SPORTS site. The owners/editors/moderators have clearly made a decision to censor those who are attempting to defend a position and cite supporting evidence or arguments for said position. They have effectively outlawed this effort at this site. The effect is to give the appearance that everyone (or 95 percent of the population) agrees with the view of the editors and the Establishment. If they didn’t censor opposing viewpoints, this consensus opinion would NOT be a consensus opinion.
Can you give me a link to your essay – really hard to track it down with the information you have given.
It’s above in body of a Comment. Comment Sections are about the only place I can post these days. Or here and a few others, and that number is dwindling. Post while you still can!
Ah got it – thanks. It would be interesting to know the actual site and what you wrote.
I see. The site is called The Athletic. The most recent stories were about five football coaches getting fired for not getting vaccinated. Until I was banned, I commented on stories criticizing pro athletes who had not been vaccinated. It’s a paid site, but it would be interesting for people to visit and see all the contrarian comments that have been deleted for being “objectionable.” I had never seen an example of a Comments Section where one point of view seems to literally be off limits and not allowed. It’s now beyond brazen.
Thanks. So it is not exactly mainstream media.
I agree that by suppressing certain views the media can give the false impression they are not popular – or the type of people who have certain views may not want to air them on particular channels. However, I see plenty of sceptical comments on national sites including the BBC. So I am not convinced there is active suppression there.
There is a stronger case that the original items that are posted on media reflect an editorial bias. But I don’t think you can avoid that. It assumes there is something that is neutral ground – but everyone thinks their own views are unbiased. The BBC does as good a job as anyone in the sense that everyone (left, right, brexit, remain etc) seems to think they are biased against them.
All these brave souls that are speaking out, and getting sacked, banned, cancelled…are doing something right!
For sure Helena… a great film just out from Israel…
https://rumble.com/vn212d-the-testimonies-project-the-movie.html
My heart goes out to the many, many victims of vaxx apartheid… anyone that mandates these transfection, non-immunizing clot shots needs prison time…
ASAP
There’s increasing evidence that at least some of the side effects such as clotting and heart inflamation are caused by not aspirating the syringe to prevent injecting directly into the bloodstream instead of the muscle.
So they massively increase the risk of a bad reaction to the vaccine by not performing a simple procedure, as if the vaccines weren’t risky enough in the first place…
The next stage, if this does not prove sufficient warning to the disobedient, will be a well publicised stint in a psychiatric hospital.
Courage with a capital C.
More of us must stand against the tyranny. It will cost us, but the establishment is terrified it’ll catch on. They’ll break before we do.
Withold your money, your support, your votes from any who impose this madness.
Enough is enough.
The elections are all rigged, so I don’t think anyone is scared which way people vote.
BBC News website
The Scottish government insisted it was continuing to engage with the sector to discuss implementation of the scheme.
A spokesperson said: “Covid-19 certification is a proportionate way of encouraging people to get vaccinated
Not even bothering to lie about it anymore
They are lying: It’s a way to force certain people to get vaccinated. An encouragement would be a benefit people can gain in exchange for doing something. And being allowed to go to some business premises and spend money there is not a benefit, not being allowed to do that is a harsh restriction of a very basic right (I suggest freedom of private enterprise as term here. Better suggestions welcome).
“Restriction of freedom.”
I was/ am unsure about the name of the right involved here. But thank you nevertheless.
It’s not encouragement, though, it’s coercion. It doesn’t give you the courage to do something, it induces fear of the consequences of not doing something.
If I put a gun to your head, I suppose the Scottish government would think that proportionate encouragement as well. After all, you still have a choice: you can choose whether you conform your behaviour to what I demand so that I don’t have to pull the trigger.
Yeah, right.
This is where these fascists are bucking the system. The international protocols that these countries have signed up to prohibit coercion to take drugs, including vaccines. It is not enough for them to argue (as did the NSW judge) that vaccine mandates are OK because nobody is sticking the needle forcibly in your arm, so you retain bodily autonomy. That would seem to authorize all sorts of torture and brainwashing then, provided the methods are non-contact.
But only this year, the Council of Europe, for example, warned about the non-medical use of vaccine passports (and using them as a means of coercion is a non-medical reason):
I make no comment about the rights and wrongs of the Council of Europe, merely that the present state of things as rolled out in Italy, France, Lithuania etc exemplifies the massive drift and detachment from these principles annunciated just a few months ago by countries that are members of that Council. The slide is far faster than any downgrade in the 1930s.
The ozzies do love their jabs – and can get rather violent & abusive towards anyone not in favour of vaccine coercion, as demonstrated in this video of Rebel News reporter Avi Yemini and some members of the public.
https://youtu.be/WvUqzjIKuKI
Avi Yemini is not a journalist, he’s just an attention-seeking twat. He puts those who are against the coercion of the ‘vaccines’ and ‘lockdowns’ in a bad light.
It would be better if he did some investigations into who is being paid by who, who imports the vaccines, etc. rather than just go round making himself look like a prat.
Only then he might get some respect from me.
Bwaaahaahaa, sounds like jealousy.
Lets see, he works for a news organisation, does pieces to camera reporting on aspects of the Oz fascist state and said pieces are available on tinternet.
But Waaahh! hes not a reporter cos he reports on the wrong things/ is Jewish/has tattoos/isn’t left wing etc etc.
Methinks you protest too much.
… thereby proving the point of his cartoon.
But then again totalitarians aren’t known for their self awareness or their ability to have a laugh at their own expense.
The cartoonists who spread the company line are as safe as ever. A good cartoonist could come up with a powerful picture to illustrate my point (and the irony at work here) … but such a cartoon won’t get published. Sigh.
At the end of the day if you grant the government the power to inject what they like when they like it is not some trivial concession it is the end of the road for most of humanity. Even if the present products had better provenance and integrity than I think they do what happens next? Indeed, the people prosecuting this have only manifested harshness and brutality. The don’t like or care about us. There is some other agenda than our well-being.
Zyclon B?
Yes, if it is policy to kill you they can kill you just like that, and nowhere much to go. That is the logic of knuckling under.
Spot on.
Gay is a former ‘Fact Checker’
I’ve added her to the list (Australian section)
“Leuning accused the newspaper of ‘wokeism and humorlessness’“.
What? Is “wokeism” a general term now for banning a person for criticising the government?
Great cartoon, though.
Wokeism is Maoist.
Almost every powerful institution on the planet is in this up to their necks. When they see anyone with a voice step out of line, they will be brutal. When they seen themselves losing the general public, they will be ruthless. At every point they will be desperate to silence, to isolate, to divide. The more scared the are, the harsher will be the response. I think the main play will be to continue to try and isolate those who speak up or resist, to make them seem like enemies of the people. This is why they want to vaxx everyone – nothing to do with protecting them, it’s so that the vaxxed feel signed up and are less likely to admit they’ve been had.
“When they see anyone with a voice step out of line, they will be brutal.”
See: Julian Assange.
Tiananmen Square and lockdown are both communist so there is no rational justification for butthurt.
This is an absolute disgrace.
Australia (and NZ) are introducing apartheid.
In view of this, and the ludicrous trampling of human rights – only about 1,700 Aussies have died over TWO winters – I cannot see how the ENG cricket team can go on tour there next months.
Human rights abuses used to guarantee sporting isolation.
Have the English Cricket team members all been double/triple-jabbed? I expect they don’t really care about human rights abuses as long as they get a free plane ride and have a nice holiday.
Also over 500 have died from the jabs.
Not a good ratio is it?
Australia can no longer claim to be a liberal democracy.
‘If Fascism Ever Comes to America, It Will Come in the Name of Liberalism’ – Ronald Reagan
For Fascism see : Australia.
Extremely apposite for a cartoon, and very relevant.
Vaccine mandates are wholly POLITICAL decisions, and therefore this was appropriate political comment.
But it’s too close to the bone for the fascists. They cannot abide any exposure of or challenge to their political agenda. All dissent to totalitarianism must be violently rooted out.
Of course, this is what we expected in totalitarian Germany or Soviet Russia, and China. But Australia?
Australia has well and truly gone over to the dark side.
The best political cartoonist always skewer political correctness and/or hypocrisy. Of course, we don’t have many real cartoonists left. Of course, they would come after the few who still remain. And have.
‘Dr Oxford’ soon got rid of Bob Moran, didn’t she?
‘Scotland’s vaccine passport chaos: Pub and club bosses brand first weekend of Covid IDs an ‘unmitigated disaster’ with 550 revellers refused entry, staff abused and footfall down 40% forcing venues to close early’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10127915/Scotlands-vaccine-passport-chaos-Pub-bosses-brand-weekend-Covid-IDs-disaster.html
Result! said Nicola Sturgeon. Hopefully, she said, the remaining 60 % will stop going too.
I (like countless others I’m sure) was recently the victim of another form of censorship – censoring comments in Reader Comment sections. I hope it’s okay to post this rebuttal protest at a site that does not censor or ban posters …
The sports website The Athletic has banned me from making comments at its Comments Section. This micro censorship is another ominous example of our Orwellian macro New Normal.
So what exactly did I do that rescinded my right to engage in free speech? I made a series of post defending athletes and coaches who refused to get vaccinated.
FWIW, I tried to find out what “code of conduct” my posts violated, but my five emailed requests seeking an explanation were never answered.
From this personal case study, I can now make a few general observations.
My first observation falls into the “duh” category … Censorship happens; now more than ever.
And the reason it happens rarely has anything to do with “divisive” or “hateful” speech, which I didn’t use. In fact, if I had a dollar for every time a reader called me an “idiot” or some other insult for making my dissenting posts, I’d have enough money to subscribe to ten on-line publications.
It’s also clear that I am not the only heretic who has been banned or censored. Last week the site published two articles about the Washington State coaches who were fired for not getting vaccinated.
Anyone who read the approving comments would be struck by the vast number of posts that had been removed for objectionable content or that were under moderator “review.” Somehow I don’t think the plethora of removed posts came from the “fire-them-all” crowd.
From the posts that met with moderator approval and were not removed, a surprising reader consensus emerged. Firing, fining, bullying and smearing the unvaccinated is apparently quite popular among sports fans who subscribe to The Athletic.
I say this is surprising because other samples of sports-fan opinions – for example, those who chant “Let’s go Brandon!” at sporting events – don’t seem to gibe with the views of Athletic journalists who are still allowed to make comments. In this former poster’s opinion, the group that can still post at The Athletic would be much more likely to chant, “Way to go, Brandon!”
If the owners of The Athletic – and their writers, editors and forum moderators – are this militant about suppressing free speech, this tells me those on the other side of this “debate” are quite serious about protecting the authorized narrative and making damn sure anyone who might influence the neutral or undecided won’t get to use any of their text blocks at this debate.
If a fight for the “hearts and minds” of the public is taking place , one side has shown they are not going to fight fair. That is, it’s pretty hard to lose a debate if the other side can’t even make a comment in the debate.
Here one also gets a hint at why many news organizations decided to discontinue Comment Sections.
While there is clearly 100 percent “groupthink” in newsrooms, this is not the case in uncensored Comments Section. The solution to this awkward problem was not hard to identify. Simply disband the Comments Section. This or moderate it heavily and ban the more informed and persuasive skeptics, especially those who might be too effective at rebutting the propaganda in the article proper.
Once upon a time, the word journalist was synonymous with cynic or skeptic. Today’s “watchdog” journalists would never dream of challenging Anthony Fauci or questioning the “safety protocols” mandated by power-tripping sports commissioners.
Still, I gave it the old college try. Even though I often felt like Custer at Little Big Horn, I tried to engage in debate. As it turns out, I fought the mob … and the mob won.
That quote some of us remember from civics class – “I may not agree with your opinion, but I will fight to my death for your right to express it” – clearly does not resonate with editors and readers of The Athletic.
Journalists and editors who genuinely value free expression would not brazenly censor opposing and valid points of view. They would, in fact, fight to preserve these forums of free speech.
However, in our New Normal the norm is pettiness and intolerance. Diversity of gender, race or sexual orientation can be celebrated, but diversity of opinion is sacrilege, a threat, a toxin carried by the despised, the unvaccinated.
Even though they’re all double vaccinated and take their masks off only to eat, the censors and those who cheer the banning of “selfish idiots” like myself are clearly still petrified of the few unvaccinated coaches and athletes left in the country.
It is also clear they are terrified of free speech.
Anyway, I’m sure those who still get to post at The Athletic will enjoy the safe zone of their echo chamber.
Today in Asda at the check out a heavily masked old lady ahead of me was gassing to the cashier.”I had my boaster over the weekend.My neighbour died suddenly at 70 and he was due his boaster”.I felt like pushing the old crone into moving traffic just to expediate the process.
Apologies slightly off topic.
No problems I agree with you
When they came after the cartoonist, I did nothing since I was not a cartoonist ….
And who came after the cartoonists? The editors.
When the German artists came out with their satirical #allesdichtmachen videos and were immediately denounced as Nazis etc., one of the best known, Ulrich Tukur, stated the following:
“We just wanted to create a breath of fresh air. We wished for a open discussion about this erratic and counterproductive Corona politics that ruined so many for no reason.
Now, we have at least shown that our society is going horribly wrong and that the political incompetence has created enormous divisions.
If satire may not do everything anymore and if, even worse, it isn’t being understood anymore at all, the court jester must be silent.”
„Meine Kollegen und ich wollten lediglich ein Fenster in diesem trägen Haus aufreissen und frische Luft hereinlassen.“ heißt es da. Er habe sich lediglich eine „offene Diskussion um diese erratische und kontraproduktive Corona-Politik“ gewünscht, die ohne Not so viele Existenzen ruiniere.„So haben wir immerhin gezeigt, dass sich unsere Gesellschaft in einer erschreckenden Schieflage befindet und politische Inkompetenz wie ein Spaltkeil wirken kann. Darf die Satire nicht mehr alles, und schlimmer noch, wird sie überhaupt nicht mehr verstanden, muss der Hofnarr schweigen.“
Satire (often) works. Solution? Ban satire.
His point was that at that point it’s futile and will only endanger the court jesters.
If free speech was really highly valued, every cartoonist in the world would knock out a cartoon defending this fellow cartoonist and protesting his treatment. That this will NOT happen is yet another tell about the state of our New Normal.
Just as important as the story itself is the fact that it was covered by RT and not by our media. It seems to me that we are having to look more and more to RT to find out what’s really going on in the world.
It’s a very apt cartoon as far as I can see. They are obviously very touchy about it. The cartoonist must have been onto something.
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Over to you, phantom downvoter!
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Leunig, a hybrid Christian-Socialist, did a good, if rather abstract, line in hopelessness against an uncaring, and often malign, universe. For this he was, justifiably, quite popular as the voice of the sad, forlorn Everyman and his sole defense of Hope. But let Leunig stray from the general to the specific manifestation of the Great Crushing of the Little Guy, as with the vaxx mandates which are now ubiquitous in most Australian states, and he cops a size twelve in his backside courtesy of the ‘free speech but …..’ Establishment media (The Melbourne-based paper, The Age, who sacked him for Wrongthink, portray themselves as the ‘liberal’ alternative to the Murdoch Media Monster).
‘Covid’ is really sorting out the wheat from the chaff, and the Age are definitely chaff after this little bit of censorship.
Leunig had earlier got quizzical about lockdown and was allowed to survive that narrative lapse but as the legitimacy of the whole lockdown/masks/’social-distancing’ farce, and the reputations of the political/’public health’ architects of the disastrous policy mess, now hangs on a Hail Mary pass in the form of an experimental, leaky and dangerous ‘vaccine’ and its mass take-up, this key pharmaceutical pillar must not be allowed to fall lest it expose the utter folly of all other policies embarked on in response to a disease that kills, at most, 0.15% of the infected, mostly old people who have already lived past the national life expectancy and who have an average of 2.5 already life-threatening commorbidities.
The club of outcasts is growing with some fine recruits – Novak, the SouthWest Airline pilots, etc. And now Michael Leunig. Welcome, mate!
The Leunig anti-lockdown cartoon
As I have posted before, the fascist global state, headquartered in Switzerland and consisting of what were once called “Western liberal democracies”, has no free press, only a state-controlled press. Sacking journalists and cartoonists with sympathies towards the ancien régime is standard protocol, pour encourager les autres, etc. Look at the Telegraph’s vile and disgusting purging of Bob Moran, as another example.
A picture speaks a thousand words ……. and the Australian Fascists know it.
Why not publish the cartoon with the article !!??
Why not publish the cartoon with the article for readers to see ?!!
RT published it
Looks like a political cartoon of vaccine is now as controversial as a cartoon of prophet Mohammad