Shitsheet

From time to time, you see the shitsheets basing some unlikely story on "facts" gleaned from a statistical questionnaire. You know the stuff: "Women prefer homosexual men — shocking report!"

Every year […] we get the usual array of well-dressed, well-meaning types promising to represent the silent majority (and whose team name is eternally followed on Leftie shitsheets by "Young Liberals")

Two-faced contempt is the basic mode of operation for many newspapers: mindwarping shitsheets filled with selective reporting and audacious bias.

But at the time, the smearing and demonisation of Crean was astonishing. Downer suggested he was an appeaser who was “talking like Saddam Hussein”. Andrew Bolt called Crean “Chamberlain”. The Australian and other News Corp shitsheets ran editorial after editorial, op-ed after op-ed, vilifying Crean — who according to The Australian would forever be “associated with the appeasement of tyranny” — and Labor.