29 Sept. 06

Editor
Dominion Post

It was a change to see Chris Trotter’s usually
cliché-ridden banality enlivened by huge dollops of
hypocrisy (29 Sept.).

He bemoans the viciousness of right-wing bloggers with their
resort to smear-mongering that goes beyond the bounds of
"fair minded citizens".

Unless one is to believe that Mr Trotter is just being
downright dishonest, he must be oblivious to the
smear-mongering filth being peddled on blog sites by his
comrades of the Left. The worst are gutlessly ensconced in
Australia and eagerly publish the sickest innuendoes against
those they target in NZ. Because they operate as self-styled
"campaigners against fascism and racism", i.e. anyone who
isn’t Left-wing, their agenda is in accord with the mass
media and they are given credibility by journalists too lazy
to undertake proper research. No Right-wing blogger is
accorded such influence.

At least I have tried in the past, albeit largely
unsuccessfully, to urge right-wing bloggers to stop using
methods and language that only further demeans the Right. I
wonder whether Mr Trotter has or will make any such efforts
in regard to the "Left"!

How ironic that Mr Trotter ends his column with a quote from
W B Yeats, a "right-wing extremist", presumably because Mr
Trotter couldn’t think of anyone with sufficient erudition
on the "Left".

Dr K R Bolton
New Right