Steve Irwin was not a leader of rational humans; if you search the web for anti-Greer posts you’ll see what I mean. …. are there that many petrol station attendants on this earth who did not inherit a crocodile park!? … and therefore see such an irksome media-hogging clown such Steve Irwin as some kind of success God?

It’s not the post-mortem attack (awww Stevo doy’d ya bitch), and most of these people don’t care about animal welfare, but the attack of a stereotype who is afterall not so stereotypical. Frightening isn’t it? More frightening than Steve Irwin himself.

It’s not just a delicate lack of competing media, but a real lack of a decent common denominator intellect in the media, … the level of intellect is appalling. And to create and nuture Steve Irwin who after all turns out to be a need!

I have cable: I watch Animal Camera. That’s how you do it nowadays: you send in a remote camera – to the depths of the oceans six kilometres deep; into underground caves full of sleeping baboons, wherever … and you watch, monitor and record and comment from a control station.

I was glad someone said SOMETHING! I couldn’t stand it. But if I was Germaine Greer, I would have said something worse. F*@k the media.

But you’re right, Helen, it must be bloody frustrating having Greer on the Girl’s Team sometimes. But the net score has got to still put her well up, I’d have thought. And let’s face it, someone was going to react with intellectual, snobbish bile to the manufactured semi-mass hysteria over Irwin’s tragic death. So it may as well have been Greer. A dirty job, but deep down we all wanted someone to do it.

OMG, that Birmingham article was feral. Another clear case of projection.

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