Loose cannons

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If you can't beat them ... I

"I hope we have moved on from keeping the bastards honest to also giving them a few good ideas." — Democrats leader Meg Lees defending her record on February 28.

If you can't beat them ... II

"If I wanted to be part of a protest movement, don't you think I could find a placard and head for the latest rally." — Democrats deputy leader Natasha Stott-Despoja defending herself on March 1 from claims that she wanted to turn the party into a "protest movement".

Which planet are you on?

"News television in the US is so profoundly pinko it makes Australia's ABC look like the Ku Klux Klan. Not for nothing is CNN widely known as the 'Communist News Network'." — Tim Blair pushing the outer boundaries of lunacy to trash the opposition to his boss' proudly "conservative-friendly" Fox News network in the Australian's March 1-7 "Media" supplement.

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"The Sydney Morning Herald's columnist Paddy McGuinness is a fan [of Fox], along with the Australian Financial Review's opinion page editor Tom Switzer and the Daily Telegraph's Miranda Devine." — Blair again, obviously believing this will make us watch Fox.

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