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Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/how-the-public-took-charge-of-a-deserved-flogging/ Kyle Sandilands is such an inconsequential waste of space that I would normally be reluctant to expend a single millilitre of ink or pixel of web space on his unfortunate existence. This week I made an exception, in the first instance because of the remarkably vile nature of his attack on one of our young female staff, a sexually threatening rant where he called her “a fat slag”, talked about her breasts and her hair, and issued the creepy pledge: “Watch your mouth girl, or I will hunt you down”. All this because she wrote a completely unremarkable news piece about the unpopularity of his new TV show. I’ve decided to saddle up again today because there is an interesting broader lesson from the Sandilands episode. Not to put too fine a point on it, the long-overdue commercial destruction of Kyle Sandilands shows that it is no longer OK to be an abusive, hate-filled arsehole without facing serious consequences. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Tory Shepherd) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/how-the-public-took-charge-of-a-deserved-flogging/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/how-the-public-took-charge-of-a-deserved-flogging/#item7246 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:45:28 +0000 Why is Kyle Sandilands’s toxic sludge allowed to leak out of radio speakers at breakfast? He’s a cretin, a hate-filled belligerent whose talent is in inverse proportion to his offensiveness. As Penbo pointed out yesterday, he’s a dead-set, rolled-gold, card-carrying dickhead. Dickheads are a dime a dozen. Why is this one given a voice? http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/lance-the-boil-sack-bloody-kyle-sandilands/ Why is Kyle Sandilands’s toxic sludge allowed to leak out of radio speakers at breakfast? He’s a cretin, a hate-filled belligerent whose talent is in inverse proportion to his offensiveness. As Penbo pointed out yesterday, he’s a dead-set, rolled-gold, card-carrying dickhead. Dickheads are a dime a dozen. Why is this one given a voice? feedback@thepunch.com.au (Tory Shepherd) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/lance-the-boil-sack-bloody-kyle-sandilands/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/lance-the-boil-sack-bloody-kyle-sandilands/#item7222 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:45:28 +0000 Why is Kyle Sandilands’s toxic sludge allowed to leak out of radio speakers at breakfast? He’s a cretin, a hate-filled belligerent whose talent is in inverse proportion to his offensiveness. As Penbo pointed out yesterday, he’s a dead-set, rolled-gold, card-carrying dickhead. Dickheads are a dime a dozen. Why is this one given a voice? http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/kyle-should-use-his-free-time-to-visit-auschwitz/ Just a few years ago I ended up in Warsaw on a business trip to Poland where my former boss Eric Dodd had been invited to talk to top government officials about reforms to Poland’s embryonic private health system. As a journo and an amateur student of history, I was astonished to learn that our hotel in Warsaw was located on what was previously the Jewish Ghetto in World War II from which tends of thousands were shipped to their deaths. And just a matter of a few hours drive away was the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp where hundreds of thousands of Jews and gypsies were imprisoned in the most horrific conditions and slaughtered in the gas chambers. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Tory Shepherd) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/kyle-should-use-his-free-time-to-visit-auschwitz/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/kyle-should-use-his-free-time-to-visit-auschwitz/#item1166 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:45:28 +0000 Why is Kyle Sandilands’s toxic sludge allowed to leak out of radio speakers at breakfast? He’s a cretin, a hate-filled belligerent whose talent is in inverse proportion to his offensiveness. As Penbo pointed out yesterday, he’s a dead-set, rolled-gold, card-carrying dickhead. Dickheads are a dime a dozen. Why is this one given a voice? http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/kyle-the-end/ Kyle Sandilands is not expected to return to the airwaves for Austereo. That’s the assessment in Sydney radio circles where insiders say that his latest tasteless joke - where he suggested that comedian Magda Szubanski, whose father fought in the Polish resistance, could lose more weight if she were in a concentration camp - will see the network blackbanned by advertisers should he return. Sandilands has again demonstrated that he’s achieved world’s best practice in his chosen field of stupidity with his “apology” over the remarks - a classic case of “if people were offended by what I said then I’m sorry.” His comments show how Sandilands is ill-equipped to recognise poor behaviour on his own part and put his hand up - regarding the outrage he causes as some external event that simply happens to him, where the preciousness of the community turns him into a martyr. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Tory Shepherd) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/kyle-the-end/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/kyle-the-end/#item1164 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:45:28 +0000 Why is Kyle Sandilands’s toxic sludge allowed to leak out of radio speakers at breakfast? He’s a cretin, a hate-filled belligerent whose talent is in inverse proportion to his offensiveness. As Penbo pointed out yesterday, he’s a dead-set, rolled-gold, card-carrying dickhead. Dickheads are a dime a dozen. Why is this one given a voice? http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/im-glad-that-this-shocking-drongo-is-back-on-the-air/ Confined to a wheelchair and wearing a pith helmet and an American flag fashioned into a nappy, shouting obscenities at the justices of the United States Supreme Court, pornographer Larry Flynt was a massively flawed hero for the cause of free speech. This morally bankrupt hillbilly was famously sued for defamation by the Reverend Jerry Falwell, who in a fake advertisement for Campari published by Flynt’s Hustler magazine recalled how he lost his virginity by sleeping with his own mother in an outside toilet on the family pig farm. It’s hard to imagine a more egregious slur. Nor a more unbelievable one, which is one of the reasons Flynt ultimately won his defamation battle, reinforcing the free speech protections afforded by the First Amendment. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Tory Shepherd) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/im-glad-that-this-shocking-drongo-is-back-on-the-air/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/im-glad-that-this-shocking-drongo-is-back-on-the-air/#item922 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:45:28 +0000 Why is Kyle Sandilands’s toxic sludge allowed to leak out of radio speakers at breakfast? He’s a cretin, a hate-filled belligerent whose talent is in inverse proportion to his offensiveness. As Penbo pointed out yesterday, he’s a dead-set, rolled-gold, card-carrying dickhead. Dickheads are a dime a dozen. Why is this one given a voice? http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/will-kyle-get-kicked-off-idol/ UPDATE 3/8/09, 5pm : Ten has just announced that Kyle has been sacked as Idol judge. Here’s what Emma wrote last night… The decision of Austereo to suspend Kyle Sandilands and Jackie O from the morning show will now put pressure on the producers of Australian Idol and Channel Ten to decide whether he should stay as a judge on the popular TV program. On Saturday Channel Ten was quoted in The Age as saying Kyle “will obviously be in the audition episodes as they were filmed some time ago.” “But Idol is a family program, we consider this a very serious incident and our executives will continue discussions over the weekend to come to a decision regarding his future on Idol.” Considering Australian Idol premiers next Sunday, they will have to announce this week whether they are standing by or punting the controversial personality. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Tory Shepherd) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/will-kyle-get-kicked-off-idol/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/will-kyle-get-kicked-off-idol/#item797 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:45:28 +0000 Why is Kyle Sandilands’s toxic sludge allowed to leak out of radio speakers at breakfast? He’s a cretin, a hate-filled belligerent whose talent is in inverse proportion to his offensiveness. As Penbo pointed out yesterday, he’s a dead-set, rolled-gold, card-carrying dickhead. Dickheads are a dime a dozen. Why is this one given a voice? http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/how-people-power-and-the-web-took-kyle-off-the-air/ Kyle and Jackie O have been taken off air indefinitely as a result of the massive backlash against last Wednesday’s rape debacle, where a 14-year-old girl revealed on air that she had been the victim of sexual assault. And Sandilands has said through his management that he is “unable to perform his duties on-air at this time”, without elaborating. The announcement follows five days’ condemnation of the program and Austereo for even airing a segment where an underage girl was fitted to a lie detector machine in front of her mother and quizzed on her sexual habits - let alone with the horrifying consequence of revealing that she had been raped when she was 12, and that her Mum knew all about it. The network’s decision is an extraordinary demonstration of the power of public opinion, with websites, talkback radio and Twitter being consumed with the issue over this past few day. The comments ran overwhelmingly against Kyle and Jackie O and Austereo, not to mention the girl’s mother, who is being investigated by the Department of Community Services.  The Austereo statement says: feedback@thepunch.com.au (Tory Shepherd) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/how-people-power-and-the-web-took-kyle-off-the-air/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/how-people-power-and-the-web-took-kyle-off-the-air/#item793 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:45:28 +0000 Why is Kyle Sandilands’s toxic sludge allowed to leak out of radio speakers at breakfast? He’s a cretin, a hate-filled belligerent whose talent is in inverse proportion to his offensiveness. As Penbo pointed out yesterday, he’s a dead-set, rolled-gold, card-carrying dickhead. Dickheads are a dime a dozen. Why is this one given a voice?