Listen, I am sorry to have to release this small worm in your brain, but someone did it to me yonks back and there's no reason why you can't have it too. See, in the mid-80s, someone pointed out to me that "after any tragedy, accident, disaster, siege or disturbance, or just about any newsworthy incident whatsoever ... the eyewitnesses always start off their accounts with, "Well, first I heard a bang". And it is true. A good three decades on, I see it at least every second evening on the nightly news, or in the newspapers, and now that you are primed up for it, you will, too. But why have just one worm, when you can have two?
For, from now on, I invite you to observe, at least briefly, how after just about any negative event in the public domain, you will see a good 75 per cent of the Australian coverage make, in the first paragraphs, first utterances, first response, some version of, "It is the left wot done it ..."
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I am serious. More often than not, when in print – if you, like me, need to read widely across the media landscape – you will see it in the headline, implying that all the ills of the world can be laid at the feet of this shadowy band of "lefties", working in tandem.
Climate change? An entire conspiracy by "the lefties" to whip up the mob for no good reason, getting the hoi polloi to believe total nonsense, just to keep scientists in comfy sinecures.
President Trump's disgrace in his tepid response to the horrors of Charlottesville? A chunk of the Australian commentariat made the case that, to quote a headline, the outcry against Trump, demonstrated, "The Hypocrisy of the Left".
Even the dreadful shooting of the Australian woman in Minneapolis by a policeman recently was the fault of the American left, and, more specifically, the whole Black Lives Matter movement.
My resistance to reading such rants has wilted over the years to the point that even reading the opening pars means the needle on My-Eyes-Glaze-Over-ometer, hits "10" within seconds and I just can't go on – even when I am the subject of the attack. But it has a cumulative effect. Just those few spilled drops of Kool-Aid add up and, not long ago, I started believing it. When you know where to look for them, you really do just see "lefties" everywhere.
Last week, their hideous influence got all the way to James Murdoch, son of the media scion, who, instead of saying President Trump's disgrace re Charlottesville was all a concoction of the left, came out and said what happened in that town and Trump's disgraceful response concerns "all of us", adding, "I can't even believe I have to write this: standing up to Nazis is essential; there are no good Nazis. Or Klansmen, or terrorists".
![The outcry against President Donald Trump proved the hypocrisy of the left, according to some Australian commentators.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170823214451im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/y/0/w/u/k/image.related.articleLeadwide.620x349.gy0dni.png/1503489375650.jpg)
Is that stunning, or what? You know, as I know, that Trump is actually doing a great job, and that his seeming disgrace is all the fault of the "lefties". We surely have the right to expect that the chief executive of Fox News fer Chrissakes will be the first one at the barricades, shooting the bastards down. But when even he points the finger at Trump, you have to figure the power of the lefties to infiltrate is simply frightening. Houston, we have a problem.
And, speaking of Houston, the lefties have even claimed bloody NASA, the jewel in the crown of President Eisenhower's fabled military-industrial complex. Google NASA and climate change, and you will see how seriously they take it.
![James Murdoch: Clearly captured by the left.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170823214451im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/y/0/w/a/n/image.related.articleLeadNarrow.300x0.gy0dni.png/1503489375650.jpg)
And it gets worse. The lefties can even affect the weather of the whole freaking planet, meaning that, the 10 hottest years ever recorded have all occurred since 1998 with 2014, 2015 and 2016 each breaking the record for the hottest year ever.
How does the left pull that off, too? I don't know. I just know that they're out there, doing it as we speak. And it is up to us to stop them! To quote one of my twitterati: "Story idea: 97 per cent of the world's scientists fabricate climate change, but are thwarted by a band of plucky billionaires and oil companies." Backed by brave columnists!
Twitter: @Peter_Fitz
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