The Wallabies have passed by Alan Jones

By Peter Fitzsimons
Updated October 23 2014 - 10:23pm, first published 7:34am
Another time: Alan Jones puts the Wallabies through their paces at training in 1987. Photo: Paul Mathews
Another time: Alan Jones puts the Wallabies through their paces at training in 1987. Photo: Paul Mathews
No going back: Alan Jones (second from right) celebrates a Bledisloe Cup win with the Wallabies in 1986.
No going back: Alan Jones (second from right) celebrates a Bledisloe Cup win with the Wallabies in 1986.

Show me 100 opinions of Alan Jones on 100 subjects – from climate change to multiculturalism to the monarchy to the flag to feminism to the virtues of Woolies T-shirts and all the rest – and I'll show you where he is dead wrong on 98 of them, and why Paul Keating once called it "middle-of-the-road fascism". Yes, yes, yes, I know it rates very well on the radio, but it remains standard-brand "lowest common dominator"  stuff, his special skill being to reduce frequently complex issues to simplistic black-and-white sides, before bullying the bejesus of out anyone who puts up compelling evidence for "black" side, most particularly when they're right, as the crowd roars and the simpletons call for more.

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