PURE POISON GETS IT WRONG, AGAIN

Andrew Bolt posted his print column Admiring Comrade Julia this morning, apparently reposting the column with a minor correction at 9:08. (Bolt's error was pointed out by reader James F at 8:35, with Bolt acknowledging and explaining his error, and noting his intention to correct, shortly thereafter. At 9:18 James F acknowledged Bolt's admission of error.)

While this was going on, Pure Poison's Scott Bridges was writing a piece pointing out Bolt's error. His piece went online at 9:56 am, almost 50 minutes after Bolt's column had been corrected. After revisiting Bolt's column and not seeing the admission of error Bridges subsequently updated his piece with a gotcha:

Andrew has edited his online version of the column...

I can’t see any acknowledgment of this change on his blog post.

But Bolt had already noted the change in comments, later adding a note at the end of the column:

(This column has had a minor correction made on the funding of the plaques. See explanation in comments below.)

Bridges whole piece is much ado about nothing. Will he acknowledge he got it wrong? Not likely – he refused to admit he was wrong about Wonthaggi's winds.

By the way, Bridges agrees with the gist of Bolt's column, that is, that education funds should be spent on education and not on pro-Labor advertising; highlighting Bolt's error is the whole point of his piece. Pure Poison still has a way to go to be relevant.