The very first edition of Crikey

Let's travel back in time to the very first edition of Crikey.

What memories Patriots.

And in follow up editions, Delia Delegate was to prominently feature. 

Patriots might wish to ponder about Delia's influence, amongst other things. The last time we discussed Delia was in 2007. It's worth a look.

Gender Analyzer Doubt

"We think http://www.vexnews.com is written by a man (71%)."

Plenty of room for doubt.

Jon Faine interrogates future Vexnews editor

Patriots might wish to cast their minds back to May 2005, when Patriot ABC Radio presenter Jon Faine, at great risk, interrogated Andrew Landeryou.

Patriots are reminded of Stephen Mayne’s in-depth coverage of the interview, which an independent media analyst described as Faine shooting fish in a barrel.

TS presents edited highlights of Mayne’s report.

Landeryou slugs it out with Jon Faine

By Stephen Mayne

“ABC Victoria’s Jon Faine took a risk this morning and invited fallen ALP powerbroker and failed businessman Andrew Landeryou into the studio for a vigorous 15-minute live exchange before an audience of almost 200,000. Faine was certainly a little apprehensive about defamation and Landeryou did manage to plug his blog and land a few blows on Solly Lew, Melbourne Uni Student Union (MUSU) liquidator Dean McVeigh, The Age’s Leonie Wood and a few other players in the soap opera that is his life.

Landeryou sailed close to the wind… Faine really put him through his paces about allegedly doing a runner, failed ventures and his credibility.

Landeryou then went to Costa Rica and attempted to pick up an online gaming business that he hoped to float on the ASX in an “arbitrage” play that would raise enough funds to clear the debt to Solly (Lew) – a debt that seems to have been incurred in very curious circumstances involving threats of more embarrassing public disclosures.

Landeryou said that his business associates knew where he was but he didn’t tell his wife as there were problems in his marriage that he wouldn’t be elaborating on publicly.”

Mayne concludes his report with: “We tried to call Landeryou this morning on the mobile number displayed on the home page of his blog (0415 993 326) but we just got the theme song from the original Spiderman.

Patriots will remember that Landeryou was last seen in mid 2008 in his Spiderman suit.

Mayne made no mention of Landeryou writing as Delia Delegate for Crikey.

This will be the last TS report for two weeks.

“No-one knows who made that contribution”

In 2003, Delia Delegate was the talk of the town. Popular among Crikey.com readers for her/his/it’s intimate take on the internal affairs of the Labour Party, and especially of the LU faction.

So popular was Delia that she/he/it was mentioned in Hansard (pp33 & 35 of the pdf).

An opposition MP made the first reference to Delia, and in response, a Government MP responded in order to deflect attention from Delia’s true identity: “No-one knows who made that contribution”.

Really, no-one?

Why did IQ Corp fail?

Photographic evidence just in explaining why IQ Corp failed.

And isn't great that a former colleague of Andrew Landeryou at Crikey, Christian Kerr, has continued to find gainful employment in the journalism trade. Landeryou, on the other hand... well... you know the story.

See you next Wednesday.

Costa Rican has multiple personalities

It is not only the Left that has bloggers suffering multiple personalities or Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID).

“Darryl Mason, who has hidden behind the names Stan Lorne, Max Dreswell, Sam Lowry, Ferris Fremont, PitchMaster, and Leftie Latte Lover, claims that he is not DM or commenter Tabmow. Those last two are, if Darryl is to be believed, the work of some other lying idiots. Not him.”

The far Right too has one.

Andrew Landeryou suffers from this ailment. His personalities, all but one (Freedom Freddy) share female personalities: Cait, Catter8, his most famous Delia Delegate and now a new one has reared its head – Rita.

TS is especially worried for Landeryou's health. It was not long ago reported that Landeryou suffers various health problems, such as cranial gigantism, antisocial personality disorder (abbreviated APD or ASPD), delusions, and narcissism.

Hopefully, after the election whoever wins will allocate sufficient resources to mental health, and help Landeryou.

Boring balding fat sloth

UDPDATE
Is Landeryou approaching child endengerment? "Tragic publicity addict Nameless scribe Christian Kerr is milking the birth of his child (pictured above) for all its worth. The OC delights in sledging Kerr who anonymously and viciously slagged hundreds of people in the early days".

Apparently "sledging anonymously and viciously slagged(ing) hundreds of people" as Delia Delegate doesn't count!

ORIGINAL
Andrew Landeryou has written about people shopping. "Tis hard work being a Nameless national affairs correspondent. Christian Kerr, a recovering cocaine addict, was seen strolling through Myer Melbourne yesterday around 3pm with heavily pregnant wifey in tow."

Read on dear TS reader. What is wrong with Andy Landy's analysis?

1. Landeryou is supposed to be officially unemployed, so what does he know about "...hard work"?

2. Didn't Andy Landy leave his wife, not for shopping, but for the online gaming spivery mecca that is Costa Rica.

Please add your own analysis.

Andrew Landeryou Cocks It Up, Again!

Andrew Landeryou has made the outlandish claim that on Andrew Quah, he was ‘working’ (OK! We know he doesn’t work) on the story that the Herald Sun “…exclusively ran which by remarkable coincidence was published just as an investigation by the OC Investigations Unit was occurring”.

So now, Landeryou is labeling the Herald Sun with plagiarism claims?

In addition, he has spent an inordinate amount of attention on guess what? Landeryou writes: “We have obscured Andrew Quah's genitalia from the photographs here but the non-worksafe versions are available by clicking the images.”

Reading this, a patriotic reader would ask themselves:

1. Who is Landeryou referring to as “We”? Freedom Freddy, Delia Delegate, etc are just some of Landeryou’s pseudonyms. Does he think they are real?
2. Why does Landeryou love blog-fiddling with male genitalia? Is it just a case of penis envy? It’s not the first time he has been fixated with that part of the male anatomy (not that there is anything wrong with it!). But this fixation is rivaling his fetish for deformed chicken.
3. Why is Landeryou so porn fixated?

So it’s not only patriotic readers of this humble blog who have concerns over Landeryou’s deteriorating mental health and interests in fetishes; concerns have been raised in other quarters.

It is no wonder Landeryou’s blog of sleaze has been rated R for Restricted.

Andrew Landeryou caught out

Andrew Landeryou caught out: "In the meantime, I am left to think that there is someone out there who thinks OC has overstepped the mark and convinced AL that he should withdraw the post".

As one of many readers has noted: "Ooops. Poor little Landy's banned me for the following post (which he edited a couple of times). Good to see he's refreshingly predictable...And calling me 'Alex White' of all things...'And again, you've edited the post. What would you know about being a 'decent Australian'? Most 'decent Australians' don't flee overseas leaving their families to deal with their extensive debts. Nor do they stalk women in the inner suburbs (as you've gleefully admitted to). No amount of deletion on Halo Scan, nor an attempt to rebadge your blog (through what's laughably been described as a 'hacking incident') as something other than an ALP shit-sheet will cause anyone to forget your lack of ethical credibility. Although it's nice to see you finally realising the swamp you've created for yourself...'

Our readers also make a number of other important points in the same commentary space.

Delia Landeryou – hairdressing tips

Andrew Landeryou has a history of hiding behind aliases. Freedom Freddy, Joe Klein, Andy Landy, Cait and Catter8 are but some examples. He’s had lots of practice.

His most famous creation (personality?) however is Delia Delegate (nee Landeryou).

Having been publicly exposed as Delia Delegate by the magazine editor that published his willfully destructive and defamatory anti-Labor Unity pieces, Andrew Landeryou continues to deny all knowledge.

However, his denial hasn’t extended to returning the payments he received for the submissions to Crikey.

Why won’t this story go away? Why won’t Landeryou admit the truth? Why does Landeryou enjoy ‘dressing up’ as a female commentator?

Ps: is it time that Landeryou invested in a comb over?

Spot the Similarity - the game is back

We have not had a ‘Spot the Similarity’ game for some time. And here is the sixth edition.

What is the similarity between Hamish Jones and Andrew Landeryou?

Hamish has been in a spot of trouble. He’s been caught out ranting and raving on his personal blog, ‘Ranting and Rambling’. Examples are here.

And he has since been dumped by Andrew Landeryou’s Liberals as a candidate for election.

So far, we’ve given away the two obvious clues as to Hamy and Andy’s similarity.

But what is really spooky, is that they are not just Liberal Party bloggers, and rant and ramble on blogs, but …. wait for it…. they look so similar!

Could Hamy and Andy be the same person? Slanderyou readers are well aware that Landeryou possesses a number of personalities – Freedom Freddy, Delia Delegate, Cait and Catter8.

So, given that the Liberals have punished Hamy, one Liberal Party blogger, when will it discipline Andy? (No jokes please that Andy is into that!)

So why wasn't Stephen Conroy mentioned?

Fiona Richardson's replacement of Mary Delahunty for Northcote caused all sorts of controversy last year.

But what got us thinking about this issue again was this sentence: "Ms Richardson ... has spent the past 10 years working for MPs including Julia Gillard and Gareth Evans."

All perfectly OK, until one remembers she worked for at least two years for Senator Stephen Conroy, or at least in his office. Surely, working for the Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate is worth mentioning?

And the link to Andrew Landeryou? Who was Crikey's anonymous tipster?

Andrew Landeryou & Commitment Phobia (UPDATED)

UPDATE
We should of course remind readers that we first exposed Landeryou as claiming to be a member of the AWU as far back as 1999.

ORIGINAL
As Andrew Landeryou’s unofficial but accurate biographer, Team Slanderyou continually finds reoccurring themes in AL’s story.

One is his ability to break commitments and pledges.

A prominent example of this was his persistent breaching of the AJA Code of Ethics, when he was a member of that proud union.

Another occurred when he was a member of the ALP.

As part of the annual membership (renewal) pledge, the member must comply that: “If I employ labour, I will actively encourage trade union membership”. Advice we received is that, the now Liberal Party blogger, but then employer at IQ Corp didn’t always comply with this pledge.

Is Andrew commitment phobic?

Ps: happy weekend.