The Frightbat Digest

In just a day, the word Frightbat has taken hold of the Australian consciousness...or at least the little part of it I inhabit. The concept of a reader poll to determine who is the Queen of the Crazies has been hijacked and reflected back at the conservative commentariat from which it came.

Crikey asks Who is Australia's craziest right-wing nutjob and mounts it's own poll  in a head-on attack against Tim Blair's piece from yesterday. It's simple, slick and to the point. 

Comedian and blogger Ben Pobjie deftly removes all doubt in his response to the bizarreness that is Tim Blair's columns. Like Crikey, Ben's blog "The Frightbat Epidemic" also features a poll, a surprising amount of custard, and an opportunity to vote for your favourite definition of frightbat, amongst other things.

And if you just can't make a choice between Messrs Jones, Bolt, Blair, Akerman, Kenny, Hadley for the title of Australia's Biggest Old White Bastard (and gawd, there's so many of them!), Junkee has you covered with a handy, illustrated shortlist. 


For the record, I'm choosing not to comment on Junkee funster Alex McKinnon's suggestion of jelly-wrestling as a suitable way to determine the craziest broad. In the winter dessert frightbat stakes, I'll stick with Ben Pobjie's custard for now.

And Twitter, of course, is gently burbling away with its #Frightbat hashtag, unleashing ideas and lobbing insults from on high. My favourite Frightbat tweet (so far) is below.