Sssh, remember some are more entitled to entitlements than others ...

Exceptional work should always be acknowledged and respected.

The Bolter really deserves a medal for hagiography and knob-polishing in As a community, we owe each other respect.

He starts off:

Is it just that I've hit 54 and become more cranky? Or has the presumption of some people this week finally crossed a line? 
Sure, we've tolerated for an absurdly long time the pushy politicians, activists and special interests helping themselves to our wallets and our freedoms. 
Too rarely have they been called out for treating the rest of us as mere props or money-trees. Or as fools who'll accept rubbish excuses while the imposters just help themselves to what isn't theirs

Oh yes, those wretched federal politicians and their wretched entitlement ways.

We've ... heard a cacophony of oinking and snuffling and bellowing from people with a truly outsized sense of entitlement and no seeming shame about it.

Oh indeed. Shame on them. Time to cross party political and newspaper lines, and support Fairfax and others in their relentless exposure of federal politicians rorting and gaming the system.

At last the Bolter lets ideology lapse in pursuit of truth and justice.

Hang on, hang on.

You knew there was going to be a sticking point, a fly in the ointment.

The Bolter presents a long list of grievances:

Michael Williamson and his union-milking ways

Billionaire Clive Palmer and his climate pricing double play

Peter Slipper turning up on the ABC's Insiders.

Geoff Shaw being abused by protestors

Radical Socialist Party protestors and an actual "self-confessed ' professional protestor.

3000 honest Christians marching against dangerous radical socialists and feminists, and all the Christan soldiers want to do is pass laws controlling women's bodies.

All no doubt shocking, especially that last one, if you happen to think we should return to the 1950s.

Anything missing in that list?

A peep or a boo about those federal parliamentarians? Even a whisper or a murmur?

Any mention at all of federal oinking and snuffling and bellowing about people with a truly outsized sense of entitlement?

Like claiming an allowance to attend a wedding or ride a bike in a charity event or buy cook books or head off interstate to check out property and so on and so forth, as endlessly described and discussed this last week?

Nope, not a whit or a jot, just the naming of a few comfortable names, and then as a closer, a generalised outburst, a final flurry of froth and foam:

If we are a community, it is because we realise what we owe each other. 
What I've seen this week are people insisting we give them far more than is theirs to demand and giving in return far less than they owe in money or respect. 
Since when did we tolerate such folk in our faces?

Yep, it's an epic in hagiographic avoidance and knob-polishing by omission and it does the Bolter proud ...

How long can the commentariat at News Corp maintain this avoidance strategy?

Glad you asked ... at least until the twelfth of never, and the pond has been assured that that's a very long time...

Meanwhile, speaking of useless tossers with a grand sense of entitlement, Geoff Gallop contributes a tidy piece about the monarchy, and Tony Abbott's desire to head back to the 1950s with the Bolter, in PM's rush to the past may trigger unforseen future.

...on a day celebrating the role of the Navy as a defender of Australian values and interests as an independent nation, he uses the presence of Prince Harry to inject some unwarranted politics into the public space. He might turn back the clocks, but he will also create a reaction.

Talk about two knobs with a sense of entitlement.

But don't expect the Bolter to notice ... there's entitlement, and then there's entitled entitlement ...

(Below: good old Charlie and the Bolter. More Bell here)