The ABC's Jonathan Green thinks we can't know his politics. Here some hints he forgot he dropped ABC presenter Jonathan Green on being called a Leftist by the Australian's Greg Sheridan: How does Greg Sheridan have any clue what my politics are? We've never met. Never had a conversation. Beyond parody. Let's try some other versions of that. How does Greg Sheridan have any clue to what Lenin's politics were? They never met. Never had a conservation. How does Greg Sheridan have any clue to what Mao's politics were? It is comical to think Green really believes no one could have possibly figured out his Leftism from from reading his columns, listening to his ABC show, tuning in to his guest spots on ABC 24 or observing his style of editorship at the The Drum and the far-Left Crikey. What astonishing level of denial does it take for Green to think his politics is a secret? Did he think we wouldn't suspect he was a Leftist when he mocked the conservative Sarah Palin and her Down Syndrome son?: Which of the below should the Obama's use to name their new puppy?â¦ A mongrel called Trig Did he think we wouldn't suspect he was a Leftist from the party he threw on the night of the 2007 election, when John Howard was defeated?: And around town, the witch was slain at parties of hate, like the one thrown by the editor of Crikey, the Internet gossip site, who had friends smash a Howard pinata of the kind being flogged on eBay for $400. Did he think we wouldn't suspect he was a Leftist from this post I wrote on his joining the ABC?: I'd also urge the ABC to be very careful of Green's quality control over his writers and blog readers. I was forced recently to write the following to his boss, Eric Beecher, the famous campaigner for "quality journalism..." Last week I drew your attention to comments and blog postings you had published over the space of just a few days calling me a "proven liar," "nutty," "unhinged," "underhand," "loopy," "paranoid," a "hypocrite," a "racist," "dishonest," "hysterical," "petty," "evasive," "deluded," "irrational," lacking in morality, someone guilty of "deliberately misrepresenting" people, "full of poisonous shit," and a "notorious liar" who practices "lies, misrepresentations, and deceit," "lies, distortions and smears," "fakery" and "cowardice and dishonesty," while giving "tacit approval" to "extremist sickos" and "playing the paranoid schizo"," resembling in my person an "asylum for the criminally insane." You conceded that these comments included a number of statements that were "untrue and unnecessarily personal in tone." Since then one of Green's writers has urged in a headline that I be "sodomised," and his site has said of me that "we are dealing with fascism, plain and simple"" and, referring to me and my readers, "I sometimes think Stalin had the right idea - line a million or so of âem up against a wall." Yesterday I was named in a Crikey article as someone so corrupt as be evidently driven to scepticsm by "a desire for funds from fossil-fuel companies," and was smeared besides as "undoubtedly more dangerous" than a "Holocaust denier," and, in time, "morally worse." Did he think we wouldn't suspect he was a Leftist from his (incredibly prolix) columns claiming that only wicked conservatives thought the ABC biased?: The likes of Bolt struggle with the notion that journalism might be practiced with calm objectivity and simple curiosity ... because in the paranoid, fact defying columns of the proselytising right, where climate change is a religious figment, Stephen Conroy is Stalin and any measured objective assessment of reality is dismissed as being "of the left," the facts are mutable servants of argument. Did he think we wouldn't suspect he was a Leftist when the only media bias Green objected to was that of conservatives: Fox News - that's the best example of how this works: an entirely parallel universe that determines its own agenda, facts and logic according to an often bellicose political mission... We see its muted fellow travellers in our own TV and press, most notably in our national broadsheet The Australian, a paper whose political purpose and occasional flights of "truthiness" can routinely obscure its better journalistic angels. And then we have the opinion formers of the tabloid blogosphere. Little s-bends of ill-humour like the Daily Telegraph's Tim Blair, or great vaulted Taj Mahals of polished ego like the Herald Sun's Andrew Bolt. Did he think we wouldn't suspect he was a Leftist from his apocalyptic warnings of global warming catastrophe?: It could be that we don't quite have the mechanism to deal with this yet, the whole end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it thing. ... If newsmakers were to take seriously our slow descent into the threatening unknown of a four degrees warmer world then they would probably give the issue the sort of dominating and enduringly obsessive play we haven't seen the popular press throw around an issue since World War II... How can anything rival climate for significance? Did he think we wouldn't suspect he was a Leftist from his rhapsodic welcome of the new President Obama another clue? Ich bin ein Obama â¦ or something like that.... This truly does seem to be a moment, one that gives a new and suddenly hopeful context to our own slightly deflated, verbose and meanly thin-lipped stab at regime change. We shall all see won't we. But it might be that with a will, intelligence and due, uncynical diligence â¦ Did he think we wouldn't suspect he was a Leftist from his attacks on Tony Abbott's boat policies? For three years the Abbott opposition did its best to generate a sense of chaos around the steady trickle of boats testing our borders, compassion and policy resolve. There were never that many, that was the truth, and most had reasonable claims to our protection; that was true too. And coming by sea involved an extraordinary and mortal risk, a calculation that was a fair indication of desperation. Do you still need to actually meet Green to know his brand of politics? Sad to say, but so much of the heat and fury of the Gillard years grew from prejudice, tainting our politics with bitter spite coloured by chauvinism and something that oscillated between casual sexism and ingrained misogyny. election. This is the truth about the Gillard prime ministership. The fact that our elected leader was a woman gave Gillard's detractors the added, and for many instinctive, purchase of gender-based loathing â a deep sense that the simple fact of Gillard's sex disqualified her from high office. For those still wondering whether Green really is of the Left - something he strangely presumes cannot be detected by anyone other than his closest friends - I could offer even richer evidence. But, alas, Green never gives me permission to publish his extraordinarily abusive emails to me - so abusive that only a true Leftist could have written them. (PS: I have met Green. Sheridan is right,)