Did you know there's a Facebook campaign to get The Bolt Report off the air? The plan is to note who advertises on the show, then write to them threatening to boycott their product unless they withdraw their support for Das Bolt.

Going by the first edition, I don't think that will be necessary; the ratings will see him back begging The Insiders for his bi-weekly $800 appearance within a month.

It's not that it's a bad or nasty show (although it was both those things) it was just frigging dull.

His choice of Boat People as topic for his opening monologue was as predictable as what he had to say: the usual "post hoc, ergo procter hoc" assumptions, for one thing. Ignoring the fact that over 90% of asylum seekers are found to be genuine refugees and telling us that they come here for the lifestyle, not in fear for their lives, and of course faux compassion for all the drowned scumbags victims, as a result of the evil people smugglers' response to the ALP's weak border control policies.

Then he got Michael Kroger and Mark Latham in for a sit down where they all played "Who hates Julia Gillard The Most". Again, nothing new; the Newspoll that shows the coalition ahead means Gillard is DEAD, but no mention of her still way ahead of Abbott as Preferred PM. Three blokes who loathe the ALP and everyone in it, sitting around agreeing. Wow.

Then he put Abbott up on screen and they had a bit of a dickhead-off while they congratulated each other on how right they both are.

He closed with a little "around the grounds", and his opinion on various tidbits of news that suited his agenda. He played the footage of Paul Keating bagging Clover Moore, and the "sandal-wearing, muesli-chewing, Bike-riding pedestrians" line, and closed with "don't you just love free speech".

I will love Bolt's idea of free speech if he plays a clip and congratulates me for saying "Bolt is a shoddy journalist and a rabble-rouser, and people who like him are of low intelligence".

The only vaguely interesting segment in the whole show was his interview with the Afghan guy who finally got his surfing lesson with Tony Abbott. Of course it wasn't really an interview, it was Bolt telling the guy "you're okay cause you've got a job, but all the other so-called refugees are just welfare cheats", and lifted the nation's consciousness not one bit.

We tuned in this morning hoping to be pleasantly surprised, expecting to be outraged, and we got neither. This show was not, and I expect never will be, worth missing Inside Business for.

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