Readers may remember that last year the right-wing commentator (Is there any other type?) Steve Price claimed that as an old white male he was being “silenced” by contemporary political culture.

That was despite the fact that at the time he had his own radio show, a column in a metro newspaper, and was a regular guest on a national TV panel discussion show, plus other avenues for expressing his right-wing populist views.

At that time there was some debate among our Media Glass House teams about whether Price’s comment indicated that he was an overly sensitive right-wing arsehole, or merely an insufferably arrogant right-wing arsehole. The jury is still out.

Readers may have formed their own opinion on whether the Price is right, although there has never been any doubt that the Price is Right.

But if anyone is still undecided, the man who claimed to have been silenced used his latest regular column in News Crap Australia’s daily turdbloid in Melbourne The Herald Sun to air his views on Victorian voters. (main picture)

In his full-page column Price bemoans the fact that less than a dozen weeks ago Victorian voters returned the Labor Party government of Dan Andrews.

He criticises the initiatives Andrews promised and is now delivering, such as action on climate change.

Clearly he feels that responding to voter concern about this issue is the wrong thing to do. Far better, no doubt, to effectively tell voters the issue is a mirage and that they are stupid for being so concerned – the tactic that worked so well last May for the federal Liberal and National parties.

Price says he can’t believe that Victorian voters rewarded with re-election a government that had locked them down severely during the COVID crisis. In doing so he ignores the fact that perhaps voters may have reasoned that the government deserved some reward at the ballot box for keeping them and their children alive.

Price does say that voters returned Labor in part because the Libs and the Nats were not seen as being capable of running a government.

But he betrays his own dashed hope that his favoured parties might have won by acknowledging the fact that voters therefore turned to and returned Labor, but then adds “what a dreadful mistake that was”. It’s a theme that runs through his column – voters got it wrong.

The late Bob Hawke regularly expressed his belief that voters get it right at election time.

Price, like his colleagues in the army of columnists employed by News Crap Australia, is clearly miffed that Victorian voters didn’t get it Right.

His column basically warns voters that because they voted Labor they now have a Labor government that is planning to do what it promised in the campaign. Shock horror!

Our MGH teams wonder if Price is now working out that he hasn’t been silenced. He’s just being ignored.