by Nick Cater, Lew Rockwell:

The Mad Witches have cast a curse upon Australia’s most popular radio host to cleanse the airways of his presence.

They are offended, so they say, at Alan Jones’ criticism of New Zealand’s prime minister Jacinda Ardern, the Mother Theresa of woke on the international stage.

When Ardern accused Australia of not doing enough to fix climate change, Jones (pictured) told his listeners that the woman should put a sock in it.

At least that’s what he meant to say. But when you get up at 3am in the morning and broadcast three-and-a-half hours of opinionated breakfast radio five days a week, occasionally your tongue runs away with you.

What Jones actually said was that someone should shove a sock down Ardern’s throat. By the time he apologised, in the abasing manner now required in such circumstances, it was too late. The pile-on had begun.

The Mad Witches, an anonymous group of offence-seeking women with a Facebook group, spend their time trawling the internet for reasons to be offended. Jones, along with other prominent right-wing dissidents, is a favourite target.

Their particular form of attack is to manufacture a storm of outrage on social media to shame advertisers into withdrawing their commercials.

Mad Witches is an appropriate name for this freaky bunch of female supremacists who are convinced that everything that goes wrong in the world can be put down to gender.

‘Most of the world is controlled by old white men and they’re not doing a very good job of it’, says Mad Witches founder Jennie Hill. ‘That’s the bottom line. The conversation for the witches is much broader than just Alan Jones.’

The extraordinary thing, however, is that at least a dozen or so major companies acquiesced to the Witches and took their advertising off air. Losses to the Macquarie Media which employs Jones are estimated to be at least $1million.

They included Coles, one of the big two Australian supermarkets, retailers Big W, Snooze and Bing Lee, and the local franchises of Mercedes Benz and Volkswagen. In a choice between Jones’ large mainstream audience and a bunch of hectoring harridans on the internet, CEOs and their boards sided with the she-devils.

To the old left, big businesses were the epitome of evil. To the new left, they are useful idiots to be co-opted into the pursuit of their favourite causes.

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