The pond held over prattling Polonius because frankly the pond finds Polonius in his current frame of mind unsettling ...
Scrub that, beyond unsettling, deeply disturbed, and so deeply disturbing.
Truth to tell, Polonius's obsession with the ABC has got way out of hand. Jokes about ancient mariners don't begin to sum up the way he keeps on blathering on about the cardigan wearers on their ABC ...
By some misfortune, the pond happened to take a quick skim through the latest Media Watch Dog, which the reptiles insist on charging for, but which vanity sees put up on the Sydney Institute very quickly and for free (for anyone preferring this form of mind damage to hitting their head with a hammer).
Now the pond some time ago gave up too much salt, sugar and alcohol, and along with that, too much ABC, which is a quite unhealthy addiction ...
But look at Polonius. He starts out resentful that the ABC performed intellectual property theft on him, and then along with a few other favourite targets, he begins a monomaniacal rant about all things wrong with the ABC ...
Weird, or what? Polonius is obsessed with left activist journalists (apparently there are no right activist journalists which might come as a surprise to the reptiles who infest the Surry Hills bunker and peddle the kool aid) and comes up with this sort of trivia ...
The Lord Mandelson, denied the opportunity to become Foreign Secretary by the sad combination of a Prime Minister too weak to remove his Foreign Secretary and, equally, a Foreign Secretary too weak to challenge the Prime Minister, has gone around instead collecting titles and even whole Departments to add to his name. His title now adds up to, “The right hon. the Baron Mandelson of Foy in the county of Herefordshire and Hartlepool in the county of Durham, First Secretary of State, Lord President of the Privy Council and Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills”. It would be no surprise to wake up in the morning and find that he had become an archbishop! That is exactly what happened with Cardinal Wolsey. (Greg Hunters find their wikiquotes here).
Now the same thing happens with Polonius whenever he gets to scribbling about the Royal Commission.
Polonius harbours a deep resentment at the way that the RC has treated the Catholic church and its rampant, shocking pedophiliac priests, and so leaves no stone unturned when he can pick it up and fling it at the RC.
The pond is not going to get into a matter of 'he said, she said' between family members, nor is it a big fan of the recovered memories mob, and will be content to note how pleasing it is that the reptiles have decided to provide some illustrations for Polonius's pieces ... usually in the past sombre and grey affairs suited to pedantry but visually as boring as the text ...
The point rather is to note Polonius's unhealthy obsession and the reason for him entering this dangerous turf and taking sides and raising saucy doubts and fears ... the unrecovered memory of his deep agitation at the way the RC has treated the Catholic church ...
The only pleasing thing to report is the way that this distraction seems to have helped Polonius overcome his obsession with the ABC. And with Richard Neville ...
Yes, this week it's an investigation into Edward Heath that gets a mention, though apparently there's no reason to mention any investigation into Jimmy Saville in the same breath ...
And there's no mention of Prof Richard Downing, Richard Neville, Jon Stephens or other names that Polonius routinely trots out while complaining about the RC's unfair treatment of the Catholic church, and the bias that infests the media ...
There's something deeply weird about this ... even weirder than Polonius's obsession with the ABC.
Wouldn't it be simpler to admit that the Royal Commission turned up some shocking examples of institutional abuse, within the Catholic church and elsewhere? (It even led to Stephens being named and jailed ...)
But week after week, Polonius delivers all sorts of tirades about all that's wrong with the RC, occasionally with a token hint of regret or remorse at the activities of the church, except that's never been as bad as other churches or other institutions and that's always overlooked by everybody except Polonius, and such half-baked, half-arsed momentary twinges are swept away quickly by a fresh bout of indignation and outrage at the shocking treatment of the church ...
The pond has decided that Polonius is deeply, perhaps irretrievably psychologically disturbed, and so rather than draw attention to the condition, it might be more useful to run a cartoon which analyses what Polonius has achieved with his incessant abuse of the ABC and the ranting about the need for balance, and why the pond no longer watches it much ...
Oh heck, that's unnerving and a little weird, but Polonius deserves a truly weird tweet as a closer ...
"Fueled by satanism, violence and sodomy, dinosaurs had little chance to sutvive as a species."
ReplyDeleteOne might wonder how, given "satanism, violence and sodomy" dinosaurs had ever had any chance to arise as a species in the first place.
Oh I know, it was that kind, loving omniptent, omniscient, immanent thingy giving us some hints as to how to live our totally 'free conscience' lives.