Friday, December 08, 2017

In which the pond contemplates Barners ...



The pond knows for a fact that many in the Tamworth area did not believe, and thought talk of Barners' indiscretions was fake news ... a handy situation with the vote pending, and the media supine ...

And now the world has spread ...


And now what do we learn, thanks to the purple lizard Oz?

Not much ...


And that's your lot from the lizard Oz.

Head off to the Northern Daily Leader, ostensibly the local rag of record, and what do you get?

Not much more ...


Well since Barners' team asked about the relevance to the by-election, here's a few clues. First there's the matter of hypocrisy in relation to SSM, and secondly there are other social issues on which candidates express views ... as Barners did when he first rode roughshod into parliament ...


Catch that full Senate maiden speech here ...

Imagine having a deeply corrupt brown paper bag man as your mentor, and then boasting about it in federal parliament ...

But of course it wasn't that which caught the eye at the time, it was Barners raging about abortion as the "slavery debate of our time."


That here ...

That here ...

Barners is lucky that the veil of silence still hangs over the activities of politicians in Australia, and the way their personal behaviour relates to the beliefs they hang out to catch votes ...

The NDL could only manage a couple more feeble pars about its attempts to interrogate Barners before voting day ...


There's actually a lot more to be revealed about what went on ... but Barners is lucky that the veil of silence that hangs over the activities of politicians in Australia is very much still in the days of the John F. Kennedy style of reporting ...

Trust Tony Windsor here to re-tweet a Bette Midler tweet ...


He was perhaps keeping in mind the contents of this sort of tweet, which only lurks in the undergrowth ... or this sort of story here... or this sort of story here ...

Now the pond is no prude. The pond enjoys the state of marriage so much it has tried it several times ... but then the pond doesn't blather on endlessly about the joys of marriage, the evil of abortion or the wonders of Gina ...

It's just as well for Barners that the supine Chairman Rupert media maintain their silence here ... and it's left to the cartoonists to report on where all this hypocrisy has led the United States ...

Not that it changes anything, but at least it brings the mushrooms out of the basement, and puts the hypocrites at the top of the trash heap ...










1 comment:

  1. Talking about the 'parlous' state of the USA a chap I once thought to be just a wee bit sensible and sophisticated - J Bradford DeLong - shows that he's just a KoolAid guzzler along with the best of them. He thinks the USA - and the UK - are way up the excretory canal without a paddle. Of course, no mention is made among countries following the "Anglo-Saxon governance model" of either Canada or Australia (who ? what ?)

    Yeah, it's all broken and the sky is falling in !
    America’s Broken System
    https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/us-tax-reform-failed-governance-by-j--bradford-delong-2017-12

    Of course this is just another example of naive belief in 'American exceptionalism' - we were just so perfect once and now we have to 'make America great again' to fulfill our 'manifest destiny' !

    Now where else have I heard that ?

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