Tuesday, February 06, 2018

In which the reptiles produce assorted panics and alarums ...


Full marks to the reptile fear-mongers this day, and in particular to the diligent Lloydie and the Koobster ...

The reptiles, in less than a month, have gone from saying that electric cars are useless and no one will want them and they'll never take off to shrieking about how they'll ruin everything ...

A whole new set of clouds to rail against ... a whole new cause ... a whole new campaign against new-fangled things that should get off the reptile lawn ...

And speaking of headlines, this attempt at rehabilitation was so absurd, the reptiles felt the need to produce two angles in a very short time ...


Oh fuck ...

And so on to the dog botherer, who had a minor hissy fit yesterday ...


Of course the ABC weren't trotting out one particular voter as a definition of a swinging voter ... though that's what the dog botherer petulantly argued ... and so scored the necessary google space up against the ABC ...


Well that led the pond to click on the ABC, to do a compare and contrast with the dog botherer ...


Uh huh. By any definition, Gavin is a swinging voter, and in the state that brought Bob Brown to the world, the role the Greens might play in the upcoming election will surely be of interest ... but as soon as you say "look, a greenie", the dog botherer goes to water ...


An unashamedly rationalist approach?

Hysteria and irrationality and an unhealthy fear of the young and the possibly greenie are suddenly rationalist?

The pond thinks the dog botherer might do well to head off to Stanford for a short discussion of Rationalism vs. Empiricism,  or perhaps do a Greg Hunt and head off here ...

It might help him understand that one swinging voter doesn't mean the same as a herd of cackling reptile geese ...

Of course the dog botherer has stayed silent on how the single mum and the physiotherapist might be swinging, because the first ABC story didn't give a clue on that angle ...

But swinging voters, those that swing between the greenies and the Labor party, are certainly of interest to the lizards of Oz.

How does the pond know?

Well, you see, this day the bromancer did a story on swinging voters, lizard Oz-style. It is, it turns out, all about your reptile perspective ...


Yes, in another electorate of the federal kind, the issue of greenie v. Labor is of major interest ...


Now personally the pond doesn't take a view. People will swing and vote as the mood moves them, but it so alarmed the bromancer that it seems it could almost be as dangerous to the national health and security as electric cars, and we know how dangerous that is ...


Sheesh, there's the dog botherer saying we shouldn't worry about that sort of swinging voter, and there's the bromancer swinging in the greenie breeze, like a barn door in a Tamworth gale ...



Hmm, hint to the reptiles.

Keep on running fear campaigns about electric vehicles, keep on running stories mocking the ABC and a young voter, and see how that works out for you when it comes to having the first clue about what might happen in Batman and in Tasmania ...

Which left the pond with only one question to answer for the day. Which is the more stupid? The attempt to rehabilitate the onion muncher, the demonisation of electric cars, or the dog botherer writing about politics?

Not wishing to offend, the pond decided that all three were inordinately stupid, and deserved the prize for the day, which just so happened to be a Papal missive on another matter ... with more Pope here....


And as a footnote, the Daily Terrorists, taking a leaf out of the Media Watch story last night, have gone all in on Malware ...


Oh dear, it seems that the ABC, the Fairfaxians and News Corp are as one, swinging together ... whither the dog botherer now?


7 comments:

  1. The dog botherer will feature next week on Q&A so will be watching SBS next monday.

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  2. The dog botherer will feature next week on Q&A so will be watching SBS next monday.

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  3. David Pope has drawn the threads together in that cartoon. When everything Trumble touches turns to crap he keeps insisting that all will be good if we just trust him for a bit longer.

    Perhaps he saw the waffling, dissembling Trumble on Insiders trying to talk his way around the inconvenient lack of correlation between profit growth and wage growth. Definitely rationalist not empiricist - when challenged over detail he kept retreating to Economics 101 to claim some higher order of truth that couldn't be contradicted.

    Here, about 10 mins in if you have a strong stomach http://www.abc.net.au/insiders/sunday-4-february-full-program/9394500

    As for the endless claims of leftie bias from the ABC, I actually watch less programming because of the constant inclusion of RWNJs to provide "balance". Surely, someone on the right has something to offer other reactionary outrage to every change however minor.

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    1. Errr, "irrationalist not empiricist" surely, Bef.

      Trumble is just this guy you know, who has spent all his life studying the shadows in the cave and still isn't able to work out what they are.

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  4. Err "other than". I often wonder if the likes of Truffles really think they can move the uncommitted voter or it is just a big show for their corporate sponsors? Do they really believe any of this stuff? Who's actually afraid of the electric car? Who thinks Australia is a military mover & shaker, not just an American lickspittal?

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  5. The beauty of our D Botherer, as he obsesses and obsesses about the ABC and the terrorist threat from Islamism (still killing an average of one Australian per decade) is that he often gives it all up in his opening gambit. He'd be fabulous to play bridge with, he really would:

    "Sometimes it doesn't matter how often or diligently you critique a certain person or organisation, the most effective demonstration of their faults comes from their own words"

    Say what?

    Aside from D Botherer's utterly insignificant and unrewarded attempts at journalism, did he not work in Downer's office all the way through through the farcical jape in Iraq? I've looked at their words on WMD, and found them laughable - before the japes, and afterwards.

    But the terrific drill-down here is that obsessing over the ABC - who tend towards "popular" and "respected by most Australians", is not trolling as I thought it was - it's "diligently critiquing often".

    That does sound a wee bit trimmer doesn't it?

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    1. "...the most effective demonstration of their faults comes from their own words"

      Yes, it sure does, every time. But as Bef says above, have they anything to offer other than reactionary outrage ? Have - and will - they ever ?

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