Please explain what the ABC and Q and A were doing by giving notorious loon Malcolm Roberts a platform - and a chance to explain that apparently the US footage was as "out of context", which is to say about as out of context as his alleged climate science expertise …
They did this sort of thing before with Clive Palmer, and look where that got the country, and we're still suffering with unendurable geo-targeted Palmer ads littering YouTube. It always seemed fitting that Tony Jones, who did a clown act with Clive, should settle into that great void sold as Q and A, though apparently it was left to Virginia Trioli to attempt to put lipstick on last night's shouting pig ...
The pond loathes the show and never watches it, but giving Roberts a chance to shine in the sun no doubt is part of the ABC's weird and wonderful idea of balance. To breach Godwin's law just a tad, if Dr Josef Mengele were around today, no doubt the ABC would be inviting him on to the panel as an interesting, if sometimes controversial and shouty guest, always offering bright and compelling alternative ideas on scientific issues …
The ABC always manages to irritate the pond as much as the loss of Notre Dame made the pond melancholy.
This is no time for angry militant atheism, the pond is a devotee of cathedrals, and was lucky enough to see the place intact, and now it's gone, and seemingly won't be replaceable in any meaningful way, and that is a sad loss. The only better cathedral experience, at least for devotees of the weird and the wacky, is the one offered by Gaudi in Barcelona …
But enough of actual engagement with worldly affairs, it's time to enter the alternative world of the reptiles, and the cheer-leading was strong this day …
It was too hideous to contemplate. Sure, the supine Shanners has to make a living by forelock-tugging, and doing his best to spin the numbers, but the pond couldn't go there …
Nor did the pond want to go on with the Folau matter, even if there was fun to be had …
Fuck it, if only Folau had got it right about his imaginary friends, because the old trouser-dropping parrot would be the first one to spend an eternity in hellfire …
The pond thought of revisiting the thoughts of the Caterist and the Oreo from yesterday, but it had about the same appeal as breakfasting on rock-hard dinosaur droppings …
How to get away from it all? Suddenly this caught the eye, a chance for a history lesson from Troy …
Menzies inspires us today?
What loon is this? Was he conscripted to serve in 'Nam and returned convinced of the joys of warfare?
The pond couldn't work it out. The lad was too young to have the remotest idea of what it was like to live under Ming the Merciless, and have your marble pop up.
Surely there had to be some hidden agenda, and besides, what would Polonius say about this bold attempt to steal his turf?
It is regrettable? Well kudos for Troy to mount a strong set of arguments, though the pond felt like it had been there before …
Still, that didn't explain why Troy was rehashing the old worship of Ming the Merciless at this time … there had to be some reason, some ulterior motive … so the pond pressed on ...
He never won the broad affection of voters, and that should inspire us? Good old Pig Iron Bob should be an inspiration, and that's why he got kicked out when the nation needed leadership in time of a real war, not some jumped up domino nonsense?
The pond thought at last it knew where Troy was going. He wanted to be the nattering "Ned" or perhaps the Polonius of what was left of the lizard Oz in twenty years time, blathering on about the wonders of Ming the Merciless …and the glory days of the onion muncher, Malware and SloMo ...though the rag by that time will likely have been reduced to a suburban giveaway (airports included), peddling the thoughts of whatever passing conservative in a leadership position had about the world as they roamed around Canberra in their electric car … and so the pond pressed on ...
Yeah? Tell all that to anyone who had their marble pop up in the 1960s. But at least the pond had worked out what the real game was … it was just another book to flog, and what a flogging it got …
Josh in Kooyong? All hail the new nattering "Ned" … even if he reminded the pond with a shudder that no one in their right mind would ever want to return to the world of Ming the Merciless …
The only upside? It took the pond's mind off current events, but it also induced such a profound bout of nausea, that somehow it gave the pond the urgent desire to return to the present, if only briefly, and what better way than the lizard Oz editorialist purporting to be balanced …
You see the plural "parties"? Well that's about the last bit of balance to be expected, as the pond plunged in to cop the expected assault on comrade Bill …
Indeed, indeed, and what about throwaway rags that litter the country's airports?
These days the reptiles believe they can publish anything and not be held to account. Consider the reptiles' disgraceful EV scare campaign in the current election, which if it weren't so hugely comic might have some impact on delusional forelock tuggers and cheerleaders …
The reptiles were still at it today, dragging whatever fossil they could find out of the woodwork to keep on with their EV EXCLUSIVES …
And so to a confession. The only reason that the pond had caught a glimpse of Malcolm Roberts was that it had sat down to take a look at Media Watch, and what fun there was to be had …
On and on it went, and the pond, having finally discovered Pope's new gallery - though whether the link here works is another matter - had to pause for a catch-up cartoon …
Meanwhile, Media Watch went on and on, because the reptiles and the luddites had gone on and on…
And so on and on, but hang on a tick, hang on a 'mo ...
Josh?
Josh of Kooyong?
Oh Josh, shouldn't you have stayed at that book launch for Ming the Merciless? If you'd kept wandering through the 1950s, all this talk of electric vehicles would have seemed like arcane science fiction nonsense, incapable of disturbing yet another delightful day carrying out the onerous duties of the LordWarden of the Cinque Ports …
The pond felt like celebrating its rediscovery of the infallible Pope with another catch-up cartoon …
But to be fair, the pond had to let the lizard Oz editorialist finish its profoundly hypocritical blather about childish, meaningless rhetorical arms races evoking apocalyptic agendas…
Well they certainly don't need a heap of bullshit about electric vehicles from Pravda down under, and its fellow travellers and forelock tuggers, busy littering airports with dead trees, and the poobah lounges with Sky after dark (try writing to Qantas about that, and see what sort of dissembling brush-off you'll get).
As for reprehensible behaviour, instead of trying to resuscitate fundamentalist religious bigotry, what did the reptiles do when there was reprehensible behaviour under their noses, and up the noses of others?
Oh that's the ABC taking their eyes off Malcolm Roberts for a moment, but the real game was in the Graudian … following up on their previous report with Liberal candidate's claim of 'fake' report prompts release of audio interview …
And the reptiles? Well they were wittering on about a political debate being in Mandarin, and in the process, providing answers, delivered as throwaway lines and offering false dawns …
Ms Liu dismissed the Guardian’s reporting as “fake” and “wrong”, saying she had been “misrepresented”. “I was asked about what I had heard from the Chinese community and I told the person who interviewed me what I heard. When it was reported, it became my words,” she said.
Uh huh. Well follow the link to the Graudian for the truth about that line …
Meanwhile, the pond is standing by for the persecution of Liu to replace the persecution of Folau in tomorrow's lizard Oz …
And so it goes, but it shouldn't go without a Rowe cartoon, with more Rowe here …
Oh I do hope they continue with this attack on the electric vehicle. It's a wonderful way to shred any vestige of credibility, a sort of argumentum ad absurdum for conservatism.
ReplyDeleteI used to think that these people were just pitching to a stereotypical bogan they thought represented working class Australia, but I have realised that they struggle with change and you will get this hysterical response to anything remotely new. It helps of course that it aligns with their commercial and political interest but they would probably react this way in any case.
Some folks seem to close their minds at a certain age and anything new or outside their limited experience is understood only in relation to some other thing they think they understand. Surplus good - public spending bad, fossil fuels good - renewables bad, western civilisation good - foreigners bad. You don't get the sense that they understand the details behind any of these things but once they have accepted a proposition they regard it as an article of faith and will go to war to protect the orthodoxy.
The sillier they get the better. I think they are underestimating the working-class chappies out there.
"Close their Minds", Bef, or maybe they just never opened them. Sure, they can learn a language and pick up vocabulary, and imitate social interactions etc, but that's because all of those things are absorbed unconsciously - they sneak in under the curtain, so to speak.
DeleteSo in that sense, anything that isn't already "in" (especially as they reach late teenage) is very definitely "out" and must remain so, everlastingly.
But also, I think many of them do "pitch to a stereotypical bogan", it just happens to be their very own boganesque self.
Please tell me how this Troy would understand how terrible Menzies was he took Australia into wars that we had no place being there and to add insult to injury he conducted a conscription that Australians have paid a terrible price for with the suicide rate amongst the returning soldiers that has been so high and what have we had in reply no sign of guilt by the perpetrators of these decisions.
ReplyDeleteExcuse the poor use of the english language but I just need to express my thoughts and this forum allows me to express them.
Don't worry too much about the English, ww, you're really quite comprehensible.
DeleteAnd I for one agree with your contentions re Menzies. Bramston is just a shameless hagiographer: "I did but see him strutting by, but still I'll worship and I'll lie". Though Menzies having shuffled in 1978, I'd guess that Troy never actually saw him live and in the flesh.
"Tell all that to anyone who had their marble pop up in the 1960s."
ReplyDeleteAnd a good few did, DP, but fortunately I wasn't one of them: two years too young when the old 'Nasho' was ended and two years too old when the Vietnam conscription came in.
But really, all that about Menzies without a single mention of BA Santamaria and the DLP ? That's not a Menzies I can recognise.
Peter Ridd just won his case against JCU. That noise you just heard is the reptile jihad on the move.
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