It was a slow sizzle for the pond, but finally the steak burned and the pond realised what was wrong with the lizard Oz, and it came with a few lines from the rotting head of the rotten fish known as the lizard Oz ...
I’m sure Media Watch will be as fair and balanced and open-minded as ever while unleashing yet another yawn-inducing, creepy personal attack on Sharri’s professionalism and journalism.
What a bunch of weirdos you lot are.
That was the editor in chief of the lizard Oz responding to a Media Watch take-down of simplistic Sharri on the matter of the Wuhan bug, pdf here, story here, and stepping past the defensive, paranoid, hysterical tone, the pond got to the pure undiluted magic water tabloidism of "what a bunch of weirdos you lot are..."
In the old days, a conservative would always travel with a portmanteau packed with irony, wit, and a certain droll dryness of tone ... but "bunch of weirdos" is low rent blogger, down there with "bunch of drongos" and "bunch of wankers", and it shows where the low rent tone of the lizard Oz comes from.
This Chris Dore, editor in chief, sounds like a real drongo, a real wanker, a bit like the Major, deeply tabloid in spirit, defensive, paranoid, inclined to hysterical outbursts ... in short, a weirdo at the head of a bunch of reptile weirdos, no doubt soon to be replaced by another weirdo, and left to produce a supply of pugnacious talking points in the style of the Major in a weekly column, the only reminder of his passing ...
Meanwhile, the comments section in his care continues to be a major disappointment ...
What a wasteland, most notably Ticky seeming to notice that the NBN has some "weakest bits" ... no thanks to the Murdochians ... and take note of that talk of "social equality" because it'll come in handy down the page when the pond returns to some ancient vomit ...
Meanwhile, the pond was left with no alternative but to go the nattering "Ned" ...
Once the notion of "Ned" as a latter-day Chicken Little came to the pond, it's never let go, and this chook is always about threats, this time from the left, not the right, which is perhaps explained by the reptiles' top of the page story this day ...
Follow the Australian way? But it was the kicker in the digital edition that painted a tragic picture ...
Massive swings against the Liberal party among Chinese-Australians? That's the Australian way we must follow?
The mutton Dutton asked to take a more nuanced approach? Might as well ask a chain saw to turn into a doily and take a seat on the what not next to the aspidistra ...
But it helps explain why "Ned" was determined to drum up a war on the left this day ... in best Chicken "sky is turning pinko prevert" Little style ...
Note that line
"The Greens seem drunk with hubris."
It will come in handy when the pond turns to Dame Slap, who seems to think it's Labor that's drunk with hubris. It seems there's been plenty of drinking of hubris all over the shop ... and even the hubristic
"Ned" seems to have imbibed of the potion ...
There's nothing like seeing Chicken Little "Ned" in a state of hysteria at the sight of a taunting greenie, but the pond was relieved to get to the final gobbet ...
It won't happen, so he says, but hasn't "Ned" had a fine old demonic time invoking the demons of FUD ... calling on all the ancient skills of an oracle adept in the ancient art of cloud whispering to conjure up terrifying storms...
And so, as a matter of Wednesday tradition, to Dame Slap, briefly visiting from her planet from above the faraway tree ...
There you go. Following on "Ned's" blather about hubris, the pond promised hubris, and got it by the bucket load.
There was ancient Greek hubris, John Howard hubris, Andrew Robb hubris, and barely a few months into office hubris ... early hubris, to be followed by middling hubris and late hubris, but currently being early, even more distasteful for Dame Slap who, it goes without saying, channels, in ancient hubristic oracle manner, the wisdom of the noticing voters.
It was an easy trick, of the kind favoured by John Oliver. Get a bunch of media clowns repeating the same mantra and fling them together and a comedic effect is sure to follow .... as in this gobbet ...
These honeymoon forecasts are a bit like the weather — subject to daily revision.
On day nine of the PM’s term of office, Chris Smith was telling Nine’s Today show:
CHRIS SMITH: Reality is biting that the honeymoon is really over because he is now in the A-league, Anthony Albanese. - Today, Nine Network, 30 May, 2022
Only to be telling viewers on Sky one month later:
CHRIS SMITH: … six weeks in and the honeymoon continues for the new Australian Prime Minister …
- Chris Smith Tonight, Sky News Australia, 3 July, 2022
And then backflipping again some two weeks after that, ahead of the opening of parliament, to say:
CHRIS SMITH: Now this must surely signify the end of Anthony Albanese’s honeymoon. - The Kenny Report, Sky News Australia, 21 July, 2022
We’re still waiting for his next contortion.
Well the pond will see you a hubris and raise you a hubris and soon the honeymoon will be over, and ideological zealots will be running rampant, and as onetime chair person of the IPA, Dame Slap surely knows whereof she scribbles when she talks of ideological zealotry (what did happen to her stint as IPA Chairman? Hubris?) ...
All that's pretty standard planet Janet, but then it gets even more predictable, because diligent readers will have noticed that the Dame always gets excited about super, especially super industry funds, and sure enough, she's super excited yet again ...
The pond just wishes that the reptiles would get their story straight before hubris sets in and gangrene takes hold.
At one moment, "Ned" has the greenies and Labor in a death struggle akin to a Florida python at the throat, while the next minute Dame Slap has them collaborating to produce an end to the honeymoon ... and hubris rampant ... and we know where that sort of montage leads ...
...The Today show hosts are also unsure if Albo’s coming or going. Back in June, when the PM refused to fund extra staff for independent MPs, the program told us:
PRESENTER: The honeymoon is over — Anthony Albanese's big plans at risk.- Weekend Today, Nine Network, 26 June, 2022
But last week came this shock news:
PETER VAN ONSELEN: The new PM is enjoying his political honeymoon …
Sixty-one per cent of Australians satisfied with Anthony Albanese’s performance. - Ten News First (Sydney), 1 August, 2022
And the Today show was forced into a quick reverse ferret:
CHARLES CROUCHER: … welcome news for the PM this Monday. Anthony Albanese recording the highest satisfaction rating for an incoming leader but how long will this honeymoon last? - Today, Nine Network, 1 August, 2022
Good question!
But an hour-or-so later Today Extra was marvelling at how long the PM’s Arcadian interval had endured:
DAVID CAMPBELL: … it is still a honeymoon period but it’s a heck of a honeymoon.- Today Extra, Nine Network, 1 August, 2022
So, how to explain it? We’ll leave that to the real political expert from Mad As Hell:
SHAUN MICALLEF: So, in terms of political honeymoons, Mr Albanese’s having a lot of great sex while Mr Dutton is going through a bitter divorce and looks like being celibate for some time.
- Shaun Micallef’s Mad As Hell, ABC, 3 August, 2022
And so to a bonus because the reptiles thought they could slip in a Johns and no one would notice or care ... such is their ongoing hubris ...
But the pond is happy to return to yesterday's reptile vomit ... you see there hadn't been a Johns sighting since 23rd July 2022, and before that, as long ago as 23rd October 2020, and the pond took it as a sign that this wretch had been dragged out of hiding and dubbed a "columnist" once again ...
The reptiles might think it easy to evade the pond's early morning deadline, but there's always a chance to munch on grass and produce a Tamworth Technicolor yawn the following day ...
This is patently untrue. There's simply no explanation of how a noxious nonentity of the Johns kind has managed to rise from the ruck and in due course be dubbed with the honour of "lizard Oz columnist", unless perhaps the Peter principle should really have been named the Gary principle ... though the last time the pond checked, Gary was off pursuing the pleasure principle ...
This is what they brought Johns back for?
It reminded the pond of a recent boon arising from this sort of talk and noted in Crikey ...
Yes, there's no disadvantage, no one notices skin colour or ethnicity, there's no prejudice or bigotry anywhere to be seen anywhere in the land, or perhaps the only ones suffering persecution are white Xians and faux redheads, given the short straw by an unbalanced system ...
Or some such ... here, get a whiff of it ...
And if you wanted an example of warped thinking from a man allegedly interested in charity, the pond can't imagine a better one ... though perhaps it's just as interesting that these days Johns no longer even acknowledges in his blurb that he was once a
mediocre Labor party politician, a hack, who after his defeat headed off to the IPA ... doing that weird shuffle that will see devoted atheist turn screeching Jesuit, or screeching Jesuit celebrate authoritarian dictators ...
And speaking of that kind of career trajectory, the latest news from the United States has been great fun, and yesterday sent MSNBC into a frenzy, with the
immortal Rowe following up with this offering ... a man with inherited wealth routinely pissing it against the wall in serial bankruptcies because who cares about the mug punters when you're a devoted follower of the Gary principle, a lover of snake oil salesmen and con artists, grifters and IPA shills...
"Massive swings against the Liberal party among Chinese-Australians? That's the Australian way we must follow?" Sure it is, that's why Gladys Liu (the first ethnically Chinese woman elected to the Australian parliament) was dumped in the Chisholm electorate (about 20% of voters being of Chinese ancestry) and replaced by an ALP representative.
ReplyDeleteSayeth Neddy: "The Greens intend to wedge Labor, seek to amend its budget, insist Labor make new laws to tax the gas companies ..." Strewth, then I might just vote for the Greens myself ! Naah, just kidding, I always do - well at least after the Reason Party and the Animal Rights party if I can, and just before going on to give my final preferences to the ALP.
ReplyDeleteBut then he goes on: "This will constitute something Australia hasn't seen for decades - a radical leftist agenda from a strong parliamentary position spiced with the appeal for even stronger climate action ..." Oh yeah ? When did we ever get that ? Certainly not from Labor and even less so from the Liberal and Country parties. Not even from the long defunct Democrats, really - bits of it from time to time, but the worst was when Janine Haines, the only truly effective Democrats leader failed to win Kingston in 1990. It was all downhill for the Dems after that, culminating in the final destruction by Meg Lees. Does anybody remember Meg Lees ?
I’m going to think positively and assume that all is well with Shari and the new Bub, and that Chris Dore is leaping to her defence simply because that’s the sort of 1950s (or perhaps 1850s) behaviour one would expect of any red-blooded reptile. No doubt the ordeal of childbirth and the horrors of 2AM feeds has rendered the delicate little lady incapable of responding herself to the unfair criticisms of the horrid ABC, at least for the time being. Luckily for her, Uncle Chris was on hand to ensure that Shari doesn’t need to bother her pretty little head with such weighty matters during her period of confinement.
ReplyDeleteCalling the ABC a “bunch of weirdos” though? Pots and kettles….. has Uncle Chris ever had a good look at the assembled contributors who populate his rag? They put the cast of the film “Freaks” and the personnel of the Jim Rose Circus to shame.
So Sharri is birthing again. Well, just keep Johns' wise words in mind: "Talent will out. It runs in families". So, yet another Sharri born into Australia's great land of totally "merit based" opportunity who will doubtless achieve their socially dependent status with alacrity.
DeleteSo, how do we know who has merit ? They succeed. And how do they succeed ? They have merit. Two things that have completely eluded Gary Johns: success and merit.
The Gary, contributing to a Murdoch paper ‘A Jewish general led Australians into battle on the Western Front in World War 1.’
DeleteA Jewish general who was opposed persistently by one Keith Murdoch, apparently for no better reason than the casual anti-Jewish attitudes of the ‘right’ people in Melbourne for much of the 20th century.
It is claimed that Murdoch went to Billy Hughes with stories that senior officers were opposed to Monash, to the extent that just before Monash’ famous attack on Le Hamel, in the Somme, Hughes went to the front to investigate, and, quite likely, replace Monash. In fact, he found strong support amongst senior officers for the way Monash was going about the attack on Le Hamel, which caused a significant re-think of the entire land war.
Oh, and Monash commanded more than ‘Australians’ - there were units of the American Expeditionary Force and a British Tank Brigade, aircraft and artillery.
None of this really mollified Murdoch - he - and his papers - opposed the Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne, again primarily because Monash was involved in the whole idea, and detailed planning for the structure.
But Johns is published by - yep - Connor Court, so his writing does not have to aspire to high standards.
Yes, there were just a few good Aussie generals in France back in WWI - especially Brigadier-General William Glasgow and Brigadier-General Harold 'Pompey' Elliott. But Monash was the main one.
DeleteBut it shows that Johns has the right idea: "it runs in families", especially the Murdoch family.
Aah, from the Slapper: "If, at the behest of unions, and with the help of the Greens, Labor takes the country further than Australians accept, the government's hubris won't be forgotten." Well, that's a good way of post factum "explanation" of John Howard's complete wipeout, isn't it. No, it wasn't that he had no merit, but that he took us Aussie voters way too far past where we could "accept". So, not so much no merit as way too much merit for us simpletons.
ReplyDeleteAnd so Slappy reckons that Albo just might do the same.
Gary Johns seems like a lovely chap.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/jul/12/aboriginal-women-pregnant-welfare-cash-cows-claims-former-labor-mp
Still, he must have a lot of free time on his hands since he decided "entirely on his own" to quit the cushy job Morrison gave him. Same will be true of quite a number of grifters who have defenestrated themselves before office security could get to them. Expect the likes of Brian Fisher to pop up more often in the opinion pages.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-14/emissions-reduction-assurance-committee-members-resign/101238956
In your first link, Bef, it says: "Johns has distanced himself from the Labor party since he left parliament." I somehow suspect that the Labor party might just have "distanced itself" from Mr Johns, too. If anybody in the Labor party is still aware of his existence, that is.
DeleteA tidy link BF, and a goodly reminder of why Johns will always have a home at the pond, it being dedicated to loons of the first water ... and yes, the pond is standing by for some offerings from that Fisher of minerals ...
DeleteDr Fisher was closely associated with the Coalition after he produced modelling relied on by the then-government to argue Labor's 2019 climate policies would put a "wrecking ball" through the economy.
He also worked for several fossil fuel companies as well as mining lobby group the Minerals Council of Australia.
A spiritual brother of Ian Plimer, you reckon DP ? Plimer hasn't scored much interest of late, so I suppose they need a replacement for him and Fisher seems just right for the job.
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