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Keep it up..Independent Psychological Evaluation Fairfaxhttp://www.doctorhalper.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-38724311449466781552014-10-25T19:11:10.085+11:002014-10-25T19:11:10.085+11:00Oiltical is even betterOiltical is even betterAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-34311353642748569092014-10-25T15:41:20.549+11:002014-10-25T15:41:20.549+11:00"Olitical" - seems to describe Hartcher ..."Olitical" - seems to describe Hartcher rather well BB :-)Mercurialnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-73463307374126316722014-10-25T13:09:10.137+11:002014-10-25T13:09:10.137+11:00To quote the (then newly appointed) editor of the ...To quote the (then newly appointed) editor of the SMH, Darren Goodsir, in 2013: "Hold the front page! Hartcher Has Spoken!"<br /><br />When olitical savant and genius commentator Peter Hartcher opines profoundly about the Abbott Budget, the nation sits up and listens. So what was Pete's Delphic pronouncement on The Budget?<br /><br />"It’s too early to abandon hope."<br /><br />You DO have to laugh, don’t you?<br /><br />He then goes on to discuss, po-faced, one of the main reasons why Tony Abbott would not promote Turnbull to the office of Treasurer.<br /><br />Abbott’s jealous. <br /><br />So let's let Misery-Guts Joe stay in charge of it. There's years of trash-talking in him yet: how bad debt is, how they're going to strip away benefits, lifter, leaners and, of course, "It's all Labor's fault!" THAT'll get the punters back into the empty aircraft hangers they used to call "Harvey Norman" (been to one lately?)... all this with the added benefit that Joe has been absorbing king-hits from Abbott since Tony first decked him on the rugby playing fields of Sydney Uni.<br /><br />Hartcher today is back to his old tricks: writing-up restaurant gossip about leadershit. He even admits it was the drink talking. A group of Ministers, in their cups, drinking Scotch, reckon Joe Hockey should go, in favour of Turnbull. And here's the kicker: It's not gunna happen.<br /><br />The Abbott government is already doing so brilliantly on Foreign Affairs and international diplomacy (says Perspicacious Pete), now all they need is Turnbull in as Treash to fix up the economy and they’ll surge ahead in the polls. The Nation will breathe a sigh of relief. Consumer confidence will soar.<br /><br />He doesn't tell us who'll take over Communications after Mal's bumped upstairs. That's a shuddering thought if ever there was one. Bronnie, come on down!<br /><br />Yes, it's deep, deep, deep analysis from the International & Political Editor of the august Sydney Morning Herald. Youse can see why they pay him the Big Bucks.<br /><br />What next? Maybe he'll whip around to the back alley and go through the skip? Then he can tell us what the Anonymous Senior Liberal Power Broker was doodling on his paper napkin. Maybe he can even suss what the fortune cookie said?<br /><br />Thank God we have the likes of Hartcher to guide our thinking. Mr Goodsir was right: whatever Big H writes, Goodsir will print and say, "More please, sir". There's plent of it, too. Goodsir's grandly titled Editor Of Many Things writes everything that everyone tells him. Oh, the insight! Celebrate the context! <br /><br />The poor man has a desperate need to be relevant. To show that he’s still connected and gets the good goss. Forever an insider etc., etc. And to prove it, he peddles plutocratic piss talk from out the back door of the Greasy Spoon. "I am a camera," say Peter.<br /><br />Pity for Pete, he supported Rudd. That means he’s shut out now by the Libs. Maybe he thought they'd thank him for the regular Ruddstoration Routine? Sadly, all the advice he’s offered Abbot on how to deal with everything from travel rorts to Oriental potentates has been ignored. Cassidy doesn’t even invite him onto the show anymore (has he ever been on it? Even when he was there?).<br /><br />Look what his Rudd Love did for him and the country. Abso-bloody-lutely nothing. Rudd’s “triumph in the polls” lasted all of, oh, about a fortnight, and now Pete’s relegated to passing on Chinese whispers and leftover noodles from a Liberal doggy-bag.<br /><br />It's a shame that nobody – either in politics, or on the receiving end of it – takes any notice of him. <br /><br />Then again... thank God they don't.Bushfire Billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-50041506706279920402014-10-25T10:23:46.025+11:002014-10-25T10:23:46.025+11:00Turnbull destroying the NBN for the benefit of Mur...Turnbull destroying the NBN for the benefit of Murdoch is one thing but what really sticks in your craw is now Telstra is back in the equation big time.<br />Telstra is the least worst option in my rural locale and I so looked forward to telling David Thodey he could stick his dreadful Telstra where the sun don't shine.<br />A curse on you Turnbull and all the other LNP swine, Ebola is too good you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-52335422186775141722014-10-25T09:08:46.561+11:002014-10-25T09:08:46.561+11:00And you have made me laugh until sobbing left me s...And you have made me laugh until sobbing left me spiral-eyed with your Hartcher harangue.<br /><br />Do you think Pete sees the funny side? Maybe he is engaging in whimsy?<br /><br />The funniest bit for me was when one of the unnamed sources (do you think Hartcher has imaginary friends?) informed him that Turnbull had come to terms with not ever becoming PM. What is he sticking around for? All those cabinet meetings, visits to aged care establishments like the one where he was photographed looking as mournful as the Dormouse at the Mad Hatter's Tea Party. How that pic makes me laugh Dorothy. I am sure you could lay your mittens on it. Can you delight me again?<br />These commentators are great. So agile. Their argument begins with three paras loaded with click-bait. Then it argues with itself and rounds off with statements which negate the original assertion. Is it called Shooting Oneself in the Foot? <br /><br />Miss Pitty Pat (amused)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-71886209076028069852014-10-25T08:52:39.512+11:002014-10-25T08:52:39.512+11:00'Private thoughts?'
I would have thought ...'Private thoughts?' <br />I would have thought satire and whimsy require an audience.<br />You can't have private thoughts if you post them on a public email network. It is like expressing 'private thoughts' on a party line in Tamworth with Beryl Saunders clicking her purl and plain at the exchange with one ear trained keenly.<br /><br />Miss Pitty PatAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com