tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post7673969670905412705..comments2024-03-29T04:12:15.091+11:00Comments on loon pond: In which the pond does faux fake news with prattling Polonius ...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-1415477424522504292017-01-22T00:21:21.469+11:002017-01-22T00:21:21.469+11:00You have to hand it to Polonius; analysing current...You have to hand it to Polonius; analysing current semantics via criticism of the 80 year-old writings of a long-forgotten US journalist, and concluding - as ever - that it's all the fault of Teh Left.<br /><br /><br />He continues to display his rare gift for rendering even the most potentially interesting subject dead boring. It's a rare gift you have there, Gerry - if only it were even rarer.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-49046118709816711632017-01-21T17:18:00.911+11:002017-01-21T17:18:00.911+11:00I recall that John Howard went to visit Santamaria...I recall that John Howard went to visit Santamaria on his deathbed. Santamaria said that he thought that at his age, he was beyond hate but he hated what Howard had done to Australia.<br /><br />Tony Abbott was another Santamaria acolyte who was once known as "Santa's little helper".<br /><br />I expect that Santamaria would have thought even worse about Abbott's contribution that he did about Howard's.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-68711554344659707052017-01-21T16:18:36.927+11:002017-01-21T16:18:36.927+11:00I hate to repeat myself (<<- joke :-) ) but ...I hate to repeat myself (<<- joke :-) ) but it's all just the Rights winning tactic of "changing the subject". If you can't deny, or refudiate, that the likes of Breitbart, Limbaugh, Faux Noise etc have made up 'false news' over and over again, then simply change the definition of 'false news' to something you can blame on "the left".<br /><br />Is this not bleedin' bloody obvious ? Is this not something that Trump has done repeatedly in his campaigns ? What do you think that, for instance, "Trump Tirade" means ?<br /><br />If you don't know, lLook it up here: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Gish_Gallop but substitute <b>"outright lies"</b> for <b>"individually-weak arguments"</b> because Trump never actually makes arguments at all.GrueBleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-60806961839149372122017-01-21T16:04:15.892+11:002017-01-21T16:04:15.892+11:00"Polonius explaining how what's likely to...<b>"Polonius explaining how what's likely to befall the world in the next four years is all the fault of the lefties and the greenies "</b><br /><br />In the next four years ? If you read Polonius (amongst others) it would seem that just about everything - then, now and yet to come - is all down to "the Left" (really, who takes any notice of "greenies" ?).<br /><br />I just can't imagine what tragedy has befallen "the Right" that they are so feckess, gormless and impotent. Not a single thing does "the Right" do - SaintMary being just one example, and his eager successors (Polonius, the Muncher, the Bromancer etc) are equally total failures.<br /><br />But hand on, wouldn't that mean Trump is "of the Left ?"GrueBleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-79277416715169025932017-01-21T15:40:25.768+11:002017-01-21T15:40:25.768+11:00"And left-wing academics rarely reported huma..."And left-wing academics rarely reported human rights abuses in Ho Chi Minh's Vietnam or even Pol Pot's Cambodia (before Vietnam's invasion of 1979)."<br />I believe right wing academics were just as guilty of rarely reporting these abuses, I may be wrong.<br />But there seems to be a fundamental flaw in the dodderer's "logic". <br />How can NOT reporting events be construed as fake news? <br />Fake news is, by definition, false reporting - not failure to report which Polonius as an experienced lefty hunter should know is suppression, or censorship (so beloved by the Stalinists that must infest his nightmares)zootnoreply@blogger.com