By Grabthar's hammer, how adept the reptiles are at obligingly reprinting ABC statements ..

(Above: Moir's flogging prints of these here. Hmm, wonder if he'd do one for the pond with that immortal Tamworth instruction, get around behind Barners, get around behind).

By Grabthar's hammer, by the suns of Worvan, the pond has suffered a blow this day, but never give up, never surrender, because the good news is that we are all feminists now ...

 

That's a tendency restricted to Middle Eastern men?

Oh wait, that's just the reptiles of Oz importing all that's vile and repulsive in the United States and the WSJ and the house of Murdoch, but while we've got you on the line Bret, there's a few other men with difficulties down under ...

And it's not just anonymous folk, Bret.

What should we do with little Timmie Bleagh?

A gulag, you say, Bret?

We're good at gulags?

What, dingbats should be sent to dwell amongst the walri in Antarctica, alongside the dangerous Islamic men?

But Bret, we'd lose a substantial number of the reptile commentariat ... not to mention a few from the NSW ALP and a few from the Liberal party and a few from ...

Never mind, because soon enough it's world war three and we'll need Grabthar's hammer more than ever ...

Yes, the pond is still gasping in awe at the way Sarah Martin is managing to lather up a storm, and she was at it again today ...

Oh FFS, this is an alleged future leader? Why even babies with dummies can't manage that sort of epic dummy spit. What's the follow up? Angus owns the bat and the ball, so he's taking them home ...

Never mind, because there's another issue weighing on the pond's mind this day ...

Oh okay, the pond has been banging on about this since the beginning of time, in a way that is as tedious and boring as the upload speeds in Camperdown ...

The new wrinkle involves one Nick Ross and the ABC, which has sent the twittersphere into a flurry of twittering ...

There's nothing much for the pond to add - it's all there at Delimiter in ABC tech editor claims broadcaster "gagged" his NBN coverage, and Nick Ross has his Twitter feed here, which links to everything going down, and a kindly soul provided a link to the wayback machine's archiving of some of Ross's offending pieces, here ... how the pond loves the wayback machine ...

Ross's crime was to point out the multinodal emperor lacked a few agile clothes ... and to the ABC's great shame, it was reluctant to allow the fashion parade critique to continue ...

But of course it wouldn't be a pond piece if the reptiles of Oz somehow didn't get a guernsey ...

And so on, and naturally the pond had to race off to the reptile Oz to contemplate the offending piece, only to be astonished by the banality on offer ... and by the way it meekly trotted out the ABC line ...

The ABC building in Ultimo? That's what you serve up for a story about Malware? Why it doesn't even reveal the full hideousness of the building ...

There you go, you're welcome, but since you ask, here, just around the corner, dwell the reptiles in their elite inner Sydney bunker ...

By Grabthar's hammer, young Harry, that looks like Sauron might dwell there ... oh sorry, wrong genre, perhaps it's Lord Voldemort and his minions ...

As for the story itself, it didn't really amount to much - these days the MSM lag behind the instant tweets, but what it did reveal was the delicious dilemma the reptiles now find themselves in. 

Here's a perfect opportunity to slag off the ABC for self-censorship and for cravenly falling into line with the government and Malware and studiously muting criticism, and yet slagging off the ABC would also involve admitting that Ross might have been right about Malware's odious abuse of the NBN, and the way copper and HFC is an agile jump into the twentieth century ...

Davidson did the best he could with a Sgt Friday, "just the facts, ma'am" approach. Or should that be "just the ABC statement, please ma'am, just the ABC statement":

Well done. That's the way, that's how to reproduce an ABC "statement" "sent to The Australian"... just around the corner, from inner city elite bunker to inner city elite bunker ...

Back in the day, even Media Watch was cluck-clucking and tut-tutting about the way Ross dared to point out the bleeding obvious ... that Malware was intent on fucking over and fucking up broadband in Australia ...

Now he's succeeded ... and it will take decades, if ever, to repair the damage ...

Congratulations, ABC and reptiles of Oz ... brothers in the inner elite rock monster bunkers of life ...

Meanwhile, by Grabthar's hammer ...

Sir Alexander Dane: You're just going to have to figure out what it wants. What is its motivation? Jason Nesmith: It's a rock monster. It doesn't have motivation. 
Sir Alexander Dane: See, that's your problem, Jason. You were never serious about the craft.

The best thing about Die Hard - after Alan Rickman's superb villain - was seeing the crap blown out of Fox Plaza ...

And now it would be remiss of the pond not to acknowledge that it missed Kevin Andrews going over the top yesterday ...

What a trooper he is, or should that be trouper, and happily the entire sordid affair can be summed up in a couple of cartoons, thanks to the immortal Pope and the transcendent Rowe, more Pope here, more Rowe here ...