Day 64 of MUC and day 17 of MOC, and time for a News Corp bumper confederacy of bigots ...

Usually the pond would try to spread things out a little, get a couple of posts out of an abundance of reptile material, but today, being short of time and patience, the pond decided to throw everything out in a job lot ...

A parade of bigots, so to speak ...

Think of it as being a bit like ...

Of course this confederacy of bigots isn't going to score a Pulitzer any time soon, but like the book, they do tip the scales of a lengthy read ...

First up is that classic tippler on the teat on the taxpayer, that grant-supported wastrel, that bludger on the public purse, the useless Caterist ...

Yep, the pond would go along with that. A man who flings the word "weasel" around so casually really shouldn't carry on about the use of knuckledragger ... besides, what sublime comedy, to bemoan the way a knuckledragger was called a knuckledragger, only then to have to note that the knuckledragger was disendorsed ... for knuckle dragging.

It would be a fine thing if the reptiles of Oz disendorsed the taxpayer-funded knuckle-dragging of the Caterist, but no such luck ... so on and on he goes with his sly references to inner-city pieties ...

But wait, there's more, because you see this day the Daily Terrorists have decided on a fearsome new coupling, a duopoly of bigotry ...

Now the pond has no idea why A Current Affair decided to let Caroline Marcus out of their attic and allow her to promenade in the Daily Terror ...

The pond already had a low tolerance for shows that thought organising kidnappings in the main street was the sort of news they should be doing ... it was Media Watch here, that reminded the pond of why Nine, and the show, should have a permanent shame file ...

As for Marcus, she's clearly a bear of little brain, and therefore eminently qualified to rabbit on in the rabid ways required to be a Terrorist ...

Of course in a classic sign of stupidity and with an infinite incapacity to hear what the dog whistle actually said - they're stealing our jobs and they're so innumerate and illiterate that all they can do is live off welfare - Marcus shows why she qualifies for that confederacy of bigots ...

Marcus doesn't bother with tackling the contradiction or seem to realise the cat's in two places ...

Yep, good old fashioned bigotry ...

Once upon a time, back in the old days, it used to be common to celebrate the contribution that Afghans made in the outback ...

You know, government sites getting rhapsodic over Afghan cameleers in Australia ... although the copybook got blotted a bit with the Battle of Broken Hill ... so hard to pick the difference between an Afghan and an Ottoman ...while News Corp sites were warning of the dangers of Romanian crime gangs ... you know,  Romanian crime gangs coercing Australians into accepting mail containing drugs ...

that's the great thing about bigotry, once you get going, it's hard to know when to stop ...

And naturally it comes with a bonus Terrorist bit of photo shopped martyrdom ...

Splendid stuff,  and it sets the pace for the rest of the Marcus ramble ... which still studiously refuses to address the actual tone and meaning of the dog whistle ...

She boasts of being a journalist? Shame on A Current Affair, though come to think of it, they have as little shame as the Terrorists ...

And then there's the ogre they let out of the cage like 2SM used to let Mad Mel hit the airwaves. The pond can still hear the cage hinges creaking ... (at night in Tamworth you could also pick up 3XY and 3DB, those were the days) ...

Huh, a Volkswagon associating themselves with Mark Latham as a way of selling bodgy cars?

That'd be right. What a bunch of rollover losers.

But it's around this point that the pond feels there's no need for comments on the commentary, because as a man who was an epic failure as a leader of the Labor party, there's not much to say about his thoughts about the Labor party or its policies.

Remember Medicare Gold? Remind yourself in Old gold - it's a Medicare miracle, because you're not going to read about it below ...

Oh you've got to admire the Terrorists and their digitally altered images, which suggest the artist has got access to some really good stuff ...

And so we move on to more seriously disturbed stuff, because inevitably in these rants, at some point - not having heard of hermaphrodite snails or Fellini films - Latham will trot out his usual form of bigotry ... which says a lot more about the weirdness running around in his mind than it does about the world ... 

Please allow the pond to honour the source ...

Yep, snails, honour your hermaphrodite nature-given identities ...

Well at least he's not asking for the real Mark Latham to stand up, or we'd have cleared all the taxi drivers out of Sydney ...

It reminded the pond of the moment that led Australia to dodge a bullet ...

Extraordinary, that a leader of the Labor party could make John Howard look good ...

And then there are so many other happy memories ...

Okay, it went on far too long, but when the pond joins the fight club and enters the octagon, there has to be blood, lots of blood and plenty of suffering ...