(Above: First Dog celebrating some of the winners, more winners here).
And so the ABC begins to pander to the reptiles and Crikey, though poor old Crikey is a lost cause, not even able to lather up much by way of indignation despite Guy Rundle's best efforts to get the tongues wagging... they'll need more than the death of The Drum to attract attention.
But none of this matters to the pond, because winners are grinners, and anyone fascinated by the bromancer is an epic winner this day...
It's a a classic read, worthy of a Hayek or is that a hack, and only the tough will get going to get over the tough going ... but those that do will be rewarded with many transactional pleasures ...
The pond never gets tired of this sort of mythologising.
No one ever doubted what the bromancer stood for. Onion munching avatars, front and centre please ...
It's remarkable, simplistic reductionism for simpletons, and that's how you get to sign yourself as "foreign editor", and at the same time, give yourself the licence to ramble on and on and on, like a turgid, tedious Paul "Ned" Kelly, enraptured by the scintillating brilliance of your insights ...
What's the bet somewhere in the ramble, another First Dog winner will be mentioned?
No prizes if all this elaborate ramble turns out to be is a plea for Malware to give the onion muncher a job ...
Okay, okay, the pond can sense a few might be shrieking in pain. Can someone please just give the onion muncher job.
It's the only way to make the blather end. Or is it something to do with the yowling of the big cats?
Never mind, those who can summon the courage, there's one last gobbet ...
Dear sweet long absent lord, Will Prime Minister Tony Abbott ever live at The Lodge?
Now here's an amusing coda. Some of the exit polls in Tasmania seem to suggest that one major contributing factor in the big swing down there was dissatisfaction over the NBN.
You don't just have to read Delimiter here, you just have to read other rumblings just before the election ...
That full story is here.
Of course health was the big issue, but the NBN roll out in Tasmania has been totally stuffed up, and that's where all this high flown transactional versus conviction blather is just so much fly blown horseshit ...
Malware buggered up the roll out on the direct and specific orders of the onion muncher, and in the process they both displayed the vision of gnats, more anxious to serve the Chairman's business model than to deliver what their customers desired ...
There's simple, humble managerial skills, and then there's delusional rhetoric of the bromancer kind.
You see, it's much easier to endure the pain if you occasionally experience a gain ... instead ...
But never mind, there are other careers for movers and shakers ...
Ahh the Bromancer. The media's own Mrs Havershom
ReplyDeleteI was going to stay all relaxed and quiet after such an incredibly stressful election campaign, DP, but then you threw a bucket of Bromy slops all over me. So anyway ...
ReplyDelete"... and on the third, climate change, his party biterly and trenchantly rejected Turnbull's proposed mechanism - an emissions trading scheme - when he was opposition leader."
Is it really worth trying to restore just a tiny bit of reality here ? Probably not, but here goes regardless:
1. it wasn't Turnbull's anything, it was Rudd's; though yes, Turnbull supported it.
2. Turnbull lost the leadership by one, that is 1, vote and that qualifies as "bitterly and trenchantly rejected" ?
Where do these delusional simpletons spring from, and how do they all know to migrate to the Murdochracy ?
And just this beauty too: Turnbull "...taking a landslide electoral and parliamentary majority and turning it to ash in 9 short months."
The two years in which Abbott did irreparable damage to the "electoral and parliamentary majority" are now consigned eternally to the 'memory hole' (tm Eric Blair). What Turnbull actually did in 9 months was to cause irreparable damage to Malcolm Turnbull.
The unrequited love of the Bromancer is always entertaining - everybody loves a good five-hanky melodrama - but where, oh where, is Dame Slap's condemnation of the stupidity of the Australian people? As DP noted, the Oreo's comments were rather half-baked, but surely the Dame can treat us to a vintage blast of the bile, vindictiveness and lunacy we've all come to know and love? At the very least, I'd expect her to support Gerry Harvey's call for a dictatorship. Come on, Dame S - we've had enough Mills & Boon for a while, we need something hard-boiled!
ReplyDeleteI love how Sheridan takes so bloody long to tell not even a quarter of the story...like he's reading his children to sleep. That's the intention, of course.
ReplyDeleteThe windbaggery also explains why the AFP investigation into the defense white paper leak is taking forever and ever...
There's a much simpler reason for the windbaggery, Nick. Sheridan has to fill Murdoch's column inches with the 'correct' rhetoric; no easy task, I might add.
DeleteThat he is able to do it at all is indicative of his Murdoch-whore mentality; that he would be able to make it relevant and interesting is impossible.