The pond couldn't help but admire the symmetry ...
There was the top of the lizard Oz digital page, seemingly designed to resonate with the latest Pope cartoon ...
The Aussies are coming ... meet Hello World ...
And more excellent, in touch with the reptile zeitgeist Pope here ...
Now it won't have escaped reptile watchers that the lizards have been in the wars these last few days thanks to a racist cartoon - here no inverted commas, no inverted commas here...
The first irony is the way the reptiles chose to defend Leak, with the two key words "confronting" and "insightful", like wankers in a Paddington or Collingwood art gallery ... and we know what the reptiles would usually say about such condescending wankery ...
The second irony is Leak's bizarre representation of himself as a persecuted, hounded, suffering, Christ-like truth teller, as opposed to a bigoted spreader of bile ...
The tragedy here is not such much the maudlin self-pity or the notion that he's attending a necking party in the deep south, but that Leak apparently thought that his original effort was funny.
Now the pond doesn't mind right wing or racist or misogynist or misanthropic humour, where it can actually find it. On occasion the pond has laughed with or at Barry Humphries for example ...
But there was precious little that was funny or insightful in that Leak cartoon. It was confronting, but then you can find a million attention-seeking trolls on line if you want a little confrontation ...
The official defence offered was breathtakingly pathetic ...
Clearly that defence wouldn't be enough, so naturally the reptiles went looking for a bit of tokenistic support.
Now who could supply such support, given the way a fair mob had expressed a contrary opinion?
Well here's a man with form ...
Now there's a man who's had a generous intake of the kool aid, so naturally he was called on to do more valiant duty this day ...
Actually it's easier to toss off a glib column for the reptiles than do anything about hard truths, but the pond was eager to see if Dillon actually thought the cartoon was funny ...
Nope, it seems it wasn't funny at all.
Leak's first line of defence didn't seem to stir Dillon at all.
It seems it was more a social welfare tract, and a communication of a message - the pond always prefers Western Union to send a message - and a bold depiction of hard truths.
Leak's first line of defence didn't seem to stir Dillon at all.
It seems it was more a social welfare tract, and a communication of a message - the pond always prefers Western Union to send a message - and a bold depiction of hard truths.
But was it funny?
Well the pond had to read on ...
Nope, not a word explaining how the cartoon was funny, just a lot of kool aid gibberish regurgitated from the usual sources.
Never mind, the pond is pleased that we are in the area of great traditional Australian cartooning, insightful and confronting ...
And so very, very funny. Talk about Jaffas down the aisle.
More here, but why stop there? Can't we widen it out a little?
But why stop there? Why the pond found a few hilarious cartoons here ...
All of them so very, very funny, so witty, so insightful and confronting ...
Hello World ...
Hello World ...
If Leak was really telling "Truth", wouldn't the copper with the club be white?
ReplyDeleteMaybe TR, or maybe a white politician by the name Laura Norder, lock 'em up and throw away the key ...
DeleteLet's have a RC into Islam with Terms of Reference written by Pauline, Chaired by Pauline and telecast on ABC 24. Would get the ratings up. ��
ReplyDeleteAnthony Dillon appears to believe that something can't be offensive in itself - people simply make the choice as to whether or not they're offended. Interesting concept..... But hasn't Leak himself claimed he believes the right to free speech includes the right to offend, which implies an intent on his part? Apologies if that seems to be an attempt to apply some logic to these clowns. Anyway, the likes of Leak aren't upset at causing offence - they only start to whinge when critics exercise their own power of free speech to criticise his work as being humourless fuckwittery.
ReplyDeleteHi Dorothy,
ReplyDeleteAccording to Paul Whittaker, the editor-in-chief of The Australian;
“‘Too often, too many people skirt around the root causes and tough issues. Not not everyone, Bill Leak’s confronting and insightful cartoons force people to examine the core issues in a way that sometimes reporting and analysis can fail to do.’
Therefore I expect he will be calling on Turnbull to extend the reach of the Royal Commission in order to explain why there is so much poverty and substance abuse in Aboriginal communities and why this has led to unprecedented levels of incarceration of both adult and juvenile Aboriginals.
Lets find out what those ‘root causes’ are.
DiddyWrote
Good luck with that one DW ...not when the Bolter's got all the explanations ...
DeleteAnd don't forget, DW, that when it comes to fundamentalist Islamism, there's no 'root cause' to worry about. Just blast them to kingdom come because they don't like our lifestyles. Or something.
DeleteBack in the days when I was still "gainfully" employed (by a large IT global conglomerate with a 3 letter acronym), I was responsible within my group for conducting 'Root Cause Analysis'. This occurred because my employer, after decades of getting mugged by reality, had finally understood that for any event/occurrence there are both 'presenting' and 'root' causes, and if you don't seriously attempt to fix the root causes, you are just going to be in a perpetual loop of "doing the same thing over again, hoping it turns out better this time" (as a number of people, including Ross Perot, have supposedly said).
DeleteOk, but what did my 3 letter acronym do that was highly unusual ? It insisted that we conduct 'Root Cause Analysis' not only when something went wrong, but also when something went unusually right. Just imagine that - not just concentrating on trying to eliminate the near infinite number of causes for going wrong, but actually trying to discern what to do to get something right.
Why is it that this is never a concern anywhere else ?
On 1 August, 2014, the infallible Gerard Henderson, in part, wrote the following regarding a cartoon by Glen Le Lievre:
ReplyDelete“Just when you thought that virulent anti-semitism was a product of Europe in the 1920s and 1930s and certain contemporary Middle East dictatorships, the Sydney Morning Herald ran this Glen Le Lievre cartoon last Saturday accompanying a column by Mike Carlton:”
The link for the article is here:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CpDy-2MUAAEDa1W.jpg
Yesterday, Paul Whittaker, editor-in-chief, The Australian defended Bill Leak’s racist cartoon with:
“Bill Leak’s confronting and insightful cartoons force people to examine the core issues in a way that sometimes reporting and analysis can fail to do”
It seems The Australian believes that some cartoons that are confronting and insightful can be printed only during the alignment of some planets to which only The Australian deems fit.