In which Akker Dakker proudly continues the bash-a-thon, because late is better than never ...

Devastated ... that's the only word for it ...

Only nanoseconds after celebrating the return of Akker Dakker to his rightful place, a proud patriarch standing astride the Sunday Terrorist opinion page, with petulant Peta banished to a sidebar, what do the reptiles do, but banish Akker Dakker to a sidebar and install Peta to the left of the Devine ...

It's true that no one could be further to the barking mad, howling at the moon, lunar wolf hound on the moors, always right, especially when wrong, Devine, and her classic demonisation of laura norder south of the border this day is a classic ...

But for heaven's sake, what sort of missy matriarchy do we live in, when Akker Dakker is banished to a sidebar ... considering he too has important work to do, and many tremendously insightful things to say ...

Now the pond knows what some are thinking ... with a little erasing, that headline might make better sense ...

The trouble of course is that it's an easy question to answer.

It's Rupert Murdoch who gives this idiot his soapbox ... a column or so a week, and the life of Riley in the tuckshop of life ... waiter, another doughnut, and could you make sure the white powder is sprinkled generously ...

Yes, that captures the essential posturing of the smug preening fat owl of the Murdochian remove ...

Of course Akker Dakker is arriving very late to the scene, possibly miffed that he was excluded from the honour roll of knaves and ratbags noted in Richard Ackland's piece for the Graudian about the Anzac Day bash-a-thon, which ended up this way

Lest we forget. And lest we forget the suffering of Syria and Palestine, tragedies for which reminders cannot be too frequent. Maybe the reaction would have been different if Abdel-Magied had posted on Anzac Day something like: “Lest we forget – the Holocaust”. 
Contrary to the dictates of the swivel-eyed zealots guarding our values, Anzac Day is the perfect occasion for introspection about the misery of war and the damage it inflicts on its participants and the civilians in its path. The idea that the day should be apolitical when politicians have been basting themselves in it since 1916 is an absurdity. And while we’re about it we should be remembering the other flawed campaigns engineered by political manipulators and their useful idiots in the media – Iraq in particular. 
If you like explosions of boring, ugly and misinformed posturing then the regular Anzac Day bash-a-thon is for you.

Boring, misinformed posturing. Calling Akker Dakker, because better late than never ...

Actually, the great hilarity came when some idiot proclaimed, to great hilarity, that Akker Dakker was "the most feminist of Murdochian reptile scribblers..."

It took the pond a week to collect all the Jaffas that were rolled down the aisle ...

It wouldn't be a genuine Akker Dakker outburst if multiculturalism didn't get a mention.

Truth to tell, the pond does occasionally wonder about a policy which suggests that Akker Dakker and the reptiles of Murdoch la la land should be tolerated ... when they might be shipped off to the US to join their employer or returned to their original homelands. How much better off the country might be ...

Thanks to the reptiles, we do indeed have a shot of the young hijab-wearing Sudanese-Egyptian-Australian Muslim flaunting herself at the Wewak Papua New Guinea born, India dwelling, Guildford Grammar School expelled lad gives her a savaging ...

 

Shocking, and such a shameful hijab ...why the way it covers neck and chest is deplorable ...

Of course back in the day when Akker Dakker was a Murdoch hit man, he knew what it was like to be attacked, singled out, made an object of hate ...

The most powerful media proprietor in the world, Rupert Murdoch, recently described Mr Akerman as one of News Limited’s greatest assets. “That’s because he’s prepared to hurt people,” said Damien Murphy, a former senior writer for `The Sunday Herald’, now at `Time Australia’. “Most of us are too lazy and don’t like the stress, and yet he appears to enjoy the stress.” Added a former editor of `The Sunday Herald’ color magazine, Jo Wiles: “His behavior is symptomatic of the corporate culture of News Limited. The top executives don’t mind if their executives are hated, and he is their hatchet man. Wherever he moves he creates tension. I suppose it’s a compliment to him that he can invoke such hatred.” But Mr Akerman described the closure of `The Sunday Herald’ and the subsequent retrenchments as the most devastating experience of his 26-year journalistic career. When told by `The Sunday Age’ that he had been described by a series of employees – past and present – as a “hit man”, he accused this newspaper of setting out to portray him in a negative fashion and stressed that before `The Sunday Herald’ closed he had never sacked or made redundant a single employee. At a previous interview, while pondering the depth of emotion the mention of his name provokes in many journalists, Mr Akerman said: “I’m used to being an alien in an unknown environment. I believe Australia suffers from a lemming-like rush for people to mythologise or demonise individuals. I deplore it, but that’s the way culture is. They look for scapegoats, and if I become the whipping boy then so be it.”

There's plenty more at Crikey here, including this delicious coward's castle attack by Ian Jones ...

Richard Jones: I draw the attention of the House to yet another highly defamatory attack by Piers Akerman on me and my crossbench colleague the Hon. Franca Arena. In today’s Daily Telegraph, referring to the Hon. Franca Arena, Piers Akerman said: 

 ‘As a member of parliament, however, she should be aware that many members of the public think that she, and those of her parliamentary colleagues who have also abused parliamentary privilege to make scurrilous personal attacks on members of the public, are also guilty of a form of blackmail.’ The article continued: ‘Nudist MLC Richard Jones, for example, or the Victorian Federal MP Kelvin Thomson, both supporters of the aborted ACT heroin trial, have also used their privileged positions to make false allegations about those whose views do not coincide with their own.’ 

But he does not refer to the fact that he is the one about whom I was making the allegations, not anybody else. In an article in a Saturday edition of the Daily Telegraph he confirmed that he had indeed used several of the drugs mentioned in the allegations. I do not know whether it was one, two, three, or four different types of drugs, but he did make that admission. He did not, of course, admit ever being addicted to those drugs, but he did admit to using them. He attacked us in the general sense that we – I in particular – abused parliamentary privilege when in fact I did not. I drew the attention of the House to a matter of public interest: the man who was condemning the heroin trial, who writes about drugs time and again, and who writes article after article on pot, himself had been a long-time pot user. He had also used cocaine and perhaps other drugs such as LSD. According to the information that I had he did indeed use LSD and cocaine. We know he used cocaine many times both here and in the United States of America, yet he campaigns against drugs, which makes a joke of the whole thing.

There's much more, including a splendid battle with Shirley the Destroyer at the 'Tiser, but as we're speaking of the lemming-like Akker Dakker willingness to demonise individuals, the pond should move on to the next gobbet ...

By golly there's nothing like a snap of a preening, smug, portly fat owl of the remove to seal the deal.

Who are the numbskulls who think this is a good idea? Is everyone in Murdoch la la land so blind to the flaws in the fat owl of the remove?

Never mind, in that gobbet, the fat owl did his usual seamless pivot, which is just as well because with the original bash-a-thon running out of steam.

Akker sorely needed a new piñata that would continue the loosely-related Islamic themes as he explains how the navy will be singularly useless when Daesh invade by next weekend ...

All the pond can add is that it sometimes wonders about the judgment and fitness of the individuals who initially selected Akker Dakker to work at News Corp ... surely they must be questioned and dealt with ... 

After all ...

Don’t deny nonentities of the fat owl of the removie kind their right to freedom of speech but at least deprive them of having a hand in the Murdochian purse pocket while they’re on their silly soap boxes.

And so to First Dog, with the full cartoon at the Graudian here ...