Sadly the pond was out and about and entirely missed the Quadrant fuss that went down yesterday ... but happily, as the screen grab above showed, the offending article was still online this morning ...
So much for Keith Windschuttle's transparently reluctant apology, and so much for Guthrie's letter of demand ...
I have had the burning desire this morning to take a baseball bat to every one of those who have betrayed their country and its people by howling down any meaningful debate about who we let into our country.
So much for Keith Windschuttle's transparently reluctant apology, and so much for Guthrie's letter of demand ...
... and so much for the chance of Roger Franklin either being given the chop or doing the honourable thing and resigning ...
It's true that the Caterists sounded righteous and indignant on The Drum last night ...online for viewing here for that epic display of humble pie eating .. and as a Quadrant board member, the Caterist might be expected to carry some weight and do something, but the Caterists are notoriously weak and ineffectual. Give them some taxpayer cash in the paw, and they're as happy as pigs in a trough ...
Will Franklin weather the storm? The signs are good, judging by the ongoing coverage by the digital Murdochians of the controversy ...
What fuss, where?
Speaking of the ABC, there was this as the third story from the top of the digital page this day at the lizard Oz ...
Will Franklin weather the storm? The signs are good, judging by the ongoing coverage by the digital Murdochians of the controversy ...
What fuss, where?
Speaking of the ABC, there was this as the third story from the top of the digital page this day at the lizard Oz ...
Shocking. Fancy pesky difficult blacks being given a break ...naughty ABC.
Over at the Terror, Quadrant was but a dream ... there were more important pleasures for the Terrorist ...
Shocking. Couldn't cover the football, and at last that dreadful Islamic woman given her comeuppance ...
The dog botherer did briefly stick his head above the parapet yesterday for the reptiles ... after slagging off Q and A and the ABC at great length, the dog botherer added ...
The dog botherer did briefly stick his head above the parapet yesterday for the reptiles ... after slagging off Q and A and the ABC at great length, the dog botherer added ...
Screen cap only, so that highlighted link must be googled, but the linked story really adds nothing new and it's only a distraction for what is a classic example of dog whistling by the dog botherer in that last par ...
Yes, the ABC deserves to be bombed, for all sorts of shoe-throwing, extremist cultivating reasons, but sssh, let's not talk about it in public ...
Even this mild suggestion that perhaps violence wasn't the way forward attracted the ire of the Quadrant fanatical fundamentalists ...
You see, as well as keeping the article up, in its offensively amended form - it's possible Keith Windschuttle is digitally illiterate, and helplessly hapless - that meant comments were kept up too ...and they were shocked at the dog botherer.
Indeed, indeed, who cares if the ABC is bombed, as comment after comment lined up to cheer on Franklin, and thus his notion of bombing the ABC ...
After all, what's wrong with talking about bombing the ABC, in a jolly kind of hyperbolic way?
Indeed, indeed, who cares if the ABC is bombed, as comment after comment lined up to cheer on Franklin, and thus his notion of bombing the ABC ...
After all, what's wrong with talking about bombing the ABC, in a jolly kind of hyperbolic way?
On and on the comments flowed, as the ratbags came out of their lairs ...
And so on. In a metaphorical way, Mags of Queensland opened another comment with ...
Funnily enough, Mags of Queensland went on to identify as one of the "compassionate people", because a baseball bat in the moosh is a genuinely compassionate form of correction ...
Pgnang offered a different form of hope ...
Mr Franklin is clearly upset by this latest horror. I hope that he does the one and only thing that he can to make a real difference, which is to be a genuine participant in the Christian community (otherwise known as the church). That is also the only place he will find comfort and perspective.
Apparently he can join the late night bombing parties being arranged by caring Xians ... or perhaps they prefer baseball bats ...and all the carry-on ended where it had to end, with impeccable logic ...
That is why I maintain, Islam is a bomb with1.6 billon potential fuses.
That is why the pond maintains that the Quadrant readership is a bomb with 200 potential fuses ... or perhaps on a good readership day, 2,000 ...
It was only this morning that Jody chipped in, wondering at the behaviour ...
Sharri Marxson!
Yes, in the world of Quadrant, a reptile like Sharri is a card-carrying Marxist ...
Now the pond could get indignant, and carry on about Franklin, who has kept his head down, stayed off the tweeting and ... refused to apologise ... perhaps in the hope that he can survive the storm and carry on ...
The pond could make the point that even in a moronic attempt at a satirical flourish, there should be some sort of boundary, some kind of empathy, some notion of shared humanity where idle talk of bombing, right after a grotesque bombing, is carrying grotesque to the nth degree ...
The pond could even offer up a poem ...
Not apparently when the Franklin bomb tolls for the ABC ...
But how has fundamentalist right wing ratbag extremism of the discordant, furiously angry kind reached this sort of fever pitch in Australia?
Could David Rowe's cartoon - more excellent Rowe here - offer some kind of explanation?
Ah, that explains it all. The Quadrant people weren't Moore enthusiasts, they yearned for Bond films with titles that told people what to do with the ABC ...
Roger Franklin comments at the foul sewer of a blog site called Catalaxy using the name 'areff'. There are apparently many Quadrant readers at this site and 'the cats and kitteh's' as they refer to themselves are in full head exploding mode supporting areff's article and the sentiments he expresses.
ReplyDeleteThere seem to be other commenters at this site who are part of the Quadrant hierarchy and the host of the blog is Sinclair Davidson who amazingly is a lecturer at RMIT teaching discredited Zombie economics.
Being an overweight balding middle aged man and having a less than handsome face which he is apparently ashamed of, he wears a childish Halloween mask when he replies to some of the less stupid and reprehensible of the comments while ignoring the straight out sexist ones of the 'these feminist wymins just need a good fck" kind, the racist and outright criminal suggestions that are made and avidly censoring and deleting any vaguely challenging comments from people attempting to question the stupidity that is revealed there, calling it trolling as they all howl about their lack of freedom of speech.
The people there are so delusional they call the LNP leftists. To avoid the anti-semitism that is rife the word Jew is not allowed but one can read the anti-semitism because they use mis-spellings to avoid being caught up. There is of course no restriction on anti-Muslim comments or incitement to hate these people and misrepresentations of their religion.
A few of the sort of comments that are to be found there.
--Roger ..... Don’t give in to the weak and increasingly more desperate bullies......... I hope there are plenty who liked what you wrote and will subscribe as a consequence."
"OTHER people dying does not concern the ABC at all, but the idea of the same thing happening to THEM sends them into apoplectic fits of outrage.
Good"
"Think how many bollards the abc budget could build, if the lives of children mattered to the left more than the revolution to wipe out the Anglosphere."
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"Not sure why those taxmoochers at their ABC as so outraged11!!. Their ABC is quite safe from any terrorist attacks given how much support they provide to islamic terrorists."
"The vast herd of dimwitted leftoids will make good cannon fodder for the next world war."
Thanks for this astonishing report Anon
DeleteYes, thanks indeed for that, Anony. Communing amongst the civilized in Loonpond it's way too easy to forget how many sick, sad creatures await us under every rock.
DeleteBut I am somewhat saddened by the state of RMIT - Sinclair Davidson being not the only academically questionable employee. Back before everything was 'universityized' and reduced to a low(est) common denominator, RMIT was an enjoyable institution (it was there I learned the wonders of Backus-Naur and to program in Algol 60 - the only official language of the ACM's Collected Algorithms back then).