Who knew the chairman was a fan of Silicon Valley, a comedy about silly people using futurist lingo to disguise sundry retreats and defeats ...
Naturally the spinmeisters were out in force at the lizard Oz ...
The pond preferred the NY Times' reference to the chairman having his King Lear Moment ...
At times like this there's an urgent need for kowtowing, lickspittle forelock tuggers ... and by golly the lizard Oz came up not just with the supine DD, but with a beauty ...
Well done Terry. Such abasement, and done in such a professional way ...
Actually in fond memory of that megahit Myspace - Generation Z doesn't even remember Myspace - the pond was more beguiled to read this in the Graudian ...
There's more here, and what fun it is to read ...
Talk about a pivot... or is that an epic dummy spit ...or simply a sulker picking up the ball and going home ... but soon enough, it seems the trees will at last be safe ...
And so to the onerous, burdensome duty of the day, which is as predictable as it is mendacious ... which is to say, insincere, disingenuous, perfidious, and Janus-faced ... all that might be expected from prattling Polonius any time of the week ...
Please miss, Johnny did it too, why aren't you picking on him ...
Now given the lizard Oz's front page, this was to be expected, as the church and the reptiles dig in ...
But there were other responses in other newspapers ...
Can Polonius avoid flinching?
Catholics must take responsibility?
In your Polonial dreams ...
Ah, the good old Roy Moore excuse.
Why m'lud, it all happened decades ago, and anyway those young fillies was willing and appreciated the attention of a mature gentleman, and besides it's all the fault of Fairfax Media, the ABC and Fitzy, what with his confronting bandana ... and besides others did it, and that means we shouldn't focus on the hapless tykes ...
When the pond mentioned mendacious, did it also use the word 'dissembling'?
What was that Francis Sullivan?
In your dreams, or perhaps over at the Graudian here ... because the pond must get back to the dodging and the ducking and the weaving and the down-playing and the avoiding ...oh and the quoting of the craven Craven doing the same ...
What was that again Francis Sullivan?
In your craven Polonial dreams ...
You know, in the old days, an act of contrition meant you were sorry and you went off into a corner and expressed your contrition and sorrow and promised to do better, and perhaps threw in an Our Father or a Hail Mary as part of the routine ... not waste time fudging, denying and blaming others ...
In particular you didn't explain how it was all decades ago, and then proceed to harp on endlessly about what Richard Downing said in 1975, as if somehow that's an excuse or a justification or an exculpation of all that has been done by others while using churches and institutions as a cloak for their inexcusable behaviour ...
How did that song go?
I've seen the churches and the institutions
and the damage done
A little part of it in everyone
But every pandering inexcusable Catholic's
like a setting sun ...
And so to the Pope of the day, one prepared to offer fearless encyclicals and a little light holyday reading, with more papal advice here ...
Typical intellectual dishonesty from PP. Here are 3 of many examples: firstly, the fact that the Catholic church dealt many more children than other bodies is a valid reason for the Royal Commission to investigate it, and does not invalidate the claim that it was responsible for a large number of incidents of abuse. Secondly, the Royal Commission dealt with allegations of 'historic' child abuse because victims were unable to have their abuse dealt with at the time, or felt unable to disclose until more recently. (Among other reasons, they realised that they would not be believed in the past). It is very likely that abuse occurred after 1989, and that it is occurring in Catholic and other institutions now. Thirdly, parents send their children to Catholic schools because it is a relatively cheap way to give them a 'private' education, and thus provide them with material and symbolic benefits. I suggest that parents are not attracted to the religious component of a Catholic education, and that children in Catholic schools are not actually provided with one.
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DeleteAnd whaddya reckon of the thought that maybe abuse started many centuries before 1989, too ? And that abuse not only continued after 1989 but that it is still continuing, even now ? And that it will continue to go on happening ?
But I really am amused by the Catholic Church's attempt to spread the blame. After all, isn't it only the Catholic Church that has a direct line to God and God's approval for every word delivered 'ex cathedra' ? I mean, wouldn't spreading the blame simply be saying that no, the Catholic Church isn't exceptional and it isn't the sole truthful source of God's words and of Godly morality ?
That, in fact, the Catholic Church is on exactly the same basis as any other 'God's messenger' claimants ? Is that what PP is trying to tell us ?
On the circulation yucks, its worth remembering that they are not newspapers sold but newspapers distributed - all those free copies you see around in airport lounges, cafes, workplaces (if you work for a Murdoch-approved business) aren't sales. Sure they're eyeballs, a relevant measure for people who are silly enough to think that newspaper advertising is still a thing, but not sales.
ReplyDeleteGiven the number of freebies I see every day, I'd be surprised if sales of the Catholic Boys Daily exceeded 70,000, which is not much more than the Bolter's TV variety hour. Probably much the same eyeballs, actually.
A strange form of moral equivalence from Polonius. Catholic Church - 4,444, ABC - 1 (OK media 2). Clearly the commission should have devoted equal time to investigating the ABC.
ReplyDeleteSeriously, I'm baffled by the concern for an archaic institution & the apparent lack of concern for its victims.
Why change the habits (ha ha) of millenia ?
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