In which a jelly Oreo offers the chairman a fine tax ...

Many are called but few can be chosen on an Oreo Monday ... which is why the pond can merely nod, tip the hat, and acknowledge the ongoing fine work of our Gracie ...

... because the rich, always needy people, certainly need much more, and because we can never have enough income inequality ...

But fine effort though it is, the pond always remains true to the delights of an Oreo on a Monday ... see how there's a hint of Ozstralia in this fine line ...

And the point of the buttering up is made clearer in the google splash, wherein the Oreo talks of hapless "good publishers" copping it hard and doing it tough...

Who might those "good publishers" be? Do they have a solution for all the fake news doing the rounds, not least that scurrilous story about the president and the porn star showgirl? Oh shame on you, fake news WSJ ...

Answers a little later, first pucker up the mouth, salivate and launch into the Oreo of the day .... luckily for his many fans, with a Lobbecke at the top showing off a sinister puppet master ... like this ...

  

   

Sheesh, where did they all come from? How did that old visual metaphor turn up?

The pond apologises ... not only has the puppet-master broken or lost a few strings lately, he's sounding increasingly needy and desperate, and there's no excuse for getting in the way of Oreo and Lobbecke ...

Now the pond has no difficulties with any of this. The pond can certify that all of its news and opinion is one hundred per cent true to origin... the only pity is the origin ...

But what to do? Especially when the Oreo begins to peddle fake news herself ...

The pond doesn't usually feature Donald tweets, but it's important to bear this in mind when the Oreo begins to talk of Kremlin-linked trolls. 

Let's face it, that either means the Donald is barking mad and deep in the Kremlin pockets, or certain things actually happened. But who is the Oreo to question her Donald? Does she realise she might herself be in the grip of fake news madness?

Still, the pond has every confidence that the Oreo is building up to a sensible solution of an epic Murdochian kind ...

And there you go, the Murdochian solution, and so the pond had to hastily switch from a peanut butter Oreo to a jelly donut ...

Of course the Oreo doesn't go into who might draw a distinction between fake news, propaganda, Trump TV (once known as Fox), questionable and reliable publishers ...

The answer is self-evident. Rupert Murdoch is the only person alive able to draw a fine distinction between questionable and reliable publishers, and so others must be taxed so that Trump TV might continue to flourish, and the federal government might continue to advertise in the lizard Oz, in one of the greatest shakedowns currently doing the rounds...

Oh what a fine and worthy and noble suggestion it was, and how jelly donut of the Oreo to feature it this day ... and so must the pond too ...

Now here the pond must plead guilty. There is little doubt that it has regularly, nay routinely, featured contemptible, scurrilous news sources that are inherently unreliable, starting with the lizard Oz but also including tabloids of the Terror and HUN kind ...

After all, there are some more likely to trust a red bellied black snake than News Corp or Rupert Murdoch, starting with the notion that a tax on rivals might be dressed up in the gibberish lingo of a "carriage fee", but that's enough low comedy for the day ... 

Why only yesterday the pond might have suggested that anyone touting themselves as a "trusted publisher", especially a snake in the grass who gives snakes a good name, was "virtue-signalling", but Polonius has this day signalled that there should be an end to virtue-signalling 

More of that anon. Luckily, as the Donald has been mentioned, the pond is also obliged to mention a reliable news source, with David Rowe still to be found here ...