And so to nattering "Ned", at the top of the digital lizard Oz this morning, yearning for a man of steel, as if DC comics or Marvel heroes was the way forward … while "Ned" himself seems incapable of understanding that primal truth expressed by another myth, Dr Frankenstein and his monster …
Or more simply, Chairman Rupert and the Donald …
Uh huh. The pond senses what nattering "Ned" needs … a goodly, bigly dose of Fox News …
Still they pump it out, still they maintain the love …
The pond often wonders what it must be like to be a cog in a weevil empire … where "Ned" rails at the Donald, apparently oblivious to the way that he's a close-kissing cousin to Donald worshippers in the USA, employed by the very same Chairman …
If "Ned" had the remotest sense of irony, he might start off a sentence with "In this bizarre Murdochian world", but instead ...
The ironies are so rich and resonant that the pond can barely cope with them … perhaps a jolly reaffirming of a humorous tweet will help …
But what of Fox "News", Fox and Friends, the palpable bias that produced staff protests at the WSJ, the relentless humbugging in the cause of the Donald, that has been a feature of the chairman's empire from way back in the day when the Chairman decided to throw in his lot with the Donald?
Mad? And so the madness came unto the land, and the Rupert unified with the Donald and the GOP.
So long ago, and yet so fresh in the pond's mind …and yet seemingly no never mind for nattering "Ned", wringing his hands and sighing at the clouds …
Uh huh. Could the pond put it another way?
If the situation escalates, don't misjudge Chairman Rupert and his Fox News, Fox and Friends mob's ability to manipulate for their own purposes any trade retaliation by foreigners, to whip up popular support for the Murdochian "America first" stance, and show that love of the Donald remains a throbbing cause in the Murdochian heartland?
And so to an even more pathetic sight than nattering "Ned" …the pathetic pleading of Malware for special exemptions … because, you know, he was given the word, and promises, promises ...
Indeed, indeed. Chairman Rupert's ploy worked, and the consequences have been a bigly, muchly lurch into madness - with the Donald as an agent of global damage - and the long-run consequences have yet to play out, because still the Murdochian empire is in the service of the monster it helped create …
But don't expect a word about it from the lizard Oz's nattering "Ned" … as if Frankenstein had nothing to do with his monster lurching out into the world, startling children and the natterer ...
Better to instead turn to a Rowe cartoon, with more Rowe here, for genuine insight into the way people love to tilt at windmills …
Still waiting for a paean of praise from the Bromancer - backed by Dame Snap, of course - to the purity and wisdom of the Donald and his many wise and very effective policies for America. MAGA !
ReplyDeletePerhaps the 'man of steel' Ned has in mind is Deputy Sheriff Little Johnny. Winston Shame he's ineligible for POTUS because he wasn't born in the USA.
ReplyDeleteWhatever, I can't get over Ned's delicious mixing of metaphors: 'This juxtaposition brings to a zenith the global conundrum in its danger and tragedy' - although it could have been worse: he could have used 'crescendo' instead of 'zenith'
And I like the way Ned lumps 'democracy' with 'free trade' - as if the two are one and the same.
Strewth, Anony, FD expects Shanners to know something about Renaissance art and you expect Ned to know something about elegant (or at least, readable) prose. They're both reptiles on the Wingnut Welfare gravy train, mate - can't expect 'em to actually know anything.
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