So the onion muncher ate humble pie … and Richo confirmed his glorious predictive abilities …
But enough of leaving Richo surprised at the size of his modest Swiss bank accounts and other lesser comedy stylings, because the lizards of Oz produced a comedy festival to rival Melbourne and it was all the work of one humble comedian, known in the trade as the dog botherer …
Naturally the reptiles gave it a big splash … it's not often you get to feature comedy stylings like these ...
Yes, it was the full-gloss treatment because somebody had to stand up to the wicked ABC and all the rest of them and tell it like it really, truly was …
Now it's the pond's experience from school daze that whenever someone says "what really happened Miss" is that what follows is going to be a story replete with distortions, exaggerations and downright lies, mixed with an oafish Trumpian sense that if you say anything with conviction, you might get away with it.
What really happened, Miss, is that it was everyone else's fault, honest …
Yep, your average fourth former could produce that sort of grotesque straw dog version of events, and then after that epic distortion and grotesque set of exaggerations, produce an alternative reality ...
And now to prove that the reptile hive mind was in rampant agreement ...
This comes of course from a ratbag driven by a maniacal level of rage and climate science denialism, full of a religious fervour of a kind that the dog botherer frequently attributes to climate scientists ...
Actually it's always been about changing the leader and it's always been about climate science denialism and it's always been about a love of clean dinkum Oz coal oi oi oi, and how hard would it be to admit the fear and loathing and rage that drove the delcon delusion?
Never mind, it is of course all the fault of the ABC ...
Uh huh. But actually News Corp did stand by the onion muncher, and the faithful Murdochians have stuck by him ever since, and never mind the sniping, the wrecking, the undermining and the endless policy backflips.
The delcon ragbags were delighted to use him as a stalking horse … until they began to fixate on the potato head as an alternative saviour.
But stay, none of this would have any meaning or decent laughs for the pond, if the dog botherer didn't come out with a "this is truly Orwellian", because that's the first line of defence for the truly stupid ...
And there's the rub. For good or ill, Malware got back in with a one seat majority.
ScoMo got in thanks to a knife in the back or the front or the side … wherever a slot could be found … wielded by his peers. and letting enlisted voters to go hang … and leaving casualties to do the knitting …
The pond thought it better slip in a Rowe, with more Rowe here, because even Rowe might find it hard to match the comedy stylings in the last dog botherer gobbet …
And there you go …
That's when the pond's cornflakes hit the floor …
"The prime aim of the conservative challengers was not to install Dutton …"
Silly old potato head, used as a pathetic stalking horse …
And there at the end, saucy doubts and fears about the consequences, floating into the air from the fetid dog botherer swamp … though it's hard to see why. Apparently the whole point of the coup wasn't to install the mutton Dutton, it was just to lash out at the universe with a howl of pain worthy of Tennessee Williams looking for Stella …
And then they found ScoMo, so where's the worry?
Who could possibly take exception to the 'saleable' ScoMo or refuse to join in the search for a new nickname for him, being conducted here in full ...
Astounding, isn't it: Cassandra complex in full bloom ... or at least so the media's one true prophet would like to have us believe. You know, he who "takes an unashamedly rationalist approach" to Life, The Universe And Everything.
ReplyDeleteHi Dorothy,
ReplyDeleteKenny attempts to maintain the fiction that News Corp and the Federal Liberal Party are not intimately interlinked. In fact you could draw a Venn Diagram between the Liberals and the News Corp Opinion writers and not have to bother with a second circle.
Kenny admits himself that he was a political adviser for Downer and later Turnbull. Peta Credlin was Abbotts Chief of Staff, Sheridan is Abbott’s best friend from university, Moorice was Abbott’s business adviser, Cater runs the Liberals slush fund (sorry the Menzies Research Centre) and so on and so on and so on…
They even publish Abbotts’ speeches before he even gives them and Kenny expects us to believe that there is no cosy relationship and coordination between the media outlet he works for and the internal factional politics inside the Liberal Party.
They are all players and they have been plotting against Turnbull as soon as they suspected him of heresy over Climate Change, where any attempt to minimise CO2 output is seen as a dangerous “drift to the Left”.
All that was needed to start the coup was the nod from the Chairman himself, who still regards himself as a Kingmaker both here and in the UK and the US.
DiddyWrote
By golly when you put it like that, the pond's paranoia ran rampant and went into paranoid persecution mode … and yet every word rang true. 'A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. A psychotic is a guy who's just found out what's going on.'
DeleteWell maybe DW, maybe Murdoch really is the evil mastermind, more powerful even than any number of 'deep states'. But from what I can see, Murdoch doesn't have a real lot of capable people at his command - not since Ailes carked, anyway.
ReplyDeleteThe thing I don't get is that The Muncher (doubtless operating at Murdoch's command) rolled Turnbull (by one whole vote) back in December 2009. Now that means that until Turnbull turned the tables (by 10 votes, 54-44) back in September 2015, The Muncher was in command of the LNP. But then, all of a sudden, he wasn't. Did Murdoch order that ?
So what happened ? Did Murdoch blink ? Was he too busy "courting" and marrying Jerry Hall ? Why did the all-powerful Murdoch allow Turnbull three whole years in which to wreck the LNP ? Mind, he did marry Jerry in March 2016, so it might have taken a man of his age about 2 1/2 years to collect his senses again.
Hi GB,
DeleteMy take on Murdoch is that his power over politicians is not that his media empire will actively support them, as this is quite unlikely to sway the electorate, but that his publications and cable TV stations are extremely effective when they are attacking their opposition candidates, especially when this is coordinated.
Negative beats Positive every time and any would be politician would do anything to avoid being in Murdoch’s cross-hairs.
The recent revelations that the ‘National Enquirer’ buried salacious stories on Trump, raises the interesting question on just how much damaging material an organisation just as big as News Corp could have filed away on a host of celebrities, politicians and other people in the public eye, that might be leveraged at a later date.
It’s a tactic that certainly worked for J. Edgar Hoover.
In the ‘Saturday Paper’ this weekend there were allegations that there were two ‘Dirt Files’ circulating amongst Liberal pollies about Turnbull and Bishop prior to the spill. What organisation would have the resources and the motivation to compile such a list of damaging material?
As for the demise of Abbott in 2015, I suspect Murdoch discovered he had just picked a wrong’un (he’s not that particularly politically astute and evidently less so now that he lives abroad and that he is 87). The belief that Abbott could transition from very effective destructive attack dog to constructive feel good Prime Minister was hopelessly delusional but he certainly had his boosters (especially in News Corp) at the time.
By the time Abbott could only manage to beat an empty chair by 61-39, in February 2015, he was a dead man walking and a change was going to be required to avoid a Labor government. Throwing mud at Shorten and Labor (and they threw everything) wasn’t working, the electorate had made up their mind about Abbott, so a change at the helm was required. Turnbull wouldn’t have been Murdoch’s personal choice but he was the best bet to scrape through.
The latest Palace Coup where Turnbull got the chop last Friday, appears to revolve around Climate Change Denialism. It’s interesting that Nick Minchin has popped up again today in The Pond as he would probably be ‘Patient Zero’ in the infestation of zombie-like Anthropogenic Climate Change Denialism that currently manifests itself inside the Liberal Party.
He was behind rolling Turnbull for Abbott way back in 2009 again because of Turnbull’s bipartisan support with Labor for a joint policy on a Carbon Price.
It seems that even mentioning a renewable target (no matter how pathetic) is enough to raise the ire of an increasingly sclerotic Murdoch and the denialists inside the Liberal Party.
DW
Ah well, I'm still not convinced about the might of Murdoch, but I grant his media organisations can make a lot of trouble for pollies. Not so much anything for good, though: opposition has some effect, but support not so much.
DeleteHowever I am curious about Turnbull and Bishop "dirt files". What kind of dirt ? Sexual misadventure ? If so, it's the very first I've heard of any such regarding Turnbull. Bishop, of course, has had her regular bedmate for some time, but that's open public knowledge, especially when she gets prodded for carting him along at taxpayer expense. Is there anything else ?
Or is it some other kind of "dirt" ? Hmm. Maybe I'll have to get along to my local library and have a read of the Saturday Paper.
But I did find this article in The Independent, DW, so there's a lot of belief in the power of Murdoch about:
DeleteThe Turnbull demolition and the Murdoch coincidence
David Donovan
https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/the-turnbull-demolition-and-the-murdoch-coincidence,11818