Thursday, August 16, 2018

In which has a meal with the Pope and then heads off to the old Dog Whistle pub for a glass with Rowe ...


Awkward… as this remarkably incisive cartoon from the infallible Pope evokes, with more papal offerings here

By golly, it just had to be top of the page, evoking memories of the finest recent hits by Barners, Malware and the mutton Dutton, and their race-baiting ways ...

As a result of the recent turmoil created by an attention-seeking senator from the deep north, these might have got lost in the hooh-hah … just as  pond has had to turn away from all sorts of other splendid debates … such as Dame Groan discovering she's a soul mate with "forgotten whites, but black coal loving" Barners …


Dame Groan was part of the lizard Oz push to support the rebels with a dinkum clean Oz coal, oi, oi, oi yell …

 

And there were other narcissist attention-seekers jostling for attention with a familiar refrain…


But the pond had to walk by aspirational wannabes parroting the reptile line … because the reptiles turned the heavy guns on that Queensland senator from the deep north …


Awkward …

After all the Senator from the deep north merely picked up on the reptile vibe, the zeitgeist in the Murdochian press, and vomited it on the restaurant table, or in the house, in a rather unsubtle, attention-seeking way …

How awkward to pick up on the way the reptiles have been bashing the Sudanese for months and carrying on endlessly about the foreign threat … how indecent to do it in such an unsubtle fashion. Hence the bromancer's poignant cry: do your basic wog-bashing, migrant-hating, white nationalist talking "with basic respect" …


Now before the pond proceeds to the rest of this mealy-mouthed hypocrisy, the pond should pause to observe that there are some white nationalists in the News Corp ranks who understood their dog-whistling crusade had worked … by simply drawing attention to the debate, bringing bigotry front and centre, the Bolter was in seventh heaven …


Oh yes, it's business as usual at white nationalist central ...


That bit about Hitler and Mussolini being far left is one of the classic ploys of latter-day white nationalists anxious to steer a little away from the swastika. It's about as useful as arguing that Stalin was a far right fascist thinly disguised as a left-wing dictator.

It's remarkable that Greg Hunters might discover more sense in a wiki than in the Bolter's white nationalist loving rants …

After noting that Adolf carefully attempted to distinguish his brand from left and right wing politics, the wiki went on ...

Historians regard the equation of National Socialism as 'Hitlerism' as too simplistic since the term was used prior to the rise of Hitler and the Nazis and the different ideologies incorporated into Nazism were already well established in certain parts of German society before World War I. The Nazis were strongly influenced by the post–World War I far-right in Germany, which held common beliefs such as anti-Marxism, anti-liberalism and antisemitism, along with nationalism, contempt for the Treaty of Versailles and condemnation of the Weimar Republic for signing the armistice in November 1918 which later led it to sign the Treaty of Versailles.
A major inspiration for the Nazis were the far-right nationalist Freikorps, paramilitary organizations that engaged in political violence after World War I. Initially, the post–World War I German far-right was dominated by monarchists, but the younger generation, which was associated with Völkisch nationalism, was more radical and it did not express any emphasis on the restoration of the German monarchy. This younger generation desired to dismantle the Weimar Republic and create a new radical and strong state based upon a martial ruling ethic that could revive the "Spirit of 1914" which was associated with German national unity (Volksgemeinschaft). 
The Nazis, the far-right monarchists, the reactionary German National People's Party (DNVP) and others, such as monarchist officers in the German Army and several prominent industrialists, formed an alliance in opposition to the Weimar Republic on 11 October 1931 in Bad Harzburg, officially known as the "National Front", but commonly referred to as the Harzburg Front...

And so on, and on, and you'd have to be a moron to blithely assert that Hitler and the Nazis were far left simply because they used "socialism" in the party name … but then the pond has never doubted that the Bolter is an opportunistic, attention-seeking moron with rampant white nationalist tendencies, who thinks that the senator from the deep north is manna from heaven for his cause…

Now where was the pond? Ah that's right, back with the hypocritical hand-wringing of the mealy-mouthed bromancer ...



Indeed, indeed. If you're going to demonise Islamics, and act like a bigot, and stoke hate and fuel the fires of prejudice, for the love of the long-absent lord, do it with basic respect and civility. 

Be elevated, be presidential … call them lowlife dogs, or criminal Sudanese crime gangs undermining western civilisation, whatever … and then watch the elevated tone of the discourse spread throughout the land …

And let us not forget the Oz editorialist, beavering away on a rag that has launched an unholy crusade on all sorts of aliens and imports …


Meanwhile, the vital work of News Corp continues in other places …


Luckily there's only a few more hypocritical, hand-wringing pars to go ...


The debate must be conducted in the sensible centre? Well that rules out the lizard Oz, and the entirety of the white nationalist trending News Corp …

Extremism is the News Corp way … how else to get some attention at a time when the business plan is failing and flailing, and the best gambit seems to be to convert the rags and Sky News to the sort of extreme right-wing Fox News ratbaggery that helped give the world the Donald ...

How does the pond know? 

Well like the Pope, David Rowe was in an exceptional form this day … with more exceptional Rowe here … and after that meal with the Pope, naturally the pond had to follow up with a drink at the old Dog Whistle with Rowe ….



The Dog Whistle? It's a grand old pub wherein you will find much stimulating reading and rampant hypocrisy ...





3 comments:

  1. I could not bring myself to read all of the tripe these right wing nuts from news corp.
    They are now trying to absolve themselves from blame when they are the instigators of race based politics.

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    1. Oh I dunno, ww. Yeah, they can be just a tad wearisome at times (especially the Doggy Bov who just can't seem to find anything intelligible to say and Ned the Kelly who seems to want to repeat himself exhaustively and exhaustingly every time he writes).

      But it's traditional, mate: the first rule of wingnut reptiles is: always find someone, and/or something, else to blame. It's just a real life example of Calvin and Hobbes, you see. The pity is we just don't have a local Bill Watterson to render them appropriately.

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  2. I'm a bit the same. I guess I have never come to terms with rascals - people who look you in the eye and lie to you. If I had ever worked at News Corp I would probably be less naive but would be spending more time locking windows and doors.

    It's not just the race baiting though. If you look at energy policy for instance, the costs started to climb with the asset sales. The gold-plating, crazy guarantees on return and entrenched subsidies are all a legacy of the neolibs. But who's to blame - the greenies. Cause a problem then blame someone else.

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