In which prattling Polonius and nattering Ned miss the elephant in the News Corp/Sky room ...

The more that News Corp drifts towards white nationalism and racism - or should that be goose step or stechschritt? - the more that the pond has come to rely on Amanda Meade to chart the path of the beasts to unfathomable depths, as she did yesterday in News Corp uses its muscle to protest Sky News ban from Victoria's train stations …

In a stunning display of solidarity with Sky, Rupert Murdoch’s print organs fell into line, accusing the government of “Stalinist” tactics and “retrograde socialist-style censorship”.

The hive mind, the murmuration of the reptiles swooping and turning like a flock of starlings, ready to crap on anything and everything in their path, is a sight to see, and Meade regularly provides guidance, saving the pond from this unpleasant task.

The pond is content to spend its time with prattling Polonius, safe in the knowledge that all that will be on display is a mindset from the 1950s DLP and a history lesson to match.

 Our man Polonius would certainly not have anything to do with the recent unpleasant Sky business, and would definitely not use it to slag off the ABC …

Sigh …

Unlike the ABC.

He really can't help himself, can he?

Meanwhile, the lad who perpetrated the biggest bout of racist bile in the past week remains a star Sky performer, but the racist Bolter has always been the elephant in the room …

Every day the Bolter turns up to do a show, he's a living reminder that the epicentre of the demonisation of the Sudanese and other minority groups is fully Sky and News Corp approved …

There is no “us” any more, as a tidal wave of immigrants sweeps away what’s left of our national identity. Another 240,000 foreigners joined us last year alone, not just crowding our cities but changing our culture. (Media Watch on the foreigner rant here).

But our man Polonius never tackles the Bolter. In fact the pond senses that Polonius is a tad scared of the Bolter, and turns a little jelly whenever the Bolter might be in the vicinity. In cowardly lion fashion, he likes the easy target of the cardigan wearers ...

Being modelled on Fox News makes it alright?

INGRAHAM: [I]n some parts of the country, it does seem like the America that we know and love doesn’t exist anymore. Massive demographic changes have been foisted upon the American people, and they are changes that none of us ever voted for, and most of us don’t like. From Virginia to California, we see stark examples of how radically, in some ways, the country has changed. (Crooks and Liars here).

Sound familiar? Sound a little Bolterish?

That's how it works in stechschritt News Corp land … do a little goose step, see the reaction, do a little strategic retreat, then return so that the racism and the abuse can advance a little further …

There's only one way to avoid it … don't join in, and don't subscribe, and soon enough you'll see it being given away in the bush in a desperate attempt to spread the white nationalism further ...

A not-to-be repeated error?

Each night Sky News runs the bigot Bolt … and that brings the pond to another who manages to ignore the elephant in the room ...

This is a real test for reptile cultists. For some reason nattering "Ned" was feeling his oats, and produced one of his interminable lectures, designed to induce a sense of numbness or even existential despair...

Widely embraced?

Of course there's that elephant in the room, and the pond has money riding on the way that nattering "Ned" won't manage to see it…

Indeed, indeed, tell that to the Sudanese, now bottom of the pack, and copping the sort of relentless victimisation that once befell the Irish, Italians and Greeks, the Vietnamese and the Chinese in turn…

But sssh, no mention of any of that … "Ned" is on a nattering roll

Part manipulated? 

So this is what it's like to be schizophrenic, or perhaps more accurately a split personality, where it's possible for one voice not to hear or recognise another voice, even when it's in the same corporate body … though others seem to be able to do so …

So will "Ned" call out News Corp?

In your dreams ...

On and on he blathers in the interminable way only "Ned" can manage while the elephant keeps dropping turds in the lounge room, and it's left to others to notice …

SAD? The pond loves it, a reptile recommending the Graudian as a corrective to reading reprehensible News Corp ragbags…

Yes, it's sad, but there's always a chance to drift away from nattering "Ned" and read Manne's Andrew Bolt got his facts wrong. But that's not the only thing wrong with his column …

Those who ordered in a cast-iron stomach can continue, to see if News Corp and Sky cop even a mention for their goose stepping and dog whistling ...

Say what? Say what drives anti-migrant sentiment again?

Take a squiz at that nausea-inducing illustration ...

The pond has always felt a special contempt for nattering "Ned", a man who purports to deal with serious issues and inevitably reduces them to a pile of blather ...

That signals?

Actually that signals the looming business model of News Corp, as it attempts to follow its American model … while the drudge Tudge actually does his bit to try to appease the Bolter elements in News Corp ...

And there you have it, the dissembling and the deflection, while the elephant drops turds in the kitchen. 

Not a mention of the Bolter or his kith and kin in News and Sky, instead the usual rant about postmodern thinking and identity politics and the assault in the values of Western civilisation …

Nattering "Ned" might just as well have given the Bolter a koala stamp, so clearly does his thinking wander through the soft-bellied "Ned" attempt at making the News Corp attitude to foreigners palatable ...

Never mind, we're near the end. Did the pond mention the special contempt it reserved for the disingenuous, asinine blather of the pompous, portentous, nattering "Ned"? Possibly, but it's always worth saying again, because there's just a short gobbet to go ...

The political class is walking away from sustained support for integration?

The political class are just heeding the drumbeat, the goose stepping, of News and Sky on a daily basis … using the American model for their inspiration.

What a disgrace News Corp, "Ned" and Polonius are. How incapable they are of noting the elephant in the room.

What a relief it is to turn to a Rowe for a little distraction from this unholy mess, this crisis which isn't coming, but which has already landed, full fly-blown and festering …

Thanks Rowe, but did you have to remind the pond that News in the US is in goose step lock with the racist Donald, and is now doing the same down under? 

Never mind, more clarity and truth in a single cartoon than an interminable bit of avoidance by "Ned", with more Rowe here ...