In which the pond suffers a Moorice overdose ...

The question is, whether Media Watch last night was making a discovery, or simply doing a reminder in a long conga line of reminders, that News Corp is full of succulent climate denialists. (For those who missed it, it's here).

The pond long ago patented the simple equation:

Miranda the Devine = the Bolter = the dog botherer = Dame Groan = Dame Slap = Terry McCrann = lil' Timmie Bleagh = how many more do you want? = News Corp = Malcolm Roberts …

Some insisted on a corollary: Malcolm Roberts = barking mad, but the pond insists on the simple elegance of its original equation. There's no need to state the obvious, and Malcolm Roberts is obviously barking mad. And anyone can work back from there. Always show your workings, as the pond's maths teacher used to say ...

The pond did accept that the original formula needed modification in a few exceptional cases, as in Lloydie = Bjorn = Malcolm Roberts + a remarkable capacity for disingenuous dissembling and epic ability to distort science for mendacious climate denialism.

And the pond has resolutely excluded the parrot and the entirety of the Speccie mob, because that intrusion from Fairfax and bizarro land reduces the elegance of the original formulation, and gets us into quantum loonacy.

Of course there are many other equations that might be made: ScoMo + Wentworth = the Donald and barking mad killers roaming Saudi embassies and so much for Palestinians, and today came an elegant proof …

 

But the pond is on a strict reptile diet and is wary of flouting doctors orders, though today's glut of madness is singularly testing …

Look at this flourish …

Jimbo out and about - what a danger he is to himself and others and to the glorious reputation of the IPA - and look, there's the pesky Islamics reminding everyone that they're at one with the fundie Xians and the lizards of Oz …

Yes, your barking mad Xian fundie is just as barking mad as your bigoted fundie Islamic.

But weren't the reptiles just this week defending the singular and exceptional glories of western civilisation?

Why it meant that the pond had to roll out an infallible Pope cartoon early …

Always reach for more Popery here, it's always handy, but back to the pond's diet. As the narcissist Donald suggests, always think of yourself and the loot first …

How to resist this delicious bit of forelock tugging and shameless Donald and ScoMo worship from the pandering bromancer?

As soon as the bromancer says a policy is good, bold, measured and responsible - an inherently stupid and contradictory set of words - it can be taken as read that it is stupid, fucked, and immeasurably irresponsible - which is just as well, because the pond could never let a Moorice pass by in the night …

So let's get after it, or at least, following John Oliver, let's get into showing how stupid such mantras sound when exposed to a Instagram little intertubes air …

How the pond missed Moorice. Is there a better example of rampant tin foil hat paranoia and delusional nonsense at work outside of Breitbart or Fox News? Why it's as sensible as rogue killers roaming Saudi embassies?

Still with the Clintons, still blathering on about conspiracies, even if the pond has to mark down Moorice for not mentioning George Soros in his opening pars.

And so to more vintage Moorice… asking where's the outrage, which is a bit like the pond asking where's the climate science?

How the pond missed Moorice. How about that blather about Joe Manchin voting on the evidence, when everybody and his dog - apart from dog-eared Moorice - knows he voted in a desperate desire to save his Red state arse …

And what about that punchline about big tobacco and the health benefits of smoking?

It's as if the punters were expected to forget all about the IPA (and Jimbo and all the others) enthusiastically defending big tobacco and its health benefits because that's where the dollars were …

In 2002, the Institute of Public Affairs admitted to receiving tobacco industry funding. In 2010, during interviews following the Federal Government’s plain packaging legislation announcement, Tim Wilson (an Institute of Public Affairs employee) refused to clarify if the Institute of Public Affairs currently received tobacco industry funding, simply stating that ‘any funding has no impact on the policy positions we take whatsoever’. The official Institute of Public Affairs response to the funding question was that, ‘the IPA does not disclose its membership list. However, members are welcome to disclose their membership of the IPA’. When ABC Media Watch approached the three Australian tobacco companies, Imperial Tobacco responded stating it did not currently nor had it in the past provided funding to the Institute of Public Affairs. British American Tobacco Australia responding by stating that, ‘any such arrangements are commercial in confidence’ and Philip Morris International gave a similar reply: ‘we do not disclose the details of these relationships’ … (here in pdf form).

Oh yes, Freedom Boy was there too, and suddenly the pond had a hankering for good old-fashioned big tobacco, coal-loving IPA style climate science denialism, perhaps with a whiff of nukes …

Hmm, does this mean China, India and Russia are full of greenies? In the case of the Orwellian, beyond fascism Chinese government, better tell that to Yang Kaili, given five days' detention for a bit of singing ...

For a moment the pond was tempted to disobey doctor's orders because of this splendid opening which featured a Krygsman …

There you go, the IPCC is full of tamed science, which means that there's no need for nukes. So roll out the nukes ...

Oh yes that Tony Grey is a real reptile favourite, and he has such an elegant lifestyle too …

By golly those new nuke plants will be done out with impeccable taste, but in all the fun, the pond almost forget Moorice, and that verges on a thought crime designed to offend the Chinese government. 

Let's get after it Moorice and wrap it up …

Ah the climate change gravy train, and alarm bells and rent-seekers …and Media Watch didn't even mention Moorice, and nor did the pond, but why should we, when we're confronted with the world's greatest climate scientist? (No, "Lord" Monckton is a long gone delusional, Moorice is the go).

The pond has often wondered what it would be like to live in a time full of new Lord Haw Haws, and thanks to Moorice and the rest of News Corp, the pond now knows … which is why it must reach for a remedial Rowe. 

The doctors warned of too much acid and bile in the system, and the only remedy is a laugh … with more Rowe prescribed here …