The pond only mentions the Polonial watch dog post as a classic example of pot and kettle syndrome. Is there anyone more smug or righteous than Polonius?
Even amongst the many obsessed reptiles, is there any one more obsessed with the ABC than Polonius, determined in his prattle to hunt out every errant detail, with a fervour even an Inquisitor at the height of the Spanish Inquisition might envy?
As for echo chamber, surely Polonius is up there with the whispering dishes they have at the Parkes Observatory …
It won't have escaped reptile devotees that this past week, the obsession with Malware has reached a point of peak hysteria … remember that Pope? (with more papal pleasures here).
So who does the whispering dish choose for his righteous weekend tract?
Well smug echo chamber that he is, Polonius is also entirely predictable in the richness of his prattle …
Of course there's another key element to Polonius's style, and that's his love of pedantry, which involves a wonderful level of stupidity.
Take the incoming sentence in the next gobbet. "Turnbull, and only Turnbull, is responsible for that outcome."
Now the pond dislikes Malware as much as the next person, and prides itself on an NBN fear and loathing which is above the average. But think about the words "only Turnbull". So the entirety of the government, the onion muncher, Barners and all the rest of the gang had nothing to do with it?
Well if you're a smug member of the echo chamber known as the lizard Oz, you might be inclined to see Malware as causing every problem, including but not limited to the great Andrews potato blight of 2018 ...
Speaking of the mutton Dutton, might not he have something to do with the declining fortunes of the government - even allowing for the vile and despicable influence of the ABC, Paul Barry and the Fairfaxians?
Never mind, the smug echo chamber must hunt out the heretics, as Inquisitors have always done ...
Yep, that Pope cartoon really caught a whiff of Polonius at work, smug echo chamber that he is, dishing out the blame, and even dragging in poor old cawing Crowe, who fled the echo chamber for the relative sanity of the Fairfaxians …
As for smug verging on the desperate, the reptiles keep boasting about the way the watch dog can be found at the lizard Oz, but Polonius is so desperate for attention he puts it up at the Sydney Institute in a way that undercuts the reptile paywall …because in its own way, it's more about Polonial obsessions than it is about the media ...
But enough of Polonius, because on a Sunday the pond likes to kick back its heels and indulge in mindless speculation, and frolic with the likes of the Graudian beast, here …
Now Dame Groan is old news, but it set the pond to wondering …
Just how much is Dame Slap hauling in for a couple of columns a week, full of Trumpian nonsense and climate science denialism and whatever other far right madness is part of the echo chamber week? The reptiles still love her, and often enough make her top of the digital page …
Surely Dame Slap must be hauling in a little more than Dame Groan's measly $357k a year?
Vanity would demand it. The thought of being a second class reptile valued at less than Dame Groan would be insupportable, impossible for the ego to bear ...
But what does the average reptile reader get in exchange for this banging of the bucks?
Sadly, just more of the echo chamber, with Dame Slap joining Polonius and all the other reptiles in a savaging of Julia Banks and the uppity sisterhood …
Well the pond never guarantees originality or insight when it takes a stroll amongst the reptiles.
But before Dame Slap gets into full lecturing, hectoring mode, the pond was reminded of another report in the Graudian beast, featuring one of the usual suspects …
All care, but no responsibility … sheesh, why the false modesty? It's not as if Dean hasn't got some form, as mentioned in Media Watch here …
A religious audience? So that's what the bigots do on a Sunday morning?
But now it's back to the handsomely rewarded Dame Slap berating other women ...
Funnily enough, the pond would usually insert around this point a cartoon celebrating Dame Slap's love of the pussy-grabbing President, but perhaps this Wilcox cartoon, with more Wilcox here, is a tad more relevant …
Meanwhile, the hunt to blame heretics and dissidents continues apace in Dame Slap's variation on the echo chamber ...
The capacity to re-write history is an essential part of being a highly paid member of the echo chamber, such as Dame Slap's disingenuous recalling of the way that John Howard supposedly managed tensions by granting a free vote for the party.
Really? Surely Howard's rolling of the Republican movement was one of the great examples of Machiavellian rat-cunning fuckery. and full credit to him for helping the country continue its infatuation with sundry princes and princesses, while we look forward to the reign of Prince Chuck …and what a joy that will be ...
Oh heck, the pond can't stand it, that mention of Clinton set the pond off, it just had to run a few Donald cartoons …
Phew, that's better, and so the final gobbet from the handsomely rewarded Dame Slap will just fly by … and what do you know, in it, the echo chamber also mentions the echo chamber, because that's what echo chambers do when they want to load up the pond with a whole bunch of post-reflexive, post-modernist, beyond post-satirical ironies ...
And then of course there are columnists that can't wait to don a cap celebrating the arrival of a pussy grabber as the President of the United States … and dare to blather on, in a handsomely rewarded way, about allegedly real feminism and female empowerment …
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o wonder whenever Dame Slap turns up, no doubt clawing in a handsome retainer for a couple of columns a week, while blathering about 'leets, the pond feels the need for a few Donald cartoons …
o wonder whenever Dame Slap turns up, no doubt clawing in a handsome retainer for a couple of columns a week, while blathering about 'leets, the pond feels the need for a few Donald cartoons …
Poor old Gerard would learn more about attribution bias if he looked at his own attitudes, thought patterns and behaviour rather than continually looking to denigrate others.
ReplyDeleteBut that seems to be the fundamental difference between the tribes these days that I see; right wing people think other people are crap and other people are always doing bad things and need to be policed and forced into being 'normal' while left wing people understand that there are reasons why all people including the rwnj's do what they do. It is not just a mythical entity called human nature that magically springs into being when a child again magically becomes an adult fully responsible for themselves. I imagine that Gerard delusionally thinks of himself as a fully responsible adult.
Yes it was just another weekend of very small things in the world of Polonius. It's not so much "the less said the better" about him as what the hell can one say about an ongoing dribble of unsweet nothings.
ReplyDeleteDame Slap is worthy of a comment or two however. Even though she obviously follows the Groaning way of working less in order to get paid less. Probably because she's just so very caught up in the "messy, demanding, beautiful and exhilarating privilege" of "rearing children". Because surely that's what she's doing at age 52 since once having been a mother clearly precludes you from ever doing anything else in your life. Just ask Dame Enid Lyons about that (who was a mother 12 times, IIRC).
So clearly that's why she says that "women may not want to go to Canberra in the same numbers as men", that obviously explains everything, doesn't it. They just "may not want to go". So, does that mean that the 42 out of 95 (44%) of Labor women in Canberra are a bit weird ? Because they obviously do "want to go" much more than the LNP women - there being only 18 out of 84 (21%) of Liberal and 3 out of 21 (14%) of Nationals women.
But I am impressed by Slap's 're-writing of history' in accusing O'Dwyer of a so-called Hillary-deplorables moment. Essentially, all of the media reports I have seen say that O'Dwyer "told colleagues that Liberals are widely considered as homophobic, anti women, climate change deniers". But Dame Slap thinks that O'Dwyer has "accused Liberals" of that. So, did O'Dwyer "accuse" or did she just inform them of how others see them. We report, you decide.
Besides, the only way we got to know this, either way, is because some gabbing r-soul at the meeting leaked it to the press. And I don't think it was O'Dwyer who did that. Is there somebody else on the floor who is a "disloyal Liberal" ?
Only Gerry Henderson could start an article with "It was 6:27am". The seconds and milliseconds must have been subbed out.
ReplyDeleteSo, no one who rings an electorate office thousands if kilometres outside her own electorate to enquire about the future of the government - then to telephone the Australian is not political in any way? I bet she rang Banks' office to give em an earful and got one back.
ReplyDeleteYeah, a truly bizarre little episode wasn't it.
DeleteA perfectly respectable woman from Cairns - wonderful to see just how far her sense of responsibility ranges - who "helps run" a 30yo family business, and just wanted "answers from Banks about the future of the government".
But I'd reckon she never rang Cory Bernadi's office to ask the same question, and I would seriously like to know when she'll ring Tony Abbott's office and Craig Kelly's office to seek "answers about the future of the planet".