And so to the late arvo slot where reptiles are banished for unendurable silliness, and sadly our Gracie delivered the goods to the point where she had to be banished from the banishing...
According to our Gracie, a few union officials ran GM lock, stock and barrel, and hence the entire enterprise collapsed.
Nothing else is mentioned or considered in the column - yes, the pond read it, and decided it was such an ancient return to union bashing that no good would come of it, and it might only agitate stray readers wanting to mention global trends, electric vehicles, changing GM strategies, and the way GM, having looted and rorted assorted governments, and with the Holden brand as relevant as an Owen gun, wisely decided to move on …
But that only left Dame Slap, and the pond was a bit ginger about that, as encouraging Dame Slap to write about #MeToo is a bit like having Mike Tyson show off his meditation skills in a Crocodile Dundee movie …
But there was no alternative. Somebody had to fill the Sunday arvo slot of irrelevant reptile shame, so Dame Slap was called down from the faraway tree and assigned the job …
Uh huh, but the pond sensed that Dame Slap might get around to scribbling about Harvey, a matter on which the jury appears to be deadlocked, with deliberations set to resume Monday, US time … so no good would come of talking of the matter ...
But stay, there's a thought worth contemplating.
Rotunno's wretched behaviour is the inevitable consequence of the #MeToo movement? Could Michael Avenatti use that as an excuse too?
Why inevitable?
Oh wait, we've been there before, and quite recently …
Yes, there's nothing like a well-meaning movement to uncover the mistreatment of women by men has become a messy, complicated and deeply flawed endeavour.
Why everyone knows that the bitches ask for it all the time, and when they get it, what happens? Poor suffering men are punished, and sensible observers of the situation just have to push back …
Of course the pond was tainted by Xian ideas while young, and came to the notion that there was no excuse for killing anyone, and talk of "committing acts of this form" didn't quite handle burning three innocent children to death.
Perhaps that's why things get a little deep and hard going for Dame Slap when she has to consider that situation, and then talk about Harvey's "depraved abuse of women" … but apparently, in an IPA world, when you work for Fox News, you do have choices about the circumstances you put yourself in.
Either put yourself in Roger's paws, or go walk the streets …and see if Dame Slap cares a whit or a jot ...
Yes, it's the usual victim shaming. Women might think they can work in a job without harassment, but really you have to be careful about the choices you make, which suggests that if you want to work for a Murdoch you must be a bloody fool ...
Well we all know where the Bolter ended up with this sort of talk. It featured in the pond this morning with some abject snivelling and grovelling, and the usual Bolter defiance and indignation … because, as always, never mind the victim, just print the controversy…
You know, if it was a false claim, why the snivelling, grovelling apology?
But that's the whole point. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.
When the controversy keeps bubbling along, keep printing the controversy.
That delivers what the narcissist Bolter wants, which is to say attention … in much the same way that Dame Slap strives for attention by blathering on about zealots - as if an IPA loon by definition wasn't a zealot - and throwing in notions of sexual prudery, as if that's got anything to do with a situation where no is supposed to mean no, or corporate worrywarts, which is to say that if you act like a complete dickhead, you might find Sky News ads go dark …
Never mind … Dame Slap has her verbal sledgehammer standing by, ready to dismiss the likes of Harvey as an Xmas nut ...
One thing's clear after that. Don't expect News Corp to be amending its ways, or putting its best foot forward to put the 'Roger busy rogering' days behind it …
Just do the usual Dame Slap recommended thing, and get yourself a good lawyer …
You better get a real good one
Get yourself a suit and tie
And get your hair cut way up high
Get yourself an activist lawyer, son
You're gonna need a real good one
Don't drop the soap
Don't smoke no dope
Don’t wank for the pope
Don’t feel up a woman in hope
Get yourself an activist lawyer, son
You're gonna need a good one to get you outta this one
And if you do all that, we're likely to get more organisations such as the Scouts finding out the perils of thinking they still live in the 1950s, or poor old Bloomfield imagining that pasts can be plastered over with a spray of money …
I am probably safe in assuming that Katrina Grace Kelly wrote only of unions, unions, unions. During the term of J Malcolm Fraser the local car manufacturers had protective shield, of tariff and quotas on import of possible competitors that, by some estimates, was the equivalent of a 58% tariff. All blessed by that arch conservatives Fraser and J Winston Howard. At a time when IPA and its associates would like to claim that that side has always been for their vision of 'free enterprise' and whatever catch phrase Scotty from Marketing uses these days, there seems to be a lacuna in their accounts of policy on the car industry.
ReplyDeleteMore recently, we have heard J Winston Howard claim that during the Fraser administration he, Howard, wanted much different economic policy, but few have come forward to support his claims, and his memory of other, more recent events (cocktails at Kirribilli?) is a bit ragged.
Oh - I gave Ms Kelly her full name, because my source who subscribes to the site tells me that, in a stream of comments following her article, several contributors gave the credit to someone called 'Janet'.
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Yes, you are right, our Gracie only scribbled of unions, unions, unions. It was so preposterous that the pond simply couldn't be bothered doing a clipping. In its day, the pond once wore proudly the title of a union-excoriated scab, but the only thing of note in our Gracie's yarn was just how demented it was in its anti-union rhetoric. It apparently escaped her mind that GM had a monumental fuck up in the United States, and it took a government bail out to save it, and unions were hardly the root cause of it all, and meanwhile, GM has been reviewing its brands and production lines around the world. To blame it all on a single cause, unions, was monumentally silly.
DeleteThe pond has to maintain some curatorial standards, and despite those commentary slips, the pond couldn't imagine even Dame Slap scribbling something so half-cocked and demented… and for the pond to hint at Dame Slap being less weird than our Gracie is a bit like admitting the end of the world is nigh...
"union-excoriated scab" oh my.
DeleteAnd of course it may just have escaped the demented Gracie's attention that
1. the Aus gummint klled the subsidies to GMH, Ford and Toyota and they've all essentially gone.
2. the Aus gummint removed tariffs and suchlike - free market neoliberalisn doncha know - allowing lots of competitors to arrive
3. GM got rid of lots of subsidiaries, even including the famous Opel (and Saab and Vauxhall and so forth I do believe).
But we shouldn't expect information and evidence ever to reach the forebrain of our Gracie, should we.
Thank you DP. Perhaps they are taking their own exhortations on 'productivity' seriously. In the case of KGK - just put up a sub-heading, such as 'unions, unions bloody unions' and that will be sufficient - we can all hum the rest, and the commentators can file their regular comments. Perhaps even with proper attribution.
DeleteHonorary Professorial Fellow Sloan has a different approach - cut and paste a long extract from an article by a recognised economics writer, and add 'Give me a break'. The nation really needs that 'productivity', particularly in the mass media.
Other Anonymous
Ok, well Dame Slap has done a fine job on #MeToo; it's known, I believe, as "damning with faint praise". I guess it had to be praise of some sort though in order to escape the Bolter's fate of having advertisings pulled.
ReplyDeleteBy heck though, the unexciting and limited Dame Slap must be feeling just a wee bit jealous and envious of the obviously fiery, hard and very successful, Rotunno. You just don't get to put men like Weinstein back into the world if you're an Albrechtsen, do you.
Yes, GB, the pond did detect a desire for Dame Slap to be a down under Rotunno. So many bastards and pricks to save, and yet she gave up the law to write about saving them, rather than doing the job. Ah well, it's just another day of jealousy and envy, but it certainly fills the gap left when Jordan Peterson left the scene ...
DeleteOh well, she had Betty Arndt and Robert Richter (he of the "vanilla sex") to take on that serious role in their respective fashions, DP. Dame Slap was needed to loudly sing their praises and keep the public admiration coming.
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