The fascist-inclined war mongering Vlad the impaler is back to his bellicose blitz-bombing worst, but the local reptiles are so inured to his behaviour - even with messenger from god Tuckyo Carlson sidelined - that it wasn't noted in the digital edition of the lizard Oz.
Instead the reptiles were on their own worst behaviour, and Dame Slap immediately earned two red cards ...
Sorry, Dame Slap on the voice and the Lehrmann matter is a step too far, and so the pond turned to Marina Hyde for a little light relief, and lo Nixed nuptials, Fox in trouble and ‘erratic’ behaviour … Is Rupert Murdoch OK? hovered into view.
The pond expects everyone has already read it, so only a brief note to establish the tone ...
...Media outlets have been scrambling to find logical explanations for actions that arguably, to deploy a euphemism, defy logic. After all, this is a 92-year-old who only weeks ago was delighting us with news of his impending fifth marriage – a whirlwind engagement to a former dental nurse turned prison chaplain, which was hastily called off a mere fortnight later. Apparently, Murdoch had become “increasingly uncomfortable” with his fiancee’s “outspoken evangelical views”. Again: really?
The one thing we can say with certainty is that Murdoch would want us to pick over his actions and ask if he was still playing with a full deck of Happy Families cards. For decades, his newspapers have lasered in on public figures as they reach their twilight, premature or otherwise. Back in the day, a paparazzi picture of a painfully thin Freddie Mercury limping across the street was glossed with the Sun’s front page inquiry: “ARE YOU OK FRED?” – one of those newspaper questions to which the answer is patently: no. No, he’s not – what does it effing look like? So in the same solicitous spirit we must survey the recent actions of the mercurial mogul, and ask, in the way he taught us: ARE YOU OK RUPE?
The one thing we can say with certainty is that Murdoch would want us to pick over his actions and ask if he was still playing with a full deck of Happy Families cards. For decades, his newspapers have lasered in on public figures as they reach their twilight, premature or otherwise. Back in the day, a paparazzi picture of a painfully thin Freddie Mercury limping across the street was glossed with the Sun’s front page inquiry: “ARE YOU OK FRED?” – one of those newspaper questions to which the answer is patently: no. No, he’s not – what does it effing look like? So in the same solicitous spirit we must survey the recent actions of the mercurial mogul, and ask, in the way he taught us: ARE YOU OK RUPE?
And while at the Graudian, the Weekly Beast had a timely reminder of the uselessness of being spanked with a wet Acma lettuce leaf ... How Sky News Australia turned watchdog’s rebuke over climate denial into an ‘exclusive’ story.
The pond could have predicted the response. You can't keep a climate denialist Bolter down with a lettuce leaf spanking. He loves it as much as Percy Grainger loved the whip ...
...A spokesperson for Acma told Weekly Beast: “Acma did not dismiss 90% of the allegations.
“As much of the content across the programs was repeated, there were recurring concerns raised in the 80 allegations … [and we] looked at all 80 allegations and selected a sample to formally investigate against the relevant codes of practice. We did not come to a view on whether or not those matters which were not investigated complied with the codes of practice.”
“As much of the content across the programs was repeated, there were recurring concerns raised in the 80 allegations … [and we] looked at all 80 allegations and selected a sample to formally investigate against the relevant codes of practice. We did not come to a view on whether or not those matters which were not investigated complied with the codes of practice.”
The investigation of licensee Foxtel, which is responsible for the channel’s content, found a breach of the industry codes for fairness and for failing to distinguish opinion from fact, which govern both subscription and free TV, because Outsiders is also seen on some regional broadcasters.
That night Andrew Bolt was there to back up the company line, claiming on After Dark that the authority “foolishly allowed itself to be used as a vehicle” for Rudd’s “vindictive crusade”.
“Global warming is grossly exaggerated … and one of the worst panic merchants, of course, has been Kevin Rudd and shame now on Acma for letting Kevin Rudd use that authority for his vendetta against us for pointing this out,” he said.
That night Andrew Bolt was there to back up the company line, claiming on After Dark that the authority “foolishly allowed itself to be used as a vehicle” for Rudd’s “vindictive crusade”.
“Global warming is grossly exaggerated … and one of the worst panic merchants, of course, has been Kevin Rudd and shame now on Acma for letting Kevin Rudd use that authority for his vendetta against us for pointing this out,” he said.
And so to the dog botherer, and here some might ask why the pond red cards Dame Slap on the voice, but allows doggie boy a free kick, and the answer's simple.
While Dame Slap is just being her usual shrill self on Planet Janet above the faraway tree, the dog botherer is these days a tortured, unhappy soul ... and his latest outing is evidence of his suffering, as he smites and smotes at fellow reptiles ...
That's a really big header, but this is just the warm-up. Soon enough the talk of the vibe will just be dog bro vibe and the divisions will become apparent ...
Allowing women to discuss or have a voice is surely against everything the lizard Oz stands for ...
Even worse, he says he's not familiar with Peter O'Brien. Egad sir, he's one of Quadrant's finest and has contributed all sorts of splendid far right offerings ...
Peter O’Brien graduated from the Royal Military College Duntroon in 1970 and was posted as an infantry platoon commander on operations in South Vietnam with the Fourth Battalion of the Royal Australian Regiment. He served in the Australian Army for twenty-one years, rising to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. During his military service he gained a Bachelor of Science degree, a Graduate Diploma in Data Processing and a Diploma of Military Studies.
After retiring from the Army, Peter spent twenty years in business and scientific computer sales. He has contributed frequently to Quadrant and Spectator Magazines and is the author of Bitter Harvest – the illusion of Aboriginal agriculture in Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu.
Has it come to this? Must the pond do all the dog botherer's research for him? Has he left his right wing loons behind him?
The pond has to ask because it's not just the Quadrant mob of boofhead dissidents in the dog botherer's sights. Oh sacred aunts beneath the wisteria on Adelaide verandahs, he's taking a shot at the hole in the bucket man ...
Not our Henry? Yes, our Henry!
Eek, unions ... and meanwhile in the lizard Oz, the dog botherer's old mate Noel is in a deeply mournful mood and recalling the time he was hanging around with dinkum mates ...
Well you won't find a heart in little Johnny ... but back for a final gobbet of dog botherer v. Ergas ...
Did the pond just read a reptile actually noting prospective disparities in the here and now?
More to the point, will our Henry strike back, smoting the dog botherer mightily with a reference to Thucydides and possibly Cicero?
Let us hope the nation isn't so divided it ruins the voice, but it seems that the house of the reptiles is now grievously divided by a dog botherer finding himself on the side of Labor and unions ... and yes, the pond finds a perverse pleasure in those details ...
What else? Well this day the offerings, to put it kindly, were dismal ...
On the upside, there seemed to be no nattering "Ned", but of course Polonius's war on China must be held over for a Sunday meditation, and the pond rarely pays attention to Jennings of the fifth form ... so it had to be the bromancer blathering on at great length.
The pond will understand if many leave the room at this point. You could be off at The Conversation reading The defence review fails to address the third revolution in warfare: artificial intelligence. Heck, you could leave the field altogether and read about dobber Mike, or that shameful lawyer, or the Beeb chair that went missing ...
But for those that stay, the pond can promise a few excellent snaps of the sort of kit that gets the bromancer as excited as pictures of Lily.... Lily oh Lily ...
By golly that snap of those mask-wearers would be enough to send Killer to the hills to act out his Red Dawn fantasies, but relax, the first bit of kit is to hand, together with an answer to the question, WWLD ... which as every reptile knows, stands for What Would Lenin Do?, to which there is only one answer, begin the long march through the institutions ... such that a reptile reference to Lenin might seem perfectly normal ...
There's also no sign that the bromancer has the first clue about other developments coming down the AI pipeline, but there is a snap of a splendid aeronautical piece of kit coming down the reptile pipeline...
Not just Lenin, but a Stalin reference as well, and meanwhile, Vlad the impaler is demonstrating the proper use of missiles ... to terrify, kill and maim civilians ...
Meanwhile, the pond has to do it tough because there's not a snap of a single bit of kit in the next gobbet ... just a bloody listicle dressed up as propositions ...
As to winning the war? Here, have a snap of another bit of kit ...
Ah there's the problem. The pond should have realised it in the first five minutes. The bromancer hands out his defence advice behind a paywall, and apparently Defence is too stingy to hand a few shekels over to the Chairman to get the bromancer's advice.
There is only one solution, and the pond has been campaigning for it for years. The bromancer must be made head of Defence, or perhaps the head of combined forces. What this country needs is an experienced, skilled armchair general, one armed with a keyboard and who knows how to use it, and by golly, the pending war with China by Xmas would be over by New Year's day ...
And so to the last gobbet ... at last, the valiant few might say ...
Poor bromancer ... and as for the rest, he'll keep polishing his kit dreams, while the immortal Rowe notes a few other possibilities ...
What’s this - a house divided against itself? A proud Reptile family, once united in its reactionary ideology, now rent asunder. It’s the War Between the States all over again - or at least some low-rent fictional version of it like “Gone With the Wind” or “North and South”, with the treacherous Dog Botherer having joined the Abolitionists, while Our Henry assures Miz Scarlett that the traditional conservative values of blatant racial discrimination will stand firm.
ReplyDelete:)³ Sheesh, if only the pond had thought of that routine ...
Delete“I for one have no desire to produce any anti-Negro film,” he (Selznick) wrote in a memo to the screenwriter Sidney Howard. “In our picture I think we have to be awfully careful that the Negroes come out decidedly on the right side of the ledger.”
Among those who saw it around this time was a teenage Malcolm X. “I was the only Negro in the theater, and when Butterfly McQueen went into her act, I felt like crawling under the rug,” he wrote in his autobiography.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/14/movies/gone-with-the-wind-battle.html
"even with messenger from god Tuckyo Carlson sidelined" Only temporarily, only temporarily: like the middle third of the Trinity, he will be resurrected, never to expire again.
ReplyDeleteIt's how we end up with Rick Wilson's worst case scenario. Murdoch dumps Trump and retains the fan base for Fox by shifting them to candidate Tuckyo who then goes on to defeat Biden. Hole in one.
Deletehttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/27/rick-wilson-tucker-carlson-presidential-nominee-donald-trump-ron-desantis-republicans
Well indeed, the egregious Doggy Bov copping a pasting from Holely Henry of pretty much the same kind as the Bov metes out to others regularly. "They don't like it up 'em!" do they - and Doggy Bov thought that his lifelong membership of "the right" protected him from all that: his, like theirs, being the right to give, but never to receive.
ReplyDeleteBut otherwise, what fun there is out in the Quadrant world when they "project" upon one of their own.
The pond got in a supply of popcorn GB because this could have a long run. The dog bother versus the craven Craven and our Henry and vice versa, and here's hoping Henry is up for it, and all the other reptiles start joining in ... so much to hope for, as the curtain opens and the Fox fanfare sounds ...
DeleteWhat a kerfuffle is a blowin' out of Holt St! Could it be the with battle lines drawn, we need to pick a side?
ReplyDeleteI'm going to write this very carefully, because it may never happen again: I agree completely with Chris Kenny here:
"The voice is about the original inhabitants and their descendants, a cohort now including myriad ethnic backgrounds interwoven with Indigenous origins. What matters is people's generational and cultural connection to the original inhabitants - that is not race.
The voice is not proposed because people have darker skin or different characteristics; it is advocated because they inhabited this land first, have been treated poorly, trail the rest of the country in many important outcomes such as health and employment, hold certain rights to land and cultural heritage, are subject to specific laws and policies from government, and therefore deserve a say on how all this is managed."
The Botherer has here distilled not only a clear reason for the existence of the voice, but has simultaneously neutered pretty well every word Bolt has ever written about our first nations people, he has neutered those vile "cartoons" by various Leaks of late. He's unwittingly done a great service.
What a very unusual Saturday this is turning out to be.
Don't get too carried away, vc, this is just an isolated episode of apparent sanity within Doggy Bov's continuing saga of reptilism - in every other respect he's still the old, disgusting Doggy Bov.
Delete"The defence review fails to address the third revolution in warfare: artificial intelligence." Yeah, maybe, but hang on for just a year or two and artificial intelligence will be addressing us ... and expecting unquestioning obedience.
ReplyDeleteOk, so the Nromancer speaking on behalf of the DSR: "...the DSR does not rule out altogether the possibility that Australia itself could be invaded and occupied." I think you mean "invaded and colonised" don't you Bro ? A nation of white coolies, mate ?
ReplyDeleteBut just how, exactly, would China invade ? Can it carry enough men and equipment and stores and so forth to fly them all out here in very big aeroplanes ? How big, and how many would it take, and would the US - to our everlasting gratitude - shoot virtually all of them out of the sky from the military airports and missile sites in our north before they ever get here ? Or would the Chinese send a massive troop transport fleet and land in, say, Melbourne along with lots of tanks and mobile howitzers ?
Anyway, to continue: "However, the DSR rightly asserts that 'the threat of the use of military force or coercion against Australia does not require invasion'." Ok, so what then: send a massive fleet down south to near our shores and sink every ship and shoot down every plane that's trying to get to us so that we can't trade any more ? Where will China get its iron ore from then ? It better have all those purported mines in African churning out iron ore in large quantity.
"...much of the world has grown more powerful militarily compared with Australia." Oh yeah, who ? Belarus, maybe ? Saudi Arabia perhaps ? The Philippines, Malaysia, Myanmar perhaps ? Who ? And what is their intent towards Australia ?
"Australia has traditionally been protected by our geography. The tyranny of distance was also the security of distance." Yeah, right, so how many of those parts of the world that have "grown more powerful militarily compared with Australia" have the military resources to span that distance and give us a hard time ? After all, remember that the Japanese were making their way down Papua-NG quite handily and it wasn't in any sense 'distance' but Australian fighting capability that stopped them. Oh yes, there is North Korea, I guess.
Look, it would be easy for China, or even Russia, to destroy Australia with a huge IC missile attack, but actually conquering by invading and occupying is still quite another thing.
Ah but, the Bro informs us: "...we more or less abolished manufacture in Australia [who makes Bushmasters for us ?], and more or less abolished our own oil refining capacity [and store our reserves in the USA], and our own merchant fleet, and so much else [aircraft ? do we still make them ?] we are now, though wealthier than ever, also, paradoxically more exposed to devastating international actions against us." From whom ? I ask again in a small voice, from whom ?
But hey: "With HIMARS [and PRISM] the army will be able to hit targets 500km away." Wau, that's about 60% of the distance from Melbourne to Sydney, so if we position our HIMARS+PRISM in Sydney, and we're invaded via Melbourne, we're stuffed.
So, finally: "Our security finally is a matter of luck and the Americans./" Yes, Bro, old mate, that's exactly it and the DSR can't change that.