Warning: this post is likely to offend community guidelines. It contains reptilian content ...

 

Is this the understatement of the week, the month or the year? 

...anyone who glances at the Australian or watches Sky News will notice the Murdoch stable is obsessed with running down the ABC in general, and Grant in particular.

That was the venerable Meade in the Weekly Beast ... The Australian blames ‘production error’ for attack on Noel Pearson added to reader’s letter. 

What was even funnier was the reptiles' excuse: they were sorry for the bigoted tone of the additions to the reader's letter, it was just a different bigoted reader's letter, and they'd got them in a muddle, but be assured, they'd sort the bigotry out and everything would be fine ...

More of that anon. First to a housekeeping matter. The pond is starting to get community guidelines warnings. One post was "unpublished", disappeared into the full to overflowing intertubes void, with the note that for it to be republished, the content should be updated to adhere to the guidelines. 

Another post was put behind a warning for readers "because it contains sensitive content" according to Blogger's community guidelines.

The neatest bit of this neat trick?

The pond has absolutely no idea which posts offended the absentee landlord because there's no indication in the warning. All you cop is this note from out of the blue ...

Who knows when or where the crime was committed? Who knows what caused offence? Who has the first clue how to fix it? 

The bot doesn't say. The bot just does what bots do ...

Well, it is what it is, and the pond apologises for whatever has gone missing, but let's face it, every day the pond posts vile, violating filth, and sensitive content.

Just look at what was on offer today ...

The reptiles have started tranny bashing as their new mission? The mutton Dutton projects that it's the PM putting reconciliation at risk? Fergo launching another assault on comrade Dan? Stan Grant launching an attack on the ABC, which happens to be the perfect each way reptile bet?

Talk about a dilemma. Every offering involves the pond violating the senses and offending the gods.

And it was the same below the fold ...

Dame Slap on the Lehrmann matter yet again, possibly the zillionth time, though the pond isn't keeping an accurate account. Robert Thomson smiting Google, issuer of stern warnings? The bromancer back with a cornball Czech pun, while Polonius berates the ABC for being a conservative-free zone? And that is for the zillionth time, the pond has been keeping an accurate count there, and will save the outing for the Sunday meditation ...

It's an odd feeling to be banned, not so much for the banning, but for the nature of the disappearing, mysterious and ineluctable ... and so the dog botherer's rant seemed vaguely on topic ..

Oh dear, could that image cause offence? It certainly offended the pond. Way back when in the good old days, the reptiles had an actual graphics department, now long gone ... these days they head off to Shutterstock, and pick up a cheap image from Vector Images, handy for any project, "emails, presentations, social media posts and more", such as reptiles down on their luck and missing their graphics department ...

Then the reptiles went the pregnant woman ploy, and just to be safe the pond decided to downsize it, because who knows if the sight of a pregnant woman or a loon might offend ...

Then it was on to the dog botherer ranting about unseen forces and gigantic conspiracies and collusions and orgies of fear and control and complacency and compliance and yadda yadda ... each moment likely to offend the unseen blogger gods ... what with the tyrannies of 1984 and Brave New World sure to be mentiioned...

Memo to reptiles ... the pond realises it was first published as words rather than numbers, but this is more likely to offend community guidelines ...

Good old Signet ... now that's a cover ... and if mentioning the Anti-Sex League doesn't offend someone in Florida, the pond is out of form and dropping its game ...

Now on with the rant ...

Could the pond have offended by publishing a Killer rant about masks? Was there a mention of the prophylactic powers of hydroxychloroquine?

By definition, everything the pond publishes is offensive ...

The reptiles were the home of Covid denialism, just as they've been the home of climate science denialism, and many other forms of denialism.

The whole pond enterprise is at risk, simply by recycling the paranoid fear-mongering of the likes of the dog botherer ....

Dear sweet long absent lord, could the pond have been subject to a Five Eyes attack? Quick better reach for an image from a wedding photographer ... or maybe not ...

Meanwhile, the dog botherer kept on posing an existential threat to the pond's existence by referencing that compleat loon, Matt Taibbi...

Ah, that's it, Uncle Elon has taken over blogger, and is removing all references to him coming down from his attic to wreak havoc ...

Actually the pond couldn't give a stuff. If there's one less pond post in the world recycling reptile content, who cares? The public debate won't be suffering and likely crucial disinformation, lies and falsehoods have been suppressed or downplayed, and where's the harm in that?

It says a lot about the dog botherer and his gigantic ego that he thinks that he's vital to the public debate and that his offerings contain crucial information ...

Yeah, yeah, but deep down, the pond suspects it got into trouble recycling Killer or jokes about Killer ... or maybe sex. They have a thing about sex in Florida ...

And so to the voice, or the Voice, as some prefer ... and the usual interminable dose of nattering "Ned" ...

Warning, it's full seven gobbets long, with a gobbet as deep as a fathom, and short of visual distractions, but true to that note at the top ...anyone who glances at the Australian or watches Sky News will notice the Murdoch stable is obsessed with running down the Voice in general, and and any passing supporter of the Voice in particular, and if that happens to be fallen god Noel Pearson ...

Why do the privileged reptiles, housed in Surry Hills amongst the best baristas in the world, persist in starting off with a reference to the 'leets?

Pearson? That Weekly Beast joke is worth recycling ...

A reader of the Australian was left “horrified” after a letter she sent to the newspaper was printed with the addition of two sentences defending the masthead and criticising Indigenous leader Noel Pearson as “shrill” and “prejudiced”.

The reader told Guardian Australia she was shocked when she saw her letter printed in Monday’s edition of the paper with paragraphs inserted that she had not written.

The reader had sent the letter in response to Pearson’s article in the Weekend Australian, in which he reflected on the masthead’s coverage of Indigenous affairs.

Pearson wrote: “The opinions in this broadsheet are more numerously antipathetic to the voice than not.

“They are mostly obscurant and borderline casual racists in their views. Just read the comments at the bottom of this piece.”

In an unusual move, the Australian’s editor-in-chief Michelle Gunn pinned an editor’s note to the article: “We reject Pearson’s characterisation of our readers as ‘borderline casual racists’.”

After reading Pearson’s thoughts on the voice, the reader wrote to the letters page: “I was disappointed that Noel Pearson generalised me as a ‘borderline casual racist. I have long admired Pearson as an intelligent, well-educated and wonderful Australian.”

But when she opened the paper on Monday she saw a very different letter.

The words Rupert Murdoch’s national broadsheet inserted were: “I am at a loss to understand how Pearson thinks that his increasingly shrill denunciations of those who have voiced opposition to the [Indigenous voice] model will win over those who may still be undecided.

“To casually dismiss ‘the boomer readership’ of The Australian as ‘mostly obscurantist and borderline casual racists’ displays a prejudice that would be rightly dismissed if it were directed against any other group within our society.”

The reader, who the Guardian has chosen not to name, said she was a regular purchaser of the Weekend Australian.

“When I saw it I was absolutely horrified because I thought ‘my God for them to actually do that in this day and age’,” she said of her changed letter.

She tracked down Pearson to explain she had not written the harsh words, and she contacted the Australian for an explanation.

“I wanted to speak with Noel and apologise for what I did not write, and we had a nice discussion on the phone,” she said.

For his part Pearson emailed Gunn on the reader’s behalf, saying he expected the paper to correct it.

The Australian called the reader to apologise on Wednesday and put a correction on the letters page on Thursday: “Because of a production error, a section from a separate letter was included. The Australian regrets the error.”

So the reptile reader was happy, and the reptiles were apologetic, not for the contents of that letter, shrieking in the usual prejudiced way, but for mis-assigning said contents ...

Sorry, you can't make this stuff up, and it's on with the fear and loathing ...

Yep, the reptiles are obsessed, "Ned" is obsessed, and the pond ends up having to deal with his obsession ...

Will anybody bother to count the number of times that "Ned" emits "elites" from his privileged position as a thunderer down under?

No? Must hurry on then ... wouldn't want to get caught out by a distracting infallible Pope shell game ...

Sorry, that came out of the blue, back to "Ned" and his natter ...

Joh? He dragged the peanut farmer into it? Now we're in brown paper bag and cash in the paw territory?

What a wretched old dotard he is, though fun fact, if a vulgar youff happened to chance upon the reference, they'd be clueless ...

Meanwhile, the wide scope of the reptile voice? Don't you worry about that ... instead, we have at least one more mention of the 'leets to count ...

And at last the final gobbet lands, and before proceeding, just a reminder of past form ...

Advocates for Stolen Generations survivors have questioned Peter Dutton's mea culpa for boycotting the 2008 Apology, 15 years after he walked out of the chamber during Kevin Rudd's delivery.

The Leader of the Opposition was the only member of the shadow front bench to do so. Following last year's May election, Mr Dutton said it had been the wrong thing to do.

Meagan Gerrard and Alex McWhirter, representatives for Coota Girls Aboriginal Corporation, asked why Mr Dutton had taken so long to recognise it as such.

"As a leader of this country, why has it taken 15 years for [him] to recognise [his] mistake? Why [hasn't he] been listening?"

As the parliament marked the sombre occasion, Mr Dutton said he had "failed to grasp" the "symbolic significance" of the Apology at the time.

"It was right of Prime Minister Rudd to make the Apology in 2008," he said.

"It is right that we recognise the anniversary today, it's right that the government continues its efforts and in whatever way possible. We support that in a bipartisan effort."

Mss. Gerrard and McWhirter took exception to Mr Dutton's choice of language, and highlighted the worsening rates of First Nations children in out-of-home care.

"We believe that the significance of the Apology should never have been understood as simply 'symbolic'.

"We echo what our Elders and our community have been speaking for decades: Sorry means you don’t do it again. Sorry demands action."

And the former plod's excuse? He was a gormless plod ...

The Opposition Leader relayed experiences he had in the Queensland Police Force that had informed his judgement at the time.

He relayed instances of responding to violent incidents involving First Nations people.

He believed an apology should only have been made "at a time where we had addressed and curbed that violence and incidences."

It might have been simpler for him to have said in a cheerful voice, I was a bigot, always been a bigot, always will be a bigot ... but I do believe in the never never, as in never never meaning an apology and fingers crossed, always happy to do it again ...

And so to that final gobbet ...

Put it another way ...

...anyone who glances at the Australian or watches Sky News will notice the Murdoch stable is obsessed with running down the Voice in general, and and any passing supporter of the Voice in particular ... and in the process celebrating the worst in Australia, be it the onion muncher or a plod imitating a spud ...

And you could find that joke about the daily, weekend, weekly, monthly, yearly rage here ...

The pond can't translate "jfc". Community guidelines, wot wot ...