It was at the bottom of page 5 that the recanting prostitute ‘Elena’ elusively appeared, rewarding a long search, in the sporting section, under Don’t Call Slammin’ Sam A Man — She’s Our Golden Girl, in the Daily Telegraph today.
It was on Rupert Murdoch’s orders, no doubt, that his editor Paul Whittaker selflessly sacrificed the tens of thousands of extra readers a front page headline splasheroo might well have attracted in order to conceal, as Rebekah did, and will go to gaol for, significant facts from the public, in the usual, cheating, fickle, chaotic Rupert Murdoch way
RKM imagines he, like a police state generalissimo of last century, can erase from history those facts which displease him. But … in the tweet-and-twitter stage of humankind, he cannot.
This new twist lays open his furry blustering minion Paul Murray to libel action by Craig, who may also avail himself of millions and millions elsewhere if he goes that way, from the stormy sloe-eyed temptress Michelle Grattan for one.
This may not be Australia’s Dreyfus but it is the Liberals’ Watergate, or a part of it, the getting of Slipper being another part of it, the hounding of Chloe Shorten another. The Crimes Act has been breached and the Speaker, Slipper, may if restored to his throne invoke it later in the House and Abbott and Pyne will be hard put then to evade eviction, disbarment, disgrace and imprisonment for high crimes against the State and contempt of its Constitution.
One way or another they are both politically finished, and Murdoch looking daily more cornered and old and simian as the State of Delaware notes his attempted corruption of overseas officials and the FBI for other reasons closes in on him; and Scotland Yard as well, and the scalded pink-faced Cameron, now doomed, like him, and James, and his friend Clegg, to oblivion in his forties.
Oh what a tangled web we weave
When first we practise to deceive,
And with long spoons sit down to dine
With Tony, Julie, Joe, and Pyne.
Name:
Bob, do you really believe that Rupert Himself watches over all this like an all-seeing all-knowing god?
As you point out, he is in a bit of trouble at the moment in several countries – do you really think he has time to instruct Australian editors on page layout?
Or are you using him as a metaphor for all that is evil and manipulative in modern media?
Including, it seems ABC TV?
Come on R2, you must know that Bob is great at satire (and hyperbowl it seems). Whilst it furthers the ‘progressive’ narrative (that’s what counts), he must be secretly amused by the Marilyn’s of this world who will respond “See, see!” to every Murdoch mention.
From what I’ve read Marilyn would respond with more than a hearty “see, see!”.
Her/his use of colourful language would cause a wharfie to blush…
You are saying then that Rupert is not concerned with a faraway country, Australia, and who runs it?
When he organised the Whitlam sacking he showed concern, and when he assisted Howard into the Iraq War. And met with Rudd to do deals on media with him.
And he’s just lost interest, has he?
In the land that made him?
What are you talking about?
Ah, more satire, I see Mr Ellis.
Now I understand.
I was a bit slow for a while, sorry.
“And met with Rudd to do deals on media with him”.
Do you mean the one Brian Toohey mentioned – sack Chris Mitchell? How did that turn out?
I did not say he has lost interest. I said that I doubted he was directing page layouts in the paper.
Unless you are being satirical the spelling is ‘hyperbole’ and its pronunciation has four syllables, with the stress on the second.
Marilyns does not require an apostrophe.
Sorry James. Didn’t see your query. Thanks but no thanks. I am “just” up to speed on hyperbole, but trying (unsuccessfully, it seems) to be humorous by phonetically speelling it the way Julia Gillard pronounced it recently.
I too have noticed that Cameron’s face has got a pinkish hue lately, and our own Pine is turning terrible red or even purple in the face.
Could he be the Lone Pyne, and could the space between him and the door out of parliament be the Pyne Gap?
Poodle Racing is so much fun!
News outlets are now reporting that ‘Captain Emad’ of the infamous Four Corners investigation this week fled the country on Tuesday via Melbourne.
It now seems that your friend Sarah Ferguson not only filed a story that fueled racist-anti-refugee protesters, but also fucked up a Federal Police investigation into the smuggler ring.
Well done Four Corners, well done.
There was no AFP investigation because there is no such thing as people smuggling.
It is a legal fiction invented by Ruddock and continued by the racists in the ALp to justify jailing little kids in adult jails.
There are 6 treaties and protocols, 4 senate investigations, the UNHCR reports, a HREOC investigation and others including our own courts who say it is not people smuggling.
After all it is out in the open, nothing covert, no-one is hiding and they throw themselves on the authorities.
If no-one is being smuggled how can we have smugglers.
“There is no such thing as people smuggling”.
Tell that to the hundreds of thousands of people waiting at the borders of the gulag, trying to get in… by boat, trailer, train, truck.
UNHCR report or otherwise, tell that to the hundreds of thousands of waiters. I’m sure they’d be so delighted in a paper-waving victory.
The bird that has flown was a stool pigeon, perhaps?
“I will laud you daily as the best since Shakespeare.”
Surely you jest? Bob’s poetry is beyond Shakespeare. His penetrating political analysis is without peer.
Prostate thy self and beg for his munificent and boundless mercy.
Save perhaps Marilyn’s insights. Like getting an insight into the great minds of our generation… such as Mark Geyer, any number of Big Brother contestants or Kyle Sandilands.
I’d have a response for this, in fact I just wasted my time typing one out, but really it would have been as much of a wank as the above so I deleted it.
Get the fuck out of the way you cud munching regurgitated bottom feeders.
You have asked a number of times, and I have posted once Bob – no doubt further evading, ducking, diving, weaving.. and so it goes…
1. Carbon (Dioxide) Tax (will achieve no positive environmental impact (its aim last time I checked)).
2. Malaysia Solution (cruel, inhumane, stupid).
3. BER (abject waste of money).
4. MRRT (state royalties are a more effective method).
5. Performance pay based on classrooms national testing results (principle is sound but not based on this – will lead to formulaic teaching not addressing broader educational issues).
6. NBN (technology will be surpassed and the cost is disproportionate).
7. Green Fund (why prop up failed and inefficient, unproductive businesses with taxpayer’s money?).
8. Live export debacle (nothing needs to be said, save perhaps an apology to the farmers).
9. Set top boxe handouts (absolute farce of a policy – go to Harvey Norman to figure out why)
10. Asylum seeker policy in general (misguided, ill-informed and incoherant).
11. Grocery Watch (achieved nothing).
12. Fuel Watch (ditto).
13. Pink Batts (highlighted ineptitude and lead to tragic consequences)
14. Training of the AFP (maybe they are not directly responsible (?) but should have a policy).
Yes but you forgot the $1 Billion Cash for Clunkers initiative that Gillard launched as part of her Climate Change scheme.
A magnificent policy hastily abandoned unfortunately because of the QLD floods.
I was so looking forward to trading in my old bomb for a socialists workers car or a newish trabant.
These are fair comments, but hardly worth calling an early election over.
More later.
Need a passport for New Zealand now? Hmmm
Yes actually, for yonks.
It is not yet apparent, but it is quite possible that Ferguson’s report has jeopardised AFP investigations which might have actually nailed some of these entrepreneurs.
“Your entrepreneur is my people smuggler” – free enterprise being interfered with by a qango . . .
should be a law against it.
Well the AFP let 108 refugees drown in December 2009 because they didn’t want to expose their source and spies.
He was probably that little creep on 4 Corners who hates refugees who come on boats and those who bring them.
Just watched 7.30 – the AFP in this country have become a law unto themselves with no accountability to anyone as they let the crooks behind AWB go on their merry way and hunt down refugees all over Asia and jail Indonesian kids in breach of our laws.
How to win the next election:
This ALP government, since 2007 has not walked away from the big reforms.
Our education system has serious problems from point A to point Z.
Universities are not functioning adequately and have become businesses rather than learning institutions, they have become divorced from social outcomes, divorced from students and divorced from staff. Standards are in continual decline, curriculum’s suffering death from 1000 cuts.
TAFEs need to be integrated with high schools, integrated on a far greater scale than we see today. Kid’s leaving school need more than one skill.
High schools should be split into junior and senior schools, encompassing the later years of primary students.
Finally Early childhood care should be nationalised along with all education systems, with nationalised curriculum, training and class room standards and outcomes.
If the carbon tax is revolutionary, if it aims to alter the composition of the economy than surely Australians recognise the need to revolutionise the education system.
Surely, change, investment in the development of our children would gather bipartisan support.
The Gonski report outlines how far we have fallen behind the world’s leading educators, 70 odd billion dollars or so. Throwing money though will only be part of the solution.
We have in this nation already an incredible collective of educators. There is much we have right. In my experience these people who are the stewards of our children’s education are both a help and a hindrance in the said reform. Every teacher I have ever known has had strong opinions, whether discussed or not as to how the system works well and how it doesn’t.
This is my argument. Embracing educational reform is the kind of sell-able policy that will win the ALP, in my opinion, real support from the electorate.
I argue the above. And to those who disagree – “If it ain’t broke?”, it may not be falling apart but find me an educator who would not change a single thing about the system they serve.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U “Changing education paradigms” Sir Ken Robinson.
It is the case that there is still a great deal of work in progress for the government. The likely good outcomes within the next year or so is what has driven the desperate attempts to force an early election.
I think you’ve got the masterplan there William. The only other thing it needs is 3/4 of the population to forget the last 5 years, shut down the press and jail those that don;t like the government. Easy
People won’t vote for Tony Abbott.
I reckon people are more frustrated than contemptuous.
Who could vote for Tony Abbott? Who would risk that?
When through the last 5 years despite all the bad tastes we are head and shoulders above the GFC and Tony Butler Abbott is still kept out of office perhaps the picture will be different?
How many votes would complete systemic overhaul of education win?
Imagine the productivity gains within 10 years, it would be stunning.
It appears this man has been editing the Wikipedia article on the “Craig Thomson Affair” and making sure it’s another slam piece which Rupert or Gina would be proud of : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BplDWLSUJ3Q
You read it here first.
. .The Abbott Big Lie . .
“This is an incompetent government” (repeat ad nauseam)
The same very incompetent government presiding over an economy the envy of the western world, one based on sound principles and solid regulations and a determination to see a fair go for all its citizens.
Abbott thinks that if he repeats his Big Lie often enough people will believe him, and at present it may seem that many do. Australian pessimism is ill placed says the Reserve Bank governor, and I think his comments can be applied to the entire spectrum of Abbott’s Big Lie.
It is high time that the journalists of Australia held Abbott to account for his continual assertion of what is the quintessential Big Lie.