Monday, July 11, 2016

In which the pond enjoys the screeching of the minor Mitchell ...


Perhaps the most disappointing columnist at the lizard Oz is the former editor, and Order of Lenin hunter turned surveyor of reptiles ... though sadly without the style of the original surveyor Mitchell.

The consequently named Major Mitchell happens to be one of the pond's favourite birds, but the Minor Mitchell is a bird with far less spectacular plumage ...


Now that's a bird, but truth to tell, it's only part of the pond's bait and switch tactic to beguile people into actually reading a Mynah Mitchell column ...


See, the pond warned that it would be hard, wading through confused and contradictory stuff, and all the more ironic because this very day the reptiles of Oz decided to do what they could to ruin one of the few budget measures actually proposed by the Malware government ...



That'd be the super battle to ensure that no one does anything about trimming the budget, so that health and education might eventually be made to take up the slack ...

But back to the lesser Mitchell, still squawking away ...


And there you have it in a gormless, wastrel nutshell. 

Don't say anything about Pauline because that will get people upset and they'll rally to her side ...

Would that all reptiles adopted this wise advice and the entire continent was plunged into silence.

Oh, and by the way, Malcolm Turnbull is John Howard. 

And he wonders why he gets called the Mynah Mitchell. Or maybe he doesn't. Maybe he's too gormless to wonder about anything.

But the pond did wonder how the more rabid parts of News Corp were responding to Malware's triumph. Was it all as the Mynah Mitchell predicted and expected? Were they all heiling the new John Howard?

Well the pond hadn't heard from that bloated blimp, that Bunter of Surry Hills, for quite some time, so we roamed back over the weekend to arrive at this, nicely compressed in the blog form ...


And then we went and checked out the Bolter ...


So there you go, the destroyer of super savings must rehabilitate Abbott, so that he might roll Malware ...

Or some such thing. You won't find any of that in the Mynah Mitchell, who seemed to think he was writing about journalists, as opposed to the screeching parrots at Newscorp.

Malware will be living in interesting times, and the pond can't recollect John Howard experiencing this sort of sustained braying from the extreme, hardcore, embittered right, still clutching to their Tony Abbott dolls despite the broken walls and the almost unendurable stench of rotting onions left out in the sun too long ...

But the pond is still upbeat, and ready to celebrate, and how better to do this than with a Rowe cartoon ... (and more uplifting, giving Rowe here ...)




6 comments:

  1. A culture war to please the conservatives?

    Oh goody fucking gumdrops. What better way to run the country than by running useless fucking culture wars to please dipshits like the Dolter.

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  2. You gotta admit, DP, that for once the Fat Owl of the Remove got something undeniably right when he said:

    "Turnbull's biz-arre election night address (which will remain n a reminder of his inability to grapple with reality)..." [and he really did say biz-arre]

    That, together with Turnbull's performance in the Godwin Grech affair, really do show just who and what Turnbull is. The Grech affair is now all but totally forgotten, and nobody, except Ak Dak of course, is mentioning the election night/morning little hissy fit at all - if you don't mention it, then it never happened, did it. But they define Malheur completely.

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  3. "...blah blah second lowest since world war two blah blah..."
    As opposed to Malware's triumphant lowest primary vote for the Liberals ever? Did the boss cockie mention that? I must have missed it.

    Speaking of Kevin "saving 15 seats", as if that would have given Monsieur an extra 15...it's just as likely that, in Mitchell's counterfactual, the people of Australia would have voted exactly as they did in reality in 2016, and the only result of not-Kevin not-saving 15 seats, is that Malcolm would have the unparalleled achievement of losing 28 seats, comfortably the worst ever swing (in seat terms) against the Libs.

    "Journalists out of touch"? Well, it's always dicey to let a cockatoo see their own reflection in a mirror. Sometimes they just totally freak out...

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  4. Seriously Dorothy you are such a perceptive person, I have wondered, every time I see a photo of the Christ Mitchell hair do, what it is all about? Who is it for? I wonder what strange ideology or personality disorder perhaps drives an oldish fatish uglyish man to make the effort every morning to organise that silly crest. What image does he think he is projecting and who does he think appreciates it. People are strange.

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    1. Oh I think it had a little something to do with the name, Anon.

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    2. The pond is always reminded, Anon, of green and red metallic threads in black stove-pipe pants, sharply pointed shoes, Mod suits, and hep cats grooving to the music of Elvis Presley and pompadour hair ... Vanity, vanity, all is vanity, sayeth the preacher and teh Donald ...

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