For hundreds of years, hatters used mercury to stiffen fabric and make felt. The mercury got under their fingernails and into their bloodstream, giving them nerve damage and prompting delirium and delusion. Thus, “mad hatter”. We ask of mad hatters, why did everyone remark that hatters got the disease so regularly and no one else, but never work out the cause? Because the process — molecular chemical poisoning — was more abstract than the world they lived in, occurring at a level of action for which they did not have a framework of understanding.
What other image could possibly come to mind when reading The Australian‘s coverage of the latest Newspoll result? This report, by Simon Benson, is a masterpiece of a lede not so much deliberately buried, as encased in concrete beneath the ocean floor. The Coalition’s primary vote is up by a couple of points; Billy Bob Shorten’s popularity rating is down by a couple. Oh, and by the way, the two-party preferred is still 54-46 to Labor — a shift back from the disastrous 56-44, but still disastrous. If Benson’s report doesn’t sate you, Jennifer Oriel, the ex-Red Queen, also has a seat at the tea party.
Why is the right so wild, people ask, without putting it together with this yet more abstract process. Spend months and years shaping the news with toxins, and it will eventually get under your nails and into the bloodstream and nervous system. Which hat is the Australian right wearing today? The mad one, always the mad one.
Well I suppose having brought on the change for what appear to be absolutely no electoral gain and a bag full of festering internal Liberal party animosity, the NewCorpse crew might just be ever so slightly embarrassed….Nah come to think of it probably not.
Newspoll is the cause of instability in any Australian government. I wish People stopped giving it so much importance. This is also how Newscorp attempts to influence the people and the members of Parliament. It is so destructive.
It hasn’t even been 3 months and already The Beforetimes when Turnbull lead the party have been consumed by mists. Can you believe these people are serious news people who are paid by a national newspaper?
That the poll from the LNP leadership massacre was always going to flow, somewhat, away from it’s recent Labor high-tide is no nevermind. Newscorp will be deep in the chicken gizzards desperately trying to find some portents suggesting that Morrison and Co are on the money. It just ain’t going to happen.
The lunatics have now taken control of the asylum and are trying to convince the board of governors to let them remain in charge. Good luck with that.
with the monkeys running the zoo it really doesn`t matter what murdochs serfs write in newscorpse, the train wreck is coming and all the lies and bullshit in the world cant stop it.