grodscorp@grods.comNewsLtd helps readers read between the lines
 | Posted by Ant Rogenous on Wednesday 23 April 2008, 2:51 pm Categories: Media, Politics Tags: inflation, InterestRates, JournalisticEthics, MediaBias, NewsLtd |
Inflation has hit a 17-year high in Australia, as reported by NEWS.com.au. And just in case you had any doubt as to who NewsLtd was hoping you’d blame for it, this helpful composite image appears at the top of the story:
Memory lane … Various images from 1991, the last time inflation breached 4 per cent.
Subtle, huh? But did readers take the bait?
And how. Third comment into the thread reads:
This is what you get with Labour (sic).
Posted by: YoungLib 12:12pm today
And, of course, it’s mostly downhill from there. Thank you, NewsLtd.
Wednesday 23 April 2008, 3:03 pm #"NewsLtd"
You’re welcome.
Wednesday 23 April 2008, 3:06 pm #Steve
Damnit, I knew no good would come of Roxette.
Wednesday 23 April 2008, 3:11 pm #Ant Rogenous
Until “YoungLib” set me straight, I was ready to blame flamin’ Alf.
Wednesday 23 April 2008, 3:12 pm #Bron
That’s an odd picture of Brad Fittler too. Doing the can can.
Wednesday 23 April 2008, 3:13 pm #Zombie Mao
She’s got the look!
Wednesday 23 April 2008, 3:18 pm #Bron
Na na na na na na na na na na na…
How many na’s are there supposed to be?
Wednesday 23 April 2008, 3:41 pm #Ross Sharp
Hmmmm … Bob Hawke picks his nose …
Kevin Rudd eats his earwax …
Damn, it all adds up! Those bastards! Those evil, evil bastards! Consumption of crusty bodily excretions causes inflation! AND THEY KNOW IT! THEY MUST BE STOPPED! NOW!
Wednesday 23 April 2008, 5:06 pm #Rx
Like that retard’s political “opinion” is worth anything.
1) Cannot spell the name of his party’s principal competitor
2) Cannot even spell the name of Australia’s oldest (and, at the moment, most powerful) political party.
If he is that clueless, so are his “opinions”.
Wednesday 23 April 2008, 5:12 pm #Rx
… By the way, I hope all GrodsReaders have dropped by the News.com page to leave a comment?
http://www.news.com.au/comments/0,23600,23585588-2,00.html
Wednesday 23 April 2008, 5:16 pm #Jeremy
That bastard Andrew Landeryou (if that is his real name) has had a go at you, Ant.
Wednesday 23 April 2008, 5:23 pm #Bron
What a cunt Landeryou is — and printing addresses as well. Without specifying what the “threat” was. And what a crybaby ;;;; is for dobbing in Ant to Landeryou.
Fuck ‘em all. Stupid childish twats.
Wednesday 23 April 2008, 6:26 pm #Jeremy
I’m just annoyed with him for picking the same target I was going after. Bastard.
Wednesday 23 April 2008, 6:28 pm #Jeremy
PS Bastard!
Wednesday 23 April 2008, 7:59 pm #Bron
Absolutely nuts, that Watch Watch blog!
Wednesday 23 April 2008, 8:04 pm #Wah
Fuckin’ Alf Stewart!
Wednesday 23 April 2008, 8:07 pm #krypto
here’s a dose of the pernicious semi-colon’s own medicine.
http://dantealighierisinfernothedivinecomedy.wordpress.com/2007/11/04/evil-in-suburbia/
Still can’t “out” me though can he? Dozy twat.
By the way I did figure out the identity and whereabouts of another anonymous righty blogger recently but refrained from publishing it.
It was enough to have the son of a bitch in my cross-hairs, I didn’t feel the need to pull the trigger…this time.
Wednesday 23 April 2008, 8:12 pm #Bron
Who, Krypto?
Oh that’s right, you’re not saying. Damn!
Wednesday 23 April 2008, 11:20 pm #Mikey
Wasn’t it around 9-10% under Fraser when Howard was Treasurer.
Wednesday 23 April 2008, 11:23 pm #Mikey
I for one would be delighted if all Labour voters lost their house(s) so that at the next election and for many more to come they would remember what happens when the idiot vote hands Labour(read Unions) the reins. Read and weep.
Posted by: Anarchist of Sydney 5:18pm today
Comment 230 of 241
Hilarious stuff. ‘I want economic ruin on 55% of the electorate just so they remember how the unions raped their arseholes dry’.
Wednesday 23 April 2008, 11:24 pm #Jeremy
Indeed, Bron. But what do I have to do to get some comments I can buggerise around with?
Wednesday 23 April 2008, 11:28 pm #Rx
Very close. 11%. Howard was Federal Treasurer from 1977-1983, and quite the little basket-case he left behind.
Comparing before-and-after figures…
INFLATION
Before Howard 8 per cent
After Howard 11 per cent
BUDGET DEFICIT
Before Howard $3.2 billion
After Howard $4.3 billion
GROWTH RATE
Before Howard 1.6 per cent
After Howard negative 0.4 per cent
UNEMPLOYMENT
Before Howard 6.3 per cent
After Howard 10.2 per cent
[The Canberra Times, 9 April 2007]
http://canberra.yourguide.com.au/news/opinion/opinion/howards-record-as-treasurer-questioned/573574.html
Wednesday 23 April 2008, 11:35 pm #Bron
Leaving the comments open for anyone would be a start, Jeremy. Having to sign in is such a damn nuisance — and that’s what you intended, eh?
Wednesday 23 April 2008, 11:50 pm #krypto
I think you might have answered your own question Jeremy.
Wednesday 23 April 2008, 11:52 pm #Jeremy
Maybe.
Meanwhile, Watchwatch has put you in your place, anti-watchwatch watcher.
Wednesday 23 April 2008, 11:52 pm #Jeremy
Krypto - I’m not going to actually change people’s comments. I’m just going to pretend they’re me.
Wednesday 23 April 2008, 11:54 pm #krypto
oh and Bron, stay tuned, if he’s as unscrupulous as I secretly hope, Ant might just break the story of the “anonymous righty blogger” in the forseeable future.
Wednesday 23 April 2008, 11:56 pm #Bron
Jeremy: anti-watchwatch watcher.
OK, that’s me more confused than ;;;; trying to figure out which blog to write in.
Wednesday 23 April 2008, 11:57 pm #Bron
krypto, I’m rubbing my hands together with anticipation. I’ll be staying tuned.
Wednesday 23 April 2008, 11:59 pm #Bron
Gah, my second last comment, before Jeremy notices, should say “OK, that’s GOT me…”
Thursday 24 April 2008, 12:02 am #krypto
Jeremy it’s about time watchwatch sat up and took notice of my miscreance.
I’m out there busting my hump commiting evil deeds left and right (well pretty much all right come to think of it) and narry a feature to show for it except some pokey little by line on “troll tales and true”.
I demand the recognition that is my due.
Thursday 24 April 2008, 12:05 am #Jeremy
I hadn’t noticed it. What miscreance?
Thursday 24 April 2008, 12:07 am #krypto
what a miscreant engages in of course.
Thursday 24 April 2008, 12:09 am #Jeremy
Not “what’s” miscreance - what miscreance in particular have you engaged in?
I can’t give you the recognition you crave if I don’t know what it is you’ve done.
Thursday 24 April 2008, 12:15 am #krypto
well that’d make you an accessory after the fact Jeremy as you very well know.
Thursday 24 April 2008, 12:15 am #Bron
Jeremy, just make it up!!
Thursday 24 April 2008, 12:18 am #Jeremy
Oh, yeah. Right.
Thursday 24 April 2008, 12:21 am #Bron
Oh, yeah. Right, indeed. I’m sure you can look to a couple of heroes for inspiration, too.
Thursday 24 April 2008, 12:23 am #krypto
sadly I’m just taking the piss, I just watched seasons 1-4 of the Sopranos (over the course of a couple of weeks) and the distinction between reality and fantasy is a little blurry for me at the moment.
Still, those guys are nowhere near as evil as Alf Stewart. Evil bastard that he is.
Thursday 24 April 2008, 12:25 am #krypto
so where IS Don McKay buried….ALF!!!
Thursday 24 April 2008, 12:28 am #Bron
But you’re not saying “fuck” after every three or so words, krypto. Are you SURE it’s The Sopranos you’ve been watching and not The Gilmour Girls?
(God, I miss decent shows like The Sopranos and The West Wing. Fuck. Walk with me.)
Thursday 24 April 2008, 12:30 am #krypto
the Sopranos and the West Wing? the two television shows with the most references to 12 step recovery.
Is there something you’re not telling us Bron?
Thursday 24 April 2008, 12:35 am #krypto
I’m just watching that terrible episode where Christopher smothered Adriana’s dog because he passed out on it while high on smack.
Horrible, I gave my dog a big hug after watching that.
Thursday 24 April 2008, 12:36 am #Bron
Wow, a sudden self-realisation!
Krypto, be my guru from now on.
Thursday 24 April 2008, 12:39 am #krypto
ha ha ha you are kidding aren’t you? I don’t tell many people but I’m five years sober in July, that’s how come I made the link between those two shows.
Thursday 24 April 2008, 12:39 am #Jeremy
It’s too late for those flimsy denials now, krypto. WatchWatch has shone its light into your dark places.
Thursday 24 April 2008, 12:41 am #krypto
and about time too Jezza.
Thursday 24 April 2008, 12:44 am #krypto
oh that’s gold, pure gold.
I’d convict me even.
Thursday 24 April 2008, 12:44 am #Bron
No matter, guru, no matter, kidding or not, five years sober is an excellent achievement. Definitely my kind of guru.
It’s true though, the link between The Sopranos and The West Wing, now that I think about it.
Thursday 24 April 2008, 12:48 am #Bron
Hahaha, I finally got around to looking at WatchWatch again.
CAN YOU HEAR MY KNEES KNOCKING, JEREMY? I’m so scared, I want my mummy.
Thursday 24 April 2008, 12:49 am #krypto
well I suspect that the guru-esque thing to do would be NOT to develop an addiction in the first instance but no matter.
It’s hardly surprising that those two shows have so many references to 12 step recovery, half of Hollywood is in “the firm” the other half is still drunk.
Thursday 24 April 2008, 12:50 am #Jeremy
Your mocking laughter will have no effect on me, for I am a watcher and we are impervious. (Kind of like the Highlander, but with less immortality and more bloody-mindedness.)
Thursday 24 April 2008, 12:52 am #Bron
Impervious or imperfect?
No, really, think about it.
HA. HA. HA.
Thursday 24 April 2008, 12:53 am #Bron
Heh, good point krypto. Much better point than that stupid WatchWatch will ever make, anyways.
Thursday 24 April 2008, 12:59 am #Jeremy
Alright, I was wrong. Your epithets do hurt.
How about i offer you all a truce that I can arbitrarily break at some time in the future when I get bored with it?
Thursday 24 April 2008, 1:04 am #Bron
No. Get stuffed, my dear Schadenfreude. I’m going to bed. It’s ONE O’CLOCK A.M. AND YOU HAVE KEPT ME UP WITH YOUR TROLLING AND STALKING! Why should I alleviate your hurt from my epithets, anyway? Harden the fuck up!
Thursday 24 April 2008, 1:09 am #Jeremy
The alleviate bit was a different Jeremy. I think you’ve got us confused just because we have identical Grods IDs and pictures.
Thursday 24 April 2008, 1:11 am #Jeremy
I really shouldn’t have drunk a V with dinner. I’m going to be up for hours.
Thursday 24 April 2008, 1:13 am #Bron
Poor diddums.
Thursday 24 April 2008, 1:15 am #Jeremy
That was the other Jeremy too. It’s confusing… or is it? Yes, but at the same time no.
Thursday 24 April 2008, 1:16 am #Bron
Confusing? If you’re Jeremy, it must be awfully confusing.
Thursday 24 April 2008, 1:17 am #Bron
Now, Bron is already in bed, and I’m going in now too. Night.
Thursday 24 April 2008, 1:18 am #Jeremy
It would have been much easier if I’d just done WatchWatch using one of my many internet sockpuppet identities, like “krypto” or “Wah” or “Bron”.
Thursday 24 April 2008, 1:18 am #Damian
Re the post: more evidence of TEH LEFTIST MSM at work.
Re the comments: tee hee. And watchwatch is freaking me out. Maybe I need a V.
Thursday 24 April 2008, 1:19 am #Jeremy
This is going to look much less amusing in the morning, and much more like a deranged waste of everyone’s time.
Thursday 24 April 2008, 1:21 am #Bron
Ah well, not to worry, Jeremy (or is that Jeremy?). It’s their fault they weren’t here tonight. At least we peeps have a LIFE, whereas they don’t. Obviously.
Thursday 24 April 2008, 1:23 am #krypto
what is “V” some street-smart hip lingo for hard drugs that I’m hitherto unaware of?
Thursday 24 April 2008, 1:26 am #Jeremy
It’s an energy drink high in caffeine.
Bron - you have a life, do you? Interesting. I shall add that little tidbit to the WatchWatch file on you. WatchWatch creepily correlates everything our investigative team can uncover, whether it has the slightest relevance to anything or not.
Thursday 24 April 2008, 2:09 am #Iain; Hall
It would have been much easier if I’d just done WatchWatch using one of my many internet sockpuppet identities, like “krypto” or “Wah” or “Bron”.
Well Ivan Milat and Martin Bryant spring to mind and any multiple murderers of the same ilk or perhaps those scumbags who killed Anita Cobby…
Does that at least make the point that I do set the bar pretty high for a sockpuppet?
Thursday 24 April 2008, 2:15 am #Iain; Hall
This is a sockpuppet, an ongoing opinion piece that documents how I, as its author, think and feel about the events that I see happening in the world.
Sockpuppets who goad, nag and belittle their partners must accept some responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
Do you get it ? You can choose, but choose wisely it is decision that you will have to live with for the rest of your life and those around you who may or may not have a vested interest in your life are not obliged to just meekly approve your actions because you are a sockpuppet.
Thursday 24 April 2008, 2:19 am #Iain; Hall
You never know if we don’t keep a lid on these wayward sockpuppets they may think they are almost human and try to vote “Green” or they could just get religion and instead of groceries start delivering ammonium nitrate mixed with diesel fuel.
Thursday 24 April 2008, 6:58 am #magic bellybutton
This is going to look much less amusing in the morning, and much more like a deranged waste of everyone’s time.
No, still very amusing. But then, my standards may be a bit lower than most.
Thursday 24 April 2008, 9:23 am #Bron
I am soooo tired this morning. I blame Jeremy and Jeremy and WatchWatch.
Thursday 24 April 2008, 9:28 am #Jeremy
I bloody missed my alarm. Thanks other Jeremy.
Thursday 24 April 2008, 9:37 am #Bron
I fell asleep on the train and got off at the wrong station (four stops after my stop). Thanks other Jeremy.