Now that the Victorian election is finally under way, the treacherous mountain Premier Daniel Andrews is being forced to climb in his bid for a third term has been brutally exposed.

Opposition Leader Matthew … sorry, Matt … Guy (or is it MG now?) – is the least of Andrews’ problems. He’s still at base camp, working out an attack strategy, his climbing boots too big for him and his backpack cruelly weighed down by his Pentecostal sherpas.

In the absence of one of the worst political climbers at state or federal level of recent times, the task of making that climb for Andrews as steep as possible if not unscaleable has been left up to the Herald Sun, The Age, The Australian (although the very idea that any of its readers in Victoria are leaning towards Labor and need to be discouraged is debatable), 3AW’s Neil Mitchell, other shock jocks and, sadly, probably the local ABC too.

If anyone doubts the efforts the mainstream mediocre will be putting in to prevent Andrews and Labor scaling the heights in just over three weeks time, have a look at the Herald Sun’s splash from Thursday (at top), resurrecting a 2013 road accident involving Andrews’ wife.

And you can believe respected media veteran Mike Carlton’s description for it in his twitter response to some bloke called Mitch Clark. Carlton is spot on.

Clark happens to be the Herald Sun’s state political reporter and as you can see, he’s terribly upset that Andrews wouldn’t take the fall at a media call, pausing on a tricky traverse on his way to the electoral summit and using one of his climbing poles to swipe away more than 15 questions on this non-story from the scrawny alpine buzzards of the MSM.

Fifteen plus questions, for fuck’s sake! That other media outlets have clearly joined in on the Herald Sun beatup pile-on shows just how complicit the Victorian politics fuckerati are in fostering shit journalism.

Here’s today’s Oz, if you have any doubts.

Andrews, the poor bastard, reasonably thought the people of Victoria wanted to hear his plans for the next four years ; indeed to maybe even defend his record over the past eight. If Australia still had a functioning, professional mainstream media, there is plenty there to test him on.

Andrews’ decision not to engage in an accident involving his wife, back when the Liberals were in power in the state, an issue dealt with long ago by police and other authorities and thought resolved and worthy of being forgotten, is commendable, not that the mainstream mediocre intends to let him get away with it.

The Herald Sun’s splash and the two-page spread inside reek of desperation as the Rupert Murdoch toadies in charge look for something to dislodge Andrews before he reaches that peak on 26 November.

Oh, by the way, did you MSM aficianados note the wording in the splash at top: Cyclist hit BY ANDREWS CAR! And the words at top of the inside spread …. ANDREWS CAR!

These cunts don’t even have any shame any more. They don’t even try to hide the gutless attacks they’re making on Daniel Andrews on behalf of that dreadful, scrawny-arsed, money hungry, ethics-free-zone of a nonagenarian cunt in New York.

ANDREWS CAR! ANDREWS CAR!

If Andrews is making his way steadily to the peak, Newscorpse and the almost as bad Nine Entertainment Co. media outlets are wallowing in the putrid cesspit of discarded food and bodily wastes 100 metres downwind from that base camp where Matt… sorry MG… is hopelessly bogged down.

We repeat: trying to get Andrews to slip and fall through something that involved his missus all those years ago is as sad as it is reprehensible. We suspect even worse shit is still to be flung by a desperate Newscorpse and those Costello copycats at The Age and 3AW.

The MGH remains hopeful the voters of Victoria will continue to see through all this malicious malarkey from a despicable, desperate, mainstream media. They have so far, with polls suggesting Andrews may not even need oxygen to reach the summit in just 22 days time.