…. ARISE SENATOR BARNABY AND REJOYCE!

The column that has fun with the smaller mistakes and missteps of Australia’s mainstream mediocre; that pays homage to those sweet little fishes that individually don’t amount to a full meal but collectively can cause a tummy upset over the overall state of the once great and noble craft of journalism in this country.

Think of any honorific that could come to mind before the words Barnaby Joyce and plenty rushed into what’s left of the minds of the bitter and twisted, washed up, old hacks who compile this column.

They immediately erupted into a shoutathon with prefixes that included the Beetrooter, Staff shagger, Early Opener, Pisspot pollie, Coal hugger, Rinehart Liquor, Red-faced root-rat, Former family man, Christian cope-out, Barmaid botherer, Footpath Fallguy, Drought report rorter and many others.

But no-one came up with “One Nation Senator” as did Nine News Queensland in last night’s (Saturday’s) 6pm bulletin – and presumably National Nine News overall as well – as shown at top and below.

Oh dear! For anyone remotely interested in federal politics, for a long time as the Nationals’ lower-house member for the NSW regional seat of New England, the pavement backstroker conned local voters into thinking his risible, rum-fueled rants showed he cared about their plight. He’s now doing it as One Nation’s only MHR and he’s only thinking (which would be hard for him) at this stage of running for a NSW Senate spot at the federal poll expected in 2028.

In the meantime, the author of How to guzzle your way through $675,000 in drought-envoy expenses while only spending three weeks on the ground remains in the Lower House and someone at Nine News knows fuck-all about politics.

Sorry, what’s that thought, Amanda Copp?

No, we don’t, Amanda.

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Want another example of a wrong news strip (chyron is the old fashioned word Dean Felton taught us way back when) across the bottom of our TV screens.

Check this one out from ABC News Breakfast the other day…

We’ve double checked this with White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt and she’s assured us that President Donald J. Trump’s exact words were that he “wanted to be involved in picking off Iran’s next leader”.

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