Reference :- Sky News considers itself a bastion of punctilious public behavior , especially Peta Credlin .
It was awful wasn't it Peta ? Imagine a woman of mature years actually tearing up a few sheets of stationary in full view of the public , while wearing a blank expression . Your comrade at Sky News , Paul ( let's feign masturbation on prime time television ) Murray , must have been shocked . And both Prime Minister , Scott ( let's take a lump of coal to parliament and smirk about it ) Morrison , and furloughed predecessor , Tony ( let's giggle in parliament about pacific island nations sinking ) Abbott, must wonder how far standards have fallen .
Obviously these days standards have changed , and an old bloke like me is kept on his toes adapting to the latest trends , norms , crazes and just the general drift of social expectations .
Some of it is hard to follow, but at least now that accepting lies , even whoppers from public figures , is acceptable , we don't have to bother about fact checking anymore .
That saves a lot of time , and Mr Trump's long outpouring of made up records and glad tidings would have consoled many a troubled citizen , so where is the harm in telling a few porkies to keep the great unwashed on side ?
My son , Ken junior , tells me that there are 1.5 million homeless students in the good old USA. He has a pen pal there who also says that this is the highest figure in a decade , and that student debt has hit a record 1.5 trillion bucks . I told Ken junior that though these are alarming figures , why mention them , and all of the other depressing statistics that abound , in what is meant to be an annual sales pitch ?
Besides , all those students living in dumpsters wouldn't have a television set , so they didn't have to listen to the lies .
These days the truth is such a slippery thing to define , so why bother ?
It's a brave new world , isn't it Peta ?
Your Comrade , Ken
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