Reference :- Bearded Sky anchor , Paul Murray , called the American Democrats " a bunch of losers "

Reference :-   Paul Murray interviewed shape shifting conservative politician Mark Latham , and they discussed the polls leading up to the presidential election .

That's the way Paul , old son .  What a witty line .  How do you come up with them ?     " A bunch of losers " you said .  Brilliant stuff Paul , there is nothing like a puerile insult to establish you superior credentials in any debate .  

Of course , the focus  of your interview was the fact that the polls show that the " bunch of losers " are actually winning , while his holy grand magnificence , or whatever he calls himself ,  Donald Trump , is losing support .

Naturally, as you say ,  there could be no better proof that the polls are wrong . Probably run by a " bunch of losers " too Paul .  (    Please excuse me for quoting you so often , but it is such a coruscating line that I wonder why nobody has thought of it before . )

 Young Mark Latham sure opened my eyes when he said that the USA , once the world's greatest democracy, has become a "freak show "of late .    That is the sort of fresh information and detailed analysis that we have come to expect from your presentations Paul.    Keep up the good work . 

 Anyway Paul  here is a quote from the great late social commentator George Carlin ,  from decades  ago.

 " When you are born into this world you get a ticket to the freak show . If you are born in America you get a front row seat . "  

    I wonder why it has taken some people so long to figure that out ?

Please offer my best wishes  to young Mark .     

    Your comrade , Ken .          

Reference :- Golden tongued Sky anchor Alan Jones must not watch the ABC news very often .

Reference :-   Alan Jones complained that the full statistics for the coronavirus pandemic are never reported to us , leaving us with a distorted impression of its severity .

 Say Jonesie ,  maybe you ( or your researchers ) need to drop your cherry pickers for a moment and tune the tele to the ABC .   You say nobody tells us how many people have been tested for coronavirus , how many people are actually hospitalized in ICU , or the ages of the afflicted and the dead . 

But , the ABC does relay that information to the general public regularly , along with a lot of other  excellent content , for twenty cents per person per day . (And with the funding cuts , soon it will be even less than twenty cents . )

Pretty good value I reckon .  Of course , one still has to dial up a commercial station from time to time just for the ads .   How else is a chap going to hear about the latest accessory that allows him to gamble while riding his jet ski ?
   
 Anyway , I would avoid the sensational commercial news channels if I was a serious commentator like you Jonesie .  The last time I experienced distortions as bad as the ones they inflict upon us was in the mirror maze at a traveling circus .    

 Your comrade , Ken

P.S.   By the way ,  have you noticed that half the coronavirus deaths in the USA are now in the 45 to 75 yrs age group?   Your researchers should be able to morph that into something you can rant about .

Reference :- Gaunt from worry , Sky anchor Rowan Dean has been warning us of the horrors we face .

Reference :-    Rowan Dean took to the street to interview people about the offensive cancel culture creeps and protestors who are destroying civilization as we know it .

To be sure Rowan , the cancel culture , as it is  called , is a bit of a nuisance .  Even hard line leftie intellectuals like Noam Chomsky find them an unwelcome distraction .   I notice you failed to mention him when you listed other prominent lefties , and fair enough too . He is way too clever  for most people .  Did you ever see that fierce debate between Noam and the conservative icon William F Buckley junior ?  Poor young William was so outclassed intellectually that one felt like shooting him to put him out of his misery .  (And for a few other reasons also ).

 Don't feel bad about the fact that nobody wanted to talk with you .  There was no need to pretend that it was because they feared becoming victimized by a cohort of cancel culture canards .   They merely appeared to be somewhat shy , and perhaps uncomfortable with your dishevelled , tousle haired Boris Johnson appearance .

 Anyway , Rowan , like you I also deplore name calling , impolite discourse and disrespectful references to people in authority . It will be a sad day if we ever see examples of such behaviour on Sky News .  

  And also like you , Rowan , I find it alarming to watch the civic disobedience occasioned by the  pandemic , the chaotic black lives matter (too)   protests  , and the latest in the three hundred year long packed cavalcade of capitalism's collapses.   And  I think you are entirely correct when you assert that this perfect storm of crises is being used by the left to try and completely overturn western civilization so that we never return to the way we were. 

But as far as I am concerned , that is the only good thing about it all. 

 Your comrade ,  Ken

Reference :- Sky News anchor , Rita Panahi , may have contradicted herself ...a bit .

Reference :-   Rita Panahi , usually a fan of private enterprise , complained that  the Victorian government had used a private security company to supervise folk in lockdown .  The security people failed in their duty of care . 

Indeed Rita , that was a monumental screw up , so I hear .  Never underestimate the sex appeal of a chap in a uniform  , they always say .  And it's quite likely that other inconvenient viruses may have been transmitted while all that saucy behaviour was going on .

Anyway , you need to shore up your support for private enterprise before folk start to think you are becoming a " Marxist " ( that is the ideology we demonize to distract from the real villains these days , I believe ).

Here at the Sky Reply , we have been thinking about how you can  deal with your 
critics .  Monte ( the motorcyclist )  said you could point out that one small dodgy security firm should not reflect badly on the huge corporations that buttress the walls of free market capitalism .

But then , Ken junior reminded us that those big companies , and the private  banks , screw us so badly that the entire world is plunged into a financial crisis every few years .  In fact , they screw up so often that terms  like   " recession "  "depression "  " downturn "  " economic crisis "   " housing bubble " and " crash "  frequent popular parlance .  Along with other terms  , like " corruption "  " overcharging "  " tax haven "  " million dollar fines "   " insider trading "  " price fixing "  " litigation "   and on and on .   Ken junior does make a good point .

But we have another strategy up our sleeve .   As you well know Rita , the default position is always to blame  the government , and it works really well .   It works so well that after governments bailed out the oligarchs during the GFC   ( to the tune of trillions )  all we heard about was the rise in government debt occasioned by " inefficient " governments .

So Rita , this is what we suggest .   You should not say that the Andrew's government made a mistake by not supervising the lockdown themselves , and contracting a dodgy private security firm for the job .   That gives the impression that you believe the government is more competent .   Why not say that the Andrew's government should have employed a private human resources company to decide which security firm to hire ?   

Ken junior said he reckons there must be at least one firm that isn't dodgy  . Though I wasn't sure if he was talking about the security firms or the human resources ones .

There is no need to thank us for our advice .

Your charming voice on the tele is all the thanks we need .  

  Your comrade , Ken

Reference :- The three stooges of Sky News , Rowan Dean , Rita Panahi , and James Morrow attacked " the left " ...again .

Reference :-   Sky News is shocked by the opportunistic behaviour of what they call " the deranged left ".

How great to see three of my favourite news reporters ...I mean news commentators ...ganging up to take on the " deranged left " .  And I do like the way you insert derogatory adjectives  in your headlines , which saves us the trouble of deciding for ourselves whether some group is deranged or not . 

Anyway , you say the "deranged left " is using the coronavirus pandemic as a weapon to damage President  Trump's reputation .   I find that utterly incredible .    Could you ever imagine the " deranged right " using the pandemic to vilify somebody .  Like , I don't know,  the Labor Premier of Victoria , Daniel Andrews , for example .     The right would never stoop so low .

Keep up the good work.  

Hypocrisy lurks in every corner these days , and we need you to highlight it .
                                                                           
                               Your comrade ,  Ken .

Reference:- Columnist Andy Bolt has hit the big time .

Reference :-   Columnist Andy Bolt now writes for leading newspaper , The Toowoomba Chronicle .


Andy , I was pleasantly surprised to see your full page technicolor column in the Toowoomba Chronicle yesterday!   I have missed all your previous columns because for years I have bypassed the Chronicle on the news stand , thinking it was just another advertising brochure for the fossil fuel industry .  Fortunately we do get the Chronicle out here in Kooralya , so I must make a point of following you from now on .

Anyway , it was a great picture of a deluded nutjob rapper  that you presented as a representative of the left .  It even scared me .  The picture was a good size too, which meant that you could fill an entire page without bothering to write many actual words .  But here's  a tip Andy ,  be careful you don't detract from that headline photo of yourself too much .  It's been a favourite of mine for decades , and reminds me of your halcyon days before the whisky had taken it's toll.

 I have always admired the knack you have for fanning the flames of racism by pretending to call it out , and this column was a classic example  .   As my uncle , a Major in the British Army based in Burma used to say  " It smooths the progress of business if we keep the natives fighting among themselves ."   In this instance , your column usefully deflects  attention from the fact that fossil fuel companies in the region are sacrificing some of the best agricultural land in the world to make money for oligarchs .

Lastly , I see your campaign to save the country from a deluge of fake aborigines and the ABC has not stalled.  Please also maintain your rage against the lies concerning  "  colonialism ! exploitation ! slavery! and genocide ! "  which never happened .     (   I hope the exclamation marks don't alarm you Andy , since  I am only quoting directly from your sensibly restrained column . )

Looking forward to seeing more of your work  in the Chronicle , 

Your comrade , Ken

Reference :- Ways of looking at statistics , Part 3.

Reference :-    Sky anchor Alan Lazarus Jones dazzled us with his profound understanding of statistics .

Good morning again Alan .  You sure have an impressive grasp of statistics .  I mean , everybody knows that 99 % of folk who get clapped up with coronavirus suffer mild or no symptoms .  And everybody  knows we have only had about 120 deaths . Yet  the epidemiologists , doctors , politicians and the media , carry on as though people are dying at the rate experienced in some third world hell hole .  Like the USA , for example .  As you point out , other health issues kill more people than coronavirus , and that's the sort of perspective we need .
People have lost their common sense , Alan .  I mean yesterday alone more people had to get a tooth extracted than caught coronavirus . But you don't see epidemiologists running about in a panic telling us we will all be edentulous in no time unless we shut down the economy and spend billions stockpiling false teeth .  And just like your other analogies , that highlights  the stupidity of it all.

Ken junior keeps pointing at  Georgia USA  where the graph of infections is steeper than the north face of the Eiger . He reckons that has something to do with easing lockdown weeks ago and the state governor deciding to sue the Mayor of Atlanta for mandating the use of face masks in public .   But I ask you Jonesie , how does that make sense ?  Ken junior is but a callow youth , and has much to learn . 


Which reminds me , Ken junior wants to run a question past you regarding those climate change statistics you so often quote .  I don't know what he is on about , so keep a weather eye out for it in a forthcoming post .     

Your comrade , Ken

  PS    Sky Reply contributor Monte ( the motorcyclist ) just told me that the cap on his front tooth keeps falling off , but the local hospital dental clinic can't afford to fix it properly due to funding cuts .    So maybe you better not use the tooth analogy Jonesie, in case  it opens a can of worms .   A shame, since it would have been one of your best yet .