As Simple as ABC

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𝐀𝐬 𝐒𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐬 𝐀𝐁𝐂

To the young and converted they preach.
There are few who their sermons don’t reach.
Minds they shape with the dough
That they take from their foe.
“We are balanced and fair!” — loud they screech.

I avoid “their” ABC like I avoid the plague (even the present one) but I am forced to listen to ABC radio once a week while prisoner of my acupuncturist — pinned down, so to speak. He’s Chinese by the way (boy, aren’t they copping some flack) and assures me that he also hates the ABC, but I have my doubts as he always has the bastards on — maybe he’s a masochist — I know he’s a torturer.

It’s really a shame the way this once great organization has fallen. I grew up with the ABC — I used to love it. I guess it was pretty much to the left even back then, but I suppose it had more class collectively than to blatantly push its lefty ideas. Now it has gone way too far down the far-left well-beaten track to ever return. It’s very feminine I noticed (except for some of their female presenters of course); very soft and squishy and fluffy and loving and caring — at least on the surface; it drips feminism, and masculinity is nowhere to be found.

Judging by the last federal election, around half of the tax-payers who fund the ABC could be fairly described as to the right, and yet “their” ABC is a conservative-free zone; the presenters are all lefties and they pretty much only interview lefties and get lefty opinions — unless of course they decide to set up a hit job on some naive conservative who should know better than to trespass onto their turf. They hate Trump and Boris of course and love Jacinda — the former president of the International Union of Socialist Youth.

Overall it is a sad story: a national broadcaster (if one is needed at all) should of course represent all to as high a degree as possible; but it seems to me that the ABC has an insurmountable problem: many of its presenters and presumably its management really believe that they are right — that they are of the virtuous left and it is their duty to get that message of enlightenment out there.

The ABC is beyond saving — it can’t be transformed back into its former self. I’m not sure even privatizing it would make much difference. What to do about their ABC? There’s no simple solution.

— D.N. O’Brien

The Batty ABC

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𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗮𝘁𝘁𝘆 𝗔𝗕𝗖

The vampire that we call the ABC,
It sucks its life-blood from the public purse.
Its far-left propaganda isn’t free;
It costs a billion, and what is far worse,
It isn’t just the left that fund this curse,
For all of us give to this thirsty bat.
This Dracula in poor disguise we nurse,
And so the ABC grows sleek and fat,
And like a smug and condescending brat
It thinks it is untouchable, secure,
As all about it spreads its stinking scat —
Blights all it touches with its foul manure.
The ABC once was a source of light,
But now it’s just a pesky parasite.

— D.N. O’Brien

Their ABC

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Their ABC

This nest of vipers, it must be destroyed.
This troublesome corrupted lair of liars,
Where only leftist journos are employed.
Of their concocted tales the nation tires.
They are in truth the doubters and deniers
Of science — they swallow snake oil like it’s wine.
They act as though our droughts and floods and fires
Are something new. Don’t try to start a mine!
They’ll trash your plans, and you they will malign.
They’ll have you stopped before you even start.
They and their followers will weep and whine
About, you guessed it, “Climate Change” — don’t fart!
The Earth is dying just because of you!
These friends of aunty just don’t have a clue.

— D.N. O’Brien

Autopsy

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Autopsy

It’s sad — the Left is in a state of shock.
They and their mates, the ABC and NINE,
Just can’t believe that their “progressive” flock
Is smaller than they thought. They weep and whine
As tears roll down their downy cheeks. That mine!
Adani! That’s how come this time they failed!
It’s Bob Brown’s fault! His protest made a fine
Mess of their hopes. They should have safely sailed
To victory — but wait! Palmer derailed
Them. He spent sixty million bucks — that’s it!
His TV ads — the leaflets that he mailed!
He sullied Shorten’s name, the rotten shit!
What? No! It couldn’t be their policies!
Dumb voters! They’re so bloody hard to please!

— D.N. O’Brien

Easy as…

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The ABC – please privatize it.
At least half the people despise it.
It’s red and it’s green
And its bias – obscene!
And no one, with any brains, buys it.

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