Beware the barks of snide!

The insidious and unrelenting march through the main stream media by loony left ideologues and the hypocritical sliming of any opposing perspective has reached unprecedented heights in the campaign against Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. News papers of the left can print almost any sort of twaddle, insult, or downright fabrication and be hallowed as the harbinger of truth...whereas a conservative or even mildly centrist opinion is lunged upon like a pack of salivating wolves on a crippled sheep.

The idea that a Murdoch rival could be brought down by something as simple as market forces is too obvious for Panorama, which preferred a more complex explanation: it was part of a ruthless quest for global domination by a sinister megalomaniac who would have given James Bond a run for his money. Aristotelian reasoning gives way to the logic of the Grassy Knoll as Panorama sought the least likely explanation for a mundane corporate dispute. We are entering the world of the conspiracy theory, the home of the cheapest irrefutable argument known to journalism.

Long gone is the 'Aristotlean reasoning' of the 'enlightenment' as have the ethical values of the Ten Commandments disappeared...in their place we see hubris, 'ubermensch' superiority, and a superficial morality consisting of intentions rather than actions. We in Australia are in the unfortunate position of being able to bear witness to a living, breathing illustration of all of these negative, Machiavellian attributes wrapped up in bare-faced mendacity in the form of our Prime Minister...shame on us!