all right

Occasionally adding corroborative details to add verisimilitude to otherwise bald and unconvincing,
but veridicous accounts
with careful attention, indefatigable assiduity, and nice discrimination.

09 April, 2011

Flim-Flannery

Flammery’s Lament

“They’ll run a front-page feature*
     too full of awful lies; 
they’ll state that I’m a creature
     of avaricious guys.
They’ll run a weekend-story
     to spread deceit and fear,
forgetting all my glory—
     an Aussie of the year!
Then comes a little stinger
     on Monday, on page three:
some dreadful paper’s stringer
     will dare to sneer at me.
Why are such people teasing?
     I cannot understand!
I’m clearly born for pleasing—
     a prophet of the land.

“Desert seers were oft abused
     by those they came to lead.
Similarly, I’ve been accused
     of clumsiness and greed.
I am not the worst of chaps,
     no author of a plot;
scientific dunce, perhaps,
      a genius I am not.”

Tim Blair reports that Tim Flannery “might be exaggerating just a little”.  The delusional and, perhaps, paranoid Prof. Flannery said:  “The campaign [against the IPCC] was very much like the sort of media campaign that I’m used to when people try to discredit me.  And the way that works is usually on a Friday they’ll run a front-page story saying what a ratbag I am.  You know, front page, and that’s all right, interesting, someone’s been a bit, you know, corrupt or a bit rotten.
“And then on the Saturday they’ll run a page three story, usually a much longer story, listing everything you’re supposed to have done, and all the reasons why you’re a ratbag. 
“And then on the Monday they’ll put a little stinger in. A little reminder, just to remind people what a rotten person you are.”
†  John, iv. 44; Mark, vi. 4; Matt., xxxv. 57. 

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