Another day, another non-story beat-up by the legacy media.
This time they’re pearl-clutching about a cardboard cutout that almost nobody noticed.
Round three of the NRL has been run and done with rave reviews from fans.
The action on the field has been quicker, the referees have stayed mostly out of the spotlight and most fans don’t seem to mind the stadium sounds on the broadcast.
The only issue has been fans not being allowed in but the NRL’s Fan In The Stands promotion has given fans the chance to buy a cardboard cut out to fill out the seat in the stadiums.
Faster than you can say “Boaty McBoatface”, wags jumped at the opportunity to have a bit of fun.
Channel 9’s live coverage of the Friday night’s match between the Rooster and Rabbitohs even featured commentators Phil Gould and Ray Warren having a giggle at the sight of a cut-out of a fan’s dog sitting in the stands.
While other dogs have followed suit along with screaming fans and diehards in full makeup, some more questionable characters have slipped through.
Even British PM Boris Johnson’s chief advisor who broke COVID-19 restrictions to travel 250 miles to visit his parents farm during the pandemic made an appearance.
And now the pearl-clutching begins…
But at Sunday’s thriller between the Penrith Panthers and Newcastle Knights, the joke took a dark turn.
As the game passed into golden point, the camera panned and settled on a section of the crowd.
Reddit pointed out that there was a serial killer in the crowd with the likeness of Harold Fredrick Shipman on top of a Canberra Raiders cut out.
But the media really had an attack of the vapours when Matty Johns tried to get in on the joke, on the Fox League show. Johns showed a mocked-up image with cutouts of Adolf Hitler and Richard Wilkins side by side in the stand.
Naturally, the wokerati were outraged.
I guess you can’t blame them: who’d want to be confronted by the hideous sight of Richard Wilkins? People may have been eating!
Seriously, though: this is the same media who’ve spent the last four years labelling anyone and everyone “Nazis” and “literally Hitler”, and now they’re clutching their pearls because someone is mocking Hitler?
You can’t make this stuff up.
That’s the media’s job.
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