The chaotic daily churn has left news organisations with gaping holes that political pundits are all too happy to fill. But don't assume they're motivated by a desire to inform, writes Jonathan Green.

They may be biased, party-affiliated propagandists, but does any of that matter so long as our pundits are prolific?

We were treated to a pair of much-remarked-upon pieces last week reflecting on the state of Australian political commentary.

One, by Richard Cooke at the Monthly, considered the record of Graham Richardson. It seems Richo, despite a career-enhancing reputation for ready access to the good oil, is more often than not loud, confident and wrong.

The other, by Mark Latham in the Australian Financial Review, wondered at the convention of scant disclosure that lets pointed partisan prose pass as considered opinion. And yes, there probably is a difference.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-04-04/green-insight-isnt-the-main-game-in-punditry/4607604

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One thing's for sure... One can guess (hey... I could be wrong here) that Richo and his rabid employers won't give up the barrow of rubbish until he gets it right — by chance or pure coincidence...

Like all mystical crystal-ball gazer, he thus will be applauded for such extraordinary vision in line with the grand prophetisation of the bible and the koran... We're in the muddy pundit territory where even a Jonathan Green — author of the article above — has been partisanly swimming in it... It's a similar field as that when Howard confided in us that "everyone knows" then proceed to tell us the biggest porkie ever... The juxtaposition of "everyone knows" gave credibility to the porkie — until one knew one had been had.... ten years later....

To be on the safe side, when Howard was telling us that "everyone knows" I took whatever he said as pure bullshit...

Same with Graham Richardson.. In regard to many others MALE and FEMALE commentators, one has to understand where they are coming from. First, the males are annoyed that a female PM rules the roost and many female commentators are annoyed that their beau are being ruled by a woman — of whom they themselves are jealous of...  All this before entering the delicate set up of punch bags right wing and left wing politics...

Pundits are paid to confuse the issues... They are there to divide the nation in a million pieces. They are there to stop you from having one ounce of sympathy for the tall poppy... They want you to believe the weed in the next paddock is far more valuable... They are there to break the vase where the flower stands.

Most (all) of their opinion is irrelevant and idiotic — and they have to whinge... 

Richardson is a sad case.  He still mourns (he does not) his mate Rivkin... Not so much missing the friendship but the way they creamed things up for entertainment and cash collection together... His other mate Joe Meissner was a fun caring fellow too. with a love boat... And if one reads about the Alpine Offset fire here, one finds a few more characters like Eddie in the smoke of it...

One thing fore sure is that most of the predictions by blokes like Graham Richardson are NASTY, deliberately nasty... They are pushed on the Australian public — that has no clue of what's happening — as porkied self-fulfilling prophecies extracted like smelly messages from the entrails of electrocuted bats and road-killed crows — as well as talking under the table to the soggy ruddites, still...