Friday, November 2nd, 2007...6:15 pm
Jesus Christ on a bike
Peter Garrett has said something gauche and flip to an radio journalist Steve Price. Price says “Hobyahs!, No I Am Not Joking,This Is Deadly Serious Stuff and I Am A Serious Journalist Not Some Desperate Hack Looking To Raise My Profile By Savaging An Inexperienced Media Performer*”. Peter Garrett’s flipancy is defended another media “identity”, Richard Wilkins. Ahem. This is the first item on the ABC news.
When it all gets a bit much around here, I quietly think about being Tony Abbott, scheduled to debate Nicola Roxon in another city in a couple of hours, listening to both Howard and Costello address some dumb launch before being able to speak himself and getting to the airport to make the freaking debate. That thought – to see the day Tony Abbott’s charmless bullying and incompetence saw him become a public has-been – warms me up sometimes when I’m in need of encouragement.
* Author’s own heh. Should’ve gone for Ed Keupper, he never would have fucked up like that. And I can’t imagine Nick Cave running for Parliament. Seat in the House of Lords, maybe.
Pardon me while I go get a bex.
9 Comments
November 2nd, 2007 at 7:29 pm
not that Peter Garrett is an inexperienced media performer…
November 2nd, 2007 at 8:01 pm
No-one spends the whole day trying to make you stuff up when you’re in a rock band. It’s not news.
November 2nd, 2007 at 8:30 pm
Tony’s day was a shocker – some guy had a real go at him about his wife waiting and waiting in emergency too. All on camera. Health is not a good portfolio to have at the moment.
Of course he could have tried to fix it up during the past decade…
November 3rd, 2007 at 8:39 am
At least Labor is up front about having non-core promises before the ewlection.
Goodness me, I like that typo so much it’s staying.
November 3rd, 2007 at 12:03 pm
Ed Kuepper’d be a brilliant candidate, but I reckon the Gallagher brothers would be even better. Running against each other.
And who wouldn’t vote for Bono?
November 3rd, 2007 at 2:21 pm
Oh, I’d never vote for Bono. I had a meeting with him once and it was appalling.
November 3rd, 2007 at 3:09 pm
Richard Wilkins should definitely be in parliament.
November 8th, 2007 at 9:03 pm
I love the image of Nick Cave running for the House of Lords.
November 8th, 2007 at 9:49 pm
One does not run for the House of Lords, blue milk. One is appointed to the peerage, or in Nick Cave’s case, just welcomed back to the fold.
Fucking Melbourne Grammar.
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