I *love* watching Howard squirm like a worm!

[logansrogue]

He's on the 7:30 Report talking to Kerry O'Brien. As Trudy Cooper says, Kerry O'Brien is a sexy bastard, and he takes no mutha-fucking prisoners. Kerry O'Brien homes Sudanese refugees in the cleft in his chin, people. He is THAT fucking awesome.

So, he's talking to El Presidente the Prime Minister, and asks him what his pollsters think of the fact that a majority of people think that Howard is dishonest.

Howard manages to take the word 'dishonest' and run with it like a freakin' rugby player. He starts saying how he's NOT dishonest, that when he sent Australian troops into Iraq, it was on intelligence at the time which said that there were WMDs in Iraq. That his supposed lying to us about the real reason they're sending troops into Iraq was a Labor-made fantasy. That the Children Overboard scandal - that he was given the WRONG information, and that's why he said certain things, yada yada.

...

For FUCK'S sake, Howard. You're the fucking Prime Minister. If I, broke, high-school educated, ex-art student, not the brightest bulb in the box, can turn on the internet and read up on all sides of an issue, CAN'T YOU?! With all your money, and your Kirabillee house and you fucking name it - you're getting PAID to know what's going on, not to cheat the answers before walking into the Big Chair and to make a right fucking DICK of yourself!

Christ! *face-palm* As I said - I'm not a brain. I'm useless with the little details of politics, with economics and that sort of thing. But I'm pretty good with basic logic, I think.

So Howard starts prattling on about 'allegations', and Kerry decides that he's let Howard run far enough. The Ginger-Topped Warrior for Journalism says to Howard, with a balanced, firm tone that he was talking about how Howard's pollsters were going to deal with the poll result, and that they were the opinions of people rather than allegations, and that he'd like to know what the pollsters thought.

Howard dismissed it and then went on about how they WERE allegations, apparently because they were a negative opinion about him and that's now allowed or something - I tuned out at this point and was still amazed by the Fifty Metre Dash of WTF?! that had just occurred before that point.

*sigh* And he wonders why people think he's dishonest!

Comments

[caitlen.livejournal.com]

I want a "Kevin07" t-shirt!!!!

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

Dude, what a GREAT idea! :D Not that I'm mad about Kevin Rudd, I don't entirely trust him but ANYONE is better than Howard at this point.

[angriest.livejournal.com]

To paraphrase Aaron Sorkin: "If he didn't know, he's criminally negligent. If he did know, he's just a criminal."

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

That's perfect, that's the whole thing summed up perfectly!

[azinazelle.livejournal.com]

as always ... it's not the smartest and best people that get positions of power, it's people with money and connections.

Well, could be worse. You could have Bush as your "leader." :/

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

I think Bush and Howard are very similar. Bush is just a bit worse, but not by much.

[azinazelle.livejournal.com]

oh God ... that's BAD. :/

[purrdence.livejournal.com]

I've heard Howard called 'bonsai'.

[loic.livejournal.com]

Why is he defending himself by claiming to be incompetent? He's desperate. He's lost his reality distortion field.

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

I have NO idea! It was the funniest thing I saw on the 7:30 Report in ages!

[sugaryfun.livejournal.com]

"Kerry O'Brien homes Sudanese refugees in the cleft in his chin, people. He is THAT fucking awesome."

I repeated that to my bloke and he laughed so hard he nearly sprayed cider across the room.

Just to make you jealous, Kerry O'Brien is giving a talk at my universtity next week. I am SO going.

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

Jealous? Dude. I am so green I make Kermit look like Miss Piggy. Maybe I can absorb some of the awesome from the intertubes from you after you've seen him. Seeing him cures the blind, you know.

Er... that doesn't make sense. But you get what I mean. LOL!