Re: Does Rudd inspire confidence?
something almost insane going on here..... I have never heard anyone talk like this, except in low grade aussie movies about the outback......or when the tourism industry sewlling rubbish to overseas...with the stupied ocker stuff...
ps I thought we had a thread headed Political ?? I coiuld not find it today
and how do I put a poster on ignore
Column - Are any of these Kevins real?
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Andrew Bolt
Friday, June 12, 2009 at 12:41am
STREWTH! There is now a Kevin Rudd for every occasion, and the only version of the Prime Minister that’s missing is one that’s real.
Here’s Kevvie Rudd, the voters’ mate, talking this week on Sky News like he saw mates do on some old Barry Mackenzie film:
“Fair shake of the sauce bottle, mate . . . It’s chalk and cheese . . . Fair shake of the sauce bottle, mate . . . Well, again, fair shake of the sauce bottle, mate.”
Here, now, is Corporal Rudd, the soldiers’ buddy, talking to troops in Afghanistan last December like he imagines a soldier would:
“You really know your s--- . . . Bugger that for a joke . . . We know what’s goin’ on . . . Genuinely s--- weather . . . I’ve been to too many funerals . . . “
But here is Herr Professor Rudd, the bureaucrat’s bureaucrat, talking to political eggheads in Brussels the way he rather fancies they admire (and please take a deep breath before reading the next two sentences):
“What you saw even prior to the end of the Cold War here, of course, was the evolution of a series of confidence and security-building measures coming off the back of CSCE, OSCE and the Helsinki accords. There has to be a greater synergy between, let’s call it our policy leadership in this, which has been focused so much, legitimately, on targets and global architecture, almost reverse-engineered back to the means by which you can quickly deliver outcomes, and on the demand side in our economy we’re looking at potential advances in terms of 20 to 25 per cent range if you do this across the board.”
Then there’s Preacher Rudd, denouncing the sinful in sanctimonious tones he’s picked up from priests of the more thunderous kind, thinking the same language might well impress a voting audience of the righteous:
“I can describe (Gordon Ramsay’s) remarks as reflecting a new form of low life . . . These guys (The Chaser), collectively, should get up and hang their heads in shame . . . . I find (union boss Dean) Mighell’s remarks to be obscene at every level . . . I find (artist Bill Henson’s pictures) absolutely revolting . . . “
And then there’s Fuhrer Rudd, who talks to staff as he imagines a great f---ing Labor leader must, telling even a RAAF stewardess who brings him a cold meal . . . Well, let’s keep it clean, shall we?
Let us just say that it’s amazing, what a chameleon the Prime Minister is. Truly, he is the Zelig of Australian politics.
This trait of his goes far beyond just stuffing his every public statement with phrases invented by his young spinners and pretested on some focus group, in the hope of telling voters exactly what they most like hearing:
“We are being decisive . . . responsible, clear, consultative . . . it’s difficult, it’s hard, it’s complex . . . We can either stand back and do nothing or, as governments, we can act . . . “
Rudd’s chameleon act actually involves a much deeper ingratiation with his audience. He changes not just his message, but his tone, his colloquialisms and even his accent.
Good God, he’s even known to have changed his faith. In short order, he’s switched from a professed “Christian socialist” to “not a socialist” to a “fiscal conservative” to a “social democrat”, changing colour - pink-blue-bluer-pink - to suit whatever you think you’d like best, given the change in the economic weather.
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/...comments/column_are_any_of_these_kevins_real/
something almost insane going on here..... I have never heard anyone talk like this, except in low grade aussie movies about the outback......or when the tourism industry sewlling rubbish to overseas...with the stupied ocker stuff...
ps I thought we had a thread headed Political ?? I coiuld not find it today
and how do I put a poster on ignore
Column - Are any of these Kevins real?
36 Comments | 0 Trackbacks | Permalink Andrew Bolt Blog
Andrew Bolt
Friday, June 12, 2009 at 12:41am
STREWTH! There is now a Kevin Rudd for every occasion, and the only version of the Prime Minister that’s missing is one that’s real.
Here’s Kevvie Rudd, the voters’ mate, talking this week on Sky News like he saw mates do on some old Barry Mackenzie film:
“Fair shake of the sauce bottle, mate . . . It’s chalk and cheese . . . Fair shake of the sauce bottle, mate . . . Well, again, fair shake of the sauce bottle, mate.”
Here, now, is Corporal Rudd, the soldiers’ buddy, talking to troops in Afghanistan last December like he imagines a soldier would:
“You really know your s--- . . . Bugger that for a joke . . . We know what’s goin’ on . . . Genuinely s--- weather . . . I’ve been to too many funerals . . . “
But here is Herr Professor Rudd, the bureaucrat’s bureaucrat, talking to political eggheads in Brussels the way he rather fancies they admire (and please take a deep breath before reading the next two sentences):
“What you saw even prior to the end of the Cold War here, of course, was the evolution of a series of confidence and security-building measures coming off the back of CSCE, OSCE and the Helsinki accords. There has to be a greater synergy between, let’s call it our policy leadership in this, which has been focused so much, legitimately, on targets and global architecture, almost reverse-engineered back to the means by which you can quickly deliver outcomes, and on the demand side in our economy we’re looking at potential advances in terms of 20 to 25 per cent range if you do this across the board.”
Then there’s Preacher Rudd, denouncing the sinful in sanctimonious tones he’s picked up from priests of the more thunderous kind, thinking the same language might well impress a voting audience of the righteous:
“I can describe (Gordon Ramsay’s) remarks as reflecting a new form of low life . . . These guys (The Chaser), collectively, should get up and hang their heads in shame . . . . I find (union boss Dean) Mighell’s remarks to be obscene at every level . . . I find (artist Bill Henson’s pictures) absolutely revolting . . . “
And then there’s Fuhrer Rudd, who talks to staff as he imagines a great f---ing Labor leader must, telling even a RAAF stewardess who brings him a cold meal . . . Well, let’s keep it clean, shall we?
Let us just say that it’s amazing, what a chameleon the Prime Minister is. Truly, he is the Zelig of Australian politics.
This trait of his goes far beyond just stuffing his every public statement with phrases invented by his young spinners and pretested on some focus group, in the hope of telling voters exactly what they most like hearing:
“We are being decisive . . . responsible, clear, consultative . . . it’s difficult, it’s hard, it’s complex . . . We can either stand back and do nothing or, as governments, we can act . . . “
Rudd’s chameleon act actually involves a much deeper ingratiation with his audience. He changes not just his message, but his tone, his colloquialisms and even his accent.
Good God, he’s even known to have changed his faith. In short order, he’s switched from a professed “Christian socialist” to “not a socialist” to a “fiscal conservative” to a “social democrat”, changing colour - pink-blue-bluer-pink - to suit whatever you think you’d like best, given the change in the economic weather.
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/...comments/column_are_any_of_these_kevins_real/
