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ALL THE CHEWS THAT’S FIT TO PRINT
It’s been covered by the Washington Post, the London Times, Reuters, India’s Times Now TV, South Africa’s Independent Online, across News Ltd, by the UK Telegraph, by AFP, Canada’s Calgary Herald, the Times of India, the Hong Kong Standard, the Guardian, the Straits Times, and the Australian ...
... yet, as reader Bonmot points out, Kevin Rudd’s embarrassing diet is not mentioned by the Sydney Morning Herald, the Age, or the ABC (besides one comment from the Daily Telegraph’s Malcolm Farr).
Possibly these guys consider Ruddmunching too trivial a matter to deal with. After all, the SMH prefers covering serious issues, like Presidential noodle consumption:
At the barbecue for the troops, under Ms. Crabb’s watchful eye, [George W. Bush] helpfully counted his own noodles (there were eight) in a scene she wrote about in her front-page column this way: “Eight!” he concluded. “Eight noodles! There’s your story! Nice helping you out!”
Besides the front page, that noodle item also ran on the SMH’s poster (“Dubya, his noodles and me”, or something similar). So trivia is unlikely to be a reason for wax-related rejection; what other excuse might the SMH offer?
Anyhoo, since Kevin won’t read about it in local broadsheets, here’s a Waxgate story for him in Chinese.
UPDATE. The SMH catches up.
For shame. Vincent Price would be very disappointed with such waste.
Posted by Simon Darkshade on 2007 10 28 at 11:45 AM • permalinkYou’d think getting tossed out on his ear from a NY strip joint would be more damaging to his image than snacking on earwax, but I guess no one can predict the public’s, ummm… taste.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 10 28 at 11:58 AM • permalinkAs much in the bank for Shrillary as the Beltway press (NYT, WaPo, etc) is, I can’t imagine they’d bury/ignore such a public faux pas.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 10 28 at 12:05 PM • permalinkI’d like to take all of those who love denigrating Bush and load them down with his responsibility. Let them age 20 years in the space of a few years. Let them be the butt of every kind of gross joke. Let them be smeared, accused of blowing up their fellow citizens so that he could go to war for fun and profit, equated with one of the worse mass murderers in history, etal. Let them be put under a microscope, with every little word and gesture scrutinized endlessly. Let them do all of that while carrying the responsibility for a war in which half the government works for the enemy.
They can do all of this to Bush—and Howard—but Rudd is exempt?
Be glad it was ear wax. It could have been boogers.
Posted by Mystery Meat on 2007 10 28 at 02:49 PM • permalinkThe bar is set way too high for Annabel Crabb to be the dullest of election correspondents - (hello Paul and Michelle) - but reading her copy reminds me of listening to a long, long set up for a joke where the punchline never arrives.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 10 28 at 05:40 PM • permalink“It’s well and truly time to regain our nation’s reputation as a good international citizen and that is precisely what you will get from Kevin Rudd and Labor,” (last sentence - here.)
I am struggling to think of an Australian opposition leader who has had such an impact on Australia’s international reputation. Not only with the above links but also here.
Just as well Labor chose a diplomat.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 10 28 at 07:02 PM • permalinkA few pics of Rudds ideal evening out.
First a bit of fine dining.
here.Followed by some fine art.
Then off to bedAll in all a perfect evening.
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 10 28 at 07:03 PM • permalinkYour link to the Chinese story on Rudd’s wax munching prompted me to do a search for it on China’s most popular search engine. The results are amazing! Searching for “吃耳垢” + “澳大利亚” [chomping ear wax + Australia] resulted in 1,780 stories (see results here). The story has also made it onto the International News pages of big newspapers (including pictures of Rudd chomping away) - see here for a good example (the paper printed pics captured from the YouTube vid).
THE SMH did an article about this today
http://www.smh.com.au/new
s/federalelection2007new
s/friends-romans-and-kevin133/2007
/10/28/1193555533346.html
...which you really should have formatted properly. There, I fixed it. The Management.If Kevin Rudd were to brutally murder one little old lady every day live on camera how long would it take the ABC to notice?
How long would it take them to start hyping Kevvie’s forward looking population policy for a sustainable future?
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 10 28 at 11:14 PM • permalinkPlease use the “link” button for long urls. It’s so easy, even a caveman could do it.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 10 29 at 01:04 AM • permalinkI don’t really see what’s so surprising about the fact the minutiae of Bush’s visit eclipsed Rudd’s wax eating.
In Australia a visiting two-term US president will always, always be more newsworthy than an Opposition Leader.
Posted by AlexanderH on 2007 10 29 at 01:34 AM • permalinkthere was another reference on the ABC on the media report last week (RN)
Lindsay Marshall: ... I’m just fascinated by the phenomenon of Kevin Rudd and his popularity. I mean the worm hit the roof just when he was clearing his throat.
Don Gordon-Brown: His popularity ear-waxes and wanes, doesn’t it?
Lindsay Marshall: It does, it does. But people are now naming their children Kevin, and some of them are boys. Coming in on the bus, people -the segment was heavily promoted during the week thusly: ‘satire is alive and well in
Kevin Rudd’s BrisbanePosted by eeniemeenie on 2007 10 29 at 01:45 AM • permalinkDon Gordon-Brown: I met a baby the other day it was just called ‘07’.
Lindsay Marshall: Yes, ‘07’. People are openly eating their own ear-wax, and I see more people with pudding-bowl haircuts wandering the street.there was a little more, sorry- I failed cut and paste in grade three
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 10 29 at 01:49 AM • permalink#29 Excellent second post, AlexanderH. Keep up the good work.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 10 29 at 02:00 AM • permalinkThat bloke at the SMH, Damien Murphy, wrote, “By yesterday more than 400,000 people around the world had tuned in to see Rudd getting an earful.”
Wrong, wrong, wrong. What they saw was him getting his earful into his mouth. Or, alternatively, getting a mouthful of his earful.
On the other hand, Murphy did get this excellent quote from a Post writer.
The question is whether a man with so little savvy for the cameras surrounding him is fit to hold his nation’s highest office.
Good question.
The Age, the ABC and the SMH might turn a blind eye, but you can bet your left goog that US and UK news channels will be running that ad nauseum and having TV anchors make various puns whenever PM Rudd visits on official business.
Posted by Abu Chowdah on 2007 10 29 at 07:09 AM • permalinkSnigger ...
So it’s not his latest lock-step agreement with Howard on signing a new Kyoto like climate change agreement me too, but Kevin.07’s snacking habits which are of great interest to the masters of our Manchurian Candidate.
Perhaps it was his blurry eyed attempt to use his cerumen to bikini wax the artistes in New York that got him thrown out.
It lends credence to the rumour that his infamous morning after apology to Therese resulted when 07 realised his nocturnal distribution of aural canal squalene could not be explained away by over active epithelial migration and Therese was certain notice the discepancy during her next leg wax.
It certainly gives new import to 07 signing his letters ‘yours sincerely’.
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Maybe it was . . . plastic ear wax.