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Poor Kim Beazley:

Federal Opposition Leader Kim Beazley has committed a major blunder, confusing grieving TV host Rove McManus with White House strategist Karl Rove.

McManus’s wife, actor Belinda Emmett, was farewelled at a funeral in Sydney today after succumbing to cancer last weekend at the age of 32.

Mr Beazley began a press conference in Sydney today by expressing his sympathy - but to the wrong Rove.

“The first thing I want to say is this - today, our thoughts and the thoughts of many, many Australians will be with Karl Rove as he goes through the very sad process of burying his beloved wife,” Mr Beazley said.

“And I just want him to know that my thoughts and the thoughts of my colleagues are very much with him today.”

Prime Minister Howard Cosell would never make such an error.

Posted by Tim B. on 11/16/2006 at 10:10 PM

  1. That’s okay, Kim Jong Il has just issued a full apology.

    Posted by cuckoo on 2006 11 16 at 10:13 PM • permalink

  2. Give him a break. It was just before lunch and the canteen were serving his favourite for lunch…... food!

    Posted by Phatso Phil on 2006 11 16 at 10:17 PM • permalink

  3. Even Big Kim realises the Democrat victory is not good for the geo-political climate in the Middle East. Cheer up, Kim. It’s not a funeral mate.

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 11 16 at 10:18 PM • permalink

  4. Maybe he’s on that cabbage soup diet again and he can’t concentrate due to all the reverberations?

    Posted by Art Vandelay on 2006 11 16 at 10:20 PM • permalink

  5. This kind of thing happens with Kim quite a bit.

    Posted by C.L. on 2006 11 16 at 10:23 PM • permalink

  6. #1: That’s okay, Kim Jong Il has just issued a full apology.

    Haw! That one really gave me a chuckle. Although, isn’t Beazley also know as Kim Jong Not-Feeling-So-Good-Myself?

    Posted by paco on 2006 11 16 at 10:27 PM • permalink

  7. In other news, Kim Beazley has started his afternoon press conference by claiming John Howard should use the APEC meeting to sever his relationship with George W Bush and his neocon mate Rove McManus.

    Posted by The Prez on 2006 11 16 at 10:29 PM • permalink

  8. Shades of Mark Latham offering praise to ALP QLD candidate ‘Ivan Milat’ in the lead up to the ‘04 election.

    Posted by Olrence on 2006 11 16 at 10:32 PM • permalink

  9. So, it was all a McManucian plot all along?

    Posted by Grimmy on 2006 11 16 at 10:34 PM • permalink

  10. Earth to Bomber Beazley, Earth to Bomber Beazley.

    Come in Bomber…...

    Come in Bomber…...

    Come in Bomber…...

    Come in, Bomber.  You can’t hide from Caucus forever!  There’s that nice Mr Pixie Rudd who wants to say that he’s behind you 100% and thinks you should speak out more.

    Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 11 16 at 10:35 PM • permalink

  11. Kim’s bio states that he gains much strength from Horatio Nelson’s autobiography The Long Walk to Freedom.

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 11 16 at 10:35 PM • permalink

  12. He also never saw a golfer as gifted as Jack Nicholson.

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 11 16 at 10:37 PM • permalink

  13. Wasn’t he also a big fan of that female Pop Star of the “mall rat” era ... what was her name again… Mel Gibson?

    Posted by Grimmy on 2006 11 16 at 10:39 PM • permalink

  14. An aide for Kim Beazley said it wasn’t the first thing the Bomber mangled this morning.

    Apparently he accidentally ordered a small big mac meal instead of a large one.

    Talk about brain explosion

    Posted by The Prez on 2006 11 16 at 10:41 PM • permalink

  15. Maybe Bassinger should stand down for Kev Wilson.

    Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 11 16 at 10:44 PM • permalink

  16. maybe he could cheer himself up by going to see UB40 in concert

    Posted by Rachel Corrie's Flatmate on 2006 11 16 at 10:48 PM • permalink

  17. #16: I have to say, and meant to say previously, that your nome de blog is hilarious.

    Posted by paco on 2006 11 16 at 10:50 PM • permalink

  18. Yeah, Rush mentioned the goof on his show. Then he launched into an encore of “Closer to the Heart”.

    Posted by Paul Zrimsek on 2006 11 16 at 10:52 PM • permalink

  19. #18 - pissed myself.

    Posted by Dave S. on 2006 11 16 at 10:55 PM • permalink

  20. I take it this Kim Beazley chick is a reporter from Kazahkstan?

    Posted by Dave S. on 2006 11 16 at 10:56 PM • permalink

  21. Personally, I think it’s rather hypocritical of Tim Blair to mock others, when you consider his disgraceful firing from The New York Times.

    Posted by Dave S. on 2006 11 16 at 10:59 PM • permalink

  22. #21
    Huh ? I thought Tim Blair was the British Prime Minister

    Posted by Rachel Corrie's Flatmate on 2006 11 16 at 11:01 PM • permalink

  23. Never the hardest worker, Kim.

    Posted by boxofmatches on 2006 11 16 at 11:04 PM • permalink

  24. Maybe that explains why Kim’s so keen to get Sparkles Scully into the Federal Parliament. He thinks he’s going to get Dana.

    Posted by mr magoo on 2006 11 16 at 11:05 PM • permalink

  25. Or maybe the Bomber meant this Karl?

    Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 11 16 at 11:07 PM • permalink

  26. #21 & 22: No, no, no. Tim Blair played the possessed girl in The Exorcist

    Posted by paco on 2006 11 16 at 11:08 PM • permalink

  27. I think someone mentioned it before. It’s those mind control satellites that Karl had put into orbit years ago. Obviously they ran out of power last week but even those weak Rove rays are enough to effect the extremely weak minded amongst us.

    Ummm did I mention already that Rove is my lord and master….lord and master…...lord and master…...

    Posted by rbresca on 2006 11 16 at 11:10 PM • permalink

  28. #26, paco:

    I thought that was Linda Lovelace that played the girl with the flexible neck?

    Posted by Grimmy on 2006 11 16 at 11:11 PM • permalink

  29. I think JoHo will call the election at the end of November next year.

    This from the Bomber almost exactly a year ago <and the case referred to was headline news for the previous week>:

    The Federal Government has attacked Opposition Leader Kim Beazley for a gaff he made over the release of Ms Leslie.

    On commercial radio in Adelaide this morning, Mr Beazley was asked what he thought of her release from a Bali jail.

    “I’m glad she’s out, oh well Michelle Lee I think is it?,” he said.

    Compere: Michelle Leslie.

    Mr Beazley: Leslie?

    Compere: She’s the girl who was in the news a moment ago

    Mr Beazley: Oh right I wasn’t listening sorry.”

    Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 11 16 at 11:13 PM • permalink

  30. Grimmy - fair go, mate.

    As much as I think Bomber Beazley as a point of derision, having an image of Linda Lovelace whenever his Bumbleship appears is just toooo much.

    Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 11 16 at 11:16 PM • permalink

  31. #29 - good pickup mate. It must be around this time of the year that the Rove satellites are in their optimum position to effect us Aussies.

    Posted by rbresca on 2006 11 16 at 11:32 PM • permalink

  32. Tragic. Truly tragic. If Mark Latham hadn’t embraced Ivan Milat, Karl Rove’s wife would still be alive today.

    I wouldn’t worry too much. I’ve always wondered what Rove Live would be like if it was hosted by Karl Rove. I would assume there would be a few more mysterious on-air fatalities than is Rove McManus’ wont.

    Posted by lmbrjk on 2006 11 16 at 11:34 PM • permalink

  33. #32, as well as being several orders of magnitude funnier
    (I’m not trying to kick the guy while he’s down, just that I’ve never found the show particularly amusing)

    Posted by Rachel Corrie's Flatmate on 2006 11 16 at 11:44 PM • permalink

  34. #28: Different devil altogether.

    Posted by paco on 2006 11 16 at 11:47 PM • permalink

  35. They should have got Karl to fill in until the end of the year on Rove Live. I’d watch it.

    Posted by The Prez on 2006 11 16 at 11:50 PM • permalink

  36. Eleanor Hall on the ABC at lunchtime could hardly contain herself. She even trotted out Kim Begley’s faux pas re: the Michelle Leslie balls-up where he couldn’t say her name even with prompting then laughed in that hearty buffoon style of his.

    And this dill puts himself up as the alternative PM?

    As Al used to say in Home Improvement “I don’t think so Tim”.

    Posted by Bonmot on 2006 11 16 at 11:57 PM • permalink

  37. Did the British PM Tim Blair attend?

    Posted by blogagog on 2006 11 17 at 12:02 AM • permalink

  38. Poor Kim, he’s having more and more senior moments and they’re getting closer and closer together.

    Posted by kae on 2006 11 17 at 12:06 AM • permalink

  39. In all seriousness, maybe we are asking too much of our Labor representatives, having to attend to so many matters and keep up to date with what’s in the news.

    In NSW, for example - do we expect all those young kids to molest themselves?

    Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 11 17 at 12:09 AM • permalink

  40. Christ, I am American in America and I know who Rove McManus is!!

    Posted by EvilDave on 2006 11 17 at 12:33 AM • permalink

  41. #40 Dave
    Ah yes, but do you know who Lara Bingle  is?

    In Australia we call a minor car smash a ‘bingle’. Some bingle eh?

    Posted by Bonmot on 2006 11 17 at 12:57 AM • permalink

  42. #41 Bonmot

    But could, or would, she cook?

    Posted by Honkie Hammer on 2006 11 17 at 01:05 AM • permalink

  43. #38

    Poor Kim, he’s having more and more senior moments and they’re getting closer and closer together.

    I can see it now…

    January 21, 2008 and newly elected Prime Minister Kim Beazley picks up the phone and demands Bombe-Alaska for dessert.

    Millions are killed.

    Beazley makes a mental note to learn which phone is which.

    Posted by Dan Lewis on 2006 11 17 at 01:09 AM • permalink

  44. #41 - gee, thanks, bonmot. Like I needed another fetish.

    Posted by Dave S. on 2006 11 17 at 01:12 AM • permalink

  45. #26 that’s all ancient history. Tim’s moved on to that witch project now

    Posted by larrikin on 2006 11 17 at 01:21 AM • permalink

  46. #42 honkie
    Are you serious?
    I mean, do you actually care if she can cook? Sheesh.
    As Dylan would say, lay lady lay, across by big brass bed….....

    Posted by Bonmot on 2006 11 17 at 01:21 AM • permalink

  47. #41
    I’d actually watch women’s cricket if it was anything like that

    Posted by Rachel Corrie's Flatmate on 2006 11 17 at 01:49 AM • permalink

  48. Could be a cunning plan to lift his profile. A Borat-type blunder that generates interweb
    attention could get you more votes in a certain demographic.

    Posted by AStext on 2006 11 17 at 02:46 AM • permalink

  49. Kim Breasley- hit the hights dancing with the stars now in training for Torquville and Dean’s Skating on Thin Ice!

    Posted by Hillyminx on 2006 11 17 at 03:40 AM • permalink

  50. Warning:  Gratuitous smutty reference ahead.

    Aw, c’mon Bonmot, that’s a terrible pic of Ms Bingle.

    Try this one.

    In Australia we call a minor car smash a ‘bingle’. Some bingle eh?

    Yes, and she can have a ‘front on’ with me anytime.

    Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 11 17 at 03:59 AM • permalink

  51. #50 Stop Continental Drift!
    That’s quite a challenge you’ve tossed my way cobber.
    Try this…

    Posted by Bonmot on 2006 11 17 at 04:21 AM • permalink

  52. Bonmot, I believe that’s the person Kim Beazley mistakenly thinks is his Health spokes-person

    Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 11 17 at 04:42 AM • permalink

  53. I spontaneously lost my shit when I heard that on the news. What an effin maroon!

    Did he send Terri commiserations and sympathy on the tragic loss of her husband http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Urkel>Steve Urkel?

    Posted by CB on 2006 11 17 at 05:04 AM • permalink

  54. I’d fix the link, but meh, couldn’t be arsed. Much like Bomber’s knowledge of contemporary events…

    Posted by CB on 2006 11 17 at 05:05 AM • permalink

  55. Ok, I can understand that you, I or the nutroots might have the phrase ‘Karl Rove’ somewhere in our brain, but what I don’t get is what Kim Beazly is doing thinking about Karl Rove.

    Posted by 2BarRiff on 2006 11 17 at 06:41 AM • permalink

  56. I hope Karl Rove comes to terms with the loss of his beloved spouse Emmett Tyrell.

    Posted by Ross on 2006 11 17 at 06:43 AM • permalink

  57. Just go, Kim.

    Posted by Gravelly on 2006 11 17 at 07:40 AM • permalink

  58. #55 but what I don’t get is what Kim Beazly is doing thinking about Karl Rove.

    Heh. He doesn’t even know he’s thinking about Karl Rove. It’s part of the plan.

    Posted by paco on 2006 11 17 at 10:48 AM • permalink

  59. R SCD
    Speaking of Morticia ‘Proboscus’ Gillard (ugly as a hatfull BTW) - the other day she’s on the ABC when she’s asked about rising interest rates.
    And she says, Howard’s been lying so hard about interest rates, if he was Pinocchio, his nose would reach around Australia times.

    Well, she’s know, being world expert on conks….

    Posted by Bonmot on 2006 11 17 at 05:09 PM • permalink

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    Posted by Bonmot on 2006 11 17 at 05:09 PM • permalink

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