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Peter Garrett ‘fesses up:
Labor frontbencher Peter Garrett has told a radio host his party’s “me too” approach to policy would only last until the election, then they would “change it all”.
Steve Price, a presenter on Sydney radio station 2UE, has claimed Mr Garrett told him during an on-the-record discussion in an airport this morning that Labor would “change it all” once in power.
”(He said) the ‘me too’ tag will not matter after the election because, quote, ‘once we get in we will just change it all’,” Price said on radio today.
He’s always been seven feet of pure liability, this boy. Rudd can’t say he wasn’t warned.
And still the voting public under the age of 30 will shrug their shoulders, say ‘Meh’ and wilfully hold their hands out for ever more. Rudd could come out and say he’s actually a member of a death cult hell bent on the return of Shiva the Destroyer and he’d still get clapped and cheered.
Hell. Handbasket. Go on.
“Sing these songs of no denying, the ALP has been caught out lying..”
Strangely Garrett cost the ALP the last election too.
Posted by curious george on 2007 11 02 at 03:43 AM • permalinkDARK CLOUD: Yep. But it is going to happen, folks.
SILVER LINING: Just think of all the fun we can have with the neocommies!
We will have the delightful spectacle of the neocommies squealing and howling that the Brave New World has not happened (with all the leftard/moonbat/neocommie infighting that means) while we point out the disaster that followed from their blatant lying about ‘mee-toooo!’ on all of Howard’s policies, then changing them all and smashing up the economy.Years of fun. Pity about the disaster, but perhaps every generation needs one to understand that it is really dumb to elect ‘f*ckwits’ (with apologies to Chris Sheils for borrowing his very favourite piece of schoolyard invective).
MarkL
CanberraGarrett probably sees the ALP’s public poll lead as pretty much unassailable, and is throwing it out there knowing that overall, two-fifths of the proverbial may reconsider their vote. And would end up voting Green anyway if they do.
It would make a change if some of the alleged vaunted ‘talent’ within the current cabinet could come out and start tearing shreds off the ALP and it’s pack of ideological dullards.Richard Wilkins defends Garrett’s version….
Nine Network’s Gossipologist, (not party to the Price/Garrett conversation), saw Garrett laughing and joking while talking to Price. Wow! With evidence like that it must be true!
Garrett couldn’t have said it. Because he was smiling.
I never thought of Wilkins as overly bright, but I didn’t think he thought we were that stupid!
*Wilkins joins Ray Martin in the Labor Camp.
#3 CB
In this country, Hillary Rodham could come out (heh) and say we were all converting to the Cult of Cthulhu and most people under 30 would shrug their shoulders, say “meh” and hold out their hands for more…
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 11 02 at 03:57 AM • permalinkThe lyrics to Midnight Oils’ song ‘Cold Cold Change’ seem strangely ironic:
But no lasting change, well we were turned around
We jumped in the air to see over the wall
No master plan, its a bad design
Significant time in spite of us allCold cold change, we were so excited
Waiting on the outside, waiting to begin
Left us all angry and bewildered
Laughing at the way we were taken inDon’t know if all hope is lost. Chatting to most people i know in the 30-40 age group that left school around the times of “the recession we had to have”. Not many have forgotten getting qualifications and (at least in my case) working for multiple employers, most of who went belly up rendering them unemployed again.
The problem is the 27 and unders who’ve found jobs easy to get. At work at the moment we have people not wanting to go permanent, preferring to remain casual for a couple of bucks an hour more in the pay packet.
Rudd could burn kittens on live TV and be described as “edgy” and “brave” for the effort. The old man recons he hasnt seen media this one sided since Whitless got in.Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 11 02 at 04:12 AM • permalink#5
We will have the delightful spectacle of the neocommies squealing and howling that the Brave New World has not happened (with all the leftard/moonbat/neocommie infighting that means) while we point out the disaster that followed from their blatant lying about ‘mee-toooo!’ on all of Howard’s policies, then changing them all and smashing up the economy.
Won’t happen. The cognitive dissonance of true believers won’t allow them to see what “their party” are really doing. It happened in NZ. The day after Helen Clark’s mob were elected in 1999, the posts on nz.politics by the Left were unbelievable. You’d think poverty, illiteracy, inequality, cancer and baldness had all been cured overnight.
Clark did a few minor cosmetic changes that gave lip-service to their ideological rants, but changed very little, and NZ ran pretty much the same as it had under National. That the same levers were being pulled by National’s successors was not as important to the latte set, as the fact the team wearing the right labels on their jumpers were pulling the levers.
Compare our lefty lovies, such as Phatty and Marieke. You’d think Keating was Castro, the way they laud his lefty credentials. The Chardonnay set will see whatever they want to see, and what they will see is their golden-haired boy, Rudd, in the pilot’s seat. And that’s all that will matter. Even if the dollar goes south, unemployment and inflation rise, and life gets tougher for working Australia, they won’t care. Because they’ll be back where they always have been, and wanted to be, firmly attached to the public teat, and oblivious to the sufferings of ordinary Australians.
Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 11 02 at 04:15 AM • permalinkI was listening to 2GB, around 4pm which reported that Garrett had spoken with Richard Wilkins, of Channel Nine. Although Wilkins was there, in the background, there was no mention of Price at all, presumably because 2GB dared not name a presented on a rival network.
Pathetic.
I daresay there will be quite a few people in the Labor Party saying “I told you not to hire a friggin’ rockstar”.
Karl Rove, you magnificent bastard. I don’t know how you did it, but you did it! The GarrettBot may be your best effort yet. I used to think that eplieptic fit thing he did on stage was dancing. Nup! Just a short circuit.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 11 02 at 04:20 AM • permalinkRichard Wilkins is a Kiwi. I rest my case.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 11 02 at 04:22 AM • permalink#18 - If they exluded fuckwits, there’d be no one left.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 11 02 at 04:23 AM • permalinkThis isn’t all good news. I wouldn’t be surprised if this helped solidify some of the Labor voters who were getting edgy about Rudd’s conservatism. It also makes the ‘me too’ comments from the government a bit more confusing for swinging voters.
On another point, the polls are closer than it seems. 45/55 is a fair margin but the Labor vote tends to concentrate in particular electorates, which means the Coalition only need about 48% to retain office. Food for thought.
OT - A review of Margo Kingston’s new book on Webdiary might surprise.
Posted by Villeurbanne on 2007 11 02 at 04:38 AM • permalink#25 -to the socialists like mr baldy, bargearse, albagreasy, kim-no-carr (for us anyway) all we the people are are sources of tax funds which they can use anyway they want to destroy our country. Don’t be surprised at the first caucus meeting after the
revolutionelection we emerge with a very differentdictatorprime ministerThis isn’t all good news. I wouldn’t be surprised if this helped solidify some of the Labor voters who were getting edgy about Rudd’s conservatism. It also makes the ‘me too’ comments from the government a bit more confusing for swinging voters.
My thoughts too. And all those lefties who have been wailing about Howard lying to get into / keep power will be be happy as Larry with the brillient tactics Krudd is employing.
Posted by Just passing by on 2007 11 02 at 04:44 AM • permalinkKevin Rudd will be spitting ear wax, when he gets hold of Garrett. In just a few words he(Garrett) managed to out wank Tony Abbott who had Fucked up, but only very slightly, compared to this admission by a member of a mendacious cabal. It will be interesting to see how the media handle this feux pas.
I can’t understand why anyone would be surprised at the idea that the ALP would do a complete 180 on the offchance they get in.
Unless the surprise is that the ageing rocker isn’t the smartest player on the team.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 11 02 at 05:09 AM • permalinkThe “wise” people of the Australian Labor Party have not learnt much from their last “celebrity” candidate - the equally whinging and whining former lover of Gareth Evans - Cheryl Kernot!
If Labor was really serious about doing the best for Australia they would hardly be recruiting ex-teachers and ex-rock singers. And certainly not union thugs!
Any corner shopkeeper would be far more qualified to help run the country than a taxpayer funded teacher or a micro-managed rock star.
The truth about Rudd and Labor, which most of us always suspected, has now been spectacularly exposed.
Re Ch.9, I was gobsmacked when this morning on the Today show they re-edited the Health minister debate using Abbott’s apology for being late, so that he appeared to apologise to each of Roxon’s talking points made in her opening speech. How the hell are they allowed to get away with this kind of crap?
Orwellian Pig’s Lipstick Mussed - Again!
In a week when the ALP position on Climate Change (formerly Climate Warming) was wrenched back to the default imitative mode (and revealed as hitherto worthless), courtesy of some real questions from Uhlmann, and which ended with a blunder of mammoth proportions (it’ll all change after the election), Mark Colvin on PM tonight still managed to put it to his pollie guests that Tony Abbott’s bad day was the defining event of the week. When Mark did put it to Penny Wong that her party was too me too, she stressed that the ALP was quite different on Climate Change (eh?), Broadband, Work Choices, and lots of stuff.As for ex-Kiwi Wilkins - I think Price’s version of the conversation is the most credible.
Funny how those “show biz” types(Garrett and Wilkins) stick together. Although I had previously concluded that Wilkins was not as left-leaning as most of the current crop at Channel Nine.
I guess it comes with the job!
From the link at post 27:
Unlike most people she has enemies.
Unlike most people? I have few enemies myself.
Such a relief then to read on:
She is oblivious to the reasons why she may have acquired them.
That edge, I do have. When people take to sticking pins in those little wax SC dolls they usually aim directly at the mouth region…Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 11 02 at 05:49 AM • permalinkSpeaking of changing (into something more comfortable, J. Edgar Hoover just turned up in Sydney’s north.
Posted by surfmaster on 2007 11 02 at 05:51 AM • permalink#43 I agree Ash! He has always been a very frightening individual, but that painting may have uncovered the real Garrett!
Whatever Garrett actually IS, it is clear he is not a politician’s bootstrap!
To have him as part of an Australian Government together with all those other non-producing bludgers would be, as you say Ash - Fucking Scary!
#47 I know what I’ll be having my nightmares about tonight Dave.
Can’t sleep, Garrett will eat me. Can’t sleep, Garrett will eat me.
And when I eventually fall asleep…
*muttering in sleep* “Garrett. coming. to. get. me. will. be. prime. minister. when. Shorten. stabs. Gillard. after. Gillard. shafts. Kevni. Garrett. coming. to. get. me.
#45 yeah but Halloween is for fictional monsters.
#27- So much in that review worth commenting on- but I like this line: ‘Like the last book it is a hard slog, exhausting in its cumulative effect, despite Kingston’s breathless style. Get your thumbs ready to skim’ seems even the fans find ‘Hagrid’ indigestable.
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 11 02 at 06:05 AM • permalinktoday is not my day- ‘indigestible’- it’s thinking of Margo that’s doing this to me.
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 11 02 at 06:12 AM • permalinkI actually like that painting of Garrett, (in a “can’t take your eyes off the accident” kind of way). I wonder if Ms Turner has it on sale? Some wealthy RWDB could buy it, and offer it to Tim to raffle here as a fund raiser. I’m sure the lucky winner could find no end of uses for such a fine work of art!
Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 11 02 at 06:16 AM • permalinkAsh (#37) I can’t see that it would make any difference. Who is there in this country with authority that takes political bias complaints seriously? This is a broad, deliberate and concerted effort to put the ALP into power whatever the cost.
I’ll do it if someone can point me in the right direction. Who knows, maybe mine will tip the balance - sure it will.
#55 It probably wouldn’t Srekwah, but if they get enough complaints, they may realise that their open bias is unacceptable.
Short of calling Channel 9, this is the best I could find.
Maybe someone else here has a better idea where to look.
OT Earwax makes it to ABC’s the World Today:
ELEANOR HALL: Now, before we go I have to just mention one word to you: earwax. Now, I have to raise the subject of this because there have been more than 250,000 hits on the YouTube vision of Kevin Rudd eating his earwax.
KATE CARNELL: Oh.ELEANOR HALL: Should he be worried? Con Sciacca?
CON SCIACCA: No, I’d be pretty certain that he wouldn’t have eaten his earwax. It may have seemed like that. I mean, I’ve never … I’ve heard of people eating other sorts of pieces of things from noses and stuff, but I’ve never heard of eating your earwax. Look, I just think it’s a little bit of a funny thing. I don’t think anyone is going to take that too seriously. I don’t think he is going to lose any votes as a result of that.
ELEANOR HALL: Kate Carnell, what do you think?
KATE CARNELL: It’s disgusting. (laughing)
CON SCIACCA: It is disgusting isn’t it Kate? (laughing)
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 11 02 at 06:56 AM • permalinkThere is no way this guy is going to last even one term in the ministry. I’m just waiting for “The Garrett Diaries”.
Posted by AlexanderH on 2007 11 02 at 07:23 AM • permalinkAsh, I sent off a polite complaint and lamented that any vestiges of loyalty and respect I once felt for the network has utterly evaporated. I finished with the strict promise that any program I want to watch showing on Nine in future will be downloaded from the net instead.
Actually I do feel better and I fully intend to keep my promise. Not a good time to piss off punters when media is in such a flux I would have thought, but what do I know?
I always had a lot of respect for Kerry Packer Dave, because if he didn’t like something on his network, it was taken off the second he made a phone call. And the news was often news then too.
I also admired his stance on tax. I recall he once commented that he paid as little tax as possible… good on him!
#53 I’d rather take to it on the BAC.
Posted by Richard Sharpe on 2007 11 02 at 08:38 AM • permalinkYojimbo first brought up the subject of the University of Delaware’s “re-education camp”. Hey, buddy, if you haven’t seen it yet, thought you might be interested to see this Hot Air piece on the program’s termination. It is possible to slash the tires on the leftwing juggernaut.
With respect to Garrett: I thought the walking dead were supposed to be, y’know, more circumspect. How are you supposed to sneak into the village and run off with the beautiful maiden if you’re playing “Waltzing Matilda” on a kazoo to the rhythm of your squeaky shoes?
#70 Ash, Huge,unnecessary,wasteful governmment agencies/departments and the majority of parasitic morons “employed” in the bludge - house of the public sector are in my opinion at the root of Australia’s current malaise.
Expect many more people on the taxpayer -funded payroll should the “Christian Socialist” and “Economic Conservative” ever get elected!
#78 You know those demos of the the beaten zone…...?
Posted by Richard Sharpe on 2007 11 02 at 09:04 AM • permalinkPeter Garrett: the gift that keeps on giving.
Posted by Young and Free on 2007 11 02 at 09:06 AM • permalinkFor those who came in late, Beaten Zone
Posted by Richard Sharpe on 2007 11 02 at 09:09 AM • permalink#89 ta egg- I haven’t heard that in years. (bought the single when i was a geeky 14yo)
#92 in the last Qld state election the liberal leader Dr Flegg was attacked by the usual media suspects for his wealth. I wonder why they’re not doing the same for Krudd?.I guess marrying money is less immoral than earning it
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 11 02 at 10:13 AM • permalink#96 The Vic State Liberal leader had the same stuff to deal with. Bailleiu had a significant portfolio, and had done all he needed to remove it as an issue, but the media was still unhappy.
If it’s good enough to drag Libs through the past over their wealth, isn’t it good enough for Labor, Greens, Democrats, and so on?
Labor frontbencher Peter Garrett has told a radio host his party’s “me too” approach to policy would only last until the election, then they would “change it all”.
Amazing! An honest Labor politician!
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 11 02 at 10:21 AM • permalink#76, PACOSAN
Thank you for the great news. Sunshine is a great antiseptic.
But, as we both know, the process will go on unabated just in an informal manner. The mindset that every white person is, de facto, a racist hasn’t changed. Simply must keep fighting and supporting individuals and groups that have drawn a line in the sand.
As a great American once stated,“Courage”...:)
I think Garrett’s problem is that he’s too honest for politics.
I actually feel sorry for Garrett. He’s going to have to endure yet another “counceling” session from Kevin Rudd.
Posted by llllloooooo on 2007 11 02 at 12:20 PM • permalinkRudd ................ he’s actually a member of a death cult hell bent on the return of Shiva the Destroyer
Posted by Jack from Montreal on 2007 11 02 at 12:40 PM • permalinkWhen I gave speeches to politically interested high-schoolers some years ago, my favorite quote to share was from a sitting U.S. Congressman (the source is on paper somewhere in my files). Addressing a breakout session of the Democrat Party. The words, from memory, were:
“Gays, feminists, environmentalist, just shut up. You’ll get what you want after the election.”
Oddly, it never made the newspapers, but he also never denied it.
Posted by Rittenhouse on 2007 11 02 at 01:53 PM • permalinkWell, y’all are missing the lefts’ definition of truth.
Truth=goal=ruling power. It’s not how you play the game, it’s simply a matter of whether you win or lose, period.
They have the absolute right to power, and anything the have to say or do is just a single step to the one step process.
They know how to run your lives far better than you do and the fact that some are fooled by thier talk is simply proof.
I doubt very seriously if many of them really consider their utterances untruthful, simply a process to rightful governance.
If you’ve ever got Peter Garrett on your side, you know you’re in it and deep. Quoting here from the Australian Parliamentary Library 1996-97:
The industry put a number of objections to the PSA and in public comment at the time and since. Following the PSA report record company executives and rock stars banded together in various public and private lobbying exercises… Although many of the industry’s objections were answered in the PSA report, the industry appealed emotionally, with debatable streams of argument, and repeated earlier assertions made in the PSA hearings and elsewhere. For example, Peter Garrett of Midnight Oil mistakenly referred to the effects of ‘the repealing of copyright protection’.(30) It would indeed be serious if the Government had been contemplating the repeal of copyright protection, but of course one would have to be fairly creative or mischievous to construe the PSA recommendations as repealing copyright.
If anyone at ALP headquarters had half a brain they’d buy Pete a life membership in the Liberal Party and make sure he stayed there.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 11 02 at 04:35 PM • permalinkHmmm… what about the Aus Democrats, kae? They’re on the way out well and truly, and they might just suck Pete down the gurgler along with them.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 11 02 at 05:12 PM • permalinkWell, it’ll be that with the Dooms or it’ll be him sucking the ALP down the gurgler with him.
But I really did like the comment about his
spazstyle of dancing being a short circuit.kae
Garret explains, and just digs deeper.
I didn’t say that. I said “Positive policy changes”.
Sounds the same thing to me.
Sounds like that to me too. So much for spin! And here’s the link provided by The Australian this morning to Steve Price on 2UE reporting what Garrett said.
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I don’t know whether I am going to laugh or cry when this bunch of plonkers stumbles into power. Get ready for the rollercoaster I reckon.