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LABOR'S BIG JOKE
The Age’s Michelle Grattan advises:
Peter Garrett maybe should spend the rest of the campaign in a forest somewhere. Labor HQ will arrange accommodation and pay all expenses.
They were forced to do this back in 2004, too.
UPDATE. A Labor supporter calls for silencing:
Labor need a new policy with their candidates, it should be called “Sit down and S T F U.”
UPDATE II. “Trouble with Peter is,” writes Rob Bresca, “that he thinks he is way smarter than he actually is.” Absolutely; as made particularly evident by Garrett’s 2002 debate with Bjorn Lomborg.
He could spend all sumer in his accomodation.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 11 02 at 06:07 PM • permalinkDoes he mean one of the forests currently on fire?
Posted by Steve Skubinna on 2007 11 02 at 06:12 PM • permalinkBy the way Margos, when you wrote “sumer” was that a subtle reference to wronwright’s mead?
Posted by Steve Skubinna on 2007 11 02 at 06:13 PM • permalinkAah, nothing better than sitting back in your accomodation and relaxing during those long hot days of sumer.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 11 02 at 06:31 PM • permalink8 - Or, as Nat King Cole would have it, those lazy, hazy, crazy days of sumer.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 11 02 at 06:44 PM • permalinkMaybe Garrett should stay out of the public eye for awhile, spend some time with the family (fifth from the right).
# former cabinet minister, tax dodger and corporate crook Graham Richardson
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 11 02 at 07:41 PM • permalink#6 & 7
For ann j, four Kewpie dolls, and their adorable owners! (having fun at some show...)eenie, I can’t find a review, I have other stuff to do. However, this looked interesting....
Perhaps, Labour has a hidden agenda. Nay, couldn’t be.
Posted by Go Canucks on 2007 11 02 at 08:20 PM • permalinkOn the subject of rock stars who talk, Ruth Ritchie has had a go at John Butler of the John Butler Trio in the Sydney Morning Herald today.
Since - as we have established - John is one of the major financial contributors to this site, I feel it is my duty to advise Ruth to steady on.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 11 02 at 08:21 PM • permalinkTim Costello not only has no family loyalty, he has no commonsense. He claims to bag the Govt. because of Howard’s policies. Yet it will be Costello in the Lodge sometime next term. His own brother, who may be much more open to an increase in aid than Howard was. Yet Timmah decides to play a shortsighted, grubby political game, perfectly willing to jeopardise his brother’s career ambitions. My o0wn experiences have led me to believe that there’s very little “Christian” in the “Christain Left”.
Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 11 02 at 08:25 PM • permalinkGood to see that Michelle’s colleague Traceee has discovered the dash this week.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 11 02 at 08:29 PM • permalinkThis is a real kick in the pants for all middle aged rock stars who hoped to gain pre-selection for a safe Labor seat. Thanks a fucking lot, Garrett. Now they’re going to have to spend the rest of their lives warbling to oldies at Leagues Clubs and hoping for more Countdown Revival concerts. Could have been a sweet gig if you’d just kept your mung bean hole shut.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 11 02 at 08:57 PM • permalinkQuick - someone call David Marr. Dissent is being crushed! Truth telling is being squashed! Freedom of speech is being expunged!
Oops, wrong crowd doing the crushing. No indignant speech and article in the SMH required.
Posted by mr creosote on 2007 11 02 at 10:06 PM • permalinkThe story from Pravda is that Pete was only joking.
Such a jocular chap.
He must be moving in on Steady Eddy’s territory (Oz comedian with cerebral palsy) but can’t dance quite as well.
Hey Blair, I’m tired of dropping hints about your typo...what do you think this is, the smh website?
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 11 02 at 10:27 PM • permalink#44
Here you go, Paco, Garret dancing to Power and the Passion. This is really him. Can you see why it’s ridiculed?#46
With a haircut like that, Julia looks like she is getting read to get her Roxoff with Roxon.Posted by mr creosote on 2007 11 02 at 11:46 PM • permalink#48: By the by, I suppose with co-ordination like that, ballroom dancing is strictly out? One can imagine the disasters that would follow in his wake: shattered punch bowls, overturned tables, broken toes, incensed fox-trotters . . .
Although if a Labor government needed a whirling dervish, he would seem to be the natural choice.
Garrett - was a dickhead 25 years ago. The only things that’ve changed are that he’s lost weight and the lisp is improved.
Only watch the intro, the rest is, er, don’t bother. (Not much spaz dancing to laugh at, either.)#44 If anything he’s worse Paco. In this mercifully brief clip a kindly security guard seems unsure whether Pete’s dancing or forgotten to take his medication. (Bonus- about halfway through he goes into an ‘I’m a little teapot’ routine)
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 11 02 at 11:59 PM • permalinkOT: TICKETEK SUCK DONKEY’S BALLS
There I was, 9 am, yesterday morning, trying to buy Bjork tickets while the page simultaneously told me that there were tickets available but not available, then that tickets were low in stock but not available, before after about 40 minutes of refusing my requests, telling me they were exhausted.
What’s the deal?
Also, some of you may like to type, “bjork sydney tickets” into the eBay search engines, so you can tell the scalpers they’re cunts.
Libs release youtube ad about garrett’s ‘we’ll change it all’comments
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 11 03 at 12:38 AM • permalinkThe only bigger - and sadder - joke will be Puppett PM Kevin Rudd in 12 months, should he win it this Nov 24th. I think he actually believes his ME2 policies will carry through.
Hey, maybe this could be the new theory of political relativity: C=ME2. (Get it - see me too? Huh, huh? Don’t all laugh at once, now).
“Trouble with Peter is,” writes Rob Bresca, “that he thinks he is way smarter than he actually is.”
Substitute “Peter” with “any actor or rock star.”
I reckon the three smartest occupations might be physicist, neurosurgeon, aerospace engineer.
The three dumbest are actor, rock star, model.
So how come we never hear about the politics of the former, but the imbecile performance monkeys feel the need to opine?
poll on ninemsn now:
Do you believe Labor will change its policies if it wins the election?
yes 9310
no 6022Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 11 03 at 02:25 AM • permalink#47
Midnight Oil’s lyrics always were hard to decipher. If the boys smiled a bit more, that would be an excellent promotional video for Australia.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 11 03 at 03:06 AM • permalinkShort circuit or posession of the zombie by a giant alien cockroach?
“you’re so worthless Alec Baldwin...”
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 11 03 at 03:08 AM • permalinkwhat Krudds humming to himself this weekend
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 11 03 at 03:30 AM • permalinkThe Age’s Michelle Grattan—
Peter Garrett maybe should spend the rest of the campaign in a forest somewhere. Labor HQ will arrange accommodation and pay all expenses.
This cannot be an accurate quote, can it? Grattan is supposed to be a journalist and, therefore, unbiased. She should be encouraging the airing of all truths, not the silencing of a political person in order to assist in the election of a political candidate.
I call for Michelle Grattan’s immediate resignation.
Posted by wronwright on 2007 11 03 at 05:27 AM • permalinkPete’s finally solved the problem with Julia!
UPDATE
Garrett: “In short, all problems are solvable, just have faith. Just stop the world spending money on defence, for example, and you won’t have to worry about deciding whether to spend money on global warming or on providing clean water and sanitation to the Third World.”
Ahh, I remember that.
If the ALP should fall across the line (and I doubt it), the first thing cut from government spending should be him.
Gauchebusters
I have to report an infestation of lefty ratbags at Janet Albrechtsen’s site at the Australian. She writes excellent articles and gets so much crap thrown at her by a rabid commenter claque (how many are from the ABC? She is bete noir #1 to them) - please drop in there and help to support one of the (all too few in the MSM) rational conservatives.#14 & 15, kae and eenie; the very same Graham Richardson who is mentioned in 70 pages of Neil Chenoweth’s Packer’s Lunch “a rollicking tale of Swiss bank accounts and money-making adventurers in the roaring ‘90s.”
Can’t find a review of Whatever it Takes, but here is a quote from the book:
On being a politician and the Westminster System of Government:
“You have to lie to keep your job. If you have to lie, it is probably a good system.” From Graham Richardson book, Whatever it Takes, published by Bantam Books, Sydney, 1994.
Other scandals are listed at Wiki.
Just forced myself to sit through last night’s lateline- they did the Garrett thing in the typical ABC manner- skate over it and turn it into an attack on the liberals. check out the way they end the story.
HAYDEN COOPER: Peter Garrett has been John Howard’s Only source of joy all week. After all, the Government has its own accident prone frontbencher to worry about. And today Tony Abbott was at it again.
TONY ABBOTT: Well, look. If publicity is a drug, I’ve had an overdose this week.
HAYDEN COOPER: The target this time, World Vision boss Tim Costello. The Treasurer’s brother has backed Labor’s plan to boost foreign aid.
KEVIN RUDD: Cheers.
HAYDEN COOPER: Cue the rampaging Health Minister.
TONY ABBOTT: The policy is a mirage and I am surprised that someone as smart as Tim Costello has been taken in by it.
(Oh no that vicious rampaging Abbott daring to attack the pure hearted Tim Costello in such a horrible nasty way- the shame, he MUST resign NOW)
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 11 03 at 07:41 AM • permalink#63
R2ME2 and the Deaf Star
Help us, John. You’re our only hope.
Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 11 03 at 08:09 AM • permalink
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So, Garrett was just joking? The problem with that line is that it’s so credible that Labor will say anything to get elected then do as they like when in government.