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Mike Seccombe, mindreader:
Through the whole of question time, Latham sat impassively, not interjecting as the Government punched away to no end, just smiling a little at John Howard.
As if to say Is that the best you can do - old man?
That was last year, during Prime Minister Latham’s unstoppable rise. The SMH’s Seccombe has lately turned his mindreading skills on Tony Abbott, accused of vile tastelessness after he told a meeting of 16 party members that a particular health policy would leave the party “as dead as the former Liberal leader’s political prospects.” Here’s Seccombe on Monday:
When he went off air after his live humiliation on ABC television yesterday, Tony Abbott did not immediately rise and remove his wiring. He sat there, stunned, saying nothing, looking at no one.
He sat there for a long time - so long, in fact, that the Melbourne producer of theInsiders program asked up the line to Sydney where Abbott was, adding: “Is he OK?”
After several cataleptic minutes, Abbott was unplugged and led away. He was not OK.
At a guess, Abbott—who’d just been confronted with the terrible, damning quote—was possibly trying to recall details from the meeting, and wondering who might have leaked his remarks to the ABC. Mindreader Mike had more the following day:
Tony Abbott finally apologised yesterday for making crass jokes about former NSW party leader John Brogden, but there was precious little evidence that he was actually sorry.
Secure in the support of his Prime Minister, Abbott laughed, winked and smirked his way through parliamentary question time and a censure motion against him ...
He even smirked as his opposite number, Julia Gillard, hopped into him. “The Minister for Health, 24 hours after a young man tried to kill himself, was at a branch of the Liberal Party cracking hardy about it … It is very funny, isn’t it, Minister?”
Apparently, he thought it was.
Perhaps Abbott should demonstrate his contrition by performing an act of self-harm. Note that the shameful, grotesque remark (for which Seccombe believes Abbott should resign) referred only to Brogden’s career. By the same standard, Seccombe should be calling for the dismissal of the ABC’s Tony Jones:
John Brogden’s political demise revealed divisions and disunity ...
So tasteless.
The Insiders sometimes features the slow-witted Seccombe on the three-journalists-wanking segment. Seccombe is really not up to it. Matt Price, Andrew Bolt and even that drooling duffer Piers Akerman run rings around him.
I burst out laughing on a recent show, when Seccombe claimed that the Libs were “the party of capital” and that the ALP was “the party of labor”. That all died out in 1983. But Seccombe is still spouting Das Kapital 20 years later.
Posted by Bearded Mullah on 2005 09 07 at 07:08 AM • permalinkJules hopped into Abbott cracking hardy-this is a family site Mister!
Speaking of insensitivity,the abc gets the award of the year for the news footage of New Orleans flooding tonight.
No doubt some sniggerer thought it was amusing to film a body floating past a building with “Parts:Service:Body Shop” emblazoned across the outside.How about the Australian this morning, crash? Those charred Indonesians were a tad tasteless.
Posted by reverse_swing on 2005 09 07 at 09:40 AM • permalink
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Seccombe is the master of smirking, sniggering etc - like a baldy schoolkid.