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Andrew Bolt reports:

3AW host Neil Mitchell - a critic of Kevin Rudd’s farce of an ideas summit - says he was asked last night by “the Prime Minister’s office” to send one of his listeners as a delegate.

If criticism gets you a seat at RuddFest, this site could fill the place three times over. Where are our invites, Kevin?

Posted by Tim B. on 02/29/2008 at 01:12 AM
  1. I vote for Habib and Infidel Tiger

    Posted by Nic on 2008 02 29 at 01:23 AM • permalink

  2. If Habib goes he should take some money for bail. He may need it.

    Posted by lingus4 on 2008 02 29 at 01:26 AM • permalink

  3. #1 - I’m having a bit of trouble with the application form. They won’t recognise my belief system: Open bar.

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2008 02 29 at 01:29 AM • permalink

  4. Please let them take Maryloon Sheephead and Jack Smit as conferenceers.
    It would be like sticking 998 people in a large room with 2 loons running their fingernails over blackboards for 2 days.

    Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2008 02 29 at 01:36 AM • permalink

  5. Pogs’s nominated herself.

    I nominate Pickles and Skeeter.

    Sheesh, if we all go I reckon we could sort it out in no time and have a Saturday night piss up and a Sunday BBQ Recovery Piss Up to Celebrate Solutions.

    (Open bar, of course, to cater for the religious beliefs of a minority, soon to be swelled by new members…)

    Posted by kae on 2008 02 29 at 01:36 AM • permalink

  6. Can seppos volunteer?  I have some extra leave to burn.

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2008 02 29 at 01:36 AM • permalink

  7. #4
    Maryloon Sheephead?

    All bets are off.

    Posted by kae on 2008 02 29 at 01:37 AM • permalink

  8. # Kae

    Just chucked my hat in the ring. It will be a hoot if we can get at least 1 Blairite into the unholy city for that weekend.

    Live updates with photos of the desparately earnest and deranged !

    It will be an amalgam of every Monty Python skit you’ve ever seen or heard.

    Posted by Pickles on 2008 02 29 at 01:54 AM • permalink

  9. I wonder if they accept applications from wiggers?

    Posted by bondo on 2008 02 29 at 01:55 AM • permalink

  10. #8 Good luck mate - you have my vote!

    Maybe we should organise an anti-ideas summit on the same weekend to counter balance all that dreadfully serious thought. I mean, the head tilting going on during that thing is liable to unbalance the entire country! We must act!

    Posted by rbresca on 2008 02 29 at 02:04 AM • permalink

  11. Don’t waste your time guys, it will be just a pocket pissing wankfest.

    Posted by Howzat on 2008 02 29 at 02:30 AM • permalink

  12. #10

    I mean, the head tilting going on during that thing is liable to unbalance the entire country! We must act!

    I hope they’ll be synchronized, or at least have medics on hand to treat concussion.

    Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2008 02 29 at 02:37 AM • permalink

  13. Um, did Kev make any qualifications regarding Neil Mitchell’s listeners, or would any one of them do?

    Having the 3AW talkback hordes descend upon Canberra with their opinions about, like, stuff would be quite entertaining…

    Posted by TimT on 2008 02 29 at 02:41 AM • permalink

  14. #6 JeffS: I know, spell-checkers don’t pick up those sorts of errors. Let me help.

    I have some extra leave leaf to burn.

    God knows you’ll need it.

    Posted by Henry boy on 2008 02 29 at 03:26 AM • permalink

  15. I have a grave fear (as opposed to the normal pothole fears) that this assemblage of like-minded krudd wankers will collapse the lacuna between the Kantian Phenomena and Noumena and krudd’s reality will be real! It’ll be Schrodinger’s Cat in every home! Speaking of which, I still can’t get onto the blog of that quantum detritus, adams.

    Posted by cohenite on 2008 02 29 at 03:39 AM • permalink

  16. Just like during the election when Rudd debated himself, today Rudd has released his own report card on his first 97 days, thus beating the customary 100-day review by the media by three days.

    Thin edge of the wedge. Next thing we will have government-owned radio and TV stations spewing out propaganda that glorifies everything Rudd does. What’s that? We have? What’s it called? How do you spell that? A-B-...

    Posted by Contrail on 2008 02 29 at 04:15 AM • permalink

  17. He’ll be KRudd of a Thousand Days.

    They made a movie about someone else like that, who only lasted about three years…. let me see…

    Posted by kae on 2008 02 29 at 04:19 AM • permalink

  18. I want my MTV*.

    *Mandatory Twat Viewpoint.

    Posted by Habib on 2008 02 29 at 04:26 AM • permalink

  19. BTW, I’ve no problem with getting my money for nothing, but given the lineup already proposed and the potential presence of Mad Mazza, I’ll pass on the chicks for free.

    Posted by Habib on 2008 02 29 at 04:31 AM • permalink

  20. #15 you’re onto something, Cohenite. With the 1000 dumbest people in Australia all assembled in Canberra, a critical mass of stupid is likely to form, and who knows what will happen then? Neck vertebrae spontaneously fusing into compassionate head tilts, radios tuning themselves to Philip Adams broadcasts on Radio National, people actually reading copies of the Melbourne Age…

    Anyone living in Canberra would be well advised to move away for the duration. And check their disaster insurance.

    Posted by squawkbox on 2008 02 29 at 04:33 AM • permalink

  21. I’m willing to attend. There is free booze, isn’t there?

    Posted by Dean McAskil on 2008 02 29 at 04:48 AM • permalink

  22. Not if Rev Tim’s near the bar.

    Posted by Habib on 2008 02 29 at 04:56 AM • permalink

  23. And given who’s the host, it’ll be watered-down fruity lexia and out-of-date Tooheys 2.2 on offer anyway- can’t let demon drink cloud the revelations which are sure to issue.

    Posted by Habib on 2008 02 29 at 05:00 AM • permalink

  24. And it might lead to dancing.

    Posted by Habib on 2008 02 29 at 05:02 AM • permalink

  25. #20; squawkbox; we can only hope that all that accumulated narcissism causes some sort of wave function collapse and a multiverse forking with krudd and his preening wankers going one-way and the rest of us the other; surely they can’t get away with it twice, after Bali?

    Posted by cohenite on 2008 02 29 at 05:07 AM • permalink

  26. Judging by the crowd invited, there’s not enough booze in Ireland to make this shindig interesting - A nice mixture of amyl-nitrate, magic mushies and an ether enema should get the average man in the street through Kev Il Rudd’s intro.

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2008 02 29 at 05:07 AM • permalink

  27. Definately ether, and maybe some avgas to mellow out on.

    Posted by Habib on 2008 02 29 at 05:15 AM • permalink

  28. Question at this point - when Rudd announced this farce, he said the participants would pay their own travel and accommodation costs. Is that still the case? How about Labor’s attendees - does Rudd have to pay his own costs? Gillard? Penny Wong?  Blanchett or does she collect an appearance fee too? Kerry O’Brien? Or does the ABC pay for him? Mitchell’s listener who might be a poor pensioner?

    Posted by Contrail on 2008 02 29 at 05:30 AM • permalink

  29. #5, Kae,

    “I reckon we could sort it out in no time and have a Saturday night piss up and a Sunday BBQ Recovery Piss Up to Celebrate Solutions.”

    I rekon you might just be right there, it sounds like a lot more fun your way too.

    #10, Rbresca,

    “Maybe we should organise an anti-ideas summit on the same weekend”

    Sounds good too, just make sure to include the “Saturday night piss up and a Sunday BBQ Recovery Piss Up”...

    Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2008 02 29 at 05:30 AM • permalink

  30. #23 Kevni always struck me as more the Fosters type, Habib.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2008 02 29 at 05:36 AM • permalink

  31. #23 Habib,

    There won’t be any Fruity Lexia, watered or straight.
    ooh honey honey drank it all.

    Posted by Pogria on 2008 02 29 at 05:39 AM • permalink

  32. “It was just outside Collector when the avgas started to kick in- I turned to my attorney Infidel Tiger and said- “you need to drive- this is bat country”- I’d just seen an ACTU motorcade pass us in souped-up Toyota Prius’, and Sharon Burrow had leered out of the passenger window of one.

    My attorney, who had been pouring the extracts of several endangered species on his chest to facilitate the tanning process, said “sure- what the fuck are you on about? You look like you’ve just seen Julia Gillard in a teddy.”

    Just as we were passing Lake George, we spotted a hitchiker, and my attorney slurred (the distillate enema starting to kick in) “that sorry-arsed motherfucker looks like he could use a ride”, to which I demurred, the snorted asbestos heighting my paranoia- “leave the son-of-a-bitch here, the unemployed hillbillies laid off by Centrelink will have him picked clean by morning.”

    When he produced a convincing argument, I agreed and we swerved to the kerb, running over an echidna and two lost German backpackers.

    My attorney said- “jump in- bet you’ve never been in a Pacobuilt H3 Humvee convertible before, especially one powered by a Rolls Royce Merlin that until a week ago powered the last operational Supermarine Spitfire?”

    Our new passenger said….........

    (To be continued- “Fear and Loathing in Kev Fukzus”.

    Posted by Habib on 2008 02 29 at 05:40 AM • permalink

  33. Tanya Plibersek has a “big idea”. She and Fran Kelly were banging on about it this morning.
    By Centrally Planned Economy out of Nanny State, Tanya’s Baby is a plan to give developers a tax break if they build affordable housing projects.
    The conceptualizing is pure democratic socialism: these “developers”, you know, are like, Pavlovian. Dangle a tax break in front of them, show a bit of thigh and they’ll be eating out of your … never mind.
    The flaws in this plan may prove to be numerous, however I see it as unlikely that any sane person will build, for commercial or tax break reasons, a block or estate which is born to be a slum and has no guarantee of either good income or resale value.
    Big Idea Link

    Posted by blogstrop on 2008 02 29 at 05:46 AM • permalink

  34. #32 oh no!!!

    someone actually bought a copy of Paco Inc’s,

    You Too, Can Be A Famous Writer.

    God help us!!  ;)

    Posted by Pogria on 2008 02 29 at 05:48 AM • permalink

  35. #32, Habib, A Merlin powered Humvee?  Nice man, Very Nice.

    Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2008 02 29 at 05:50 AM • permalink

  36. Couldn’t find a Griffon.

    Posted by Habib on 2008 02 29 at 05:52 AM • permalink

  37. #32 Habib, I had been lusting after one of these all day but your Merlin powered Pacobilt makes the Holden look a bit mardi gras.
    Thanks for saving me from a foolish mistake.

    Posted by Skeeter on 2008 02 29 at 06:25 AM • permalink

  38. #37- Like the Boomerang and the Wirraway, the Nips do it better- bastard Nissan is going to import them so sods like me can’t bring them in on the sly.

    BTW- one just lapped the Nurembring about 3 seconds faster than the new 911 Turbo in the wet. I thought my R34 V Spec was a bit of a beast.

    Posted by Habib on 2008 02 29 at 06:39 AM • permalink

  39. OT. WA teachers are on strike. If only they were in the private system where good teachers were rewarded and useless ones sacked or put on minimum wages and the system could then sort itself out.

    But the footage showed them all with their banners and flags smelling of sameness.

    Who suffers in all this bullshit? The children and therefore the country.

    Posted by mehaul on 2008 02 29 at 07:15 AM • permalink

  40. #39 Mehaul, nah, don’t worry about the children suffering. Every day the teachers strike is one less day they get to indoctrinate your offspring.

    That’s the way I look at it.

    Mind you, I do agree that teachers are underpaid compared to plenty of other professions, especially here in Melbournistan, so I can quite happily tell my daughter’s teacher to take as many days as she likes.

    Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2008 02 29 at 09:23 AM • permalink

  41. #32: Excellent, Habib! And thanks for the free advertising!

    #34 Pogs: You mean…it works?!?

    Posted by paco on 2008 02 29 at 01:19 PM • permalink

  42. For maximum carbon impact, you should send my from Los Angeles.

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2008 02 29 at 04:33 PM • permalink

  43. #42 - only if you promise to charter a supertanker and leak oil every inch of the way

    Posted by squawkbox on 2008 02 29 at 08:35 PM • permalink

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