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Kevin Rudd has a wild side:
Kevin Rudd’s hopes of becoming Prime Minister have been rocked by a visit to a New York strip club where he was warned against inappropriate behaviour during a drunken night while representing Australia at the United Nations.
The UN connection is more embarrassing. What on earth was Rudd thinking?
Mr Rudd yesterday issued a statement to The Sunday Telegraph, confirming he went to the club. But he said he could not recall what happened at the night spot because he had “had too much to drink’‘.
“If my behaviour caused any offence to anybody whatsoever that evening, I of course wholeheartedly apologise’’ he said.
The alcoholic oblivion excuse. How many wine spritzers had Kevin belted down? Two? Three?
Mr Rudd went to the club, which is a well-known haunt of UN diplomats and journalists, with New York Post editor Col Allan and Northern Territory Labor MP Warren Snowdon ...
Mr Allan (an employee of News Corporation, the parent company of the publisher of The Sunday Telegraph) then confirmed he and the Opposition Leader had been to a “gentlemen’s club’‘.“Yes, we went out for a drink,’’ Mr Allan said.
“Yes, it was at a gentleman’s club and he (Mr Rudd) behaved like a perfect gentleman.’‘
Andrew Bolt comments: “You are out of your comfort zone if you accept an invitation from Col Allan to hit the town.” Not necessarily; I’ve hit the town with Col, more than once, and haven’t ended up being thrown out of a strip club. Well, not that I can recall.
According to some sources, Mr Rudd was warned against touching the dancers by Scores management.
Haven’t been to the club in question, but things have to get pretty lively at these joints before you’re shown the door.
Reports of Mr Rudd’s behaviour reached senior Australian diplomats serving in the US at the time. One of those diplomats, who insisted on anonymity, confirmed to The Sunday Telegraph a version of events involving “inappropriate behaviour’‘.
It is understood Mr Rudd and Mr Snowdon complied with the management directive to leave.
More from Glenn Milne; Rudd’s statement here (“I have never claimed to be perfect but I make no excuses. I take full responsibility for my actions.”) Among blog reaction, Peter Wells:
His response, in true Australian style, was “I was too drunk to recall … ”
The boy has my vote.
And Bernie Slattery:
For once, Kevin Rudd — er, Kevin Rude — wasn’t following John Howard’s lead down to the last detail.
More like Howard’s former boss, Malcolm Fraser.
UPDATE. Larvatus Prodeo condemns Rudd:
Stripping and hooking is not good wholesome fun. The women who do it do not like the men who pay them to do it. The smiles are all fake, boys, every single one: strippers hate you. For most of the women, the only way they can keep doing the work at all is to be high as a kite for their shift.
Hit the link for further outrage.
UPDATE II. Kevin can’t recall:
He said neither he nor Mr Snowdon had a “completely clear recollection” of whether there were semi-naked women in the club or what they were doing.
“We can’t actually recall anything that you wouldn’t see in most pubs across Australia,” Mr Rudd told the Nine Network today ...
He rang his wife, Therese Rein, at home in Brisbane the next day to confess to her.
Alan R.M. Jones emails: “He can’t remember anything you wouldn’t see in most pubs across Australia, but says he then confessed the whole thing to his wife. Confessed what?”
UPDATE III. “It could be a hell of a lot worse,” writes SAM. “Rudd senior died in a car crash when he cut loose.”
UPDATE IV. Larvatus lefty Phil cheers for Kevin:
In fact I find it refreshing that Rudd had a drink or two and felt comfortable enough to go to the club with that poster boy of News Limited press reptiles Col Allan; this gives Rudd a lot in common with quite a few red blooded Australian blokes, many of whom may be more inclined to vote for the guy knowing he likes the odd drink and the ladies.
He likes the ladies so much he was allegedly asked to leave - a point studiously dodged by Kevin’s defenders.
cuckoo, That was my second thought on it as well.
I would have thought this, more to herr Flicks tastes.Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 08 18 at 08:44 PM • permalinkAmazing his loss of memory. He has conveniently used this on his childhood and his dealings in WA. He is prissy little gray man who will be rolled by Gillard and the unions. He is the reason we have water shortages through not building dams in Queensland. He has never done a proper day’s work in his life other that in government departments. The amount of damage he will do to Australia if he gets into power is frightening the only way he will survive is to appease the unions.
The first rule of Rudd Club is - no one talks about Rudd Club.
Posted by Abu Chowdah on 2007 08 18 at 08:46 PM • permalinkKEVIN Rudd’s hopes of becoming Prime Minister have been rocked by a visit to a New York strip club where he was warned against inappropriate behaviour during a drunken night while representing Australia at the United Nations
Lol. Come on, he was after all representing Australia, what could be more, erm, representative than a boozy night out at a strip club? He’ll get some bounce out of this in the polls for sure.
Just one other question, I wonder what the strident harpies and the leftist femocrats at sites like LP think of Rudd’s night out? (sound of crickets chirping).
I’ve been to Scores and I’d be very interested to know who picked up the bar bill. Beers go for $12 a pop (probably more these days), a mixed drink sets you back $15 (minimum) and a bottle of champagne goes for as much as $500, depending on the the brand. Two years ago a Wall Street exec sued the club for letting him run up a $247,000 bill in the course of a single evening. Yes, that’s right—a quarter of a million bucks in just a few hours. (see story here),
So if Roamin’ Hands Rudd plastered himself so thoroughly that he can’t recall going the grope (or any other details of the night), did he invoice the cost of that sybaritic slosh fest against his on-the-road per diem? If so, taxpayers have a right to see his expenses claim.
And if he didn’t pay his own way, what does it say about him?
Consider: Col Allan, a senior executive of a company with many issues before parliament, took an aspiring prime minister for a gold-plated night on the town, complete with hot and cold running ladies. Apart from the potential for blackmail, can Rudd be expected to be impartial in future policy decisions regarding News Ltd.?
Questions:
1/ Did Rudd rort his expenses? Only an examination of the relevant documents can put that one to bed.
2/ Did Col Allan pick up the tab on behalf of News Ltd?
3/ How much monetary largesse are parliamentarians allowed to accept from potential supplicants?
4/ Will News Ltd. reveal Col Allan’s expenses claim for that night?
5/ When Rudd got carried away and went the goose, was it a redhead, blonde or African-American stripper whoset his short-fingered hands to wandering?
He probably got thrown out after trying to swipe his govvie issued credit card through the wrong “slot”.
Posted by mr creosote on 2007 08 18 at 09:55 PM • permalinkA description of Scores the ‘nightclub in question.
One Australian who’s been there described the “entertainment” to The Sunday Telegraph: “The girls start with dresses on. Then they come off and they don’t have any bras on - just a g-string.
“Then they start dancing, rubbing their breasts into the customers’ faces, lap dancing.
“The guys have their hands all over their backsides and their legs.
“All the girls specialise in turning around, bending over to face the customer and then there’s lots of butt slapping.
“They open the men’s legs apart.
“The manager - a big guy - comes around and asks whether you want a blonde or brunette.
“There are private rooms you can go to.”
So whatever KRuddie did went beyond gropping. Inquiring minds want to know.
Does this mean that Kevni had a lapse dance?
Posted by andycanuck on 2007 08 18 at 10:03 PM • permalinkI have to agree with Tim, the real scandal is that he was at the UN!!!!!
Posted by Old Tanker on 2007 08 18 at 10:07 PM • permalinkLet’s just hope that Rudd didn’t give away any of Australia’s secrets, like Habib’s range qualification score…
“‘Strewth, I never saw a drongo bolo his 25-meter zero and no mistake…”
Someone tell Kevni he just qualified for the Democratic senatorial primary in Massachusetts…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 08 18 at 10:14 PM • permalinkArch-critic of Howard’s Hayekian commodification of humans a sleazy strip club groper? Say it aint so, Womble.
I’ve simply called for a different Christian voice in politics. The social justice tradition of Christianity has been alive and well and so much of the shaping of the Labor movement over the last 100 years, but in the last decade or so, it seems to have been drowned out increasingly by the conservative forms of Christianity in Australia, a view of Christianity which says it’s purely a matter of private personal faith, and as for my interests in the social wellbeing of my neighbour, well that’s his business, not mine, and he can go and jump in the lake. So it’s time, I thought, to contest that view.
And the good Lord and Dietrich Bonhoeffer know that nothing says “social wellbeing of my neighbour” like shoving tenners down a strung-out stripper’s undies in the wee hours of the morning.
The club has a MySpace site.
Anyone care to try and track down the lady(s) in question and hear her side of the story? Any budding investigative journalists in NY. This is a big story over here in Oz.
Paco Productions has created this exciting documentary on the Rudd scandal.
Peter Beattie, Premier, on binge drinking (July 2007):
Mr Beattie said the ‘Know Your Limits’ pilot education program, targeting young drinkers with strong messages about the consequences of binge drinking, was hitting the mark…
“We want people, particularly young people, to think seriously about the consequences of their actions and to learn the importance of drinking responsibly”.
Peter Beattie, Kevni tonsigliere, today:
“I don’t see Kevin [Rudd] drinking too much at all to be frank, but so what if he’s had too many drinks?”
Rudd’s carefully constructed Christian family man image is a lie.
He embellished the story of his childhood and in the process smeared others without conscience.
When his ‘boyhood tall story’ was questioned he telephoned a number of journalists and editors to threaten and abuse them using the vilest language.
He later claimed he should be allowed to remember things the way he wanted to despite evidence to the contrary.
Whilst Wayne Goss’ Mr fix-it he had access to sensitive documents relating to a serious misconduct case involving a pack rape of a 14 year old girl – the documents were secretly shredded even though the case was unresolved.
He is apparently friendless, even in his own party, and whilst championing ‘working families’ and work and family balance seems to forget his own mantra when he demands his staff work 24/7.
And now we see the prissy little man’s true persona revealed by ‘a couple of drinks’ following which he was asked to leave a seedy New York strip club because he had inappropriately touched a ‘dancer’.
This occurred in a club where G string wearing dancers routinely rub their breasts into customers’ faces whilst gyrating and hip thrusting on their laps.
We can only wonder what constitutes ‘inappropriate touching’ in a venue like that.
Kevin point 07 is not a cuddly little Christian Socialist family man but a tightly wound, gutter mouthed groper who will do and say anything to further his ambition.
No morals, no manners, no conscience…
#41 Kevin07 undies at $4.00
Hi 1.618,
are these the undies with his logo on them, the undies with his leering face looking towards the crotch, or the undies he found in his jacket pocket?Your Colonel
Posted by Col. Milquetoast on 2007 08 18 at 11:02 PM • permalinkBefore being too judgemental about this, I first like to look at the opinion of Australian feminists:
University of Sydney academic Catharine Lumby said Mr Rudd was forcing people to rethink their assumptions on the meaning of marriage.
“We have to accept there will be lots of situations where women will have their own professional identities…” Professor Lumby said.
“We need to be thinking about systems that allow women to continue professionally separate identities.”
Feminists argued that Mr Rudd had emerged as the first Australian leader running for the top office with a realistic view of modern women.
Former Victorian premier Joan Kirner said ...“I think a number of women and men will say, ‘Thank goodness we’ve got a modern leader who understands that women and men both do paid work and make their own choices’,” Ms Kirner said.
NB These quotes may have been subject to a few small edits.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 08 18 at 11:07 PM • permalinkAlso, at the above link, this from leading ball cruncher, Eva Cox:
Veteran feminist Eva Cox of the Women’s Electoral Lobby said Mr Rudd’s statements would appeal to working women around the country who longed for the acknowledgement of their own separate careers and lives.
“I think it’s a refreshing change, because it just means it’s a recognition that women are people in their own right, and that this will sometimes cause conflicts and cause tensions but it needs to be dealt with on those terms rather than shock-horror,” Ms Cox said.
“I think for the bulk of women there’s just the expectation that they are granted the full humanity of being a person in their own right, and not an appendage.
“That sits fairly comfortably with them.”
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 08 18 at 11:11 PM • permalinkI wonder how President Hillary will react when she meets Australia’s first lady.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 08 18 at 11:22 PM • permalinkAs our documentary reveals, Rudd tried to blame this on Howard.
I’m still dying to know what Kevni did to get himself kicked out. I’m betting he tried to stiff one of the girls over money, rather than trying just trying to stiff one of the girls.
Kevni might get away with being a sleaze, but the Australian electorate won’t tolerate a dishonest cheapskate. If the problem was about money, Kevni is dead meat.
It gets better: The same lefty blogger who condemns stripping as exploitation of women has defended Rudd.
Posted by Evil Pundit on 2007 08 18 at 11:31 PM • permalinkJohn Edwards will be so jealous ....
Cheers
Posted by J.M. Heinrichs on 2007 08 18 at 11:46 PM • permalinkhe was warned against inappropriate behaviour during a drunken night
I think I’ve worked out what happened.
According to the Scores website: “If privacy is what you seek then look no further than the President’s Club…
“Use your credit card instead of your cash. Best of all, it’s discreet!”
Bouncer: “Uhh.. Mr Rudd, sir, please do not swipe your Commonwealth Visa card up the artist’s backside. This is your final warning”...
‘I was too drunk to remember much’ - I’ve never bought that as an excuse.
I still have extremely vivid memories of a party back in 1982. I was making my own G&T’s, and they were industrial strength, trust me. Two were enough to set the floor rolling under my feet every time I crossed the room.
Nor have I forgotten telling a young lady ‘I’d like to fuck your arse off,’ and thinking that this was the most witty and entertaining comment I or possibly anyone else had ever uttered.
Too drunk to remember. I should be so lucky.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 08 19 at 12:06 AM • permalink“I did not have sex with that . . .” (but only because I refused to pay).
Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2007 08 19 at 12:06 AM • permalinkCrap
Even though I am Californian I held out the slim hope of one day being elected Emperor of Australia.
Now I see you all get touchie about your leaders getting their freak on at the tittie bar.
That leaves me right out.Posted by papertiger on 2007 08 19 at 12:19 AM • permalinkClassic hypocrisy. I am not sure how it will play, the yobbos will like that he went to the strip club, but the Uniting Church and C of E luvvies will definitely not, and he has been courting them as part of the plan.
This is a real lapse. Everything he has done for the last ten years has been part of the plan. He wants to be Prime Minister. “He is seeking it, seeking it — all his thought is bent on it.”
I remember when he became member for Griffith. it was the time when Sydney was all worked up about aircraft noise, so Kevni thought he would drum up a bit of local cred doing the same. It wasn’t about reducing aircraft noise, but kevni. Letters to the paper, launching a court case etc etc. Never mind that the planes had followed the same flight path for the last fifty years, and compared with Sydney, are much higher up as they pass over his electorate. Of course, Nothing changed, but of course once he had his cred established, you never hear anything about aircraft noise anymore.
75 - If only I could bring myself to care.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 08 19 at 12:39 AM • permalinkThe story so far.
KRudd says he went to the strip club, doesn’t remember what happened there, but nobody has told him he did anything untoward.
An un-named source says KRudd got kicked out of the joint for his behaviour, a place where gropping the girls was apparently encouraged.
Someone is telling industrial-sized porkies.
KRudd says he went to the strip club, doesn’t remember what happened there, but nobody has told him he did anything untoward.
You sure this wasn’t Vegas?
Posted by papertiger on 2007 08 19 at 12:48 AM • permalink“Yes, it was at a gentleman’s club and he (Mr Rudd) behaved like a perfect gentleman.’’
I’ve seen the way perfect gentlemen behave in such institutions. This is not the sterling character reference it sounds.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 08 19 at 12:58 AM • permalinkDouble O Kevin? I think not.
What follows is the first footage I could find of this international man of mystery,
Kevin Powers at one of his favourite haunts, complete with dancing girls.#55 mr bingley:
i see your titties and beer and raise you a take it off!
Posted by benson swears a lot on 2007 08 19 at 12:59 AM • permalinkKRudd says he went to the strip club, doesn’t remember what happened there, but nobody has told him he did anything untoward.
I wish I had friends like that. Mine used to stick my drunks in their novels. Thank god camcorders and YouTube hadn’t been invented yet.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 08 19 at 01:05 AM • permalinkKevin “The Octopus” Rudd.
Whereas previously I considered you an anal, prissy, sanctimonious, moonfaced, pissant with delusions of adequacy. This morning I found myself warming to you as somewhat of a kindred spirit, but then you went and ruined it by saying something stupid like “I don’t recall”.
The smiles are all fake, boys, every single one: strippers hate you.
Speak for yourself fuckface. You’re either dribbling down your shirt, playing pocket billiards or not tipping enough if that’s your experience. And by the way, the politically correct term is “exotic artist”.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 08 19 at 01:33 AM • permalinkIm shocked no-one remembers the proud traditions of the Australian diplomatic corp when representing this mighty land.
Kevs mentor.Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 08 19 at 01:34 AM • permalinkI wish I had friends like that. Mine used to stick my drunks in their novels.
Titles please, mcenroe. C’mon now, you must have expected this.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 08 19 at 01:59 AM • permalinkKR: “My name’s Kevin, I’m from Queensland, I’m an alcoholic.”
AA: “Hi, Kevin!”
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 08 19 at 02:06 AM • permalinkUsually the guy who doesn’t remember anything the next morning is the guy with “fag” written on his forehead in permanent marker, and a stripe of freshly shorn scalp where there was hair the day before.
Posted by papertiger on 2007 08 19 at 02:06 AM • permalinkpapertiger
Shaving off one eyebrow was allways good for a laugh as well.
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 08 19 at 02:09 AM • permalinkWhat a pathetic weasel:
Downer behind strip club smear campaign, Rudd says.
Warren Snowdon now claims that he and Dirty Kev left the club after a short while because they felt “intimidated”.
So that’s what Mark Knopfler meant:
And a gogo dancing girl yes I saw her
The deejay he say ‘here’s mandy for ya’
I feel alright to see her
But she’s paid to do that stuff
She’s dancing high I move on by
The close ups can get roughBut Queensland Premier Peter Beattie says the incident will enhance Mr Rudd’s appeal with voters because it will show he is human.
The Christian Socialist’s agenda is enhanced by which part:
• groping dancers?
• entering a strip club?
• conveniently forgetting select details?
• enduring 40 minutes of ‘intimidation’Human? Still debatable.
Rudd may be a creep but he’s not stupid. Downer isn’t all that popular in the heartland so blaming him will resonate in and perhaps resurrect that ‘Kev as victim’ vibe that boosted his stocks earlier this year. I expect his poll numbers will go up and then he’ll say with mock seriousness that “the people” are rejecting the “politics of personal destruction” etc.
Why am i suspicous of a chap whos “intimidated” by scantily clad ladies?
Unless its Ms Ferrari ?Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 08 19 at 02:44 AM • permalinkhe was doing his Foreign duty!
You mean trying to do some foreign booty
Posted by Col. Milquetoast on 2007 08 19 at 02:59 AM • permalinkNick and I went to the Australian Christian Lobby web cast a couple of weeks back at which Howard and Kevni each spoke for 20 minutes.
Speaking from purely a Christian/religious stand point, I have never seen anyone as unconvincing as Kevni, he reminded me of the time John Edwards(?) was asked about his favourite NT book and he named Job.
Kevni briefly mentioned John Flynn (Flying Doctors) and then cracked that his comment was a pitch for the Presbyterian vote.
While I appreciate that level of one’s faith is between oneself and God, for someone who professes to be a ‘committed Christian’ (at the web cast Kevie described himself as ‘garden variety Christian’ [whatever that means]), then man seemed genuinely uncomfortable in front of a live audience of 200 ministers.
All that to say, KRudd’s facade is beginning to crack and what we see underneath is very ugly indeed.
I know a number of people who were originally charmed by Rudd who are now rethinking their vote.
—Nora
Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2007 08 19 at 03:07 AM • permalinkBBC world service radio reported the story . . . . only they said he went to a sex show!
Posted by Young and Free on 2007 08 19 at 03:10 AM • permalink#118
LOL Pogria. You’ve hit the nail on the head.Kevin could also be described as a limp lettuce of a man.
—Nora
Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2007 08 19 at 03:46 AM • permalinkI must confess to having occasionally been too drunk to remember the next morning.
I have even entered a strip bar (and can still remember details of that night 50 years later).
The differences between me and Kevni: I was unmarried, in my early twenties, paid my own way, was not asked to leave, and I was not planning to be Prime Minister of Australia.“Usually the guy who doesn’t remember anything the next morning is the guy with “fag” written on his forehead in permanent marker, and a stripe of freshly shorn scalp where there was hair the day before.”
Usually accompanied by a filled condom inserted by “friends” between the buttocks. Regardless, this will only help Krudd.
Posted by Jim Geones on 2007 08 19 at 05:00 AM • permalinkAlas, sleeze and moral turpitude never seems to hurt liberal politicians. Quite the opposite. Looks at the Kennedys and Bill Clinton. Rudd will survive and prosper.
Posted by walterplinge on 2007 08 19 at 05:41 AM • permalinkLavatory rodeo (I wont link) is busy decrying the decent of Australian politics into the gutter by…....Talking about Howard rooting Pru Goward (Thats how she got the job, and not a murmur from the “sisters” there) and his private secretary.
I should imagine amourous ovines and the entire front bench of the Libs will be next.
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 08 19 at 05:53 AM • permalinkKevni’s been to Paris, observing. Should be worth a few more votes.
Posted by dean martin on 2007 08 19 at 06:09 AM • permalinkFrom a Sydney Bulldogs fan: “I’ve said from day one since I’ve been in public life - I’m as flawed and failed as the rest of them,” he said. what does he mean by the rest of them….......
The UN connection is more embarrassing. What on earth was Rudd thinking?
Tim, I’m sure you meant: What on earth was Rudd drinking?
#30 Phranger, happy for all red- and otherwise -blooded males to have their sexual and otherwise preferences BUT excusing Kevin07’s conduct (even in an attempt at comedy) by abusing Julia Gillard’s looks is not on. It’s far too easy to let him off the hook this way.
having said that,how restrained must she be to not have her parliamentary way with gentlemen of the night after facing Mr 07 all day?
Nope, don’t even like it when I do it.
Posted by carpefraise on 2007 08 19 at 07:18 AM • permalinkAuntie: Govt ministers quiet on Rudd’s strip club
If anyone enjoys attacking Mr Rudd, it is Treasurer Peter Costello.
But not today.
...
Also unusually circumspect is Health Minister Tony Abbott.Auntie smearing the Govt?
This strip club thing would have been the last straw for Terry Lane, if he had not already suffered it. The Age announces:
Lane At End Of Road.Paco, saw your movie!
Inspired casting, sensitively rendered and with a high-falutin’ message - never leave your C-notes behind in case you feel like a taxpayer-funded night of easily forgotten sleaze.
I assume the Sundance Film Festival is next?
Posted by carpefraise on 2007 08 19 at 07:40 AM • permalinkAs a point of comparison, here’s what the lav patrons were saying about John Brogden, the NSW Liberal opposition leader who resigned after making a racist comment and propositioning a couple of journos.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 08 19 at 08:01 AM • permalinkHere’s the rumour I heard (Okay, okay, I didn’t hear it, I just made it up, but in the interests of higher Truthiness)
KRudd went to said Strip Club in the company of UN types. Accustomed to splashing the cash around in such company he ordered a couple of bottles of champers and girls to match (blond and bubbly).
Off they went to the Presidential Suite in true Ocker egalitarian tradition and partook of the special extra services. Bill at this point around $20K.
Unbeknowst to Kruddy, the Oil for Food scandal is cranking up and none of the UN types wants to come up on the radar as a conspicous big spender so their normal willingness to flash the plastic is absent and KRudd like any true Public Servant knows public service means never having to pay with your own money, so he proceeds to leave with the bill unpaid.
The rather large Italian looking gentlemen, who until this point had kept a discrete distance intervene. KRudd protests that the bloke who is going to pay has just popped out for a quick smoko and will be back momentarily. The Italian gentlemen are unconvinced and it takes some rather forceful limb twisting followed by a desperate and grovelling call to a Mr. Annan to clear the bill.
Anyway that’s the whole truth, or not as the case may be.
Brogden: “I had six beers between 7 [pm] and 10, not a ridiculous amount of beers. I am not going to blame the alcohol.”
Rudd: “Not withstanding the fact that I had had too much to drink, I have no recollection.”
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 08 19 at 08:21 AM • permalinkSpotted a new YouTube someone just ginned up for Kev - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lla9WFuZ160
Posted by Cracker Barrel Philosopher on 2007 08 19 at 08:29 AM • permalinkAppears when Kevni refers to playing up, he is a ‘bloke’:
JOURNALIST: What did Therese say to you when you rang her the next day and told her what you’d done?RUDD: You know, it’s four years ago, I can’t quite remember but it’s, you know, I think any bloke, reflecting back on their own lives, realise there are a few times where they’ve just got it wrong and this is one of them and I was just pretty blunt about that (inaudible) pretty understanding. We’ve been married for 25 years.
JOURNALIST: You’ve been saying that you can’t remember what happened with the events of the night because of the alcohol that was consumed. People might in the public or in the media question that as bit of a get-out card.
RUDD: No, we’re talking about events for year ago and yes we’d had a bit to drink, that’s true. A few blokes, sometimes when they go out, do have a few drinks. But I have absolutely no recollection of any inappropriate behaviour and within an hour or so we’d gone.
JOURNALIST: And the beauty of hindsight, what would you have been doing that night?
RUDD: Going straight back to the hotel. We’d had a good meal together, we’d had a good conversation but then it was a suggestion from Col to head on. I don’t blame him for that. I’m the bloke who said yes to the invitation, as did Warren, and off we went and the rest is history.
...
JOURNALIST: What about the drinking, is it often that you get to a point where you can’t remember what’s happening?RUDD: No, I think if, again if blokes are honest about it, every now and then, you know, I’ve never been a wowser, I’ve always liked to have a glass of wine every now and then, but I think, as I said just now to Laurie Oakes, I think in my adult life I can only remember two occasions when I’ve actually drank too much and this was one of them. The other one, as I said on TV before was a birthday party at home and it would’ve been better to have been at home on the second occasion. OK?
Ready to go. Thanks.
I can see it now:
Costello is asked about the Liberals being the highest taxing, highest spending government in Australia; the usual mantra from the left.
Then the parliament has a “Singing Detective” moment.
Costello looks across the chamber and waltses towards Kevni and starts singing:The minute you walked in the joint
I could see you were a man of distinction, a real big spender
Good looking, so refined
Say, wouldn’t you like to know what’s going on in my mind?
So let me get right to the point
I don’t pop my cork for every man I see
Hey big spender!
Spend a little time with meWouldn’t you like to have fun, fun, fun?
How’s about a few laughs, laughs?
I could show you a good time
Let me show you a good timeThe minute you walked in the joint
I could see you were a man of distinction, a real big spender
Good looking, so refined
Say, wouldn’t you like to know what’s going on in my mind?
So let me get right to the point
I don’t pop my cork for every man I see
Hey big spender!
Hey big spender!
Hey big spender!
Spend a little time with me
Yes#126.
“Oh, and what sort of junket gets a member from the opposition benches, representing Australia at the UN?”
I keep looking at this and wondering why John Howard would send someone from the Opposition to represent Australia. It just doesn’t make sense. So it’s equally important to know what Kevni was doing at the UN before he went to the strip club.
Unbelievable.
Not that I really give a shit about what Rudd does in private, letters in today’s Age have actually turned this into an anti-Howard issue.
Check out this loser:
AT LEAST Kevin Rudd has the decency to get drunk before he cannot remember anything. John Howard and his Liberal ministers are stone-cold sober and can never remember anything. I think honesty is far more important.
The last time I visited a strip club I ended up discussing gender politics, wage justice and worker exploitation with a naked lap dancer who was a university student working there because she could not afford the university fees imposed by the Howard Government. So what is more reprehensible: visiting a strip club or making young women work in them?
Doug Steley, Maroochydore, Qld
Nobody “made” that woman work there.
Clive James interviews Kevin Rudd ...or, um, somebody…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 08 19 at 01:44 PM • permalinkThe last time I visited a strip club I ended up discussing gender politics, wage justice and worker exploitation with a naked lap dancer who was a university student working there because she could not afford the university fees imposed by the Howard Government.
And the next morning Doug sued the strip club over his $247,000 bill.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 08 19 at 01:46 PM • permalinkThe last time I visited a strip club I ended up discussing gender politics, wage justice and worker exploitation with a naked lap dancer who was a university student working there because she could not afford the university fees imposed by the Howard Government.
1. Then the poor girl was sacked for sleeping on the job.
or
2. Then it took both bouncers and the managers to stop the poor girl’s suicide attempt.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 08 19 at 01:48 PM • permalink#169 I ended up discussing gender politics, wage justice and worker exploitation
To translate :
discussing gender politics = As a liberated womyn you have every right to sleep with anyone you want, even a person you just met. Like, say for example, me.wage justice = the man is keeping me down by not forcing people to buy my overpriced slightly lumpy pottery. Likewise, half the population has boobs and coochies therefore it is an injustice for you to charge so much.
worker exploitation = Therefore I can only afford to offer $23 to get you to come back to my place and get exploited.
Posted by Col. Milquetoast on 2007 08 19 at 03:39 PM • permalink#169: “The last time I visited a strip club I ended up discussing gender politics, wage justice and worker exploitation with a naked lap dancer . . .”
I just bet you did, Parson Steley. And then you wound up dead in the surf, having cut your own throat, like Davidson the missionary in Somerset Maugham’s Rain, when “Mr. Happy” succumbed to temptation. Sorry, old fellow, but that bit’s been done before.
#175
But I bet Doug Steley’s other stories about his strip club adventures involved “Mr. Happy”
Posted by Col. Milquetoast on 2007 08 19 at 05:08 PM • permalinkuniversity student working there because she could not afford the university fees imposed by the Howard Government.
This is absolute tosh.
HECS is a deferred fee.
THERE IS NO REASON FOR SOMEONE TO WORK AT A STRIP CLUB TO PAY OFF THEIR HECS WHILE THEY ARE AT UNI.
They’ll do what everyone else does - put off paying HECS until after they finish and get a job which, in 4.1% unemployment, ain’t that difficult.
Posted by Quentin George on 2007 08 19 at 05:11 PM • permalinkAnyone else want to bet “Parson” Steley was also forcibly ejected from the gentlemen’s club for annoying the dancers?
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 08 19 at 08:56 PM • permalinkSir Leslie Colin Patterson must be fairly well spewing that not only is his not insignificant contribution to this event thus far ignored, but that the little nerd is denying any recollection of what sounds like a top night on the tiles with a few mates and some top notch hornbags. Compulsory UN social outing.
Ungrateful little twerp. he’s spent a night in the company of the great man and now denies it.
Remember Kevin, second hole from the back of the neck.
Are you with me ?
I wait for the Knight of the Realm to come forward and set the record straight.
Margos Maid
Re that Lav post,
Standards are good, therefore double standards are twice as good?Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 08 19 at 09:01 PM • permalinkThis is SOP for UN participants, isn’t it?
In New York, you dangle dollar bills before abused women in exchange for sexual favors.
In drought-stricken Africa, it’s food packages and the girls are just a tad younger.
Posted by Rittenhouse on 2007 08 20 at 07:51 AM • permalinkWhere do I go to get my ‘Kevin 69’ t-shirts?
Posted by bad templar on 2007 08 21 at 08:49 AM • permalink
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Oh come on - it’s a carefully timed plant to make Rudd seem more human. I’ll believe it when it’s on YouTube. (Coming soon, Clive Anderson and Tim Flannery’s wild brawling night at Spearmint Rhino!)