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Kevin Rudd’s personal battle of Long Tan continues. Meanwhile, he’s also been drawn into the Battle of Mary Valley Dam. All of this may force a change to recent Rudd tactics:
For the last month he’s been ducking all but the softest, safest interviews.
oh the beauty of kevni’s konversational kadences:
They don’t have any solar panels on the roof because a consultant advised of “problems with the location of the house because it is on the wrong side of the hill and it doesn’t have enough exposure to the sun because of its directional configuration”.He really can dish it out, but can’t take it. His idea of a media interview is Kochie saying “Insert media soundbite here”.
Posted by boxofmatches on 2007 04 13 at 11:09 PM • permalinkUnfortunately I think it will take a lot longer before the new poster boy of the media and the leader of our “alternative government” is seen through by sufficient numbers of the general population.
It’s probably too much to hope for to expect a “crash and burn” scenario along that performed so flawlessly by Latham.
And after 4 terms in government, a substantial section of the population does seem to think it’s time for a change. They don’t appear too overly concerned about what exactly that change may mean. After all, according to many of our intellectuals, low unemployment and the highest ever levels of prosperity are only a relative measure of “well-being”, you see?
Anyhow, as they say, a week’s a long time in politics. I certainly hope that between now and the election, Rudd performs many more such feats as this one!
The biggest reason I can think of to stamp out school bullying, is that it creates people like Kevin. If he didn’t cop an atomic wedgie and a royal flush a week, I’ll give up drinking on Mondays.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 04 13 at 11:36 PM • permalinkSo when Sunrise and Rudd say they weren’t going to hold a fake Dawn Service, what they mean is that they were going to hold a Anzac Day service an hour before local dawn so that it would coincide with dawn in Sydney/Melbourne/Brisbane/etc, but they weren’t going to call it a Dawn service. That kind of pusillanimous pedantic prevarication really pisses me off.
Posted by Chris Chittleborough on 2007 04 14 at 12:03 AM • permalinkI just don’t understand the polling about kevni. What has the guy got going for him? Mark Latham had more ideas then was good for him; in reaction, kruddy is a policy-free zone. Even more then that, I don’t understand why the luvvies are in such love with the guy. He’ll be a sort of mix of Bob Carr and Wayne Goss if he gets elected, and won’t dare to do anything so unpopular as to commit to serious greenhouse gas emission cuts, tax hikes or shooting plasma-television owners, or anything else on the Left’s wishlist.
There’ll be more jobs and money for the high end left-wing guys like the Cretin. But the average luvvie is in for a major disappointment. So all in all, Kruddy has nothing going for him at all. I am hoping he’ll melt down soon enough. This dawn service affair is enough to give me hope that he might actually do so? If he does, Latham will laugh- he hates the guy and thought he was massively over-rated.
8 Scott W
“There’ll be more jobs and money for the high end left-wing guys like the Cretin.”
Thats allways been the reason for them to vote labour. If the government cant touch one of their lurvvie projects it will pay them some more money to soothe their offended sensibilities.
There was a reason arts grants were known as a “keating” for some time…
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 04 14 at 01:00 AM • permalink#8 Scott W
I just don’t understand the polling about kevni. What has the guy got going for him? Mark Latham had more ideas then was good for him; in reaction, kruddy is a policy-free zone. Even more then that, I don’t understand why the luvvies are in such love with the guy.
Perhaps you’ve answered your own question: Rudd may be taking a cue from the US Democrats by being vague and evasive about actual policy and letting the Media campaign for him. John Kerry never did reveal what his “plan” for Iraq and Afghanistan was. Not once. But that didn’t stop all the major US and International Media outlets from cheering him on. That strategy didn’t quite pay off for him in 2004, but it did for his Party in 2006.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 04 14 at 02:13 AM • permalink#10, I love these retreats that lucky writers get taxpayer-funded, Australia Council grants to stay in, in order to compose their great works: the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Ireland (no doubt, some converted castle deep in the Irish countryside); Arthur Boyd’s broadacres estate in Bundanoon; the Blue Mountains, etc. Nobody seems to be applying for a grant to go and stay in the Mother Teresa Memorial Refuge in Calcutta, where they could experience and write about, real life, as most of the world lives it.
A bunch of literary tossers are going to get together and ask themselves:
a) Have we been behaving like a bunch of literary tossers?
and
b) Why do people think we’re just a bunch of literary tossers?Predictable answers:
a) No, certainly not!
and
b) Because people are cruel/deluded/will believe anything that John Howard tells them to believe.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 04 14 at 03:20 AM • permalinkHe is patently making it up, a straw man and unfit for PM.
But mainstream media won’t tell you that.
Its Latham Mark 2.Posted by boxofmatches on 2007 04 14 at 04:14 AM • permalink#7 - is that cartoon saying; ‘liar, liar, pants on fire’?
Posted by AlphaMikeFoxtrot on 2007 04 14 at 05:05 AM • permalink#8 #12
Labor are continuing to adopt the post-Latham “small target” strategy of Beasley, i.e. big on rhetoric but light on substance (ALP-Lite), akin to the US Dems.
By chosing a fresh face in Rudd, the MSM are on board, but with election punting indicating approx 50/50 divide and a large number of seats to wrest from the Govt, KRuddy will likely fail at the polls and Labor will be left with the odious mortem of this over-ambitious public servant.
It’s probably too much to hope for to expect a “crash and burn” scenario along that performed so flawlessly by Latham.
I fear the crash and burn will be about May next year when Rudd works out that being prime minister is a task way beyond his ability. It’s a sign of his poorly developed personality. Rudd believes that being the smartest man in Australia makes him the obvious person to be in charge.
He should maybe visit Barry Jones - then quit. Jones the MP had a monstrous intellect, big enough to see that being a know-all was not a reason to be in charge. He knew that there were more important attributes for leadership, such as the ability to command the respect of friend and foe alike, the ability to inspire people to follow, the ability to understand people from all stratas of life and a considerable amount of rat cunning. All Rudd has got is the last.
“What you might do - and here I’m not being prescriptive - what you might do is say: in this category or function, that is exclusively yours, the states’, and that is to be exclusively funded by you, the states”.
What you might do Kevni is try not to speak in incomprehensible English.
“There is a broader national infrastructure planning role for the nation. All I’m saying is one of the things we promised to do on infrastructure like ports is this: let’s have a national economic infrastructure audit, what is up to scratch and what is not in terms of power generation, in terms of port infrastructure, in terms of our national highway network, in terms of a national broadband network, dare I say it? In terms of feeding the fundamental requirements of the economy, the infrastructure needs of the economy. Mr Howard’s Government refuses to do even that. Then you identify where the funding gap comes and then you actually plug the gap.”
In terms of what you’re saying Kevni is anyone actually supposed to understand what you plan on doing (or even what you’re saying)?
“Can I just say this: the nation is saying this, rather than just hearing Mr Costello constantly say, and Mr Howard constantly say, this is what we can’t do for the nation. I think there is a mood in Australia for hearing: this is what we can do (as) a nation”.
Can I just say this Kevni: why don’t you stop speaking gobbledegook and let the people know what your policies are (or if you even have any policies)?
#22 - He should maybe visit Barry Jones - then quit. Jones the MP had a monstrous intellect…
Good call. A few months back CPA Australia (Vic Div) had a regular ‘Third Age’ lunch meeting at which Barry ‘Pick-A-Box’ Jones was the guest speaker. I didn’t go to this one despite these always being a quality (albeit dry) nosh-up.
I spoke to a fellow guest at the most recent meeting who did attend and confirmed what I could see coming all along. Barry Jones didn’t speak much on the advertised topic. He spoke, utterly predictably, on his favourite topic. Barry Jones.
Posted by walterplinge on 2007 04 14 at 07:10 AM • permalink#23
Aye, there’s the rub. Rudd can follow this duck-and-weave strategy for a time, but even with a tired Howard government, these tactics are not likely to work. I am actually feeling that Howard might have a better chance than I thought he did six weeks ago.
Avoiding policy stands is not really a vote winner in Australia. The best thing Rudd has going for him is that people are bored with Howard. Remember, no voter under 30 years of age has ever known anything but Howard as PM. Given a capable opposition leader with sensible, coherent policies, Howard would be toast.
MarkL
canberra#21 egg_
“Small target” was the phrase I was searching for, but couldn’t remember. Thanks.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 04 14 at 10:23 AM • permalinkA minor local point about the Mary Valley - it hasn’t rained there in years or in the proposed dam’s catchment area. But it is a generally politically conservative area and the proposed dam directly affects sufficiently few voting individuals that it’s a gimme for Qld Labor Premier Peter Beattie. He’s lapping up the kudos from the city dwellers on Level 5 water restrictions (no watering the garden, no washing your car, use too much water and get a ‘please explain’ or your water cut) for making (proposing?) a ‘tough’ decision that’s seen as ‘politically risky’. Bit of a laugh when Queensland Labor’s rise to power back in the late ‘80s included opposition to a dam proposed by the Nationals at Wolffdene near Beaudesert.
—Nick
Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2007 04 14 at 05:19 PM • permalinkSee no evidence of the Rudder’s alleged ‘high intelligence’.
He’s continually caught out lying: to lie well takes intelligence.
Rudd’s publications, e.g. on economics (not his forte) have been publicly discredited that he’s talking out of his arse.
His public service grounding: he’s such a good bullshit artist that he comes across as intelligent?
When challenged about his choice of a Ford Territory as his Commonwealth car, said he wasn’t aware that hybrids were available - to be corrected on-air by other pollies. This type of lie bespeaks of a private school style of bully: it may wash in the public service but not with publicly elected officials. On ABC TV Insiders this a.m. the journos were unanymous in saying that the Media were turning against Rudd following threats to their members of late.
Surprisingly, they also agreed that Koch was a key (egomaniacal) player at Sunrise.
He certainly got plenty of coverage in the Sunday Telegraph this morning.Glenn Milne,Piers Akerman,Sandra Lee and the Editorial writer all lined up to put the slipper in and they didn’t miss.Even Matt Price managed to find a suitably limp lettuce to give him a bit of a thrash. #5 Infidel Tiger was on the money,I reckon that trademark pursed-lip pout would have earned the little creep plenty of smacks in the mouth.
My God, Rudd is bonkers. Even though he was lying about the fake dawn service, when it was originally exposed, he…
...made direct approaches to senior executives at News Limited, publisher of The Sunday Telegraph, and presented a list of demands that he insisted be met.
Included were an apology to be published in The Sunday Telegraph and in every other newspaper that had run the original story, and an agreement about where such an apology would be placed within each newspaper and, further, Rudd demanded the right to pursue the matter through the courts.
He also rang and abused two other journalists who write stories about his bogus Mr Potter eviction story.
sounds like your thread on Al Gore where he didn’t allow cameras but, got 20-30 families to work all year so someone could hear him talk,.
Posted by hollingshead on 2007 04 15 at 01:50 AM • permalinkC.L.
That was the Ackerman piece? I tried to find a link but couldnt come up with one. I was amazed to think he thought he could dictate like that to publishers.
He doesnt give interviews
He lies
He threatens to sue when caught out lying
Yup can see that plating out well to the press gallery in CanberraPosted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 04 15 at 04:03 AM • permalinkCL, thanks for the link.
After seeing Kevin Rudd on 60 mintues I quote from your linked Piers Akerman article.
Now, the recollections of 50 year old on the death of his father (39 years before), could be mistaken, especially through the eyes and ears of an 11 year old. It’s understandable.
But to have threatened journalists indirectly through his staff, and then threaten the editor if a rebuttal from the Lowe family was published, then this from the Piers Akerman ‘Rudd just a bully boy’ article you linked to above:“It is also reported that my office was involved in hatching this plan for a fake dawn service several weeks ago. This statement is also absolutely false and without foundation.’’
No, it wasn’t.
and
To Rudd’s inevitable embarrassment, there was a long paper trail of emails showing extensive communication between Rudd’s personal assistant, Mary Mawhinney, Sunrise production manager Paula Crawford, Rudd media adviser Alister Jordan, Sunrise executive producer Adam Boland and Department of Veterans’ Affairs repatriation commissioner Bill Rolfe.
With his denial of something for which evidence was produced; and people in the RSL said they were approached regarding a pre-dawn dawn service, I think his credibility is zero.
I don’t think it’s possible to like him less than I did before this second nail in his coffin.
This man wants to be Prime Minister of Australia? I hope the laborites wake up.
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I think Kevni might be in more shit than a German porn actor over this.