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Last updated on August 6th, 2017 at 05:41 am

Kevni Ruff loses an economics advisor, but gains a lunchtime pal.

Posted by Tim B. on 04/24/2007 at 12:47 PM
    1. For “personal reasons involving a relationship”.

      Hmm … his relationship to Rudd?

      Rudd’s (lack of a) relationship to good economic policy?

      Posted by 2dogs on 2007 04 24 at 02:05 PM • permalink

 

    1. Have you ever seen a more sleazy smile than Dudd’s in the photo at the link?

      Posted by AlphaMikeFoxtrot on 2007 04 24 at 02:33 PM • permalink

 

    1. Two bottles of wine? That’s a bottle apiece. Is this the norm for Australians who lunch? Do you get any work done in the afternoons?

      Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 04 24 at 02:35 PM • permalink

 

    1. A couple of glasses is common here in France. A bottle, though, would probably not inspire a lot of confidence/good policy.

      Posted by Villeurbanne on 2007 04 24 at 02:40 PM • permalink

 

    1. “Woolloomooloo…”

      Now THAT is a fun word to say!  Almost as good as Potawatomi.

      Posted by Hucbald on 2007 04 24 at 02:41 PM • permalink

 

    1. Two bottles of wine? That’s a bottle apiece. Is this the norm for Australians who lunch? Do you get any work done in the afternoons?

      I don’t know about the damn colonials, but plainly you’ve never had lunch with a British editor…

      Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 04 24 at 02:58 PM • permalink

 

    1. #5,
      if you think that’s funny hucbald,

      try your luck with Currabubula.

      Posted by Pogria on 2007 04 24 at 05:43 PM • permalink

 

    1. #6 I don’t know about the damn colonials, but plainly you’ve never had lunch with a British editor…

      Or Jeffrey Bernard.

      Posted by walterplinge on 2007 04 24 at 05:44 PM • permalink

 

    1. Jeeze; bad picture of the week, month, millennium.

      That sepulchral smile, those undertaker’s clasped mitts. And what’s with the hairpiece? That desiccated thing hanging off Laws I mean?

      Posted by DaneF on 2007 04 24 at 06:45 PM • permalink

 

    1. OT

      ANZAC Day
      It marks the anniversary of the first major military action fought by Australian and New Zealand forces during the First World War. ANZAC stands for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. The soldiers in those forces quickly became known as ANZACs, and the pride they soon took in that name endures to this day.

      Good onya, Mates.

      And thanks for being with us.

      Posted by El Cid on 2007 04 24 at 07:25 PM • permalink

 

    1. #2, was just thinking the same thing. Rudd would sell his own arse for 20 cents.

      Posted by Nic on 2007 04 24 at 07:32 PM • permalink

 

    1. Some lunchtime pal.
      The Tele reckons it was enough to leave Lawsies rival Ray Hadley choking on his footy franks.
      I think not.

      I know Hadley and trust me, he would much rather munch footy franks with mates that nosh up with either of those two.

      Posted by Bonmot on 2007 04 24 at 07:44 PM • permalink

 

    1. #5 – and don’t miss Lake Cadibarrawirracanna.

      Posted by David Morgan on 2007 04 24 at 07:47 PM • permalink

 

    1. Hucbald
      “Woolloomooloo…”

      Now THAT is a fun word to say!  Almost as good as Potawatomi.
      Woolloomooloo or “the ‘Loo” to locals, is quite a posh place actually.
      Russell Crowe lives in a penthouse above the restaurant in the photo….

      Posted by Bonmot on 2007 04 24 at 07:49 PM • permalink

 

    1. #6 Kyda, wine is for ponces like K-Rudd.  Six schooners of beer is the norm for a liquid lunch, but you wouldn’t be fussing about with olives and shit like that.  A meat pie would do.

      Posted by anthony_r on 2007 04 24 at 07:51 PM • permalink

 

    1. Rudd is starting to remind me of Woody Allen’s Zelig (or Forrest Gump, for that matter).  Next time I look at a photo of Richard Nixon, or Louis Armstrong, or Mao Zhedong, I expect to see Kevni next to them, smiling that smile.

      Posted by cuckoo on 2007 04 24 at 07:54 PM • permalink

 

    1. The good news:  Rudd’s economic illiteracy was not his own fault.

      The bad news:  That was the best advice the Labor party could give him.

      Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 04 24 at 08:14 PM • permalink

 

    1. O/T but how can I tie this in…  Rudd may have a new environmental advisor as Flannery considers returning his AOTY award.  He says the award is being politicised because he supports Rudd’s policy over Howard’s.

      Of course he is politicising it more by threatening to hand it back.

      ABC and Age have different points of view on the same piece.

      Posted by anthony_r on 2007 04 24 at 08:36 PM • permalink

 

    1. The stories of the gross difficulties of working with Rudd are legion and go back at least 15 years. Its just the media doesn’t want to report it.

      Posted by boxofmatches on 2007 04 24 at 08:45 PM • permalink

 

    1. #18 Flannery is finding the adulation of fellow Australians to be very tiresome compared with the constant thrill of self gratification.

      I’ll have the Award, if he doesn’t want it.

      Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 04 24 at 08:49 PM • permalink

 

    1. #11
      Rudd would sell his own arse for 20 cents
      From the discomfort on his face, looks like he already has …

      Posted by egg_ on 2007 04 24 at 09:29 PM • permalink

 

    1. Mr Rudd, who yesterday made a factory visit with star recruit Maxine McKew, is setting a tough pace for all staff with dawn starts for some and long nights for most.

      The lil’ try-hard DFAT Mandarin who “could run the Country better than Howard” is prolly pushing his staff harder than himself.

      Certainly looks like he’s trying hard with Lawsie, wonder what Lawsie’s private view is?

      Posted by egg_ on 2007 04 24 at 09:39 PM • permalink

 

    1. El Cid
      If you ever come to Australia, you MUST visit the Australian War Memorial in Canberra, if you have any military connections you will love it!

      Posted by kae on 2007 04 24 at 09:45 PM • permalink

 

    1. #11 & #2

      Just as I thought, cheap AND nasty.

      Posted by kae on 2007 04 24 at 09:46 PM • permalink

 

    1. #21
      Nah, Egg_, he ALWAYS looks like that…

      Posted by kae on 2007 04 24 at 09:49 PM • permalink

 

    1. Mr Rudd, who yesterday made a factory visit with star recruit Maxine McKew, is setting a tough pace for all staff with dawn starts for some and long nights for most

      And anyone planning a false dawn start will be in serious trouble.

      #22 egg_ Do I take it you also think Laws looks like he’s barely tolerating that oh-so-smackable smile of Kevin’s?

      Posted by Dminor on 2007 04 24 at 09:55 PM • permalink

 

    1. #18. ‘The emissions that have resulted from cooking our breakfast this morning will still be in the atmosphere blighting the lives of our grandchildren and their grandchildren’.
      So I take it, that Tim Flannery and his ‘goebbel warming’ cult want to run a ‘guilt trip’ for having breakfast now. These tossers are really starting to become a parody of themselves.
      Just give back the award, so it can be presented to someone who has actually contributed something positive to society, not just ‘hocus pocus, my bank balance looks good’ tirades about civilised living.
      On Rudd; Drinky poos with ol’ Lawsy. He would not be the only Labor leader, to have to wipe the brown stain of his nose, when the final course had ended.

      Posted by BJM on 2007 04 24 at 10:02 PM • permalink

 

    1. Well, since others have mentioned climate change, may I direct all interested parties to this, which I think argues the case even better than The Great Global Warming Swindle.

      Posted by Dminor on 2007 04 24 at 10:08 PM • permalink

 

    1. The Telegraph “journalist” who described Laws as Hadley’s rival is obviously unaware of the Nielsen Media product,the Sydney Radio Ratings Survey.If he/she was he/she would realise that Laws ceased to be a rival about two tears ago,he occupies the 2UE Morning slot because he was foolishly given a lifetime contract some time back when his ratings made him a valuable commodity,that time had long passed.The most recent Nielsen survey shows Hadley with 15.7% and Laws with a modest 6.7%,that puts Hadley first and Laws a distant ninth,hardly a rival.In fact Laws managed to finish way behind the aged Bob Rodgers who achieved 7.4% and finished fifth.Laws was one of the few broadcasters in Sydney to get an interview with the slimy Rudd during that little grubs recent troubles with his credibility.Laws gave him a soft interview,something he wouldn’t have got from Hadley,and will now no doubt be cultivated by the grub for use on future occasions.On a positive note though it seems that Rudd’s mullet is definitely becoming more working-class.Maybe he’s taking grooming advice from Marn Ferson,I wonder if he’ll adopt Marn’s garbled speaking technique to further cement his working-class credentials.

      Posted by Lew on 2007 04 24 at 10:09 PM • permalink

 

    1. #27 BJM

      Just give back the award, so it can be presented to someone who has actually contributed something positive to society

      Perfect sentiment, BJM. I’d add that he is an embarrassment to the award with his posturing about it’s politicisation.
      Flannery has done four fifths of five eighths of fuck-all to deserve the award.

      Posted by kae on 2007 04 24 at 10:10 PM • permalink

 

    1. #26 Dminor

      What’s Kruddy’s dawn delta? 🙂
      Kevni looks extremely uncomfortable to me.
      Having dinner with a rightwing Dreadnought, I’d understand.
      I reckon Lawsie would think the same as the rest of us: “bet this guy got pantsed at school …”.

      Posted by egg_ on 2007 04 24 at 10:13 PM • permalink

 

    1. #30 Kae. I should also add, sack the bloody Australia Day Committee, and staff it with more realistic members. Some of the past candidates for Australian of Year, seem to range from, idealogical loonies, to straight out weirdos with chips on their shoulders or agendas to push.

      Posted by BJM on 2007 04 24 at 10:31 PM • permalink

 

    1. Why does Rudd always like like he’s plastered on lipstick with a trowel?

      Posted by walterplinge on 2007 04 24 at 10:58 PM • permalink

 

    1. #30 I wanted Sophie Delezio to win it – the whole country would have loved that. Nobody in Australia gives a rodent’s bottom about this Flannery fraud.

      Posted by C.L. on 2007 04 24 at 11:11 PM • permalink

 

    1. Sorry, CL, don’t agree with you there about Sophie.

      I agree that Flannery is a fraud.

      Posted by kae on 2007 04 24 at 11:16 PM • permalink

 

    1. Why anyone would want to eat at Otto is beyond me.  Went there once for a long lunch years ago – the food wasn’t that good, but the bill was enormous.  It gives “wanky restaurant” a whole new meaning.

      Posted by mr creosote on 2007 04 24 at 11:21 PM • permalink

 

    1. Now I know what irritates me about Kevin Rudd besides his self-satisfaction and sense of superior intellect.

      He giggles.

      (Not to mention that he’s prepared to have lunch with John Laws.)

      Posted by ann j on 2007 04 24 at 11:30 PM • permalink

 

    1. Flim Flammery
      Tim Flannery
      Tim Tim Timmehhh!
      AOTY is as lucky
      As lucky can be

      Inflammatory
      Tim Flannery
      Tim Tim Timmehhh!
      Bullshit runs off the tongue when
      I shake ‘ands with you
      Or take the piss
      And that’s yuckie too …

      Posted by egg_ on 2007 04 24 at 11:40 PM • permalink

 

    1. ‘But Prof Flannery later contacted the Herald Sun to say he had no plans to return his gong.

      “I was giving an example. I have not considered giving back my award . . . I’m extremely proud of it,” he said.’

      Lying sack of shit. I know about two dozen junior NCO who deserve this more than this pathetic piece of detritus. The “man” is a risible joke.

      Posted by CB on 2007 04 25 at 12:35 AM • permalink

 

    1. I think the AOTY award is a complete wank. There is no one in this country at any one time who deserved higher praises that any other. There are people out there who have done more than the current holder. And Flannery says that his AOTY award has become politicised? It was politic motive that got you the award in the first place. Stick with AOMs and other civillian awards, but to stick a badge on some prick and say he’s better than me? Makes me want to puke! (Especially when that person is a musician or sports star. Double puke!)

      Posted by Justin on 2007 04 25 at 12:54 AM • permalink

 

    1. So far as names go, I think in WA there used to be two little towns, Bullbulling and Cowcowing but as far as I can see there never was a Heiferheifering so obviously the twain never did meet.
      For some reason Mr Rudd reminds me of a highschool dux telling tales. He keeps licking his lips and fluttering his eyelids while nodding in sync.  I wish he wouldn’t.

      Posted by waussie on 2007 04 25 at 01:46 AM • permalink

 

    1. #29 Lew
      Lower than Bob Rodgers?
      Omigawd! How the mighty have fallen.

      Posted by Skeeter on 2007 04 25 at 01:49 AM • permalink

 

    1. Red lips,eh? Soon we have the big Conference, where Kevin the window dresser will appear and re-arrange the merchandise to look more appealing to the voters.
      It will take more than a new leader and some tweaking of the policy settings to convince any sentient being that the stock cast of “ALP Goodfellas” is really an alternative government.
      But, since it is an election year and the opposition is soft on Iraq, expect more of this sort of attack.There are plenty in our parliament capable of doing a Harry Reid. There were certainly plenty of them apart from Latham who displayed rampant anti-USA sentiments in the house.
      As far as I am concerned, election years are also when the medja are on trial. In the USA there have been some notorious examples of the medja being partisan. Imagine my surprise when some familiar names cropped up in this story at Accuracy In Media.
      I have heard several radio personalities use the line “Oh, but of course the Oklahoma City bombers were white anglos” – and seen it used by trolls here. Read the item.

      Posted by blogstrop on 2007 04 25 at 02:38 AM • permalink

 

    1. #28 Dminor Thanks for the link.

      Posted by Wand on 2007 04 25 at 03:10 AM • permalink

 

    1. My pleasure, Wand. It’s one of those sychronous events Anthony Hopkins gets worked up about; my brother also found the webcast and e-mailed me about it today, but by then I’d already seen it and posted the link here. I had promised myself to save it for a climate thread, but you know how it is, trying to contain the excitement and all. I just looovvvee anti-AGW documentaries!

      In your FACE, Al Gore! Take that! Ha-ha!

      Posted by Dminor on 2007 04 25 at 05:46 AM • permalink

 

    1. #43 – I read the item and interesting though it is it does seem like a conspiracy theory, a right-wing one this time. I can’t recall a whisper of this coming through in Frontpage, Horowitz, WSJ, LGF, &s, which suggests it amounts to very little.

      Posted by walterplinge on 2007 04 25 at 06:07 AM • permalink

 

    1. #40
      don’t blame the award – it is the comittee behind the award for delecting said tim ‘flummery’. For what it is worth I would have nominated Peter costello and John Howard as duel recipients

      Posted by am on 2007 04 25 at 08:32 AM • permalink

 

    1. Why does Rudd always like like he’s plastered on lipstick with a trowel?

      because he’s a purse-lipped poofter?

      Posted by murph on 2007 04 25 at 08:34 AM • permalink

 

    1. #47 – (delecting)that should have been selecting

      Posted by am on 2007 04 25 at 08:36 AM • permalink

 

    1. O/T, but does anyone know:

      a) why assignments are so boring; and
      b) why the assignments that require the citation of statistics always have statistics that are impossible to find?

      Posted by Ash_ on 2007 04 25 at 08:43 AM • permalink

 

    1. some AOTY awards have been well judged – fiona wood, fiona stanley, ian frazer, gus nossal for example.  others, like flannel the weather womble, are inexplicable
      linky

      Posted by KK on 2007 04 25 at 09:09 AM • permalink

 

    1. I’ve got to agree on that KK. And none of them, to my knowledge, politicised the honour. As far as I know, Fiona Wood went straight back to work.

      Posted by Ash_ on 2007 04 25 at 09:12 AM • permalink

 

    1. Gus Nossal was a fuckwit of major proportions. He was sort of a prototype for the last 5 years of Walter Mitty types jumping up for their 5 minutes of fame from a left leaning press.

      Posted by boxofmatches on 2007 04 25 at 09:27 AM • permalink

 

    1. #33
      Why does Rudd always like like he’s plastered on lipstick with a trowel?

      To cover-up for his thin lips, but even the meeja can’t cover-up for his thin skin …

      Posted by egg_ on 2007 04 25 at 10:06 AM • permalink

 

    1. OT but not by much—It looks like Rosie O’Donnell may be off the view.  Tell Margo to get her resume in, quick!

      Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 04 25 at 10:16 AM • permalink

 

    1. #53 eh?  gus is a real crusader for science.  he and macfarlane burnet are among the founders of modern immunology. in his 30 years at WEHI he made it a world class medical research institute & inspired many of the people who are leading australian medical research today.  he still goes into bat for science whenever he can.  walter mitty?

      Posted by KK on 2007 04 25 at 10:22 AM • permalink

 

    1. Pat Knowall, Mrs Phatty, is joining in the National climate change debate. WTF?

      Posted by egg_ on 2007 04 25 at 10:24 AM • permalink

 

    1. RichardMcE
      “Rosie O’Donnell Leaving ‘The View’…”

      Cheers

      Posted by J.M. Heinrichs on 2007 04 25 at 11:36 AM • permalink

 

    1. #56 – Agreed. But he blotted the public side with continual over-the-top criticism of the Howard government on social policies, starting as soon as he got the gong.

      Posted by boxofmatches on 2007 04 25 at 04:40 PM • permalink

 

    1. #58

      NEW YORK —  Two days after an obscenity-laced rant before an audience that included media elite and high school girls, lightening-rod talk show diva Rosie O’Donnell is leaving “The View” at the end of her first season on the show.

      Lightening?

      Posted by kae on 2007 04 25 at 05:36 PM • permalink

 

    1. #46 – Walter, my memory is not so hot either, for every detail covered by every column. But here are some links for you:
      FrontPagemag – and there were nine more.
      WSJ Opinion Journal
      Powerline
      LGF’s searches are erratic.

      Posted by blogstrop on 2007 04 25 at 07:21 PM • permalink

 

    1. My fears about partisan media were not alleviated by the 7.30 Report/Gillard/Combet exclusive spectacular.
      It will also be interesting to see how Leigh Sales new book Detainee 002 (about Hicks) goes down.
      Interesting choice of subject for a first book by an ABC journo.

      Posted by blogstrop on 2007 04 25 at 07:32 PM • permalink

 

    1. Kevni Ruff loses an economics advisor, but gains a lunchtime pal.

      And he might not have the friends he thought he had. Rupert Murdoch waxed lyrical about GW Bush yesterday and also expressed some strong opinions on Islamic terrorism and Iran and some less that supportive ones on climate change – the word “alleged” was apparently used.

      Sounds to me that while Murdoch might have liked Rudd as a dinner companion, he doesn’t necessarily stand beside him all the major issues that are worrying the media magnate. But Howard does.

      Posted by Contrail on 2007 04 25 at 10:17 PM • permalink

 

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