Poll Dancing
August 21st 2007 02:21
It's not often I mark a blog post as "mature content", but there you have it. Kevin Rudd's stumble from the path of rectitude may require straight talking.
There are two opinions, the frivilous TV panel driven "Heck, who cares?" and the serious minded "What was he doing in a bar with the editor of the New York Post?" Of the two I incline to the second.
I'm also rather interested in the intervention of the "Scores" owner. I doubt that I am alone in thinking that the red damage control emergency button had been hit and that favours have been called in or, indeed, pledged, in order to make it all look like a one-off bad third-bottle idea and that Tin Tin's boy scout credentials were not affected. It was after all only 15 minutes, he told his wife and anyway, everyone agrees he acted like a gentleman, even though, by his own admission, more than a bit Mozart and Liszt.
At least he wasn't attending a drag show or snogging a trannie.
What was he doing drinking heavily with a News Limited operative anyway? That's the real question. I'm sure it was all "Off the Record" (Speaking of which, Ian Smith's article on the opinion page of The Australian last Thursday was excellent - the Off the Record club strikes back)
Instead of asking politicians whether they've been to girlie bars they ought to be asked which journalists they owe favours to and whether or not they have been drunk with the editor of the New York Post. ( I can confess to having been in that condition with a former editor of that journal, but that's as far as it goes!)
The polls have yet to give their verdict. I don't think it will make a big difference. It may be that the mums, wives and girlfriends brigade will not like it and that there may be an electoral consequence. Who knows?
Anyway Kevin, next time you're in Sydney drop by Toongabbie and I'll show you what a night on the town is really like.
There are two opinions, the frivilous TV panel driven "Heck, who cares?" and the serious minded "What was he doing in a bar with the editor of the New York Post?" Of the two I incline to the second.
I'm also rather interested in the intervention of the "Scores" owner. I doubt that I am alone in thinking that the red damage control emergency button had been hit and that favours have been called in or, indeed, pledged, in order to make it all look like a one-off bad third-bottle idea and that Tin Tin's boy scout credentials were not affected. It was after all only 15 minutes, he told his wife and anyway, everyone agrees he acted like a gentleman, even though, by his own admission, more than a bit Mozart and Liszt.
At least he wasn't attending a drag show or snogging a trannie.
What was he doing drinking heavily with a News Limited operative anyway? That's the real question. I'm sure it was all "Off the Record" (Speaking of which, Ian Smith's article on the opinion page of The Australian last Thursday was excellent - the Off the Record club strikes back)
Instead of asking politicians whether they've been to girlie bars they ought to be asked which journalists they owe favours to and whether or not they have been drunk with the editor of the New York Post. ( I can confess to having been in that condition with a former editor of that journal, but that's as far as it goes!)
The polls have yet to give their verdict. I don't think it will make a big difference. It may be that the mums, wives and girlfriends brigade will not like it and that there may be an electoral consequence. Who knows?
Anyway Kevin, next time you're in Sydney drop by Toongabbie and I'll show you what a night on the town is really like.
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