A demure Peter Costello appears to be taking it on the chin regarding John Howard's refusal to step aside.
Are those tears on Peter's serviette? Or just dribbled gravy.
Despite the fact that he has spent eleven years humiliatingly relegated to the shadows, Costello hopes someday to receive what to him seems a long-overdue reward for his years of uncomplaining love and devotion. (With apologies to Steven Welch.)
Meanwhile, the taxpayer-funded feast of incompetence and fiscal turpitude continues unabated.
In other news, The Australian reported last weekend that Australia's Very Foreign Minister Alexander Downer has given up watching CNN, saying it was too biased in its coverage of the war. Mr Downer prefers Fox News, claiming its coverage was more to his liking.
Leaping Larry L., The Age Green Guide columnist on the wasteland that is Pay TV, has written a review of Pay news channels, noting: "There's also an entire comedy news channel on offer - FOX News. This is arguably the funniest extreme right-wing thing on television since Alf Garnett. Of course, he was a fictional character."
On CNN, LLL said, " The American CNN service - oddly riddled with English and Australian accents - offers a ridiculously comprehensive "on-the-spot" perspective, to the point that you'll be checking your bathroom occasionally to see if they've posted a reporter under the sink. If you want running coverage of a major international story, this is where you go."
Our Man in charge of delicately crossing his legs on plush fauteuils in totalitarian palaces clearly knows which channel fits his and their ideology.
-- Theodore G. Willikers
From a long historical perspective, it seems that most of the human race have always blindly followed their leaders. It makes me want to become a reclusive Buddhist monk. Which is a problem, as I am about to become a teacher and will deal with the great unwashed public more than I ever have. How to marry compassion for others with a hatred of right wing ideas? Attack the sin and not the sinner I suppose. Hmm. A catholic Buddhist reclusive yet engaged teacher? Can I make year seven's read Chomsky? We'll see. (Found bilegrip today after watching SCATT'S demise years ago. Yay for the truly bilious!)
Posted by obviously obtuse on August 4, 2006
Johnie did a promo for Sky News after Sept 11 and they have been flogging it ever since - maybe Packer or Murdoch sent some guys around to tell them if that there were any more incidences of giving the competition endorsements they would withdraw theirs. But then Murdoch owns 33% of Sky too doesn't he? I guess that explains that one. PBL and Seven Network own some too... Jim Walton (Walmart heir) is president of CNN - you don't hear much about him down here. Pollies hardly ever say anything they don't want to, even if they garble it. Somebody told that Downer to drop Fox news into interviews if he could!
Posted by Punxie on October 10, 2006