If you missed Alexander Downer's hysterical hissy fit on Fran Kelly's RN Breakfast show yesterday (and subsequent airings and viewings) here is your chance to catch up. It sort of came from nowhere and it's priceless:

First a transcript from The 7:30 Report:

ALEXANDER DOWNER: He's resigned. What more can he do? I mean, does the Labor Party want him to go out and do something even worse? Leave him alone now. He's resigned. Think about him as a human being. I think it's about time there was a bit more of that from the Labor Party.

Santo Santoro is a human being. Does he have to be whipped and chastised more and more and more? I think the Labor Party should now start talking about something of substance.

This was followed by:

MICHAEL BRISSENDEN: The Foreign Minister, of course, does a good line in whipping and chastising himself. Few could forget this outburst that followed the resignation of Labor's Kelvin Thompson for signing a reference for a notorious Melbourne criminal.

We then see footage of smug Alex saying: "I've always thought Kelvin Thomson was a pretty grubby sort of character, if I could say so - and be, for a Foreign Minister, rather undiplomatic about him."

But best of all, listen (from The World Today). It comes roughly 90 seconds after the segment begins:

Projecting at its clearest. Little Lord Downer knows it will all be turned against him one fine day.

BTW, doesn't he often remind you of Ricky Gervais in The Office?

-- Olney Garkle